It's not the fault of the rear-ender when the vehicle being rear-ended has just performed an unsafe lane-change (also probably illegal) directly in front of the rear-ender and suddenly slammed on their brakes. This is a common method used by insurance scammers to make money and it's so common that it has a name: the swoop and squat:
Swoop and Squat --
Two vehicles work as a team to set up an accident. One vehicle pulls in front of an innocent driver and the other alongside, blocking the victim in. The lead car stops short, causing the victim to rear-end him. The car that pulled up alongside serves as a block and prevents the victim from avoiding a collision. -- from http://www.allstate.com/about/fraud.aspx
Maybe it never really existed, that so-called "Do No Evil" phase of google, and it's all just a post-hoc remythologizing of what google used to be... ....
but why couldn't they bring back the clean page search engine (they could keep the new search algorithms for pagerank, or revert back) that they used to be before they became the ad-sense and ad-word selling advertising behemoth? An actual search engine rather than a categorizer and tracker of all of our searches, and web-site travels, and telephone calls (sent or received), and emails (sent or received, even if you're not a gmail user, someone you send to may be a gmail user and bingo you're being tracked), and purchases, and travels and gps locations (hey all you andoid-phone users, that would pertain to you!), and soon-to-be everything-you-see-through your google glasses. :>p
No thanks, I don't need an ever-present surveillance-corporation or an ever-present surveillance state.
I was thinking the same question, but realized that if you think of the functional application of the mitochondria then it is like modular software. You can replace a function or submodule with another function or submodule/subroutine which implements the same functionality in a different way/algorithm/technique. And, as long as the new routine has no
side-effects (affecting items not specifically called via the API / calling module variables), then it's a valid replacement that "cannot be detected otherwise". .
In other words, if you can swap out a different mitochondrial family for the usual one, as long as there are no other "side effects", you have a good facsimile of the original. It's like being able to swap out a heart or part of a lung or one kidney in a person with transplant surgery: functional equivalence is sometimes sufficient without exact equivalence being necessary.
re: it's pretty sad that the whole windows ecosystem was imho designed from the mobile up rather than an extension of the desktop. .
And the sad thing with the latest iteration of the apple OS is that Mountain Lion has turned into an iOS-copy-fest rather than leaving in the features that make a desktop useful like scroll-bars that stay in place, and not having to fucking scroll in order to see the scroll bars in the first place. That is a serious fail, imho, and enough for me to tell my parents not to upgrade their 10.6 machines up. Me, I'm linux-debian-knoppix (with gnu in there, of course), so I could say it doesn't affect me. But I read of all of the fury with gnome's meanderings and the first round of KDE 4.0 screwing up all of the features that 3.x had already gotten right. .
I played with older versions of knoppix with kde 3.x branches (I think it was a knoppix 5 distro) and I like how the desktop maintains state between shutdowns when you install it to hard drive. The new Knoppix 7.04 using LXDE does not maintain state between boot-ups. I put one of my mom's computers on Knoppix 5.something with KDE 3.something and she loves the fact that she can shut down with editor windows in a document and browser tabs open (not just hibernate or sleeeeeep) and actually reboot back into the work environment which she left open. It's fucking astounding when a desktop is done right. .
Unfortunately, all of the key gnu/linux desktop guys (kde, gnome, lxde), ms windows, and apple are all walking down the wrong path by bringing the wrong (a) tablet-touch and (b) phone-os-metrofication and (c) clean-look-ma-no-widgets-apple-without-scrollers-or-buttons and (d) look-i-can-fuckup-ubuntu-like-the-big-os-boys mistakes. .
So both your quote and another person quoting the article above had the same interesting mis-spelling (or is a freudian slip-of-the-fingers which actually reveals that MS will never update the OS for current window-phone owners [or should we call them widow-phone owners, as they'll be left widowed when the next update comes up;>) ] ) .
Here's what the article said:
On the other hand the OS support date is reset with any never [sic] version of the OS, so a Windows Phone 8.5 or 9 update in November 2013 would bring along its own 18 month of security updates. Microsoft has already promised all current Windows Phone 8 handsets will receive the next major version of the operating system. [emphasis mine, misspelling is in the original article
So it could be freudian, and what the author was really thinking slipped through his typing fingers: it will neverhappen that newer OS upgrades will be provided to current windows-phone users. .
Scripts are executeables, too, eh?;>) It took the mac-masses a while to notice. The problem with saying "there's a problem with java" and disabling java in the browser was leaving an attack vector open on the desktop by leaving java as a standalone. So if there's a known java explout and the recommended action is to disable java, then stopping the browser-plug-in is only part of the solution. Disabling the standalone java or jar execution system is also necessary.
Good grief, how did I get it so wrong!! Of course it should have been correct in the first place. I had been reading about the guy who did graffiti for the PalmPilot, so "Hawkins" with an "s" was in my mind, and the other part Physics/Math I screwed up. That he formerly held the chair was not even known by me. The other guys not quite as famous, eh?;>)
re: Just earlier this week I called out one of my senators on twitter and he responded to me with the truth. It was amazing. Get everyone to start doing it. .
Cool! Can you point me to the tweets? I'd like to see some truth spouted by a congress-critter! Actually, I am serious, I'd love to see what the senator twittered/tweeted.
Thanks for the info and pointer. I knew I'd read about elections in China in a magazine before. I just had not searched for pointers. Democratic style town-hall meetings (the real ones that happen in New Hampshire and Vermont small towns) are where real democracy occurs. The rest of our republic/representative government is what we have in the rest of this united states of america, and there we are often limited to the two key "brands" of parties. Not very different from a sham choice, except that at least there is a real choice in who gets to run. Except for when the party bosses don't approve. Or in run-offs that are manipulated by changing the boundaries of voting districts. Or when the number of eligible voters is screwed with, in multiple and various ways. Or, etc.
Considering the attitudinal similarities between the Chinese military computer hackers and the "hackers"/I.T.workers in the US military branches, I wonder how long it will be until the Chinese have a Bradley Manning of their own? ;>)
Bite the wax tadpole, indeed. I wonder how you translate "Bradley Manning" into Mandarin or Cantonese? Tech workers are pushed around by slave-drivers and middle management everywhere in the world, in all possible environments. Did you catch how his manager was able to expense a $100-equivalent bottle of liquor while the keyboard-combatant couldn't even get $1 reimbursed for bus-ffare to attend a tech conference? .
How do you translate "Dilbert" into Chinese? No need. It's all the same!
There's also a Mitsubishi professor, and all other kinds of corporate sponsorships of "Endowed Chairs" at M.I.T. and other institutions (well endowed chairs =?= phallically-enhanced furniture ?). It's rather silly to see, but money talks. Even the Media Lab professors are all "titled chairs", e.g.:
He is currently the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Professor of electrical engineering and computer science.
Isaac Asimov described Minsky as one of only two people he would admit were more intelligent than he was, the other being Carl Sagan.
Over in merry olde Englande, that Hawkins guy is "Lucasian Professor of Physics", a title once held by Isaac Newton. So that seems more "honourable" (I bow to their excess vowel-inventory by including the extra british "u" in their spelling). It seems like corporations can publish advertising by "sponsoring endowed chairs", actually funding the construction of buildings, or paying enough to get their name on pre-existing buildings or departments. .
Look at how David Geffen got his name on UCLA's theater department and theater across the way and medical center, and Ronald Reagan got his name on some of the clinical medical buildings at UCLA. .
Captialism and selling out of already paid for buildings to tout fake sponsorship. MIT and Harvard have the two largest endowments of university systems in the USA, yet neither can resist the allure of extra funding when all they have to do is give up "naming rights" and alittle piece of their prestige and honor. Sic gloria transit mundi
While the USA sounds so high and mighty in its admonishment of china, it makes it easy to forget the anti-centrifuge software trojans that were deployed by the USA against Iran's nuclear refining capabilities. The US has already deployed "internet" and "computer-based" war tactics against other countries while it goes on to claim others are doing so as if our hands are so clean. That is a sad way to attempt to lead the world.
It's so confusing that you can't even tell the players apart, even with a scorecard. ;>)
Here's an interesting tidbit about the trial that shows how much of a clusterfuck this all is: one set of lawyers couldn't even figure out if they themselves belonged on the plaintiff's side or the defendant's side for picking their seating/table at the trial (bride's side?, groom's side?, wtf?):
The strange hearing produced such a mix-up of roles that even the lawyers had lawyers -- and people didn't know where to sit. Prenda's erstwhile attorney Brett Gibbs cut ties with Prenda Law after the firm found itself in a messy bind regarding the practices it used to serve lawsuits to hundreds of Does suspected of illegally downloading porn; he hired his own attorneys to represent him at the hearing. "I'm not sure what side we're supposed to be on," said one of them as he tried to decide whether he belonged at the defense or plaintiff table.
Thanks for the very detailed and well-thought out and well-presented reply. You certainly are a journalist:>) and a pretty fine writer;>) . I did not know the details about O'Keefe, but I am certainly glad you have enlightened me. I was not trying to validate O'Keefe's "journalist"-ic imprimateur; I was, however, questioning limiting the "brand-name" or "tag" of journalist in the way that was being suggested. I agree with your definition whole-heartedly. The problem with opinion-based definitions (and defining someone as a journalist as someone "who is trying to tell the truth" is opinion-based, as you will find many, many opinions as to what "really" constitutes truth) is that there will be no agreement reached or any consensus reachable. .
I fully agree with you that some-one who does not check their facts is not a journalist. Re the "AND NOT", it is possible to create all possible binary functions (and all possible boolean operations) by the correct construction made up of only
NAND gates (the NOT AND gate), because it is
functionally complete. The
NOR gate (a.k.a. "NOT OR") is also functionally complete.
Thanks for the sane reply. Note that I simply had asked "what's the deal with all of the [rapid] downvoting" and that I had no paranoid ideations. I just wondered what was going on. Also, I had no idea that there were no such things as "video `slashvertisements' " because no-where on/. in the FAQ or anywhere else is it stated that there is no such a thing as a video slashvertisement. But since I'm getting it from the editors mouth, I am more than willing to concede that it was "groupthink" downvoting, and not some editor level moderation by you. Mind you, I did have one piece of constructive criticism which you did not address. :>)
I suggested/recommended that you consider interviewing an engineer/techie or the founder of the company, rather than interviewing the "Director of Marketing". Either a founder or a techie employee would have more interesting and tech-oriented things and details to provide in a conversation or interview. Thanks for taking the time to read and reply, though it may have taken the emails from admandrew to push some things to the head of the queue.:>)
tre: Secondly, I would say that even in the speeding incidents, often an on-the-spot ticking off by a police officer would be more effective than getting a bit of paper in the post 2 weeks later. -- Yes, on-the-spot works better, same as scolding a child or puppy works best when done immediately after the mess is made. Otherwise, no association between event and reprisal occurs, and no learning happens .
The other clue that this is a scam rather than a well-thought out and necessary item is the presence of a percentage cut of fines taken by the operator/provider of hardware. If you really want speed cameras, buy the damn cameras and operate them yourselves with real police running things, and real accountability and the real judicial system involved. Giving a percentage of the take back to the operator/hardware company gives a perverse financial incentive to the company to falsify or create more false positives in the hopes of creating more income. Many times, people will pay rather than contest and go through the hassle of fighting an unjust "ticket". .
I say "ticket" in quotes because the other thing that these "red light cameras" and "speed cameras" do is disburse / dispense non-judicial infractions which do not add "points" against your driver's license or permit. This means that the avenue for contesting them or fighting them is often adminisitrative rather than judicial. The argument by the adminstrators is "see, this doesn't really affect your driving record!" Well, if it doesn't affect your driving record, then what's it good for? It's good for grabbing money out of your wallets with the help of city and criminal laws .
It makes it like how the FBI and other governmental entities (TSA, Customs) suddenly help out with the enforcement of civil prosecutions of copyright infringement (counterfeit logos, etc) which is a civil matter, not a criminal matter.
I've got mail through one account that also automatically forwards to another account (not gmail or google, thanky god), so even if one provider loses my email dataset, the other still has a good copy. I also pop my mail in to my own machine, so I 've got a local archive. I wonder what the details of this canadian mishap really are...:>(
Yes, what I gave is a time format. My entire second paragraph is about time formats, and I gave the example in the 2nd paragraph as an e.g. of a "time format". I was pointing out that the poster of the article seems to be confused about the difference between time standards and time formats and the interconversions and possible errors. Unix time is time readable also. it's just not as useful to most people. It's like giving someone the local temperature in "Kelvin" degrees. If it's a format which they're not used to, then they need to do mental contortions and conversions into a format/representation with which they are conversant and familiar and which has applicability and utility.
I wasn't saying that I use ISO 8601. I was presenting one common standard as an exempli gratia ("e.g."), for the sake of example. I was being [slightly] pedandtic and picayune in pointing out the difference between a "time standard" vs. a "time format" which is used to encode a time+/-date value.
IMHO, Time Standards would be "standards/standardizations for time keeping", such as say when the railroads crossed the US and decided that local high-noon was not so useful when you translate yourself geographically so swiftly, and thus "time zones" in the US were set up. Some countries (India, and China, maybe others i don't know of...) keep a signle time zone for the entirety of their contiguous expanse for "standardization".
. Time Formats, again IMHO, would be the "standard" (ha, I heard it [that word] both ways!) used for displaying, communicating, or storing "time data values" on paper, verbally, or in a computerized (or book-keeping) record. One example: "yYYYY-MM-DD-HH-mm-ss.{fractional value of second}" [note I added an extra "y" digit to allow for the Y-10K problem!!!). Floppy disks and TRS-DOS and Apple DOS and MS-DOS and CPM and UNIX and so many others use different formats for this. They also use different "loci" for the "origin point" of time (the "epoch", e.g. time elapsed since point $x$ in time. Gregorian year 1904 for old macs, 1970 for the unix epoch, etc.
re: "...Smith coincidentally invented a software technique designed to keep unauthorized people from reading electronic documents." [emphasis mine] .
Since the Deans and Faculty members are technically employees of the Harvard Corporation / Harvard University, then there was no unauthorized access, since I am sure that Harvard reserves the right to peruse and otherwise scrounge through the work product of its employees. Whether it can do that to its students, though, may be another matter. .
Anyone here have direct access to a Harvard Faculty / Administration Employment Manual or Employee Agreement or Contract? That's the only way to be sure: look at the actual contract.
re: Interesting how you were prepared to make the most ridiculous excuses for Firefox OS though .
??? You must be mixing me up with someone else. I was neither "prepared to make the most ridick excuses for Firefox OS" nor "making the most ridick excuses..." nor "making ANY excuses for FFox OS". The GP post to this is my first post on this topic, so must be thinking of someone else's beliefs or belief statements.
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See also (sorry for the ad-laden links, but they're the top two results):
http://www.carinsurancequote.net/auto-accident-fraud.html
http://www.4autoinsurancequote.com/uncategorized/swoop-and-squat-auto-insurance-fraud/
Maybe it never really existed, that so-called "Do No Evil" phase of google, and it's all just a post-hoc remythologizing of what google used to be...
....
but why couldn't they bring back the clean page search engine (they could keep the new search algorithms for pagerank, or revert back) that they used to be before they became the ad-sense and ad-word selling advertising behemoth? An actual search engine rather than a categorizer and tracker of all of our searches, and web-site travels, and telephone calls (sent or received), and emails (sent or received, even if you're not a gmail user, someone you send to may be a gmail user and bingo you're being tracked), and purchases, and travels and gps locations (hey all you andoid-phone users, that would pertain to you!), and soon-to-be everything-you-see-through your google glasses.
:>p
No thanks, I don't need an ever-present surveillance-corporation or an ever-present surveillance state.
I was thinking the same question, but realized that if you think of the functional application of the mitochondria then it is like modular software. You can replace a function or submodule with another function or submodule/subroutine which implements the same functionality in a different way/algorithm/technique. And, as long as the new routine has no side-effects (affecting items not specifically called via the API / calling module variables), then it's a valid replacement that "cannot be detected otherwise".
.
In other words, if you can swap out a different mitochondrial family for the usual one, as long as there are no other "side effects", you have a good facsimile of the original. It's like being able to swap out a heart or part of a lung or one kidney in a person with transplant surgery: functional equivalence is sometimes sufficient without exact equivalence being necessary.
re: it's pretty sad that the whole windows ecosystem was imho designed from the mobile up rather than an extension of the desktop.
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And the sad thing with the latest iteration of the apple OS is that Mountain Lion has turned into an iOS-copy-fest rather than leaving in the features that make a desktop useful like scroll-bars that stay in place, and not having to fucking scroll in order to see the scroll bars in the first place. That is a serious fail, imho, and enough for me to tell my parents not to upgrade their 10.6 machines up. Me, I'm linux-debian-knoppix (with gnu in there, of course), so I could say it doesn't affect me. But I read of all of the fury with gnome's meanderings and the first round of KDE 4.0 screwing up all of the features that 3.x had already gotten right.
.
I played with older versions of knoppix with kde 3.x branches (I think it was a knoppix 5 distro) and I like how the desktop maintains state between shutdowns when you install it to hard drive. The new Knoppix 7.04 using LXDE does not maintain state between boot-ups. I put one of my mom's computers on Knoppix 5.something with KDE 3.something and she loves the fact that she can shut down with editor windows in a document and browser tabs open (not just hibernate or sleeeeeep) and actually reboot back into the work environment which she left open. It's fucking astounding when a desktop is done right.
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Unfortunately, all of the key gnu/linux desktop guys (kde, gnome, lxde), ms windows, and apple are all walking down the wrong path by bringing the wrong
(a) tablet-touch and
(b) phone-os-metrofication and
(c) clean-look-ma-no-widgets-apple-without-scrollers-or-buttons and
(d) look-i-can-fuckup-ubuntu-like-the-big-os-boys mistakes.
.
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Here's what the article said: On the other hand the OS support date is reset with any never [sic] version of the OS, so a Windows Phone 8.5 or 9 update in November 2013 would bring along its own 18 month of security updates. Microsoft has already promised all current Windows Phone 8 handsets will receive the next major version of the operating system. [emphasis mine, misspelling is in the original article
So it could be freudian, and what the author was really thinking slipped through his typing fingers: it will neverhappen that newer OS upgrades will be provided to current windows-phone users.
.
Scripts are executeables, too, eh? ;>) It took the mac-masses a while to notice. The problem with saying "there's a problem with java" and disabling java in the browser was leaving an attack vector open on the desktop by leaving java as a standalone. So if there's a known java explout and the recommended action is to disable java, then stopping the browser-plug-in is only part of the solution. Disabling the standalone java or jar execution system is also necessary.
You forgot the "dot-org" at the end of your url: http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Good grief, how did I get it so wrong!! Of course it should have been correct in the first place. I had been reading about the guy who did graffiti for the PalmPilot, so "Hawkins" with an "s" was in my mind, and the other part Physics/Math I screwed up. That he formerly held the chair was not even known by me. The other guys not quite as famous, eh? ;>)
re: Just earlier this week I called out one of my senators on twitter and he responded to me with the truth. It was amazing. Get everyone to start doing it.
.
Cool! Can you point me to the tweets? I'd like to see some truth spouted by a congress-critter! Actually, I am serious, I'd love to see what the senator twittered/tweeted.
Thanks for the info and pointer. I knew I'd read about elections in China in a magazine before. I just had not searched for pointers. Democratic style town-hall meetings (the real ones that happen in New Hampshire and Vermont small towns) are where real democracy occurs. The rest of our republic/representative government is what we have in the rest of this united states of america, and there we are often limited to the two key "brands" of parties. Not very different from a sham choice, except that at least there is a real choice in who gets to run. Except for when the party bosses don't approve. Or in run-offs that are manipulated by changing the boundaries of voting districts. Or when the number of eligible voters is screwed with, in multiple and various ways. Or, etc.
Considering the attitudinal similarities between the Chinese military computer hackers and the "hackers"/I.T.workers in the US military branches, I wonder how long it will be until the Chinese have a Bradley Manning of their own?
;>)
Bite the wax tadpole, indeed. I wonder how you translate "Bradley Manning" into Mandarin or Cantonese? Tech workers are pushed around by slave-drivers and middle management everywhere in the world, in all possible environments. Did you catch how his manager was able to expense a $100-equivalent bottle of liquor while the keyboard-combatant couldn't even get $1 reimbursed for bus-ffare to attend a tech conference?
.
How do you translate "Dilbert" into Chinese? No need. It's all the same!
Isaac Asimov described Minsky as one of only two people he would admit were more intelligent than he was, the other being Carl Sagan.
Over in merry olde Englande, that Hawkins guy is "Lucasian Professor of Physics", a title once held by Isaac Newton. So that seems more "honourable" (I bow to their excess vowel-inventory by including the extra british "u" in their spelling). It seems like corporations can publish advertising by "sponsoring endowed chairs", actually funding the construction of buildings, or paying enough to get their name on pre-existing buildings or departments.
.
Look at how David Geffen got his name on UCLA's theater department and theater across the way and medical center, and Ronald Reagan got his name on some of the clinical medical buildings at UCLA.
.
Captialism and selling out of already paid for buildings to tout fake sponsorship. MIT and Harvard have the two largest endowments of university systems in the USA, yet neither can resist the allure of extra funding when all they have to do is give up "naming rights" and alittle piece of their prestige and honor. Sic gloria transit mundi
While the USA sounds so high and mighty in its admonishment of china, it makes it easy to forget the anti-centrifuge software trojans that were deployed by the USA against Iran's nuclear refining capabilities. The US has already deployed "internet" and "computer-based" war tactics against other countries while it goes on to claim others are doing so as if our hands are so clean. That is a sad way to attempt to lead the world.
;>)
Here's an interesting tidbit about the trial that shows how much of a clusterfuck this all is: one set of lawyers couldn't even figure out if they themselves belonged on the plaintiff's side or the defendant's side for picking their seating/table at the trial (bride's side?, groom's side?, wtf?): The strange hearing produced such a mix-up of roles that even the lawyers had lawyers -- and people didn't know where to sit. Prenda's erstwhile attorney Brett Gibbs cut ties with Prenda Law after the firm found itself in a messy bind regarding the practices it used to serve lawsuits to hundreds of Does suspected of illegally downloading porn; he hired his own attorneys to represent him at the hearing. "I'm not sure what side we're supposed to be on," said one of them as he tried to decide whether he belonged at the defense or plaintiff table.
--- from the 3rd paragraph of arstechnica article from March 12th, 2013.
Thanks for the very detailed and well-thought out and well-presented reply. You certainly are a journalist :>) and a pretty fine writer ;>) . I did not know the details about O'Keefe, but I am certainly glad you have enlightened me. I was not trying to validate O'Keefe's "journalist"-ic imprimateur; I was, however, questioning limiting the "brand-name" or "tag" of journalist in the way that was being suggested. I agree with your definition whole-heartedly. The problem with opinion-based definitions (and defining someone as a journalist as someone "who is trying to tell the truth" is opinion-based, as you will find many, many opinions as to what "really" constitutes truth) is that there will be no agreement reached or any consensus reachable.
.
I fully agree with you that some-one who does not check their facts is not a journalist. Re the "AND NOT", it is possible to create all possible binary functions (and all possible boolean operations) by the correct construction made up of only NAND gates (the NOT AND gate), because it is functionally complete. The NOR gate (a.k.a. "NOT OR") is also functionally complete.
Thanks for the sane reply. Note that I simply had asked "what's the deal with all of the [rapid] downvoting" and that I had no paranoid ideations. I just wondered what was going on. Also, I had no idea that there were no such things as "video `slashvertisements' " because no-where on /. in the FAQ or anywhere else is it stated that there is no such a thing as a video slashvertisement. But since I'm getting it from the editors mouth, I am more than willing to concede that it was "groupthink" downvoting, and not some editor level moderation by you. Mind you, I did have one piece of constructive criticism which you did not address. :>)
:>)
I suggested/recommended that you consider interviewing an engineer/techie or the founder of the company, rather than interviewing the "Director of Marketing". Either a founder or a techie employee would have more interesting and tech-oriented things and details to provide in a conversation or interview. Thanks for taking the time to read and reply, though it may have taken the emails from admandrew to push some things to the head of the queue.
tre: Secondly, I would say that even in the speeding incidents, often an on-the-spot ticking off by a police officer would be more effective than getting a bit of paper in the post 2 weeks later. -- Yes, on-the-spot works better, same as scolding a child or puppy works best when done immediately after the mess is made. Otherwise, no association between event and reprisal occurs, and no learning happens
.
The other clue that this is a scam rather than a well-thought out and necessary item is the presence of a percentage cut of fines taken by the operator/provider of hardware. If you really want speed cameras, buy the damn cameras and operate them yourselves with real police running things, and real accountability and the real judicial system involved. Giving a percentage of the take back to the operator/hardware company gives a perverse financial incentive to the company to falsify or create more false positives in the hopes of creating more income. Many times, people will pay rather than contest and go through the hassle of fighting an unjust "ticket".
.
I say "ticket" in quotes because the other thing that these "red light cameras" and "speed cameras" do is disburse / dispense non-judicial infractions which do not add "points" against your driver's license or permit. This means that the avenue for contesting them or fighting them is often adminisitrative rather than judicial. The argument by the adminstrators is "see, this doesn't really affect your driving record!" Well, if it doesn't affect your driving record, then what's it good for? It's good for grabbing money out of your wallets with the help of city and criminal laws
.
It makes it like how the FBI and other governmental entities (TSA, Customs) suddenly help out with the enforcement of civil prosecutions of copyright infringement (counterfeit logos, etc) which is a civil matter, not a criminal matter.
oops, you're right about that. If the first hop fucks up, it's game over. :>( I guess I've been lucky that my school hasn't failed yet.
I've got mail through one account that also automatically forwards to another account (not gmail or google, thanky god), so even if one provider loses my email dataset, the other still has a good copy. I also pop my mail in to my own machine, so I 've got a local archive. I wonder what the details of this canadian mishap really are... :>(
Yes, what I gave is a time format. My entire second paragraph is about time formats, and I gave the example in the 2nd paragraph as an e.g. of a "time format". I was pointing out that the poster of the article seems to be confused about the difference between time standards and time formats and the interconversions and possible errors. Unix time is time readable also. it's just not as useful to most people. It's like giving someone the local temperature in "Kelvin" degrees. If it's a format which they're not used to, then they need to do mental contortions and conversions into a format/representation with which they are conversant and familiar and which has applicability and utility.
I wasn't saying that I use ISO 8601. I was presenting one common standard as an exempli gratia ("e.g."), for the sake of example. I was being [slightly] pedandtic and picayune in pointing out the difference between a "time standard" vs. a "time format" which is used to encode a time+/-date value.
IMHO, Time Standards would be "standards/standardizations for time keeping", such as say when the railroads crossed the US and decided that local high-noon was not so useful when you translate yourself geographically so swiftly, and thus "time zones" in the US were set up. Some countries (India, and China, maybe others i don't know of...) keep a signle time zone for the entirety of their contiguous expanse for "standardization".
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Time Formats, again IMHO, would be the "standard" (ha, I heard it [that word] both ways!) used for displaying, communicating, or storing "time data values" on paper, verbally, or in a computerized (or book-keeping) record. One example: "yYYYY-MM-DD-HH-mm-ss.{fractional value of second}" [note I added an extra "y" digit to allow for the Y-10K problem!!!). Floppy disks and TRS-DOS and Apple DOS and MS-DOS and CPM and UNIX and so many others use different formats for this. They also use different "loci" for the "origin point" of time (the "epoch", e.g. time elapsed since point $x$ in time. Gregorian year 1904 for old macs, 1970 for the unix epoch, etc.
just look at what happened to (and is still happening to) Bradley Manning... Whistle-blowers beware...
re: "...Smith coincidentally invented a software technique designed to keep unauthorized people from reading electronic documents." [emphasis mine]
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Since the Deans and Faculty members are technically employees of the Harvard Corporation / Harvard University, then there was no unauthorized access, since I am sure that Harvard reserves the right to peruse and otherwise scrounge through the work product of its employees. Whether it can do that to its students, though, may be another matter.
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Anyone here have direct access to a Harvard Faculty / Administration Employment Manual or Employee Agreement or Contract? That's the only way to be sure: look at the actual contract.
re: Interesting how you were prepared to make the most ridiculous excuses for Firefox OS though
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??? You must be mixing me up with someone else. I was neither "prepared to make the most ridick excuses for Firefox OS" nor "making the most ridick excuses..." nor "making ANY excuses for FFox OS". The GP post to this is my first post on this topic, so must be thinking of someone else's beliefs or belief statements.