Is it just an interesting coincidence that both are being charged with the importation of cell phone jammers and both "The Supply Room" in Oxford Alabama and "Taylor Oilfield Manufacturing" in Broussard Louisiana had
-- 5 cell phone jammers purchased from overseas
-- 4 were in active use at the time of inspection / catching them
-- 1 was a "backup" in storage at the time
-- both were investigated because of an "anonymous call"
I think it's more likely that the FCC started investigating those companies which had done business with the overseas supplier of the cell phone jammers. Wouldn't that make more sense than "anonymous" tipsters?
You're right about it just being an overload of calls beyond the bandwidth capacity. The L.A. Times has updated article at 4:12 pm PDT to say:
[Update 4:12 p.m. April 15: The AP is now reporting that cell service has not been shut off in Boston. This has also been reiterated by at least one network, Verizon Wireless, to the Times. Verizon said it has not been asked by government officials to shut off cellphone service.]
But earlier, they reported that DHS had asked for cell service to be turned off. Now, it turns out not to be true.
The AP (Associated Press) is
reporting that the Boston Police have turned off the cell phone system and infrastructure to prevent the use of cell phone signals from triggering another bomb. Something else to consider when the only means of communication you have left are cell phones and no land lines.
It would appear that the use-case for this technology is as an authentication system for access to financial institutions or accounts since it was presented at a conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security. TFA points out that
The team's findings were presented at the 17th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security in Japan this week. In a paper, the team argues that the embedding of EEG sensors in wireless headsets and other consumer electronics makes authenticating users based on their brainwave signals a realistic possibility.
The current headset is unwieldy. Would the banks make you put on a headset and think "i am the real me" when you get to the teller's station instead of signing on the electronic signature pad?
No, the point is not what you said. Contracts can be for a fixed amount (
fixed-price contract) where the company has to make a good faith bid on what it will cost them, and they include their profit in their bid cost. If they perform the job with a lower cost, they get higher profit. If the job ultimately costs more, they have to eat the extra cost and perform the contract at the specified cost. .
A
"cost plus profit contract bid" allows the company to say "I am guessing that the job will cost X and you will pay me X + I am including a profit of P% of X along with that cost, but if the job ends up costing X+Y dollars, then you shall pay me (X+Y) + P% of (X+Y) as this contract says you shall pay me "cost + profit". .
Fixed-cost puts more burden on the company to perform and do it efficiently and well. Cost-plus means that the company does not have as much incentive to keep the costs down as much as possible. (usually up to some fixed limit, according to wikipedia). Note, information is from wikipedia and San Diego Union Tribune articles. Please note IANACA / IAAHSK : I am not a contract attorney, i am a high-school kid.:>)
I agree with you and with Adam Smith. Publicly funded education in public schools (not via vouchers), with its more open (viewable) school board system that lets you see how the decisions are arrived at and is accountable to the public in more direct ways, is a much better approach than privatization via vouchers or privatized charter schools. That's just my opinion from within the sausage grinder, since I'm currently a junior in the school system right now!
The usual reason given for privatizing is the old canard "the private corporations can do this at a much lower cost". .
The real reason for privatizing is to help funnel public funds into the hands of the corporations run by the buddies of whomsoever happens to be in power at the moment, democrat or republican. .
The idea of saving money helps sell privatization, but it never takes into account:
-- cost over-runs
-- no incentive to keep costs down
-- no incentive to make availability or usability easy
-- no incentive to use formats or techniques that would allow easy migration of data or processes onto other platforms in case this doesn't work out (i.e. companies have a perverse incentive to make themselves indispensable)
-- low-ball bids make you think the cost is going to be lower, but the political pal always makes sure that the corporation gets a cost plus profit contract, rather than a fixed cost contract.
It's a scam, this push to privatize is not helping anything.
If you follow one of the links inside the linked article for this, you find an interesting statement about some software available on iTunes called Parrot:
Parrot removes FreeFlight 2.2 from iTunes
French manufacturers of the worlds most popular UA have plainly run into problems. They issued a statement yesterday:- AR.Freeflight 2.2 was removed from iTunes last month due to the need for patentsâ(TM) clarification on accelerometer and absolute control...
In a couple of years time I donâ(TM)t believe anyone will be left flying UAS with conventional RC gear when the smartphone in their pocket will be able to cope.
It's talking about a way of controlling RC aircraft using your smart phone with a map-view control system rather than using a standard stick-controller to control the plane's pitch/yaw/roll using the control surface actuators directly. It's a shame that even software to do basic things like this has to deal with patent crap. Boo software patents!
Eric "i-google-you-but-you-cant-ogle-me" Schmidt sez "...but I would prefer to not spread and democratize the ability to fight war to every single human being" .
Hey, have you heard of the
2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the USA,
Eric? It specifically does what you wound not prefer: democratize the ability to fight war to every single human being in the U.S.A. by giving the people the right to bear arms. The right to bear arms allows people to have the hardware that would allow them the ability to fight war. The founding fathers, who were a hell of a lot smarter than Eric is, felt the need to enshrine that right to bear arms in writing as an amendment to the Constitution that put my country together. To quote from Animal House, I will not stand here and listen to you bad-mouth the United States of America!! .
Fuck you, Eric Schmidt. You want to and are currently compiling huge detailed dossiers of the activities, interests, writings, travels, telephone calls, words in telephone calls, purchasing habits, pictures of the fronts and sides (and backs too) of their houses and cars and license plates with streetview, and overhead satellite and aerial photography views from satellite photography purchased for google maps. And you have the fucking gall to say that you don't want THE PEOPLE of the USA to be able to fly and perform aerial surveillance. What a bunch of hogwash. I wish you would go back to work rather than trying to buy laws that you want passed (like allowing self-driving cars, don't tell me you didn't pay someone off in Nevada to get that passed so quickly, eh?).
On Apple iOS products, the billing mechanism is whatever you have set up with your iTunes account. It could be a credit card number; it could also be "cash value" added to an iTunes account by using "gift cards" purchased at local brick-and-mortar stores or received as, of course, gifts. :>)
On Android products, the billing would be through Google Play or through the info passed on by google play to the company or individual who is offering the "app" for purchase.
re: iTunes does not require a credit card at all. You can create an account with just a $10 gift card. .
Good point. My cousins are miffed at me because I pointed out to their parents that iTunes and the iPod also do not require you to pay for and download content which you already own digitally. It's possible to put a music CD into an Apple computer and have iTunes rip the CD into the appropriate FLAC/AAC/MP4 format needed for iTunes and the iPod. :>)
Oopsie! My cousins had been getting bonus money in order to be able to download music and populate their iPods. Once my aunt realized they could fill the iPod-touches (plural =?= iPods-touch ?) with the mongo-huge collection of CDs which they already owned, that faucet of bonus money turned off. I am in the doghouse.
Wow, this is just like the "No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet" article. Idiot believes object has mysterious powers: both the Crick Nobel medal and the wacky magna-doofuck-oodle are the objects. Or maybe the guy is like L. Ron Hubbard: he knows his magnets are crap, but he believes that being the current holder of the "Francis Crick Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology" confers upon him the special power of marketing and he can convince morons to buy his crap. "Why what I say must be true!! They wouldn't sell this Authentic Nobel Prize Medal to just anyone with enough money, would they?" .
It's the same as idiots believing in religious relics, or copper wrist-bands, or magnets along your skin, or even that quacky
"blue tape" for atheletes that idiots put on their arms and legs at the olympics thinking the blue tape would give them magic healing abilities.
Well, if that won't work, I've got the naming rights to a bridge in Brooklyn... How much money did you say you have?
Oh lord won't you buy me a planet of my own.
My friends all have Galaxie 500s,
I must make amends. .
I'm counting on you, I.A.U., please don't let me down.
My boyfriend says you won't sell him a star
for my pretty name.. .
Prove that he loves me and sell him the next round orb,
Oh honey, won't you buy me an exoplanet to terraform ? .
[hmm, i'll work on the rest of the lyrics later... gia]
Thanks for the link to the actual requirements. Yeah, your interpretation makes sense. That article has a good topic and idea, but poor execution. (Ohmigodzilla, I'm thinking like a teacher grading essays now!)
Yeah, but since they prefixed "radial flux" with "170 degrees", it sounded more like a description of "3-d angular subtend" of just under a half-sphere. Though considering that "laser diodes" also exist, the concept of collimated light certainly does make sense with "LED" light sources. I guess inferences aren't just based on context but also on the knowledge and reading history of the reader, too! Do you work with LASERs? (does anyone ever really capitalize all the letters in laser anymore?)
Unless you mean Navigator 9, get back in your http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Tub_Time_Machine>Hot Tub Time Machine and tell your past self to buy shares of Apple and NOT to buy any shares in Netscape. Oh, and Pets-dot-com will tank too, though that cute sock-puppet-doggie will live on. And hoard Hostess Twinkies: they'll stop making them someday!
Well, the saying is "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft software" (which is a variant from the original "No-one gets fired for buying IBM software (alternate reference
here ). That might have to be modified to reflect this new reality: "Nobody ever got hired if they're still buying [or running] Microsoft software" !:>) .
Or, as many other posters have pointed out, being able to replace the stock software installed on your computer means you've got some smarts at least. IMHO, installing a full GNU/Linux distro on your system must make you a genius (not that Apple "genius bar" kind of genius either!)
Patent agreement is harder to find. On purpose?
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bad form to reply to myself (?) but the next paragraph at the UCSD link ( http://registrar.ucsd.edu/catalog/01-02/GradStud.htm )is quite a shocker for two reasons:
All graduate students who are U.S. citizenatent agreement is harder to find. On purpose?s and appointed as teaching assistants or graduate student researchers or are employed by the university in other positions are required by the California Constitution to sign the State Oath of Allegiance. In addition, all graduate student appointees and employees are required by university policy to sign the university's Patent Agreement. Copies of both documents may be obtained from the student's academic department. [emphasis mine!!!!] [text from ucsd link above]
Note that while the United Auto Worker's agreement with the UCSD system is easily found by following the given URL link, the Patent Agreement has no given URL link and can only be gotten from the various departments at UCSD. How fucked up is that? It's like they don't really want you to be able to review the patent agreement wording before you have to sign it! .
And what's with the weird "State Oath of Allegiance" thing?? That's the first and only place I've ever heard about that!
TL; DR: the testing requirements for Energy Star for LED light bulbs require running them for 9 straight months, and one company was out of the gate first and this is the first and only one certified as energy star for its 100-W-equivalent LED light bulb. Other point: light distribution must be uniform radially for " 170 degrees of radial [sic] flux": sounds like just a smidge under a half-sphere of radiant flux which is probably what was really meant. I can't find any definition of or any other usage of the term "radial flux".
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I use "half-sphere" to mean ($2 \times \pi $)
steradians, and you can pretty much visual what I mean by a half-sphere. So I guess an "A-bulb" has to radiate light almost uniformly over 8/9-ths of that
solid angle. . "Radiant Flux" is the term used to describe the radiant power : the measure of the total power of electromagnetic radiation (including infrared, ultraviolet, and visible light). The power may be the total emitted from a source, or the total landing on a particular surface. So neither "radial flux" nor "radiant flux" makes sense in that article. Wrong units either way. Spatial distribution of radiated light would be measured in steradians.
What union represents computer programmers? There were some weird fights here in La Jolla as to which union (or even whether any union at all) ought to represent the graduate-student-teachers (also known as TAs = graduate teaching assistants). The final result is
at the UCSD website and is that the graduate students are members of the United Auto Workers union:
Graduate students appointed as teaching assistants, associates, readers or tutors (ASE'S) are represented by the Association of Student Employees/UAW under a collective bargaining agreement with the university. All salary payments under these titles are subject to a deduction of 1.15 percent for union membership dues or a 0.92 percent agency fee deduction for students who choose not to become members of the union. The university/UAW Agreement can be retrieved electronically at http://ogsr.ucsd.edu/ase.htm
re without the SAG we would be swamped with actors coming over from Bollywood? :>)
No, I think the invasion is from Canada.
There's a geographically defined region called the
TMZ, or Thirty-Mile-Zone = Studio Zone around Hollywood. More about it after a word from our fine friends up to our north. .
Psych and Monk and quite a few shows are produced and filmed in Canada, despite being set in Santa Barbara, CA (as in California CA, not Canada CA), and San Francisco. You see quite a few canadians on american shows, but every now and then, the canadian shows are even cooler:
ReGenesis
DaVinci's Inquest
Made in Canada
Even more rarely, there are Canadian TV shows that actually play up their canadian-ness rather than hiding their location as being a non-descript USA-ian city like Los Angeles:
Don't forget about the statutory (well, actually "contractual" rather than statutory) TMZ, or Thirty-Mile-Zone = Studio Zone around Hollywood:
Entertainment industry unions currently use this area to determine rates and work rules for union workers. The zone also largely determined the location and success of the original movie ranches in or near Hollywood.
So yes, unions do play a strong role in Hollywood productions by setting the costs for doing production within a particular region. They keep the prices up to a reasonable level that accomodates the pay desires of the teamsters, actors, and other guild and union members.
Thanks for the doi link! I'm amazed I can download the PDF without being at a university connection. The "habit diagram" in figure 2 of that paper is really cool. And figure 5 with Temperature vs. "Ice supersaturation" (? not fully understanding that) with the illustrations of the crystals that form at different variations of X vs. Y in the atmosphere or in their "diffusion" chamber. Very nice article.
re: If a rank and file employee says "deal with it" to their customers on a very public forum,... . I agree with you completely. It's the action itself and the perception of the action that matters, not just the organizational heights of the Peter Principle reached by the speakers in question. .
If a rank-and-file member of an organization says things like "I'd like to fork his code" or mentions something about the dangle of his dongle, they're likely to be fired too, if someone with some interesting PR skills decides to take a photo and try to twitter-shame someone rather than just confronting them directly about their (misperceived) [IMHO] rudeness. .
I'd fork his code if my dongle could only activate my apparatus. --/me ducks for cover! If anyone would like to make a joke about the Peter Principle and dongles and/or forking, please take a stab at it. I can't believe I skipped over Peter Principle without thinking of a joke!:>(
Google Glass is for:
-- tracking, nonstop, of every place you go (and if you're visit the bathroom, every place you go to go) and how long you stay there (hmm, in the bathroom that could tell them if you're going #1 or #2, eh? or will they just turn on the hidden microphone to listen for the tinkle-splash noises to figure that out?)
-- your random path (how fidgety you are when you are certain places, like do you stay put in ladies' wear, then swing by shoes in the deparment store before heading over to
Easy spirit for the shoes you really want?
-- how frequently you follow the same paths and when (e.g. do you hit the bar every friday? do you go to margarita happy hour on thursday night? Do you go to for tacos and to J.V.'s for the flying saucer and the chimichangas?
-- what do you look at and what are you looking at when you stay put vs. when you wander?
-- what exactly can they try to sell to you by knowing every bit of detail about you that they can learn?
:>(
All of that tracking will help them build up their massive dossiers on you, citizens! Beware!;>)
right. you know everything. PLaying with something and engaging in it and relating it to fun and excitement like Harry Potter and "expelliarmus" (and knowing some of the roots of words and such) can teach you more than purely "rote memorization" could. .
Rote memorization could maybe get them to pass a multiple choice exam where they can pick out which is "a conditional statement" out of the choices, or perhaps which is a valid beginning or end of a loop construct, but play-acting and engaging the mind into thinking and wanting to find a solution is more likely to instill concepts into the children's minds and brains. Concepts can cross domain boundaries, and learning a concept in topic A could allow you to use that concept in other seemingly unrelated topics. .
Don't throw your derision at this. Different people learn in different ways.
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-- 4 were in active use at the time of inspection / catching them
-- 1 was a "backup" in storage at the time
-- both were investigated because of an "anonymous call"
I think it's more likely that the FCC started investigating those companies which had done business with the overseas supplier of the cell phone jammers. Wouldn't that make more sense than "anonymous" tipsters?
You're right about it just being an overload of calls beyond the bandwidth capacity. The L.A. Times has updated article at 4:12 pm PDT to say: [Update 4:12 p.m. April 15: The AP is now reporting that cell service has not been shut off in Boston. This has also been reiterated by at least one network, Verizon Wireless, to the Times. Verizon said it has not been asked by government officials to shut off cellphone service.] But earlier, they reported that DHS had asked for cell service to be turned off. Now, it turns out not to be true.
The AP (Associated Press) is reporting that the Boston Police have turned off the cell phone system and infrastructure to prevent the use of cell phone signals from triggering another bomb. Something else to consider when the only means of communication you have left are cell phones and no land lines.
The current headset is unwieldy. Would the banks make you put on a headset and think "i am the real me" when you get to the teller's station instead of signing on the electronic signature pad?
No, the point is not what you said. Contracts can be for a fixed amount ( fixed-price contract) where the company has to make a good faith bid on what it will cost them, and they include their profit in their bid cost. If they perform the job with a lower cost, they get higher profit. If the job ultimately costs more, they have to eat the extra cost and perform the contract at the specified cost. :>)
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A "cost plus profit contract bid" allows the company to say "I am guessing that the job will cost X and you will pay me X + I am including a profit of P% of X along with that cost, but if the job ends up costing X+Y dollars, then you shall pay me (X+Y) + P% of (X+Y) as this contract says you shall pay me "cost + profit".
.
Fixed-cost puts more burden on the company to perform and do it efficiently and well. Cost-plus means that the company does not have as much incentive to keep the costs down as much as possible. (usually up to some fixed limit, according to wikipedia). Note, information is from wikipedia and San Diego Union Tribune articles. Please note IANACA / IAAHSK : I am not a contract attorney, i am a high-school kid.
I agree with you and with Adam Smith. Publicly funded education in public schools (not via vouchers), with its more open (viewable) school board system that lets you see how the decisions are arrived at and is accountable to the public in more direct ways, is a much better approach than privatization via vouchers or privatized charter schools. That's just my opinion from within the sausage grinder, since I'm currently a junior in the school system right now!
The usual reason given for privatizing is the old canard "the private corporations can do this at a much lower cost".
.
The real reason for privatizing is to help funnel public funds into the hands of the corporations run by the buddies of whomsoever happens to be in power at the moment, democrat or republican.
.
The idea of saving money helps sell privatization, but it never takes into account: -- cost over-runs
-- no incentive to keep costs down
-- no incentive to make availability or usability easy
-- no incentive to use formats or techniques that would allow easy migration of data or processes onto other platforms in case this doesn't work out (i.e. companies have a perverse incentive to make themselves indispensable)
-- low-ball bids make you think the cost is going to be lower, but the political pal always makes sure that the corporation gets a cost plus profit contract, rather than a fixed cost contract. It's a scam, this push to privatize is not helping anything.
French manufacturers of the worlds most popular UA have plainly run into problems. They issued a statement yesterday:- AR.Freeflight 2.2 was removed from iTunes last month due to the need for patentsâ(TM) clarification on accelerometer and absolute control...
In a couple of years time I donâ(TM)t believe anyone will be left flying UAS with conventional RC gear when the smartphone in their pocket will be able to cope.
It's talking about a way of controlling RC aircraft using your smart phone with a map-view control system rather than using a standard stick-controller to control the plane's pitch/yaw/roll using the control surface actuators directly. It's a shame that even software to do basic things like this has to deal with patent crap. Boo software patents!
Eric "i-google-you-but-you-cant-ogle-me" Schmidt sez "...but I would prefer to not spread and democratize the ability to fight war to every single human being"
.
Hey, have you heard of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the USA, Eric? It specifically does what you wound not prefer: democratize the ability to fight war to every single human being in the U.S.A. by giving the people the right to bear arms. The right to bear arms allows people to have the hardware that would allow them the ability to fight war. The founding fathers, who were a hell of a lot smarter than Eric is, felt the need to enshrine that right to bear arms in writing as an amendment to the Constitution that put my country together. To quote from Animal House, I will not stand here and listen to you bad-mouth the United States of America!!
.
Fuck you, Eric Schmidt. You want to and are currently compiling huge detailed dossiers of the activities, interests, writings, travels, telephone calls, words in telephone calls, purchasing habits, pictures of the fronts and sides (and backs too) of their houses and cars and license plates with streetview, and overhead satellite and aerial photography views from satellite photography purchased for google maps. And you have the fucking gall to say that you don't want THE PEOPLE of the USA to be able to fly and perform aerial surveillance. What a bunch of hogwash. I wish you would go back to work rather than trying to buy laws that you want passed (like allowing self-driving cars, don't tell me you didn't pay someone off in Nevada to get that passed so quickly, eh?).
On Apple iOS products, the billing mechanism is whatever you have set up with your iTunes account. It could be a credit card number; it could also be "cash value" added to an iTunes account by using "gift cards" purchased at local brick-and-mortar stores or received as, of course, gifts.
:>)
On Android products, the billing would be through Google Play or through the info passed on by google play to the company or individual who is offering the "app" for purchase.
re: iTunes does not require a credit card at all. You can create an account with just a $10 gift card.
:>)
Oopsie! My cousins had been getting bonus money in order to be able to download music and populate their iPods. Once my aunt realized they could fill the iPod-touches (plural =?= iPods-touch ?) with the mongo-huge collection of CDs which they already owned, that faucet of bonus money turned off. I am in the doghouse.
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Good point. My cousins are miffed at me because I pointed out to their parents that iTunes and the iPod also do not require you to pay for and download content which you already own digitally. It's possible to put a music CD into an Apple computer and have iTunes rip the CD into the appropriate FLAC/AAC/MP4 format needed for iTunes and the iPod.
Wow, this is just like the "No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet" article. Idiot believes object has mysterious powers: both the Crick Nobel medal and the wacky magna-doofuck-oodle are the objects. Or maybe the guy is like L. Ron Hubbard: he knows his magnets are crap, but he believes that being the current holder of the "Francis Crick Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology" confers upon him the special power of marketing and he can convince morons to buy his crap. "Why what I say must be true!! They wouldn't sell this Authentic Nobel Prize Medal to just anyone with enough money, would they?"
.
It's the same as idiots believing in religious relics, or copper wrist-bands, or magnets along your skin, or even that quacky "blue tape" for atheletes that idiots put on their arms and legs at the olympics thinking the blue tape would give them magic healing abilities.
Oh lord won't you buy me a planet of my own.
My friends all have Galaxie 500s,
I must make amends.
.
I'm counting on you, I.A.U., please don't let me down.
My boyfriend says you won't sell him a star
for my pretty name..
.
Prove that he loves me and sell him the next round orb,
Oh honey, won't you buy me an exoplanet to terraform ?
.
[hmm, i'll work on the rest of the lyrics later... gia]
Thanks for the link to the actual requirements. Yeah, your interpretation makes sense. That article has a good topic and idea, but poor execution. (Ohmigodzilla, I'm thinking like a teacher grading essays now!)
Yeah, but since they prefixed "radial flux" with "170 degrees", it sounded more like a description of "3-d angular subtend" of just under a half-sphere. Though considering that "laser diodes" also exist, the concept of collimated light certainly does make sense with "LED" light sources. I guess inferences aren't just based on context but also on the knowledge and reading history of the reader, too! Do you work with LASERs? (does anyone ever really capitalize all the letters in laser anymore?)
Unless you mean Navigator 9, get back in your http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Tub_Time_Machine>Hot Tub Time Machine and tell your past self to buy shares of Apple and NOT to buy any shares in Netscape. Oh, and Pets-dot-com will tank too, though that cute sock-puppet-doggie will live on. And hoard Hostess Twinkies: they'll stop making them someday!
Well, the saying is "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft software" (which is a variant from the original "No-one gets fired for buying IBM software (alternate reference here ). That might have to be modified to reflect this new reality: "Nobody ever got hired if they're still buying [or running] Microsoft software" ! :>)
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Or, as many other posters have pointed out, being able to replace the stock software installed on your computer means you've got some smarts at least. IMHO, installing a full GNU/Linux distro on your system must make you a genius (not that Apple "genius bar" kind of genius either!)
.
bad form to reply to myself (?) but the next paragraph at the UCSD link ( http://registrar.ucsd.edu/catalog/01-02/GradStud.htm )is quite a shocker for two reasons: All graduate students who are U.S. citizenatent agreement is harder to find. On purpose?s and appointed as teaching assistants or graduate student researchers or are employed by the university in other positions are required by the California Constitution to sign the State Oath of Allegiance. In addition, all graduate student appointees and employees are required by university policy to sign the university's Patent Agreement. Copies of both documents may be obtained from the student's academic department. [emphasis mine!!!!] [text from ucsd link above]
Note that while the United Auto Worker's agreement with the UCSD system is easily found by following the given URL link, the Patent Agreement has no given URL link and can only be gotten from the various departments at UCSD. How fucked up is that? It's like they don't really want you to be able to review the patent agreement wording before you have to sign it!
.
And what's with the weird "State Oath of Allegiance" thing?? That's the first and only place I've ever heard about that!
TL; DR: the testing requirements for Energy Star for LED light bulbs require running them for 9 straight months, and one company was out of the gate first and this is the first and only one certified as energy star for its 100-W-equivalent LED light bulb. Other point: light distribution must be uniform radially for " 170 degrees of radial [sic] flux": sounds like just a smidge under a half-sphere of radiant flux which is probably what was really meant. I can't find any definition of or any other usage of the term "radial flux".
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I use "half-sphere" to mean ($2 \times \pi $) steradians, and you can pretty much visual what I mean by a half-sphere. So I guess an "A-bulb" has to radiate light almost uniformly over 8/9-ths of that solid angle.
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"Radiant Flux" is the term used to describe the radiant power : the measure of the total power of electromagnetic radiation (including infrared, ultraviolet, and visible light). The power may be the total emitted from a source, or the total landing on a particular surface. So neither "radial flux" nor "radiant flux" makes sense in that article. Wrong units either way. Spatial distribution of radiated light would be measured in steradians.
What union represents computer programmers? There were some weird fights here in La Jolla as to which union (or even whether any union at all) ought to represent the graduate-student-teachers (also known as TAs = graduate teaching assistants). The final result is at the UCSD website and is that the graduate students are members of the United Auto Workers union: Graduate students appointed as teaching assistants, associates, readers or tutors (ASE'S) are represented by the Association of Student Employees/UAW under a collective bargaining agreement with the university. All salary payments under these titles are subject to a deduction of 1.15 percent for union membership dues or a 0.92 percent agency fee deduction for students who choose not to become members of the union. The university/UAW Agreement can be retrieved electronically at http://ogsr.ucsd.edu/ase.htm
:>)
No, I think the invasion is from Canada. There's a geographically defined region called the TMZ, or Thirty-Mile-Zone = Studio Zone around Hollywood. More about it after a word from our fine friends up to our north.
.
Psych and Monk and quite a few shows are produced and filmed in Canada, despite being set in Santa Barbara, CA (as in California CA, not Canada CA), and San Francisco. You see quite a few canadians on american shows, but every now and then, the canadian shows are even cooler: ReGenesis
DaVinci's Inquest
Made in Canada
Even more rarely, there are Canadian TV shows that actually play up their canadian-ness rather than hiding their location as being a non-descript USA-ian city like Los Angeles:
Rookie BlueDaVinci's Inquest
Don't forget about the statutory (well, actually "contractual" rather than statutory) TMZ, or Thirty-Mile-Zone = Studio Zone around Hollywood :
Entertainment industry unions currently use this area to determine rates and work rules for union workers. The zone also largely determined the location and success of the original movie ranches in or near Hollywood.So yes, unions do play a strong role in Hollywood productions by setting the costs for doing production within a particular region. They keep the prices up to a reasonable level that accomodates the pay desires of the teamsters, actors, and other guild and union members.
Thanks for the doi link! I'm amazed I can download the PDF without being at a university connection. The "habit diagram" in figure 2 of that paper is really cool. And figure 5 with Temperature vs. "Ice supersaturation" (? not fully understanding that) with the illustrations of the crystals that form at different variations of X vs. Y in the atmosphere or in their "diffusion" chamber. Very nice article.
re: If a rank and file employee says "deal with it" to their customers on a very public forum,... /me ducks for cover! If anyone would like to make a joke about the Peter Principle and dongles and/or forking, please take a stab at it. I can't believe I skipped over Peter Principle without thinking of a joke! :>(
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I agree with you completely. It's the action itself and the perception of the action that matters, not just the organizational heights of the Peter Principle reached by the speakers in question.
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If a rank-and-file member of an organization says things like "I'd like to fork his code" or mentions something about the dangle of his dongle, they're likely to be fired too, if someone with some interesting PR skills decides to take a photo and try to twitter-shame someone rather than just confronting them directly about their (misperceived) [IMHO] rudeness.
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I'd fork his code if my dongle could only activate my apparatus. --
Google Glass is for: ;>)
-- tracking, nonstop, of every place you go (and if you're visit the bathroom, every place you go to go) and how long you stay there (hmm, in the bathroom that could tell them if you're going #1 or #2, eh? or will they just turn on the hidden microphone to listen for the tinkle-splash noises to figure that out?)
-- your random path (how fidgety you are when you are certain places, like do you stay put in ladies' wear, then swing by shoes in the deparment store before heading over to Easy spirit for the shoes you really want?
-- how frequently you follow the same paths and when (e.g. do you hit the bar every friday? do you go to margarita happy hour on thursday night? Do you go to for tacos and to J.V.'s for the flying saucer and the chimichangas?
-- what do you look at and what are you looking at when you stay put vs. when you wander?
-- what exactly can they try to sell to you by knowing every bit of detail about you that they can learn?
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All of that tracking will help them build up their massive dossiers on you, citizens! Beware!
right. you know everything. PLaying with something and engaging in it and relating it to fun and excitement like Harry Potter and "expelliarmus" (and knowing some of the roots of words and such) can teach you more than purely "rote memorization" could.
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Rote memorization could maybe get them to pass a multiple choice exam where they can pick out which is "a conditional statement" out of the choices, or perhaps which is a valid beginning or end of a loop construct, but play-acting and engaging the mind into thinking and wanting to find a solution is more likely to instill concepts into the children's minds and brains. Concepts can cross domain boundaries, and learning a concept in topic A could allow you to use that concept in other seemingly unrelated topics.
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Don't throw your derision at this. Different people learn in different ways.