Once you send out an e-mail, you've given up all rights to what the recipient does with it. If he wants to post the contents on a billboard, ridicule you in public, or yes, have Google scan it in return for providing free e-mail service, that's their right.
When this particular drug was/is sold as a prescription (wikipedia says it's still for sale in Switzerland), I imagine it's not full of Phosphorus, Gasoline, etc. by the time it gets administered.
Why on earth would the Taliban give one flying *bleep!* about what happens in freakin' Siberia? This crap isn't even made from illegal drugs; it's made from Codeine, which is avail. OTC in Russia (and many other countries, for that matter.)
In any case, if drugs were legal, this witch's brew simply would not exist. There would be no need for it to be specifically made illegal because nobody in their right mind would use this over actual Morphine, Heroin, Hydrocodone, whatever... or even if they did use it, it would be something out of an actual drug factory, not some horrible mix of petrochemicals, phosphorus, and iodine out of some junkie's basement.
Google has been 100% up-front, since the day they announced the product, that they were going to pay for GMail by scanning your mail messages and guessing at relevant ads. They have made utterly no effort whatsoever to hide or obfuscate this fact.
If another insurance company thinks climate change is a bunch of bunk, they can lower rates and steal business from the company that has reached the opposite conclusion.
The 1st Congress, whom we can assume knew what the constitution meant, passed a law specifying border entry areas as being free from the normal protections against warrentless searches.
"With turmoil gripping Egypt following the July 3 popularly backed military coup that overthrew the country's president" This statement is awkward writing, at best, a complete fabrication, at worst.
I suppose this is true if you define "popularly" as meaning "as done by more than one member of the populace-at-large". This is a pretty-narrow reading, as it makes an almost-meaningless statement.
I read it as if this statement is implying most people agree with the coup, and are happy it is occurring. I doubt this is true. I expect most people in Egypt want to just get on with their daily lives, and don't much care who's in charge, as daily life isn't disrupted.
I'm sure SOME members of the population agree with the coup, and there's another large pile (namely the large numbers of people that elected Morsi) that don't. Morsi may not have been a very good leader, but he was elected in what pretty much all agree were free and well-run elections. His overthrow makes a mockery of representative democracy.
It shames me that the US has not pulled the plug on military aid. If the elected president were secularist and the military decided to replace him with Morsi, I guarantee we would not have hesitated to denounce the coup and started actively agitating to have the democratic government restored.
The whole point of a national university is to educate the populace. If you set your admission standards so high that nobody can enter, either call it a "research institute" or close the doors. Changing the pass level was the correct move. Lowering the standards may mean that a degree from the university isn't worth as much as it would be if the standards were higher, but it's still better than no university at all if we assume actual teaching takes place there.
The Guardian (not exactly a sensational tabloid) had an article about this not too long ago. It included an extensive interview with a doctor that participated.
Are you seriously wondering why they are stopping?
You seem to be laboring under the mistaken belief that the death penalty is the same there as it is here. In China, they routinely execute political dissidents, politically-active members of disfavored minority groups, thieves, embezzlers, etc. Any trial that occurs is rather perfunctory. Yes, there are your typical death-row murderers and rapists too, but the high-volume organ supply comes from political prisoners, as they are easier to "warehouse" due to being less violent. They have their blood tested after arrest, and then are executed when a customer requires an organ.
I just started WFH in April after 13 years doing L2 support for enterprise storage equipment. The team I came from was, to be totally honest, really great to work for. We had a great manager (the same one) the entire time up until he retired in April, and there was nothing wrong with his replacement other than being a little green. We were a tight-knit group with little turnover (which is good, as it took about 2 years of OTJ to train somebody new), and most of us worked from home rarely, even though our manager encouraged us to do so at least once a week if we were so inclined; the nature of the work (solving new, unique, and subtle ways customers found to break our stuff) involved a lot of collaboration and whiteboarding that would have been nearly impossible remotely. Lots of eavesdropping over the cube walls and hearing a co-worker describe a problem that vaguely resembles one you just fixed five months ago. I left not out of any deep-seated problem, but rather it was time for me to move my career forward; I had no complaints about my pay or anything, but there was no way for me to advance, as there was an engineer senior to me (and just as good) next in line for the team-lead position.
My new team (pre-sales DR architecture) is spread out all over, and only one even bothers with a desk to go to. While we all get along, and chat on the phone and over IM all the time (I'm on the phone for 3-4 hours every day), it's not nearly the same. With the new job, the work definitely comes and goes in spurts, so the flexible work hours are a plus; sometimes I take a long lunch and clock-punch right at five, and others I have to work a long day to get a sales proposal rolled out in time. I miss carpooling with my wife (20 minute commute), and I miss shooting the $hit with my coworkers.
I need to do better job finishing the setup of my home office, so I have a "real" place to work besides the kitchen table or the screened-in porch (namely, I need a whiteboard and bigger monitor.) I need to be better about getting dressed in actual clothes in the AM instead of when it's time to leave the house next. I could get myself a cube assigned by my employer at my former site (probably the same cube I left if I wanted it) but it's just not the same hanging around your former co-workers if you are now doing a completely different job (not to mention I'd probably routinely get asked for my advice there.)
In the end, I won't say it's better or worse, but it IS very different. My new job works better from home than the office, and my old one was better done in the office.
Given we are STILL waiting for fuel cells that can power a *bleeping!* laptop that have been "just around the corner" since about the Dawn of Slashdot, color me skeptical.
As long as it's only "vulnerable" to "attacks" from the local network, who really cares about vulnerabilities? It's a home router; I'm surprised home routers even have the ability to enforce things like directory permissions at all. I hardly need to "protect" my files from my wife; if she wants to read my stuff, she has much easier ways than launching a buffer overflow attack on my router.
If you want real security, buy something designed to care.
I didn't say anything of the sort. I simply said that the two words "Talent" and "Skill" have sufficiently close definitions that they might as well by synonyms. It's a lexical statement; nothing more.
I said nothing along the lines that anyone can become talented/skilled at anything they choose to. I don't see how on earth you leapt to that conclusion, AC.
The terms to use aren't "Talent" and "Skill" (those are pretty darn close to synonyms)... If you use those two terms, of COURSE you confuse yourself.
I believe in IT we would refer to the two people as a Coder vs. an Architect. And yes, one person is often better at one of those things than the other. And this sort split is virtually universal across professions; it's not special to IT in any way.
When I said "geometry" I meant basic area and volume for 3 and 4 sided polygons, rectangular prisms, plus circles and spheres, along with remembering what a right triangle is. Not anything dealing with trig, proofs, more complicated polygons, etc. I went over this stuff in 6th grade anyway...
My upper limit would probably be 8th-grade algebra, along with a smattering of trig. Conic sections, geometric proofs, most of trig, calculus, stats more complicated than "calculate a mean and median", Linear/DiffEq... fuggedaboutit.
You are correct; $11.50 an hour is not middle-class. However, that no-benefit salary is usually enough to make you ineligible for things like Medicaid (even though you aren't buying jack-$hit in medical care on that paycheck) or a Public Defender if you are accused of a crime.
It's a tragedy that a productive member of society that is fulfilling his/her end of the "social contract" still cannot obtain the things we would expect every civilized nation to make sure it's citizens have access to.
I don't see anything controversial about the warehouse. It's hot (or cold) unskilled manual labor. It pays above minimum wage, but like most jobs with unskilled labor, pays no benefits. They do not do so because it would not provide them with any competitive advantage vs. other fulfillment companies.
Breaking the "race to the bottom" to make sure you won't starve to death and have access to things like basic medical care when you are a productive member of society (fulfilling your end of the "social contract") is arguably a useful thing for government to do.
Maintenance charges are pure gold. Old gear for which development costs were paid off decades ago is pure profit. It has essentially zero R&D expense, and continuing maintenance, licensing, and often leasing charges are associated with relatively little actual expense.
All companies that want to continue on indefinitely as a going concern need new product to sell, of course. But that doesn't mean the stuff they sold a long time ago isn't "The Gift That Keeps On Giving."
I read the OP's letter, and while it was a great explanation of the actual details of the uncertainty principle by going over what the different variables meant, it didn't enhance my understanding at all. (Not least of all because it left out units.)
It stated the principle, and gave it's exact formula, but didn't tell me why it was true; it said it just was, and that was final. The NYTimes article explained WHY you can't measure both location and velocity simultaneously, and how this does and does not have application in our day-to-day world. The detail that minimum uncertainty is confined to the value of the Plank constant (especially when no units are given) is utterly irrelevant to somebody reading a general-interest science article.
Most literate people could probably handle arithmetic, fractions, simple exponents, some basic geometry, and linear equations.
However, I would not expect a general-audience article to feature calculus, statistics (beyond references to the mean and median), complex algebra, differentials, etc. As in, everything past pre-algebra class is sketchy, at best.
But algebra beyond linear equations, any kind of complex geometry (beyond rote formulas), calculus, just about anything with a sigma symbol in it, etc. I'm a Computer Engineer, and I don't remember how to do any of that stuff. Format of an equation describing a parabola? Method for computing integrals? How to calculate Standard Deviation? I've forgotten it all; it was 15+ years ago, and has no relevance to my day-to-day life. I could probably pick it up again relatively quickly if I needed to (okay, except for calculus and linear/diffEq; I sucked at it even at the time), but yeah, my eyes would start glazing over any article that relied on my understanding of even moderately complex math.
For companies with a "well-established" product line, legacy systems are often essentially "free money", especially for telco equipment with embarrassingly long lifetimes.
Bell Labs / Lucent recruited heavily from my school, it being one of the two nearest engineering schools to Lucent HQ. (We had Dennis Ritchie and Bjarne Stroustroup give lectures at ACM meetings, and we had several Lucent PHd's as adjunct faculty) Lucent had a minimum GPA requirement of 3.0 in order to obtain an interview. I had a 2.94, therefore being.01 short of rounding up to a 3.0. We are talking a single exam question in frosh calc here... I was very disappointed at the time.
I was substantially less disappointed after the telco crash. And lets just say the last of my regrets are now gone.
I'm on NewsBlur; basic accounts are free (limited number of feeds, limited customization), a "Deluxe" account is $24 a year. It's been around for years, and the fee seems to cover his costs... (it's a one-man shop though)
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Once you send out an e-mail, you've given up all rights to what the recipient does with it. If he wants to post the contents on a billboard, ridicule you in public, or yes, have Google scan it in return for providing free e-mail service, that's their right.
When this particular drug was/is sold as a prescription (wikipedia says it's still for sale in Switzerland), I imagine it's not full of Phosphorus, Gasoline, etc. by the time it gets administered.
Why on earth would the Taliban give one flying *bleep!* about what happens in freakin' Siberia? This crap isn't even made from illegal drugs; it's made from Codeine, which is avail. OTC in Russia (and many other countries, for that matter.)
In any case, if drugs were legal, this witch's brew simply would not exist. There would be no need for it to be specifically made illegal because nobody in their right mind would use this over actual Morphine, Heroin, Hydrocodone, whatever... or even if they did use it, it would be something out of an actual drug factory, not some horrible mix of petrochemicals, phosphorus, and iodine out of some junkie's basement.
Google has been 100% up-front, since the day they announced the product, that they were going to pay for GMail by scanning your mail messages and guessing at relevant ads. They have made utterly no effort whatsoever to hide or obfuscate this fact.
If another insurance company thinks climate change is a bunch of bunk, they can lower rates and steal business from the company that has reached the opposite conclusion.
The 1st Congress, whom we can assume knew what the constitution meant, passed a law specifying border entry areas as being free from the normal protections against warrentless searches.
"With turmoil gripping Egypt following the July 3 popularly backed military coup that overthrew the country's president" This statement is awkward writing, at best, a complete fabrication, at worst.
I suppose this is true if you define "popularly" as meaning "as done by more than one member of the populace-at-large". This is a pretty-narrow reading, as it makes an almost-meaningless statement.
I read it as if this statement is implying most people agree with the coup, and are happy it is occurring. I doubt this is true. I expect most people in Egypt want to just get on with their daily lives, and don't much care who's in charge, as daily life isn't disrupted.
I'm sure SOME members of the population agree with the coup, and there's another large pile (namely the large numbers of people that elected Morsi) that don't. Morsi may not have been a very good leader, but he was elected in what pretty much all agree were free and well-run elections. His overthrow makes a mockery of representative democracy.
It shames me that the US has not pulled the plug on military aid. If the elected president were secularist and the military decided to replace him with Morsi, I guarantee we would not have hesitated to denounce the coup and started actively agitating to have the democratic government restored.
The whole point of a national university is to educate the populace. If you set your admission standards so high that nobody can enter, either call it a "research institute" or close the doors. Changing the pass level was the correct move. Lowering the standards may mean that a degree from the university isn't worth as much as it would be if the standards were higher, but it's still better than no university at all if we assume actual teaching takes place there.
The Guardian (not exactly a sensational tabloid) had an article about this not too long ago. It included an extensive interview with a doctor that participated.
Are you seriously wondering why they are stopping?
You seem to be laboring under the mistaken belief that the death penalty is the same there as it is here. In China, they routinely execute political dissidents, politically-active members of disfavored minority groups, thieves, embezzlers, etc. Any trial that occurs is rather perfunctory. Yes, there are your typical death-row murderers and rapists too, but the high-volume organ supply comes from political prisoners, as they are easier to "warehouse" due to being less violent. They have their blood tested after arrest, and then are executed when a customer requires an organ.
I just started WFH in April after 13 years doing L2 support for enterprise storage equipment. The team I came from was, to be totally honest, really great to work for. We had a great manager (the same one) the entire time up until he retired in April, and there was nothing wrong with his replacement other than being a little green. We were a tight-knit group with little turnover (which is good, as it took about 2 years of OTJ to train somebody new), and most of us worked from home rarely, even though our manager encouraged us to do so at least once a week if we were so inclined; the nature of the work (solving new, unique, and subtle ways customers found to break our stuff) involved a lot of collaboration and whiteboarding that would have been nearly impossible remotely. Lots of eavesdropping over the cube walls and hearing a co-worker describe a problem that vaguely resembles one you just fixed five months ago. I left not out of any deep-seated problem, but rather it was time for me to move my career forward; I had no complaints about my pay or anything, but there was no way for me to advance, as there was an engineer senior to me (and just as good) next in line for the team-lead position.
My new team (pre-sales DR architecture) is spread out all over, and only one even bothers with a desk to go to. While we all get along, and chat on the phone and over IM all the time (I'm on the phone for 3-4 hours every day), it's not nearly the same. With the new job, the work definitely comes and goes in spurts, so the flexible work hours are a plus; sometimes I take a long lunch and clock-punch right at five, and others I have to work a long day to get a sales proposal rolled out in time. I miss carpooling with my wife (20 minute commute), and I miss shooting the $hit with my coworkers.
I need to do better job finishing the setup of my home office, so I have a "real" place to work besides the kitchen table or the screened-in porch (namely, I need a whiteboard and bigger monitor.) I need to be better about getting dressed in actual clothes in the AM instead of when it's time to leave the house next. I could get myself a cube assigned by my employer at my former site (probably the same cube I left if I wanted it) but it's just not the same hanging around your former co-workers if you are now doing a completely different job (not to mention I'd probably routinely get asked for my advice there.)
In the end, I won't say it's better or worse, but it IS very different. My new job works better from home than the office, and my old one was better done in the office.
Given we are STILL waiting for fuel cells that can power a *bleeping!* laptop that have been "just around the corner" since about the Dawn of Slashdot, color me skeptical.
As long as it's only "vulnerable" to "attacks" from the local network, who really cares about vulnerabilities? It's a home router; I'm surprised home routers even have the ability to enforce things like directory permissions at all. I hardly need to "protect" my files from my wife; if she wants to read my stuff, she has much easier ways than launching a buffer overflow attack on my router.
If you want real security, buy something designed to care.
I didn't say anything of the sort. I simply said that the two words "Talent" and "Skill" have sufficiently close definitions that they might as well by synonyms. It's a lexical statement; nothing more.
I said nothing along the lines that anyone can become talented/skilled at anything they choose to. I don't see how on earth you leapt to that conclusion, AC.
The terms to use aren't "Talent" and "Skill" (those are pretty darn close to synonyms)... If you use those two terms, of COURSE you confuse yourself.
I believe in IT we would refer to the two people as a Coder vs. an Architect. And yes, one person is often better at one of those things than the other. And this sort split is virtually universal across professions; it's not special to IT in any way.
When I said "geometry" I meant basic area and volume for 3 and 4 sided polygons, rectangular prisms, plus circles and spheres, along with remembering what a right triangle is. Not anything dealing with trig, proofs, more complicated polygons, etc. I went over this stuff in 6th grade anyway...
My upper limit would probably be 8th-grade algebra, along with a smattering of trig. Conic sections, geometric proofs, most of trig, calculus, stats more complicated than "calculate a mean and median", Linear/DiffEq... fuggedaboutit.
You are correct; $11.50 an hour is not middle-class. However, that no-benefit salary is usually enough to make you ineligible for things like Medicaid (even though you aren't buying jack-$hit in medical care on that paycheck) or a Public Defender if you are accused of a crime.
It's a tragedy that a productive member of society that is fulfilling his/her end of the "social contract" still cannot obtain the things we would expect every civilized nation to make sure it's citizens have access to.
I don't see anything controversial about the warehouse. It's hot (or cold) unskilled manual labor. It pays above minimum wage, but like most jobs with unskilled labor, pays no benefits. They do not do so because it would not provide them with any competitive advantage vs. other fulfillment companies.
Breaking the "race to the bottom" to make sure you won't starve to death and have access to things like basic medical care when you are a productive member of society (fulfilling your end of the "social contract") is arguably a useful thing for government to do.
Maintenance charges are pure gold. Old gear for which development costs were paid off decades ago is pure profit. It has essentially zero R&D expense, and continuing maintenance, licensing, and often leasing charges are associated with relatively little actual expense.
All companies that want to continue on indefinitely as a going concern need new product to sell, of course. But that doesn't mean the stuff they sold a long time ago isn't "The Gift That Keeps On Giving."
I read the OP's letter, and while it was a great explanation of the actual details of the uncertainty principle by going over what the different variables meant, it didn't enhance my understanding at all. (Not least of all because it left out units.)
It stated the principle, and gave it's exact formula, but didn't tell me why it was true; it said it just was, and that was final. The NYTimes article explained WHY you can't measure both location and velocity simultaneously, and how this does and does not have application in our day-to-day world. The detail that minimum uncertainty is confined to the value of the Plank constant (especially when no units are given) is utterly irrelevant to somebody reading a general-interest science article.
Most literate people could probably handle arithmetic, fractions, simple exponents, some basic geometry, and linear equations.
However, I would not expect a general-audience article to feature calculus, statistics (beyond references to the mean and median), complex algebra, differentials, etc. As in, everything past pre-algebra class is sketchy, at best.
But algebra beyond linear equations, any kind of complex geometry (beyond rote formulas), calculus, just about anything with a sigma symbol in it, etc. I'm a Computer Engineer, and I don't remember how to do any of that stuff. Format of an equation describing a parabola? Method for computing integrals? How to calculate Standard Deviation? I've forgotten it all; it was 15+ years ago, and has no relevance to my day-to-day life. I could probably pick it up again relatively quickly if I needed to (okay, except for calculus and linear/diffEq; I sucked at it even at the time), but yeah, my eyes would start glazing over any article that relied on my understanding of even moderately complex math.
For companies with a "well-established" product line, legacy systems are often essentially "free money", especially for telco equipment with embarrassingly long lifetimes.
Bell Labs / Lucent recruited heavily from my school, it being one of the two nearest engineering schools to Lucent HQ. (We had Dennis Ritchie and Bjarne Stroustroup give lectures at ACM meetings, and we had several Lucent PHd's as adjunct faculty) Lucent had a minimum GPA requirement of 3.0 in order to obtain an interview. I had a 2.94, therefore being .01 short of rounding up to a 3.0. We are talking a single exam question in frosh calc here... I was very disappointed at the time.
I was substantially less disappointed after the telco crash. And lets just say the last of my regrets are now gone.
I'm on NewsBlur; basic accounts are free (limited number of feeds, limited customization), a "Deluxe" account is $24 a year. It's been around for years, and the fee seems to cover his costs... (it's a one-man shop though)
tt-rss has received frequent mentions as a DIY web-based aggregator.