You write: "Short of actually bringing down the government and replacing the system, hopefully in a non-violent way, this seems unlikely to change any time soon." Looks to me like the Arab/Ukraine/Etc Spring has shown that _bringing down a government_ is almost a guarantee that what replaces it will be nondemocratic.
Hey, I resemble that remark. I do have a 7 digit UID starting with 2, but a great thing about/. is that I have always felt my comments and posts were judged on the content of their character and not the length of the UID. That's also what I do when I moderate.
You've been reading The Circle too much. I'm sure they don't do that. (Heavy sarcasm).
I can't figure out how to explain to my 16 year old that one day, she will find an issue she cares about passionately, and will want to support that issue with her heart and soul. And if the government doesn't like her supporting that issue, they can find every and anything in her past to intimidate her, as has happened already to many. (And they can make stuff up of course). I'm glad these Congressmen are not cowed yet.
Trademark is the simplest and cheapest way to burn copycat apps. If a business that is not a copycat app uses "Candy" in its title, it has an excellent countersuit, so "Candy Crush" will be careful whom it sues (especially as the court could order the loser to pay the winner's attorneys fees). However, if "Candy Crush" only goes after "Candy Slots" and people selling "Candy Crush" pants, the infringers don't have much of a defense and I don't have much of a problem with it.
Yes, this is the point of the article. Your ability to look into the future may make you change your current preferences. You know the dark chocolate won't run out, so to maximize your chocolate intake, you eat the milk chocolate first. If your wife were visiting her sister for an extended period of time, you'd probably eat the dark chocolate first, because you like it better.
This is, of course, not nice (wife "I bought the dark for you and the milk for me"), but is probably rational.
Please don't foresage that Google Scholar is going away. I love Google Scholar. I have noted it's harder to find (if you don't have it bookmarked on your toolbar, as, for example, I do). Can I start a campaign?
We know the formula for a blockbuster movie, it's been published in a book called Save the Cat (and reviewed here).
The great thing about books, especially now, is that there is very low cost to publishing them compared with movies so you can be more experimental. Hopefully, no one will figure out the complete secret to their success in the same way movies are known.
Yelp know who I am. Yelp is installed on my Android phone and I can't take it off (without hacking the phone), so Yelp surely knows everything about me. Yelp could hand over that information. I don't see a problem with the judge seeing the information, or even the carpet-cleaner that receives the complaints, but I can understand not wanting the whole world knowing where I get my carpets cleaned, or where I go on vacation etc.
Limited disclosure seems a fair tradeoff, and Yelp (or any other site that publishes reviews) should set their systems accordingly so people who do submit reviews know ahead of time who will be able to identify them and for what reason - and this in turn keeps reviewers honest.
OK but there are ten times as many reported challenges (where someone, usually a parent, seeks to get a book banned from a school or library), and maybe four or five times as many total challenges. Actual book banning only succeeded 49 times, but that doesn't mean many many more people tried to ban books. ALA website discussion here
OK if I had mod points, I'd give you one, but not many readers of the WSJ (yes, WSJ) play Doom. For better o.r worse, more WSJ readers own Ferraris than every played Doom. Ponder on that.
OK, I know they seem like the same thing to you, but RTFA, he retired from the WSJ, not the NYT. Would you confuse Apple and Windows? LA and San Diego? Washington DC and Washington state?
Yes, but these new home sensors generate jnew/more healthcare data, sent to an app on your smart phone, that you may not want your health insurance provider to know about. For example, you are a diabetic, you let your blood sugar get too high. You are not in compliance. If your health insurance provider knows, will they charge you extra premiums for not keeping your blood sugar in the proper range? Once the data is generated, the insurer will demand a copy of it. Read The Circle by Dave Eggers.
Good point about Microsoft not known for providing decent support.
Sports bra heart rate monitors are old hat, you can even get them on Amazon. Comments show that they provide great support even for large chested ladies, and are thin enough your nipples still show through.
I'm not sure I would wear a bra that told me I was overeating. I am thinking that one would stay in the closet, especially when I felt most like overeating.
So the family of the terminally ill patient could in theory not only force feed the patient, they could also zap his brain to give him the "will to persevere"? Sign me up for hospice right now; I'm calling my lawyer to amend my living will and medical directives to keep that particular treat far away from me.
I suspect a number of slashdotters would also have psycho signature brains but are not currently nor ever will be psychopaths- having found an outlet to virtual psycho-mimicking behavior here at/.
I am still unhappy about the internet accessibility of the apps that T-Mobile preloaded onto my phone, that I can't get rid of without jailbreaking the phone. The apps I download, I can control, but the ones preinstalled - (e.g. Yelp? Why do I want Yelp to know everything about me all the time?) - I'm stuck with.
Anyone else notice the pdf linked to an 11th circuit denial to rehear en banc, not a Second Circuit district court ruling about privacy? Come on Slashdotters, keep the posters honest.
After a student was found to have been inappropriately touching all the other boys in their jockey shorts area in a bullying fashion (7th grade), touching was banned at a school near me for grades 4-8. They felt it would help the kids get over the trauma of the bad touches, and ensure no one else would pick up on doing that.
Two years later, the kids joke about how they're not supposed to touch each other, don't know/remember why it ever started, and the ban is pretty much not enforced. But sometimes there's a reason such bans are put in place.
No, slashdot pigs, I won't give more details about the inappropriate touching.
I based my entire undergraduate curriculum on never having to take a class with a pre-med (BS in physics). Pity that, when I later decided to get a PhD in Chemistry and had to take organic and pchem. Both were pretty straightforward, although I did end up being closer to what you would classify a physical chemist. I think watching others struggle in organic was an experience many computer science majors have encountered in early computer science classes (what are they doing in this class if they can't figure this stuff out? go do something else with your life?)
Grad schools as well as med schools recognize the ability to master organic is important. At my grad school, we had an organic chemistry entrance exam. If you could not pass, you had to retake college level organic and do very well in it, or leave.
OK, well the other major problems with the request for funding is the total amount funded is $44,000. That is not enough money, after the university gets its cut, to do anything. OK, second problem, they have to complete the study in 1 year. Omaha.com article.
So, it's really a joke all the way around. Warming is cyclical, and prove it without spending enough money to even pay a postdoc for a year.
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Evolutionary theories propose that gratitude is an adaptation for reciprocal altruism (the sequential exchange of costly benefits between nonrelatives) and, perhaps, upstream reciprocity (a pay-it-forward style distribution of an unearned benefit to a third party after one has received a benefit from another benefactor). Gratitude therefore may have played a unique role in human social evolution. --McCullough et al, too lazy to give you a full quote, here's DOI: doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00590.x
Research has shown that gratitude, admiration, elevation of others increases people's happiness more than remembering being happy. Not sure how it scores against Scotch whiskey.
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I can't defend everything you write, but having done research in a medical school environment and in a school of science, there does seem to be a difference. As it looked to me, NIH funded work was like, if you accept that we've done lots of useful controls, you can show the moon is made of green cheese, but for purer science or NSF funded work, the physics drives the results, so 3 grad students in a row can replicate the results.
Just yesterday I was trying to do something for the first time, and it didn't seem to work, so I emailed a past grad student. He said he tried to do the same thing for 6 months, and it never worked. Surprise, surprise, it didn't work for me either. You can't pour water uphill. The science is good and well behaved.
The scientists, maybe not so much.
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You write: "Short of actually bringing down the government and replacing the system, hopefully in a non-violent way, this seems unlikely to change any time soon." Looks to me like the Arab/Ukraine/Etc Spring has shown that _bringing down a government_ is almost a guarantee that what replaces it will be nondemocratic.
Hey, I resemble that remark. I do have a 7 digit UID starting with 2, but a great thing about /. is that I have always felt my comments and posts were judged on the content of their character and not the length of the UID. That's also what I do when I moderate.
You've been reading The Circle too much. I'm sure they don't do that. (Heavy sarcasm).
I can't figure out how to explain to my 16 year old that one day, she will find an issue she cares about passionately, and will want to support that issue with her heart and soul. And if the government doesn't like her supporting that issue, they can find every and anything in her past to intimidate her, as has happened already to many. (And they can make stuff up of course). I'm glad these Congressmen are not cowed yet.
Trademark is the simplest and cheapest way to burn copycat apps. If a business that is not a copycat app uses "Candy" in its title, it has an excellent countersuit, so "Candy Crush" will be careful whom it sues (especially as the court could order the loser to pay the winner's attorneys fees). However, if "Candy Crush" only goes after "Candy Slots" and people selling "Candy Crush" pants, the infringers don't have much of a defense and I don't have much of a problem with it.
Yes, this is the point of the article. Your ability to look into the future may make you change your current preferences. You know the dark chocolate won't run out, so to maximize your chocolate intake, you eat the milk chocolate first. If your wife were visiting her sister for an extended period of time, you'd probably eat the dark chocolate first, because you like it better.
This is, of course, not nice (wife "I bought the dark for you and the milk for me"), but is probably rational.
Please don't foresage that Google Scholar is going away. I love Google Scholar. I have noted it's harder to find (if you don't have it bookmarked on your toolbar, as, for example, I do). Can I start a campaign?
We know the formula for a blockbuster movie, it's been published in a book called Save the Cat (and reviewed here).
The great thing about books, especially now, is that there is very low cost to publishing them compared with movies so you can be more experimental. Hopefully, no one will figure out the complete secret to their success in the same way movies are known.
Yelp know who I am. Yelp is installed on my Android phone and I can't take it off (without hacking the phone), so Yelp surely knows everything about me. Yelp could hand over that information. I don't see a problem with the judge seeing the information, or even the carpet-cleaner that receives the complaints, but I can understand not wanting the whole world knowing where I get my carpets cleaned, or where I go on vacation etc.
Limited disclosure seems a fair tradeoff, and Yelp (or any other site that publishes reviews) should set their systems accordingly so people who do submit reviews know ahead of time who will be able to identify them and for what reason - and this in turn keeps reviewers honest.
OK but there are ten times as many reported challenges (where someone, usually a parent, seeks to get a book banned from a school or library), and maybe four or five times as many total challenges. Actual book banning only succeeded 49 times, but that doesn't mean many many more people tried to ban books. ALA website discussion here
Thank you! The farmer is drunk.
OK if I had mod points, I'd give you one, but not many readers of the WSJ (yes, WSJ) play Doom. For better o.r worse, more WSJ readers own Ferraris than every played Doom. Ponder on that.
OK, I know they seem like the same thing to you, but RTFA, he retired from the WSJ, not the NYT. Would you confuse Apple and Windows? LA and San Diego? Washington DC and Washington state?
Yes, but these new home sensors generate jnew/more healthcare data, sent to an app on your smart phone, that you may not want your health insurance provider to know about. For example, you are a diabetic, you let your blood sugar get too high. You are not in compliance. If your health insurance provider knows, will they charge you extra premiums for not keeping your blood sugar in the proper range? Once the data is generated, the insurer will demand a copy of it. Read The Circle by Dave Eggers.
Good point about Microsoft not known for providing decent support.
Sports bra heart rate monitors are old hat, you can even get them on Amazon. Comments show that they provide great support even for large chested ladies, and are thin enough your nipples still show through.
I'm not sure I would wear a bra that told me I was overeating. I am thinking that one would stay in the closet, especially when I felt most like overeating.
So the family of the terminally ill patient could in theory not only force feed the patient, they could also zap his brain to give him the "will to persevere"? Sign me up for hospice right now; I'm calling my lawyer to amend my living will and medical directives to keep that particular treat far away from me.
I suspect a number of slashdotters would also have psycho signature brains but are not currently nor ever will be psychopaths- having found an outlet to virtual psycho-mimicking behavior here at /.
So are we, i mean they, all just well trained?
I am still unhappy about the internet accessibility of the apps that T-Mobile preloaded onto my phone, that I can't get rid of without jailbreaking the phone. The apps I download, I can control, but the ones preinstalled - (e.g. Yelp? Why do I want Yelp to know everything about me all the time?) - I'm stuck with.
Yeah, I saw that too. ???
Anyone else notice the pdf linked to an 11th circuit denial to rehear en banc, not a Second Circuit district court ruling about privacy? Come on Slashdotters, keep the posters honest.
After a student was found to have been inappropriately touching all the other boys in their jockey shorts area in a bullying fashion (7th grade), touching was banned at a school near me for grades 4-8. They felt it would help the kids get over the trauma of the bad touches, and ensure no one else would pick up on doing that.
Two years later, the kids joke about how they're not supposed to touch each other, don't know/remember why it ever started, and the ban is pretty much not enforced. But sometimes there's a reason such bans are put in place.
No, slashdot pigs, I won't give more details about the inappropriate touching.
I based my entire undergraduate curriculum on never having to take a class with a pre-med (BS in physics). Pity that, when I later decided to get a PhD in Chemistry and had to take organic and pchem. Both were pretty straightforward, although I did end up being closer to what you would classify a physical chemist. I think watching others struggle in organic was an experience many computer science majors have encountered in early computer science classes (what are they doing in this class if they can't figure this stuff out? go do something else with your life?)
Grad schools as well as med schools recognize the ability to master organic is important. At my grad school, we had an organic chemistry entrance exam. If you could not pass, you had to retake college level organic and do very well in it, or leave.
OK, well the other major problems with the request for funding is the total amount funded is $44,000. That is not enough money, after the university gets its cut, to do anything. OK, second problem, they have to complete the study in 1 year. Omaha.com article.
So, it's really a joke all the way around. Warming is cyclical, and prove it without spending enough money to even pay a postdoc for a year.
Quoting: Evolutionary theories propose that gratitude is an adaptation for reciprocal altruism (the sequential exchange of costly benefits between nonrelatives) and, perhaps, upstream reciprocity (a pay-it-forward style distribution of an unearned benefit to a third party after one has received a benefit from another benefactor). Gratitude therefore may have played a unique role in human social evolution. --McCullough et al, too lazy to give you a full quote, here's DOI: doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00590.x
Doesn't sound like it applies to cats.
Research has shown that gratitude, admiration, elevation of others increases people's happiness more than remembering being happy. Not sure how it scores against Scotch whiskey.
I can't defend everything you write, but having done research in a medical school environment and in a school of science, there does seem to be a difference. As it looked to me, NIH funded work was like, if you accept that we've done lots of useful controls, you can show the moon is made of green cheese, but for purer science or NSF funded work, the physics drives the results, so 3 grad students in a row can replicate the results. Just yesterday I was trying to do something for the first time, and it didn't seem to work, so I emailed a past grad student. He said he tried to do the same thing for 6 months, and it never worked. Surprise, surprise, it didn't work for me either. You can't pour water uphill. The science is good and well behaved. The scientists, maybe not so much.