I agree there could be some sort of problem, however, this sort of reasoning is clearly faulty. If I flip a coin 500 times I should get, on average 250 heads. But the chance that I get exactly the sequence I get is 1 out of 2^500.
Now by your logic, given a sequence of 500 coin flips, there clearly must be tampering because that sequence would only happen 1 out of 2^500 times!
Basically, exit polls suck. There probably was tampering of some sorts, but there probably always is. However you can't use logic like that.
Note: I'm a democrat from Massachusetts. Election night me and a bunch of guys were talking about leaving the country as a result of this debacle. I'm certainly not pro-Bush by any stretch. But I am pro-logical reasoning. Sorry:)
Actually, if you are carefully introspective of those answers which were answered by myself and my opponent, you will notice that he answered the questions far less directly than I.
I answered the questions you gave me directly, speaking to the concerns of the American people, who, I believe, should vote for me as their candidate. If you look at my record it is clear that I represent all that is good in the world, and will lead us into a stronger nation is this new, post-9/11 world.
The questions posed showed what a diverse and complex world we live in these days. As a result, you should vote for me, because I am best able to cope with these new issues as we move further into the 21st century.
Forget about whether or not it can be refuted easily, they haven't shown one scrap of even remotely -=legitimate=- evidence. There's nothing that we (the informed) could say "Ah, well, they're wrong, but at least I can see why one might thing that." They don't even have anything close. They've never had anything close. If they had irrefutable evidence, we would've seen it 16 months ago and this case would've been settled a year ago. They have no irrefutable evidence. They have no corroborating evidence, they have no evidence at all! That's why they keep stalling.
At least I'm not the only one who is starting to think it's ridiculous . . .
Well, I don't know if this is the fault of dvdrtools/dvdrecord or just the fact that I bought generic, cheap disks . . . but 1/3 disks I burn are unreadable immediately thereafter (ie- after the burn is finished, mount the disk and md5sum the files). And some 6 months later I've found that almost every disk I ever burned won't mount right . .. I can use readcd to get everything back with errors (~4000-5000 errors per disk), but it's really quite annoying.
So either it's my crappy disks (bought for about 44 cents a pop online in bulk) or it's dvdrecord. I've no idea which, though I'm leaning towards blaming the dvds (in which case, just be aware that cheap dvds aren't worth it!:)
See, he knew ^D is EOF. However, he was trying to exit the Microsoft (or just corporate) controlled America, and can anybody entirely blame him for wanting out of (at least) that part of it?
In what way is this different from any other industry?
Because Microsoft has a monopoly.
Having a monopoly on an industry causes you to have to do different things; for example, not stifle competition by threatening companies that you will leave them if they ship other products (see Dell shipping computers with Red Hat circa a couple of years ago). If Microsoft weren't a monopoly, they could get away with a lot more, because there would be other options out there. However, there aren't, so they have to play by different rules. (At least, in theory . . . damn DoJ gave up . ..)
Four years ago I never would've imagined something as horrible as the PATRIOT Act getting passed.
Six years ago I never would've imagined something as horrible as the DMCA getting passed.
Now, I lack such faith in the system. If we just sit back and assume "Oh, it won't get passed", in two years we'll be saying the same thing about the PIRATE Act . . .
I was the Course Evaluation Guide editor for Brandeis University a couple of years ago, so I got to read all of the comments left by the students for their teachers. In general comments were definitely more positive in departments where grades were higher, but I do believe that you can still get accurate results if you have a decently worded questionnaire. Also, the handwritten section generally made it clear what the students enjoyed and didn't enjoy out of the class.
From some 2000 classes, I rarely had times where there was nothing negative, or nothing positive. It was very clear, though, which professors were significantly worse in the eyes of the students. When 10-20% of the class expresses very vehement negative opinions of the professor and the rest seem lukewarm at best, it's pretty clear that the professor needs some help (As an aside, Brandeis' forms are handwritten, so many students are, rightly, afraid that their professors will recognize their handwriting and change their comments appropriately. It is even more telling when students will write extremely negative things despite this fact.).
So after having read some 15 or 20 thousand reviews, I think I can say that while there is definite work that can be done to improve the entire system, the system is, at its base, solid.
My biggest changes to the system would be:
Make the reviews online and anonymous. The numbers should always stay publically available.
Introduce some form of real accountability for professors. Not necessarily for each individual class, but if a professor receives marks below X for (we'll say) 4-6 classes running, there is probably something severely wrong.
Make sure students know that the forms are used for something. Many people asked me what was the real results of the evaluations, and other than helping pick out awards recepients, and generally informing students, there isn't much that they're used for (at least at Brandeis).
Of course, it's always hard to push change through on the university level, which is why I was so glad to see such review websites, and I'm saddened to see this one go.
and i think they're reasonably justified. What I gather from the memo is that they're saying "spyware removal stuff might break EULAs and we don't support that, so we don't want to get involved". Furthermore, you'll note that they can use phrases like "we don't support spyware removal but I use . .." (em added). So officially, they don't want to get sued into the ground by Gator or CometCursor or whoever else wants to install spyware . . . but unoffically, they'll probably still go on recommending it to users as "I've personally found this program to help, go to google and type in 'adaware'".
It sucks that they have to do this, but I can't say I'm surprised. Having worked in tech support for years, there are always crazy rules about things you "can't do" -- and every good tech I've ever worked with breaks them on a routine basis, when they think it will make the customer happy.
If he had posted the same website 6 months ago, he would be in prison right now, without access to a lawyer. He would probably never see a real court, being subject to a military tribunal, as an "enemy combatant."
Yes, today's political climate is scary. However, you have to be aware that the government is trying to protect its own ass.
I completely agree that there shouldn't be censorship. However, I have the good sense to realize that the poeople with power disagree right now because they got burned. So I'm going to try real hard not to do anything inflammatory and hopefully in another few years this will have blown over, and will just be referred to as another "McCarthyist" age in our history.
According to various things that I read, humans were not originally used for power; they were used as a massive cluster of computing power (their brains) to help keep the massive fission (or was it fusion?) reactors going.
However, the people who were eventually editing the original matrix decided that would be too complicated for the masses, and therefore turned humans into batteries.
I personally like thinking of the matrix as one big beowulf cluster designed to help keep reactors in check -- and that's why the machines can deal without humans, they just have to do part of the processing themselves. Of course, that leaves them less time to thing -- a level of awareness they are willing to accept.
Now for the next X years the parents are continually reminded of the daughter they lost. If I were the parents, I would've asked that he send the 1$ to MADD or some other appropriate charity . . . I wouldn't want the reminder, and at least then the money would go to some appropriate cause . ..
In Netrunner you are an upstanding corporation, who aims to improve life for all people. The Evil Hackers are out there trying to constantly break into your systems. The integrity of all business relies on their being stopped!
Alternately, In the USA, those who matter are upstanding corporations whose aims . . .
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Ctrl-K goes directly to the search bar in Firefox.
:)
Alternately, Ctrl-L followed by Tab.
Since in Mozilla you need one keystroke (up), it's perfectly equivalent to Ctrl-K. Personally I think the ctrl commands are much faster, too
domestic robot to all my chores
You mean like the Roomba?
Perhaps you haven't realized this, but computers that are left on and doing active processing use up a lot more electricity.
Have you seen the amount of money the lawyers get out of these lawsuits?
Trust me, no matter who "wins" they both lose -- and the lawyers win.
I agree there could be some sort of problem, however, this sort of reasoning is clearly faulty.
:)
If I flip a coin 500 times I should get, on average 250 heads. But the chance that I get exactly the sequence I get is 1 out of 2^500.
Now by your logic, given a sequence of 500 coin flips, there clearly must be tampering because that sequence would only happen 1 out of 2^500 times!
Basically, exit polls suck. There probably was tampering of some sorts, but there probably always is. However you can't use logic like that.
Note: I'm a democrat from Massachusetts. Election night me and a bunch of guys were talking about leaving the country as a result of this debacle. I'm certainly not pro-Bush by any stretch. But I am pro-logical reasoning. Sorry
Of course they did. They subscribe, so they can see new articles early, and boy are they glad they did!
Actually, if you are carefully introspective of those answers which were answered by myself and my opponent, you will notice that he answered the questions far less directly than I.
I answered the questions you gave me directly, speaking to the concerns of the American people, who, I believe, should vote for me as their candidate. If you look at my record it is clear that I represent all that is good in the world, and will lead us into a stronger nation is this new, post-9/11 world.
The questions posed showed what a diverse and complex world we live in these days. As a result, you should vote for me, because I am best able to cope with these new issues as we move further into the 21st century.
Sincerely,
Either Candidate.
Forget about whether or not it can be refuted easily, they haven't shown one scrap of even remotely -=legitimate=- evidence. There's nothing that we (the informed) could say "Ah, well, they're wrong, but at least I can see why one might thing that." They don't even have anything close. They've never had anything close. If they had irrefutable evidence, we would've seen it 16 months ago and this case would've been settled a year ago. They have no irrefutable evidence. They have no corroborating evidence, they have no evidence at all! That's why they keep stalling.
At least I'm not the only one who is starting to think it's ridiculous . . .
Did anybody else read this and expect some sort of BASIC or batch file joke?
Or is it just me . . .
Personally, I'm more a fan of "Back Door Sluts 9" than I am a fan of "Cracks Under Pressure" . . . but then, maybe that's just me . . .
Well, I don't know if this is the fault of dvdrtools/dvdrecord or just the fact that I bought generic, cheap disks . . . but 1/3 disks I burn are unreadable immediately thereafter (ie- after the burn is finished, mount the disk and md5sum the files). And some 6 months later I've found that almost every disk I ever burned won't mount right . . .
:)
.44 worth of useless dvdness . . .
I can use readcd to get everything back with errors (~4000-5000 errors per disk), but it's really quite annoying.
So either it's my crappy disks (bought for about 44 cents a pop online in bulk) or it's dvdrecord. I've no idea which, though I'm leaning towards blaming the dvds (in which case, just be aware that cheap dvds aren't worth it!
Just my
Maybe it could weed out all of the dupes! :)
See, he knew ^D is EOF. However, he was trying to exit the Microsoft (or just corporate) controlled America, and can anybody entirely blame him for wanting out of (at least) that part of it?
because so far as I can tell, I'm first post, and it's /.ed already . . .
In what way is this different from any other industry?
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Because Microsoft has a monopoly.
Having a monopoly on an industry causes you to have to do different things; for example, not stifle competition by threatening companies that you will leave them if they ship other products (see Dell shipping computers with Red Hat circa a couple of years ago).
If Microsoft weren't a monopoly, they could get away with a lot more, because there would be other options out there. However, there aren't, so they have to play by different rules.
(At least, in theory . . . damn DoJ gave up . .
Four years ago I never would've imagined something as horrible as the PATRIOT Act getting passed.
Six years ago I never would've imagined something as horrible as the DMCA getting passed.
Now, I lack such faith in the system. If we just sit back and assume "Oh, it won't get passed", in two years we'll be saying the same thing about the PIRATE Act . . .
From some 2000 classes, I rarely had times where there was nothing negative, or nothing positive. It was very clear, though, which professors were significantly worse in the eyes of the students. When 10-20% of the class expresses very vehement negative opinions of the professor and the rest seem lukewarm at best, it's pretty clear that the professor needs some help (As an aside, Brandeis' forms are handwritten, so many students are, rightly, afraid that their professors will recognize their handwriting and change their comments appropriately. It is even more telling when students will write extremely negative things despite this fact.).
So after having read some 15 or 20 thousand reviews, I think I can say that while there is definite work that can be done to improve the entire system, the system is, at its base, solid.
My biggest changes to the system would be:
Of course, it's always hard to push change through on the university level, which is why I was so glad to see such review websites, and I'm saddened to see this one go.
Well, that's good. If it were 640 or 600, then us other people wouldn't be able to read it . . .
It sucks that they have to do this, but I can't say I'm surprised. Having worked in tech support for years, there are always crazy rules about things you "can't do" -- and every good tech I've ever worked with breaks them on a routine basis, when they think it will make the customer happy.
No, actually, that was the GNAA . . .
If he had posted the same website 6 months ago, he would be in prison right now, without access to a lawyer. He would probably never see a real court, being subject to a military tribunal, as an "enemy combatant."
Yes, today's political climate is scary. However, you have to be aware that the government is trying to protect its own ass.
I completely agree that there shouldn't be censorship. However, I have the good sense to realize that the poeople with power disagree right now because they got burned. So I'm going to try real hard not to do anything inflammatory and hopefully in another few years this will have blown over, and will just be referred to as another "McCarthyist" age in our history.
According to various things that I read, humans were not originally used for power; they were used as a massive cluster of computing power (their brains) to help keep the massive fission (or was it fusion?) reactors going.
However, the people who were eventually editing the original matrix decided that would be too complicated for the masses, and therefore turned humans into batteries.
I personally like thinking of the matrix as one big beowulf cluster designed to help keep reactors in check -- and that's why the machines can deal without humans, they just have to do part of the processing themselves. Of course, that leaves them less time to thing -- a level of awareness they are willing to accept.
Now for the next X years the parents are continually reminded of the daughter they lost. .
If I were the parents, I would've asked that he send the 1$ to MADD or some other appropriate charity . . . I wouldn't want the reminder, and at least then the money would go to some appropriate cause . .
In Netrunner you are an upstanding corporation, who aims to improve life for all people. The Evil Hackers are out there trying to constantly break into your systems. The integrity of all business relies on their being stopped!
Alternately, In the USA, those who matter are upstanding corporations whose aims . . .