I don't give a flying fuck what some attorney general in New York thinks.
An interesting thing about the Internet that many (American) government officials don't seem to understand is that American laws don't apply to the whole Internet.
If they want to censor, fine. I'll just have to move my server to another state or country.
"Could this be a way for admission people to work for diversity?"
The answer is yes. A couple of years ago, Californian voters passed a proposition (Prop. 209), that, among other things, essentially forbade affirmitive action in Univ. of California entrace requirements.
The year immediately after Prop. 209 was implemented, acceptance rates for blacks and latinos across the system plummeted. As a specific example, I recall that Berkeley law school admitted one black person that year while the year before, something like 20 were admitted.
Since then, the UC regents have sought out ways to increase the acceptance rates for blacks and latinos. Since the UC system uses SAT scores as a primary factor in determining admission and since blacks and latinos have always scored lower on average on it than other groups, I'm not surprised that the regents are looking into getting rid of (or at least demphasizing) the SATs.
As an aside, the UC system uses the following formula as a factor in determining admission:
1000 * GPA + SAT I + SAT II(a) + SAT II(b) + SAT II(c) = x out of 8000
GPA is unweighted and the three SAT IIs required are Math, Writing, and a science.
The number out of 8000 is the index score. If get a high number, you are almost guaranteed admission.
My university, ranked #1 in America by US News two years ago, has a standing policy of testing entering freshmen because professors have found that many students can't write proper English.
This is from a school whose median SAT score is 1550 (I'm not joking).
SATs obviously aren't favored against minorities (or more precisely, people who are non-asian and non-white).
But they are definitely favored against students coming from poor families and bad schools. Unfortunately, that describes a large percentage of black and latino students and is the reason why some choose to interpret the SAT as racially biased.
Instead SSH waited until OpenSSH was popular enough for a sudden name change to confuse people and make things very difficult for them. No matter how you look at it it's very dirty.
How about: SSH has tried for over a year to make a private agreement with OpenSSH and thus spare the public of this affair but since de Raadt steadfastedly refused to compromise, Ylonen is now forced to take the issue publicly.
And even more ironic, didn't the OpenSSH people try to get www.openssh.com a while ago? I thought trademarks were irrelevant?
Ylannonen has sent several private emails to the OpenSSH core developers for the past year - emails that have been ignored it seems. It's only now, after no satisfactory response that Ylannonen has put a message on the mailing list. How is this "pulling the rug out from everyone at the exactly the worst time".
Frankly, I think the guy had enough of de Raadt's stalling.
The fact that the Richter scale is logorithmic make all the difference. 6.7-7.2 are about ten times less powerful than 7.9 earthquakes and roughly 30 times more energy is released. That's why the buildings were still standing after Northridge and Loma Prieta and why not that many people weren't killed.
When the "big one" hits, it's pretty much given that thousands will die just like in India and last year in Turkey.
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I don't give a flying fuck what some attorney general in New York thinks.
An interesting thing about the Internet that many (American) government officials don't seem to understand is that American laws don't apply to the whole Internet.
If they want to censor, fine. I'll just have to move my server to another state or country.
"Could this be a way for admission people to work for diversity?"
The answer is yes. A couple of years ago, Californian voters passed a proposition (Prop. 209), that, among other things, essentially forbade affirmitive action in Univ. of California entrace requirements.
The year immediately after Prop. 209 was implemented, acceptance rates for blacks and latinos across the system plummeted. As a specific example, I recall that Berkeley law school admitted one black person that year while the year before, something like 20 were admitted.
Since then, the UC regents have sought out ways to increase the acceptance rates for blacks and latinos. Since the UC system uses SAT scores as a primary factor in determining admission and since blacks and latinos have always scored lower on average on it than other groups, I'm not surprised that the regents are looking into getting rid of (or at least demphasizing) the SATs.
As an aside, the UC system uses the following formula as a factor in determining admission:
1000 * GPA + SAT I + SAT II(a) + SAT II(b) + SAT II(c) = x out of 8000
GPA is unweighted and the three SAT IIs required are Math, Writing, and a science.
The number out of 8000 is the index score. If get a high number, you are almost guaranteed admission.
My university, ranked #1 in America by US News two years ago, has a standing policy of testing entering freshmen because professors have found that many students can't write proper English.
This is from a school whose median SAT score is 1550 (I'm not joking).
Think about that.
SATs obviously aren't favored against minorities (or more precisely, people who are non-asian and non-white).
But they are definitely favored against students coming from poor families and bad schools. Unfortunately, that describes a large percentage of black and latino students and is the reason why some choose to interpret the SAT as racially biased.
Sorry, "have".
Please don't bother pointing out the obvious irony of this mistake.
"In other words, any old test will do, provided people have to study and work hard to pass it."
Exactly.
But the SAT does has the side effect of making sure students understand the rudiments of math and vocabulary.
And the SAT is not all about memorization. The math and reading comprehension sections do in fact require you to think.
Unfortunately, as Rambus is a corporation, the principals of Rambus are only liable for the amount they have invested in the company.
This means that the principals are not liable as individuals for what Rambus the corporation does.
How about: SSH has tried for over a year to make a private agreement with OpenSSH and thus spare the public of this affair but since de Raadt steadfastedly refused to compromise, Ylonen is now forced to take the issue publicly.
And even more ironic, didn't the OpenSSH people try to get www.openssh.com a while ago? I thought trademarks were irrelevant?
Imagine that he did back in 1999 when OpenSSH was first released. What would have been the Slashdot reaction then?
Huh?
Ylannonen has sent several private emails to the OpenSSH core developers for the past year - emails that have been ignored it seems. It's only now, after no satisfactory response that Ylannonen has put a message on the mailing list. How is this "pulling the rug out from everyone at the exactly the worst time".
Frankly, I think the guy had enough of de Raadt's stalling.
The fact that the Richter scale is logorithmic make all the difference. 6.7-7.2 are about ten times less powerful than 7.9 earthquakes and roughly 30 times more energy is released. That's why the buildings were still standing after Northridge and Loma Prieta and why not that many people weren't killed.
When the "big one" hits, it's pretty much given that thousands will die just like in India and last year in Turkey.