Modded off-topic? The topic here is allegedly illegal surveillance activities. In this story, we see that the EFF sued the sitting President over these surveillance activities. It seems to me that the views/actions of the presidential candidates, Congress, and the electorate/victims on these same surveillance activities are dead center on topic. No?
During my undergraduate career I worked for the Chemistry department . . . I feel a lot better knowing that a good share of the more inept ones got filtered out . ..
Plus, the majors need some one to pull down the bottom of the curve.
Hopefully something will come out in discovery though. . . . Although I wouldn't put it by this administration to argue that even though the illegal program is now public knowledge it is still a state secret because they say so.
I'd say that this suit had potential as an election issue that would set people against the administration, except:
Sadly, few Americans care much about freedom from surveillance. Even those who care typically rank other issues higher. This issue won't get their vote.
The law-and-order crowd, however, will vote for anyone who champions more surveillance. "Catch the terrorists! Get tough on crime! I have nothing to hide! Won't some one think of the children! Why do you hate America!?"
Both presidential candidates voted for the recent legislation that gave immunity to the telcoms.
Frankly, this issue is a bigger loser for Democrats than for Republicans.
To summarize TFA: I have a magical truth detector that can determine if a statement is true by the way a person looks when he says it. With my marvelous machine, you will no longer need to check facts. Instead, you can simply believe whomever my machine tells you to believe. QED.
Insightful? Folks, you're looking at this from the wrong end.
To be sure, there is no invasion of privacy in testing dog shit left around in public.
The invasion comes when every dog must be DNA profiled to be permitted to live in the city. How long before the same is true of every human in the city?
Known as the Peeters report, after lead author P.M. Peeters, the authors of Plane Simple Truth refute the wide-spread belief that the fuel efficiency gains in the commercial aviation sector are erroneous, which is the principle theme of the Peeters report."
The authors of Plane Simple Truth are known as the Peeters report; the authors are named after lead author P.M. Peeters. The authors demonstrate that the principle theme of the Peeters report, namely that there have been significant fuel efficiency gains in the commercial aviation sector, is correct, contrary to wide-spread beliefs.
The fact that he analyzed the leanings of the respondents and took that into account was really well done.
It was a good start.
The next step would be to weight the responses based to match the sample to observed party affiliation of (a) all economists or perhaps (b) likely voters.
The result? Hundreds of DUIs being thrown out in Minnesota alone. Nice to see that the company cares more about their IP than the safety of our roads.
Law enforcement will soon come to grips with the fact that it cannot get a conviction with CMI. Law enforcement will then buy other equipment or use some other sobriety test.
At that point, CMI will be able to sell DUI products only in states that have already ruled that the source need not be turned over. Eventually, they will go out of business or cave.
The water analogy has some other problems, of course. For instance, when water is extended to rural areas, the homeowners do pay $10000 per house to have the lines dug to the house, even if they don't turn the service on. (Having city water connected to the house is, of course, a selling point.)
You're kidding me, right? Stockholders entrusted their assets to managers who entrusted their assets to tradebots. The tradebots/managers made bad decisions. How can the tradebots/managers/stockholders now blame anyone else for their incompetence?
Anyone who sells something of value based on a rumor this thin deserves what they get. As for those who didn't sell and still lost value, anyone who has been in the stock market for very long knows that you sometimes get what others deserve.
"The major ISPs all tell a similar story: A mere 5 percent of their customers are using around 50 percent of the bandwidth, sometimes more, during peak hours. While these 'power users' are sharing three-gig movies and playing online games, poor granny is twiddling her thumbs waiting for Ancestry.com to load."
It's all well and good to argue with the ISPs about net neutrality, but let's not forget to dispute the implied causation.
Granny's delay (if she has one) will be a combination of (i) latency, (ii) ancestry.com's speed at serving up the page, (iii) available bandwidth, (iv) her contracted bandwidth, and (v) her machine's speed at rendering the page. Really, now, let's have a show of hands. How many people here are experiencing speed problems loading mere web pages that are caused by congestion?
In return, it looks like he's in for a share of the cash generated from the sale of 163 million iPods.
If by 'a share' you mean (X hours of his time) * (Y billing rate) =< ~$50,000, then, yes. People with expired patents in other jurisdictions do not get royalties. Not even 0.0003% royalties.
I was going to complain that this technique could spot everyone, but then I thought of the children and realized that this is necessary for their essential safety.
The robustness of the IP as a basis for development in a new media is best measured on its audience size to date. Check all that apply. Any dollars spent on one medium will double as a marketing investment for the next.
[x] feature film [x] soundtrack [x] TV series [x] comic book [x] novelizations [x] dolls, toys [x] logo merchandise [ ] animated series [x] arcade game [x] MMORG [x] collectable card game
In the immortal words of Mel Brooks, "Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower."
The day when there are easily-available machines that mostly replace women for purposes of sex will be an interesting day in the history of women's liberation.
It has certainly been interesting since men were replaced.
Ok I thought quarks, leptons, and neutrinos were grouped like this: Group 1: quarks; Up & Down, lepton; electron, neutrino; neutrino Group 2: quarks; Charm & Strange, lepton; muon; neutrino; muon neutrino Group 3: quarks; Top & Bottom, lepton; tau, neutrino; tau neutrino
Oh, that brings back the memories! (Just say that 'aloud' in your head -- with a beat.)
"Because we isolate the devices immediately, and never reconnect them to their network, the remote wiping capability does not present us with much of a problem," he noted.
So, law enforcement is deliberately keeping my company from protecting it's customers' data? Great. My customers will feel much more secure knowing that their data is safe in some random evidence locker in some random town than having it be gone.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, it's nice to see Slashdot giving equal time to Republican and Democratic "science".
Modded off-topic? The topic here is allegedly illegal surveillance activities. In this story, we see that the EFF sued the sitting President over these surveillance activities. It seems to me that the views/actions of the presidential candidates, Congress, and the electorate/victims on these same surveillance activities are dead center on topic. No?
During my undergraduate career I worked for the Chemistry department . . . I feel a lot better knowing that a good share of the more inept ones got filtered out . . .
Plus, the majors need some one to pull down the bottom of the curve.
Point of order: McCain did not vote on that bill.
Oops. Mea cupla. Of course, that makes it even a less attractive issue for the Democrats.
Hopefully something will come out in discovery though. . . . Although I wouldn't put it by this administration to argue that even though the illegal program is now public knowledge it is still a state secret because they say so.
I'd say that this suit had potential as an election issue that would set people against the administration, except:
Frankly, this issue is a bigger loser for Democrats than for Republicans.
To summarize TFA:
I have a magical truth detector that can determine if a statement is true by the way a person looks when he says it. With my marvelous machine, you will no longer need to check facts. Instead, you can simply believe whomever my machine tells you to believe.
QED.
Insightful? Folks, you're looking at this from the wrong end.
To be sure, there is no invasion of privacy in testing dog shit left around in public.
The invasion comes when every dog must be DNA profiled to be permitted to live in the city. How long before the same is true of every human in the city?
Known as the Peeters report, after lead author P.M. Peeters, the authors of Plane Simple Truth refute the wide-spread belief that the fuel efficiency gains in the commercial aviation sector are erroneous, which is the principle theme of the Peeters report."
The authors of Plane Simple Truth are known as the Peeters report; the authors are named after lead author P.M. Peeters. The authors demonstrate that the principle theme of the Peeters report, namely that there have been significant fuel efficiency gains in the commercial aviation sector, is correct, contrary to wide-spread beliefs.
There, fixed that for you.
Anyone curious about what that link might have been that could get the mayor so riled up?
No, it's sexist! Sexist, I say!! That man was clearly referring to my lipstick!!!
The fact that he analyzed the leanings of the respondents and took that into account was really well done.
It was a good start.
The next step would be to weight the responses based to match the sample to observed party affiliation of (a) all economists or perhaps (b) likely voters.
In other news, you can now buy a Pyrex(TM) cake pan and Pyrex spatula to go with your M$ Cray.
Dupe? Not really, as we now see just how much support this thing has.
The result? Hundreds of DUIs being thrown out in Minnesota alone. Nice to see that the company cares more about their IP than the safety of our roads.
Law enforcement will soon come to grips with the fact that it cannot get a conviction with CMI. Law enforcement will then buy other equipment or use some other sobriety test.
At that point, CMI will be able to sell DUI products only in states that have already ruled that the source need not be turned over. Eventually, they will go out of business or cave.
The water analogy has some other problems, of course. For instance, when water is extended to rural areas, the homeowners do pay $10000 per house to have the lines dug to the house, even if they don't turn the service on. (Having city water connected to the house is, of course, a selling point.)
You're kidding me, right? Stockholders entrusted their assets to managers who entrusted their assets to tradebots. The tradebots/managers made bad decisions. How can the tradebots/managers/stockholders now blame anyone else for their incompetence?
Anyone who sells something of value based on a rumor this thin deserves what they get. As for those who didn't sell and still lost value, anyone who has been in the stock market for very long knows that you sometimes get what others deserve.
To be sure, Apple could easily buy his testimony.
"The major ISPs all tell a similar story: A mere 5 percent of their customers are using around 50 percent of the bandwidth, sometimes more, during peak hours. While these 'power users' are sharing three-gig movies and playing online games, poor granny is twiddling her thumbs waiting for Ancestry.com to load."
It's all well and good to argue with the ISPs about net neutrality, but let's not forget to dispute the implied causation.
Granny's delay (if she has one) will be a combination of (i) latency, (ii) ancestry.com's speed at serving up the page, (iii) available bandwidth, (iv) her contracted bandwidth, and (v) her machine's speed at rendering the page. Really, now, let's have a show of hands. How many people here are experiencing speed problems loading mere web pages that are caused by congestion?
In return, it looks like he's in for a share of the cash generated from the sale of 163 million iPods.
If by 'a share' you mean (X hours of his time) * (Y billing rate) =< ~$50,000, then, yes. People with expired patents in other jurisdictions do not get royalties. Not even 0.0003% royalties.
Talk about your baseless article summaries.
Shadow Analysis Could Spot Terrorists
I was going to complain that this technique could spot everyone, but then I thought of the children and realized that this is necessary for their essential safety.
The robustness of the IP as a basis for development in a new media is best measured on its audience size to date. Check all that apply. Any dollars spent on one medium will double as a marketing investment for the next.
[x] feature film
[x] soundtrack
[x] TV series
[x] comic book
[x] novelizations
[x] dolls, toys
[x] logo merchandise
[ ] animated series
[x] arcade game
[x] MMORG
[x] collectable card game
In the immortal words of Mel Brooks, "Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower."
To stay ahead of counterfeiters, the [industry] anticipates introducing new . . . designs every 7-10 years.
Sound familiar? We are passing the point where it was arguably about quality.
The day when there are easily-available machines that mostly replace women for purposes of sex will be an interesting day in the history of women's liberation.
It has certainly been interesting since men were replaced.
Ok I thought quarks, leptons, and neutrinos were grouped like this:
Group 1: quarks; Up & Down, lepton; electron, neutrino; neutrino
Group 2: quarks; Charm & Strange, lepton; muon; neutrino; muon neutrino
Group 3: quarks; Top & Bottom, lepton; tau, neutrino; tau neutrino
Oh, that brings back the memories! (Just say that 'aloud' in your head -- with a beat.)
Ammeter, Indicator, Wye Level Wye. Slide Rule, Dynamo, Tau Beta Pi!
"Because we isolate the devices immediately, and never reconnect them to their network, the remote wiping capability does not present us with much of a problem," he noted.
So, law enforcement is deliberately keeping my company from protecting it's customers' data? Great. My customers will feel much more secure knowing that their data is safe in some random evidence locker in some random town than having it be gone.