Yeah I tried one of the sites in the AdultFriendFinder company, there are a bunch, (alt.com, some gay one, some old people one, etc). Mainly the problem with that site is that 90+% of members and virtually all of the women are non-paying and can't contact you unless you pay an additional $20/month to let non-paying members contact you. I complained that there was a lack of paying members in my area after a few months on a one-year subscription and they prorated me a refund. Not a scam but I will never pay for a dating site again, at least on okcupid I occasionally meet someone for free.
In this case, I think the source code definitely should be open and able to be scrutinized by the defense. What the manufacturers are really afraid of is that this will demonstrate that breah analysis is actually very error prone and really is not good evidence at all resulting in loss of sales. This is very similar to how Polygraph results are inadmissable because it is simply not very accurate and the results are often very subjective and misleading. No court should allow a magical box to determine guilt or innocence and juries hold scientific evidence in high regard and it should be held to the highest standards of integrity and be open to be disputed in court just as an expert witness can be questioned about his expertise and about his actual knowledge of the case.
Is that why they refused to match me? I thought it was because I was weird. It actually happened I will post the text I got after completing the test.
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Except that breach of contract is not a crime its a civil matter. There are some legitimate reasons for non-compete agreements but no one actually believes that one signs those agreements "willingly", they do it because they need/want the job or want to keep the job.
As long as he does not share Microsoft's trade secrets with Google I really don't see anything ethically wrong with taking a job at a competitor to provide similar services even in a very much still emerging field in which you are a highly sought expert. In addition most non-competes cannot be worldwide/national in scope but if you are working on an internet delivered product they can argue you are violating your non-compete in Botswana.
I think that as long as one abides by their Non-disclosure agreement and does not poach clients non-competes are really just anti-competitive, anti-freedom, anti-capitalist, and anti-worker. No one should be able to make you sign an agreement surrendering your right to earn a living through a job in your field as a condition of employment and I think that legislation should be passed so that to be valid any such agreement would have to compensate you at full salary +benefits for the term of the restriction.
The UN will probably change Israel's country code to.zi (the "zionist entity") and.us to.if (infidel) and China will get.bf (beacon of freedom).
I support the UN in theory and some UN programs (ex. Unicef) do great work but for the most part it is a place where the propoganda and demands of brutal dictators is taken just as seriously as the relatively informed opinions and peaceful desires of democratic states.
Microsoft sued a college student because he was not allowed to return Windows XP and sold it on Ebay. The student won a favorable settlement after filing his own motions and making it very clear that Microsoft's lawyers did not even review the paperwork before filing a lawsuit as many of their claims did not even apply to him.
The difference that I am pointing out is that many companies just go nuclear on anyone and everyone or threaten it without even reviewing their own complaint.
Notice a big difference between a typical Cease and Desist letter often written in a very threatening manner by a lawyer who figures his bogus claims won't be checked by the recipient and a polite please stop because you are going to ruin the service for others letter from the project manager.
Game's teach the entirely wrong reflexes to make people better killers. Just about everybody who uses a computer is familiar with the "Undo" effect. You make a mistake, you immediately reach for the mouse to hit undo. After a while, that reflex can get to the point that you try to hit undo in programs that don't have it, and even when you're not at the computer (I once spilled a glass of water, and it hadn't even fallen over and I caught myself thinking, "Damnit, undo."). You're not going to be any better at shooting people when all of your gun reflexes are centered on the analog thumbsticks.
You are definitely right about that. After a few hours of playing an FPS like HL2 with quicksave where I, trying to really get through the game better, often quickload whenever I take a hit so I can try that part again and see if I can come out of it with no damage, I sometime find myself knocking something over and thinking why can't I quickload or getting my work done with time to spare and thinking its a good time to quicksave.
A locked cockpit door, proper screening for explosives and guns, and an official policy of having armed guards on "most flights" even if that is not actually true. Couple that with absolute discipline of the flight crew to alert the authorities and land the plane at the first sign of trouble no matter what is going on in the cabin.
If you can keep guns off the plane, then hijackers armed only with knives have very little chance of controlling the plane or the passengers for very long. If they start killing people the passengers on a jumbo jet outnumber them 50 (or 100) to 1. They are not going to be able to maintain control over the passengers if they start stabbing people. Once the plane is on the ground, hijackers armed only with knives wouldn't even require a Swat team.
I called the BSA on a job after they refused to pay my last check. Not sure what happened but considering one of my last tasks had been an internal software audit I had more than enough evidence to satisfy the BSA guys when they got back to me about it. They basically pirated everything at that place.
Why can't the East and West coast states just expell the midwest and south or secede. Most of our federal taxes go to those states and they pay almost nothing. We would be so much better off without any of them.
If you are truly buying a licensed copy of a copyrighted work and not just the media itself then by all right the consumers should be able to force Nintendo and Music CD companies and software companies to provide replacement copies of works that were sent on defective/degraded/stolen media forever.
When that happens I will no longer insist on my right to backup copies of media I buy and I will no longer download those albums that I have had stolen/lost/wrecked cd, old cartridge that won't work etc.
Microsoft does not want to open its source code, they like the entire proprietary software industry equate copyright with the right to keep the code secret. THe EU is saying, among other things, open your code thats an order and if you don't do it you get fined 5 million Euro per day (and likely to increase if they do not comply) in addition to the 500 million Euro they already have been fined.
They don't have nearly the kind of influence over Europe as they do in the US and European countries have always been tougher on corporations.
Yep, you hit the nail on the head. Serious scientists call these "researchers" who perform studies for-profit and for interest groups "whores". If you pay for a study, even one whose results can be objectively measured and the study is conducted properly, the official conclusions and the way it is presented to the media will push the desired outcome even when not borne out by the numbers themselves. An average perceived security rating of 7.6 vs 8.3 may actually be a signifcant difference if the survey was large enough but because this is obviously a Microsoft commissioned study as the last several DiDio/Yankee Group studies have been that difference is called insignificant and the conclusion is the two are not just percieved as having similar levels of security but in fact do.
I believe the John Taylor Gatto, a big advocate of school reform and NY teacher of the year, talked about how all you really need to do to break through socio-economic and racial barriers is to learn how to fit in. If you can speak well, be courteous, and dress well no one will question whether you belong. He advocated in his book that those be among the main skills taught in schools.
It really is amazing how far things like making eye contact, standing straight, speaking clearly, shaking hands, holding the door, and wearing a suit will get you.
Hey the ssn actually helps here for once
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This is one circumstance where the required social security number in the US actually makes us more secure. You would find it difficult to open a bank account without one in the US and people do tend to look up briefly when you ask them for it. Usually the SSN makes us less safe but in this case it would make this particular experiment fail to gather enough info to open a bank account.
The prosecution can exclude jurors for cause for not believing in the death penalty, they later along with the prosecution can exclude jurors for no cause with their limited number of challenges. This effectively means though that the jury pool will be skewed to the prosecution's favor.
One problem with death penalty cases from a fairness standpoint is that the prosecutors can exclude members from a jury who do not believe in execution. They call it death-qualifying the jury or something like that and what results is a jury that is skewed towards people who are both pro-death penalty and in general more likely to convict.
For one thing the value of school is ingrained in their culture. Here the value of highschool is a joke. It is so easy and so long, so backward, and so tediuous and such a toxic environment it is no wonder that each new group of freshmen in college seem a lot dumber than the last. Highschools in this country are seriously getting worse and no amount of money can fix them only a serious philosophical shift can do that.
Japanese schools work better than ours because they are extremely competitive, do not refuse to provide higher level instruction to those who excel and because they innovate. The parents there also regard school very highly and go out of their way to make sure their kids are competitive.
Our highschools on the other hand are based on the least common denominator.
Whether a competitive philosophy would be useful or welcomed in American highschools is doubtful. Japanese and other Asian countrie's schools have the downside of being straight-up brutal and can only operate in a nation where conformity and obedience to the state is a keystone of the culture.
What US schools need is a few major reforms. Amend the various laws that require schools to provide services to special ed kids to include having to provide services to those who need more advanced courses and/or require them to let them graduate early. This would stop the mindless holding back of the gifted kids. I once had to repeat a math course, the exact same text in fact, just because the school did not want to inconvenience itself with a 6th grade level math group in 5th grade. So after taking 5th grade math in 4th grade I was screwed over and I think that was probably the point where I realized school was not there for my benefit but mostly for the benefit of the beuracracy.
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Yeah I tried one of the sites in the AdultFriendFinder company, there are a bunch, (alt.com, some gay one, some old people one, etc). Mainly the problem with that site is that 90+% of members and virtually all of the women are non-paying and can't contact you unless you pay an additional $20/month to let non-paying members contact you. I complained that there was a lack of paying members in my area after a few months on a one-year subscription and they prorated me a refund. Not a scam but I will never pay for a dating site again, at least on okcupid I occasionally meet someone for free.
In this case, I think the source code definitely should be open and able to be scrutinized by the defense. What the manufacturers are really afraid of is that this will demonstrate that breah analysis is actually very error prone and really is not good evidence at all resulting in loss of sales. This is very similar to how Polygraph results are inadmissable because it is simply not very accurate and the results are often very subjective and misleading. No court should allow a magical box to determine guilt or innocence and juries hold scientific evidence in high regard and it should be held to the highest standards of integrity and be open to be disputed in court just as an expert witness can be questioned about his expertise and about his actual knowledge of the case.
Why not just give out the first million copies for free instead. That will at least build a user base.
My thoughts exactly.
How can we ever expect students to think for themselves when teachers and administrators are totally incapable of it?
Except that breach of contract is not a crime its a civil matter. There are some legitimate reasons for non-compete agreements but no one actually believes that one signs those agreements "willingly", they do it because they need/want the job or want to keep the job.
As long as he does not share Microsoft's trade secrets with Google I really don't see anything ethically wrong with taking a job at a competitor to provide similar services even in a very much still emerging field in which you are a highly sought expert. In addition most non-competes cannot be worldwide/national in scope but if you are working on an internet delivered product they can argue you are violating your non-compete in Botswana.
I think that as long as one abides by their Non-disclosure agreement and does not poach clients non-competes are really just anti-competitive, anti-freedom, anti-capitalist, and anti-worker. No one should be able to make you sign an agreement surrendering your right to earn a living through a job in your field as a condition of employment and I think that legislation should be passed so that to be valid any such agreement would have to compensate you at full salary +benefits for the term of the restriction.
The UN will probably change Israel's country code to .zi (the "zionist entity") and .us to .if (infidel) and China will get .bf (beacon of freedom).
I support the UN in theory and some UN programs (ex. Unicef) do great work but for the most part it is a place where the propoganda and demands of brutal dictators is taken just as seriously as the relatively informed opinions and peaceful desires of democratic states.
Microsoft sued a college student because he was not allowed to return Windows XP and sold it on Ebay. The student won a favorable settlement after filing his own motions and making it very clear that Microsoft's lawyers did not even review the paperwork before filing a lawsuit as many of their claims did not even apply to him.
The difference that I am pointing out is that many companies just go nuclear on anyone and everyone or threaten it without even reviewing their own complaint.
Notice a big difference between a typical Cease and Desist letter often written in a very threatening manner by a lawyer who figures his bogus claims won't be checked by the recipient and a polite please stop because you are going to ruin the service for others letter from the project manager.
You are definitely right about that. After a few hours of playing an FPS like HL2 with quicksave where I, trying to really get through the game better, often quickload whenever I take a hit so I can try that part again and see if I can come out of it with no damage, I sometime find myself knocking something over and thinking why can't I quickload or getting my work done with time to spare and thinking its a good time to quicksave.
A locked cockpit door, proper screening for explosives and guns, and an official policy of having armed guards on "most flights" even if that is not actually true. Couple that with absolute discipline of the flight crew to alert the authorities and land the plane at the first sign of trouble no matter what is going on in the cabin.
If you can keep guns off the plane, then hijackers armed only with knives have very little chance of controlling the plane or the passengers for very long. If they start killing people the passengers on a jumbo jet outnumber them 50 (or 100) to 1. They are not going to be able to maintain control over the passengers if they start stabbing people. Once the plane is on the ground, hijackers armed only with knives wouldn't even require a Swat team.
Is your vulnerability reduced or eliminated by encapsulating your IPSEC tunnels in GRE tunnels?
LinuxWorld should offer to fire O'Gara if their subscriptions rise by x amount in 5 days.
I called the BSA on a job after they refused to pay my last check. Not sure what happened but considering one of my last tasks had been an internal software audit I had more than enough evidence to satisfy the BSA guys when they got back to me about it. They basically pirated everything at that place.
Why can't the East and West coast states just expell the midwest and south or secede. Most of our federal taxes go to those states and they pay almost nothing. We would be so much better off without any of them.
If you are truly buying a licensed copy of a copyrighted work and not just the media itself then by all right the consumers should be able to force Nintendo and Music CD companies and software companies to provide replacement copies of works that were sent on defective/degraded/stolen media forever.
When that happens I will no longer insist on my right to backup copies of media I buy and I will no longer download those albums that I have had stolen/lost/wrecked cd, old cartridge that won't work etc.
Microsoft does not want to open its source code, they like the entire proprietary software industry equate copyright with the right to keep the code secret. THe EU is saying, among other things, open your code thats an order and if you don't do it you get fined 5 million Euro per day (and likely to increase if they do not comply) in addition to the 500 million Euro they already have been fined.
They don't have nearly the kind of influence over Europe as they do in the US and European countries have always been tougher on corporations.
Yep, you hit the nail on the head. Serious scientists call these "researchers" who perform studies for-profit and for interest groups "whores". If you pay for a study, even one whose results can be objectively measured and the study is conducted properly, the official conclusions and the way it is presented to the media will push the desired outcome even when not borne out by the numbers themselves. An average perceived security rating of 7.6 vs 8.3 may actually be a signifcant difference if the survey was large enough but because this is obviously a Microsoft commissioned study as the last several DiDio/Yankee Group studies have been that difference is called insignificant and the conclusion is the two are not just percieved as having similar levels of security but in fact do.
I believe the John Taylor Gatto, a big advocate of school reform and NY teacher of the year, talked about how all you really need to do to break through socio-economic and racial barriers is to learn how to fit in. If you can speak well, be courteous, and dress well no one will question whether you belong. He advocated in his book that those be among the main skills taught in schools.
It really is amazing how far things like making eye contact, standing straight, speaking clearly, shaking hands, holding the door, and wearing a suit will get you.
This is one circumstance where the required social security number in the US actually makes us more secure. You would find it difficult to open a bank account without one in the US and people do tend to look up briefly when you ask them for it. Usually the SSN makes us less safe but in this case it would make this particular experiment fail to gather enough info to open a bank account.
Countries' was a typo and bureaucracy is just a word that I habitually mispell and let the spell checker fix in OO.org.
Rants on slashdot just need to be legible. They are not essays unless stated as such.
The prosecution can exclude jurors for cause for not believing in the death penalty, they later along with the prosecution can exclude jurors for no cause with their limited number of challenges. This effectively means though that the jury pool will be skewed to the prosecution's favor.
One problem with death penalty cases from a fairness standpoint is that the prosecutors can exclude members from a jury who do not believe in execution. They call it death-qualifying the jury or something like that and what results is a jury that is skewed towards people who are both pro-death penalty and in general more likely to convict.
For one thing the value of school is ingrained in their culture. Here the value of highschool is a joke. It is so easy and so long, so backward, and so tediuous and such a toxic environment it is no wonder that each new group of freshmen in college seem a lot dumber than the last. Highschools in this country are seriously getting worse and no amount of money can fix them only a serious philosophical shift can do that.
Japanese schools work better than ours because they are extremely competitive, do not refuse to provide higher level instruction to those who excel and because they innovate. The parents there also regard school very highly and go out of their way to make sure their kids are competitive.
Our highschools on the other hand are based on the least common denominator.
Whether a competitive philosophy would be useful or welcomed in American highschools is doubtful. Japanese and other Asian countrie's schools have the downside of being straight-up brutal and can only operate in a nation where conformity and obedience to the state is a keystone of the culture.
What US schools need is a few major reforms. Amend the various laws that require schools to provide services to special ed kids to include having to provide services to those who need more advanced courses and/or require them to let them graduate early. This would stop the mindless holding back of the gifted kids. I once had to repeat a math course, the exact same text in fact, just because the school did not want to inconvenience itself with a 6th grade level math group in 5th grade. So after taking 5th grade math in 4th grade I was screwed over and I think that was probably the point where I realized school was not there for my benefit but mostly for the benefit of the beuracracy.