Having done a good deal of research into crime and punishment...... though apparently not any of the -anonymous ones like AA or NA, which have a worse-than-nothing recidivism rate.
Please share some links to your research or the sources you found. Sounds interesting.
The discussions reminded of an exercise we went through in a college psychology class, in which a story is told about a woman who was killed, and the students in the class must rank the culpability of all of the characters in the story. I googled "psychology class story about who is responsible for murder of woman on ferry".
The first google result was an academic paper about how that exercise is used and interpreted by some psychology professor somewhere. The second google result was Mark Zuckerberg's wikipedia page. I wonder if that would have happened before the news of this suicide had come out.
Unlike in some countries, the US Constitution does not allow for National Holidays that are binding on everybody, or even binding on state governments. We have Federal Holidays, which are specifically binding only on employees of Federal agencies. Private businesses (and the State govts) are not obligated to close, or grant any sort of day off (or pay benefits) on Federal Holidays, though almost all choose to do so.
during "rolldown week," the expected return of playing the game is positive. This is just as true for people who spend $3 as for people who spend $300,000.
The article said otherwise:
Mark Kon, a professor of math and statistics at Boston University, calculated that a bettor buying even $10,000 worth of tickets would run a significant risk of losing more than they won during the July rolldown week. But someone who invested $100,000 in Cash WinFall tickets had a 72 percent chance of winning
Yes, my 3rd grader is given that kind of problem, but with a longish underscore instead of the parentheses. Sometimes it's a box, but the underscore is better, because it's a familiar holdover from learning to read, where a drawing of a feline is accompanied by "__at" and they're told to fill in the blank. I agree that using parentheses would be as poor a choice as "()at" when you want them to produce the three letter synonym for feline.
The mathematical pedagogy is fine; they're trying to develop numeracy (numeric literacy) by instilling the idea that there's more than one way to "express" 7, but they don't (yet) want to muddy the waters more by mixing letters and numbers and using phrases like "solve for"
Tuna comes pre-breaded now? Talk about a time saver!
If memory serves, (no pun intended), Michael Keaton's character in some movie or other already had the idea of feeding the tuna a diet high in mayonnaise in order to save time in the production of tuna salad.
With this form of wireless power, you don't have to remember to replace the batteries, and you don't have to interrupt the device from working while the batteries are being replaced.
....With wireless power, would each device need some kind of special wireless receiver/transformer?
Yes, just like wireless phones, which each need a special wireless receiver/transformer.
because goodness knows in these troubling times, our society needs to concentrate our technological progress into the betterment of movie special effects, and a better cost structure for producers of action blockbusters.
Players who get miffed when others don't follow Basic Strategy are just trying to feel superior. (Hmm, just like people who post on Slashdot, including you and me?)
It really is all a wash. If you're on first base (first player to be dealt to) and the count is negative (the composition of the remaining cards is unfavorable to all the players) then if everybody after you hits a 20, you should be happy because by taking cards they are bringing the deck back towards neutral or favorable after you've played but before your next bet, which is precisely what you want. In that situation their (provably) incorrect play is improving the odds for you. But of course over time their incorrect play is just as likely to hurt your odds, so you might as well give your blood pressure a break, because it will probably improve your counting. All of this is true even if you play perfect Basic Strategy but you don't bother to count.
Personally, I'd be far more concerned with ID fraud than attacks on the encryption scheme. How do they determine who's using the 'hardened laptop'?
Maybe they do the same simple thing that we do at the good old fashioned polling place where I work each election in King County, Washington. Before we allow them to mark a paper ballot with a pen (or step up to the electronic machine, if that's their preference) we ask to see their government-issued ID. Your state election laws may vary.
Great, and when you hire one of these so called "taxi services" and they show up with a rickshaw and you get there at walking speed, are you going to feel cheated? After all, they never guaranteed a specific speed, and they got you there at exactly the same time as if you'd walked yourself, but you saved the trouble of walking. That's worth an eternal fee, right?
There's at least some value in being able to read a newspaper during the rickshaw ride, which you can't do (as easily or safely) while walking and crossing intersections.
Nevertheless, is that what happened? LifeLock implied one level of service and provide a lesser service, or none at all? TFA is vague, and I'm not an expert on LifeLock. I thought they charged for the convenience of continually renewing your "alert me when my report is accessed" settings at the credit bureaus. If that's what they charge for, why are they liable when a payday loan operator chooses not to access your credit report?
Paris noted that LifeLock charges $10 a month to set fraud alerts with credit bureaus, even though consumers can do it themselves for free.
Yeah, that's pretty damning. Similarly, I have it on good information that certain businesses calling themselves "taxi services" charge a few dollars per trip to convey people from one location to another, even though consumers can walk for free.
It should be a fundamental _tenet_ of publishing academic papers that you get them proofread or copyedited by someone not in the Computer Science department.
TFA (or at least the NY Times article I read) said that's not the intention. they're at least starting by "filling gaps" in specialized material that only a few libraries have. it's not "make common books even more available than they are now," it's "for specialized collections like the Mark Twain papers, finally get to 100% available" because 100% is so important for certain applications like scholarship and research.
You're falsely assuming everybody is trying to cheat and stay all day.
Here's the problem it solves: The meter costs a quarter per 15 minutes, with a one hour limit. I expect to need only 5 or 10 minutes, so I insert only one quarter. After 10 minutes, I realize I will need about 40 minutes instead, but I can't leave what I'm doing to return to the street and insert two more quarters. I could, however, use my cell phone to pay two more quarters, and then leave after 34 minutes, making everybody happy. Apparently, I could even request a refund for the six unused minutes, if doing so would be worth the effort.
Of course, the best solution would be for the meter to somehow "sign me in" when it somehow confirms I've take up the space, "sign me out" when it somehow confirms I've left, and charge me for the 34 minutes I actually used. (or a huge fine if I had stayed past the limit)
Here's my quick summary of the bios posted by this global education project at http://laptop.org/
Out of 19 people, apparently 4 were educated outside of the United States (3 in Europe, 1 in Middle East, 0 in Africa, 0 in Asia) Not a single educator among them. (But several professors and researchers interested in education) Not even somebody trained as an educator who now works in technology.
I actually GO to Lakeheadu University (5th year comp-sci) and from what I understand this decision is because of our University President.
Thank goodness we have the inside scoop from somebody on the ground. How else would we have known the origin of the decision? Certainly not from the lead sentence of the summary:
A Canadian university has banned wi-fi, since the university President sees a possible link...
Sad and amazing that the MSFT security landscape continues to get worse, not better. From the Microsoft announcement: Although the issue is serious and malicious attacks are being attempted...
Last time I read these things (apparently too long ago) the worst vulnerabilities were discussed as valid but theoretical, with no known instances of actual attacks. Now MSFT is acknowledging that attacks are being attempted. And they're still a week from a fix.
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Having done a good deal of research into crime and punishment... ... though apparently not any of the -anonymous ones like AA or NA, which have a worse-than-nothing recidivism rate.
Please share some links to your research or the sources you found. Sounds interesting.
The discussions reminded of an exercise we went through in a college psychology class, in which a story is told about a woman who was killed, and the students in the class must rank the culpability of all of the characters in the story. I googled "psychology class story about who is responsible for murder of woman on ferry".
The first google result was an academic paper about how that exercise is used and interpreted by some psychology professor somewhere.
The second google result was Mark Zuckerberg's wikipedia page. I wonder if that would have happened before the news of this suicide had come out.
Unlike in some countries, the US Constitution does not allow for National Holidays that are binding on everybody, or even binding on state governments. We have Federal Holidays, which are specifically binding only on employees of Federal agencies. Private businesses (and the State govts) are not obligated to close, or grant any sort of day off (or pay benefits) on Federal Holidays, though almost all choose to do so.
during "rolldown week," the expected return of playing the game is positive. This is just as true for people who spend $3 as for people who spend $300,000.
The article said otherwise:
Mark Kon, a professor of math and statistics at Boston University, calculated that a bettor buying even $10,000 worth of tickets would run a significant risk of losing more than they won during the July rolldown week. But someone who invested $100,000 in Cash WinFall tickets had a 72 percent chance of winning
Oops. Of course I meant to say there's more than one way to express 9.
4+3+2 and 7+2 are "equally" valid ways to represent 9.
Yes, my 3rd grader is given that kind of problem, but with a longish underscore instead of the parentheses. Sometimes it's a box, but the underscore is better, because it's a familiar holdover from learning to read, where a drawing of a feline is accompanied by "__at" and they're told to fill in the blank. I agree that using parentheses would be as poor a choice as "()at" when you want them to produce the three letter synonym for feline.
The mathematical pedagogy is fine; they're trying to develop numeracy (numeric literacy) by instilling the idea that there's more than one way to "express" 7, but they don't (yet) want to muddy the waters more by mixing letters and numbers and using phrases like "solve for"
Tuna comes pre-breaded now? Talk about a time saver!
If memory serves, (no pun intended), Michael Keaton's character in some movie or other already had the idea of feeding the tuna a diet high in mayonnaise in order to save time in the production of tuna salad.
....it's called 'using batteries'
With this form of wireless power, you don't have to remember to replace the batteries, and you don't have to interrupt the device from working while the batteries are being replaced.
....With wireless power, would each device need some kind of special wireless receiver/transformer?
Yes, just like wireless phones, which each need a special wireless receiver/transformer.
because goodness knows in these troubling times, our society needs to concentrate our technological progress into the betterment of movie special effects, and a better cost structure for producers of action blockbusters.
Players who get miffed when others don't follow Basic Strategy are just trying to feel superior. (Hmm, just like people who post on Slashdot, including you and me?)
It really is all a wash. If you're on first base (first player to be dealt to) and the count is negative (the composition of the remaining cards is unfavorable to all the players) then if everybody after you hits a 20, you should be happy because by taking cards they are bringing the deck back towards neutral or favorable after you've played but before your next bet, which is precisely what you want. In that situation their (provably) incorrect play is improving the odds for you. But of course over time their incorrect play is just as likely to hurt your odds, so you might as well give your blood pressure a break, because it will probably improve your counting.
All of this is true even if you play perfect Basic Strategy but you don't bother to count.
"if you remember the excellent mid-1980s documentary film Hackers, he's the guy who directed and produced it."
If I don't remember that movie, is he still the guy who directed and produced it?
There's at least some value in being able to read a newspaper during the rickshaw ride, which you can't do (as easily or safely) while walking and crossing intersections.
Nevertheless, is that what happened? LifeLock implied one level of service and provide a lesser service, or none at all? TFA is vague, and I'm not an expert on LifeLock. I thought they charged for the convenience of continually renewing your "alert me when my report is accessed" settings at the credit bureaus. If that's what they charge for, why are they liable when a payday loan operator chooses not to access your credit report?
It should be a fundamental _tenet_ of publishing academic papers that you get them proofread or copyedited by someone not in the Computer Science department.
TFA (or at least the NY Times article I read) said that's not the intention. they're at least starting by "filling gaps" in specialized material that only a few libraries have. it's not "make common books even more available than they are now," it's "for specialized collections like the Mark Twain papers, finally get to 100% available" because 100% is so important for certain applications like scholarship and research.
It's called an inter-library loan. One library gets a book temporarily from another library. Happens every day.
Don't forget the Decibet (decimal alphabet)
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75rdecabet.phtml
You're falsely assuming everybody is trying to cheat and stay all day.
Here's the problem it solves:
The meter costs a quarter per 15 minutes, with a one hour limit.
I expect to need only 5 or 10 minutes, so I insert only one quarter.
After 10 minutes, I realize I will need about 40 minutes instead, but I can't leave what I'm doing to return to the street and insert two more quarters.
I could, however, use my cell phone to pay two more quarters, and then leave after 34 minutes, making everybody happy. Apparently, I could even request a refund for the six unused minutes, if doing so would be worth the effort.
Of course, the best solution would be for the meter to somehow "sign me in" when it somehow confirms I've take up the space, "sign me out" when it somehow confirms I've left, and charge me for the 34 minutes I actually used.
(or a huge fine if I had stayed past the limit)
>Those look like easy enough suggestions, now how do I do that in postfix?
Try following the only link he provided. It has the postfix-specific instructions. You don't even have to RTFM. Just FTFL.
Here's my quick summary of the bios posted by this global education project at http://laptop.org/
Out of 19 people, apparently 4 were educated outside of the United States (3 in Europe, 1 in Middle East, 0 in Africa, 0 in Asia)
Not a single educator among them. (But several professors and researchers interested in education)
Not even somebody trained as an educator who now works in technology.
Principals
Technologist (media)- Negroponte
Technologist (displays) - Jepsen
Technologist (media/human interaction) - Bender
Technologist (network) - Bletsas
Technologist (hardware) - Foster
Technologist (software) - Gettys
Technologist (distributed multinational systems including IM) - Hassounah
Finance/Administration/Management - Fadel
Advisors
Artist - Allen
Technologist (displays and visual studies) - Bove
Technologist (technology/education intersection) - Cavallo
Technologist (open source software) - Mako Hill
Technologist (micro displays and imaging) - Jacobsen
Technologist (OOP and GUI design) - Kay
Musician (technology/music/education intersection) - Machover
Mathematician (AI, technology/pedagogy intersection) - Papert
Technologist (technology/education intersection) - Resnick
Technologist (ergonomics, design) - Selker
Technologist (audio, music) - Vercoe
>The only electronics I'd want is something that blocks anything wireless so I can have some peace and quiet for once.
You already have that. It's called the Off button.
Sad and amazing that the MSFT security landscape continues to get worse, not better. From the Microsoft announcement:
Although the issue is serious and malicious attacks are being attempted...
Last time I read these things (apparently too long ago) the worst vulnerabilities were discussed as valid but theoretical, with no known instances of actual attacks. Now MSFT is acknowledging that attacks are being attempted. And they're still a week from a fix.