It clears the first time you do it, by setting a cookie. Seems to me the requirement (anonymous poll really) goes back a few months. Evidently they are looking for numbers to develop a revenue model. When I cancelled my print edition Post, mostly because the delivery people kept putting it in the wet gutter, the friendly fellow on the phone asked whether I used the online version, said their marketing people were "interested."
They recently raised the price of the daily print edition from 25 to 35.
I *have* noticed Bad Psych Things about people whose hobbies and work are essentially identical.
Lessee... like 70% of the locals?
This was 30 years ago -- for all I know they may have since broken the system beyond repair.
Yup, now that the bison are wiped out! (Why were bison tongues so popular?)
OK, I do realize Montana has things other than bison. Like... it's big, real big.... wait, here is a helpful site!
Montana's decision to impose a speed limit is ironic; the earlier removal of all highway limits led to a challenge by ticketed motorists saying the lack of guidance was unfair. So a fixed limit proves more free than none. Hmm.
tRNA and small RNA (snRNA?) are members of the evil plot by scientists bent on intimidating those of us dinosaurs who went to a lot of trouble a dozen years ago to learn all the stuff that was then hot science. And it works!
The progress is staggering, and appears exponential. When HIV was idscovered, they said that a dozen or so years earlier the technology to identify the virus didn't even exist. HIV gets the unwitting assistance of host tRNA and other cellular machinery.
Of the RNA family, let's not forget about mRNA. Any other alpha-RNA's I should know about? Here is a quiz if you'd like to show off your acronymial brilliancce!
[Corollary: if I didn't post to slashdot every day, I'd have more free time for other things;) ]
Like what?:)
In order to demonstrate the relationship if any between blogging and unemployment more variables would have to be considered such as the REASON the folks are unemployed. Note also that we want to pair employment and blogging statuses. Then control for other factors like working at home (more likely to blog) and so on and so on. Then do a big scary ANOVA. In short it is NOT interesting whether blogging and unemployment are "correlated" -- it is interesting whether thet interact. Correlation tells us nothing but prejudices us plenty, esp. when the slang and statistical meanings for it are confused.
Very interesting about your schooling. One point of resentment in my high school was that AP classes were weighed the same as regular classes in calculating GPA. There were a number of students bright enough to take the harder classes who were also bright enough to not want the extra work; they handily beat a number of us on GPA. No, this was not a major trauma, GPA was unimportant except at graduation; but I thought the proferred justification that the school didn't want a supposed grade advantage to entice people into taking AP classes was ridiculous, God forbid we entice people to take harder classes.
Note that I said Gould was "entertaining" not "right.":) I haven't read the two arguments closely enough. Gould was arrogant but very bright. One of his best points was simply that 90% of the reviewers refused even to try to understand the statistics -- which is scary.
My 2 principal objections are pretty simple. First, I think Herrnstein puts way too much faith in the single-number IQ, and no subtlety of testing can compensate; also, because the IQ tests are strictly observational they provide nothing but an unproven inference of immutable IQ. I felt that Herrnstein discussed the problems with IQ testing in an insincere way, to defuse rather than answer critics.
Second, and much more important, their speculations on public policy are ill-founded. Humans are so much more complex that their native abilities (yes I think these exist) and we have yet to properly appreciate the effects of motivation and environment. People who brush off environment stun me -- I am college-educated, read a lot, have kids, and spend a lot of time teaching my kids; it's disturbing to be told I don't make a difference! I think an intellectually active environment is enormously beneficial (and fun), and that these benefits would carry over the adopted kids. That IQ is somewhat inherited does not mean inheritance determines IQ -- though many will assume it does.
Frankly, I'm even comfortable saying that should these IQ tests be demonstrated highly reliable, they should not be used. The human tendency towards bigotry is too strong. If our real intention is to better society, subtle improvements in education will be dwarfed by the social divisions. Let people prove themselves as individuals, not as members of labeled groups reminiscent of Brave New World.
Personally I am much more interested in performance, and have seen that it often runs independently of ability. the stereotype of the traumas of putting kids in the wrong tracks begs the questions of whether we're messing up on tracking -- the simpler courses are often boring for everybody. If you want to know what children are like, get to know them, don't engrave a number on their foreheads.
I think Herrnstein should have stopped with the material about IQ. With Herrnstein's death it will be interesting to see what if any future his work will have. I think it will be little.
Again Gould has always seemed to have this trait: ignore stuff he doesn't think is relevant.
Well, we all do that! Have you had your IQ checked recently? Yes, I understand what you really mean.
Sites like this are an excellent idea. Most of use don't want to hunt the web for addresses only to get the wrong ones. I promise to follow through on this.
I'm interested in the "bail-out" comment -- do many agree with that? Maybe I misunderstand. If blocking piracy is thought a bail-out, I disagree, it's just enforcement of existing copyright law. If killing fair use is a bail-out, I don't see how that could be true because the money involved must be small. Killing fair use make the product less attractive, reducing sales; yet some people might buy extra copies (one on CD, the other MPEG or something), increasing sales; won't these two tend to cancel out?
Ideally (for me anyway) we would kill piracy and preserve fair use, and that's the message I will communicate to my representative. The DMCA's flaw in this regard is its clumsy attempt to preserve fair use. According to the statute's own language it does not alter fair use, but of course in practice it does, and perhaps also free speech. Whether piracy and fair use can be simultaneously addressed, well that's a whole 'nuther problem discussed at length elsewhere here.:) For now the DMCA needs to be substantially flushed and rewritten (no one's going to repeal it).
Since 1950 Puerto Rico is a commonwealth -- not a territory, although it is a territory for certain purposes and a state for others. I can't find a definitive reference fast enough. CIA Factbook
Interesting Facts:
The term "United States" when used in a geographical sense on official documents, acts and/or laws; includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.
The U.S. has twelve unincorporated territories, also known as possessions, and two commonwealths. The major possessions are American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. All of these have a non-voting representative in the U.S. Congress. The major commonwealths are Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas. Commonwealths have their own constitutions and greater autonomy than possessions, and Guam is currently in the process of moving from the status of unincorporated territory to commonwealth. The residents of all of these places are full U.S. citizens, with the exception of those on American Samoa who are U.S. nationals, but not citizens. (U.S. Commonwealths/Territories: American Samao, Baker Island, Howland Island, Guam, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Palmyra Atoll, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands (St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas), and Wake Island).
Puerto Rico has its own Olympic team and competes in the Miss Universe pageant as an independent nation.
I think Virginia and Massachusetts also refer to themselves as commonwealth. I don't know the significance if any.
As for statehood, PR should be accorded self-determination, as was every present state in the union. I assume our territories would have remained territories had they so chosen. Personally I would make statehood or somethinghood for DC a greater priority. DC residents do pay fed taxes, yet are like PR disenfranchised (remember the old "not taxation without representation" jingle?:). I live across the river from DC and am more aware of their plight.
I don't think we should dump PR merely on revenue grounds. Think of the precedent. We'd have to dump Iowa, too! (Farm subsidies) (Just kidding -- some of the poorest states must be a net drain, though)
IIRC correlation is simply about x as a predictor of y. Whether there is any actual relationship the math can't detect; it just sees the number pairs you feed it.
So the "implication" os a relationship is largely a human thing, and a tendency to trust charts. That there usually *is* a relationship is that people rarely publish plots of nonsense!
But what does equal what, or how is it different? Puerto Rico is a territory or commonwealth, Guam is a possession, the Virgin Islands are something else... I have no idea of the definitions. They are all subject to U.S. law, more or less, but not all pay taxes. (The people who claim taxes are a hoax appear to seize on these non-distinctions.)
But is there anything that prohibits non-U.S. gov'ts from using.gov?
This whole nomenclature thing is getting increasingly random. Isn't it odd that only U.S. federal agencies get the appealing.gov, while the rest probably will have to qualify their gov with a country code? (Then again, I wonder how many languages have a good fit between gov and their word for government?) Shouldn't the U.S. append.us in conformity? Don't some already?
Well, The Bell Curve was not the first place I heard the term, as I majored in psychology. I thoroughly believe that genetics influence a tremendous amount of our makeup, especially our susceptibility to various illnesses. However, I found The Bell Curve nearly unreadable. I found it a good example of taking a little data and stretching it over much too great a distance.
Everyone should make up their minds for themselves, to the degree their genetics permit, but bear in mind that the books conclusions are far from received wisdom. Keep a close eye on the book's use of statistics and remember the inherent limitations of intelligence testing with its fixation on one number to characterize each of us. Efforts to do so in the past have failed spectacularly. It his quite a leap to go from the shaky assumption that intelligence can be quantified to thinking we know how to design society around it.
For the interested, I happened across this site which had gone to impressive lengths to collect commentary, pro and con, on The Bell Curve. One of the most critical, and entertaining to read, is the late Gould, also of Harvard.
Oddly enough, the late co-author Herrnstein was my Psych 1 professor. Seemed like a nice guy.:)
In recent years the number of teenage smokers has dropped, and cpu processor speeds continues to increase, the two must be related
Really? Tell the Post, they might publish it!
As was hammered into our heads in Bio 1, "correlation does not prove causation." Repeat 100 times. Remember it when reading The Bell Curve. Now if only the rest of the world would do the same.
Well, Fair Use remains a body of common law, stemming from the Constitution. Congress cannot change it or reduce it
I know what you're thinking of, but this ain't it. Fair use first came from courts figuring out what Congress meant in its copyright laws, not interpreting the Constitution. Primary power over copyright is assigned to Congress by the Copyright Clause in Article I. Congress came in later and said, OK, we'll adopt what the courts have said.
Constitutionally, there is a free speech interest element in fair use, but it is narrower. This limit hasn't really tested yet because fair use is broader. In some ways fair use is more generous than need be, in others maybe it doesn't go far enough. The point is that fair use and free speech aren't the same thing, especially since the point of copyright is to allow monopoly over certain kinds of speech.
Whether and how the courts may review Congress's exercise of the copyright power is currently before the Supreme Court in Eldred; that case doesn't really go to fair use, but does look at what the heck that "promote" clause is all about. In other words, the Supreme Court is generally not enthusiastic to second-guess the elected legislature as to what "promote" means. But we'll see how Eldred comes out.
Fair use is controversial right now for obviosu reasons (DMCA). Here is an interesting discussion featuring/.
I don't think the Convention imposes a duty to escape.:) It does recognize that most nations expect escape attempts of their soldiers. "The Geneva Convention recognized that a POW may have the duty to attempt escape. In fact, the Geneva Convention prohibits a captor nation from executing a POW simply for attempt escape. Under the authority of the senior official (often called the senior ranking officer, or "SRO") a POW must be prepared to escape whenever the opportunity presents itself. In a POW compound, the senior POW must consider the welfare of those remaining behind after an escape. However, as a matter of conscious determination, a POW must plan to escape, try to escape, and assist others to escape."
He was imprisoned in Phoenix, so he didn't have far to go to reach Arizona. If you look at the link he almost made in to Mexico. One lesser known detail of the war is that the Japanese had been making overtures to the Mexican gov't -- I think they went went with the U.S.
Yeah, I've heard about the Aleutians -- but does it count? Alaska wasn't even a state. Also, did we ever challenge them? I imagine we had more pressing concerns, like gaining territory we could use to launch bombing raids Japan. The Japanese invaded various U.S. possessions (and a lot of other stuff) in the Pacific, too. (What were the Phillipines at that point? MacArthur was already there when they invaded.)
I use Chimera Navigator for Mac OS X, a free browser tha suppresses pop-ups quite nicely -- I don't know whether it would do so for these spring-loaded buggers. But it can also suppress pop-ups you want to see.
I think Opera has anti-pop-up tech, right? Others?
Wouldn't it be cool to have a DMCA for Web ads, where circumvention technology would be banned? Just kidding. (Can anyone name the science fiction story I recall where in a world of compulsory advertising everywhere, even on toilet paper, people get hauled off for "treatment" if they attempt to escape? Bradbury?)
You can also turn off Javascript, but that's throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Javascript occasionally does something useful.
Any site that pelts you with ads should (1) be avoided and, if you care, (2) get a complaint letter. Vote with your feet.
The captain of U-81 responsible for sinking the Ark Royal, Herr Guggenberger, did not perish with it; he was transferred to another U-boat before its sinking, then badly wounded and taken prisoner by the Americans. He later escaped and fled through Arizona, to be recaptured. He died in 1988 in Germany when he simply disappeared in the woods.
I also am surprised at the idea of German POW running loose in the continental US.
It's an interesting problem -- sure New Zealand has a claim to.gov, but should they also get.com? Why not every TLD? (.net,.com,.org,.biz.....) Well, no. I've noticed that a lot of sites that are appropriately registered as.org or.gov also buy the.com variation so that default searches will lead to them, also. What about variations like NZ.com? Kiwi.com?
This wasn't a trademark ruling, which would be another obstacle to inappropriate use of an entity's name.
WIPO's focus on good faith was appropriate -- the point is to root out squatters -- and the outcome seems plausible. As least the winner is from a democracy! I'm sure the Queen was only a technical party and NZ is a democracy, perhaps more so than the States. The U.S. is unfamiliar with titles of nobility... except maybe musicians like Queen Latifah or Prince, the artist formerly known as glyph. I won't discuss Madonna.:)
My Personal opinion is that they all are a bunch of plonkers
plonk
(Possibly influenced by British slang "plonk" for cheap booze, or "plonker" for someone behaving stupidly; usually written "*plonk*") The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. While this term originated in the Usenet newsgroup news:talk.bizarre, by 1994 it was widespread on Usenet and mailing lists as a form of public ridicule.
Another theory is that it is an acronym for "Person with Little Or No Knowledge".
...that the famous victor should be found at the bottom of the sea -- sunk perhasp unawares by a sneaky U-boat. So what was in turn the fate of U-81? Almost certainly it was sunk. Once the Allies figured out submarine warfare the U-boat was the last place you'd want to be. There was one peak year for U-boats -- 1943? -- followed by disaster.
Note that the Ark Royal played a role in sinking the Bismarck, by its aircraft crippling it. An assist?
It is a very odd thing for Americans to think of U-boats sunk nearby off the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. We're not used to war at our shores. There is an excellent semi-children's book The Cay that turns in part on U-boats off Venezuela attempting to stop shipment of oil. Hemingway's Islands in the Stream (I think) and Hemingway's To Have and Have Not refer to it as well. I recently visited one of the pillboxes near SF built to help repel the Japanese naval assault that never came, although reportedly a couple of submarines did lob a few shells at the coast.
You've retreated (silently, true) from the proposition that jury nullification is not supported in law to the idea that it is not supported in federal law.
Retreat nothing. This started out long long ago as a discussion of the DMCA! Of course I'm talking federal law -- what did you expect, Barbados? Above all, if jury nullification were a constitutional right, and of course it is not, it would be binding on the federal courts and every single state court, as it is not. Your ditsy FIJA friends don't say it is, either.
Here is a more thoughtful discussion, and clarification of Indiana practice.
The judge doesn't have the right to just make stuff up.
Nor do the nullification boosters, not that it stops them. I'm impressed you're gullible enough to cite one of their briefs as "proof" of anything. You should have seen the briefs I read where tax protesters "proved" the tax law was unconstitutional. And this is just a lousy amicus brief, of as much legal significance as a letter to the editor.
I've demonstrated the law -- read the cases then disprove them -- law class is over.
BTW -- couldn't help my curiosity -- is this the heroic patriot defendant in the Thompson case? Sounds like a great candidate for nullification.
# May 1995. Indiana militia leader Linda Thompson is arrested on disorderly conduct and resisting arrest charges. She had gone to the Indianapolis city-county building to file battery and stalking charges against a freelance writer. Marion County Reserve Deputy Jeff Dunn reported that Thompson became irate when he sought details of her accusations and that she told him that people were "shooting her in the head with radio frequency weapons." She also complained that various people, including the CIA, were trying to kill her (Thompson later denied making these statements). According to Dunn, when he asked her to show him her permit, she put her hand inside her jacket and he grabbed her arm to prevent her from drawing her weapon. She resisted and he ordered her to stop resisting. He led her down the hall, but she again tried to pull herself free and jump through a window. He grabbed her and pulled her down, when she kicked him in the leg and shoved him. He grabbed her and held her against the wall, where she scraped herself on a sign. As a result of this incident, Linda Thompson files a $500 million dollar suit against practically everybody in Indianapolis.
Yeah, I think you're right about just doing directory listings -- it happened here in the Microsoft decision that someone found a bit early -- although it's still interesting if you its not a publicly listeed directory -- like you know www.home.com is accessible but try out www.home.com/goodstuff trying to pry -- I think your "don't put it on the server in the first place" is too broad. Just how many layers of obscurity are required? I say almost none where the discovery can not have been accidental. (I think this might even be a legally compelling argument -- but maybe it's already been considered and deep-sixed.) Even the slightest effort to pry is an effort to pry, though the culprit's degree of effort and awareness of intrusion may affect punishment. Also, the case I was think of was the recent Reuters (?) incident where a reported guessed the filename and pulled down something not publicly visible.
Basically we want to tell snoops to stay out! As a practical matter you should protect yourself, but being a fool doesn't forgive the thief.
As for deep linking, so offense to/., but I'm following the court decisions a little more closely. Sometimes it's more useful to know what the law is than what it (ahem) "should" be.:)
OTOH, packet sniffing would be like if you held my snailmail (still in its sealed envelopes) up to a strong light so you could read the contents.
Hey, if you really wante it private you would have hidden it better!! Besides I, uh, accidentally held it up to the light when i was going through the rest of your mail.
Slashdot Mirror
It clears the first time you do it, by setting a cookie. Seems to me the requirement (anonymous poll really) goes back a few months. Evidently they are looking for numbers to develop a revenue model. When I cancelled my print edition Post, mostly because the delivery people kept putting it in the wet gutter, the friendly fellow on the phone asked whether I used the online version, said their marketing people were "interested."
They recently raised the price of the daily print edition from 25 to 35.
I *have* noticed Bad Psych Things about people whose hobbies and work are essentially identical.
... like 70% of the locals?
... it's big, real big .... wait, here is a helpful site!
Lessee
This was 30 years ago -- for all I know they may have since broken the system beyond repair.
Yup, now that the bison are wiped out! (Why were bison tongues so popular?)
OK, I do realize Montana has things other than bison. Like
Montana's decision to impose a speed limit is ironic; the earlier removal of all highway limits led to a challenge by ticketed motorists saying the lack of guidance was unfair. So a fixed limit proves more free than none. Hmm.
tRNA and small RNA (snRNA?) are members of the evil plot by scientists bent on intimidating those of us dinosaurs who went to a lot of trouble a dozen years ago to learn all the stuff that was then hot science. And it works!
The progress is staggering, and appears exponential. When HIV was idscovered, they said that a dozen or so years earlier the technology to identify the virus didn't even exist. HIV gets the unwitting assistance of host tRNA and other cellular machinery.
Of the RNA family, let's not forget about mRNA. Any other alpha-RNA's I should know about? Here is a quiz if you'd like to show off your acronymial brilliancce!
why spicy food feels hot, and breath mints give the mouth a chill
There's a direct connection in here, A correlates with B, I'm sure of it.
How about garlic? Onions? Yum, now I'm hungry.
[Corollary: if I didn't post to slashdot every day, I'd have more free time for other things ;) ]
:)
Like what?
In order to demonstrate the relationship if any between blogging and unemployment more variables would have to be considered such as the REASON the folks are unemployed. Note also that we want to pair employment and blogging statuses. Then control for other factors like working at home (more likely to blog) and so on and so on. Then do a big scary ANOVA. In short it is NOT interesting whether blogging and unemployment are "correlated" -- it is interesting whether thet interact. Correlation tells us nothing but prejudices us plenty, esp. when the slang and statistical meanings for it are confused.
Very interesting about your schooling. One point of resentment in my high school was that AP classes were weighed the same as regular classes in calculating GPA. There were a number of students bright enough to take the harder classes who were also bright enough to not want the extra work; they handily beat a number of us on GPA. No, this was not a major trauma, GPA was unimportant except at graduation; but I thought the proferred justification that the school didn't want a supposed grade advantage to entice people into taking AP classes was ridiculous, God forbid we entice people to take harder classes.
Note that I said Gould was "entertaining" not "right." :) I haven't read the two arguments closely enough. Gould was arrogant but very bright. One of his best points was simply that 90% of the reviewers refused even to try to understand the statistics -- which is scary.
My 2 principal objections are pretty simple. First, I think Herrnstein puts way too much faith in the single-number IQ, and no subtlety of testing can compensate; also, because the IQ tests are strictly observational they provide nothing but an unproven inference of immutable IQ. I felt that Herrnstein discussed the problems with IQ testing in an insincere way, to defuse rather than answer critics.
Second, and much more important, their speculations on public policy are ill-founded. Humans are so much more complex that their native abilities (yes I think these exist) and we have yet to properly appreciate the effects of motivation and environment. People who brush off environment stun me -- I am college-educated, read a lot, have kids, and spend a lot of time teaching my kids; it's disturbing to be told I don't make a difference! I think an intellectually active environment is enormously beneficial (and fun), and that these benefits would carry over the adopted kids. That IQ is somewhat inherited does not mean inheritance determines IQ -- though many will assume it does.
Frankly, I'm even comfortable saying that should these IQ tests be demonstrated highly reliable, they should not be used. The human tendency towards bigotry is too strong. If our real intention is to better society, subtle improvements in education will be dwarfed by the social divisions. Let people prove themselves as individuals, not as members of labeled groups reminiscent of Brave New World.
Personally I am much more interested in performance, and have seen that it often runs independently of ability. the stereotype of the traumas of putting kids in the wrong tracks begs the questions of whether we're messing up on tracking -- the simpler courses are often boring for everybody. If you want to know what children are like, get to know them, don't engrave a number on their foreheads.
I think Herrnstein should have stopped with the material about IQ. With Herrnstein's death it will be interesting to see what if any future his work will have. I think it will be little.
Again Gould has always seemed to have this trait: ignore stuff he doesn't think is relevant.
Well, we all do that! Have you had your IQ checked recently? Yes, I understand what you really mean.
Sites like this are an excellent idea. Most of use don't want to hunt the web for addresses only to get the wrong ones. I promise to follow through on this.
:) For now the DMCA needs to be substantially flushed and rewritten (no one's going to repeal it).
I'm interested in the "bail-out" comment -- do many agree with that? Maybe I misunderstand. If blocking piracy is thought a bail-out, I disagree, it's just enforcement of existing copyright law. If killing fair use is a bail-out, I don't see how that could be true because the money involved must be small. Killing fair use make the product less attractive, reducing sales; yet some people might buy extra copies (one on CD, the other MPEG or something), increasing sales; won't these two tend to cancel out?
Ideally (for me anyway) we would kill piracy and preserve fair use, and that's the message I will communicate to my representative. The DMCA's flaw in this regard is its clumsy attempt to preserve fair use. According to the statute's own language it does not alter fair use, but of course in practice it does, and perhaps also free speech. Whether piracy and fair use can be simultaneously addressed, well that's a whole 'nuther problem discussed at length elsewhere here.
gop.gov -- well, that's pretty accurate at the moment, don't you think?
That's not the rnc site (gop.org? rnc.com?), despite appearances -- at the very bottom of the page:
Representative J.C. Watts, Jr., Chairman
Republican Conference, U.S. House of Representatives
More:
I think Virginia and Massachusetts also refer to themselves as commonwealth. I don't know the significance if any.
As for statehood, PR should be accorded self-determination, as was every present state in the union. I assume our territories would have remained territories had they so chosen. Personally I would make statehood or somethinghood for DC a greater priority. DC residents do pay fed taxes, yet are like PR disenfranchised (remember the old "not taxation without representation" jingle?
I don't think we should dump PR merely on revenue grounds. Think of the precedent. We'd have to dump Iowa, too! (Farm subsidies) (Just kidding -- some of the poorest states must be a net drain, though)
IIRC correlation is simply about x as a predictor of y. Whether there is any actual relationship the math can't detect; it just sees the number pairs you feed it.
So the "implication" os a relationship is largely a human thing, and a tendency to trust charts. That there usually *is* a relationship is that people rarely publish plots of nonsense!
Possession does not equal state or territory
But what does equal what, or how is it different? Puerto Rico is a territory or commonwealth, Guam is a possession, the Virgin Islands are something else... I have no idea of the definitions. They are all subject to U.S. law, more or less, but not all pay taxes. (The people who claim taxes are a hoax appear to seize on these non-distinctions.)
But is there anything that prohibits non-U.S. gov'ts from using .gov?
.gov, while the rest probably will have to qualify their gov with a country code? (Then again, I wonder how many languages have a good fit between gov and their word for government?) Shouldn't the U.S. append .us in conformity? Don't some already?
... and thank you FTC for nailing some TLD fraudsters.
This whole nomenclature thing is getting increasingly random. Isn't it odd that only U.S. federal agencies get the appealing
A comprehensive list of TLD's.
Well, The Bell Curve was not the first place I heard the term, as I majored in psychology. I thoroughly believe that genetics influence a tremendous amount of our makeup, especially our susceptibility to various illnesses. However, I found The Bell Curve nearly unreadable. I found it a good example of taking a little data and stretching it over much too great a distance.
:)
Everyone should make up their minds for themselves, to the degree their genetics permit, but bear in mind that the books conclusions are far from received wisdom. Keep a close eye on the book's use of statistics and remember the inherent limitations of intelligence testing with its fixation on one number to characterize each of us. Efforts to do so in the past have failed spectacularly. It his quite a leap to go from the shaky assumption that intelligence can be quantified to thinking we know how to design society around it.
For the interested, I happened across this site which had gone to impressive lengths to collect commentary, pro and con, on The Bell Curve. One of the most critical, and entertaining to read, is the late Gould, also of Harvard.
Oddly enough, the late co-author Herrnstein was my Psych 1 professor. Seemed like a nice guy.
In recent years the number of teenage smokers has dropped, and cpu processor speeds continues to increase, the two must be related
Really? Tell the Post, they might publish it!
As was hammered into our heads in Bio 1, "correlation does not prove causation." Repeat 100 times. Remember it when reading The Bell Curve. Now if only the rest of the world would do the same.
Well, Fair Use remains a body of common law, stemming from the Constitution. Congress cannot change it or reduce it
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I know what you're thinking of, but this ain't it. Fair use first came from courts figuring out what Congress meant in its copyright laws, not interpreting the Constitution. Primary power over copyright is assigned to Congress by the Copyright Clause in Article I. Congress came in later and said, OK, we'll adopt what the courts have said.
Constitutionally, there is a free speech interest element in fair use, but it is narrower. This limit hasn't really tested yet because fair use is broader. In some ways fair use is more generous than need be, in others maybe it doesn't go far enough. The point is that fair use and free speech aren't the same thing, especially since the point of copyright is to allow monopoly over certain kinds of speech.
Whether and how the courts may review Congress's exercise of the copyright power is currently before the Supreme Court in Eldred; that case doesn't really go to fair use, but does look at what the heck that "promote" clause is all about. In other words, the Supreme Court is generally not enthusiastic to second-guess the elected legislature as to what "promote" means. But we'll see how Eldred comes out.
Fair use is controversial right now for obviosu reasons (DMCA). Here is an interesting discussion featuring
I don't think the Convention imposes a duty to escape. :) It does recognize that most nations expect escape attempts of their soldiers. "The Geneva Convention recognized that a POW may have the duty to attempt escape. In fact, the Geneva Convention prohibits a captor nation from executing a POW simply for attempt escape. Under the authority of the senior official (often called the senior ranking officer, or "SRO") a POW must be prepared to escape whenever the opportunity presents itself. In a POW compound, the senior POW must consider the welfare of those remaining behind after an escape. However, as a matter of conscious determination, a POW must plan to escape, try to escape, and assist others to escape."
He was imprisoned in Phoenix, so he didn't have far to go to reach Arizona. If you look at the link he almost made in to Mexico. One lesser known detail of the war is that the Japanese had been making overtures to the Mexican gov't -- I think they went went with the U.S.
Yeah, I've heard about the Aleutians -- but does it count? Alaska wasn't even a state. Also, did we ever challenge them? I imagine we had more pressing concerns, like gaining territory we could use to launch bombing raids Japan. The Japanese invaded various U.S. possessions (and a lot of other stuff) in the Pacific, too. (What were the Phillipines at that point? MacArthur was already there when they invaded.)
I use Chimera Navigator for Mac OS X, a free browser tha suppresses pop-ups quite nicely -- I don't know whether it would do so for these spring-loaded buggers. But it can also suppress pop-ups you want to see.
I think Opera has anti-pop-up tech, right? Others?
Wouldn't it be cool to have a DMCA for Web ads, where circumvention technology would be banned? Just kidding. (Can anyone name the science fiction story I recall where in a world of compulsory advertising everywhere, even on toilet paper, people get hauled off for "treatment" if they attempt to escape? Bradbury?)
You can also turn off Javascript, but that's throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Javascript occasionally does something useful.
Any site that pelts you with ads should (1) be avoided and, if you care, (2) get a complaint letter. Vote with your feet.
The captain of U-81 responsible for sinking the Ark Royal, Herr Guggenberger, did not perish with it; he was transferred to another U-boat before its sinking, then badly wounded and taken prisoner by the Americans. He later escaped and fled through Arizona, to be recaptured. He died in 1988 in Germany when he simply disappeared in the woods.
I also am surprised at the idea of German POW running loose in the continental US.
It's an interesting problem -- sure New Zealand has a claim to .gov, but should they also get .com? Why not every TLD? (.net,.com,.org,.biz.....) Well, no. I've noticed that a lot of sites that are appropriately registered as .org or .gov also buy the .com variation so that default searches will lead to them, also. What about variations like NZ.com? Kiwi.com?
... except maybe musicians like Queen Latifah or Prince, the artist formerly known as glyph. I won't discuss Madonna. :)
This wasn't a trademark ruling, which would be another obstacle to inappropriate use of an entity's name.
WIPO's focus on good faith was appropriate -- the point is to root out squatters -- and the outcome seems plausible. As least the winner is from a democracy! I'm sure the Queen was only a technical party and NZ is a democracy, perhaps more so than the States. The U.S. is unfamiliar with titles of nobility
My Personal opinion is that they all are a bunch of plonkers
plonk
(Possibly influenced by British slang
"plonk" for cheap booze, or "plonker" for someone behaving
stupidly; usually written "*plonk*") The sound a newbie
makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. While this
term originated in the Usenet newsgroup
news:talk.bizarre, by 1994 it was widespread on Usenet and
mailing lists as a form of public ridicule.
Another theory is that it is an acronym for "Person with
Little Or No Knowledge".
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Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2001 Denis Howe
You ... you ... Nazi! ;-)
Rule of law! Rule of law! Go, team!
I do agree. DRM doesn't hurt people, people hurt people. Although technically there must be such a thing as "stupid DRM," as in DRM easily subverted.
It's quite something to hear of Microsoft disrespecting the intellectual property of others. Something routine, that is. Maybe IP isn't all bad, hmm?
Time to get out in the sunshine....
I forgot that trivia fans have everything out there, some of it accurate.
The U-81
Note that it came up again, too!
...that the famous victor should be found at the bottom of the sea -- sunk perhasp unawares by a sneaky U-boat. So what was in turn the fate of U-81? Almost certainly it was sunk. Once the Allies figured out submarine warfare the U-boat was the last place you'd want to be. There was one peak year for U-boats -- 1943? -- followed by disaster.
:)
Note that the Ark Royal played a role in sinking the Bismarck, by its aircraft crippling it. An assist?
It is a very odd thing for Americans to think of U-boats sunk nearby off the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. We're not used to war at our shores. There is an excellent semi-children's book The Cay that turns in part on U-boats off Venezuela attempting to stop shipment of oil. Hemingway's Islands in the Stream (I think) and Hemingway's To Have and Have Not refer to it as well. I recently visited one of the pillboxes near SF built to help repel the Japanese naval assault that never came, although reportedly a couple of submarines did lob a few shells at the coast.
Just some musings I hope are of interest.
Retreat nothing. This started out long long ago as a discussion of the DMCA! Of course I'm talking federal law -- what did you expect, Barbados? Above all, if jury nullification were a constitutional right, and of course it is not, it would be binding on the federal courts and every single state court, as it is not. Your ditsy FIJA friends don't say it is, either.
Here is a more thoughtful discussion, and clarification of Indiana practice.
The judge doesn't have the right to just make stuff up.
Nor do the nullification boosters, not that it stops them. I'm impressed you're gullible enough to cite one of their briefs as "proof" of anything. You should have seen the briefs I read where tax protesters "proved" the tax law was unconstitutional. And this is just a lousy amicus brief, of as much legal significance as a letter to the editor.
I've demonstrated the law -- read the cases then disprove them -- law class is over.
BTW -- couldn't help my curiosity -- is this the heroic patriot defendant in the Thompson case? Sounds like a great candidate for nullification.
Yeah, I think you're right about just doing directory listings -- it happened here in the Microsoft decision that someone found a bit early -- although it's still interesting if you its not a publicly listeed directory -- like you know www.home.com is accessible but try out www.home.com/goodstuff trying to pry -- I think your "don't put it on the server in the first place" is too broad. Just how many layers of obscurity are required? I say almost none where the discovery can not have been accidental. (I think this might even be a legally compelling argument -- but maybe it's already been considered and deep-sixed.) Even the slightest effort to pry is an effort to pry, though the culprit's degree of effort and awareness of intrusion may affect punishment. Also, the case I was think of was the recent Reuters (?) incident where a reported guessed the filename and pulled down something not publicly visible.
/., but I'm following the court decisions a little more closely. Sometimes it's more useful to know what the law is than what it (ahem) "should" be. :)
Basically we want to tell snoops to stay out! As a practical matter you should protect yourself, but being a fool doesn't forgive the thief.
As for deep linking, so offense to
OTOH, packet sniffing would be like if you held my snailmail (still in its sealed envelopes) up to a strong light so you could read the contents.
Hey, if you really wante it private you would have hidden it better!! Besides I, uh, accidentally held it up to the light when i was going through the rest of your mail.