"Works 90% of the time" here means that it will correctly identify a person as terrorist or not-terrorist in 90% of tests.
On a sample of 3000 with accuracy 90%, you will end up with 300 results guaranteed to be wrong or ambiguous, which may or may NOT mean the subject is a terrorist. To be safe, obviously you have to detain these "ambiguous" subjects.
Considering that we know the number of terrorists is incredibly small (from a UK perspective, I'd say something like 100 in 70 millions, or 1 in 700.000, probably even less), we can deduce that these tools are guaranteed to victimize thousands of innocents (at least 69.999) for each "terrorist" ever caught.
You joke, but think how much money would Italy make if only they'd remove restrictions for their TLD registrations... apart from obvious IT companies, there would be a rush for sentences, like "justfix.it" or "letsprint.it" etc...
But no, we are italllians, we don't need no money, we have the sun! pizza! gangsters! Ferrari! mandolins! etc etc... so to buy a.it you need to live/have a company in Italy.
** Neptune, the radio-controlled submarine from Sabattinicars, lays ADSL cables in sewers
The July issue of Focus magazine contains an interesting piece on the use of Thunder TigerNeptune submarine (distributed in Italy by SabattiniCars) to lay ADSL cables through the sewage network. Cristoforo Massari, a physicist employed by the council of Milan, remarks that this system makes it possible to reach any building or house without any excavating effort, saving a lot of money. And to think that someone still argues that modelmaking is a useless hobby! [sic]
They can say what they want, but next year the Tories will win and scrap most of this plan.
The Tories are not in bed with telcos, credit-card manufacturers and "creative industries", they have different sponsors (oil companies, "old money", etc). The flow of pork will be redirected accordingly. This report is hardly worth the digital paper it is printed on.
I think they might have a threshold around 4 or 5% for parties to be considered for seat assignments, if their EU electoral law is anything like the national one.
Don't hold your breath. The guy behind PyQt is still a very small independent vendor with a big financial incentive in keeping the license arrangement what it is. Unless Nokia buys him out, I don't expect any license change any time soon.
I don't think you know what you're talking about:)
In the UK, a European citizen is NOT required to carry a passport, as he is NOT required to carry any ID by national laws (differently from France or Italy).
Whenever ID MAY be required, an EU citizen can provide documents issued in the country of origin (belonging to a certain subset) and they will be considered a valid form of ID. They don't need to be an international passport.
Since UK and Ireland did not join Schengen, they still patrol their borders and require an ID before you enter. That ID does NOT need to be a passport. You do NOT need (or "need need" or whatever) a passport, as any EU citizen has the right to live and work anywhere in the Union. I could take a boat from France to England, go my merry way without showing any ID, and still I would not have broken any law: I have the right to live there anyway, a right that trumps border control.
For a EU citizen, there is no such thing as "illegally crossing national borders", as you have the right to move freely among them. Which is why, for example, the UK cannot impose on EU citizen any sort of compulsory registration scheme (which they are doing for non-EU residents).
The overwhelming majority of European states did NOT implement voucher schemes.
The governments of UK, France, Italy, Spain and (afaik) Germany are constantly being lobbied by (overwhelmingly faith-based and predominantly Catholic) private schools to adopt such schemes, but it's always been refused because this would very quickly create huge disparities between rich and poor schools. You know, we already had to deal with class in our history...
It is a bit ridiculous really, because Italy does indeed buy energy from France, but they also sell back to France their surplus. Mountains + rivers = lots of power-generating dams all over the country. Italy doesn't really need electricity from abroad, but "market forces" require money (and kickbacks) to move around, so...
The protests should be AT THE STATIONS This is fairly insightful, considering that that's exactly what right-wing activists have done for the last 20 years: they are constantly harassing media people, even physically, until they manage to get what they call "fair" reporting of their nuttery-of-the-day.
"brittanica" is probably something very popular in France (of which Brittany is a region) but you're talking about Britannica from Great Britain here...
Documentation on how to interface with the hardware chip is NOT covered by export regulations. Only the actual chip, and its design specifications in regard to implemented algorithms, are covered. Hence, the docs that OpenBSD folks need (and had access to, until a few years ago) are NOT covered.
The choice is between "giving back access to documentation to allow developers to work with your hardware" or "keep track of developers for marketing purposes". Export regulations enter the picture only if you don't know them.
... I have been recruited much more often since I got a cert. I am all for self-improvement and always relied on self-learning, but I couldn't get my foot on the door properly until I got that bloody piece of paper.
Could you please then go out and buy us a nice new interstate highway? Oh, and some fire departments please. By the way, I think your boys in Iraq need a bit of armouring, would you be so kind...? Don't bother with the healthcare, we don't really want it, at least until we get sick.
Could please someone with some sense moderate the parent as Troll as he deserves. thanks.
Believe me, better have a good TV product like the BBC with a bit of proper taxation (and following enforcement) than something like the Italian RAI, that is mainly paid-for by advertisers because the tax in place is, in practice, just not paid by anyone but the most honest minorities... the result makes Murdoch's products look professional and engaging.
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"Works 90% of the time" here means that it will correctly identify a person as terrorist or not-terrorist in 90% of tests.
On a sample of 3000 with accuracy 90%, you will end up with 300 results guaranteed to be wrong or ambiguous, which may or may NOT mean the subject is a terrorist. To be safe, obviously you have to detain these "ambiguous" subjects.
Considering that we know the number of terrorists is incredibly small (from a UK perspective, I'd say something like 100 in 70 millions, or 1 in 700.000, probably even less), we can deduce that these tools are guaranteed to victimize thousands of innocents (at least 69.999) for each "terrorist" ever caught.
You joke, but think how much money would Italy make if only they'd remove restrictions for their TLD registrations... apart from obvious IT companies, there would be a rush for sentences, like "justfix.it" or "letsprint.it" etc...
But no, we are italllians, we don't need no money, we have the sun! pizza! gangsters! Ferrari! mandolins! etc etc ... so to buy a .it you need to live/have a company in Italy.
Quick translation...
** Neptune, the radio-controlled submarine from Sabattinicars, lays ADSL cables in sewers
The July issue of Focus magazine contains an interesting piece on the use of Thunder TigerNeptune submarine (distributed in Italy by SabattiniCars) to lay ADSL cables through the sewage network. Cristoforo Massari, a physicist employed by the council of Milan, remarks that this system makes it possible to reach any building or house without any excavating effort, saving a lot of money. And to think that someone still argues that modelmaking is a useless hobby! [sic]
Exactly. Shouldn't it be a bootable cdrom, at least ?
You didn't "got stupid", it's just that your industry had grown so much that the internal market alone could not sustain further industrial growth.
They can say what they want, but next year the Tories will win and scrap most of this plan.
The Tories are not in bed with telcos, credit-card manufacturers and "creative industries", they have different sponsors (oil companies, "old money", etc). The flow of pork will be redirected accordingly. This report is hardly worth the digital paper it is printed on.
I think they might have a threshold around 4 or 5% for parties to be considered for seat assignments, if their EU electoral law is anything like the national one.
Don't hold your breath. The guy behind PyQt is still a very small independent vendor with a big financial incentive in keeping the license arrangement what it is. Unless Nokia buys him out, I don't expect any license change any time soon.
I don't think you know what you're talking about :)
In the UK, a European citizen is NOT required to carry a passport, as he is NOT required to carry any ID by national laws (differently from France or Italy).
Whenever ID MAY be required, an EU citizen can provide documents issued in the country of origin (belonging to a certain subset) and they will be considered a valid form of ID. They don't need to be an international passport.
Since UK and Ireland did not join Schengen, they still patrol their borders and require an ID before you enter. That ID does NOT need to be a passport. You do NOT need (or "need need" or whatever) a passport, as any EU citizen has the right to live and work anywhere in the Union. I could take a boat from France to England, go my merry way without showing any ID, and still I would not have broken any law: I have the right to live there anyway, a right that trumps border control.
For a EU citizen, there is no such thing as "illegally crossing national borders", as you have the right to move freely among them. Which is why, for example, the UK cannot impose on EU citizen any sort of compulsory registration scheme (which they are doing for non-EU residents).
The overwhelming majority of European states did NOT implement voucher schemes.
The governments of UK, France, Italy, Spain and (afaik) Germany are constantly being lobbied by (overwhelmingly faith-based and predominantly Catholic) private schools to adopt such schemes, but it's always been refused because this would very quickly create huge disparities between rich and poor schools. You know, we already had to deal with class in our history...
They keep doing very useful (and thankless) work.
It is a bit ridiculous really, because Italy does indeed buy energy from France, but they also sell back to France their surplus. Mountains + rivers = lots of power-generating dams all over the country. Italy doesn't really need electricity from abroad, but "market forces" require money (and kickbacks) to move around, so...
Probably not for long.
It's actually Dave Winer, but this is Slashdot, I hope you are not suggesting that editors should actually check what they post...
The revolution will not be televised. Grassroot orgs need to build their own media channels.
Jiri is not the only author of that driver...
* Copyright (c) 2004-2007 Reyk Floeter
* Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Nick Kossifidis
* Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Sam Leffler, Errno Consulting
* Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Nick Kossifidis
* Copyright (c) 2007 Jiri Slaby
* Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Reyk Floeter
Slashdot can be "sensationalist", but in this case there's a real problem.
"brittanica" is probably something very popular in France (of which Brittany is a region) but you're talking about Britannica from Great Britain here...
Slashdotters probably listen only to internet radio, these days...
Is it just me, or this "blog" look suspiciously like an astroturf op?
Documentation on how to interface with the hardware chip is NOT covered by export regulations. Only the actual chip, and its design specifications in regard to implemented algorithms, are covered.
Hence, the docs that OpenBSD folks need (and had access to, until a few years ago) are NOT covered.
The choice is between "giving back access to documentation to allow developers to work with your hardware" or "keep track of developers for marketing purposes".
Export regulations enter the picture only if you don't know them.
.... and that helped them so much, they ended up with the Red Army into Berlin.
... I have been recruited much more often since I got a cert. I am all for self-improvement and always relied on self-learning, but I couldn't get my foot on the door properly until I got that bloody piece of paper.
Could you please then go out and buy us a nice new interstate highway? Oh, and some fire departments please. By the way, I think your boys in Iraq need a bit of armouring, would you be so kind...? Don't bother with the healthcare, we don't really want it, at least until we get sick. Could please someone with some sense moderate the parent as Troll as he deserves. thanks.
Believe me, better have a good TV product like the BBC with a bit of proper taxation (and following enforcement) than something like the Italian RAI, that is mainly paid-for by advertisers because the tax in place is, in practice, just not paid by anyone but the most honest minorities... the result makes Murdoch's products look professional and engaging.