In all the firm I worked on there was some principle called "shifted time". You were supposed to work when you are needed naturally, but also with a lot of slack. The system allows you for example to work for the maximum allowed by law for a few days, then simply take the time off the next day, or even the day completely off. I know people which accumulate enough hours during normal time to have 10/12 week of holiday (instead of the 6 normal week). Me I did something cimilar to 80/9 , I worked ~10h a day during 4 days,then took the last day off, or any combination allowing me a day off after 1 , 2 or 3 weeks. It LOOKS nice for a while, but after a long time of doing it, fatigue cumulate, and you see you easily are less productive working 4*10 rather than 5*8. Your brain function slowlier on the long term when you are tired. Nevertheless I like the system and would not want to lose it.
The copy of the first doc he shows, is a PNR. There is all kind of info in a PNR, and until VERY recently there was even the credit card and in some case expiry date and auth code. Thankfully I think msot system switched to X everything except the last 5 digits. But don#t worry we still get the auth code and expiry date and credit card number in the ticket themselves, as many firm are not PCI DSS compliant. But my main point is that it is the airline in the first place which save all that crap in a PNR. Same for history. Some of the blacked out info are airline stuff like PNR number, and PNR system. Bottom line the airline jsut give a full 100% access to the DHS. Sure the DHS scrap everything they find. But if the airline did not save that much crap to begin with in the PNR, the problem would not be there.
As far as i can tell it was a ncie enough compromise to lead us to where we are, and maybe even further beyond. I leave the attention span and nature life to my short lived ancestor.
All the place which ask to search me for example. Even stadion/disco. Once you point to the guy that by law they are not allowed (only agent of public force) neither are they allowed to refuse me entrance / exit due to this, they usually shrug me through. But this also mean I need to know my right, else I would screw up badly.
I read the article differently. As in the arrest came after refusing to do something for which they had no legal right to ask for, and thus beyond the rule permitting them to make an arrest. Also not being an american I have no idea that this was considered a REAL police. Ours (train police) has of police only the name. They have for example no real authorithy to make an arrest, they are indeed only security agent.
But THIS is exactly the point. Wired can be as secure as a box LOCKED, under watch by a guy armed to the teeth under a nuclear bunker , IF YOU WISH. You will need access so physical access is the security layer you have in ADDITION to the normal transport protocol layer. Wireless on the other hand is a "telecom box" which is open to the public 24/7, with the added advantage that nobody will ever ask you why you are fumbling with that telecom box, because you cannot be caught snooping that communication.
An interesting distinction is that he was not arrested for taking photos, but for refusing to delete them when asked. The practical reality of such a situation is that what I would do is delete the photos and simply un-delete them later
I think this is the wrong line of thought , this reinforce the police/security agent/supermarket agent/whatever to really think they can ask you to delete photo/submit you to a search (for anybody but police) when they are not allowed by law.In other word you erode the freedom and tranquility of everybody by allowing them to use power they do not have. MANY time somebody tryed this (a supermarket bag search), each time I simply calmly told them i would not submit, because what they asked was illegal, but if they want they can call the police and the police is fully allowed to search. Even if they had called the police, the police would not have been able to charge me, (even if they had arrested me) because law was(is) on my side. If nobody stand for our right, then they will get trampled, often out of ignorance. Sure you risk inconvenience, but freedom can often be inconvenient to maintain.
AFAIK it is true they cannot ask you to stop breastfeeding, but they certainly can ask you to leave their premise (private property) for whatever reason they wish.
Firstly, they don't say the false positive rate , they only say the true positive rate. By now many poster here will have picked that up. Even at 1% false positive , pass 10000 person thru the check point, 100 false positive, yada yada law of great number etc...
Secondly It only does detect external signs of nervousness at best and nothing else. Such sign of nervousness MIGHT be displayed by people with malevolent intent, but certainly not only by them. Consider where such detector might be implanted : courtroom, IRS, FBI buildings, airports before boarding. A lot of place where people WILL be more often than not nervous. And what will happens ? Terrorist or any other mal intended smart persons will get an additional training : 1) meditate to lower all sign of nervousness 2) take a nyquil or whatever calm you down.
Thirdly, as the various western governments seem to go toward more and more security of that type, TV camera, drone and whatnot, I have long stopped fearing terrorist (and I barely missed getting in a bomb blast in Paris metro by a few dozen minutes...). Nowadays I fear the police and the governement and their big-brotherisation more than not. I fear that the time for the third box (the munition one) will come way sooner than I ever expected in my dystopian nightmare.
Wired imply physical access, possibly leaving trace either in software or in hardware. If you leave trace you are therefore detectable and vulnerable yourself to be caught. Wireless on the other hand is another worm. You can read the comms without anyone knowing you ever accessed to it. And even if it is only from 5ft away, you can hide the material and it not be visible on you particularly on public place. Which is why hell break loose on any widely publicly used wireless communication is proved to be vulnerable to heavesdropping, whereas comms where you have to physically have access don#t do so much.
Despite whatever economic propaganda you might subscribe to, there is always a "socialist/wealth redistribution" component in the most stable society, a redistribution of wealth from the richest to the poorest, and yes, you can see that as a punishment for your success to reward the loss of other. Society which do not do that, create a split between the poorest (which will tend never to accumulate wealth, live day to day and are at the mercy of any conjuncture change, loss of job etc...) and the richest. Once this gap increase beyond a point where the strain on the society are too much, you know what happens ? Societal breakdown. Possibly followed by civil war and / or revolt/revolution. And at THAT point, you will regret bitterly not having given enough from the richest most successful to the poorest, when you are put in a guillotine or put to the wall. In other word it is in your interest to share a bit of your success, to make sure you KEEP being successful (and alive). Now call me a kook if you want, but I tend to keep my eye open to the truism "the truly desperate has nothing to lose". The successful instead has everything to lose. Keep that in mind next time you grumble you don't want to share your success.
All the Ui concept overhaul did add to the time to learn vista a new, AND it did not simplify functionality. Example : the detail display of names in explorer. The name , date and size were always in neat column. Wanna see more character ? just draw the column "line" to the right. And when you come back to the directory, the lsit is there as you left it. With Vista the column are not aligned. Leaving the directory and coming back i have again to go into "detaiL" and half assed vista sometimes do not propose me "size" and "date" immediately. Heck even when I open a file and in the open-dialogue I ask for detail, I can't draw the name column properly to enlarge names.
It might be that I missed some setup somewhere, but to have it suck that badly... I wish tehre would be a way to say "I want to have an XP UI".
The reviewer took for granted that the sugar and lactose would be 100% pure. Most probably it got trace of other impurety, like salts, NaCl, NaI , maybe even metals, SiO all in exceddingly ridiculously small trace. But the reviewer was quite right that there should not be any active substance left as it is supoosedly diluted by 1 by 10^400. For your information there is something like 60 moles of molecule of H2O in 1 liter of H2O, and 6.02.10^23 molecules in a mole. That should give you an order of idea.
From the example of my family (all have at least a master in education, albeit I am the only one with a natural science [physic] PhD), the main problem is that people do not know how long an usual illness can take to naturally cure (without intervention) and also suffer for confirmation bias. This is enough to explain fully why people even intelligent one buy into it. I keep telling them the old doctor joke : "with medicine you will cure your average banal cold in 14 days. Without it will take 2 weeks". I keep telling them to try blinding as an experiment, to try reading scientific result, I indicated them why it could only be placebo, but after a while, I decided to simply stay silent. Their usual answer was only "it works for me". From that position of belief, sympathic magic, nothing can be done. you can as well try to convince a christian with logic that Jesus was an oridnary man and not the son of god or something similar. The worst is that when they get "complication" they ascribe it to having forgotten or not properly taken their "homeopatic" globule... But when they are cured after the average "14 days" they ascribe it to their beloved oscillocoxnium. The usual confirmation bias, the same which works with other scam like dead talking and what not : forget the negative remember the positive.
In the mean time, I simply have utterly given up, I think we would need 3 or 4 generation of basic scientific education from the 1st grade onward to change the trend. The way it is now, people as a whole will never be able to recognize homeopathy for the pathetic scam it is. Even if you rub their nose in it.
CO2 is not produced cleanly alone. Usually it is produced with a host of other stuff. Like fine particule dust, SOx, NOx, CO, and even unburnt CxHy. So saying that CO2 is not a polluant is true but a small white lie as in reality it is only one of the cocktail of chemicals left after incomplete burn. The point of the GP was just that : by reducing our consumption of burning based energy toward something else, we benefit as our water / air / whatever get less polluted than now. You missed the point by concentrating of only 1 component of the cocktail and ignoring the whole rest.
That said, there are other method to reduce those other chemicals like gathering / catalyzing them at the exhaust. Whether we have some margin for new research or even if it is feasable for ALL sort of exhaust, I dunno I am not a specialist.
Their contribution came in SPITE of them being Christian. It was not because they were Christian that they came to their theory from the fact they observed. Or are you telling us that if they were, say Buddhist, observing the same data would have led them NOT to come to the same conclusion ? OTOH a good case can be made that Christianity hierarchy as a whole , like any other religion, prefer status quo and dogma, to discovery research, the later being frowned upon as from them arise heresy. Christian hierarchy did not push for research, it was at most tolerated (that is unless you were researching the number of pope until the apocalypse).
Also AFAIR The monastery used the previous work or scroll as raw material for religious text. A case can certainly be made that any preservation was accidental.
I have Vista since what now, 8 month ? and i get irked that I can't go in suspend modus (eah, yeah it could be that the driver from the mobo are crappy, I *DONT* care, all i see is a blue screen each time i go into suspend). And then every time I want to see a detail lsit instead of the frigging icons I have to change the settings. And I don't get by default the name+size+date displayed, sometimes those column stays empty. *THAT* is enough to make me cringe. And don#t get me started on the other hardware problem support.
Developer, meet market. Market meet developer. Dear developer, the market only WANT to bear a 5$ price. Maybe it is your fault for having invested too much money without studying the market first.
If people complain his APP is too expensive and don't buy it, maybe he should consider it is the free market telling him he is actually REALLY making his app to expensive for the real demand, and lwoering the price would meet the MARKET demanded price.
There is no minimum rpice for second sale. The MAP they are trying to enforce is for distributor and first sale. Please note that I disagree with the MAP, I jsut wanted to point out that as a second sale they would have no right to enforce a MAP. YMMV by country, but usually second sale right is that you can put whatever price you wish. Even 1 cent if you want. Not so for retailer and distributor.
I don't believe in democracy I rather think it is the least worst system we had up to now. The reason I don't see democracy as a solve-all is that you are by definition (sorry for the elitism) asking people to vote which do not have any clue and let themselves take in by any populist agenda, or by ideology disjointed from facts.
But I still agree with you that conviction should NEITHER be an obstacle to be electable, NOR should convicted people get their right to vote removed.
Even the US convicted parliamentary can be elected. The logic is probably that if you bar anybody convicted being elected, then politically you can have a great might by just either threatening to convict people, or even eliminate your political foe by convicting them of something minor. Now I tend to agree that corruption crime should ANYWAY make them unelectable, but once you start flagging SOME crime as making you unelectable, where do you set the limit ?
Every time there is an article on over speeding look at the number of people saying they can handle it without risk. I would propose they use exactly the same think-path : "Sure, some people may have a problem," they'll say. "But not me. I'm a great driver. I've never had an accident and I drive over the local speed limit all the time.".
The US standard practice is to be around 1:10. 1:40 is only 4 times the standard leverage if comparing to the US. If they had wanted to say 1:40 directly they would not have cited the US in the same sentence. That is my take.
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In all the firm I worked on there was some principle called "shifted time". You were supposed to work when you are needed naturally, but also with a lot of slack. The system allows you for example to work for the maximum allowed by law for a few days, then simply take the time off the next day, or even the day completely off. I know people which accumulate enough hours during normal time to have 10/12 week of holiday (instead of the 6 normal week). Me I did something cimilar to 80/9 , I worked ~10h a day during 4 days ,then took the last day off, or any combination allowing me a day off after 1 , 2 or 3 weeks. It LOOKS nice for a while, but after a long time of doing it, fatigue cumulate, and you see you easily are less productive working 4*10 rather than 5*8. Your brain function slowlier on the long term when you are tired. Nevertheless I like the system and would not want to lose it.
The copy of the first doc he shows, is a PNR. There is all kind of info in a PNR, and until VERY recently there was even the credit card and in some case expiry date and auth code. Thankfully I think msot system switched to X everything except the last 5 digits. But don#t worry we still get the auth code and expiry date and credit card number in the ticket themselves, as many firm are not PCI DSS compliant. But my main point is that it is the airline in the first place which save all that crap in a PNR. Same for history. Some of the blacked out info are airline stuff like PNR number, and PNR system. Bottom line the airline jsut give a full 100% access to the DHS. Sure the DHS scrap everything they find. But if the airline did not save that much crap to begin with in the PNR, the problem would not be there.
As far as i can tell it was a ncie enough compromise to lead us to where we are, and maybe even further beyond. I leave the attention span and nature life to my short lived ancestor.
All the place which ask to search me for example. Even stadion/disco. Once you point to the guy that by law they are not allowed (only agent of public force) neither are they allowed to refuse me entrance / exit due to this, they usually shrug me through. But this also mean I need to know my right, else I would screw up badly.
I read the article differently. As in the arrest came after refusing to do something for which they had no legal right to ask for, and thus beyond the rule permitting them to make an arrest. Also not being an american I have no idea that this was considered a REAL police. Ours (train police) has of police only the name. They have for example no real authorithy to make an arrest, they are indeed only security agent.
But THIS is exactly the point. Wired can be as secure as a box LOCKED, under watch by a guy armed to the teeth under a nuclear bunker , IF YOU WISH. You will need access so physical access is the security layer you have in ADDITION to the normal transport protocol layer. Wireless on the other hand is a "telecom box" which is open to the public 24/7, with the added advantage that nobody will ever ask you why you are fumbling with that telecom box, because you cannot be caught snooping that communication.
An interesting distinction is that he was not arrested for taking photos, but for refusing to delete them when asked. The practical reality of such a situation is that what I would do is delete the photos and simply un-delete them later
I think this is the wrong line of thought , this reinforce the police/security agent/supermarket agent/whatever to really think they can ask you to delete photo/submit you to a search (for anybody but police) when they are not allowed by law.In other word you erode the freedom and tranquility of everybody by allowing them to use power they do not have. MANY time somebody tryed this (a supermarket bag search), each time I simply calmly told them i would not submit, because what they asked was illegal, but if they want they can call the police and the police is fully allowed to search. Even if they had called the police, the police would not have been able to charge me, (even if they had arrested me) because law was(is) on my side. If nobody stand for our right, then they will get trampled, often out of ignorance. Sure you risk inconvenience, but freedom can often be inconvenient to maintain.
Also disallow any full frontal MALE breast nudity. Wanna bet it won#t be the case ?
AFAIK it is true they cannot ask you to stop breastfeeding, but they certainly can ask you to leave their premise (private property) for whatever reason they wish.
Firstly, they don't say the false positive rate , they only say the true positive rate. By now many poster here will have picked that up. Even at 1% false positive , pass 10000 person thru the check point, 100 false positive, yada yada law of great number etc...
Secondly It only does detect external signs of nervousness at best and nothing else. Such sign of nervousness MIGHT be displayed by people with malevolent intent, but certainly not only by them. Consider where such detector might be implanted : courtroom, IRS, FBI buildings, airports before boarding. A lot of place where people WILL be more often than not nervous. And what will happens ? Terrorist or any other mal intended smart persons will get an additional training : 1) meditate to lower all sign of nervousness 2) take a nyquil or whatever calm you down.
Thirdly, as the various western governments seem to go toward more and more security of that type, TV camera, drone and whatnot, I have long stopped fearing terrorist (and I barely missed getting in a bomb blast in Paris metro by a few dozen minutes...). Nowadays I fear the police and the governement and their big-brotherisation more than not. I fear that the time for the third box (the munition one) will come way sooner than I ever expected in my dystopian nightmare.
Wired imply physical access, possibly leaving trace either in software or in hardware. If you leave trace you are therefore detectable and vulnerable yourself to be caught. Wireless on the other hand is another worm. You can read the comms without anyone knowing you ever accessed to it. And even if it is only from 5ft away, you can hide the material and it not be visible on you particularly on public place. Which is why hell break loose on any widely publicly used wireless communication is proved to be vulnerable to heavesdropping, whereas comms where you have to physically have access don#t do so much.
Despite whatever economic propaganda you might subscribe to, there is always a "socialist/wealth redistribution" component in the most stable society, a redistribution of wealth from the richest to the poorest, and yes, you can see that as a punishment for your success to reward the loss of other. Society which do not do that, create a split between the poorest (which will tend never to accumulate wealth, live day to day and are at the mercy of any conjuncture change, loss of job etc...) and the richest. Once this gap increase beyond a point where the strain on the society are too much, you know what happens ? Societal breakdown. Possibly followed by civil war and / or revolt/revolution. And at THAT point, you will regret bitterly not having given enough from the richest most successful to the poorest, when you are put in a guillotine or put to the wall. In other word it is in your interest to share a bit of your success, to make sure you KEEP being successful (and alive). Now call me a kook if you want, but I tend to keep my eye open to the truism "the truly desperate has nothing to lose". The successful instead has everything to lose. Keep that in mind next time you grumble you don't want to share your success.
All the Ui concept overhaul did add to the time to learn vista a new, AND it did not simplify functionality. Example : the detail display of names in explorer. The name , date and size were always in neat column. Wanna see more character ? just draw the column "line" to the right. And when you come back to the directory, the lsit is there as you left it. With Vista the column are not aligned. Leaving the directory and coming back i have again to go into "detaiL" and half assed vista sometimes do not propose me "size" and "date" immediately. Heck even when I open a file and in the open-dialogue I ask for detail, I can't draw the name column properly to enlarge names.
It might be that I missed some setup somewhere, but to have it suck that badly... I wish tehre would be a way to say "I want to have an XP UI".
The reviewer took for granted that the sugar and lactose would be 100% pure. Most probably it got trace of other impurety, like salts, NaCl, NaI , maybe even metals, SiO all in exceddingly ridiculously small trace. But the reviewer was quite right that there should not be any active substance left as it is supoosedly diluted by 1 by 10^400. For your information there is something like 60 moles of molecule of H2O in 1 liter of H2O, and 6.02 .10^23 molecules in a mole. That should give you an order of idea.
From the example of my family (all have at least a master in education, albeit I am the only one with a natural science [physic] PhD), the main problem is that people do not know how long an usual illness can take to naturally cure (without intervention) and also suffer for confirmation bias. This is enough to explain fully why people even intelligent one buy into it. I keep telling them the old doctor joke : "with medicine you will cure your average banal cold in 14 days. Without it will take 2 weeks". I keep telling them to try blinding as an experiment, to try reading scientific result, I indicated them why it could only be placebo, but after a while, I decided to simply stay silent. Their usual answer was only "it works for me". From that position of belief, sympathic magic, nothing can be done. you can as well try to convince a christian with logic that Jesus was an oridnary man and not the son of god or something similar. The worst is that when they get "complication" they ascribe it to having forgotten or not properly taken their "homeopatic" globule... But when they are cured after the average "14 days" they ascribe it to their beloved oscillocoxnium. The usual confirmation bias, the same which works with other scam like dead talking and what not : forget the negative remember the positive.
In the mean time, I simply have utterly given up, I think we would need 3 or 4 generation of basic scientific education from the 1st grade onward to change the trend. The way it is now, people as a whole will never be able to recognize homeopathy for the pathetic scam it is. Even if you rub their nose in it.
CO2 is not produced cleanly alone. Usually it is produced with a host of other stuff. Like fine particule dust, SOx, NOx, CO, and even unburnt CxHy. So saying that CO2 is not a polluant is true but a small white lie as in reality it is only one of the cocktail of chemicals left after incomplete burn. The point of the GP was just that : by reducing our consumption of burning based energy toward something else, we benefit as our water / air / whatever get less polluted than now. You missed the point by concentrating of only 1 component of the cocktail and ignoring the whole rest.
That said, there are other method to reduce those other chemicals like gathering / catalyzing them at the exhaust. Whether we have some margin for new research or even if it is feasable for ALL sort of exhaust, I dunno I am not a specialist.
Their contribution came in SPITE of them being Christian. It was not because they were Christian that they came to their theory from the fact they observed. Or are you telling us that if they were, say Buddhist, observing the same data would have led them NOT to come to the same conclusion ? OTOH a good case can be made that Christianity hierarchy as a whole , like any other religion, prefer status quo and dogma, to discovery research, the later being frowned upon as from them arise heresy. Christian hierarchy did not push for research, it was at most tolerated (that is unless you were researching the number of pope until the apocalypse).
Also AFAIR The monastery used the previous work or scroll as raw material for religious text. A case can certainly be made that any preservation was accidental.
I have Vista since what now, 8 month ? and i get irked that I can't go in suspend modus (eah, yeah it could be that the driver from the mobo are crappy, I *DONT* care, all i see is a blue screen each time i go into suspend). And then every time I want to see a detail lsit instead of the frigging icons I have to change the settings. And I don't get by default the name+size+date displayed, sometimes those column stays empty. *THAT* is enough to make me cringe. And don#t get me started on the other hardware problem support.
Developer, meet market. Market meet developer. Dear developer, the market only WANT to bear a 5$ price. Maybe it is your fault for having invested too much money without studying the market first.
If people complain his APP is too expensive and don't buy it, maybe he should consider it is the free market telling him he is actually REALLY making his app to expensive for the real demand, and lwoering the price would meet the MARKET demanded price.
There is no minimum rpice for second sale. The MAP they are trying to enforce is for distributor and first sale. Please note that I disagree with the MAP, I jsut wanted to point out that as a second sale they would have no right to enforce a MAP. YMMV by country, but usually second sale right is that you can put whatever price you wish. Even 1 cent if you want. Not so for retailer and distributor.
I don't believe in democracy I rather think it is the least worst system we had up to now. The reason I don't see democracy as a solve-all is that you are by definition (sorry for the elitism) asking people to vote which do not have any clue and let themselves take in by any populist agenda, or by ideology disjointed from facts.
But I still agree with you that conviction should NEITHER be an obstacle to be electable, NOR should convicted people get their right to vote removed.
Even the US convicted parliamentary can be elected. The logic is probably that if you bar anybody convicted being elected, then politically you can have a great might by just either threatening to convict people, or even eliminate your political foe by convicting them of something minor. Now I tend to agree that corruption crime should ANYWAY make them unelectable, but once you start flagging SOME crime as making you unelectable, where do you set the limit ?
Every time there is an article on over speeding look at the number of people saying they can handle it without risk. I would propose they use exactly the same think-path : "Sure, some people may have a problem," they'll say. "But not me. I'm a great driver. I've never had an accident and I drive over the local speed limit all the time.".
How about first take a few % back on firearm (defense) and on barbed wire (Dept. Homeland security) and other REALLY superfluous expense ?
The US standard practice is to be around 1:10. 1:40 is only 4 times the standard leverage if comparing to the US. If they had wanted to say 1:40 directly they would not have cited the US in the same sentence. That is my take.