I have no idea why it's like that. I was in school about 10 years ago, and the rules were made very clear. Every act of aggression is equal, including not only retaliation but self-defense, too.
If a bully attacks you with a bat you should take it. You won't be punished (except for being beaten with a bat). If you try to defend yourself both of you will be given equal punishments.
It was the same when I was in school 20-odd years ago. I tested that rule exactly once. Turns out they lied about even that. Even if you just curled into a little ball and took it (fortunately no bat involved), you STILL got suspended for participating in a fight. One good outcome did come of that test, though: it cemented my parents' disdain for the administration, as they admitted to my parents my only part in the fight was as a victim.
(BTW, I posted this before and I swear the post disappeared. )
I've seen studies showing most people when watching television cannot mentally-distinguish the fantasy from reality. They know consciously that it's not real, but their brains react as if the events are actually happening. Their brains think it's all real.
This thing you call consciousness? It's a product of your brain. So if you know consciously that something is not real, your brain does NOT think it's all real. The fact that certain parts of your brain may have similar activity patterns when faced with televised depictions as when faced with real events does NOT mean you can't mentally distinguish fantasy from reality.
I think the FBI have him on a protection program, even his family don't know where he is now.
He's in Guantanemo Bay. The FBI has to open packages too, you see. And when he's down there, he can teach the guards new <strike>torture</strike> tough interrogation techniques in exchange for privileges.
Given that DVDs are a shock-insensitive waterproof object shipped inside a rigid case, they should be mailed with far less packaging. A manila envelope would be sufficient.
A tyvek sleeve in an ordinary envelope is sufficient to mail a DVD. That's how Blockbuster Online mails theirs.
She earned her second the next year, and will have a bachelors at the age of 20 -- a half-decade or more ahead of her peers.
Um, how is she at basic math? Because the way I figure it, you usually enter 1st grade at age 6. After plodding though 12 years of school, you're 18 or 19. A bachelor's degree is normally 4 years, but even granting 5 years as was common for some degrees where I went, that's only 24. Not quite a half-decade.
I received my own computer at the age of 15 and taught myself about hardware and how to program, neither of which my school offered any classes about beyond keyboarding.
The purpose of primary & secondary school isn't supposed to be to teach you job skills or even computing. It's supposed to be about teaching math, reading (primary school only -- you should be done with formal reading instruction by the time you get to high school), literature, science, history, civics, art, music, etc.
Unfortuately even so-called "good" school districts in the US often can't really provide more than a primary-school education (no advanced math or science, not much advanced literature, history classes which are merely recapitulations of primary school history classes, etc). The bad school districts don't provide even that much, and graduate functionally illiterate students who can't do basic math either.
I understand the benefits of a more rounded further education, but your statement reeks of educational jingoism.
It's certain people from all over the world come to the US to attend its undergradute and graduate institutions, which speaks well of them. That said, the top tier UK institutions are certainly also in the top tier in the world.
As for your American postgraduates having problems, I suspect either 1) They didn't come from a top tier school in the US, and you are at a top tier school in the UK. or (more likely) 2) The British and American ideas of the scope their field of study are subtlely different, enough to throw them off.
To do that, we need to put more resources into our schools.
Doesn't work. As soon as more money becomes available, the unions smell it. They go on strike. Teacher's compensation is raised, eating up the new money with no benefit to instruction.
Abolishing the teacher's unions wouldn't help because the administrators and school districts are every bit as petty and greedy as the teacher's unions make them out to be. Given free reign, they'd create a system just as bad only with more and better-paid incompetent administrators and more poorly paid teachers.
To improve public schools, you need a system with proper feedback -- success should be rewarded, failure punished, and "success" should mean educated students. But that's hard to do even with a blank slate. You can't get there at all and preserve the current system.
If your guy wins, you're not entitled to complain because you voted for him
If your guy loses, you're not entitled to complain because you accepted the results of the democratic system by voting
You'll have several years to regret it
So vote if you'd like, but don't fool yourself into thinking you're morally superior because you did, or that you really had an effect. In Wyoming, your vote is about 1 in 150,000 of a share in electing 3 electors, who are a 3 in 538 share of electing the president. And that's the best you can do. Every other state is worse.
That would easily explain why the Linux PC's were sold out while there were still MS machines left unsold.
Right. Which leads to the following logic
1) Assume Windows outsells Linux 100:30 2) Order 100 Windows machines and 30 Linux machines 3) Sell 10 windows machines and 10 linux machines 4) Sell 10 windows machines and 10 linux machines 5) Sell 10 windows machines and 10 linux machines 6) Sell 10 windows machines 7) Sell 10 windows machines 8) Sell 10 windows machines 8) Sell 10 windows machines 10) Note that not only do Windows machines outsell Linux machines 7:3, but in the past four months no Linux machines at all have been sold. Obviously, there's no point in trying to sell Linux machines.
(I swear similar logic led to the discontinuation of Haagen-Dazs Coffee Mocha Chip... and no, Mocha Chip is not the same. You couldn't find it, so you couldn't buy it, so the sales figures were poor, so it was discontinued.)
Are you sure about that? My understanding was most recorders were set up to respect the flag and based those on the pending standard for the flag. There were only a few cards (Hauppauge made one) that were released that explicitly didn't include support for the flag.
As far as I know, no card intended for recording ATSC broadcasts respects the broadcast flag. They all pass it through in the stream, but none of them blocks, encrypts, or otherwise prevents access to the stream based on the broadcast flag. What the software on the host does with it when it gets it is another matter; I'm unaware of any software which respects it, but I don't play on the Windows side which is where I'd expect such software to be.
There are cards (well, at least one) intended for recording cable broadcasts, with a CableCard. Any such card respects the cable copy protection mechanism, but that's a different story.
You're joking, right? Digital broadcasts are just the start (and required by law). Soon, all broadcasters will be foregoing "regular" digital for HD broadcasts complete with broadcast flag.
The broadcast flag was defeated (which isn't to say that it won't be resurrected in the future, but there's way too much silicon out there which ignores it for that to be a practical matter for a long time). HD broadcasts are just as open as analog; they're just an MPEG-2 transport stream with AC3 audio (usually).
Seems to me that if you work in a fairly specialized field, like microprocessor design, then pretty much your only choice to stay in the field when you leave your current employment is to go to a competitor; everyone else in the field is a competitor. It's pretty unusual for a court to enforce a clause which boils down to "if you leave the company you can't work in your field".
We have one in Frederick MD and most people don't know about it.
I remember the Frederick, MD curfew from when I was in high school. Usually unenforced. But occasionally the cops would get bored or something, and they'd sit around outside the fast food places at closing time. Employee closes store, gets out to go to his car, gets busted, and spends the night in jail if his parents don't pick him up. Never happened to me but did happen to people I knew. Yeah, that's a real useful law.
Curfews have a mixed record in US courts, probably depending on how many "get off my lawn you damn kids" types are in the court in question. I think they're currently favored (not surprising, as freedom is out of favor in general).
No. No spectrum is freed up by switching from analog to digital. A digital station takes up 6Mhz, same as an analog station. It's true that the FCC has relaxed adjacent channel restrictions, but any spectrum freed by that is balanced by the loss of channels 52-69, which have already been auctioned off. There's no truly free high-VHF or UHF slot between New York and Baltimore; spectrum's full.
2) WSDs being able to detect stations
For a WSD to reliably detect another transmitter, it would have to be as sensitive and have as good an antenna as the intended reciever. What are the chances of that, particularly in a portable device? Sure, your little iAndroZune with its 2" stub can't detect the channel, but my purpose-built TV tuner with a 10dBi antenna could pick it up fine... or it could, until the iAndroZune started stepping all over it.
3) Won't interfere even assuming it finds a white space The front-end filters on TV tuners have about a 5-channel passband. A strong signal anywhere in there can cause the RF amp to overload or force the AGC to cut in and thus desensitize the tuner. One of the FCCs own studies showed it could be cause up to 70dB of sensitivity loss on adjecent channels, which makes the difference between very good reception and none at all. Furthermore, those of us using a pre-amp to receive weaker stations don't have the benefit of front-end filtering; a white space device anywhere in the band can cause problems throughout the band. Note that some of those little USB stick tuners don't have front-end filtering either.
...it seems the patent office SHOULD have rejected the claim for "a method to hedging risk in the field of commodities trading" because it was non-useful.
Modify your lock with a "duress key" which, when it turns, sprays pepper spray at the person in front of the door (and remains locked). Post a photo of that one. (using a lock with a core-removal key and then modifying that mechanism might be one place to start; remember you don't actually want the core to come out though)
Seriously, sight-reading keys is nothing new. Ask a locksmith about cutting a new key based on a car key left on the front seat. I'm pretty sure the idea has even been on slashdot before (shock of shocks), although without the software angle.
Seems to me your redirects are overly complicating things. The first 3 claims would appear to represent a URL. If I'm misreading then I'd still suggest that just having the domain servers translate the URL would be covered by the claim.
I hadn't thought of that, but I think you're right -- simply entering a URL into a browser, receiving a response from the domain name server, and browsing to that page as a result would appear to infringe claim 1. Even dumber than I thought.
Clearly, this one got approved via the Patent Office's rule that "If you can't decipher the run-on sentence, approve the patent".
Yeah, I know the patent rules pretty much require run on sentences, but Claim 1 here is ridiculous even given that.
Best I can tell, Claim 1 covers doing a lookup of a code at a remote site and receiving something like a URL back, then following that URL. The code has to have been received before the user connected to the network.
That is, if I set up a server which returns a redirect for "8972" of http://www.cat.example.com/ and "1513" to http://www.dog.example.com/ and I send you (via US mail) "8972", which you then enter at my site and get redirected to the cat site, the patented method has been used.
We can install another strongman dictatorship and prop it up with guns and money (think good and hard about that one, it definitely had its pros and cons from a US foreign policy standpoint) or we can occupy it for the next hundred years and be the strongman dictatorship (the solution that foreign policy hawks seem to be favoring now) or we can leave and watch the country descend into bloody civil war (a brutal answer to be sure, but maybe the ultimate endgame in any event). One thing we cannot do is "nurture democracy" in Iraq.
As long as the US is the "strongman dictatorship", there will be a lot more violence than there would be under a competent Iraqi strongman dictatorship. The reason being hope -- the opposition knows the US has the option of leaving, and so this lets them hope they can continue attacks until the US decides it just isn't worth it any more. Not so of a local strongman -- his number one aim is to retain power, he's not going anywhere unless actually forcefully displaced.
I think the best way for the US to get out is to be thrown out by the government in Iraq (as sort-of appears to be happening). That gives that government some legitimacy. But the current government isn't going to stand even given that help.
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It was the same when I was in school 20-odd years ago. I tested that rule exactly once. Turns out they lied about even that. Even if you just curled into a little ball and took it (fortunately no bat involved), you STILL got suspended for participating in a fight. One good outcome did come of that test, though: it cemented my parents' disdain for the administration, as they admitted to my parents my only part in the fight was as a victim.
(BTW, I posted this before and I swear the post disappeared. )
This thing you call consciousness? It's a product of your brain. So if you know consciously that something is not real, your brain does NOT think it's all real. The fact that certain parts of your brain may have similar activity patterns when faced with televised depictions as when faced with real events does NOT mean you can't mentally distinguish fantasy from reality.
He's in Guantanemo Bay. The FBI has to open packages too, you see. And when he's down there, he can teach the guards new <strike>torture</strike> tough interrogation techniques in exchange for privileges.
A tyvek sleeve in an ordinary envelope is sufficient to mail a DVD. That's how Blockbuster Online mails theirs.
In today's society (as in most societies, historically), for most people, that's the empty set.
Write in "I prepared explosive runes today".
Um, how is she at basic math? Because the way I figure it, you usually enter 1st grade at age 6. After plodding though 12 years of school, you're 18 or 19. A bachelor's degree is normally 4 years, but even granting 5 years as was common for some degrees where I went, that's only 24. Not quite a half-decade.
The purpose of primary & secondary school isn't supposed to be to teach you job skills or even computing. It's supposed to be about teaching math, reading (primary school only -- you should be done with formal reading instruction by the time you get to high school), literature, science, history, civics, art, music, etc.
Unfortuately even so-called "good" school districts in the US often can't really provide more than a primary-school education (no advanced math or science, not much advanced literature, history classes which are merely recapitulations of primary school history classes, etc). The bad school districts don't provide even that much, and graduate functionally illiterate students who can't do basic math either.
It's certain people from all over the world come to the US to attend its undergradute and graduate institutions, which speaks well of them. That said, the top tier UK institutions are certainly also in the top tier in the world.
As for your American postgraduates having problems, I suspect either
1) They didn't come from a top tier school in the US, and you are at a top tier school in the UK.
or (more likely)
2) The British and American ideas of the scope their field of study are subtlely different, enough to throw them off.
Doesn't work. As soon as more money becomes available, the unions smell it. They go on strike. Teacher's compensation is raised, eating up the new money with no benefit to instruction.
Abolishing the teacher's unions wouldn't help because the administrators and school districts are every bit as petty and greedy as the teacher's unions make them out to be. Given free reign, they'd create a system just as bad only with more and better-paid incompetent administrators and more poorly paid teachers.
To improve public schools, you need a system with proper feedback -- success should be rewarded, failure punished, and "success" should mean educated students. But that's hard to do even with a blank slate. You can't get there at all and preserve the current system.
Since Fannie and Freddy don't originate loans at all, I'm not quite sure what you're talking about.
So vote if you'd like, but don't fool yourself into thinking you're morally superior because you did, or that you really had an effect. In Wyoming, your vote is about 1 in 150,000 of a share in electing 3 electors, who are a 3 in 538 share of electing the president. And that's the best you can do. Every other state is worse.
Right. Which leads to the following logic
1) Assume Windows outsells Linux 100:30
2) Order 100 Windows machines and 30 Linux machines
3) Sell 10 windows machines and 10 linux machines
4) Sell 10 windows machines and 10 linux machines
5) Sell 10 windows machines and 10 linux machines
6) Sell 10 windows machines
7) Sell 10 windows machines
8) Sell 10 windows machines
8) Sell 10 windows machines
10) Note that not only do Windows machines outsell Linux machines 7:3, but in the past four months no Linux machines at all have been sold. Obviously, there's no point in trying to sell Linux machines.
(I swear similar logic led to the discontinuation of Haagen-Dazs Coffee Mocha Chip... and no, Mocha Chip is not the same. You couldn't find it, so you couldn't buy it, so the sales figures were poor, so it was discontinued.)
As far as I know, no card intended for recording ATSC broadcasts respects the broadcast flag. They all pass it through in the stream, but none of them blocks, encrypts, or otherwise prevents access to the stream based on the broadcast flag. What the software on the host does with it when it gets it is another matter; I'm unaware of any software which respects it, but I don't play on the Windows side which is where I'd expect such software to be.
There are cards (well, at least one) intended for recording cable broadcasts, with a CableCard. Any such card respects the cable copy protection mechanism, but that's a different story.
I was just covering the two-channel variant.
The broadcast flag was defeated (which isn't to say that it won't be resurrected in the future, but there's way too much silicon out there which ignores it for that to be a practical matter for a long time). HD broadcasts are just as open as analog; they're just an MPEG-2 transport stream with AC3 audio (usually).
Seems to me that if you work in a fairly specialized field, like microprocessor design, then pretty much your only choice to stay in the field when you leave your current employment is to go to a competitor; everyone else in the field is a competitor. It's pretty unusual for a court to enforce a clause which boils down to "if you leave the company you can't work in your field".
I remember the Frederick, MD curfew from when I was in high school. Usually unenforced. But occasionally the cops would get bored or something, and they'd sit around outside the fast food places at closing time. Employee closes store, gets out to go to his car, gets busted, and spends the night in jail if his parents don't pick him up. Never happened to me but did happen to people I knew. Yeah, that's a real useful law.
Curfews have a mixed record in US courts, probably depending on how many "get off my lawn you damn kids" types are in the court in question. I think they're currently favored (not surprising, as freedom is out of favor in general).
1) Spectrum being freed up.
No. No spectrum is freed up by switching from analog to digital. A digital station takes up 6Mhz, same as an analog station. It's true that the FCC has relaxed adjacent channel restrictions, but any spectrum freed by that is balanced by the loss of channels 52-69, which have already been auctioned off. There's no truly free high-VHF or UHF slot between New York and Baltimore; spectrum's full.
2) WSDs being able to detect stations
For a WSD to reliably detect another transmitter, it would have to be as sensitive and have as good an antenna as the intended reciever. What are the chances of that, particularly in a portable device? Sure, your little iAndroZune with its 2" stub can't detect the channel, but my purpose-built TV tuner with a 10dBi antenna could pick it up fine... or it could, until the iAndroZune started stepping all over it.
3) Won't interfere even assuming it finds a white space
The front-end filters on TV tuners have about a 5-channel passband. A strong signal anywhere in there can cause the RF amp to overload or force the AGC to cut in and thus desensitize the tuner. One of the FCCs own studies showed it could be cause up to 70dB of sensitivity loss on adjecent channels, which makes the difference between very good reception and none at all. Furthermore, those of us using a pre-amp to receive weaker stations don't have the benefit of front-end filtering; a white space device anywhere in the band can cause problems throughout the band. Note that some of those little USB stick tuners don't have front-end filtering either.
...it seems the patent office SHOULD have rejected the claim for "a method to hedging risk in the field of commodities trading" because it was non-useful.
You'd need a better picture is all. There's nothing magic about angle cuts.
Modify your lock with a "duress key" which, when it turns, sprays pepper spray at the person in front of the door (and remains locked). Post a photo of that one.
(using a lock with a core-removal key and then modifying that mechanism might be one place to start; remember you don't actually want the core to come out though)
Seriously, sight-reading keys is nothing new. Ask a locksmith about cutting a new key based on a car key left on the front seat. I'm pretty sure the idea has even been on slashdot before (shock of shocks), although without the software angle.
I hadn't thought of that, but I think you're right -- simply entering a URL into a browser, receiving a response from the domain name server, and browsing to that page as a result would appear to infringe claim 1. Even dumber than I thought.
Clearly, this one got approved via the Patent Office's rule that "If you can't decipher the run-on sentence, approve the patent".
Yeah, I know the patent rules pretty much require run on sentences, but Claim 1 here is ridiculous even given that.
Best I can tell, Claim 1 covers doing a lookup of a code at a remote site and receiving something like a URL back, then following that URL. The code has to have been received before the user connected to the network.
That is, if I set up a server which returns a redirect for "8972" of http://www.cat.example.com/ and "1513" to http://www.dog.example.com/ and I send you (via US mail) "8972", which you then enter at my site and get redirected to the cat site, the patented method has been used.
As long as the US is the "strongman dictatorship", there will be a lot more violence than there would be under a competent Iraqi strongman dictatorship. The reason being hope -- the opposition knows the US has the option of leaving, and so this lets them hope they can continue attacks until the US decides it just isn't worth it any more. Not so of a local strongman -- his number one aim is to retain power, he's not going anywhere unless actually forcefully displaced.
I think the best way for the US to get out is to be thrown out by the government in Iraq (as sort-of appears to be happening). That gives that government some legitimacy. But the current government isn't going to stand even given that help.