Mr. Rather? Is that you? How's the effort going to break that story about the fake memos?
Or maybe you're thinking of the famous Walter Duranty and his stories about how Stalin's famines weren't really happening. Accountability didn't mean he couldn't keep his Pulitzer.
Or maybe you're thinking of the recent coverage about Hurricane Katrina where the cable and network news shows went from saying, "The media is back, baby!" to saying "Most of what we told you was wrong," without even a pause for breath.
I'm not real anxious to create any protected class of "journalists" who aren't subject to campaign speech restrictions that affect everyone else. I'd rather we all just had freedom of the press.
"In an unrelated case, Ronald Redding, 37, of Linthicum Heights, Md., was charged Tuesday with giving his copy of "Million Dollar Baby" to a friend. Redding faces a misdemeanor charge of willfully infringing a copyright by distributing the film."
There's got to be a felony involved in there somewhere. Wanton distribution of Clint Eastwood? Willful spreading of mawkish sentimentality?
Seriously, though, I like the way they imply that you can get arrested for giving away a copy of a DVD you finished watching. "Done with that copy of Harry Potter? Got a friend who hasn't seen it yet? Make them buy their own or go to jail!" I'm sure there's more information the journalist in question could have provided about why Redding wasn't allowed to give his copy away.
Teenage nerd - no knowledge of new trends, can't show off fashionable boyfriend in high school lunchroom or at parties. Not interesting.
Adult nerd - useful college degree, probably good job, disposable income, can definitely show off fashionable jewelry received as gift. Much more interesting.
That's a great description of the process of testing machine learners, but as Jonathan points out, that's not the hard part. The hard part, which you sort of elide over, is selecting the test dataset. Whose e-mail? The SpamBayes project uses mailing list archives to check algorithm changes because it's available, while of course recognizing that it's not really representative.
The upshot is that it's too easy for the losing software team to claim that whatever sample was chosen was not representative, and essentially impossible to prove them wrong.
I use SpamBayes; my unscientific, lazy reason is that it works and I don't have to think about it.
No, the password is XORed with itself. It's the ultimate form of protection. Plus the resulting encrypted string can be compressed very tightly, saving disk space.
What a loss to the world, that Yet Another Cop Show That Contrives Controversy For Ratings (YACSTCCFR) will be censored. Why didn't they step in years ago and save us from Dennis Franz's ass?
To the extent that Comcast can keep up with finding zombie PCs for which they provide Internet service, blocking port 25 will guarantee that zombie PCs on Comcast's network will not send spam. It's quite simple: in order to send e-mail, you must connect to a server listening on port 25 for the simple reason that that's where the receiver's SMTP server is listening by convention.
You seem to be complaining that Comcast's spam blocking techniques don't stop the spread of worms. The block is designed to prevent the worm from sending spam. If you want someone to whom to complain about the spread of worms, you might want to direct your anger at the blameworthy.
Generally, variability within different U.S. companies (corporate culture and procedures) is greater than that between the U.S. and Canada (or the U.K., or Australia), so it depends on where you wind up.
So does this mean the Slashdotters who claimed that ESR damaged the open source community via his letter to Sun will now retract their views? It seems we're closer to an open source Java as a result of his opening salvo (little gun-toting humor there) than we were before he wrote his letter.
There is no such thing as "mandatory appropriations Congress can't later cut...." A basic rule of American Constitutional theory is that no Congress can bind future Congresses. When Congress passes a "ten year budget plan," all they are doing is establishing a baseline; they have no power to prevent the next Congress from changing spending however it wants.
It's always easier to spout ludicrous knee-jerk views on foreign relations and tax policy than it is to bother to learn how Congress works. That's why the windbags keep getting re-elected despite the fact that all they have to offer is flowery rhetoric.
I don't see how this is such big news. Everyone knows that robots are powered by alcohol. These 'scientists' need to get current with 31st century technology.
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Or maybe you're thinking of the famous Walter Duranty and his stories about how Stalin's famines weren't really happening. Accountability didn't mean he couldn't keep his Pulitzer.
Or maybe you're thinking of the recent coverage about Hurricane Katrina where the cable and network news shows went from saying, "The media is back, baby!" to saying "Most of what we told you was wrong," without even a pause for breath.
I'm not real anxious to create any protected class of "journalists" who aren't subject to campaign speech restrictions that affect everyone else. I'd rather we all just had freedom of the press.
There's got to be a felony involved in there somewhere. Wanton distribution of Clint Eastwood? Willful spreading of mawkish sentimentality?
Seriously, though, I like the way they imply that you can get arrested for giving away a copy of a DVD you finished watching. "Done with that copy of Harry Potter? Got a friend who hasn't seen it yet? Make them buy their own or go to jail!" I'm sure there's more information the journalist in question could have provided about why Redding wasn't allowed to give his copy away.
Adult nerd - useful college degree, probably good job, disposable income, can definitely show off fashionable jewelry received as gift. Much more interesting.
The upshot is that it's too easy for the losing software team to claim that whatever sample was chosen was not representative, and essentially impossible to prove them wrong.
I use SpamBayes; my unscientific, lazy reason is that it works and I don't have to think about it.
No, the password is XORed with itself. It's the ultimate form of protection. Plus the resulting encrypted string can be compressed very tightly, saving disk space.
You seem to be complaining that Comcast's spam blocking techniques don't stop the spread of worms. The block is designed to prevent the worm from sending spam. If you want someone to whom to complain about the spread of worms, you might want to direct your anger at the blameworthy.
Generally, variability within different U.S. companies (corporate culture and procedures) is greater than that between the U.S. and Canada (or the U.K., or Australia), so it depends on where you wind up.
So does this mean the Slashdotters who claimed that ESR damaged the open source community via his letter to Sun will now retract their views? It seems we're closer to an open source Java as a result of his opening salvo (little gun-toting humor there) than we were before he wrote his letter.
There is no such thing as "mandatory appropriations Congress can't later cut...." A basic rule of American Constitutional theory is that no Congress can bind future Congresses. When Congress passes a "ten year budget plan," all they are doing is establishing a baseline; they have no power to prevent the next Congress from changing spending however it wants.
It's always easier to spout ludicrous knee-jerk views on foreign relations and tax policy than it is to bother to learn how Congress works. That's why the windbags keep getting re-elected despite the fact that all they have to offer is flowery rhetoric.
I don't see how this is such big news. Everyone knows that robots are powered by alcohol. These 'scientists' need to get current with 31st century technology.