As already mentioned, take a Space Pen. You can get them on eBay. Also, you ought to strongly consider taking an LED headlamp. They can be a lifesaver when it comes to sitting in a dark place and writing, or reading, or whatever. Check eBay for those too. I recommend Princeton Tec, as I sell them and have found them to be the best LED headlamp company.
...Who was on the team of scientists that trained the space monkeys. He told us some amazing stories about his experience. He said that they would starve them for a couple of days until they were downright hostile, and then they would drop a banana pellet into their chamber when the monkey would touch a joystick that was mounted in the chamber. Once the monkey figured out that the joystick = food, they would make the monkey hold the joystick for long amounts of time. Then they put a monitor in there with cross-hairs to simulate re-entry, and they would only give a banana pellet if the monkey could line up the cross-hairs. Pretty soon, they had a monkey that could hold some cross-hairs on a re-entry plane for 18 HOURS!!! (All the while the re-entry plane would be shifted and moved and bumped, to simulate the intense nature of re-entry. So when they finally sent the monkey into space (they had several canidates), they monkey knew exactly what to do to get the banana pellet.
As a side story, some scientists took the task of training the monkeys to play tic-tac-toe. Our professor said that the monkeys would NEVER lose, once they were taught. Some of them were so smart that they could play without facing the tic-tac-toe board and just listen to the sounds of the game (they rigged it with unique sounds for each space) and reach back and pat the square when it was their turn.
The stalker in me just came up with an idea... Can the IP address used in this subpoena be used in conjunction with the "leaked" AOL search text file that went out a few months ago? Will this give us more information about the woman involved, supposedly named Raej Schwartz? And if her searches "confirm" that she is in fact an AOL user.... What did she search for?
I can definitely see a need for something like this, but the blur is the ethics of investigating what employees do on their time. I'm a student and when I took a job last year I had 2 coworkers (also students) who came to work, but I could never figure out what they were doing with their time. They made no progress, or any progress they made was illusory and/or easily accomplished at the last minute. I figured it out: They would come in and sit on myspace for FIVE HOURS and surf web sites with media like youtube or whatever. They NEVER worked. I found out the myspace page of the person and found that they would make interesting posts about thier coworkers (myself included) that well... weren't very nice. Most telling of all was the day that one of the students left: They wrote on myspace that they actually worked today! And then they listed like 5 things they actually did, while admitting they hadn't done anything in the previous MONTHS.
After reading that, I realized two things: 1) Management has a problem. They don't have adequate metrics in place to control reporting and track work accomplishments vs time. 2) If management had a tool to check up on browsing habits, and the employees knew about it, the employees might have accomplished more in their time.
I got a picture of a particle accelerator. I am sure that is what is was, because I've seen them before. My partner passed. Sure enough, I got a link for some physics page with a particle accelerator. Doh!
Yeah, I think about the fact that these videos are probably being monitored when I see videos of idiot soldiers playing gags that cost the military money, or potentially lives. For example, the leg brake video that is up there on video.google.com. If I were the pentagon, I would be trying to determine who those people are and punish them for thier crime against the military. (AWOL / Abandonment). Or the video with soldiers fishing in Afghanistan using bazookas to hit the water at point blank range. Not smart, and if I were their commander and knew about that, I would have them doing KP duty for a while. They could get killed. Then what kind of a PR nightmare would the military have? Yeah, monitor the videos and take the ones which are stupid and find out who makes them. Then reprimand them before they become darwin award canidates.
If you want an example where video recognition has reached the limit in a certain industry, take a look at the gambling industry. The moment you walk in their doors, your face is matched to a computer facial recognition system and if you match the profile of a card counter or "specialist", then you'll get the boot.
When I refer to data aggregation, I'm referring to an across the board aggregation. I mean Best Buy's data, Kroger's data, Walmart's data, Chase, MBNA, Bank One, etc etc etc.
I was ID'd for a lighter the other day. Now, I am a bit younger looking, and I know that restricting lighter sales is the first step to restricting consumption of other products. In California, and at a Walmart, at that. The real issue that would make me start to worry is data aggregation. And that is where I think it all falls apart (knock on wood). If they could aggregate all the data of my purchases, communications, etc, I would be a lot more worried. If you ARE paranoid, a major step to eliminate tracking is to go cash only. Stop using electronic payments of any kind. Stop using grocery discount cards too. They track spending habits.
But again, data aggregation is key, and they don't have that yet.
I thought about it and I don't think it would work. It depends on how the Infrared heat detection works. If it detects by sensing a difference in temperature because of the raised numbering on the plates, then it wouldn't work unless you could flatten your plate. More likely, it works by sensing the color contrast of letters to numbers. For example, if you shine a laser on a white wall, then place a black mark on the wall and shine the laser on the black mark, the black absorbs more of the laser light. It may be similar with a cast of infrared light.
I've actually been in church when some guy took a cell phone call. My mother was at a funeral when someone was gabbing on the cell in the back. That when CPA is REALLY a problem.
But my comments, from a former computer science undergrad major that changed his mind in senior year to become a history major is this: I am now working on my PhD in history and I know one thing: Today's grad school students are suffering from this (even the historians!). And either they will ALL suffer from this, or most will and a select few will avoid this problem and become the real experts in their academic study. You cannot become an expert in a particular field of study without TIME and STUDY. Both of those aspects are compromised with CPA.
I was invited to use Google Base using the Google Payment Corp. Google has a payment service that people can pay me with, and it is better than PayPal.
X-COM UFO DEFENSE was my all time favorite. I even played it a year or two ago. I wish they would re-release it with the exact same A.I. only with AWESOME graphics. That would be great.
..that the title of this/. article is misleading. Of course, Ballmer is wrong to make such a blanket assertion. But the study found a correlation between MP3 player owners (iPod included) and the use of "filesharing software." Then the study published the results of a comparison between their findings. They are "less likely" than other MP3 player owners, but it still happens. The title should read "Not ALL iPod owners are thieves"
I forwarded this article to my dad, and got this back from him (edited to preserve company secrets) "My guess we will have a new 3rd generation operating plant in by 2015 and a new 4th generation by 2020. Lots is happening on in the nuclear world right now. The problem is all the talent is old and the schools are not training new Nuclear Engineers. We will be trying to get 200 new Engineers within the next year. GE and Westinghouse are also trying to get the same talent."
Tsk Tsk... Such a one sided argument. Science ought to have learned by now (as the social sciences have) that things are usually not black and white.
Allow me to present you with LOGIC:
If anybody slanders faith as being a dubious source of knowledge, the believer can reply, for rhetorical purposes, that so are reason and experience. It can be plausibly maintained that experience discloses illusion rather than reality, and that reason merely reflects the working of the human mind with no necessary relevance to objective truth.
I'd bring a nice LED headlamp, like the Princeton Tec EOS headlamp. Cheap ones can be found on eBay. I'd also bring a nice water filter with a nalgene bottle, Katadyn makes good ones. Bring a good pocket knive too, like an Emerson S.A.R.K. All that will run you a couple hundred $, but get the light first. And bring back up batteries.
Also, don't forget to bring your camera.
Other items I'd suggest include a GPS, mosquito netting (there's probably a major infestation down there), insect repellant, in addition to sun screen.
Why don't they bridge the gap of annoyance vs profit by offering some incentive to the viewer? For example: in a FPS video ad wall, when the gamer approaches and watches the entire ad a "bonus" weapon is unlocked. Or armor. Or something that would motivate, viewership. In an online world like WoW there could be some trivial thing that doesn't change a character that much, but enhances the character in some minor way. Enough viewed advertisements and you could get some super bonus. Something along those lines...
I work for Convergys, a major outsourcer of Microsoft, USPS, and other major company telephone support. I myself work "for" eBay. (Even though I am not paid by eBay, this is what we say to people on the phone). We are required to say this on all outgoing calls when we get past the gatekeeper. (Ghostbusters) Apparently, it's a legal issue. On top of that, while I have never had anyone ask, they have the right to say No and we are required by law to stop recording and monitoring. Oh, and for our monitoring, I would say it is closer to 20 percent of our calls. We have our team lead listening, the computer system recording (even with screen capture!) and a QA agent who does this all day long. Our team is only about 30 people on a given basis. So, I figure, about 20 percent of my calls are recorded on any given day, though sometimes they tell me that my calls will be recorded all day long. I try to be on my best behavior....
Hmmm... I wonder if he'll sell it on eBay...
the title could be
LED bed gets the women, get yours now...
Well, at least I could fine the Inova X1 on there.
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As already mentioned, take a Space Pen. You can get them on eBay. Also, you ought to strongly consider taking an LED headlamp. They can be a lifesaver when it comes to sitting in a dark place and writing, or reading, or whatever. Check eBay for those too. I recommend Princeton Tec, as I sell them and have found them to be the best LED headlamp company.
...Who was on the team of scientists that trained the space monkeys. He told us some amazing stories about his experience. He said that they would starve them for a couple of days until they were downright hostile, and then they would drop a banana pellet into their chamber when the monkey would touch a joystick that was mounted in the chamber. Once the monkey figured out that the joystick = food, they would make the monkey hold the joystick for long amounts of time. Then they put a monitor in there with cross-hairs to simulate re-entry, and they would only give a banana pellet if the monkey could line up the cross-hairs. Pretty soon, they had a monkey that could hold some cross-hairs on a re-entry plane for 18 HOURS!!! (All the while the re-entry plane would be shifted and moved and bumped, to simulate the intense nature of re-entry. So when they finally sent the monkey into space (they had several canidates), they monkey knew exactly what to do to get the banana pellet.
As a side story, some scientists took the task of training the monkeys to play tic-tac-toe. Our professor said that the monkeys would NEVER lose, once they were taught. Some of them were so smart that they could play without facing the tic-tac-toe board and just listen to the sounds of the game (they rigged it with unique sounds for each space) and reach back and pat the square when it was their turn.
Umm.... I think the viewers of 24 will disagree.
The stalker in me just came up with an idea... Can the IP address used in this subpoena be used in conjunction with the "leaked" AOL search text file that went out a few months ago? Will this give us more information about the woman involved, supposedly named Raej Schwartz? And if her searches "confirm" that she is in fact an AOL user....
What did she search for?
I can definitely see a need for something like this, but the blur is the ethics of investigating what employees do on their time. I'm a student and when I took a job last year I had 2 coworkers (also students) who came to work, but I could never figure out what they were doing with their time. They made no progress, or any progress they made was illusory and/or easily accomplished at the last minute. I figured it out: They would come in and sit on myspace for FIVE HOURS and surf web sites with media like youtube or whatever. They NEVER worked. I found out the myspace page of the person and found that they would make interesting posts about thier coworkers (myself included) that well... weren't very nice. Most telling of all was the day that one of the students left: They wrote on myspace that they actually worked today! And then they listed like 5 things they actually did, while admitting they hadn't done anything in the previous MONTHS.
After reading that, I realized two things: 1) Management has a problem. They don't have adequate metrics in place to control reporting and track work accomplishments vs time. 2) If management had a tool to check up on browsing habits, and the employees knew about it, the employees might have accomplished more in their time.
I'm all for it.
...of any articles that use the word "leap" to describe China's future progress. (ie Mao's Great Leap Forward)
I got a picture of a particle accelerator. I am sure that is what is was, because I've seen them before. My partner passed. Sure enough, I got a link for some physics page with a particle accelerator. Doh!
Yeah, I think about the fact that these videos are probably being monitored when I see videos of idiot soldiers playing gags that cost the military money, or potentially lives. For example, the leg brake video that is up there on video.google.com. If I were the pentagon, I would be trying to determine who those people are and punish them for thier crime against the military. (AWOL / Abandonment). Or the video with soldiers fishing in Afghanistan using bazookas to hit the water at point blank range. Not smart, and if I were their commander and knew about that, I would have them doing KP duty for a while. They could get killed. Then what kind of a PR nightmare would the military have? Yeah, monitor the videos and take the ones which are stupid and find out who makes them. Then reprimand them before they become darwin award canidates.
If you want an example where video recognition has reached the limit in a certain industry, take a look at the gambling industry. The moment you walk in their doors, your face is matched to a computer facial recognition system and if you match the profile of a card counter or "specialist", then you'll get the boot.
If tinfoil handwaving is being concerned about privacy, then yes.
It wouldn't bother me if it didn't give the holders of that aggregate such a great potential for power over freedom.
When I refer to data aggregation, I'm referring to an across the board aggregation. I mean Best Buy's data, Kroger's data, Walmart's data, Chase, MBNA, Bank One, etc etc etc.
I was ID'd for a lighter the other day. Now, I am a bit younger looking, and I know that restricting lighter sales is the first step to restricting consumption of other products. In California, and at a Walmart, at that. The real issue that would make me start to worry is data aggregation. And that is where I think it all falls apart (knock on wood). If they could aggregate all the data of my purchases, communications, etc, I would be a lot more worried. If you ARE paranoid, a major step to eliminate tracking is to go cash only. Stop using electronic payments of any kind. Stop using grocery discount cards too. They track spending habits.
But again, data aggregation is key, and they don't have that yet.
I thought about it and I don't think it would work. It depends on how the Infrared heat detection works. If it detects by sensing a difference in temperature because of the raised numbering on the plates, then it wouldn't work unless you could flatten your plate. More likely, it works by sensing the color contrast of letters to numbers. For example, if you shine a laser on a white wall, then place a black mark on the wall and shine the laser on the black mark, the black absorbs more of the laser light. It may be similar with a cast of infrared light.
PayPal charges 2.9%, not 1.9%. The only people who get the 1.9% rate are those who deal over 100,000 PER MONTH.
I've actually been in church when some guy took a cell phone call. My mother was at a funeral when someone was gabbing on the cell in the back. That when CPA is REALLY a problem.
But my comments, from a former computer science undergrad major that changed his mind in senior year to become a history major is this: I am now working on my PhD in history and I know one thing: Today's grad school students are suffering from this (even the historians!). And either they will ALL suffer from this, or most will and a select few will avoid this problem and become the real experts in their academic study. You cannot become an expert in a particular field of study without TIME and STUDY. Both of those aspects are compromised with CPA.
I was invited to use Google Base using the Google Payment Corp. Google has a payment service that people can pay me with, and it is better than PayPal.
X-COM UFO DEFENSE was my all time favorite. I even played it a year or two ago. I wish they would re-release it with the exact same A.I. only with AWESOME graphics. That would be great.
..that the title of this /. article is misleading. Of course, Ballmer is wrong to make such a blanket assertion. But the study found a correlation between MP3 player owners (iPod included) and the use of "filesharing software." Then the study published the results of a comparison between their findings. They are "less likely" than other MP3 player owners, but it still happens. The title should read "Not ALL iPod owners are thieves"
I forwarded this article to my dad, and got this back from him (edited to preserve company secrets)
"My guess we will have a new 3rd generation operating plant in by 2015 and a
new 4th generation by 2020. Lots is happening on in the nuclear world
right now. The problem is all the talent is old and the schools are not
training new Nuclear Engineers. We will be trying to get 200 new
Engineers within the next year. GE and Westinghouse are also trying to
get the same talent."
Tsk Tsk...
Such a one sided argument. Science ought to have learned by now (as the social sciences have) that things are usually not black and white.
Allow me to present you with LOGIC:
If anybody slanders faith as being a dubious source of knowledge, the believer can reply, for rhetorical purposes, that so are reason and experience. It can be plausibly maintained that experience discloses illusion rather than reality, and that reason merely reflects the working of the human mind with no necessary relevance to objective truth.
I'd bring a nice LED headlamp, like the Princeton Tec EOS headlamp. Cheap ones can be found on eBay. I'd also bring a nice water filter with a nalgene bottle, Katadyn makes good ones. Bring a good pocket knive too, like an Emerson S.A.R.K. All that will run you a couple hundred $, but get the light first. And bring back up batteries.
Also, don't forget to bring your camera. Other items I'd suggest include a GPS, mosquito netting (there's probably a major infestation down there), insect repellant, in addition to sun screen.
Why don't they bridge the gap of annoyance vs profit by offering some incentive to the viewer? For example: in a FPS video ad wall, when the gamer approaches and watches the entire ad a "bonus" weapon is unlocked. Or armor. Or something that would motivate, viewership. In an online world like WoW there could be some trivial thing that doesn't change a character that much, but enhances the character in some minor way. Enough viewed advertisements and you could get some super bonus. Something along those lines...
I work for Convergys, a major outsourcer of Microsoft, USPS, and other major company telephone support. I myself work "for" eBay. (Even though I am not paid by eBay, this is what we say to people on the phone). We are required to say this on all outgoing calls when we get past the gatekeeper. (Ghostbusters) Apparently, it's a legal issue. On top of that, while I have never had anyone ask, they have the right to say No and we are required by law to stop recording and monitoring. Oh, and for our monitoring, I would say it is closer to 20 percent of our calls. We have our team lead listening, the computer system recording (even with screen capture!) and a QA agent who does this all day long. Our team is only about 30 people on a given basis. So, I figure, about 20 percent of my calls are recorded on any given day, though sometimes they tell me that my calls will be recorded all day long. I try to be on my best behavior....
Hmmm... I wonder if he'll sell it on eBay... the title could be LED bed gets the women, get yours now... Well, at least I could fine the Inova X1 on there.