It's not quite legal in Canada, although a court can honour and enforce the decisions of lawfully-entered-into "alternative dispute resolution". I suspect it's not been litigated, for fear of getting a decision (:-))
Hmmn, I think we're both saying the same thing in different terms. I provided evidence that there *aren't* differences that could be attributed to race...
I'd suggest that the differences between the races in school results in the U.S. have little if anything to do with inherent abilities of the races, and tons to do with people's expectations.
I grew up at the northern terminus of the Underground railway. Chatham is half-way between North Buxton and Hope, and is very mixed-race. The number of light-brown people versus dark-pink people in the top academic class at CCI (the collegiate institute) is proportional to their presence in the population as a whole, and has been that way since my father was a little kid. During my lifetime, that became generally true of at least Ontario, and arguably true of Canada as a whole.
In my youth we started doing IQ testing, and found no significant differences in the intelligence of grade 9 students that could be correlated with race. We did see, if I remember correctly, a correlation between IQ and number of years in Canada for immigrants, but we think that was a language-based bias.
There are still race-based differences in outcomes after school, but in the schools, we're driving toward an equilibrium.
If there is a statistically significant difference between the school marks of any kind of group, all other things being equal, it will show up in the extreme tails of the distribution, not the centre. On average, there will be a few more super-geniuses and a few less utter dolts in one group. You deal with that by allocating a few more dollars for gifted classes and a few less for remedial classes.
You certainly don't add an arbitrary number to everyone's scores in the other group!
I looked at some older TPC results, and see the previous Itanium delivering 4/7 the speed of the T5440, one of Sun's oldest threads-not-clock-speed boxes. Compared to IBM Power 7, Itanium delivered 4/10, so the doubling should being it up to 80% of the IBM.
Not to be sneezed at! Nevertheless, not competitive with Power, Fujitsu (Sun) M series or even the new Sun T4 boxes.
The Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled that employees have an "expectation of privacy" in emails and files on computers owned by their employers, meaning that private emails and files are
not the property of the company
cannot be snooped without a warrant
are not considered to be "in plain sight"
There are limitations: material from a company computer obtained by a warrant issued based on evidence from the company, if the company acted properly.
Yes: we used to use RSA cards with numeric pads to do mutual authentication at (the late, lamented) Sun Microsystems. This is basically the minimum functionality one needs to be able to do financial transactions without having to maintain (and pay out!) huge reserves against fraud.
I know of at least two companies who have gone looking for people who are either retired or semi-retired for full-time positions. The companies aren't rich, and so can only pay normal wages, and so get turned down a lot and/or have terrible turnover as people in mid-career go looking for more money elsewhere.
They find that older engineers more reliable, and that their depth of experience makes them as effective as more junior people, even where the juniors try to work too many hours. Sometimes because the juniors are working too many hours (:-))
It's hard to find semi-retired people, though. The people I know about were found by the employer via word of mouth, but I suspect one can ask for 'enough experience that age and treachery beat youth and enthusiasm' in an ad without actually getting arrested...
O'Reilly discovered that people will pay real money for a printed copy even when they get an electronic copy of the book free.
"Using Samba" was and is distributed free with the "Samba" SMB server program, through the initiative of my editor, Andy Oram, and the book went from a distant third on the subject to one of the company's top sellers of the year.
It's in beta in Toronto, and submits photos, videos and messages as tips to a non-profit that is trusted by the cops, but still provides reasonable privacy. See
http://www.222tips.com/about
Of course, while using it, it's wise to be screaming "someone call the police" at the top of your voice and waving your other arm enthusiastically, so that when the real police arrive, they'll either see you acting like a "good citizen", or other people will tell them "he shouted for the police and the mall cops beat him up".
In fact, the most interesting question here is "what question is the court trying?"
Because of precedent, most questions have already been answered in part, and what will be decided is a particular, typically smaller, part that was not properly addressed by the first "answer". This means that justice has to be achieved by squeezing in between the existing judgments and distinguishing the case in some way.
If, instead, the original answer was wrong, the defendant has to attempt to overturn the whole of the law and precedent. This is exceedingly hard, as no court wishes to make wholesale changes in the law of the land. Dred Scot followed precedent, and found slavery legal. That was only overturned by the Emancipation Proclamation, the War Between the States and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the American Constitution.
Roe vs Wade was very nearly an overturning of the existing system of law, as it made abortion part of the constitutional question of privacy, and caused great concern among observers of the courts, including jurists on either side of the question. It is notable that only a very vexed question, that of abortion, resulted in such a major change.
This is one of the weaknesses of systems of precedent, with or without an overarching constitution: all too many questions will be decided on a minor point, as the major decisions are considered unchangeable.
Consider, now, Wikipedias' explanation of pilpul, as "conceptual extrapolation from texts in efforts to reconcile various texts or to explain fundamental differences of approach between various earlier authorities,... " which is followed by te comment "Many leading rabbinic authorities harshly criticized this method as being unreliable and a waste of time, and it is regarded by some as having been discredited by the time of the Vilna Gaon." [i.e., circa 1797]
Anyone see a parallel here, and a concomitant risk of deciding the case on a nearly unrelated point?
That's the 1837 Upper Canada revolution, you understand!
We revolted against an oligarchic government of the rich and connected, known as the "family compact", and eventually gained "responsible government", in which the rulers were required to obey the law and could be thrown out for malfeasance. Heck, we could even defeat them in an election!
The similarities to the parent poster's state of arbitrary, unaccountable rule are striking, so much so that one of the regular discussion groups sponsored by our city councillor is known as "1837".
Generally, countries in the British (common law) tradition do not allow rights to be
- advertised away ("this cup contains hot coffee, caveat emptyor")
- contracted away ("the party will deliver her first-born child")
This was not always true: you could once sell your rights for money and become an "indentured servant", but those laws were overturned and/or changed when slavery was prohibited in the then British Empire.
This is a classic misunderstanding of what school is for, made by at least one person in every town on the planet, at least once per generation.
School teaches you how to learn stuff, by making you learn a really broad collection of occasionally-useful information. The process of learning how to do X different things is how you get practised at learning new things. The important part is that you're taught wildly different kinds of things, like chemistry and public speaking, so you get lots of practice doing different variations of "learn how".
It's mildly helpful if what you learn is something you will use later, but high-school chemistry is not really going to help you make wine. It will help you learn to make wine, though.
[sign back on and...] They need to spin off their commercial offerings, so they can be subjected to the pressures of a market containing human beings. I just cancelled a trial of their for-money services for a customer of mine, because the for-money services were poorer than their free ones, and the sales support team was startlingly unmotivated. That's got to tell you something (:-))
Slashdot Mirror
Yup, been going on for some time. Probably 40 years!
The University of Toronto used to use Kraft, p., Programmers and Managers: The Routinization of Computer Programming in the United States (Heidelberg Science Library, 1984) as a textbook in their programming and software engineering curricula.
I still recommend it, as managers still try to get rid of the good people, hire cheap ones, and then promote from within.It's a dumb move, but common.
One of my customers noticed that dumbness, and has been preferentially hiring the semi-retired.
--dave
Excellent, thanks! --dave
It's not quite legal in Canada, although a court can honour and enforce the decisions of lawfully-entered-into "alternative dispute resolution". I suspect it's not been litigated, for fear of getting a decision (:-))
HUH????
Oh, sorry folks, I accidentally fed the troll.. --dave
Hmmn, I think we're both saying the same thing in different terms. I provided evidence that there *aren't* differences that could be attributed to race...
I'd suggest that the differences between the races in school results in the U.S. have little if anything to do with inherent abilities of the races, and tons to do with people's expectations.
I grew up at the northern terminus of the Underground railway. Chatham is half-way between North Buxton and Hope, and is very mixed-race. The number of light-brown people versus dark-pink people in the top academic class at CCI (the collegiate institute) is proportional to their presence in the population as a whole, and has been that way since my father was a little kid. During my lifetime, that became generally true of at least Ontario, and arguably true of Canada as a whole.
In my youth we started doing IQ testing, and found no significant differences in the intelligence of grade 9 students that could be correlated with race. We did see, if I remember correctly, a correlation between IQ and number of years in Canada for immigrants, but we think that was a language-based bias.
There are still race-based differences in outcomes after school, but in the schools, we're driving toward an equilibrium.
--dave
But one sigma is *huge*!
If there is a statistically significant difference between the school marks of any kind of group, all other things being equal, it will show up in the extreme tails of the distribution, not the centre. On average, there will be a few more super-geniuses and a few less utter dolts in one group. You deal with that by allocating a few more dollars for gifted classes and a few less for remedial classes.
You certainly don't add an arbitrary number to everyone's scores in the other group!
--dave
They're TPC results, so they are from the vendors, and optimized up the gazoo (:-)) --dave
I looked at some older TPC results, and see the previous Itanium delivering 4/7 the speed of the T5440, one of Sun's oldest threads-not-clock-speed boxes. Compared to IBM Power 7, Itanium delivered 4/10, so the doubling should being it up to 80% of the IBM.
Not to be sneezed at! Nevertheless, not competitive with Power, Fujitsu (Sun) M series or even the new Sun T4 boxes.
--dave
The judge meant expectation in the sense of "if you don't get it, come talk to me"
--dave
Michael Geist's descriptiption: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6689/135/
And a law firm's description: http://www.mcinnescooper.com/publications/scc-finds-limited-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy-in-work-computer-but-evidence-still-admissible/
My leaky/biased memory says these machines were a speed disappointment. Is this doubling going to make them faster or slower than an x86?
--dave
The Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled that employees have an "expectation of privacy" in emails and files on computers owned by their employers, meaning that private emails and files are
There are limitations: material from a company computer obtained by a warrant issued based on evidence from the company, if the company acted properly.
--dave
Yes: we used to use RSA cards with numeric pads to do mutual authentication at (the late, lamented) Sun Microsystems. This is basically the minimum functionality one needs to be able to do financial transactions without having to maintain (and pay out!) huge reserves against fraud.
--dave
I know of at least two companies who have gone looking for people who are either retired or semi-retired for full-time positions. The companies aren't rich, and so can only pay normal wages, and so get turned down a lot and/or have terrible turnover as people in mid-career go looking for more money elsewhere.
They find that older engineers more reliable, and that their depth of experience makes them as effective as more junior people, even where the juniors try to work too many hours. Sometimes because the juniors are working too many hours (:-))
It's hard to find semi-retired people, though. The people I know about were found by the employer via word of mouth, but I suspect one can ask for 'enough experience that age and treachery beat youth and enthusiasm' in an ad without actually getting arrested...
--dave
O'Reilly discovered that people will pay real money for a printed copy even when they get an electronic copy of the book free. "Using Samba" was and is distributed free with the "Samba" SMB server program, through the initiative of my editor, Andy Oram, and the book went from a distant third on the subject to one of the company's top sellers of the year.
--dave
There's a (beta) app for that: Toronto crimestoppers. See also http://www.222tips.com/about
--dave
It's in beta in Toronto, and submits photos, videos and messages as tips to a non-profit that is trusted by the cops, but still provides reasonable privacy. See http://www.222tips.com/about
Of course, while using it, it's wise to be screaming "someone call the police" at the top of your voice and waving your other arm enthusiastically, so that when the real police arrive, they'll either see you acting like a "good citizen", or other people will tell them "he shouted for the police and the mall cops beat him up".
--dave
In fact, the most interesting question here is "what question is the court trying?"
Because of precedent, most questions have already been answered in part, and what will be decided is a particular, typically smaller, part that was not properly addressed by the first "answer". This means that justice has to be achieved by squeezing in between the existing judgments and distinguishing the case in some way.
If, instead, the original answer was wrong, the defendant has to attempt to overturn the whole of the law and precedent. This is exceedingly hard, as no court wishes to make wholesale changes in the law of the land. Dred Scot followed precedent, and found slavery legal. That was only overturned by the Emancipation Proclamation, the War Between the States and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the American Constitution.
Roe vs Wade was very nearly an overturning of the existing system of law, as it made abortion part of the constitutional question of privacy, and caused great concern among observers of the courts, including jurists on either side of the question. It is notable that only a very vexed question, that of abortion, resulted in such a major change.
This is one of the weaknesses of systems of precedent, with or without an overarching constitution: all too many questions will be decided on a minor point, as the major decisions are considered unchangeable.
Consider, now, Wikipedias' explanation of pilpul, as "conceptual extrapolation from texts in efforts to reconcile various texts or to explain fundamental differences of approach between various earlier authorities, ... " which is followed by te comment "Many leading rabbinic authorities harshly criticized this method as being unreliable and a waste of time, and it is regarded by some as having been discredited by the time of the Vilna Gaon." [i.e., circa 1797]
Anyone see a parallel here, and a concomitant risk of deciding the case on a nearly unrelated point?
--dave (:-)) c-b
That's the 1837 Upper Canada revolution, you understand!
We revolted against an oligarchic government of the rich and connected, known as the "family compact", and eventually gained "responsible government", in which the rulers were required to obey the law and could be thrown out for malfeasance. Heck, we could even defeat them in an election!
The similarities to the parent poster's state of arbitrary, unaccountable rule are striking, so much so that one of the regular discussion groups sponsored by our city councillor is known as "1837".
--dave (who was at 1837 last week) c-b
Joke ends, you can laugh now.
--dave
Generally, countries in the British (common law) tradition do not allow rights to be
This was not always true: you could once sell your rights for money and become an "indentured servant", but those laws were overturned and/or changed when slavery was prohibited in the then British Empire.
--dave
This is a classic misunderstanding of what school is for, made by at least one person in every town on the planet, at least once per generation.
School teaches you how to learn stuff, by making you learn a really broad collection of occasionally-useful information. The process of learning how to do X different things is how you get practised at learning new things. The important part is that you're taught wildly different kinds of things, like chemistry and public speaking, so you get lots of practice doing different variations of "learn how".
It's mildly helpful if what you learn is something you will use later, but high-school chemistry is not really going to help you make wine. It will help you learn to make wine, though.
--dave
--dave