I'll grant that the repetitive get/set wrappers are unfortunate and unnecessary.
Isn't a Java Bean allowed to have a public variable xxx as a public property xxx in place of getXxx()/setXxx(), thus making those wrappers unnecessary?
I could get by without the keypad; I've never played a game like Civ II that uses those keys for 8-way movement control from this particular keyboard.
I used to assign F9..F12 to produce several accented characters in Word and Wordperfect. These days I just map the keyboard as US-International (in Windows) or Spanish (in Linux) to produce those characters, which means I can type accented text in almost any program.
9 million people is not "most people". It's not even 1% of the people on the planet. In fact, there are probably more illegal Mexicans in the United States than illegal file-sharers in the world. Hrm...
That said, it's not necessarily true that local power lines will act as an antenna. If wires go underground, or through a metal conduit, a lot of the RF energy will stay with the wires. Likewise, in a lot of places the 240-volt or 3-phase loops are twisted around a central cable that provides mechanical support and ground.
What I'd be worried about is the garbage on the power line; you think of it as a "source" of power, but from a signalling standpoint the power-line is where everyone dumps their garbage: switching power-supplies, flourescent-light ballasts, all sorts of stuff.
From what I remember of the online forms I mentioned, the online forms do not require you to fill in your own contact-information; in fact, they specifically state on at least one of {FTC, FDA, FBI, SEC} that they accept anonymous tips. Now, it's possible that, if you submitted a credible bomb threat, they would trace your IP address, interview the employees at your local Internet café who might have seen you, etc., but otherwise they don't have the time to do any such thing.
Law-enforcement agencies and ToS-enforment departments have to sort through spam, incomplete reports, and false reports. The identity of the reporter is one piece of information that can help do that.
I doubt that a federal agency would provide the identity of a tip to the target of an investigation before they had to. If you don't tell them who you are, they can't call you on the witness stand if there eventually is a trial.
Finally, under US law, any information you provide might be brought before a grand jury; a grand jury's proceedings are closed, and the defendant does not learn the identity of those who testify. If you really are worried that the malfeasor lives near you... that's what a restraining oder is for.
It's too bad Dr. Dobb's Journal doesn't have an archive of their ads, but I remember one that went something like this:
[Picture of guy with no shirt, a necklace, and a big tattoo of a sun on his chest] "Gone. Went to find himself. Left you with a Linux box that won't boot, 80,000 lines of C code #ifdefed to look like Pascal, and no documentation."
It's reasonable for them to want to know who they're communicating with. Email is easy to forge, and the person you sent the information to might not have been able to do anything with it. Do you have a PayPal account? If so, log in and cut-and-paste your message into their web-based form.
Also, if you think that the site violates Federal laws, you could report it to the FTC (they even have an online form) directly, or to the FBI.
At BYU, I'm sure a lot of students believe that Atheists don't have their heads screwed on straight, but I doubt someone with an anti-atheism course would promote it as offensively as this professor promoted his course.
In fact, at BYU, professors carry on scholarly dialogue with atheists; for instance, one said in a recent article:
Nor am I claiming that Price is a bad person because he is an atheist; he may well be a wonderful father and ethical human being. I am not even claiming that his position is wrong because he is an atheist. But the masking of his atheism in his Dialogue article does make a monumental difference in trying to understand what he is really saying.
certainly they have some way of telling who you should pay royalties to, even if they have the same name.
Not neccessarily. The patent office expects a few small fees down the road, but if those don't get paid, they just let the patent expire. It's up to the patent-holder to enforce his patent by bringing legal action if he suspects infringement somewhere. The potential licensee of one of these patents would probably exercise due diligence by doing a search for the listed asignee in standard business directories in the listed city. If it appears that the company in question has gone out of business, one would need to find out who they were sold to; if the patent was held by an individual who has died, it would be necessary to contact the executor of his estate to arrange licensing of the patent.
Another thing to keep in mind is that a patent owner has no obligation to license (which is different from the rules for copyrighted phonorecords, for instance). For 20 years from the date of issue, the patent owner can chose to be the only supplier of products that embody the protected method, if he so desires.
MySQL has a column-level privilege system, not a table-level privilege system. It also has never had "static SQL"; however, you're confusing stored procedures with prepared statements. MySQL has had prepared statements and a cache of query optimizations for frequently called statements since the 4.0 release.
When you sign up for a Yahoo account, there's a form where you fill out your birthdate, real age, full name, home address, etc. Of course you could lie there, but then the service wouldn't work as well (it would give you weather for the wrong place, hook you up with people way older than you,...). However, the real thing they've done, it seems, is to delete all "teen" chat rooms; see
their site.
Furthermore, if someone whose profile says they're under 18 tries to go to Yahoo! Chat, a page comes up with a message saying they can't do that. As a related feature, Yahoo! personals allows searching for the range "13--19", but only shows 18-year-olds and older.
ClearLogic probably did agree to the EULA if they were using the bitstream — they had to obtain a copy of the design-software in order to reverse-engineer the meaning of the bitstream. I'm not sure how relevant that is from the state-law perspective. Then again, Altera does have a lot of information on their website; they have a legal notice posted, but I doubt it's very binding, since it talks about files "on this CD' and isn't a click-through prerequisite to seeing all the data-sheets and manuals.
I wonder, though... if ClearLogic had worked only from data-sheets, and not examined the chips at all, would this decision still have applied to them? Were they copying things like the distance between different functional units, or just the pinout and the logical structure of the chip?
It looks like even the ClearLogic domain name (formerly www.clear-logic.com) is gone. Too bad...
You can avoid that problem in MySQL by enabling strict mode. By the way, MySQL 5 also supports
triggers and views.
It's true that MySQL does not have syntax for object-oriented queries. The object-relational model is significantly different from the relational model; there are a lot of applications where it's not needed.
I guess neither Postgres nor MySQL supports native storage of XML. However, it might not be too hard to implement. 6 years ago, neither database could store GIS data; today, they both can.
Now, if people start acting more rationally about "terrorist threats" we might have shorter security-lines as well. Machine-readable passports and electronic tickets also help get through to a flight faster.
Sure, Word has a WordPerfect importer, but the MS Office/WinXP computers in a lab at my department don't have it installed. Same goes for Microsoft Works versions, TeX, old DOS word-processors...
Now, the WordPerfect importer for OOo is first-try alpha software, but, in a school, students shoudn't be bringing in their work in Word format on a disk at the last minute anyway. When I went to high school, we had to turn papers in printed (not on disk, not handwritten); when I took college-level programming classes, I usually had to turn files in by executing a setuid program on a specific computer system, in a directory with my Makefile and.c files, all in UNIX text format, before the stated midnight deadline. Students' not being able to bring in Word documents that their older siblings wrote and print them flawlessly might be seen as an advantage in a high-school environment.
A while ago in a local LUG we talked about Linux-side systems that do things like this. Really, the best place for this is the display-manager, although it might need tighter integration with the screensaver to work well.
On the other hand, Linux can be set up so that login/logout is really fast, especially if you use good hardware and a lightweight windowmanager like, oh, say, FVWM, along with a session manager. You won't necessarily get your documents back at the same page and line after a logout/login sequence, but no information will be lost. I've seen Windows take five minutes to "apply the system security policy" or whatever; if Linux or any Unix takes less than 30 seconds to display a usable desktop, something is probably broken, for instance a bogus NFS mount.
It sounds like a French passport costs about as much right now as it does in the U.S., but I guess a lot of people randomly choose not to renew or even obtain them, thus limiting their revenue stream.
When I took undergrad physics and chemistry, we used the CAPA system to do our homework.
In the Physics classes, we actually used the system for quizzes, homework and the exams (which is one reason why I got by with an older edition of the textbook). Homework was done online, but exams were multiple-choice, to be done on paper in the crowded classroom, and each student had his photograph printed on the test so that he could be identified when he turned it in.
The problems were set up so that you really couldn't get the right answer without understanding the material; online, you had to enter 3 or 4 significant figures and the right units to get credit.
I'm not sure how a computer would make a student "show work" in Calculus, but there are a lot of symbolic mathematical languages out there. In fact, thereom-verifiers have been around for a long time; if the student just has to mention axioms, simple table-lookup is all that's needed. Of course, at some point a mathematician needs to start writing simple, symmetric, beautiful proofs, but 90% of the kids in a freshman calc class won't ever really do serious math...
I'd like to see this too, but I doubt it'll ever happen. I can give you a few good reasons for the combination, and I'll throw in some silly ones as well:
Both countries are (basically) federal republics, with fairly honest governments based on (English) Common Law;
The border west of the Great Lakes is arbitrary anyway, and would never stand if we were on opposite sides in a war;
The United States, and especially Washington, D.C., could use some new blood. I wish Congress would meet on the shore of the Hudson Bay on occasion.
The Texan Superhiway needs to go all the way to the Arctic Circle! Yeah!
Seriously, I think that the biggest objection to the idea is that it would be bad for business in border-towns. Sure, at least one country would have to bear the expense of changing its symbols, standards and government organization (mabey we'd finally adopt the Metric system down here?), but the loudest complainers would be people who derive profit from inequities in the current system.
I've been to points farther north in the U.S. (Milwaukee) than in Canada (just along Highway 401 from Sarnia to Toronto, and also to Niagra Falls). Of course, it's harder to go really far north, because at some point it's just all evergreen forest and then tundra, and roads don't actually go through.
This policy doesn't look like it'll affect me, as I carry a passport anyway. As other posters have said, a driver's license doesn't actually demonstrate citizenship; for instance, the State of Michigan accepts a foreign passport (with English translation of the headings) as proof of I.D. when obtaining one.
...is support for this in automated tools like JavaDoc , Jade/OpenJade (for DocBook), and so forth. There are times when I want to read through a manual that's online, and waiting for the next page in an ordered manual really breaks my concentration sometimes. Sometimes it's so bad that I just run wget -r against the website in question in order to prime my proxy-cache.
On the other hand, it would be nice to be able to specify a maximum bandwidth to use for prefetching as another option. However, perhaps a proxy-cache (like Apache or Squid) could recognize the
X-moz: prefetch
header and give those requests lower priority and more-throttled bandwidth. Hey... the cache could even parse HTML requested from it and fetch those links; then users of older browsersw could get the same benefits!
Poster: Further, many of the questions on IQ tests tend to be what are known as "trick" questions. The only way that most mortals can do well on such a test is to blindly memorize the answers.
AC: There is no way to "memorize" the answers to most standardized tests.
You do realize there are ways to test for actual intelligence, which includes, of course, problem solving and ability to memorize?
A lot of I.Q.-ish "standardized" tests do test things that are presumably useful in any "brain-work" situation, like
fast arithmetic ability
pattern-matching
vocabulary
ability to make inferences
However, as one who has taken a lot of standardised tests (most recently the LSAT, a GRE subject test, and the ASVAB), I can say that a lot of the questions really are "trick" questions. Look at
the MENSA sample test (you may not get the exact same set of questions). How many times have I seen a short sequence of low powers of prime numers? How many times have I had to know that 2 squared plus 3 squared is 5 squared?
People regularly "study for" the SAT by memorizing pages from a thesaurus... Am I a better writer if I contemplate, ponder and pontificate using only the most erudite prose, or should I just say what I mean using words that my audience will understand immediately?
By the way, I didn't vote for Bush, but I did volunteer to serve in his army, and was turned down. I earned a high ASVAB score and passed the medical exam/drug screen, but a security interviewer allegedly thought I was "too honest".
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Isn't a Java Bean allowed to have a public variable xxx as a public property xxx in place of getXxx()/setXxx(), thus making those wrappers unnecessary?
On the keyboard in front of me:
F2..F8
Scroll lock
Right Windows
I could get by without the keypad; I've never played a game like Civ II that uses those keys for 8-way movement control from this particular keyboard.
I used to assign F9..F12 to produce several accented characters in Word and Wordperfect. These days I just map the keyboard as US-International (in Windows) or Spanish (in Linux) to produce those characters, which means I can type accented text in almost any program.
At least they've started using SPF.
9 million people is not "most people". It's not even 1% of the people on the planet. In fact, there are probably more illegal Mexicans in the United States than illegal file-sharers in the world. Hrm...
That said, it's not necessarily true that local power lines will act as an antenna. If wires go underground, or through a metal conduit, a lot of the RF energy will stay with the wires. Likewise, in a lot of places the 240-volt or 3-phase loops are twisted around a central cable that provides mechanical support and ground.
What I'd be worried about is the garbage on the power line; you think of it as a "source" of power, but from a signalling standpoint the power-line is where everyone dumps their garbage: switching power-supplies, flourescent-light ballasts, all sorts of stuff.
Law-enforcement agencies and ToS-enforment departments have to sort through spam, incomplete reports, and false reports. The identity of the reporter is one piece of information that can help do that.
I doubt that a federal agency would provide the identity of a tip to the target of an investigation before they had to. If you don't tell them who you are, they can't call you on the witness stand if there eventually is a trial.
Finally, under US law, any information you provide might be brought before a grand jury; a grand jury's proceedings are closed, and the defendant does not learn the identity of those who testify. If you really are worried that the malfeasor lives near you... that's what a restraining oder is for.
[Picture of guy with no shirt, a necklace, and a big tattoo of a sun on his chest] "Gone. Went to find himself. Left you with a Linux box that won't boot, 80,000 lines of C code #ifdefed to look like Pascal, and no documentation."
Also, if you think that the site violates Federal laws, you could report it to the FTC (they even have an online form) directly, or to the FBI.
In fact, at BYU, professors carry on scholarly dialogue with atheists; for instance, one said in a recent article:
Not neccessarily. The patent office expects a few small fees down the road, but if those don't get paid, they just let the patent expire. It's up to the patent-holder to enforce his patent by bringing legal action if he suspects infringement somewhere. The potential licensee of one of these patents would probably exercise due diligence by doing a search for the listed asignee in standard business directories in the listed city. If it appears that the company in question has gone out of business, one would need to find out who they were sold to; if the patent was held by an individual who has died, it would be necessary to contact the executor of his estate to arrange licensing of the patent.
Another thing to keep in mind is that a patent owner has no obligation to license (which is different from the rules for copyrighted phonorecords, for instance). For 20 years from the date of issue, the patent owner can chose to be the only supplier of products that embody the protected method, if he so desires.
MySQL has a column-level privilege system, not a table-level privilege system. It also has never had "static SQL"; however, you're confusing stored procedures with prepared statements. MySQL has had prepared statements and a cache of query optimizations for frequently called statements since the 4.0 release.
Furthermore, if someone whose profile says they're under 18 tries to go to Yahoo! Chat, a page comes up with a message saying they can't do that. As a related feature, Yahoo! personals allows searching for the range "13--19", but only shows 18-year-olds and older.
I wonder, though... if ClearLogic had worked only from data-sheets, and not examined the chips at all, would this decision still have applied to them? Were they copying things like the distance between different functional units, or just the pinout and the logical structure of the chip?
It looks like even the ClearLogic domain name (formerly www.clear-logic.com) is gone. Too bad...
I thought SCO owned the patent on Linux...
I don't know whether they have any other patents.
It's true that MySQL does not have syntax for object-oriented queries. The object-relational model is significantly different from the relational model; there are a lot of applications where it's not needed.
I guess neither Postgres nor MySQL supports native storage of XML. However, it might not be too hard to implement. 6 years ago, neither database could store GIS data; today, they both can.
Now, if people start acting more rationally about "terrorist threats" we might have shorter security-lines as well. Machine-readable passports and electronic tickets also help get through to a flight faster.
Now, the WordPerfect importer for OOo is first-try alpha software, but, in a school, students shoudn't be bringing in their work in Word format on a disk at the last minute anyway. When I went to high school, we had to turn papers in printed (not on disk, not handwritten); when I took college-level programming classes, I usually had to turn files in by executing a setuid program on a specific computer system, in a directory with my Makefile and .c files, all in UNIX text format, before the stated midnight deadline. Students' not being able to bring in Word documents that their older siblings wrote and print them flawlessly might be seen as an advantage in a high-school environment.
On the other hand, Linux can be set up so that login/logout is really fast, especially if you use good hardware and a lightweight windowmanager like, oh, say, FVWM, along with a session manager. You won't necessarily get your documents back at the same page and line after a logout/login sequence, but no information will be lost. I've seen Windows take five minutes to "apply the system security policy" or whatever; if Linux or any Unix takes less than 30 seconds to display a usable desktop, something is probably broken, for instance a bogus NFS mount.
It sounds like a French passport costs about as much right now as it does in the U.S., but I guess a lot of people randomly choose not to renew or even obtain them, thus limiting their revenue stream.
The problems were set up so that you really couldn't get the right answer without understanding the material; online, you had to enter 3 or 4 significant figures and the right units to get credit.
I'm not sure how a computer would make a student "show work" in Calculus, but there are a lot of symbolic mathematical languages out there. In fact, thereom-verifiers have been around for a long time; if the student just has to mention axioms, simple table-lookup is all that's needed. Of course, at some point a mathematician needs to start writing simple, symmetric, beautiful proofs, but 90% of the kids in a freshman calc class won't ever really do serious math...
- Both countries are (basically) federal republics, with fairly honest governments based on (English) Common Law;
- The border west of the Great Lakes is arbitrary anyway, and would never stand if we were on opposite sides in a war;
- The United States, and especially Washington, D.C., could use some new blood. I wish Congress would meet on the shore of the Hudson Bay on occasion.
- The Texan Superhiway needs to go all the way to the Arctic Circle! Yeah!
- They've got good weed up there, eh?
Seriously, I think that the biggest objection to the idea is that it would be bad for business in border-towns. Sure, at least one country would have to bear the expense of changing its symbols, standards and government organization (mabey we'd finally adopt the Metric system down here?), but the loudest complainers would be people who derive profit from inequities in the current system.I've been to points farther north in the U.S. (Milwaukee) than in Canada (just along Highway 401 from Sarnia to Toronto, and also to Niagra Falls). Of course, it's harder to go really far north, because at some point it's just all evergreen forest and then tundra, and roads don't actually go through.
This policy doesn't look like it'll affect me, as I carry a passport anyway. As other posters have said, a driver's license doesn't actually demonstrate citizenship; for instance, the State of Michigan accepts a foreign passport (with English translation of the headings) as proof of I.D. when obtaining one.
On the other hand, it would be nice to be able to specify a maximum bandwidth to use for prefetching as another option. However, perhaps a proxy-cache (like Apache or Squid) could recognize the
header and give those requests lower priority and more-throttled bandwidth. Hey... the cache could even parse HTML requested from it and fetch those links; then users of older browsersw could get the same benefits!AC: There is no way to "memorize" the answers to most standardized tests.
You do realize there are ways to test for actual intelligence, which includes, of course, problem solving and ability to memorize?
A lot of I.Q.-ish "standardized" tests do test things that are presumably useful in any "brain-work" situation, like
By the way, I didn't vote for Bush, but I did volunteer to serve in his army, and was turned down. I earned a high ASVAB score and passed the medical exam/drug screen, but a security interviewer allegedly thought I was "too honest".