Does google get ownership of anything that is uploaded? I wonder how foolish scientists will be as to unknowingly forfeit their copyrights, IP, etc.
Doesn't matter how foolish the scientists are, as the contracts will have to be vetted by the various University legal departments. I'm quite confident that the lawyers will be very careful about their legal rights.
I don't know of any government that has successfully imposed democracy on another country.
The US/Allies imposed democracy on the Axis powers of Japan, Italy and Germany after WWII. While it can be argued that Italy and Germany had some democratic traditions (however the Weimar Republic was really broken), it was foreign to Japan.
That said, it is pretty hard to come up with many more successful examples...
Tara Smith, a Professor of Epidemiology, and author of the science blog Aetiology (which I like) reviewed the book here , and has a short
interview with Danica.
Different strokes I suppose, I thought it was hideous. From memory (it has been awhile):
Hard coded file and folder names (it must be in exactly one location, too bad if you have a need for two outgoing SMTP servers running on the same box with different configurations)
Strange homegrown replacement for the standard C library
Memory deallocation done by exiting the program
Odd preprocessor "template" functions
A seeming hatred of descriptive variable or function names
All of this technology is suppose to make our lives easier. It used to be all one had to do was go out and hunt for some food a couple ours a day (if even that). Nowadays, we work 8+ hours a day just to make ends meet.
Yep, the handful of hunter-gatherer societies that still exist do have it relatively easy. A few hours of effort will normally get you all you need for the day (we humans are pretty good hunters).
However, any given land can only sustain a more or less fixed number of people, which means most of your children have to die (or everyone starves). You have almost no reserves to deal with floods, disease or droughts (h-gs are mobile to follow animals and plant availability). You are also in a distinct disadvantage when you confront settled agricultural groups, as they normally have larger numbers, can stockpile weapons, and create fortifications (we can also talk about pastoral groups like the Mongols, but their lives were anything but easy).
this part could be great, if they open up a public way to validate that token
When I looked at Goodmail about a year ago, it was just an implementation of Domain Keys, but they owned all the Public/Private keys (your mail app would generate the hash, then it would need to contact the Goodmail servers to get the encrypted hash). Assuming this hasn't changed (and I'm not interested enough to crawl through their site to find out), then all the info you need to do a validation is publicly available.
Do you really think it was the American forces that kept the japs from taking Port Morrisby and the Northern Territories?
To take nothing at all away from the exceptional job done by the Royal Australian Navy, the defense of Port MorEsby is generally placed at the feet of the Battle of the Coral Sea, which was a combined operation between the US Navy (2 carriers, 6 cruisers, 13 destroyers), and the RAN (2 cruisers).
Microsoft has been pushing "upgrades" that break files from earlier releases for a couple decades now, and I've never heard of a publisher (or any other organization) standing up to them before like this. Generally, they just go along meekly, since "that's what computers are like, y'know".
What do you think might have given some of the publishers a backbone?
Without knowing anything about how Science or Nature actually publishes things, I suspect that in the last couple of years they have gone for more and more automation. Where in years gone past, somebody had to actually convert manuscripts from a submitted form on paper into something that could be typeset/printed, now this can be done with the raw manuscript. Now that they have these nice systems in place (Science can accept Word, WordPerfect or LaTex), they probably really REALLY don't want to go back to any kind of manual processes (not only costs more, but it is an obvious source of errors).
So, the usual reason, money.
i know how to handle this. tell your boss or manager AND/OR IBM to shove it. tell them you WILL NOT train the very person who is going to replace your job for the sheer means of satisfying the stockholders.
Which means you have refused to do the duties required of your job, so your employer can now terminate you for cause. You loose any and all severance packages (which are normally contingent on you doing the training), are no longer eligible for unemployment, and have no positive references when you go looking for your next job.
I applaud your passion, but some people might not think the satisfaction is worth several weeks (or months) salary.
We dont need useful information like that on a day like today! -1, troll!
But the site is mal-ware infested (you are now sending out messages for penis enlagement pills, and we had to throttle back your pr0n downloads so we can send out more), so I figured it was karmicly acceptable.
Yes, there really is such a site (lord only knows if there is actually a museum), and you get 100 hoaxes instead of just a paltry 10 for the price of a click...
Mrs. Carroll, my English teacher in high school, was unconvinced that science fiction was on a par with classic literature, even though I trotted out examples like "Farenheit 451", "Foundation", and "Childhood's End".
She was unconvinced for a good reason. While all of the stories you mentioned are great fun (I've read and loved them all, especially anything by Clarke), even combined they don't hold the dimmest candle to King Lear.
Shakespeare can be hard to read (doubly so, when you have to do it for a class), but it was meant to be performed. Find a local company doing a play, or pick up a well reviewed movie version (badly done Shakespeare is dreadful), then try and listen with open ears and mind. There is a reason he is still revered after 400 years.
Back when he did postgres, it was at berkley. He then moved on to the private world to do a start-up from it.
He was still a professor at Berkeley while working with RTI/Ingres Inc. He didn't leave until his wife wanted to move back near her family (which was after the sale of both Ingres and Illustra). I was at (no doubt just one of) the going away lunches.
So now he is at MIT. Well, at least MIT picks up good ones.
So, I'm something of a Luddite. I want to eat dinner at a restaurant in peace, and I don't feel any need to respond to a phone call while walking down the street.
That said, I wanted a cheap phone so on the occasions I did need to make a call, I'd have one. I went with TracFone (at the time, I found it on Amazon). According to their web site, they are offering a phone and 450 minutes that last a year for $99 (which is ~$8/month). When you renew, any unused minutes roll over (I just renewed for 2 years and an extra 250 minutes for $149).
If you don't use your cell phone much (like me), this is a cheap solution. However, these are rock-bottom phones. If you need anything much beyond a phone (it does have voice mail), or if you need more minutes (the minutes are relatively expensive), it won't work.
I live in the SF Bay Area, if that matters in the slightest.
if anyone can find anything peer-reviewed by this guy, i'd be keen to see it
A really quick search turned up (I'm sure there are more, these were just the first ones I found that I'm sure were his):
New Zealand Maritime Glaciation: Millennial-Scale Southern Climate Change Since 3.9 Ma
Robert M. Carter* and Paul Gammon
Science 11 June 2004:
Vol. 304. no. 5677, pp. 1659 - 1662
DOI: 10.1126/science.1093726
and
Canterbury Drifts at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1119, New Zealand: Climatic modulation of southwest Pacific intermediate water flows since 3.9 Ma
Geology; November 2004; v. 32; no. 11; p. 1005-1008; DOI: 10.1130/G20783.1
- Spammers copy and paste the blue ribbon into their spam templates in 1/100th of the time it took Goodmail to come up with and implement it.
Unlikely. The way Goodmail works is every outgoing message talks to their servers to get a token to put in the message, and every incoming message is validated by asking their servers about the token. Each token is unique, tied to a specific message, etc (it is domain keys, but Goodmail servers have the public and private keys). I think there are real issues with scaling, but spoofing isn't a real worry.
- Spammers sign up for Goodmail to send some of their spam out, in quantities that will allow the cost to be worth it. The spam folder in your e-mail just became worthless.
Goodmail claims that they will monitor your account. Too many complaints, and your account will be terminated. If this is how they actually do business is anyones guess.
The run of the mill Herbal-Viagra spammer can't afford the added cost of using this service (they are usually blasting out of open relays, spambots, some ISP who doesn't care, etc). However, they won't stop because of this service either, which is why this isn't really an anti-spam measure, it is a way for good companies (with various definitions of good) to pay to bypass the spam filters.
- I refuse to use Goodmail, and my legitimate e-mails start ending up in Spam. I encourage users of services that do this to switch to "a better e-mail service with better filters", namely one that does not support Goodmail.
Depends on how AOL (and others) change their existing systems. If the rest of their system stays the same, AOL users get possibly more cluttered mail boxes, and in the end, it is a big yawn (but AOL gets to pocket some $$ for a year or three). If AOL begins to tweak their filters so more legitimate mail heads spambox-ward, then we get into possible user unrest.
I bought myself a Movado Museum for my birthday several years ago, and I'm still very happy with it. It is one of the few watches that I think actually looks like art (it is also very thin, which is surprisingly comfortable).
Museum Two-Tone
Pulled from Science, Vol 304, Issue 5673, 945 , 14 May 2004:
Last week Nature reported that in an interview a member of the research team admitted being one of the egg donors, raising questions about whether she profited professionally by being a co-author. Nature quoted bioethicists as saying that, to avoid any hint of coercion, there should be an arms-length relationship between the research group and the donors.
Hwang blames the language barrier for "a miscommunication." He says the woman had tried to explain that, in the future, she would be willing to donate eggs for such research by other groups. Moon-il Park, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Hanyang University in Seoul and chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the university hospital that approved the research plan--the eggs were harvested at the hospital--wrote in an e-mail that no one from Hwang's team was among the 16 volunteers. "I confirmed this after being contacted by Professor Hwang" regarding the allegations, he wrote.
Or you could just dump some iron into the ocean to supercharge plankton growth. Probably cheaper, easier and a tad more of a natural way to do it.
Well, to quote from actual Science (well, at least the magazine):
The relatively modest increase in carbon export does not appear to be large enough to make iron fertilization a viable method for sequestering anthropogenic CO2, however.
Robotic Observations of Enhanced Carbon Biomass and Export at 55S During SOFeX
James K. B. Bishop, Todd J. Wood, Russ E. Davis, Jeffrey T. Sherman
Science, Vol 304, Issue 5669, 417-420 , 16 April 2004
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Doesn't matter how foolish the scientists are, as the contracts will have to be vetted by the various University legal departments. I'm quite confident that the lawyers will be very careful about their legal rights.
The US/Allies imposed democracy on the Axis powers of Japan, Italy and Germany after WWII. While it can be argued that Italy and Germany had some democratic traditions (however the Weimar Republic was really broken), it was foreign to Japan.
That said, it is pretty hard to come up with many more successful examples...
Ummm, that is an article by Brian W. Kernighan, not Ritchie...
Tara Smith, a Professor of Epidemiology, and author of the science blog Aetiology (which I like) reviewed the book here , and has a short interview with Danica.
Different strokes I suppose, I thought it was hideous. From memory (it has been awhile):
I don't have fond memories of the experience.
Yep, the handful of hunter-gatherer societies that still exist do have it relatively easy. A few hours of effort will normally get you all you need for the day (we humans are pretty good hunters).
However, any given land can only sustain a more or less fixed number of people, which means most of your children have to die (or everyone starves). You have almost no reserves to deal with floods, disease or droughts (h-gs are mobile to follow animals and plant availability). You are also in a distinct disadvantage when you confront settled agricultural groups, as they normally have larger numbers, can stockpile weapons, and create fortifications (we can also talk about pastoral groups like the Mongols, but their lives were anything but easy).
It is a trade-off.
As Goodmail is an implementation of Domain Keys, which uses Public Private key pairs, I suspect it will be awhile.
When I looked at Goodmail about a year ago, it was just an implementation of Domain Keys, but they owned all the Public/Private keys (your mail app would generate the hash, then it would need to contact the Goodmail servers to get the encrypted hash). Assuming this hasn't changed (and I'm not interested enough to crawl through their site to find out), then all the info you need to do a validation is publicly available.
To take nothing at all away from the exceptional job done by the Royal Australian Navy, the defense of Port MorEsby is generally placed at the feet of the Battle of the Coral Sea, which was a combined operation between the US Navy (2 carriers, 6 cruisers, 13 destroyers), and the RAN (2 cruisers).
What do you think might have given some of the publishers a backbone?
Without knowing anything about how Science or Nature actually publishes things, I suspect that in the last couple of years they have gone for more and more automation. Where in years gone past, somebody had to actually convert manuscripts from a submitted form on paper into something that could be typeset/printed, now this can be done with the raw manuscript. Now that they have these nice systems in place (Science can accept Word, WordPerfect or LaTex), they probably really REALLY don't want to go back to any kind of manual processes (not only costs more, but it is an obvious source of errors). So, the usual reason, money.
morons whistling Dylan in the bathroom
Hendrix is the just the most famous cover.
Which means you have refused to do the duties required of your job, so your employer can now terminate you for cause. You loose any and all severance packages (which are normally contingent on you doing the training), are no longer eligible for unemployment, and have no positive references when you go looking for your next job.
I applaud your passion, but some people might not think the satisfaction is worth several weeks (or months) salary.
But the site is mal-ware infested (you are now sending out messages for penis enlagement pills, and we had to throttle back your pr0n downloads so we can send out more), so I figured it was karmicly acceptable.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
She was unconvinced for a good reason. While all of the stories you mentioned are great fun (I've read and loved them all, especially anything by Clarke), even combined they don't hold the dimmest candle to King Lear.
Shakespeare can be hard to read (doubly so, when you have to do it for a class), but it was meant to be performed. Find a local company doing a play, or pick up a well reviewed movie version (badly done Shakespeare is dreadful), then try and listen with open ears and mind. There is a reason he is still revered after 400 years.
He was still a professor at Berkeley while working with RTI/Ingres Inc. He didn't leave until his wife wanted to move back near her family (which was after the sale of both Ingres and Illustra). I was at (no doubt just one of) the going away lunches.
So now he is at MIT. Well, at least MIT picks up good ones.
Certainly true. Mike is as bright as they come.
That said, I wanted a cheap phone so on the occasions I did need to make a call, I'd have one. I went with TracFone (at the time, I found it on Amazon). According to their web site, they are offering a phone and 450 minutes that last a year for $99 (which is ~$8/month). When you renew, any unused minutes roll over (I just renewed for 2 years and an extra 250 minutes for $149).
If you don't use your cell phone much (like me), this is a cheap solution. However, these are rock-bottom phones. If you need anything much beyond a phone (it does have voice mail), or if you need more minutes (the minutes are relatively expensive), it won't work.
I live in the SF Bay Area, if that matters in the slightest.
I think you mean rulings. Courts rule, and Legislatures, well, legislate.
A really quick search turned up (I'm sure there are more, these were just the first ones I found that I'm sure were his):
New Zealand Maritime Glaciation: Millennial-Scale Southern Climate Change Since 3.9 Ma Robert M. Carter* and Paul Gammon
Science 11 June 2004:
Vol. 304. no. 5677, pp. 1659 - 1662
DOI: 10.1126/science.1093726
and
Canterbury Drifts at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1119, New Zealand: Climatic modulation of southwest Pacific intermediate water flows since 3.9 Ma
Geology; November 2004; v. 32; no. 11; p. 1005-1008; DOI: 10.1130/G20783.1
If you want more, you might try:
[google scholar]
But you should double check any results, as it tends to give you lots of other Carters.
Unlikely. The way Goodmail works is every outgoing message talks to their servers to get a token to put in the message, and every incoming message is validated by asking their servers about the token. Each token is unique, tied to a specific message, etc (it is domain keys, but Goodmail servers have the public and private keys). I think there are real issues with scaling, but spoofing isn't a real worry.
- Spammers sign up for Goodmail to send some of their spam out, in quantities that will allow the cost to be worth it. The spam folder in your e-mail just became worthless.
Goodmail claims that they will monitor your account. Too many complaints, and your account will be terminated. If this is how they actually do business is anyones guess.
The run of the mill Herbal-Viagra spammer can't afford the added cost of using this service (they are usually blasting out of open relays, spambots, some ISP who doesn't care, etc). However, they won't stop because of this service either, which is why this isn't really an anti-spam measure, it is a way for good companies (with various definitions of good) to pay to bypass the spam filters.
- I refuse to use Goodmail, and my legitimate e-mails start ending up in Spam. I encourage users of services that do this to switch to "a better e-mail service with better filters", namely one that does not support Goodmail.
Depends on how AOL (and others) change their existing systems. If the rest of their system stays the same, AOL users get possibly more cluttered mail boxes, and in the end, it is a big yawn (but AOL gets to pocket some $$ for a year or three). If AOL begins to tweak their filters so more legitimate mail heads spambox-ward, then we get into possible user unrest.
Wrong Ingres group. Postgres came out of the University of California (as a follow on to the Ingres research project), not from the commercial group.
I bought myself a Movado Museum for my birthday several years ago, and I'm still very happy with it. It is one of the few watches that I think actually looks like art (it is also very thin, which is surprisingly comfortable). Museum Two-Tone
Pulled from Science, Vol 304, Issue 5673, 945 , 14 May 2004:
Last week Nature reported that in an interview a member of the research team admitted being one of the egg donors, raising questions about whether she profited professionally by being a co-author. Nature quoted bioethicists as saying that, to avoid any hint of coercion, there should be an arms-length relationship between the research group and the donors.
Hwang blames the language barrier for "a miscommunication." He says the woman had tried to explain that, in the future, she would be willing to donate eggs for such research by other groups. Moon-il Park, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Hanyang University in Seoul and chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the university hospital that approved the research plan--the eggs were harvested at the hospital--wrote in an e-mail that no one from Hwang's team was among the 16 volunteers. "I confirmed this after being contacted by Professor Hwang" regarding the allegations, he wrote.
Well, to quote from actual Science (well, at least the magazine):
The relatively modest increase in carbon export does not appear to be large enough to make iron fertilization a viable method for sequestering anthropogenic CO2, however.
This Week in Science
The full paper reference is:
Robotic Observations of Enhanced Carbon Biomass and Export at 55S During SOFeX
James K. B. Bishop, Todd J. Wood, Russ E. Davis, Jeffrey T. Sherman
Science, Vol 304, Issue 5669, 417-420 , 16 April 2004
More like estranged cousin. The commercial version split off from the University version long before PostgresSQL.