Probably - I do not use it - but it provides diversity.
One of my pages get over half its hits direct from MSN. It is typically 15th choice which puts it at the bottom of the page, but better than 55th on Google for the same search term. The page was 1st on AOL a couple of years ago, but lost its way when AOL was "enhanced by Google".
It was not just "swinging on a swing", it was "sideways swinging on a swing". A worthy technical innovation over boring forwards and backwards swing swinging, deserving of monopoly protection for 20 years.
My stats suggest that 30% was true for W98 in January, but by now it is down to around 10%. W95 seems to have almost disappeared in the same time. And Me was never really there.
Since the only sponsored link on "google" seems to be the Google toolbar, my guess is that Google will not let anybody else use their trademark as a keyword for an ad.
That advantage is not going to be sustainable: if you know you have a much higher chance of dying in the next 5 years than other people of your age and gender, you could reasonably decide that you will take out life insurance. If you have a good chance of living for 20 years longer than is typical, you would buy a pension annuity.
If the insurance comapny cannot ask you "Do you know anything relevant that significantly affects your life expectancy" then it will go bankrupt fairly quickly.
Similar things happened with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, where the insurance companies asked "Have you had an HIV test?", and discriminated against those who said yes, whatever the result of the test. Similarly they asked single men to take the test. Currently they seem free to ask "Have you tested positive for HIV?", but they cannot ask you to take a test.
I would expect the the same long term outcome with this for insurance. For employers, I can see the logic of preventing discrimination altogether, in the same way they cannot ask women if they plan to have children.
Would the recitation of the Declaration of Independence in schools imply the establishment of a Deist religion?
Its references are to "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God"; "they are endowed by their Creator"; "appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world"; "with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence". This looks much more like a specific system of beliefs than "under God".
The following paragraph in the Forbes article is clearly an attempt at a summary of the GPL:
Under the license, if you distribute GPL software in a product, you must also distribute the software's source code. And not just the GPL code, but also the code for any "derivative works" you've created--even if publishing that code means anyone can now make a knockoff of your product.
The first part of that looks fair enough. The second is a combination of oversimplification and hyperbole, but it is no worse than most/. comments.
Scottish notes are not legal tender in Scotland (in the sense that you can legally refuse them when offered as payment of a debt), let alone England. They are just advertising by private banks, but valuable since those banks will exchange them for 1 pound coins if you ask. Northern Ireland has a similar system.
The theory is that if you decide now to buy/sell a certain number of shares in six months time then you do not now have market sensitive confidential information which will still be confidential that far in the future.
The other risk is that you time announcements, already knowing when you are going to buy/sell shares. That is not insider dealing, but may be a fraud.
Harvesting email addresses from opt-out lists has to be about the sleaziest thing a spammer could do.
I can imagine worse.
And you'll agree that the sleaziest spammers forge headers.
Yes, but so do the moderately sleazy.
The scale of spam is now at such a level that I doubt that the spammers are targeting their lists at all. They will add opt-out lists to spidered lists, usenet lists, invented lists, previous response lists, virus/worm created lists and all the others without giving any one list priority over the others.
The advantage of opt-out lists is that some slightly responsible marketers (i.e. those with a wider reputation to protect) might not then send messages. Since these are often the hardest to filter, as well as having too many graphics, it could be a benefit.
The abstract is here with links to the full article for subscribers.
I don't see anything unexpected in the report. In particular the statement "When the loading parameter is larger than a threshold value, each bus carries a full load of passengers throughout its trip" means "if more passengers want to use the service than the buses can carry, then the buses will be full and the queues of passengers will get longer over time". This is a standard result of queuing theory as well as being common sense.
This is a hypothetical experiment at this stage. Until they actually try, they will not know if they can actually detect the effect of "the system [cycling] back and forth between a superposition of photon states (in which case one can detect an interference pattern) and a superposition of mirror positions (for which there is no photon interference pattern)." It is possible that it cannot be detected (either since observing whether or not there is an interference pattern may destroy the cycling process or because the cycling is not happening at all), in which case it becomes a philosphical question rather than a scientific one.
Clearly the contract will be key to whether this is wrongful dismissal. My guess that it has something saying that deliberately acting in a way which significantly damages the the interests of the company is grounds for immediate dismissal.
But the timing is odd. Geer worked his last day on Tuesday, according to @stake. He co-published his paper on Wednesday. His dismissal was announced on Thursday. Unless @stake is saying that he dismissed himself by publishing, or that they had told him on Tuesday not to publish the paper if he wanted to stay with the company, then I think they may have problems with (a) natural justice so he can defend himself; or (b) the human perception that times flows forwards, not backwards or round in circles.
You'd end up changing the number of meters in a mile from about 1609 to about 1610, for example.
Except that the inch is defined as 0.0254 metres exactly, and there are 63360 inches in a mile. (So there are exactly 1609.344 metres in a mile and the mile would have to shrink to fit.)
Without France, Americans would still be saying "Cheerio my good slave, old chap".
According to this:
1807 - British Abolition Act bans any British participation in slave trade
1808 - US abolishes slave trade
1818 - France outlaws slave trade
1833 - Britain emancipates slaves
1848 - France emancipates slaves in colonies
1865 - 13th Amendment to US constitution abolishes slavery
It seems to be more along the lines of "Who is doing this? Poindexter? Call it something else and do it somewhere else."
"The conferees agree with the Senate position which eliminates funding for the Terrorism Information Awareness program within the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency," the conference report said in a section Wyden released. "The conferees are concerned about the activities of the Information Awareness Office and direct that the office be terminated immediately."...
He was - but in an August 1934 plebiscite. He had become Chancellor politically in 1933, and set about destroying the opposition. In 1934, President Hindenburg died, and Hitler took that role as well ("illegally" according to his own laws), so called a public vote to confirm himself as Chancellor, President and Fuerher.
Slashdot Mirror
Probably - I do not use it - but it provides diversity.
One of my pages get over half its hits direct from MSN. It is typically 15th choice which puts it at the bottom of the page, but better than 55th on Google for the same search term. The page was 1st on AOL a couple of years ago, but lost its way when AOL was "enhanced by Google".
Before you start asking Vietnam for Linux licesnces, remember they are Communists.
It was not just "swinging on a swing", it was "sideways swinging on a swing". A worthy technical innovation over boring forwards and backwards swing swinging, deserving of monopoly protection for 20 years.
It is difficult to believe this is serious. Most invertebrates are more than "blobs" and many have "stiffening" even if they do not have backbones.
Would a gravity-free weapon (even with light) defy General Relativity?
Will the enemy start using mirrors?
My stats suggest that 30% was true for W98 in January, but by now it is down to around 10%. W95 seems to have almost disappeared in the same time. And Me was never really there.
Since the only sponsored link on "google" seems to be the Google toolbar, my guess is that Google will not let anybody else use their trademark as a keyword for an ad.
2. Consumers who use Microsoft have to pay more
The logic is impressive.
If the insurance comapny cannot ask you "Do you know anything relevant that significantly affects your life expectancy" then it will go bankrupt fairly quickly.
Similar things happened with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s, where the insurance companies asked "Have you had an HIV test?", and discriminated against those who said yes, whatever the result of the test. Similarly they asked single men to take the test. Currently they seem free to ask "Have you tested positive for HIV?", but they cannot ask you to take a test.
I would expect the the same long term outcome with this for insurance. For employers, I can see the logic of preventing discrimination altogether, in the same way they cannot ask women if they plan to have children.
No - somebody else already holds the patent.
Its references are to "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God"; "they are endowed by their Creator"; "appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world"; "with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence". This looks much more like a specific system of beliefs than "under God".
Under the license, if you distribute GPL software in a product, you must also distribute the software's source code. And not just the GPL code, but also the code for any "derivative works" you've created--even if publishing that code means anyone can now make a knockoff of your product.
The first part of that looks fair enough. The second is a combination of oversimplification and hyperbole, but it is no worse than most /. comments.
To quote Dr. J, it is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Scottish notes are not legal tender in Scotland (in the sense that you can legally refuse them when offered as payment of a debt), let alone England. They are just advertising by private banks, but valuable since those banks will exchange them for 1 pound coins if you ask. Northern Ireland has a similar system.
The other risk is that you time announcements, already knowing when you are going to buy/sell shares. That is not insider dealing, but may be a fraud.
I can imagine worse.
And you'll agree that the sleaziest spammers forge headers.
Yes, but so do the moderately sleazy.
The scale of spam is now at such a level that I doubt that the spammers are targeting their lists at all. They will add opt-out lists to spidered lists, usenet lists, invented lists, previous response lists, virus/worm created lists and all the others without giving any one list priority over the others.
The advantage of opt-out lists is that some slightly responsible marketers (i.e. those with a wider reputation to protect) might not then send messages. Since these are often the hardest to filter, as well as having too many graphics, it could be a benefit.
The study was biased as women (and left-handed men) were left out. Similar to the ducks.
I don't see anything unexpected in the report. In particular the statement "When the loading parameter is larger than a threshold value, each bus carries a full load of passengers throughout its trip" means "if more passengers want to use the service than the buses can carry, then the buses will be full and the queues of passengers will get longer over time". This is a standard result of queuing theory as well as being common sense.
This is a hypothetical experiment at this stage. Until they actually try, they will not know if they can actually detect the effect of "the system [cycling] back and forth between a superposition of photon states (in which case one can detect an interference pattern) and a superposition of mirror positions (for which there is no photon interference pattern)." It is possible that it cannot be detected (either since observing whether or not there is an interference pattern may destroy the cycling process or because the cycling is not happening at all), in which case it becomes a philosphical question rather than a scientific one.
But the timing is odd. Geer worked his last day on Tuesday, according to @stake. He co-published his paper on Wednesday. His dismissal was announced on Thursday. Unless @stake is saying that he dismissed himself by publishing, or that they had told him on Tuesday not to publish the paper if he wanted to stay with the company, then I think they may have problems with
(a) natural justice so he can defend himself; or
(b) the human perception that times flows forwards, not backwards or round in circles.
Except that the inch is defined as 0.0254 metres exactly, and there are 63360 inches in a mile. (So there are exactly 1609.344 metres in a mile and the mile would have to shrink to fit.)
According to this:
1807 - British Abolition Act bans any British participation in slave trade
1808 - US abolishes slave trade
1818 - France outlaws slave trade
1833 - Britain emancipates slaves
1848 - France emancipates slaves in colonies
1865 - 13th Amendment to US constitution abolishes slavery
If it is not cheap then it is not Doctor Who.
"The conferees agree with the Senate position which eliminates funding for the Terrorism Information Awareness program within the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency," the conference report said in a section Wyden released. "The conferees are concerned about the activities of the Information Awareness Office and direct that the office be terminated immediately."...
He was - but in an August 1934 plebiscite. He had become Chancellor politically in 1933, and set about destroying the opposition. In 1934, President Hindenburg died, and Hitler took that role as well ("illegally" according to his own laws), so called a public vote to confirm himself as Chancellor, President and Fuerher.