What are you, twelve years old? Harvard is a private institution that can do what it wants. And trust me, the student body and faculty are MORE than capable of fighting back against policies they don't like.
It's not 1984, it's brave new world. It's the people who let this be done to them, while the few with futility to empassion the many to fight the worst parts of the system.
You seem to think that doing whatever the President says is part of a Senator's job. Alas, this is not so. Just because the President (Obama, Reagan, whoever) nominates someone in no way obligates any Senator to vote to confirm him. That's why we have Senate confirmation, after all....
It doesn't work that way. The *constitution* obligates the Senators to vote to confirm the person if they are competent and respectable. Not legally, but morally and precedentially. Anyone using the "advice and consent of the Senate" to delay the appointment on the pretext of defending the Constitution is engaging in hypocrisy of the highest order.
They've only turned it into a political showdown for the last few decades, since Bork was nominated.
This makes complete sense. The point of copyright is to make artists confident that they or their immediate heirs will be able to benefit from their works for a limited time. I'm sure that if Anne Frank knew that almost a century after her diary was written it would be available on a global network of electronic devices that hadn't been invented in her lifetime she would not have wrote the diary at all. I'm also sure that if her father had known that he would have definitely refused to publish it.
The 95-year copyright term is a joke. You say, "The point of copyright is to make artists confident that they or their immediate heirs will be able to benefit from their works for a limited time..." That's not correct. The point of copyright is to encourage creation by giving artists the ability to earn a return on their investment of time, effort, and sometimes money.
But the time value of money means that almost all of the value of a work will occur within the first twenty to thirty years.
An internet tax hurts the dominant players in the communications industry because it makes overall prices higher, making people more likely to switch provider to a lower cost provider. Verizon alone has spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying Congress, so Congress votes in their favor.
If a name includes "js" at the beginning or the end, you can safely ignore whatever the name is referring to...
I see you are writing from the year 2006! While time travel is ordinarily considered a rather impressive feat which allows for great party tricks, this does not apply to time travel in the forward direction.
In 2016, Node is an extremely popular command-line (i.e. non-browser) system to run Javascript. Express is the most popular implementation of a simple web browser that is used in node. Both are incredibly popular, are used by many thousands of developers, and are supported by the major cloud providers.
Some of these developers could not find a pointer if you coated it in magnesium, lit it on fire, and smacked them with it. But node and express still turn out to be pretty good tools for many users.
Require refunds to go to a domestic bank with an account name matching the name on the return. Better yet, require refunds to be processed through the employer who collected the taxes in the first place if the taxpayer is still employed there.
If you're in the US, losing the entire Russian government market is a blow to the balance of trade and local economy. This single contract is just representative of everything that's happening across the industry - it's far larger.
But Americans seem to WANT NSL's and are willing to sacrifice the entire tech sector, the basis of their economic growth, for an increased police state. Maybe they'll get to pick the size of their grey tunics.
The tech sector is a small, concentrated, educated market. The population as a whole consists of many non-expert distributed voters who are afraid of terrorism, have never lived in a police state and don't understand the risk to privacy that this creates, and being manipulated by their leaders into believing encryption is bad and surveillance are good.
Quoting from the article: "...Yet for dynamic systems, studies show narrow operating regimes which exhibit internal resonance-based behaviors; this additionally suggests that the energetic dynamics may be susceptible to deactivation if stochastic inputs corrupt ideal excitation properties..."
If you can read that techno-babble, you either wrote for The Big Bang Theory or you were a technical advisor.
Why would you need a technical advisor for a documentary?
Just like the kids who grew up on metal, and comic books, and rock 'n roll, etc.
When the Supreme Court considered the free speech case about parental permission for violent video games, one of the things they knew (although not in the opinion) was that their law clerks had grown up playing Mortal Kombat.
They aren't signatories to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. They are parties to the outer space treaty but as long as the US and others have ICBMs I find it hard to argue that ICBMs are covered by that treaty. Makes sense since the weapons don't reside in space nor are designed to target space objects but just pass through space on the way to their targets.
I don't get the US centric bias towards military policy. Basically anyone that becomes capable of attacking the US is automatically an aggressor that needs sanction. What about the US' ability to attack everyone? How about those pricks disarm and reduce their military to 1/10th the size, stop toppling governments because they don't like them etc?
Not only that, but every nation has a right to self-defense under the United Nations Charter. The pretext--Satellite launching and the tech to do it--is definitely a key part of self-defense today because spy satellites are major military and intelligence resources.
It gets so that nobody who tells the truth and talks about the real facts and figures can survive within about five levels of management of the executive suite. Anyone who does immediately gets the bum's rush: incompetence, insubordination, bad judgement, blamed for someone else's incompetence or malfeasance, face doesn't fit, socially inept, politically incorrect... the list goes one for ever.
Hence the top management never gets to hear the truth;
Rumor is Nadella himself is actually kind of the opposite. He will go quiet and basically ask you "what do you do here" or "why are you doing thing X?", listen to you thoughtfully, and then decide with a finely-tuned BS detector whether you are competent to do your job.
Modding should really be happening along more than one dimension. With a nerd crowd you could easily have multiple scoring systems side-by-side. For example, a 543 might be 5 (insightful or informative), 4(funny), 3(mainstream v. conspiracy). Someone can have an insightful comment that is a bit conspiracy theorist--like most accurate comments about spying that would have been made pre-Snowden, for example.
It doesn't catch near the amount of crap it should. I can see this project will be just as worthless.
If you prevent 5% of fraud, it's not worthless, it's just not as good as it could be.
Imagine your attitude were what everyone had used toward spam filtering fifteen years ago. We wouldn't have good spam filtering until some kid without the preconception that it was impossible sat down and hacked it out.
It is all important that the US resume plan put forward by President Bush so that the US can dominate colonization of the moon. Let the other countries realize they are in competition. Aren't you all tired yet of the bed-wetter Obama's space policy?
It doesn't work that way. The moon is not sovereign territory under international law, and may not be claimed as such.
Maybe 3% of the cars in the US have stick shifts. Of cars with automatic transmissions, most people put it into drive and leave it there. The only exceptions I have every seen, aside from dealing with mountains, trailers, and other specialized situations, are older drivers who will sometimes downshift the automatic.
A 25 mph speed limit is unrealistic on any public road I've ever seen... It means that the street should not be a public street at all.
Then you have not seen much.
Most of the world was populated BEFORE motorised vehicles arrived, and the cities are not designed around car traffic.
Visit any city outside US and you will see. Hell, even San Francisco or Boston would do.
I live on a street with 30 kph (19 mph) speed limit. The street is narrow, winding and currently completely covered in snow. It is nothing exceptional - all European cities older than 100 years have plenty of areas like this. Hilly towns add another layer of complexity to this. Get a car and drive some in Mediterranean, or Norway, or Switzerland and you will see.
Fair enough. There are areas where 25 mph fits the road. But the story is set in North Carolina. It's not a ten-century old Italian town with narrow roads winding around the side of a hill. I suppose my claim is true primarily for most areas of the United States that do not have absurd amounts of traffic (so now downtown cities at rush hour).
A 25 mph speed limit is unrealistic on any public road I've ever seen, with the exception of roads made of cobblestone. It's difficult to drive a modern vehicle that slowly--it takes concentration on your speed that frankly makes you have much less attention to pay to obstacles and hazards... like children.
Utter crap. Does this mean you are not capable of driving your vehicle at 15mph or 10mph or 5mph? It must be excruciatingly difficult for you to drive at 5mph eh, god your brain must practically be hemorrhaging.
I had some kid run out in front of the car and the fact that I was only doing 15mph instead of the limit of 30mph is what stopped the kid from ending up dead or in hospital, the speed difference gave me the reaction time and stopping distance needed to avoid hitting the kid - with all of a few inches spare.
It means that ordinarily you don't have to think in order to concentrate to stay within the speed limit, because speed limits are generally chosen that make sense for the road. But when you are using stop-and-go traffic with speed limits which are designed for the safety of pedestrians on roads that are designed for and comfortable for faster traffic, and the vehicle is actually designed to make the faster speed the sweet spot, the amount of attention it takes to drive within the speed limit jumps up by about two orders of magnitude, as does the amount you have to take your eyes away from the road to check the speedometer.
I may have a different experience with it than you do--but it doesn't make one more valid than the other. The solution I propose would make the kids in a 25 mph zone safer and would make it easier for drivers to adhere to the limit. I fail to see how that's a bad thing.
I suppose if you want to go ten mph or if you have it at cruise control at 19mph it might work. But if you're driving 25 in a small zone chances are you're on the pedals, and if you're actually trying to get somewhere a city you're going to want to be going 20-24 in the small 25mph zone, not waxing poetic as your car creeps along at ten. Hit the gas too hard and you're at 26, which is a double problem with photo cameras. Add to that that it just plain feels completely wrong when you're driving. They need to either change the roads so it's a driveway, or change the roads so that there is a physical encouragement to make the 24 mph be the sweet spot, and in the meantime drop the photo-ticketing at 26 mph.
It's difficult to drive a modern vehicle that slowly--it takes concentration on your speed
Put it in second or third gear? Sometimes it's like people don't even know how to drive a car.
Yes, that would work, but almost nobody under the age of 40 changes gears when driving, so it doesn't solve the basic problem that you need to adjust the environment if you want speeds that slow.
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What are you, twelve years old? Harvard is a private institution that can do what it wants. And trust me, the student body and faculty are MORE than capable of fighting back against policies they don't like.
It's not 1984, it's brave new world. It's the people who let this be done to them, while the few with futility to empassion the many to fight the worst parts of the system.
You seem to think that doing whatever the President says is part of a Senator's job. Alas, this is not so. Just because the President (Obama, Reagan, whoever) nominates someone in no way obligates any Senator to vote to confirm him. That's why we have Senate confirmation, after all....
It doesn't work that way. The *constitution* obligates the Senators to vote to confirm the person if they are competent and respectable. Not legally, but morally and precedentially. Anyone using the "advice and consent of the Senate" to delay the appointment on the pretext of defending the Constitution is engaging in hypocrisy of the highest order.
They've only turned it into a political showdown for the last few decades, since Bork was nominated.
This makes complete sense. The point of copyright is to make artists confident that they or their immediate heirs will be able to benefit from their works for a limited time. I'm sure that if Anne Frank knew that almost a century after her diary was written it would be available on a global network of electronic devices that hadn't been invented in her lifetime she would not have wrote the diary at all. I'm also sure that if her father had known that he would have definitely refused to publish it.
The 95-year copyright term is a joke. You say, "The point of copyright is to make artists confident that they or their immediate heirs will be able to benefit from their works for a limited time..." That's not correct. The point of copyright is to encourage creation by giving artists the ability to earn a return on their investment of time, effort, and sometimes money.
But the time value of money means that almost all of the value of a work will occur within the first twenty to thirty years.
I was able to do that in Linux with a few shell and Perl scripts.
Ah, the speed and sophistication of interpreted languages.
An internet tax hurts the dominant players in the communications industry because it makes overall prices higher, making people more likely to switch provider to a lower cost provider. Verizon alone has spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying Congress, so Congress votes in their favor.
See, e.g., https://www.opensecrets.org/or...
If a name includes "js" at the beginning or the end, you can safely ignore whatever the name is referring to...
I see you are writing from the year 2006! While time travel is ordinarily considered a rather impressive feat which allows for great party tricks, this does not apply to time travel in the forward direction.
In 2016, Node is an extremely popular command-line (i.e. non-browser) system to run Javascript. Express is the most popular implementation of a simple web browser that is used in node. Both are incredibly popular, are used by many thousands of developers, and are supported by the major cloud providers.
Some of these developers could not find a pointer if you coated it in magnesium, lit it on fire, and smacked them with it. But node and express still turn out to be pretty good tools for many users.
Learn the basics: the "sun rises in the east and sets in the west" type of stuff.
This is a news for nerds site. The sun doesn't rise in the east; the earth rotates to the east.
It ain't that hard to find your way around. I've spent nearly forty years going to places I've never been to before and I haven't been lost once.
I don't get lost, I just have adventures!
Winning is a natural high, right? People steal to get high. Why not cheat?
Not only that, but humans are natural cheaters. Think how much time has to go into teaching children to play fair.
How is it that these people don't get tracked?
Require refunds to go to a domestic bank with an account name matching the name on the return. Better yet, require refunds to be processed through the employer who collected the taxes in the first place if the taxpayer is still employed there.
If you're in the US, losing the entire Russian government market is a blow to the balance of trade and local economy. This single contract is just representative of everything that's happening across the industry - it's far larger.
But Americans seem to WANT NSL's and are willing to sacrifice the entire tech sector, the basis of their economic growth, for an increased police state. Maybe they'll get to pick the size of their grey tunics.
The tech sector is a small, concentrated, educated market. The population as a whole consists of many non-expert distributed voters who are afraid of terrorism, have never lived in a police state and don't understand the risk to privacy that this creates, and being manipulated by their leaders into believing encryption is bad and surveillance are good.
Quoting from the article: "...Yet for dynamic systems, studies show narrow operating regimes which exhibit internal resonance-based behaviors; this additionally suggests that the energetic dynamics may be susceptible to deactivation if stochastic inputs corrupt ideal excitation properties..."
If you can read that techno-babble, you either wrote for The Big Bang Theory or you were a technical advisor.
Why would you need a technical advisor for a documentary?
So people who are both stupid and aerobically exercise are that dumb even *after* they're cheating?
Just like the kids who grew up on metal, and comic books, and rock 'n roll, etc.
When the Supreme Court considered the free speech case about parental permission for violent video games, one of the things they knew (although not in the opinion) was that their law clerks had grown up playing Mortal Kombat.
And they turned out okay.
They aren't signatories to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. They are parties to the outer space treaty but as long as the US and others have ICBMs I find it hard to argue that ICBMs are covered by that treaty. Makes sense since the weapons don't reside in space nor are designed to target space objects but just pass through space on the way to their targets.
I don't get the US centric bias towards military policy. Basically anyone that becomes capable of attacking the US is automatically an aggressor that needs sanction. What about the US' ability to attack everyone? How about those pricks disarm and reduce their military to 1/10th the size, stop toppling governments because they don't like them etc?
Not only that, but every nation has a right to self-defense under the United Nations Charter. The pretext--Satellite launching and the tech to do it--is definitely a key part of self-defense today because spy satellites are major military and intelligence resources.
This 3.5 average is about Facebook users only, not non-users.
Still, it kind of puts a three-hop warrant in perspective.
It gets so that nobody who tells the truth and talks about the real facts and figures can survive within about five levels of management of the executive suite. Anyone who does immediately gets the bum's rush: incompetence, insubordination, bad judgement, blamed for someone else's incompetence or malfeasance, face doesn't fit, socially inept, politically incorrect... the list goes one for ever.
Hence the top management never gets to hear the truth;
Rumor is Nadella himself is actually kind of the opposite. He will go quiet and basically ask you "what do you do here" or "why are you doing thing X?", listen to you thoughtfully, and then decide with a finely-tuned BS detector whether you are competent to do your job.
Pity there isn't a -1; Conspiracy Theory mod
Modding should really be happening along more than one dimension. With a nerd crowd you could easily have multiple scoring systems side-by-side. For example, a 543 might be 5 (insightful or informative), 4(funny), 3(mainstream v. conspiracy). Someone can have an insightful comment that is a bit conspiracy theorist--like most accurate comments about spying that would have been made pre-Snowden, for example.
It doesn't catch near the amount of crap it should. I can see this project will be just as worthless.
If you prevent 5% of fraud, it's not worthless, it's just not as good as it could be.
Imagine your attitude were what everyone had used toward spam filtering fifteen years ago. We wouldn't have good spam filtering until some kid without the preconception that it was impossible sat down and hacked it out.
It is all important that the US resume plan put forward by President Bush so that the US can dominate colonization of the moon. Let the other countries realize they are in competition. Aren't you all tired yet of the bed-wetter Obama's space policy?
It doesn't work that way. The moon is not sovereign territory under international law, and may not be claimed as such.
"We came in peace for all mankind."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Maybe 3% of the cars in the US have stick shifts. Of cars with automatic transmissions, most people put it into drive and leave it there. The only exceptions I have every seen, aside from dealing with mountains, trailers, and other specialized situations, are older drivers who will sometimes downshift the automatic.
A 25 mph speed limit is unrealistic on any public road I've ever seen. .. It means that the street should not be a public street at all.
Then you have not seen much.
Most of the world was populated BEFORE motorised vehicles arrived, and the cities are not designed around car traffic.
Visit any city outside US and you will see. Hell, even San Francisco or Boston would do.
I live on a street with 30 kph (19 mph) speed limit. The street is narrow, winding and currently completely covered in snow. It is nothing exceptional - all European cities older than 100 years have plenty of areas like this. Hilly towns add another layer of complexity to this. Get a car and drive some in Mediterranean, or Norway, or Switzerland and you will see.
Fair enough. There are areas where 25 mph fits the road. But the story is set in North Carolina. It's not a ten-century old Italian town with narrow roads winding around the side of a hill. I suppose my claim is true primarily for most areas of the United States that do not have absurd amounts of traffic (so now downtown cities at rush hour).
Utter crap. Does this mean you are not capable of driving your vehicle at 15mph or 10mph or 5mph? It must be excruciatingly difficult for you to drive at 5mph eh, god your brain must practically be hemorrhaging.
I had some kid run out in front of the car and the fact that I was only doing 15mph instead of the limit of 30mph is what stopped the kid from ending up dead or in hospital, the speed difference gave me the reaction time and stopping distance needed to avoid hitting the kid - with all of a few inches spare.
It means that ordinarily you don't have to think in order to concentrate to stay within the speed limit, because speed limits are generally chosen that make sense for the road. But when you are using stop-and-go traffic with speed limits which are designed for the safety of pedestrians on roads that are designed for and comfortable for faster traffic, and the vehicle is actually designed to make the faster speed the sweet spot, the amount of attention it takes to drive within the speed limit jumps up by about two orders of magnitude, as does the amount you have to take your eyes away from the road to check the speedometer.
I may have a different experience with it than you do--but it doesn't make one more valid than the other. The solution I propose would make the kids in a 25 mph zone safer and would make it easier for drivers to adhere to the limit. I fail to see how that's a bad thing.
I suppose if you want to go ten mph or if you have it at cruise control at 19mph it might work. But if you're driving 25 in a small zone chances are you're on the pedals, and if you're actually trying to get somewhere a city you're going to want to be going 20-24 in the small 25mph zone, not waxing poetic as your car creeps along at ten. Hit the gas too hard and you're at 26, which is a double problem with photo cameras. Add to that that it just plain feels completely wrong when you're driving. They need to either change the roads so it's a driveway, or change the roads so that there is a physical encouragement to make the 24 mph be the sweet spot, and in the meantime drop the photo-ticketing at 26 mph.
It's difficult to drive a modern vehicle that slowly--it takes concentration on your speed
Put it in second or third gear? Sometimes it's like people don't even know how to drive a car.
Yes, that would work, but almost nobody under the age of 40 changes gears when driving, so it doesn't solve the basic problem that you need to adjust the environment if you want speeds that slow.