While I agree that it sounds like this software is not acceptable, I'm not sure that all of its defects bias it against defendants. Consider this excerpt from the report:
The software takes an airflow measurement at power-up, and presumes this value is the "zero line" or baseline measurement for subsequent calculations. No quality check or reasonableness test is done on this measurement...
If what they mean by "airflow measurement" is "measurement of the alcohol content of the air", which is the only thing that makes sense as a baseline for subsequent calculations (a measurement of airflow in the usual sense would not, as far as I can
see, be useful as baseline), then what it is doing is setting the zero level for alcohol on startup. If the baseline is above true zero, that will lower the measured value and therefore benefit the defendant. This condition could occur if there is alcohol around. For the baseline setting to create a bias against the defendant, it would have to be lower than true zero. As far as I can see, there is no way that could occur. So, if the above passage means what I think it means, in this respect the potential error is in favor of the defendant.
I have two suggestions. (a) if there are things that you find tedious (e.g. marking) or difficult (e.g. sketches, if you aren't a good artist), look for technological solutions to those so that you can devote your time and energy to more important things and won't get tired and frustrated; (b) don't focus on your new toys. Instead, think about what ideas and skills you have a hard time getting across and ask yourself how you could improve in those areas. Sometimes the answer will be something your toys are good for, maybe a simulation for an experiment you can't readily do, but sometimes it won't be technological. It might just be a better derivation of a theorem or
formula or a clever diagram. If you focus too much on your toys, you run the risk of doing things that you, and maybe your students, find cool, but that aren't really of much educational value.
most martial arts were meant to be used in conjunction with weapons
Some were, but there are important traditions in the martial arts that developed for use by people without weapons (though often against opponents with weapons). One motivation for this was that in Japan commoners were forbidden to possess most weapons. The very word karate literally means "empty hands", that is, no weapons. (Compare karaoke "empty orchestra".)
I can confirm this. I know Egyptian. If you enter single words, you may get a reasonable translation back, though in several cases what I got is not what I would consider the usual word or spelling. If you enter actual sentences, however, the result is in every case gibberish. This system has no understanding at all of Egyptian morphology (conjugation of verbs etc.) or of Egyptian syntax. The verbs are not inflected, the words are in the wrong order. This is not a translation system, it is a crude dictionary.
Microsoft is within its rights, though obnoxious, with regard to Autopatcher, but since when is it their business what Neowin says about Autopatcher? Where does MS get off telling Neowin to take down their forums? Is MS just being a bully or is there some relationship between MS and Neowin that I don't know about?
Back in the 1980s I remember using at least two services that provided software in response to email, which would seem to be prior art. One was run by Bell Labs, the other by one of the national labs (Sandia? Los Alamos?). Bell Labs distributed some of their Unix utilities this way. Whatever lab it was distributed mathematical software - stuff for linear algebra, differential equations, statistics and so forth. In both cases, you sent a message along the lines of "get package foo" and you get back email containing the software.
No, he's talking about copyright in the United States. You are right about the history of copyright in England, but the US Constitution is explicit in authorizing both copyrights and patents for the purpose of the advancement of knowledge (Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 8):
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Yes, that's why I wrote "consisted". The delegation with two independents only
lasted until the last election. As for the Progressive movement in Burlington,
that's where Bernie Sanders came from. As a state-level party, Liberty Union was never very successful, but at the city level Sanders ran successfully for mayor four times before entering congress.
Not coincidentally, Vermont is one of the few states that is not strictly a two-party affair. Bernie Sanders has had a long career as an independent, and after Jim Jeffords'
resignation from the Republican party, Vermont's congressional delegation consisted of one Democrat (Leahy) and two independents (Sanders and Jeffords).
You're confused. Israel has never fought an aggressive war. As for Zoroastrianism, however fine a religion it may be, it is of no relevance in determining one's view of modern Iran. Iran has been overwhelmingly Muslim for over 1,000 years. Zoroastrians are a tiny, persecuted, minority.
I'll explain it to you. The OP complained that the International Tribune was crazy without explaining why./dev/trash offered as a reason for objecting to the International Tribune the fact that the US is a sovereign country and that nobody has any business looking into how the US handles its own affairs. My comment about China points out the dubious validity of hiding behind sovereignty. You can agree or disagree, but each post is straightforwardly connected to its predecessor.
What's so crazy about the International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita? The name and casting of it as a court is a little funny, but basically it is just an inquiry into the Bush administration's mishandling of the relief and reconstruction efforts. Since this not only affects the people in the area but involves the waste of hundreds of millions of tax dollars, this certainly seems a worthwhile topic for investigation, and there is ample evidence already of gross inefficiency and corruption.
With regard to the Second Amendment, while I like you disagree with the ACLU's position, I don't see why that should prevent you from supporting the ACLU. The ACLU doesn't actively oppose individual gun rights, it just doesn't include them in its agenda.
The article links to a portion of the ACLU site containing additional information, including the actual order. But since you obviously can't read, it won't do you any good, will it?
You could set it up so that it took two keys to decrypt, your own and the auditor's. You wouldn't be able to reveal your vote to an extortionist, only to the auditor.
In a way, it wasn't a dead end. The computed goto is the ancestor of the switch construct of languages like C. The difference is that with a switch the consequents are associated with the trigger values, whereas the computed goto keeps all the trigger values grouped together.
This is false. In most if not all jurisdictions, a blood alcohol level exceeding 0.08 is either an offense in its own right or presumptive evidence of guilt of DUI, but it is always possible to charge the driver with DUI without a blood alcohol level. Evidence can consist of things such as a bartender's testimony as to how much the driver drank, the police officer smelling alcohol on the person's breath, in appropriate driving (weaving back and forth etc.), and failure to pass tests of coordination and balance. Refusing to take a breath test does not eliminate the possibility of conviction of DUI.
Since they distribute DOSBox in binary form they are obligated under the GPL
to make the source to DOSBox available. They are not obligated to provide source for the games since DOSBox is an emulator, which is to say, a kind of interpreter, not a library with which the games are linked. The distribution of both the games and DOSBox on the same medium does not bring the games under the GPL. This is made explicit in the "aggregation" clause of the GPL. See also the GPL FAQ.
It is not extortion to threaten someone with prosecution if he commits a crime.
In this case, failure to leave the premises when ordered to do so by the owner is trespassing. As the property owner, they have the right to demand that you obey their rules, in this case, submitting to a search, if you wish to be permitted to remain on their premises. If you remain on the premises without permission, you are trespassing, which is a crime, and they are entirely within their rights to point this out to you.
You are confusing this entirely lawful behavior with a different situation, one in which the threat of criminal prosecution is used to obtain some unrelated benefit. If, for example, I videotape you committing a crime and then demand that you pay me or I will give the videotape to the police, that is extortion.
Uh, no. While sometimes referred to as the "Privy Council", appeals were actually to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the members of which are known as the "Law Lords".
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While I agree that it sounds like this software is not acceptable, I'm not sure that all of its defects bias it against defendants. Consider this excerpt from the report:
If what they mean by "airflow measurement" is "measurement of the alcohol content of the air", which is the only thing that makes sense as a baseline for subsequent calculations (a measurement of airflow in the usual sense would not, as far as I can see, be useful as baseline), then what it is doing is setting the zero level for alcohol on startup. If the baseline is above true zero, that will lower the measured value and therefore benefit the defendant. This condition could occur if there is alcohol around. For the baseline setting to create a bias against the defendant, it would have to be lower than true zero. As far as I can see, there is no way that could occur. So, if the above passage means what I think it means, in this respect the potential error is in favor of the defendant.
Before even thinking about making a powerpoint presentation, (re)read Edward Tufte's wonderful essay Powerpoint is Evil.
I have two suggestions. (a) if there are things that you find tedious (e.g. marking) or difficult (e.g. sketches, if you aren't a good artist), look for technological solutions to those so that you can devote your time and energy to more important things and won't get tired and frustrated; (b) don't focus on your new toys. Instead, think about what ideas and skills you have a hard time getting across and ask yourself how you could improve in those areas. Sometimes the answer will be something your toys are good for, maybe a simulation for an experiment you can't readily do, but sometimes it won't be technological. It might just be a better derivation of a theorem or formula or a clever diagram. If you focus too much on your toys, you run the risk of doing things that you, and maybe your students, find cool, but that aren't really of much educational value.
Some were, but there are important traditions in the martial arts that developed for use by people without weapons (though often against opponents with weapons). One motivation for this was that in Japan commoners were forbidden to possess most weapons. The very word karate literally means "empty hands", that is, no weapons. (Compare karaoke "empty orchestra".)
I can confirm this. I know Egyptian. If you enter single words, you may get a reasonable translation back, though in several cases what I got is not what I would consider the usual word or spelling. If you enter actual sentences, however, the result is in every case gibberish. This system has no understanding at all of Egyptian morphology (conjugation of verbs etc.) or of Egyptian syntax. The verbs are not inflected, the words are in the wrong order. This is not a translation system, it is a crude dictionary.
Microsoft is within its rights, though obnoxious, with regard to Autopatcher, but since when is it their business what Neowin says about Autopatcher? Where does MS get off telling Neowin to take down their forums? Is MS just being a bully or is there some relationship between MS and Neowin that I don't know about?
Back in the 1980s I remember using at least two services that provided software in response to email, which would seem to be prior art. One was run by Bell Labs, the other by one of the national labs (Sandia? Los Alamos?). Bell Labs distributed some of their Unix utilities this way. Whatever lab it was distributed mathematical software - stuff for linear algebra, differential equations, statistics and so forth. In both cases, you sent a message along the lines of "get package foo" and you get back email containing the software.
No, he's talking about copyright in the United States. You are right about the history of copyright in England, but the US Constitution is explicit in authorizing both copyrights and patents for the purpose of the advancement of knowledge (Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 8):
How do you find out who the actual manufacturer is and who they are building for now?
Yes, that's why I wrote "consisted". The delegation with two independents only lasted until the last election. As for the Progressive movement in Burlington, that's where Bernie Sanders came from. As a state-level party, Liberty Union was never very successful, but at the city level Sanders ran successfully for mayor four times before entering congress.
Not coincidentally, Vermont is one of the few states that is not strictly a two-party affair. Bernie Sanders has had a long career as an independent, and after Jim Jeffords' resignation from the Republican party, Vermont's congressional delegation consisted of one Democrat (Leahy) and two independents (Sanders and Jeffords).
This sounds like a good case for breach of contract. Why has nobody sued?
This isn't unheard of. To toot my own horn a little, my msort sort utility has an optional GUI with a "Show Command Line" command on the File menu.
You're confused. Israel has never fought an aggressive war. As for Zoroastrianism, however fine a religion it may be, it is of no relevance in determining one's view of modern Iran. Iran has been overwhelmingly Muslim for over 1,000 years. Zoroastrians are a tiny, persecuted, minority.
Maybe the Colbert Report is not on Spanish TV?
I'll explain it to you. The OP complained that the International Tribune was crazy without explaining why. /dev/trash offered as a reason for objecting to the International Tribune the fact that the US is a sovereign country and that nobody has any business looking into how the US handles its own affairs. My comment about China points out the dubious validity of hiding behind sovereignty. You can agree or disagree, but each post is straightforwardly connected to its predecessor.
Funny, that's what China always says when people complain about its violations of human rights and occupation of Tibet.
What's so crazy about the International Tribunal on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita? The name and casting of it as a court is a little funny, but basically it is just an inquiry into the Bush administration's mishandling of the relief and reconstruction efforts. Since this not only affects the people in the area but involves the waste of hundreds of millions of tax dollars, this certainly seems a worthwhile topic for investigation, and there is ample evidence already of gross inefficiency and corruption.
With regard to the Second Amendment, while I like you disagree with the ACLU's position, I don't see why that should prevent you from supporting the ACLU. The ACLU doesn't actively oppose individual gun rights, it just doesn't include them in its agenda.
The article links to a portion of the ACLU site containing additional information, including the actual order. But since you obviously can't read, it won't do you any good, will it?
You could set it up so that it took two keys to decrypt, your own and the auditor's. You wouldn't be able to reveal your vote to an extortionist, only to the auditor.
In a way, it wasn't a dead end. The computed goto is the ancestor of the switch construct of languages like C. The difference is that with a switch the consequents are associated with the trigger values, whereas the computed goto keeps all the trigger values grouped together.
This is false. In most if not all jurisdictions, a blood alcohol level exceeding 0.08 is either an offense in its own right or presumptive evidence of guilt of DUI, but it is always possible to charge the driver with DUI without a blood alcohol level. Evidence can consist of things such as a bartender's testimony as to how much the driver drank, the police officer smelling alcohol on the person's breath, in appropriate driving (weaving back and forth etc.), and failure to pass tests of coordination and balance. Refusing to take a breath test does not eliminate the possibility of conviction of DUI.
Since they distribute DOSBox in binary form they are obligated under the GPL to make the source to DOSBox available. They are not obligated to provide source for the games since DOSBox is an emulator, which is to say, a kind of interpreter, not a library with which the games are linked. The distribution of both the games and DOSBox on the same medium does not bring the games under the GPL. This is made explicit in the "aggregation" clause of the GPL. See also the GPL FAQ.
It is not extortion to threaten someone with prosecution if he commits a crime. In this case, failure to leave the premises when ordered to do so by the owner is trespassing. As the property owner, they have the right to demand that you obey their rules, in this case, submitting to a search, if you wish to be permitted to remain on their premises. If you remain on the premises without permission, you are trespassing, which is a crime, and they are entirely within their rights to point this out to you.
You are confusing this entirely lawful behavior with a different situation, one in which the threat of criminal prosecution is used to obtain some unrelated benefit. If, for example, I videotape you committing a crime and then demand that you pay me or I will give the videotape to the police, that is extortion.
Uh, no. While sometimes referred to as the "Privy Council", appeals were actually to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the members of which are known as the "Law Lords".