as for unsubscribing, well, that just shows them that a live human actually is at that address and reading email from spammers.. Goldstrike if you called and unsubscribed.
If they use the unsubscribe link in order to actively maintain you on their list, that smells like fraud to me.
Remember that something doesn't have to be in direct contravention of your country's Data Protection Act (or equivalent) to be spam -- contract law still holds, and if they offer a way to unsubscribe, you take it and they don't unsubscribe you, that's a breach of agreed terms.
Are between 86 and 95% of the population guilty of crime? If the justice system was truly arbitrary, the wrongful conviction rate would be equal to the proportion of innocent people in the wider population.
There are about 312,000,000 people registered in the US, plus an unknown number of illegal immigrants. The prison population is around 3 million. If the prison population is roughly equal to the number of true criminals, that's 1%.
So for the justice system to be arbitrary, 99% of all inmates would have to have been wrongly convicted.
OK, lots of crimes go unsolved, so maybe the population of criminals is higher than 1% of the population, but still, we're still talking about a minority.
I will say it again: the justice system isn't perfect, but it's certainly not arbitrary.
On the current list, there's no more guarantee of accuracy than, say, [...] wrongfully-convicted murderers on death row.
I'd say there's less of a guarantee of accuracy because of the lack of judges, juries, admissability guidelines, due process and all that other stuff. The justice system isn't perfect, but it's certainly not arbitrary.
Revolutions are usually carried out by bloodthirsty mobs. If you want a revolution in Mexico, you'll end up with the Zetas in power over the entire country....
or even just use a bicycle and a backpack - you can cover 100 miles in a few days that way,
Spy-school should issue turbo-trainers, cos a regular cyclist would be able to do that in a day. (I really should be training more myself -- I haven't got past 85 miles yet.)
You're on the right track here, but let's divide the task into subtasks.
We don't need to produce a fully automated solution at the first iteration, so we set up the webcams and the beam-gates with synchronised clocks. Post-race, the software is used by the marshalls to verify timing thus: it lines up a table of screen grabs, each row representing what it thinks is one car, the marshall clicks "OK" if they all match, or either clicks a button to identify a "drop out" (at which point the following photos are shuffled down to following rows) or an overtake (in which case the remainder of the row is switched with the corresponding images in the next row).
This solution is dead straightforward and lets you use the equipment and optimise webcam position for clear images, and gives you an immediate efficiency improvement, rather than moving straight to a completely new automated setup that will undoubtedly fail and probably be rejected by the competitors and organisers as being pointless.
When you find a suitable OCR or barcode solution, you will have the infrastructure in place to run it in parallel with the computer-aided-manual process, so you can iron out the difficulties without causing any serious disruption to the administration of the race.
The guy in question was leafleting for Operation Paperstorm when he was kidnapped. Here's a quick tip, Anonymous: online, you have a better chance of remaining anonymous.
How big is Anonymous? If they're as big as they say they are, the patterns of old hacker/cracker squads won't apply -- there'll be plenty of people not quite clued up or tooled up enough go "down the rabbit-hole" or "off the grid" that quickly.
We've had mobile schools for ages, and we've had solar-powered schools for ages -- in the rural valleys of the Andes, they've set up many schools with solar power in places with no mains, and a network of solar-powered microwave relays to bring in an internet signal. This has allowed them to start offering secondary education (and even university degrees) to people in isolated areas without forcing them to board in the cities. And of course, this isn't all that different from the Australian outback schools.
So while it's no doubt a useful thing, it is by no means the revolution that Samsung seems to be keen to market it as -- it's merely another step in a long evolution.
Now, while the mobile design means it can be used as a supplementary education resource for various schools on a time-share basis, the downside is that it won't function as a "learning centre" for distance learning like the Bolivian and Peruvian primary schools now do. This means that the product on offer doesn't use IT to increase the availability of "education", just the availability of "IT education", so it doesn't strike me as the best value for money....
The problem with "pedagogical knowledge content" is that education, perhaps more than any other profession is polluted with horrific pseudo-science fads and fashions. Good teachers ignore the b*ll*cks in teaching trends and keep doing a good job. This metric would harm good teachers and reward bad ones who're willing to follow the management checklist. Just like in businesses.
Now that's what education can learn from business: what gets measured gets managed, and nothing of value can be measured, so measuring rewards valueless attributes.
I wondered how long it would be before someone would come along and completely miss the point of my post. You can't change the faults of the Catholic Church by simply attacking Christianity as a whole. Polarising the debate only leads to people becoming more entrenched in their positions. The justification for the cover-ups is to protect the church. Your attitude only gives fuel to the paranoia and persecution complex that many Christians currently suffer. It doesn't encourage openness or honest self-reflection.
Also, can you point to a source regarding stoning kids?
The priest-penitent privilege only applies inside the confessional, or similar situations. This was an administrative matter, not a request for spiritual guidance.
It's your job to minimize the exposure and do what's ethical.
...and "what's ethical" is exactly what he is trying to do -- he puts personal ethics above law, which is something we all do from time to time. Seizures of computer equipment harm the innocent as well as the guilty.
Some clever entrepreneur is going to create a network forensics tool that lets you mirror an entire corporate network in a day or two onto virtual machines. As it will cost multiple millions, no-one will buy it. That entrepreneur will then bankroll a lawsuit from a company ruined by hardware seizure.
I don't think we need a psych major here to tell you that certain fantasies tended to be acted upon more than others. Specifically, the darker ones associated with more mental problems.
You don't need a psych major to tell you that "certain fantasies" are acted upon more than others. But you do need some kind of evidence, generally collected by psych professor, to tell you which fantasies those "certain" fantasies are.
That's a load of bullshit. In neither the US, UK, nor Ireland does the church make the law. If the law says you have to report it, you have to report it regardless of what your religion says.
In fact, while Jesus laid out very few hard-and-fast rules (hence the schisms in the church), on one point he was very clear: honour the laws of God and of man. According to the Bible, it's a rule he followed right to the very end, when he refused to resist arrest, even knowing that it meant death. The cover-ups were entirely un-Christian and are the shame of the church.
By "doing work for the school," I mean, mainly, IP created during the normal work as faculty; i.e. curriculum/lesson plans, tests, handouts, study guides, even the rare times when a teacher basically makes their own textbook via years and years of teaching experience. A teacher that creates this kind of work, which most all do de facto, wouldn't have been hired by the school to create the IP, but to teach; the IP just follows as a means to do the teaching. Now we're concerned with what happens when, in this kind of situation, a teacher leaves the school and wants to take their work's products with them. It's true that the school was paying the for teacher to create the IP in a round-about kind of way, but it was also benefiting from the production of it while the teacher was creating and using it.
Not only that, but the school is also directly benefiting from IP the teacher brought with them from previous jobs. If you were to claim complete ownership over materials, that would be a direct disincentive to the staff using their earlier IP, which would mean that the school would miss out.
There's a definite quid pro quo here, so I would strongly recommend letting teachers keep their copyright -- all the school really needs is a license to duplicate the material later.
Now for my personal opinion: the UK government are taking steps to legalise "format shifting" of sound recordings. Yes, ripping your own CDs to MP3 is still technically illegal. Relevance? The starting point for all legal decisions has to start with expected behaviour -- the new law formalises what is already "normal" behaviour.
We expect teachers to store all their worksheets on their laptops, and we expect them to use them when they move on to the next job. Disallowing this will not stop them doing it, and you're never going to be able to enforce it, so banning it would only generate unnecessary ill-will.
The expected behaviour of the school is to continue using and modifying any worksheets left by former employees. As this happens all the time, it is not unreasonable to formalise it as an agreement.
OK, so now we get to the matter of commercial exploitation. Ask yourself, what is the expected behaviour here? Well, have you ever seen any textbooks published or "authored" by schools? Mostly they're published by specialist publishing houses, and they've got an author or two listed, but no schools are mentioned. It is highly unlikely that anyone would write a textbook 100% from scratch -- it's likely they'll use their own stock problem sets that they've used in classes before. In fact, it would be quite difficult for a teacher to write any new material without infringing the copyrights of an earlier piece on the same topic. All in all, it would seem unreasonable to me if the school were to retain commercial exploitation rights.
Plus, it probably isn't in the school's interest to retain commercial exploitation rights, because teachers are notorious plagiarists anyway. Questions cribbed from the internet, photocopies of exam papers, articles from newspapers... no school can ever really be confident of the provinance of the material in a teacher's toolkit, so producing any commercial materials based on it is a litigation risk.
What I would expect would be that the teacher retains full rights, but the school has the right to duplicate and modify the material for in-house use in perpetuity.
It was hilarious in 1998. It was a very common chain email when I was at uni. The humour value isn't in the content, it's the nostalgia. And to those of us from that era, it's worth a chuckle.
The cable companies know that bandwidth caps are their best defense against people canceling cable TV. If they essentially say the Xbox (or Netflix, or whatever) plan is limited, but cable TV is "unlimited", then they still have a competitive edge they can try to wield.
But cable TV is unlimited, to all practical intents and purposes -- it is a broadcast medium, so the bandwidth cost is unrelated to the number of users.
The internet, however, is a unicast medium, so every new user takes up more bandwidth.
Microsoft aren't performing a public service, they're simply trying to monopolise. Microsoft have never had a big history of efficiency either. They almost singlehandedly handed a desktop monopoly to inefficient x86 chips, which led to battery life problems when the era of portable computing started. Their software has historically suffered so much bloat that user memory requirements grew rapidly enough to fill the capacity offered by the market for the decade from Windows 95 to XP.
If someone who is offended can require a correction be made, the internet and world as a while will be such a nicer happier place. With kittens and jelly beans for everyone.
You insensitive clod! Some of us are allergic to kittens, and this is therefore offensive. I demand you change this immediately to:
I think you're looking at the wrong courses. What does database programming have to do with AI and machine learning? And who implements databases, neural nets or genetic algorithms in Java?
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as for unsubscribing, well, that just shows them that a live human actually is at that address and reading email from spammers.. Goldstrike if you called and unsubscribed.
If they use the unsubscribe link in order to actively maintain you on their list, that smells like fraud to me.
Remember that something doesn't have to be in direct contravention of your country's Data Protection Act (or equivalent) to be spam -- contract law still holds, and if they offer a way to unsubscribe, you take it and they don't unsubscribe you, that's a breach of agreed terms.
Are between 86 and 95% of the population guilty of crime? If the justice system was truly arbitrary, the wrongful conviction rate would be equal to the proportion of innocent people in the wider population.
There are about 312,000,000 people registered in the US, plus an unknown number of illegal immigrants. The prison population is around 3 million. If the prison population is roughly equal to the number of true criminals, that's 1%.
So for the justice system to be arbitrary, 99% of all inmates would have to have been wrongly convicted.
OK, lots of crimes go unsolved, so maybe the population of criminals is higher than 1% of the population, but still, we're still talking about a minority.
I will say it again: the justice system isn't perfect, but it's certainly not arbitrary.
HAL.
On the current list, there's no more guarantee of accuracy than, say, [...] wrongfully-convicted murderers on death row.
I'd say there's less of a guarantee of accuracy because of the lack of judges, juries, admissability guidelines, due process and all that other stuff. The justice system isn't perfect, but it's certainly not arbitrary.
There are lots of hits carried out in the USA. The people who carry them out are generally the ones considered "expendable".
Revolutions are usually carried out by bloodthirsty mobs. If you want a revolution in Mexico, you'll end up with the Zetas in power over the entire country....
or even just use a bicycle and a backpack - you can cover 100 miles in a few days that way,
Spy-school should issue turbo-trainers, cos a regular cyclist would be able to do that in a day. (I really should be training more myself -- I haven't got past 85 miles yet.)
You're on the right track here, but let's divide the task into subtasks.
We don't need to produce a fully automated solution at the first iteration, so we set up the webcams and the beam-gates with synchronised clocks. Post-race, the software is used by the marshalls to verify timing thus: it lines up a table of screen grabs, each row representing what it thinks is one car, the marshall clicks "OK" if they all match, or either clicks a button to identify a "drop out" (at which point the following photos are shuffled down to following rows) or an overtake (in which case the remainder of the row is switched with the corresponding images in the next row).
This solution is dead straightforward and lets you use the equipment and optimise webcam position for clear images, and gives you an immediate efficiency improvement, rather than moving straight to a completely new automated setup that will undoubtedly fail and probably be rejected by the competitors and organisers as being pointless.
When you find a suitable OCR or barcode solution, you will have the infrastructure in place to run it in parallel with the computer-aided-manual process, so you can iron out the difficulties without causing any serious disruption to the administration of the race.
HAL
The guy in question was leafleting for Operation Paperstorm when he was kidnapped. Here's a quick tip, Anonymous: online, you have a better chance of remaining anonymous.
HAL.
How big is Anonymous? If they're as big as they say they are, the patterns of old hacker/cracker squads won't apply -- there'll be plenty of people not quite clued up or tooled up enough go "down the rabbit-hole" or "off the grid" that quickly.
Agreed entirely.
We've had mobile schools for ages, and we've had solar-powered schools for ages -- in the rural valleys of the Andes, they've set up many schools with solar power in places with no mains, and a network of solar-powered microwave relays to bring in an internet signal. This has allowed them to start offering secondary education (and even university degrees) to people in isolated areas without forcing them to board in the cities. And of course, this isn't all that different from the Australian outback schools.
So while it's no doubt a useful thing, it is by no means the revolution that Samsung seems to be keen to market it as -- it's merely another step in a long evolution.
Now, while the mobile design means it can be used as a supplementary education resource for various schools on a time-share basis, the downside is that it won't function as a "learning centre" for distance learning like the Bolivian and Peruvian primary schools now do. This means that the product on offer doesn't use IT to increase the availability of "education", just the availability of "IT education", so it doesn't strike me as the best value for money....
HAL.
The ciiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiiiiiiife
Oi, that's mine! Right, that it's, I'm suing Slashdot.
Yours sincerely,
Mr W. Disney (deceased).
PS. My pal Joseph McCarthy (also deceased) says that anyone disagreeing with this law is a filthy stinking commie.
The problem with "pedagogical knowledge content" is that education, perhaps more than any other profession is polluted with horrific pseudo-science fads and fashions. Good teachers ignore the b*ll*cks in teaching trends and keep doing a good job. This metric would harm good teachers and reward bad ones who're willing to follow the management checklist. Just like in businesses.
Now that's what education can learn from business: what gets measured gets managed, and nothing of value can be measured, so measuring rewards valueless attributes.
HAL.
I wondered how long it would be before someone would come along and completely miss the point of my post. You can't change the faults of the Catholic Church by simply attacking Christianity as a whole. Polarising the debate only leads to people becoming more entrenched in their positions. The justification for the cover-ups is to protect the church. Your attitude only gives fuel to the paranoia and persecution complex that many Christians currently suffer. It doesn't encourage openness or honest self-reflection.
Also, can you point to a source regarding stoning kids?
The priest-penitent privilege only applies inside the confessional, or similar situations. This was an administrative matter, not a request for spiritual guidance.
It's your job to minimize the exposure and do what's ethical.
...and "what's ethical" is exactly what he is trying to do -- he puts personal ethics above law, which is something we all do from time to time. Seizures of computer equipment harm the innocent as well as the guilty.
Some clever entrepreneur is going to create a network forensics tool that lets you mirror an entire corporate network in a day or two onto virtual machines. As it will cost multiple millions, no-one will buy it. That entrepreneur will then bankroll a lawsuit from a company ruined by hardware seizure.
4. Profit
I don't think we need a psych major here to tell you that certain fantasies tended to be acted upon more than others. Specifically, the darker ones associated with more mental problems.
You don't need a psych major to tell you that "certain fantasies" are acted upon more than others. But you do need some kind of evidence, generally collected by psych professor, to tell you which fantasies those "certain" fantasies are.
That's a load of bullshit. In neither the US, UK, nor Ireland does the church make the law. If the law says you have to report it, you have to report it regardless of what your religion says.
In fact, while Jesus laid out very few hard-and-fast rules (hence the schisms in the church), on one point he was very clear: honour the laws of God and of man . According to the Bible, it's a rule he followed right to the very end, when he refused to resist arrest, even knowing that it meant death. The cover-ups were entirely un-Christian and are the shame of the church.
By "doing work for the school," I mean, mainly, IP created during the normal work as faculty; i.e. curriculum/lesson plans, tests, handouts, study guides, even the rare times when a teacher basically makes their own textbook via years and years of teaching experience. A teacher that creates this kind of work, which most all do de facto, wouldn't have been hired by the school to create the IP, but to teach; the IP just follows as a means to do the teaching. Now we're concerned with what happens when, in this kind of situation, a teacher leaves the school and wants to take their work's products with them. It's true that the school was paying the for teacher to create the IP in a round-about kind of way, but it was also benefiting from the production of it while the teacher was creating and using it.
Not only that, but the school is also directly benefiting from IP the teacher brought with them from previous jobs. If you were to claim complete ownership over materials, that would be a direct disincentive to the staff using their earlier IP, which would mean that the school would miss out.
There's a definite quid pro quo here, so I would strongly recommend letting teachers keep their copyright -- all the school really needs is a license to duplicate the material later.
ask faculty what they want
Yes -- definitely.
Now for my personal opinion: the UK government are taking steps to legalise "format shifting" of sound recordings. Yes, ripping your own CDs to MP3 is still technically illegal. Relevance? The starting point for all legal decisions has to start with expected behaviour -- the new law formalises what is already "normal" behaviour.
We expect teachers to store all their worksheets on their laptops, and we expect them to use them when they move on to the next job. Disallowing this will not stop them doing it, and you're never going to be able to enforce it, so banning it would only generate unnecessary ill-will.
The expected behaviour of the school is to continue using and modifying any worksheets left by former employees. As this happens all the time, it is not unreasonable to formalise it as an agreement.
OK, so now we get to the matter of commercial exploitation. Ask yourself, what is the expected behaviour here? Well, have you ever seen any textbooks published or "authored" by schools? Mostly they're published by specialist publishing houses, and they've got an author or two listed, but no schools are mentioned. It is highly unlikely that anyone would write a textbook 100% from scratch -- it's likely they'll use their own stock problem sets that they've used in classes before. In fact, it would be quite difficult for a teacher to write any new material without infringing the copyrights of an earlier piece on the same topic. All in all, it would seem unreasonable to me if the school were to retain commercial exploitation rights.
Plus, it probably isn't in the school's interest to retain commercial exploitation rights, because teachers are notorious plagiarists anyway. Questions cribbed from the internet, photocopies of exam papers, articles from newspapers... no school can ever really be confident of the provinance of the material in a teacher's toolkit, so producing any commercial materials based on it is a litigation risk.
What I would expect would be that the teacher retains full rights, but the school has the right to duplicate and modify the material for in-house use in perpetuity.
Anyway, the idea was that a battleship is hugely massive and hard to degauss compared to a few girders in a drywall construction home.
Degaussing the home is therefor quite feasible
A battleship is an independently moving vehicle. Good luck getting the house into a dry-dock....
It was hilarious in 1998. It was a very common chain email when I was at uni. The humour value isn't in the content, it's the nostalgia. And to those of us from that era, it's worth a chuckle.
Hey, who needs expensive NCIS when we've got "Navy Police" for free?
They cancelled "Firefly"? Come and watch "Glowbug" instead!
No more Stargate SG1? Why not try "Freegate SG2"?
(Don't get me wrong -- I love Linux, just the Linux gaming scene is a bit of a joke....)
The cable companies know that bandwidth caps are their best defense against people canceling cable TV. If they essentially say the Xbox (or Netflix, or whatever) plan is limited, but cable TV is "unlimited", then they still have a competitive edge they can try to wield.
But cable TV is unlimited, to all practical intents and purposes -- it is a broadcast medium, so the bandwidth cost is unrelated to the number of users.
The internet, however, is a unicast medium, so every new user takes up more bandwidth.
Microsoft aren't performing a public service, they're simply trying to monopolise. Microsoft have never had a big history of efficiency either. They almost singlehandedly handed a desktop monopoly to inefficient x86 chips, which led to battery life problems when the era of portable computing started. Their software has historically suffered so much bloat that user memory requirements grew rapidly enough to fill the capacity offered by the market for the decade from Windows 95 to XP.
If someone who is offended can require a correction be made, the internet and world as a while will be such a nicer happier place. With kittens and jelly beans for everyone.
You insensitive clod! Some of us are allergic to kittens, and this is therefore offensive. I demand you change this immediately to:
Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptangya Ziiinnggggggg Ni!
I think you're looking at the wrong courses. What does database programming have to do with AI and machine learning? And who implements databases, neural nets or genetic algorithms in Java?