... if competing private schools advertise their curriculum, including the 'What Works Warehouse' scores of their teaching materials relative to the public school offerings.
Did the standards committee require participants to reveal any patent or financial interests they had in technology under consideration? Most of the committees I've seen have such language in their membership requirements. Attempting to 'submarine' a patented protocol in could get them a civil suit for fraud and forfeiture of their interest in the patent.
None of this would have happened if IPv6 had been deployed by now,
The patent trolls would just refile all the existing stuff as 'do X in IPv6'. And the USPTO would grant the patents, resetting the term to start at the new filing date.
Patents are supposed to be non obvious. Unless someone can show where Apple had tried (and failed) to implement the protocol in question until VirnetX published. And suddenly Apple succeeded. Then I'd buy the argument that Apple swiped their idea. But if Apple sat down on its own and built the same damned thing, I'd say the solution is a)obvious and b)trivial. Add any third parties coming up with the same thing and I'd say there's no way it is patentable.
'Hard to work around' doesn't mean something is patentable. The wheel is pretty hard to work around as well.
Isn't this information shown in every cop show or movie?
Well, if Leslie Nielsen did in in The Naked Gun, it must be constitutional.
Some of the writers of more serious cop dramas make references to certain police activities in order to bring attention to them and trigger public discussions.
which can be accessed anywhere in the world with Internet access.
Did they really just examine your (cleaned) hard drive at the border? Or did they install that NSA keylogging software? I don't care where you hide it, once you are sitting in your Holiday Inn hotel room, you are going to download and read it eventually. Game over.
Your best bet would be to come through the border with no laptop or tablet and pick one up for cash at the local discount PC shop.
This isn't a matter of wacky tree-hugging liberals preventing logging from saving our forests either. Use of prescribed burning and selective logging are taught extensively at the UC Berkeley Forestry program. Selective logging is used for various management goals in the Santa Cruz mountains (including revenue maximization). Neither of those places have a history of being particularly conservative.
Except that the wacky tree-hugging liberals have been selling the carbon sequestration attributes of forests as an excuse to 'save' them. Another name for this carbon sequestration is 'fuel'. Fire is nature's way of maintaining a balance. And it will happen, either a bit at a time as prescriptive burns and natural burning of the undergrowth. Or it will happen every few decades as big, destructive fires, taking everything down to the ground.
The modern view of forests as carbon sinks considers them as diverse ecosystems made up of multiple species of foliage occupying different levels in the forest canopy. But that is an artificial situation, created by the intervention of fire management policies. The photographs in TFA of Yosemite in 1890 and 1960 illustrate the difference dramatically. The 'diversity' that we have become familiar with didn't exist in the same form over a hundred years ago. It isn't a natural characteristic of a healthy old growth forest. And nature will swing the balance back. Quite violently, in the present case.
And its still in effect today. The TSA agents doing the bag searches prior to boarding aircraft are dumb as rocks. But that's where you'd expect the professionals to be to prevent terrorism, bomb smuggling, etc. Meanwhile, the customs people are the professional law enforcement types. Armed, vigilant, with contraband sniffing dogs, etc. But if I was a terrorist, that would be too late. The plane would be in the side of a building long before then.
Its all about maintaining an economic Iron Curtain. You'd better not be smuggling anything around the licensed domestic distribution channels.
The whole electronic device search thing is bogus as well. If you work for al Qaida and are casing targets in the USA, you are entering with an empty laptop and camera. Its the stuff going out they need to check. They are looking for foreign firms' trade secrets and contract documents. To be forwarded on to their US competitors.
You are not a pedologist or edaphologist or other soil scientist;
Not a member of the high priests of ecology then, right? Not privy to the secret knowledge of the inner circles? I can only wonder about how many goats get slaughtered at the monthly coven meetings.
So no one with any sense would expect you to be able to do any kind useful soil measurements.
But I can operate a backhoe and a measuring tape. And I know what rock ledge and other non organic geological formations look like.
Outlaw sales. You can grow it. You can smoke what you grow. Anything else is a gift to either the Mexican cartels or eventually Archer Daniel Midlands and R J Reynolds.
Then I should be able to measure the thickness of that soil, its carbon content and deduce its age. But I can't. I can take a shovel into an old growth forest that has been here since the last ice age and dig through a few feet of organics until I hit rock. And it looks pretty much like newer forests. Some that have repopulated human habitats a hundred years ago or less. Forget the shovel. I can do that with the toe of my hiking boot in many places.
Trees and other organisms consume the organic matter lying on the ground, incorporate it into their living structure. And then they die, burn, or rot. And something else eats them. There are a few notable places where organics accumulate. Peat bogs are an example. But forests in general? No.
The only carbon credits that forests should receive is for every pound of carbon removed permanently on the back of a logging truck, used in permanent structures and then buried in a deep land fill.
the NSA and other sigint agencies can and will always compel or bribe that which they cannot hack.
The concept behind Lockbox isn't anything new. You have been able to encrypt and upload your own stuff to any server for years. I'm sure that this product is a point and click solution to something that the average Slashdotter could shell script. So it will be made available to a wider sector of the public.
The advantages of the 'roll your own' solution are: Each will differ just enough that the NSA will have to expend major resources to sort them all out. And if they need your keys, they will have to craft a custom 'bot to attack each platform. Or pay a visit to each user to waterboard the information out of them. There is no central point of weakness.
So, thanks for the effort. But I'll GnuPG my own files.
But think of all that carbon which was sequestered in those forests now being released. You can argue all you want about whether anthropic climate change is real or not. But it has been used to promote some pretty wacko policy decisions. Primarily that forests sequester carbon. They don't. They have been burning down (and rotting) for hundreds of millions of years. Ever since there was enough atmospheric oxygen to support combustion/decomposition. Trees, over their life span, may sequester carbon. But forests do not. They are carbon neutral.
Until the warmingists stop using this science as an excuse for wealth transfer to third world countries with trees rotting in swamps and start promoting real solutions, AGW can't be that serious.
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Did the standards committee require participants to reveal any patent or financial interests they had in technology under consideration? Most of the committees I've seen have such language in their membership requirements. Attempting to 'submarine' a patented protocol in could get them a civil suit for fraud and forfeiture of their interest in the patent.
Microsoft is patenting a hammer?
None of this would have happened if IPv6 had been deployed by now,
The patent trolls would just refile all the existing stuff as 'do X in IPv6'. And the USPTO would grant the patents, resetting the term to start at the new filing date.
Patents are supposed to be non obvious. Unless someone can show where Apple had tried (and failed) to implement the protocol in question until VirnetX published. And suddenly Apple succeeded. Then I'd buy the argument that Apple swiped their idea. But if Apple sat down on its own and built the same damned thing, I'd say the solution is a)obvious and b)trivial. Add any third parties coming up with the same thing and I'd say there's no way it is patentable.
'Hard to work around' doesn't mean something is patentable. The wheel is pretty hard to work around as well.
Hipsters!
Yes. In IT we call them users.
First pest?
Aversion therapy: Its AOL dial-up.
Pretty soon they'll have you twitching every time you hear acoustic modems handshaking.
Isn't this information shown in every cop show or movie?
Well, if Leslie Nielsen did in in The Naked Gun, it must be constitutional.
Some of the writers of more serious cop dramas make references to certain police activities in order to bring attention to them and trigger public discussions.
which can be accessed anywhere in the world with Internet access.
Did they really just examine your (cleaned) hard drive at the border? Or did they install that NSA keylogging software? I don't care where you hide it, once you are sitting in your Holiday Inn hotel room, you are going to download and read it eventually. Game over.
Your best bet would be to come through the border with no laptop or tablet and pick one up for cash at the local discount PC shop.
This isn't a matter of wacky tree-hugging liberals preventing logging from saving our forests either. Use of prescribed burning and selective logging are taught extensively at the UC Berkeley Forestry program. Selective logging is used for various management goals in the Santa Cruz mountains (including revenue maximization). Neither of those places have a history of being particularly conservative.
Except that the wacky tree-hugging liberals have been selling the carbon sequestration attributes of forests as an excuse to 'save' them. Another name for this carbon sequestration is 'fuel'. Fire is nature's way of maintaining a balance. And it will happen, either a bit at a time as prescriptive burns and natural burning of the undergrowth. Or it will happen every few decades as big, destructive fires, taking everything down to the ground.
The modern view of forests as carbon sinks considers them as diverse ecosystems made up of multiple species of foliage occupying different levels in the forest canopy. But that is an artificial situation, created by the intervention of fire management policies. The photographs in TFA of Yosemite in 1890 and 1960 illustrate the difference dramatically. The 'diversity' that we have become familiar with didn't exist in the same form over a hundred years ago. It isn't a natural characteristic of a healthy old growth forest. And nature will swing the balance back. Quite violently, in the present case.
Flippant answer: You still can't come up with an explanation.
This is Slashdot. All the guys here have girlfriends with the last name of JPEG.
And its still in effect today. The TSA agents doing the bag searches prior to boarding aircraft are dumb as rocks. But that's where you'd expect the professionals to be to prevent terrorism, bomb smuggling, etc. Meanwhile, the customs people are the professional law enforcement types. Armed, vigilant, with contraband sniffing dogs, etc. But if I was a terrorist, that would be too late. The plane would be in the side of a building long before then.
Its all about maintaining an economic Iron Curtain. You'd better not be smuggling anything around the licensed domestic distribution channels.
The whole electronic device search thing is bogus as well. If you work for al Qaida and are casing targets in the USA, you are entering with an empty laptop and camera. Its the stuff going out they need to check. They are looking for foreign firms' trade secrets and contract documents. To be forwarded on to their US competitors.
You embarrassed? I'm not.
You can't answer my question either: Why does a 10K year old old growth forest not contain 10x the carbon of a 1K year old one?
For sale: Stickers with red circle and "200" in black block letters. Fits over camera lens.
So, download a new driver.
What's that in furlongs per fortnight?
You are not a pedologist or edaphologist or other soil scientist;
Not a member of the high priests of ecology then, right? Not privy to the secret knowledge of the inner circles? I can only wonder about how many goats get slaughtered at the monthly coven meetings.
So no one with any sense would expect you to be able to do any kind useful soil measurements.
But I can operate a backhoe and a measuring tape. And I know what rock ledge and other non organic geological formations look like.
Outlaw sales. You can grow it. You can smoke what you grow. Anything else is a gift to either the Mexican cartels or eventually Archer Daniel Midlands and R J Reynolds.
We don't want to see blackened areas in our parks even though it is necessary to protect them from bigger fires.
We don't want some banker's hunting lodge burned down.
A log in contact with dirt becomes more soil;
Then I should be able to measure the thickness of that soil, its carbon content and deduce its age. But I can't. I can take a shovel into an old growth forest that has been here since the last ice age and dig through a few feet of organics until I hit rock. And it looks pretty much like newer forests. Some that have repopulated human habitats a hundred years ago or less. Forget the shovel. I can do that with the toe of my hiking boot in many places.
Trees and other organisms consume the organic matter lying on the ground, incorporate it into their living structure. And then they die, burn, or rot. And something else eats them. There are a few notable places where organics accumulate. Peat bogs are an example. But forests in general? No.
The only carbon credits that forests should receive is for every pound of carbon removed permanently on the back of a logging truck, used in permanent structures and then buried in a deep land fill.
the NSA and other sigint agencies can and will always compel or bribe that which they cannot hack.
The concept behind Lockbox isn't anything new. You have been able to encrypt and upload your own stuff to any server for years. I'm sure that this product is a point and click solution to something that the average Slashdotter could shell script. So it will be made available to a wider sector of the public.
The advantages of the 'roll your own' solution are: Each will differ just enough that the NSA will have to expend major resources to sort them all out. And if they need your keys, they will have to craft a custom 'bot to attack each platform. Or pay a visit to each user to waterboard the information out of them. There is no central point of weakness.
So, thanks for the effort. But I'll GnuPG my own files.
But think of all that carbon which was sequestered in those forests now being released. You can argue all you want about whether anthropic climate change is real or not. But it has been used to promote some pretty wacko policy decisions. Primarily that forests sequester carbon. They don't. They have been burning down (and rotting) for hundreds of millions of years. Ever since there was enough atmospheric oxygen to support combustion/decomposition. Trees, over their life span, may sequester carbon. But forests do not. They are carbon neutral.
Until the warmingists stop using this science as an excuse for wealth transfer to third world countries with trees rotting in swamps and start promoting real solutions, AGW can't be that serious.