It's also completely unrelated to the paper, which explicitly says that they pick a single maze to use for all the games to ensure that it is about evolving the game rather than the maze.
In some places you're lucky if they stick to inspecting it. There are hotels where they try to hang onto your passport until you leave, presumably to ensure you pay.
which doesn't ring true to me, since biotech is inherently MORE reliable than, say, an official trying to identify someone by a small passport photo.
The point is that by removing the element of judgment in favour of something objective but possibly flawed you get a situation where people don't exercise judgment when the machine gets it wrong.
I went to Pizza Hut in Quito once, and it was definitely an experience. Up until that point I had never come across the concept of chocolate and strawberry pizza.
We had no doubt that our information was kept on file
Filing, and in particular searching files, has changed a bit since the early 1970s. It's also become a lot easier to lose a million files in one go, and the information on these forms should cover most of what a fraudster needs to impersonate you.
Having said that, this isn't really an issue when you set it alongside the collection of biometrics. That has two nasty effects. Firstly, and more immediately, that when a planeful of non-US citizens arrives they have to queue for up to two hours just for passport control - which makes taking a connecting flight very risky. Secondly, there's no guarantee that future governments won't choose to ignore any guarantees given when the data was collected and, say, add the fingerprints of every visitor to the FBI's national crime fingerprint database. I don't want to go back to the US in ten years and be arrested because of a hash collision between my fingerprint and that of some murderer in Ohio.
You are about to access a Department of Homeland Security computer system. This computer system and data therein are property of the U.S. Government and provided for official U.S. Government information and use. There is no expectation of privacy when you use this computer system. The use of a password or any other security measure does not establish an expectation of privacy. By using this system, you consent to the terms set forth in this notice. You may not process classified national security information on this computer system. Access to this system is restricted to authorized users only. Unauthorized access, use, or modification of this system or of data contained herein, or in transit to/from this system, may constitute a violation of section 1030 of title 18 of the U.S. Code and other criminal laws. Anyone who accesses a Federal computer system without authorization or exceeds access authority, or obtains, alters, damages, destroys, or discloses information, or prevents authorized use of information on the computer system, may be subject to penalties, fines or imprisonment. This computer system and any related equipment is subject to monitoring for administrative oversight, law enforcement, criminal investigative purposes, inquiries into alleged wrongdoing or misuse, and to ensure proper performance of applicable security features and procedures. DHS may conduct monitoring activities without further notice.
My emphasis. I think that with the way the sentence is structured (in particular the "or" clauses) it's valid to emphasise that as a statement claimed by the text. So don't read the webpage you're visiting or you might end up in Federal prison.
I work in game programming, and I've had similar experiences with interviewing people (to expand the team rather than to replace people who left). It's not that no-one wants to join the company: we had plenty of applications. However, 80% or so failed the initial screening test, which asked them to write code to solve a simple problem. No time pressure, access to all the resources they could possibly need, and people couldn't solve a problem they should have encountered in the second year of the undergraduate course which their CV said they passed with a 2.1.
Not just that: it tells you that the story is almost certainly about an experimental result rather than a theoretical one. However, "experimental scientist" vs "theoretical scientist" isn't a very useful distinction per se. First say which branch of science, and then subdivide that if necessary: so here it should be talking about "experimental physicists".
There are few more irritating phrases than "Scientists have solved/discovered/invented". The headline "Physicists Solve Century Old Optics Mystery" would be a bit better, but really "Century Old Optics Mystery Solved" would be best because it's truly non-tautologous.
Carpet the Holy Land with neutron bombs. Adjust the bombs so they put on the most long-term radiation they can.
You realise that is the precise opposite of what neutron bombs do (and were designed for), which is to kill people without making the area uninhabitable?
He says: Subclipse. I presume from your second sentence that you've tried it and concluded it to be crap, in which case I strongly agree with you. It's so useless that I use svn from the command line. (I would rather use git, but it's not my decision).
All of your examples will take an average person at least two years to learn to do well, and there'll still be plenty to learn after that.
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Probably. Kids these days just won't believe you when you tell them that regular expressions used to be restricted to sequence, alternation and Kleene star.
I guess you guys are as much into security theater as our TSA is huh?
Yes, particularly just after incidents. I visited the Andes in 2005 and brought back a couple of machetes as presents for my brothers. Got back to the UK on the day of the Tube blasts. A month later I went to visit my family, and arranged to meet one brother in London Victoria railway station. I got a train into London and took the Tube to Victoria with two 24-inch machetes in my bag. It came up in conversation that my brother had been randomly searched by police when getting onto the Tube in the morning: they found a 1.5-inch penknife he hadn't realised he was carrying and gave him a minor ticking off. Because I got on the Tube slightly after midday, there were no longer any police around.
My initial response was that running to another EU country won't help, because this data collection is mandated by an EU directive. Then it occurred to me that Greece probably won't implement it for another 10 years.
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Government != parliament.
The current government wasn't elected, and the one it replaced was a long way short of a majority.
It's also completely unrelated to the paper, which explicitly says that they pick a single maze to use for all the games to ensure that it is about evolving the game rather than the maze.
PDF has been opened. Admittedly the standards body which supports it is ISO, but I don't think anyone bribed them to approve it.
I didn't get that far.
A passport open for inspection in a hotel?
In some places you're lucky if they stick to inspecting it. There are hotels where they try to hang onto your passport until you leave, presumably to ensure you pay.
which doesn't ring true to me, since biotech is inherently MORE reliable than, say, an official trying to identify someone by a small passport photo.
The point is that by removing the element of judgment in favour of something objective but possibly flawed you get a situation where people don't exercise judgment when the machine gets it wrong.
I've read that it's the only time in human history that grandmothers were legal tender.
(https link for the paranoid)
Anyone truly paranoid would observe that the secure.wikimedia.org certificate is signed with MD5 by a certificate which is also signed with MD5.
Whose law? The ship may be under a flag of convenience - Panama, say.
I went to Pizza Hut in Quito once, and it was definitely an experience. Up until that point I had never come across the concept of chocolate and strawberry pizza.
We had no doubt that our information was kept on file
Filing, and in particular searching files, has changed a bit since the early 1970s. It's also become a lot easier to lose a million files in one go, and the information on these forms should cover most of what a fraudster needs to impersonate you.
Having said that, this isn't really an issue when you set it alongside the collection of biometrics. That has two nasty effects. Firstly, and more immediately, that when a planeful of non-US citizens arrives they have to queue for up to two hours just for passport control - which makes taking a connecting flight very risky. Secondly, there's no guarantee that future governments won't choose to ignore any guarantees given when the data was collected and, say, add the fingerprints of every visitor to the FBI's national crime fingerprint database. I don't want to go back to the US in ten years and be arrested because of a hash collision between my fingerprint and that of some murderer in Ohio.
You are about to access a Department of Homeland Security computer system. This computer system and data therein are property of the U.S. Government and provided for official U.S. Government information and use. There is no expectation of privacy when you use this computer system. The use of a password or any other security measure does not establish an expectation of privacy. By using this system, you consent to the terms set forth in this notice. You may not process classified national security information on this computer system. Access to this system is restricted to authorized users only. Unauthorized access, use, or modification of this system or of data contained herein, or in transit to/from this system, may constitute a violation of section 1030 of title 18 of the U.S. Code and other criminal laws. Anyone who accesses a Federal computer system without authorization or exceeds access authority, or obtains, alters, damages, destroys, or discloses information, or prevents authorized use of information on the computer system, may be subject to penalties, fines or imprisonment. This computer system and any related equipment is subject to monitoring for administrative oversight, law enforcement, criminal investigative purposes, inquiries into alleged wrongdoing or misuse, and to ensure proper performance of applicable security features and procedures. DHS may conduct monitoring activities without further notice.
My emphasis. I think that with the way the sentence is structured (in particular the "or" clauses) it's valid to emphasise that as a statement claimed by the text. So don't read the webpage you're visiting or you might end up in Federal prison.
I work in game programming, and I've had similar experiences with interviewing people (to expand the team rather than to replace people who left). It's not that no-one wants to join the company: we had plenty of applications. However, 80% or so failed the initial screening test, which asked them to write code to solve a simple problem. No time pressure, access to all the resources they could possibly need, and people couldn't solve a problem they should have encountered in the second year of the undergraduate course which their CV said they passed with a 2.1.
Not just that: it tells you that the story is almost certainly about an experimental result rather than a theoretical one. However, "experimental scientist" vs "theoretical scientist" isn't a very useful distinction per se. First say which branch of science, and then subdivide that if necessary: so here it should be talking about "experimental physicists".
There are few more irritating phrases than "Scientists have solved/discovered/invented". The headline "Physicists Solve Century Old Optics Mystery" would be a bit better, but really "Century Old Optics Mystery Solved" would be best because it's truly non-tautologous.
Carpet the Holy Land with neutron bombs. Adjust the bombs so they put on the most long-term radiation they can.
You realise that is the precise opposite of what neutron bombs do (and were designed for), which is to kill people without making the area uninhabitable?
I find that Subclipse notices that it's an SVN tree and gives an error message.
He says: Subclipse. I presume from your second sentence that you've tried it and concluded it to be crap, in which case I strongly agree with you. It's so useless that I use svn from the command line. (I would rather use git, but it's not my decision).
I didn't think anyone deep-fried more food than Scots.
If Groklaw has the only complete record of the SCO ligitation then some court archivist should be looking for work.
All of your examples will take an average person at least two years to learn to do well, and there'll still be plenty to learn after that.
Probably. Kids these days just won't believe you when you tell them that regular expressions used to be restricted to sequence, alternation and Kleene star.
I guess you guys are as much into security theater as our TSA is huh?
Yes, particularly just after incidents. I visited the Andes in 2005 and brought back a couple of machetes as presents for my brothers. Got back to the UK on the day of the Tube blasts. A month later I went to visit my family, and arranged to meet one brother in London Victoria railway station. I got a train into London and took the Tube to Victoria with two 24-inch machetes in my bag. It came up in conversation that my brother had been randomly searched by police when getting onto the Tube in the morning: they found a 1.5-inch penknife he hadn't realised he was carrying and gave him a minor ticking off. Because I got on the Tube slightly after midday, there were no longer any police around.
My initial response was that running to another EU country won't help, because this data collection is mandated by an EU directive. Then it occurred to me that Greece probably won't implement it for another 10 years.