It's a vital question. If a robot or device cannot make a contract, how can they be considered a person? Conversely, if they cannot make a contract, how can they have any resources to file suit for and how can a plaintiff injured or damaged by the robot receive any damages.
I've looked at this myself. There is no chance of making old Python 2 code compatible with Python 3, especially older and unmaintained code, even if it is stable. Upgrading all python code in Fedora to be Python 3 based is possible, though it's a long-term upgrade effortt than just one Fedora release. I'd be curious about when Python 2 will be abandoned and attempts to publish packages with both python2 and python3 versions will end.
SysV init had a number of critical issues. One was the failure to successfully and automatically restart a crashed daemon. There have been several lighterweight, safer init systems. Upstart worked well, but never became popular.
I'm afraid that this is not remotely possible. The kernel and the critical libraries, for Windows 10 are proprietary and Microsoft does not follow the published API's.
I do see some tools, such as https://github.com/rv8-io/rv8 , that seem to run x86_64 code in a simulation mode for RISC-V. Has anyone here tested this tool, or seen anything equivalent for ARM ? I've not had or made the opportunity to do so myself: my personal hardware budget is much smaller than it was at earlier times in my career.
> If the features and functions you need aren't available on ChromeOS, it won't work for you.
I'm afraid that this includes over 90% of all laptop users. Without support for robust, fully Microsoft compatible document or spreadsheet handling for business professionals, without robust gaming support for even those few Steam games that have been converted, and without the developer support to handle virtual environments for other development, they remain useful only as web browser tools.
The idea that specific points treat specific ailments comes from every acupuncture map published, and the acupuncturists themselves. What precisely makes you think that they do not associate specific points with treating specific disorders?
That is a _Very_ optimistic view. It can be very, very expensive to pre-plan and pre-allocate resources for all contingencies, and it can delay release by months if not years. when planning a release, all predictable factors may not be known or even knowable. One can spend many times as much money and time on QA, more money than the cost of an entire new project, and _still_ have an unexpected problem when a system goes to production
>> As I understand it, Different practitioners have different patterns for what disorders or issues are treated by different acupuncture points. > Actually they don't have.
There is, as best I can tell, no master map used by all or even most practitioners. The Google images for acupressure points show this: The variety of needle locations for ear, foot, or hand to treat the same disorders provides a good sense of the lack of consistency among these practitioners.
I've not been able to find a reliable report of using alternative needle placements to verify acupuncture effectiveness: I also admit to being surprised it wasn't tried, simply to ease the difficulty of a more traditional double blind test. I'd hope that the double blind could be done this way by having someone _other_ than the acupuncture expert place the needles. The non-placebo needle locations could be selected by the practitioner, and a double blind method applied to give the person applying needles a randomized but distinct set of alternative, safe needle locations. It could be particularly easily done with needles in places like the ear, which has a very close set of locations for different disorders in the maps shown on Google, and which the recipient cannot easily see or distinguish among.
> You can not really test acupuncture with double blind studies, or how should the one poking you not know, kr know if he is really poking you?
It's testable by "poking" somewhere else than where the practitioner would plan. As I understand it, Different practitioners have different patterns for what disorders or issues are treated by different acupuncture points. If there is no verifiable association between the acupuncture points and the disorders, if it doesn't matter which acupuncture points are used, then that indicates it's a placebo effect.
Since the bloodstream and lymphatic system also connect different tissues together in an already well demonstrated fluid transfer network of blood vessels, the transfer of cancerous cells from one organ to another would not seem to require explanation. And since acupuncture consistently fails double blind experiments, that would seem to be another "mystery of modern medicine" that would seem to be already explained, as a placebo effect.
The crime was against military and other computers in the USA. In that sense,he allegedly "did the crime" in the USA. Many computer hacking crimes are violations of both state and federal law. One can be convicted in both court systems for distinct crimes related to the same acts, and suffer civil penalties as well.
> 2) The huge asymmetry between extradition in either direction, coupled with the posturing of US officials
Whether it has been asymmetrical is apparently argued about in UK courts as a reason to deny extradition.
> Really? Their terms of service say that anything you upload or store in their service belongs to them.
Gogle is careful _not_ to assume ownership of Google Drive content. See the actual terms of use at: https://support.google.com/dri...
There are many business and legal reasons for Google to avoid claiming ownership of that content. One of the simpler reasons is to avoid responsibility for it.
It's not just the expense of our expertise. We interfere with day to day productivity when we tell developers or our own businesses to follow basic security practices, and are told by managers and our clients to stop wasting people's time. I've certainly forbidden transmitting passwords via email in plaintext, and storing passwords in source control repositories in plain text, or storing default permanent passwords in public setup instructions. I've then seen the written instructions published by department heads of network operation center groups or developers to always send the passwords via email and never force password changes, just to avoid wasting customer time and so that the business has a record of that password for later support use.
I'm afraid that security is almost always treated as a cost. The failure to pay that cost can be tragic. But the cost often isn't large enough or immediate enough for people to remember to pay it until it's much too late.
What? I designed the cochlear implant electronics used to do functional MRI on electrodes broadcasting sound signals into only one human ear. They're the only experments properly measuring sound for only *one* ear, since MRI scanners are *really loud* with a *PING* *PING* *PING* as the MRI fires, and that comes in both ears. But if the person is stone deaf except for a cochlear implant, of the old "Ineraid" style with the jack that sticks out of the head that can be safely put in an MRI, you can get really, really interesting information about how sound in one ear stimulates both sides of the brain.
I know of no state where "salaried" personnel get paid overtime. The workplace may authorize compensation time. But overtime for senior developer, systems, DevOps, or technical managerial personnel. Even for hourly private contractors, I do not see overtime. In what what private industry. non-union field are you seeing overtime paid?
> any after hours I had to attend were balanced by a reduction of standard hours
This has not been the case for many of the years I've worked personally, and many of the senior roles I've filled. It's at the core of much of the "glass ceiling" women experience for senior roles, they've been much less willing than men to work in roles that require it. It's also part of age discrimination for men my age in technology experience when we are no longer willing or able to be on call 24x7. I'm personally just now finishing an after hours deployment: it needed to occur after business hours, and I had to supervise it. But the compensatory time needed is larger for me and men my age than it is for many of my younger colleagues. We can't spend the next day up at 7:00 AM for remote telecommuting with Europe or Asia, or due to family schedules. The physical and mental toll is more burdensome, as well as the toll of doing mixed schedules with remote colleagues. Even the toll of hopping schedule from one schedule for weekend deployments and weekday business meetings increases.
Look in any network operations center, and any supervisory or senior engineer role that requires off-hours or awkwardly scheduled work. The age and gender skew towards younger men are enormous.
It would seem unlikely. However a flood of comets or even meteors triggered by disturbing the Oort Cloud with a stellar flyby seems a possibility. I'd welcome an analysis of that potential consequence.
Carnivore was run by the FBI, not the NSA. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . The name was changed to DCS1000. I'm not sure if it's still active or has been supplanted by more modern programs.
> you'd have to find a replacement for the role that exchange rates play in international trade relations. C
You'd ideally also prevent large scale arbitrage from sucking all the profit out of those exchange rates, which is modern high-speed trading does to the stock market. I'm afraid that the thigh speed trading firms would balance the local currencies _very_ swiftly, before the ordinary worker had any possibility of personal benefit through switching markets.
It is _precisely_ how such cryptography can work. It would be unusual: It's much more common to simply sign such messages with the private key, so that the public key can be used to authenticate it. But there's nothing preventing the requirement of a separate, public key to decrypt it. Think of it as swapping the normal private and public key usage of the receiving party.
> Actual child porn, and the possession thereof, has always (at least for the past few decades) been illegal,
Nude beach photos of children are considered by some to be child porn. This has included family nudist outings. The definitions have often been quite vague, to avoid criminalizing art and medical records.
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It's a vital question. If a robot or device cannot make a contract, how can they be considered a person? Conversely, if they cannot make a contract, how can they have any resources to file suit for and how can a plaintiff injured or damaged by the robot receive any damages.
I've looked at this myself. There is no chance of making old Python 2 code compatible with Python 3, especially older and unmaintained code, even if it is stable. Upgrading all python code in Fedora to be Python 3 based is possible, though it's a long-term upgrade effortt than just one Fedora release. I'd be curious about when Python 2 will be abandoned and attempts to publish packages with both python2 and python3 versions will end.
SysV init had a number of critical issues. One was the failure to successfully and automatically restart a crashed daemon. There have been several lighterweight, safer init systems. Upstart worked well, but never became popular.
I'm afraid that this is not remotely possible. The kernel and the critical libraries, for Windows 10 are proprietary and Microsoft does not follow the published API's.
I do see some tools, such as https://github.com/rv8-io/rv8 , that seem to run x86_64 code in a simulation mode for RISC-V. Has anyone here tested this tool, or seen anything equivalent for ARM ? I've not had or made the opportunity to do so myself: my personal hardware budget is much smaller than it was at earlier times in my career.
Yes, there is something that ARM hardware cannot do. It cannot directly run the existing x86_64 or i386 software.
> If the features and functions you need aren't available on ChromeOS, it won't work for you.
I'm afraid that this includes over 90% of all laptop users. Without support for robust, fully Microsoft compatible document or spreadsheet handling for business professionals, without robust gaming support for even those few Steam games that have been converted, and without the developer support to handle virtual environments for other development, they remain useful only as web browser tools.
The idea that specific points treat specific ailments comes from every acupuncture map published, and the acupuncturists themselves. What precisely makes you think that they do not associate specific points with treating specific disorders?
> This is solved in the planning phase.
That is a _Very_ optimistic view. It can be very, very expensive to pre-plan and pre-allocate resources for all contingencies, and it can delay release by months if not years. when planning a release, all predictable factors may not be known or even knowable. One can spend many times as much money and time on QA, more money than the cost of an entire new project, and _still_ have an unexpected problem when a system goes to production
Please, note that there is are some very powerful distinctions between practical engineering and the predictive power of science.
>> As I understand it, Different practitioners have different patterns for what disorders or issues are treated by different acupuncture points.
> Actually they don't have.
There is, as best I can tell, no master map used by all or even most practitioners. The Google images for acupressure points show this: The variety of needle locations for ear, foot, or hand to treat the same disorders provides a good sense of the lack of consistency among these practitioners.
https://www.google.com/search?...
I've not been able to find a reliable report of using alternative needle placements to verify acupuncture effectiveness: I also admit to being surprised it wasn't tried, simply to ease the difficulty of a more traditional double blind test. I'd hope that the double blind could be done this way by having someone _other_ than the acupuncture expert place the needles. The non-placebo needle locations could be selected by the practitioner, and a double blind method applied to give the person applying needles a randomized but distinct set of alternative, safe needle locations. It could be particularly easily done with needles in places like the ear, which has a very close set of locations for different disorders in the maps shown on Google, and which the recipient cannot easily see or distinguish among.
> You can not really test acupuncture with double blind studies, or how should the one poking you not know, kr know if he is really poking you?
It's testable by "poking" somewhere else than where the practitioner would plan. As I understand it, Different practitioners have different patterns for what disorders or issues are treated by different acupuncture points. If there is no verifiable association between the acupuncture points and the disorders, if it doesn't matter which acupuncture points are used, then that indicates it's a placebo effect.
Since the bloodstream and lymphatic system also connect different tissues together in an already well demonstrated fluid transfer network of blood vessels, the transfer of cancerous cells from one organ to another would not seem to require explanation. And since acupuncture consistently fails double blind experiments, that would seem to be another "mystery of modern medicine" that would seem to be already explained, as a placebo effect.
> 1) Where did he do the crime?
The crime was against military and other computers in the USA. In that sense,he allegedly "did the crime" in the USA. Many computer hacking crimes are violations of both state and federal law. One can be convicted in both court systems for distinct crimes related to the same acts, and suffer civil penalties as well.
> 2) The huge asymmetry between extradition in either direction, coupled with the posturing of US officials
Whether it has been asymmetrical is apparently argued about in UK courts as a reason to deny extradition.
> Really? Their terms of service say that anything you upload or store in their service belongs to them.
Gogle is careful _not_ to assume ownership of Google Drive content. See the actual terms of use at: https://support.google.com/dri...
There are many business and legal reasons for Google to avoid claiming ownership of that content. One of the simpler reasons is to avoid responsibility for it.
It's not just the expense of our expertise. We interfere with day to day productivity when we tell developers or our own businesses to follow basic security practices, and are told by managers and our clients to stop wasting people's time. I've certainly forbidden transmitting passwords via email in plaintext, and storing passwords in source control repositories in plain text, or storing default permanent passwords in public setup instructions. I've then seen the written instructions published by department heads of network operation center groups or developers to always send the passwords via email and never force password changes, just to avoid wasting customer time and so that the business has a record of that password for later support use.
I'm afraid that security is almost always treated as a cost. The failure to pay that cost can be tragic. But the cost often isn't large enough or immediate enough for people to remember to pay it until it's much too late.
What? I designed the cochlear implant electronics used to do functional MRI on electrodes broadcasting sound signals into only one human ear. They're the only experments properly measuring sound for only *one* ear, since MRI scanners are *really loud* with a *PING* *PING* *PING* as the MRI fires, and that comes in both ears. But if the person is stone deaf except for a cochlear implant, of the old "Ineraid" style with the jack that sticks out of the head that can be safely put in an MRI, you can get really, really interesting information about how sound in one ear stimulates both sides of the brain.
*That* was cool science with FMRI.
I know of no state where "salaried" personnel get paid overtime. The workplace may authorize compensation time. But overtime for senior developer, systems, DevOps, or technical managerial personnel. Even for hourly private contractors, I do not see overtime. In what what private industry. non-union field are you seeing overtime paid?
> any after hours I had to attend were balanced by a reduction of standard hours
This has not been the case for many of the years I've worked personally, and many of the senior roles I've filled. It's at the core of much of the "glass ceiling" women experience for senior roles, they've been much less willing than men to work in roles that require it. It's also part of age discrimination for men my age in technology experience when we are no longer willing or able to be on call 24x7. I'm personally just now finishing an after hours deployment: it needed to occur after business hours, and I had to supervise it. But the compensatory time needed is larger for me and men my age than it is for many of my younger colleagues. We can't spend the next day up at 7:00 AM for remote telecommuting with Europe or Asia, or due to family schedules. The physical and mental toll is more burdensome, as well as the toll of doing mixed schedules with remote colleagues. Even the toll of hopping schedule from one schedule for weekend deployments and weekday business meetings increases.
Look in any network operations center, and any supervisory or senior engineer role that requires off-hours or awkwardly scheduled work. The age and gender skew towards younger men are enormous.
It would seem unlikely. However a flood of comets or even meteors triggered by disturbing the Oort Cloud with a stellar flyby seems a possibility. I'd welcome an analysis of that potential consequence.
Carnivore was run by the FBI, not the NSA. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . The name was changed to DCS1000. I'm not sure if it's still active or has been supplanted by more modern programs.
> you'd have to find a replacement for the role that exchange rates play in international trade relations. C
You'd ideally also prevent large scale arbitrage from sucking all the profit out of those exchange rates, which is modern high-speed trading does to the stock market. I'm afraid that the thigh speed trading firms would balance the local currencies _very_ swiftly, before the ordinary worker had any possibility of personal benefit through switching markets.
The "sexual" tone need not follow any defined standard. Examples include http://www.wpbf.com/article/nu...
It is _precisely_ how such cryptography can work. It would be unusual: It's much more common to simply sign such messages with the private key, so that the public key can be used to authenticate it. But there's nothing preventing the requirement of a separate, public key to decrypt it. Think of it as swapping the normal private and public key usage of the receiving party.
> Actual child porn, and the possession thereof, has always (at least for the past few decades) been illegal,
Nude beach photos of children are considered by some to be child porn. This has included family nudist outings. The definitions have often been quite vague, to avoid criminalizing art and medical records.