I'm afraid this is precisely backwards. The analysts explore the data with a hypothesis in mind. Discovering that your hypothesis is mistaken can lead to a paper, but leads to a much less _publishable_ paper. They and especially students involved have strong motivations to skew their findings, and I'm afraid that it is a matter of course that legitimate analysts try to remain aware of. It's a problem in all fields, but the purely mathematical analysis makes testing the hypothesis more difficult.
There are several common difficulties with meta analysis. Political or social whims can, and do, profoundly skew the data. So do commonplace procedural errors in the experiments that are being analyzed. So does the tendency of analyzers to discount outlying cases that may contradict the expected outcome as "obvious errors", even excluding them from mention in their meta-analyses.
I'm afraid that meta analysis is a tool that can be and often is misused to confuse correlation with causation.
I'm afraid it's worse. Certain classes of paper, such as those which do meta-analyses of other papers, cite them in doing statistical analyses of those papers. The result is a churn of analyses of analyses, with no actual experimentation or analysis other than statistical analysis of the other papers. It's no longer science because the underlying hypotheses are not falsifiable.
I'm afraid that the result has been stunning skew in the results of the meta-analysis by tuning the analysis to the pre-disposed desires of the analyst. It's most visible in the publications of the "soft" sciences, such as political analysis, sociology, and economics, where direct evidence is very difficult to measure and direct experiments diffult to perform in a controlled or double blind method.
The resistamce for pure water is rated as roughly 18 MOhm for one square centimeter electrodes, one centimeter apart. This is not a perfect insulator. It's certainly enough to dissipate static charges. Also, water is _rarely_ that pure and neutral in pH in nature.
The OLPC system from the "One Laptop Per Child" project was designed precisely to support physical distribution of bulky content on physical media from central stations to remote "webs" of OLPC systems to make the content available cheaply and robustly with no wired or radio frequency connection to the upstream Internet. It was a fascinating project and worked surprisingly well for a project with so many unique technologies and approaches.
Oh, dear. You've my apology for that. I was recently dealing with a business there, and they were on my mind. I did check correctly in the first place, Silicon Valley is near the San Andreas fault and the region is overdue for a sizeable earthquake.
Salt Lake City is reasonably close to the San Andreas fault, which many geologists consider to be overdue for a major earthquake. Tall housing could be a serious safety problem.
"Remember that age and treachery will always triumph over youth and ability".
I've had some difficulty finding the original source, but the saying is one I've used at work when explaining to younger people why they're having difficulty outperforming an older person like me.
I am at this age. There are skills in demand which I've not invested time and training in, and which it would take me years to become comfortable enough to contribute in any notable way. (.NET, anyone?) This is partly due to age: I'm not as adept at learning new skills with enthusiasm as I was decades ago. It's also partly due to a great deal of crystallized knowledge of other systems that have different structure, and requirements. So I don't take leadership on bringing in those newer technologies.
In the position of those staff, I'd appreciate your speaking to _me_, not just to Slashdot. Do they want to retrain? Does it excite them? If they're accustomed to "Adding Windows users" and other rote tasks, are they interested in learning PowerShell to automate their old tasks? If the company is large, can they learn PXE activation for Linux style deployments? With their experience, can they learn security or firewall management work?
You've made valid claims. But I fail to see where they would refute my points. The Free Software Foundation _wrote_ the GPL, and has the largest collection of GPL copyrights that I've seen, anywhere. It particularly hods copyrights to gcc, glibc, coreutils, and other critical freeware, so they are the best example of a a GPL copyright holder with multiple copyrights.
Moreover, the FSF has been the organization bringing GPL violations to court. They've been successfully setting legal precedents in cases including Tivo and Cisco. They've also been providing invaluable legal support to the current VMware lawsuit.. To say that such action and the resulting precedents do apply to the GPL in general, merely because the FSF does not hold a majority of GPL copyrights, would be misleading.
My knowledge of Sweden's government behavior is based on reports from some business colleagues and residents. Are you saying that _Sweden_ is abusive to civil rights and has excessive government regulation? They do have extensive regulation, but according to the residents I've spoken with it's clear, consistent, and publicly accessible. The secrecy of a hidden intellligence-gathering with NSA style monitoring would seem to be in direct violation of the Swedish constitution, specifically the "Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act".
Organizations with large suites of GPL licenses, such as the Free Software Foundation, are in a similar position to companies with large suites of software patents. If the licenses on one tool are violated outrageously, then the license for all components owned by that copyright holder can be withdrawn en masse. That would be a deliberate choice by the FSF. I will note that the FSF has always been _very_ careful about enforcing the GPL judiciously. Violators get every opportunity to comply voluntarily long before any penalties are sought. The FSF does not threaten copyright violators lightly.
As best I can tell, with Intel ME, they've done to Minix what TIVO did. They used "free software" to build an OS that cannot be modified or updated by the owner of the hardware.
For casual readers who don't know who "AST" is, that letter at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel... is from Andrew S. Tannenbaum, the primary author of Minix. In the letter, he accepts Intel's current behavior quite explicitly. Andrew also complains, in a postrscript, about the use of ME as a spy engine. If Minix were published under a GPL, instead of a BSD license, Minix developers could demand that ME publish the source code for their modifications used to create the spyware. It is precisely that kind of secretive and abusive misuse of open source work that free software and the GPL licenses was designed to prevent.
I'm not convinced BSD is the most infringed license, but you seem correct that infringing it is common place. One reason difficulty is that the BSD license does not have the clear consequences that GPL violation does, that violation loses access to all other GPL licenses from the same copyright owner. The Free Software Foundation has been using this successfully to enforce GPL compliance.
Sweden. I'm quite impressed by their openness about government documents, and the very modest size and power of their government. They do have extensive social services, but they're very open and public about their public servants and policies.
> Sexual harassment is about using your gender as a way to to pull power from someone else of a different gender.
Please, review your terms. Not only do I beg to differ, I can find no example of a dictionary that agrees with this definition. Sexual harassment is not gender specific. Treating one gender differently from aanother in unjustified ways _is_ gender discrimination. If you're convinced that sexual harassment is defined by distinct genders, then I'd encourage you to review the history of same sex sexual harassment by Catholic priests recently, and by prison guards throughout history.
In case you are being confused by some political analysis that merges those two abusive activities, there is a recent article in Scientific American at https://www.scientificamerican.... According to CDC statistics cited there, men are *more* likely to be sexually harassed, especially rape. Much of that reported rape is by women. And for both men and women who are in prison, same-sex rape is commonplace, mostly by other inmates.
They also forward data, wholesale, as part of intelligence sharing about shared threats. There is a reasonably good, though self-serving, analysis at https://www.cia.gov/library/ce... .
In particular, they'll lose the licenses necessary to export the goods, or to import them if manufactured overseas. They can also lose government sales. With abusive legal tactics such as "Patriot Act" orders, a company refusing to cooperate with orders for backdoors is vulnerable to extremely destructive legal and extra legal abuse from the FCC and from Homeland Security.
That does create a window of opportunity. It's a window that could be detected by many external firewalls, which monitor web traffic as a matter of course and could detect the Apple update download.
Compared to the limited and less secure hashing previously available, I'd suggest that it does make it more secure. It wouldn't address the other commonplace issues.
On what basis do you claim this? Since Dell is not being specific about how they disable it there's very little reason to assume that it's a physical change. Since the Intel Management Engine can reasonable considered to be directly accessible to law enforcement, I don't see why most vendors will not leave it accessible to court ordered access. They consider it important to cooperate with national governments to retain export licenses and government contract work.
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I'm afraid this is precisely backwards. The analysts explore the data with a hypothesis in mind. Discovering that your hypothesis is mistaken can lead to a paper, but leads to a much less _publishable_ paper. They and especially students involved have strong motivations to skew their findings, and I'm afraid that it is a matter of course that legitimate analysts try to remain aware of. It's a problem in all fields, but the purely mathematical analysis makes testing the hypothesis more difficult.
There are several common difficulties with meta analysis. Political or social whims can, and do, profoundly skew the data. So do commonplace procedural errors in the experiments that are being analyzed. So does the tendency of analyzers to discount outlying cases that may contradict the expected outcome as "obvious errors", even excluding them from mention in their meta-analyses.
I'm afraid that meta analysis is a tool that can be and often is misused to confuse correlation with causation.
I'm afraid it's worse. Certain classes of paper, such as those which do meta-analyses of other papers, cite them in doing statistical analyses of those papers. The result is a churn of analyses of analyses, with no actual experimentation or analysis other than statistical analysis of the other papers. It's no longer science because the underlying hypotheses are not falsifiable.
I'm afraid that the result has been stunning skew in the results of the meta-analysis by tuning the analysis to the pre-disposed desires of the analyst. It's most visible in the publications of the "soft" sciences, such as political analysis, sociology, and economics, where direct evidence is very difficult to measure and direct experiments diffult to perform in a controlled or double blind method.
> Pure water doesn't conduct electricity at all;
The resistamce for pure water is rated as roughly 18 MOhm for one square centimeter electrodes, one centimeter apart. This is not a perfect insulator. It's certainly enough to dissipate static charges. Also, water is _rarely_ that pure and neutral in pH in nature.
The OLPC system from the "One Laptop Per Child" project was designed precisely to support physical distribution of bulky content on physical media from central stations to remote "webs" of OLPC systems to make the content available cheaply and robustly with no wired or radio frequency connection to the upstream Internet. It was a fascinating project and worked surprisingly well for a project with so many unique technologies and approaches.
Oh, dear. You've my apology for that. I was recently dealing with a business there, and they were on my mind. I did check correctly in the first place, Silicon Valley is near the San Andreas fault and the region is overdue for a sizeable earthquake.
> should be 20+ story buildings
Salt Lake City is reasonably close to the San Andreas fault, which many geologists consider to be overdue for a major earthquake. Tall housing could be a serious safety problem.
Except when there is fraud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> When he retired, we lost our main source for "free" hardware, quick access and useful "connections" to other departments.
This happens with layoffs, as well. It happened to _me_, decades ago, and several departments banded together to demand I be brought back.
"Remember that age and treachery will always triumph over youth and ability".
I've had some difficulty finding the original source, but the saying is one I've used at work when explaining to younger people why they're having difficulty outperforming an older person like me.
I am at this age. There are skills in demand which I've not invested time and training in, and which it would take me years to become comfortable enough to contribute in any notable way. (.NET, anyone?) This is partly due to age: I'm not as adept at learning new skills with enthusiasm as I was decades ago. It's also partly due to a great deal of crystallized knowledge of other systems that have different structure, and requirements. So I don't take leadership on bringing in those newer technologies.
In the position of those staff, I'd appreciate your speaking to _me_, not just to Slashdot. Do they want to retrain? Does it excite them? If they're accustomed to "Adding Windows users" and other rote tasks, are they interested in learning PowerShell to automate their old tasks? If the company is large, can they learn PXE activation for Linux style deployments? With their experience, can they learn security or firewall management work?
You've made valid claims. But I fail to see where they would refute my points. The Free Software Foundation _wrote_ the GPL, and has the largest collection of GPL copyrights that I've seen, anywhere. It particularly hods copyrights to gcc, glibc, coreutils, and other critical freeware, so they are the best example of a a GPL copyright holder with multiple copyrights.
Moreover, the FSF has been the organization bringing GPL violations to court. They've been successfully setting legal precedents in cases including Tivo and Cisco. They've also been providing invaluable legal support to the current VMware lawsuit.. To say that such action and the resulting precedents do apply to the GPL in general, merely because the FSF does not hold a majority of GPL copyrights, would be misleading.
My knowledge of Sweden's government behavior is based on reports from some business colleagues and residents. Are you saying that _Sweden_ is abusive to civil rights and has excessive government regulation? They do have extensive regulation, but according to the residents I've spoken with it's clear, consistent, and publicly accessible. The secrecy of a hidden intellligence-gathering with NSA style monitoring would seem to be in direct violation of the Swedish constitution, specifically the "Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act".
Organizations with large suites of GPL licenses, such as the Free Software Foundation, are in a similar position to companies with large suites of software patents. If the licenses on one tool are violated outrageously, then the license for all components owned by that copyright holder can be withdrawn en masse. That would be a deliberate choice by the FSF. I will note that the FSF has always been _very_ careful about enforcing the GPL judiciously. Violators get every opportunity to comply voluntarily long before any penalties are sought. The FSF does not threaten copyright violators lightly.
As best I can tell, with Intel ME, they've done to Minix what TIVO did. They used "free software" to build an OS that cannot be modified or updated by the owner of the hardware.
For casual readers who don't know who "AST" is, that letter at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel... is from Andrew S. Tannenbaum, the primary author of Minix. In the letter, he accepts Intel's current behavior quite explicitly. Andrew also complains, in a postrscript, about the use of ME as a spy engine. If Minix were published under a GPL, instead of a BSD license, Minix developers could demand that ME publish the source code for their modifications used to create the spyware. It is precisely that kind of secretive and abusive misuse of open source work that free software and the GPL licenses was designed to prevent.
You're quite correct. The Minix license is visible at https://github.com/minix3/mini... .
I'm not convinced BSD is the most infringed license, but you seem correct that infringing it is common place. One reason difficulty is that the BSD license does not have the clear consequences that GPL violation does, that violation loses access to all other GPL licenses from the same copyright owner. The Free Software Foundation has been using this successfully to enforce GPL compliance.
Sweden. I'm quite impressed by their openness about government documents, and the very modest size and power of their government. They do have extensive social services, but they're very open and public about their public servants and policies.
> Sexual harassment is about using your gender as a way to to pull power from someone else of a different gender.
Please, review your terms. Not only do I beg to differ, I can find no example of a dictionary that agrees with this definition. Sexual harassment is not gender specific. Treating one gender differently from aanother in unjustified ways _is_ gender discrimination. If you're convinced that sexual harassment is defined by distinct genders, then I'd encourage you to review the history of same sex sexual harassment by Catholic priests recently, and by prison guards throughout history.
In case you are being confused by some political analysis that merges those two abusive activities, there is a recent article in Scientific American at https://www.scientificamerican.... According to CDC statistics cited there, men are *more* likely to be sexually harassed, especially rape. Much of that reported rape is by women. And for both men and women who are in prison, same-sex rape is commonplace, mostly by other inmates.
_Voting_ shares.
They also forward data, wholesale, as part of intelligence sharing about shared threats. There is a reasonably good, though self-serving, analysis at https://www.cia.gov/library/ce... .
In particular, they'll lose the licenses necessary to export the goods, or to import them if manufactured overseas. They can also lose government sales. With abusive legal tactics such as "Patriot Act" orders, a company refusing to cooperate with orders for backdoors is vulnerable to extremely destructive legal and extra legal abuse from the FCC and from Homeland Security.
Please do not forget to factor in the increase of human population over the centuries.
That does create a window of opportunity. It's a window that could be detected by many external firewalls, which monitor web traffic as a matter of course and could detect the Apple update download.
Compared to the limited and less secure hashing previously available, I'd suggest that it does make it more secure. It wouldn't address the other commonplace issues.
On what basis do you claim this? Since Dell is not being specific about how they disable it there's very little reason to assume that it's a physical change. Since the Intel Management Engine can reasonable considered to be directly accessible to law enforcement, I don't see why most vendors will not leave it accessible to court ordered access. They consider it important to cooperate with national governments to retain export licenses and government contract work.