This suggestion reminds me of commerce clause cases like South Dakota v. Dole. The federal goverment does not have much actual authorty, but they use spending authority to make things happen. They almost always offer states a choice, and the finanical consquances of saying "No" cannot be so severe that the choice is illusory.
It would be intersting to see what would happen if a school did say no, it would set up a very intersting commercace clause case in front of a court that has been the first in ages to restrict commerace clause authority.
Unless they have no idea what specific data was involved why not just send these people a letter?
As I read the law personal notifcation is not only allowed it is prefered. The complants about "now the theves know they have something valuable" seems like it is more a result of the choice to hold a press conferance and save the cost of a lot of stamps.
I was thinking abut this the other day when I looked something up at Amazon - at some point Amazon will have to decide if they are a reserch tool or a bookseller. Looks like they are leaning to bookseller. This is not a huge problem for me.
I suspect that they will allow you to serch for a passaage, but not read much around it if you haven't bought said book. I think they so something like this now for people without active CC# on file. This seems fair, espically in the case of cookbooks; I for one buy a cookbook, read it and then only use 3-5 recipies.
I usually have the same feeling, but after seeing this http://www.levenger.com/Pagetemplates/Product/More Photos.asp I relized that for me it was just a function problem, most wooden desks are very tradional looking and not really desined for a computer so the computer looks out of place. If a desk is really designed for its purpose it will, IMHO, look right.
I remember one of my classes on the middle east- the professor asked for a show of hand as to how many people would be willing to trade civil liberites for cash. More then half the class seemed willing to make the bargin. He then pointed out that this was the trade-off that Saudi-Arabia represented. He also noted that students from other middle eastern countries usually tried to stay in the US, but that the students from Saudi Arabia tended to go back.
I suspect a large number, if not a majority of US citizens would be willing to make a similarly lucrative trade off in exchange for allowing an absolute monoarchy, in a way the house of saud is the ultimate example of free market goverment, they have bought their power.
I for one don't waste any effort hating this goverment, nor do I feel espically sorry for its citizens. I suspect that most could leave if it really bothered them.
Legal Departments tend to be full of people who are highly risk adverse and might inculde overeaching and unenforcable language on purpose to give them a stronger inital negoating postion. Yes, it is suspect that the Univeristy is letting them get away with what I personally consider poor drafting.
(Contracts are a bit like code, good ones are tight and do exactly and only what they need to do)
Chances are that the univerity hasn't even noticed, a paranoid lacky wrote it, the leagal department tells the HR department they need it that way and you end up looking at something unreasonable becase HR is not about to second guess legal.
If you have access to a lawyer or can get it have them look it over and write a letter. If not take evasive action. I do not know how enforcable a claim to IP produce before employment would be, but you don't wanna have to find out. Do as others have suggested and consider transfering your stuff for the summer. If not exclude everything you consider important using a seperate sheet (all property as shown on appendix a attached hereto and made a part hereof) and inculde a statement that even if your giving it away your only giving away what you own (this contract only govens rights currently controled by signee and is subject to all previous contracts entered in to by signee and is subject to any licensing agreements that effect such rights).
If your important enough for them to bother with a contract with an IP clause you are probably headed for intersting things. Get a lawyer to review your employment contracts as soon as you can possibly afford it. The type of empolyers you mentioned probably expect some scuffling over IP.
Kids get computers, they use them from a young age. They might not know the details, but they don't know the details on how the dishwasher works either.
What you bring to the table is something else. Programming opens up the possiblity of control, something that kids don't get much of.
I think your on the right track, show them that they can make the computer do what they want. This is what made programming compelling to me as a child.
As to how, I know it is not as powerful as some other choices, but have you considered just using HTML? I know it isn't a programming language in the strictest sense, but it doesn't take much to show the basics and it is both usable and useful. It would not convey much programming, but it would convey the basic idea, computers obey coded commands that you give in a special way.
Geek tends to mean white or asian male. I don't think anyone here is going to argue with that. It would be interting to see how strong this subconcious assocation is, and this is a way to do it... https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selecta test.html
I suggest the gender-science and gender-career tests. I bet that people on/. are even more likely then adverage to have strong assocations between maleness and scientific abilty and business ability. This is likely in part a self prepuating cycle, seeing few women leads you to think women don't belong in IT, which leads you to be suspicious of any women who are in IT, the women get tired of hostile reactions and drop out, this leads to fewer women in IT.....
There is another sort of sale which is also generally exempt. Catalog sales are unusally untaxable unless the vendor has a physical branch in the state. Why should internet downloads be treated diffently.
Of couse one can argue that they are actually being treated the same, many states also expect their citizens to volunatrly report and pay sales tax on catalog items as well. It doesn't work so well since there is really no way to enforce the tax.
That is really my problem with all such proposals. On one hand I think an internet tax could be somewhat good for the community, there is no better way to get govement support then to give them a piece of the action. I supect DCMA and the like would have come out diffently if the govemental pocketbook had been weighted the same way the public interst was.
On the other hand passing an unenforcable law is simply foolish. Every law that can be ignored with impunity throws all others in to suspicion. One also wonders how we could possibly need a law to govern something that cannot even be tracked.
Prehaps insted of downloaded sales they should simply consider a small tax on datastreams in general. It would at least be trackable, and might result in WI encouraging file swapping to get those taxes up (kidding!)
I think we agree that this is not a hack, nothing was bypassed. There should be a term for this, how about exploit? The applicants exploited a weakness in the system. You can even be more specific and say it was a unlinked url exploit.
In a way an exploit is like a slip that is showing.
You could tell the lady discretely, which is commendable.
You could point it out to your friend, snicker and say nothing which is low.
You could notice it yourself and do noting, which is not really bad, but not good either.
You could have it pointed out to you and look, that is only human, but then you can tell the lady her slip is showing or do nothing.
If you do nothing when you know others are looking and snickering, you are exposing her to ridicule, and you are less then a gentleman/lady.
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Would it be possible to use both public key and strong cryptography in the same chip?
I am assuming that the problem that this is supposed to solve is people entering the US under forged US passports. If that is the case you could use strong encrytion and never export a reader.
You could use strong encrytion for the limited application of US rentry check and use a less safe system for other checks if the chips could handle it
I used to work for one of these chains. I also used the card data. Overall I think that people give the supermarkets involved more credit for data savvy then they deserve. I used the data to look at spend rates aggragated over block groups, marketing used it mainly to sens out flyers. If there was any sophisticated data analysis going on it was happening at the data wearhouse that ran the card progaram and owned the data (we had to buy this data from them if we actually wanted to use it). This does mean that they have NO access to the payment stream and that a linkage would be highly unlikely to impossible.
Of course Google can censor what they like, but it is approprate to find such instances and call them on it. Censorship calls in to question Googles reliablity as an information provider and thus need to be reported on and highlighted.
I do not think anyone is saying they can't do this, they are only pointing out that as customers of Googles service they find it disturbing
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,12 543,658680,00.html
These contact lenses correct your vison at night. You don't wear them during the day.
This might be something you want to look in to if you have reason to be cautious about eye surgery.
My family tends to have eye problems (deatched retnas, scarring etc) so I suggested my mom consider this option insted, but I don't have any more data yet.
Sort of.
It is persuasive, which means the court doesn't have to follow it, it is basically treated the same as an article in a law journal would be.
To make an analogy if jurisdiction was programming language and you wanted to code something you would first look for something in your own language, and if it came from a programmer who was better then you, you would use it. This is like mandatory authority, if a issue has been decided by a higher court a lower court has to follow it.
If you found code from a programmer who was a beginner, or in another language you might still look at it for ideas. You might also see what people have written about theoretical solutions to the problem. This is like persuasive authority, courts will usually consider ruling for lower court, court in different regions, and law journal articles about something, but they are free to not follow any of this. This is where this ruling would fit, but it would be given less weight then a US decision because of the different legal framework. It would probably be about as, but perhaps slightly more useful then, a law review article. (of course how Sort of.
It is persuasive, which means the court doesn't have to follow it, it is basically treated the same as an article in a law journal would be.
To make an analogy if jurisdiction was programming language and you wanted to code something you would first look for something in your own language, and if it came from a programmer who was better then you, you would use it. This is like mandatory authority, if a issue has been decided by a higher court a lower court has to follow it.
If you found code from a programmer who was a beginner, or in another language you might still look at it for ideas. You might also see what people have written about theoretical solutions to the problem. This is like persuasive authority, courts will usually consider ruling for lower court, court in different regions, and law journal articles about something, but they are free to not follow any of this. This is where this ruling would fit, but it would be given less weight then a US decision because of the different legal framework. It would probably be about as, but perhaps slightly more useful then, a law review article.
How persuasive persuasive authority really is depends on a lot of things, but this should give you a general idea of what it means
IANAL or a programmer so take it for the opinion it is
If I were in charge of voting in an area I would use a simple and cost effective method of counting vote electronically- the auto-grading machines in the local city schools.
I would print out the ballot as voters checked in, giving you the security of not having extra ballots along
The only real downside would be that the blind would need assistance (you could create large print, but people would still have to read) and that it would be very hard to have tests in the schools on the same day as elections
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This suggestion reminds me of commerce clause cases like South Dakota v. Dole. The federal goverment does not have much actual authorty, but they use spending authority to make things happen. They almost always offer states a choice, and the finanical consquances of saying "No" cannot be so severe that the choice is illusory.
It would be intersting to see what would happen if a school did say no, it would set up a very intersting commercace clause case in front of a court that has been the first in ages to restrict commerace clause authority.
Unless they have no idea what specific data was involved why not just send these people a letter?
As I read the law personal notifcation is not only allowed it is prefered. The complants about "now the theves know they have something valuable" seems like it is more a result of the choice to hold a press conferance and save the cost of a lot of stamps.
I was thinking abut this the other day when I looked something up at Amazon - at some point Amazon will have to decide if they are a reserch tool or a bookseller. Looks like they are leaning to bookseller. This is not a huge problem for me. I suspect that they will allow you to serch for a passaage, but not read much around it if you haven't bought said book. I think they so something like this now for people without active CC# on file. This seems fair, espically in the case of cookbooks; I for one buy a cookbook, read it and then only use 3-5 recipies.
I usually have the same feeling, but after seeing this http://www.levenger.com/Pagetemplates/Product/More Photos.asp I relized that for me it was just a function problem, most wooden desks are very tradional looking and not really desined for a computer so the computer looks out of place. If a desk is really designed for its purpose it will, IMHO, look right.
I remember one of my classes on the middle east- the professor asked for a show of hand as to how many people would be willing to trade civil liberites for cash. More then half the class seemed willing to make the bargin. He then pointed out that this was the trade-off that Saudi-Arabia represented. He also noted that students from other middle eastern countries usually tried to stay in the US, but that the students from Saudi Arabia tended to go back.
I suspect a large number, if not a majority of US citizens would be willing to make a similarly lucrative trade off in exchange for allowing an absolute monoarchy, in a way the house of saud is the ultimate example of free market goverment, they have bought their power.
I for one don't waste any effort hating this goverment, nor do I feel espically sorry for its citizens. I suspect that most could leave if it really bothered them.
Legal Departments tend to be full of people who are highly risk adverse and might inculde overeaching and unenforcable language on purpose to give them a stronger inital negoating postion. Yes, it is suspect that the Univeristy is letting them get away with what I personally consider poor drafting.
(Contracts are a bit like code, good ones are tight and do exactly and only what they need to do)
Chances are that the univerity hasn't even noticed, a paranoid lacky wrote it, the leagal department tells the HR department they need it that way and you end up looking at something unreasonable becase HR is not about to second guess legal.
If you have access to a lawyer or can get it have them look it over and write a letter. If not take evasive action. I do not know how enforcable a claim to IP produce before employment would be, but you don't wanna have to find out. Do as others have suggested and consider transfering your stuff for the summer. If not exclude everything you consider important using a seperate sheet (all property as shown on appendix a attached hereto and made a part hereof) and inculde a statement that even if your giving it away your only giving away what you own (this contract only govens rights currently controled by signee and is subject to all previous contracts entered in to by signee and is subject to any licensing agreements that effect such rights).
If your important enough for them to bother with a contract with an IP clause you are probably headed for intersting things. Get a lawyer to review your employment contracts as soon as you can possibly afford it. The type of empolyers you mentioned probably expect some scuffling over IP.
Kids get computers, they use them from a young age. They might not know the details, but they don't know the details on how the dishwasher works either.
What you bring to the table is something else. Programming opens up the possiblity of control, something that kids don't get much of.
I think your on the right track, show them that they can make the computer do what they want. This is what made programming compelling to me as a child.
As to how, I know it is not as powerful as some other choices, but have you considered just using HTML? I know it isn't a programming language in the strictest sense, but it doesn't take much to show the basics and it is both usable and useful. It would not convey much programming, but it would convey the basic idea, computers obey coded commands that you give in a special way.
Geek tends to mean white or asian male. I don't think anyone here is going to argue with that. It would be interting to see how strong this subconcious assocation is, and this is a way to do it...a test.html
/. are even more likely then adverage to have strong assocations between maleness and scientific abilty and business ability.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/select
I suggest the gender-science and gender-career tests. I bet that people on
This is likely in part a self prepuating cycle, seeing few women leads you to think women don't belong in IT, which leads you to be suspicious of any women who are in IT, the women get tired of hostile reactions and drop out, this leads to fewer women in IT.....
There is another sort of sale which is also generally exempt. Catalog sales are unusally untaxable unless the vendor has a physical branch in the state. Why should internet downloads be treated diffently.
Of couse one can argue that they are actually being treated the same, many states also expect their citizens to volunatrly report and pay sales tax on catalog items as well. It doesn't work so well since there is really no way to enforce the tax.
That is really my problem with all such proposals. On one hand I think an internet tax could be somewhat good for the community, there is no better way to get govement support then to give them a piece of the action. I supect DCMA and the like would have come out diffently if the govemental pocketbook had been weighted the same way the public interst was.
On the other hand passing an unenforcable law is simply foolish. Every law that can be ignored with impunity throws all others in to suspicion. One also wonders how we could possibly need a law to govern something that cannot even be tracked.
Prehaps insted of downloaded sales they should simply consider a small tax on datastreams in general. It would at least be trackable, and might result in WI encouraging file swapping to get those taxes up (kidding!)
In a way an exploit is like a slip that is showing.
- You could tell the lady discretely, which is commendable.
- You could point it out to your friend, snicker and say nothing which is low.
- You could notice it yourself and do noting, which is not really bad, but not good either.
- You could have it pointed out to you and look, that is only human, but then you can tell the lady her slip is showing or do nothing.
If you do nothing when you know others are looking and snickering, you are exposing her to ridicule, and you are less then a gentleman/lady.Would it be possible to use both public key and strong cryptography in the same chip? I am assuming that the problem that this is supposed to solve is people entering the US under forged US passports. If that is the case you could use strong encrytion and never export a reader. You could use strong encrytion for the limited application of US rentry check and use a less safe system for other checks if the chips could handle it
I used to work for one of these chains. I also used the card data. Overall I think that people give the supermarkets involved more credit for data savvy then they deserve. I used the data to look at spend rates aggragated over block groups, marketing used it mainly to sens out flyers. If there was any sophisticated data analysis going on it was happening at the data wearhouse that ran the card progaram and owned the data (we had to buy this data from them if we actually wanted to use it). This does mean that they have NO access to the payment stream and that a linkage would be highly unlikely to impossible.
Of course Google can censor what they like, but it is approprate to find such instances and call them on it. Censorship calls in to question Googles reliablity as an information provider and thus need to be reported on and highlighted.
I do not think anyone is saying they can't do this, they are only pointing out that as customers of Googles service they find it disturbing
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/medicine/article/0,12 543,658680,00.html
These contact lenses correct your vison at night. You don't wear them during the day.
This might be something you want to look in to if you have reason to be cautious about eye surgery.
My family tends to have eye problems (deatched retnas, scarring etc) so I suggested my mom consider this option insted, but I don't have any more data yet.
Sort of. It is persuasive, which means the court doesn't have to follow it, it is basically treated the same as an article in a law journal would be. To make an analogy if jurisdiction was programming language and you wanted to code something you would first look for something in your own language, and if it came from a programmer who was better then you, you would use it. This is like mandatory authority, if a issue has been decided by a higher court a lower court has to follow it. If you found code from a programmer who was a beginner, or in another language you might still look at it for ideas. You might also see what people have written about theoretical solutions to the problem. This is like persuasive authority, courts will usually consider ruling for lower court, court in different regions, and law journal articles about something, but they are free to not follow any of this. This is where this ruling would fit, but it would be given less weight then a US decision because of the different legal framework. It would probably be about as, but perhaps slightly more useful then, a law review article. (of course how Sort of. It is persuasive, which means the court doesn't have to follow it, it is basically treated the same as an article in a law journal would be. To make an analogy if jurisdiction was programming language and you wanted to code something you would first look for something in your own language, and if it came from a programmer who was better then you, you would use it. This is like mandatory authority, if a issue has been decided by a higher court a lower court has to follow it. If you found code from a programmer who was a beginner, or in another language you might still look at it for ideas. You might also see what people have written about theoretical solutions to the problem. This is like persuasive authority, courts will usually consider ruling for lower court, court in different regions, and law journal articles about something, but they are free to not follow any of this. This is where this ruling would fit, but it would be given less weight then a US decision because of the different legal framework. It would probably be about as, but perhaps slightly more useful then, a law review article. How persuasive persuasive authority really is depends on a lot of things, but this should give you a general idea of what it means IANAL or a programmer so take it for the opinion it is
If I were in charge of voting in an area I would use a simple and cost effective method of counting vote electronically- the auto-grading machines in the local city schools. I would print out the ballot as voters checked in, giving you the security of not having extra ballots along The only real downside would be that the blind would need assistance (you could create large print, but people would still have to read) and that it would be very hard to have tests in the schools on the same day as elections