I like how they list both that "2 in 10 have used a significant date..." and later list it again as "20 percent have used a significant date in a password." (it's for the stupid people who can't work out what 20% of 10 is I guess).
Heh, the actual owner of the trademark is 'NUTRILAB CORPORATION, INC.'. I assume she is part or full owner, but since it's a corp she could be voted out at a board meeting or sell her stake, at which point (by their logic) she could no longer use her own name without violating the trademark.
I don't see the root problem changing with MPEG-LA. At the core of what they are is a coalition of interests that are driven by financial gain. "Free internet streaming" does not equate to a free and open format.
Royalties of some type will have to be extracted at some point in some way for them to continue to exist. It will be a good day when a majority of our society decides that to patent some things is wrong. Patents aren't wrong. Incentivizing innovation is not wrong. What is wrong is granting a for-profit group exclusive control of key innovations that are critical to the future growth of our society.
You should also keep a copy of your email when exiting if possible.
True story time: A friend of mine was fired from a small cash-strapped company in Arizona. They had promised him bonus money for working nights and weekends for several months strait (amounting to nearly 50k). Instead of coming up with the money, the owner of the company decided it would be more advantageous to fire him (without true cause) and not pay up so the balance sheet of the company would look better for his board of directors meeting. The owner even tried to block my friends unemployment claim and invented reasons for dismissing him (lied in court).
Fortunately for my friend, he backed up his work email before leaving. With the email record, he was able to show in court that his boss was a lying scumbag by producing contradicting documentation to his boss's sworn statements and get unemployment. Using the court record from the unemployment hearing showing that his employer fired hims without just cause, he was then able to sue his former employer and get recompensed for the promised bonus money (again producing the email record where his boss stated how he would be compensated and how they needed him to work like a dog for several months).
Had he not backed up his work email it would have been his word against his former employer. He most likely would not have been able to get unemployment and definitely would have never seen a dime of the money that was promised to him.
The moral of the story is that you need to weigh your employers security policy that's there to protect them, against what is required to protect yourself.
Except in ancient Egypt the language wasn't owned by a company that reserves the right to revoke your use of it at any time for any reason: ( http://www.iconji.com/legal/termsofuse ). Talk about loosing your right to free speech... though maybe the pharaoh owned the hieroglyphs back then too so maybe not so different...
They got about 80% accuracy. Looks like things in CAPS and other... types! of punctuation;-) and metadata (star rating given for review) are used fairly heavily in addition to sentence structure. Would have be good to know what the breakdown of false positive vs. missed sarcasm is, but i didn't see it.
From TFA:
"We experimented with a large data set of 66000 reviews for various books and products. Evaluating pattern acquisition efciency, we achieved 81% in a 5-fold cross validation on the annotated seed, proving the consistency of the pattern acquisition phase. [...] each sentence was annotated by three human readers. We found some strong features that recognize sarcastic utterances, however, a combination of more subtle features served best in recognizing the various facets of sarcasm."
this could be stopped in the same way online gambling sites got shut down in the us. they made it a criminal act for credit card companies to conduct business with companies that are involved with gambling. i don't think there was a single violation by the credit card companies, as soon as they had any type of financial and criminal culpability they shut it down.
you just have to give the people who have the power to end something that's wrong, incentive to do so (rather than allowing them to be the type of capitalist pigs that get flamed to no end here on/.). at least with gambling it was partially the fault of the person who was knowingly participating, as with this it's a full blown scam.
"So, you work for a company that is engaged in a law suit to stop a city from doing a community works project.
Seriously, is this the type of company you want to work for? I realize you need money. So do I. I work for a company as well, but some things just cross the line. Who you work for represents upon you. You spend 8 hours a day, every working day of your life. That is your work. You do that. That is how you are helping society, by working for an honorable company... or at least that's how I live my life. Seriously, monster.com, craigslist, etc., just take a look and you can see if there is a worthwhile cause for you.
Development of malware for the sake of making better solutions is fine, but haven't we seen enough movies where a virus is created in a lab that later destroys the world to know that this is a slippery slope?
Does the competition also stipulate that the makers of these viruses also provide a robust solution for detecting them?
It's like asking smart people to go make armor piercing ammunition, load it up into guns, then drop them on the street on the bad side of town. Then the smart people go home, and types up on/. how it's horrible that body armor companies don't stop armor piercing bullets.
-Dan.
I'm trying to edu-mi-kate you slash-dot, just try and follow the logic...
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They should publish the list of cheaters online. That way we'd know what business people to hire for our banking institutions...
Wasn't Farmville one of the ones that WAS accused of sharing the userID? wsj story
I like how they list both that "2 in 10 have used a significant date..." and later list it again as "20 percent have used a significant date in a password." (it's for the stupid people who can't work out what 20% of 10 is I guess).
My first thought was of Hugh Hefner...
Heh, the actual owner of the trademark is 'NUTRILAB CORPORATION, INC.'. I assume she is part or full owner, but since it's a corp she could be voted out at a board meeting or sell her stake, at which point (by their logic) she could no longer use her own name without violating the trademark.
If apple would stop forcing people to install their stupid software just to use a phone maybe 'pc' wouldn't have such a hard time of it...
/u "C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTPlugin.ocx"
for a default itunes+quicktime install on 64bit windows open cmd.exe as admin (right click is your friend) and type this:
regsvr32
I don't see the root problem changing with MPEG-LA. At the core of what they are is a coalition of interests that are driven by financial gain. "Free internet streaming" does not equate to a free and open format.
Royalties of some type will have to be extracted at some point in some way for them to continue to exist. It will be a good day when a majority of our society decides that to patent some things is wrong. Patents aren't wrong. Incentivizing innovation is not wrong. What is wrong is granting a for-profit group exclusive control of key innovations that are critical to the future growth of our society.
You should also keep a copy of your email when exiting if possible.
True story time: A friend of mine was fired from a small cash-strapped company in Arizona. They had promised him bonus money for working nights and weekends for several months strait (amounting to nearly 50k). Instead of coming up with the money, the owner of the company decided it would be more advantageous to fire him (without true cause) and not pay up so the balance sheet of the company would look better for his board of directors meeting. The owner even tried to block my friends unemployment claim and invented reasons for dismissing him (lied in court).
Fortunately for my friend, he backed up his work email before leaving. With the email record, he was able to show in court that his boss was a lying scumbag by producing contradicting documentation to his boss's sworn statements and get unemployment. Using the court record from the unemployment hearing showing that his employer fired hims without just cause, he was then able to sue his former employer and get recompensed for the promised bonus money (again producing the email record where his boss stated how he would be compensated and how they needed him to work like a dog for several months).
Had he not backed up his work email it would have been his word against his former employer. He most likely would not have been able to get unemployment and definitely would have never seen a dime of the money that was promised to him.
The moral of the story is that you need to weigh your employers security policy that's there to protect them, against what is required to protect yourself.
When it's Apple and their closed platform apparently...
Except in ancient Egypt the language wasn't owned by a company that reserves the right to revoke your use of it at any time for any reason: ( http://www.iconji.com/legal/termsofuse ). Talk about loosing your right to free speech... though maybe the pharaoh owned the hieroglyphs back then too so maybe not so different...
Found the other stats after taking a second look at the PDF. was 11% false positive, 12% false negative.
They got about 80% accuracy. Looks like things in CAPS and other... types! of punctuation ;-) and metadata (star rating given for review) are used fairly heavily in addition to sentence structure. Would have be good to know what the breakdown of false positive vs. missed sarcasm is, but i didn't see it.
From TFA:
"We experimented with a large data set of 66000 reviews for various books and products. Evaluating pattern acquisition efciency, we achieved 81% in a 5-fold cross validation on the annotated seed, proving the consistency of the pattern acquisition phase. [...] each sentence was annotated by three human readers. We found some strong features that recognize sarcastic utterances, however, a combination of more subtle features served best in recognizing the various facets of sarcasm."
this could be stopped in the same way online gambling sites got shut down in the us. they made it a criminal act for credit card companies to conduct business with companies that are involved with gambling. i don't think there was a single violation by the credit card companies, as soon as they had any type of financial and criminal culpability they shut it down.
you just have to give the people who have the power to end something that's wrong, incentive to do so (rather than allowing them to be the type of capitalist pigs that get flamed to no end here on /.). at least with gambling it was partially the fault of the person who was knowingly participating, as with this it's a full blown scam.
Yeah, this is just crazy.
I encourage folks to take a look at the customer support form for this telcom. Let the workers know what type of company they work for, like I did...
http://www.tdstelecom.com/about/contact.asp
"So, you work for a company that is engaged in a law suit to stop a city from doing a community works project.
Seriously, is this the type of company you want to work for? I realize you need money. So do I. I work for a company as well, but some things just cross the line. Who you work for represents upon you. You spend 8 hours a day, every working day of your life. That is your work. You do that. That is how you are helping society, by working for an honorable company... or at least that's how I live my life. Seriously, monster.com, craigslist, etc., just take a look and you can see if there is a worthwhile cause for you.
Best wishes!"
Development of malware for the sake of making better solutions is fine, but haven't we seen enough movies where a virus is created in a lab that later destroys the world to know that this is a slippery slope? Does the competition also stipulate that the makers of these viruses also provide a robust solution for detecting them? It's like asking smart people to go make armor piercing ammunition, load it up into guns, then drop them on the street on the bad side of town. Then the smart people go home, and types up on /. how it's horrible that body armor companies don't stop armor piercing bullets.
-Dan.
I'm trying to edu-mi-kate you slash-dot, just try and follow the logic...