The investigators determined that 36,000 drivers improperly activated the higher rate at least once, and that about 3,000 drivers did it more than 100 times.
I doubt the 3000 drivers who did it 100+ times did it by accident.
I grew up in Indiana and I can wholeheartedly recommend the Indy Children's Museum as well as the Chicago ones (the Field Museum / Adler Planetarium / Shedd Aquarium / Museum of Science and Industry).
I second this suggestion. I've used etherpad quite successfully for real-time collaboration for between 2-4 people. Pair programming is even one of the suggested use cases on the website.
Here is the text of the email that was send out to the Berkeley community.
Colleagues, We want to let you know that today the campus is sending notification letters and emails to members of our community to inform them of a computer breach that resulted in the theft of personal information from databases in our University Health Services, UHS, area.
The victims of this crime are current and former students, as well as their parents and spouses if linked to insurance coverage, who had UHS health care coverage or received services. We are also sending notification letters to Mills College students who received, or were eligible to receive, healthcare on the UC Berkeley campus.
We sincerely regret and apologize for any difficulty this theft may create for individuals who may have had their personal information exposed. We have alerted campus police detectives and the FBI, and are doing all that we can to investigate this crime. All of the exposed databases were immediately removed from service to make sure that they would be completely protected from any future attacks.
Those individuals directly affected by the theft will receive letters with detailed information on steps that they can take to protect their credit and identity. We have launched a dedicated web site, http://datatheft.berkeley.edu/ that contains detailed information for affected individuals, the media and the general public. In addition a Data Theft Hotline, 888-729-3301 will be operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to answer questions from affected individuals.
UC Berkeley computer administrators determined on April 21 that electronic databases in UHS had been breached and data stolen by overseas criminals. The databases stored personally identifiable information used for billing such as Social Security numbers, and non-treatment medical information such as immunization history, UHS medical record numbers, dates of visits or names of providers seen, or for participants in the Education Abroad Program, certain information from the self-reported health history.
Please be assured that UHS electronic medical records, which include details of patients diagnoses~, treatments and therapies, are stored in a separate system and were not affected in this incident.
To ensure that we fully understand the nature of the security breach and to determine the steps that we can take to minimize the risk of a reoccurrence, the university has hired an outside auditor, Price Waterhouse Coopers, to support our ongoing investigation of the incident. The campus is committed to implementing recommendations that address the root causes of this security breach.
Steve Lustig Associate Vice Chancellor Health and Human Services
It sounds like you're thinking about the Higgs giving mass to particles by being a constituent of them. (That is a perfectly reasonable linguistic interpretation of ``give mass to'', but it doesn't reflect the physics.)
In these theories, mass arises of interactions with the Higgs boson. Thus, the Higgs being massive doesn't exclude less massive particles.
College radio is definitely a good way to go. It's independent music broadcast by independent means.
Give WMBR a try. It's MIT's student station. A wide variety of great music broadcast by a mix of college-age nerds and members of the local community.
This is a very insightful point. I've definitely observed this divide within physics. The research-directed types (of which I would consider myself one) are willing to pursue careers (probably in academia) regardless of the financial benefit, assuming of course that it provides enough to subsist on.
The main draw of the credential directed outlook is financial, and I don't think it's schooling expenses, but rather long-term earning potential, and thus a sense of security, which is the main incentives. More research money makes a career in the field more appealing. No one wants to spend their entire life squabbling over a handful of $10k grants, but if you know your field is going to be well-funded, even if your salary is less, you gain a much greater sense of stability. (I think more people who have the inclination to do research would choose to be 'poor' and stably funded than either slightly wealthier and poorly funded or 'poor' and poorly funded.)
Thus, if one really wants to increase US science and engineering power, the first thing that needs to be done is to provide more federal funding of research. The private sector isn't going to fund pure research because of the long timescales on which it pays off. Long term investments are ideal roles for the government. Educational incentives are great, but it doesn't do any good if they're not given the resources to make use of their education.
Let me preface this comment with the fact that I am a physicist (astrophysics) and am quite often frustrated by the poor physics shown in movies.
However, I think they're neglecting a very basic fact. Humans have evolved to find Newtonian mechanics intuitive! (especially in translational cases, somewhat less in rotational ones) If someone throws a ball, you can quickly figure out approximately where it is going to land. You have no need to do calculations, because its evolutionarily hardwired into your brain. Watching a movie which doesn't accurately display a free-falling bus is not going to erase that.
It's true that people don't know enough physics to determine the validity of what they see in movies, but they already know enough to get through life. I'd love for everyone to know enough physics to be understand the devices that they use in their lives, but that's probably not a reality in the modern age.
I think what they're encountering is a resistance to learning the formalizations of physics. As soon as you step beyond Newtonian mechanics (really, beyond two-body problems) all that evolutionary intuition is gone. When you get to physics at that stage, you must place it on firm mathematical footing, or you have no hope of understanding: that is hard work.
They are seeing this decline in science understanding, but I think that's an artifact of an overall educational decline, rather than a specific effect of Hollywood movies. Young people are now expecting to be entertained, and while physics is beautiful, at some point it requires you to sit down in a empty room with a pad of paper and a pencil. If anything, it's the "action-packed entertainment" nature of movies, rather than any bad physics that is likely having the detrimental effect. However, if they can entertain these students and have them learn something too, that's fine with me.
I'm a happy emusic subscriber. You pay a monthly fee to download x number of songs, which you must use within that month. The downloads are unprotected VBR mp3 files, which typically have bitrates of at least 160kbps. You can do whatever you want with them, there are no DRM restrictions.
It's a great service that lets me buy music online without having to cheat the artists (a la AllofMp3) or accept the shackles of DRM.
I'm also in love with my 12" PowerBook. I'm a student, and it's the perfect machine. In my dorm, I have a 2nd display, and I have one in the lab too. So both the places I spend most of my time, I'm not restricted by the laptop form. But as soon as I'm done, I can just unplug it, and slip it in my backpack, and then I have access to my work anywhere. (Yes, I suppose it could be a bit lighter, but it feels reassuringly solid.) It's plenty fast enough for what I need to do, and if I really need to do something computationally intensive, there are always plenty of desktops to ssh into and run something. Every night, I just clone the HDD, and so if I drop it or it's stolen, it's not that big of a deal. It's the perfect form factor. When I'm ready to upgrade in a few years, I really hope Apple has put together something that can be a suitable replacement.
There are a lot of sequels on the list, often coupled with the omission of the original(s). They omit both Doom and Half-Life, while charting Doom II at 78 and Half-Life 2 at 4. Honestly, that just doesn't make much sense.
There's a flipside to the issue of having no unused frequencies. Often, when in city traffic, these signals bleed into nearby cars, covering up the radio station whose frequency they are using. I haven't heard of this explicitly happening with iPod transmitters, but some of XM's satellite receivers are known to do this. http://www.boston.com/business/personaltech/articl es/2006/12/21/getting_howard_stern_off_npr/ I DJ at one of the stations experiencing this problem (http://wmbr.org/, not an NPR-affiliate) and it's disappointing when you get calls from would-be listeners who are getting Howard Stern instead of you.
I suggest sending a large number of emails liberally sprinkled with the phrases "RTFM" and "n00b". It works wonders on my mailing list. I haven't listened to a single complaint.
I access my credit card statements at ezcardinfo.com. The first time I went there, I was hesitant to put in my information. There's no way I would have believed that was a reputable domain if it weren't for the fact that I had written instructions to use it.
It apparently also knocked out normal service to MIT students living on the Boston side of the Charles. One of my friends called me around 9:20PM (an hour after the fire started) to see if my internet connection was down. Fortunately, I live on the Cambridge side (with the main campus) so I wasn't affected. Here's what MIT IS&T had to say.
-- Wed, May 2nd: Internet2 Service has been restored. We have re-routed our connectivity to the Verizon TLS service, so all ILG's should be back in service as of 01:47AM this morning.
Tue, May 1st, 2007: There was a fire earlier this evening under the Longfellow Bridge, on the Boston side of the river. This fire appears to have destroyed electrical and communications conduits that run over the Longfellow, including fiber used by MIT and other Boston area institutions to connect to Internet2.
MIT and other New England Schools are currently disconnected from Internet2. Traffic to Internet2 institutions is being routed via the Commodity Internet, but performance may be less then normal experienced. -- They got things back going again in less than 6 hours, even though it started in the evening. Not too shabby.
It is, and that's exactly why she was asked to resign. However, the fact that she lied on her resume doesn't imply that she was doing bad job of choosing who to admit. Now that the lies about her credentials are known though, it is as you say, clearly she could not be allowed to continue in a position that consists of evaluating the credentials of others.
While I agree that her actions were quite hypocritical, there is fortunately no evidence that she was doing anything wrong in the admissions process itself. There are many people involved (15-20 I believe) so its not as if she makes the admit/reject decision herself.
The reason that it took so long is that 28 years ago she applied to be an administrative assistant. That position did not require a degree. While her credentials should have been checked then, they weren't. By the time she got around applying for Dean of Admissions, she had already been at MIT for 2 decades, and it wasn't policy to recheck credentials for internal promotions. The lie was finally discovered because of an anonymous tip. Previous to that, there wasn't any reason to check them as she was quite competently performing her duties.
Absolutely! I really want one of these. I switched from a Ti-83+ to a HP 33s when I got to college. But wait you say, from a graphing calculator to a scientific one? Surely that's a downgrade. I wouldn't consider it so, mainly because anything that I need to graph is complicated enough to need done via computer. I can do basic calculations on the 33s faster than I ever could on the 83+. (If you don't believe that, then you've never taken the time to master an RPN calculator.)
I have a professor who still carries around a 15C in his shirt pocket, and I lust after it. It's small and landscape. I never even thought about how much more natural a landscape calculator feels until I got to try it one day. You can use both hands, and everything is placed really well. The insides seem to be pretty cool as well. For homework one week our assignment was to reverse engineer its numerical integrator. Anyways, I really hope I'm able to get my hands on one at somepoint. Unfortunately, they still go for hundreds on eBay, which is certainly a testament to just how good a calculator it is.
Cue the: Two releases in one day! This is like a turtle suddenly accelerating to lightspeed. It should shut up the people who say the Debian cycle is slow! Good thing they've nearly caught up to Windows; only 2.0 more versions to go!
In all seriousness, this stable came out over a year more quickly than 3.0 -> 3.1. That's nice to see. I'm looking forward to giving it a whirl.
Hey, apparently you didn't RTFA. (It's ok, this is/.)
In the late '90s, our business, and the music retail business in general, was booming. Enter Napster, the granddaddy of illegal download sites. How did the major record labels react? By continuing their campaign to eliminate the comparatively unprofitable CD single, raising list prices on album-length CDs to $18 or $19 and promoting artists like the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears -- whose strength was single songs, not albums. The result was a lot of unhappy customers, who blamed retailers like us for the dearth of singles and the high prices.
The guys in the article are fully aware that their demise wasn't just a format shift, nor a direct result of internet piracy.
Slashdot Mirror
APS Journals (1893-Present) are available free of charge for public libraries.
http://publish.aps.org/public-access-announcement
I doubt the 3000 drivers who did it 100+ times did it by accident.
I grew up in Indiana and I can wholeheartedly recommend the Indy Children's Museum as well as the Chicago ones (the Field Museum / Adler Planetarium / Shedd Aquarium / Museum of Science and Industry).
I second this suggestion. I've used etherpad quite successfully for real-time collaboration for between 2-4 people. Pair programming is even one of the suggested use cases on the website.
Here is the text of the email that was send out to the Berkeley community.
I believe WFFT is still working on upgrading their transmitter. I think there were some construction delays. Go TinCaps!
There are preprints of the two relevant papers on astro-ph.
More general version (ApJL)
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0809.3734
More technical version (ApJ)
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0809.3733
Having grown up in Fort Wayne, IN, I am intrigued. Might I subscribe to your newsletter?
It sounds like you're thinking about the Higgs giving mass to particles by being a constituent of them. (That is a perfectly reasonable linguistic interpretation of ``give mass to'', but it doesn't reflect the physics.)
In these theories, mass arises of interactions with the Higgs boson. Thus, the Higgs being massive doesn't exclude less massive particles.
College radio is definitely a good way to go. It's independent music broadcast by independent means. Give WMBR a try. It's MIT's student station. A wide variety of great music broadcast by a mix of college-age nerds and members of the local community.
This is a very insightful point. I've definitely observed this divide within physics. The research-directed types (of which I would consider myself one) are willing to pursue careers (probably in academia) regardless of the financial benefit, assuming of course that it provides enough to subsist on.
The main draw of the credential directed outlook is financial, and I don't think it's schooling expenses, but rather long-term earning potential, and thus a sense of security, which is the main incentives. More research money makes a career in the field more appealing. No one wants to spend their entire life squabbling over a handful of $10k grants, but if you know your field is going to be well-funded, even if your salary is less, you gain a much greater sense of stability. (I think more people who have the inclination to do research would choose to be 'poor' and stably funded than either slightly wealthier and poorly funded or 'poor' and poorly funded.)
Thus, if one really wants to increase US science and engineering power, the first thing that needs to be done is to provide more federal funding of research. The private sector isn't going to fund pure research because of the long timescales on which it pays off. Long term investments are ideal roles for the government. Educational incentives are great, but it doesn't do any good if they're not given the resources to make use of their education.
Let me preface this comment with the fact that I am a physicist (astrophysics) and am quite often frustrated by the poor physics shown in movies.
However, I think they're neglecting a very basic fact. Humans have evolved to find Newtonian mechanics intuitive! (especially in translational cases, somewhat less in rotational ones) If someone throws a ball, you can quickly figure out approximately where it is going to land. You have no need to do calculations, because its evolutionarily hardwired into your brain. Watching a movie which doesn't accurately display a free-falling bus is not going to erase that.
It's true that people don't know enough physics to determine the validity of what they see in movies, but they already know enough to get through life. I'd love for everyone to know enough physics to be understand the devices that they use in their lives, but that's probably not a reality in the modern age.
I think what they're encountering is a resistance to learning the formalizations of physics. As soon as you step beyond Newtonian mechanics (really, beyond two-body problems) all that evolutionary intuition is gone. When you get to physics at that stage, you must place it on firm mathematical footing, or you have no hope of understanding: that is hard work.
They are seeing this decline in science understanding, but I think that's an artifact of an overall educational decline, rather than a specific effect of Hollywood movies. Young people are now expecting to be entertained, and while physics is beautiful, at some point it requires you to sit down in a empty room with a pad of paper and a pencil. If anything, it's the "action-packed entertainment" nature of movies, rather than any bad physics that is likely having the detrimental effect. However, if they can entertain these students and have them learn something too, that's fine with me.
I'm a happy emusic subscriber. You pay a monthly fee to download x number of songs, which you must use within that month. The downloads are unprotected VBR mp3 files, which typically have bitrates of at least 160kbps. You can do whatever you want with them, there are no DRM restrictions.
It's a great service that lets me buy music online without having to cheat the artists (a la AllofMp3) or accept the shackles of DRM.
I'm also in love with my 12" PowerBook. I'm a student, and it's the perfect machine. In my dorm, I have a 2nd display, and I have one in the lab too. So both the places I spend most of my time, I'm not restricted by the laptop form. But as soon as I'm done, I can just unplug it, and slip it in my backpack, and then I have access to my work anywhere. (Yes, I suppose it could be a bit lighter, but it feels reassuringly solid.) It's plenty fast enough for what I need to do, and if I really need to do something computationally intensive, there are always plenty of desktops to ssh into and run something. Every night, I just clone the HDD, and so if I drop it or it's stolen, it's not that big of a deal. It's the perfect form factor. When I'm ready to upgrade in a few years, I really hope Apple has put together something that can be a suitable replacement.
There are a lot of sequels on the list, often coupled with the omission of the original(s). They omit both Doom and Half-Life, while charting Doom II at 78 and Half-Life 2 at 4. Honestly, that just doesn't make much sense.
There's a flipside to the issue of having no unused frequencies. Often, when in city traffic, these signals bleed into nearby cars, covering up the radio station whose frequency they are using. I haven't heard of this explicitly happening with iPod transmitters, but some of XM's satellite receivers are known to do this. http://www.boston.com/business/personaltech/articl es/2006/12/21/getting_howard_stern_off_npr/ I DJ at one of the stations experiencing this problem (http://wmbr.org/, not an NPR-affiliate) and it's disappointing when you get calls from would-be listeners who are getting Howard Stern instead of you.
I suggest sending a large number of emails liberally sprinkled with the phrases "RTFM" and "n00b". It works wonders on my mailing list. I haven't listened to a single complaint.
(It's a joke. Laugh)
I access my credit card statements at ezcardinfo.com. The first time I went there, I was hesitant to put in my information. There's no way I would have believed that was a reputable domain if it weren't for the fact that I had written instructions to use it.
It apparently also knocked out normal service to MIT students living on the Boston side of the Charles. One of my friends called me around 9:20PM (an hour after the fire started) to see if my internet connection was down. Fortunately, I live on the Cambridge side (with the main campus) so I wasn't affected. Here's what MIT IS&T had to say.
--
Wed, May 2nd:
Internet2 Service has been restored.
We have re-routed our connectivity to the Verizon TLS service, so all ILG's should be back in service as of 01:47AM this morning.
Tue, May 1st, 2007:
There was a fire earlier this evening under the Longfellow Bridge, on the Boston side of the river. This fire appears to have destroyed electrical and communications conduits that run over the Longfellow, including fiber used by MIT and other Boston area institutions to connect to Internet2.
MIT and other New England Schools are currently disconnected from Internet2. Traffic to Internet2 institutions is being routed via the Commodity Internet, but performance may be less then normal experienced.
--
They got things back going again in less than 6 hours, even though it started in the evening. Not too shabby.
It is, and that's exactly why she was asked to resign. However, the fact that she lied on her resume doesn't imply that she was doing bad job of choosing who to admit. Now that the lies about her credentials are known though, it is as you say, clearly she could not be allowed to continue in a position that consists of evaluating the credentials of others.
While I agree that her actions were quite hypocritical, there is fortunately no evidence that she was doing anything wrong in the admissions process itself. There are many people involved (15-20 I believe) so its not as if she makes the admit/reject decision herself.
The reason that it took so long is that 28 years ago she applied to be an administrative assistant. That position did not require a degree. While her credentials should have been checked then, they weren't. By the time she got around applying for Dean of Admissions, she had already been at MIT for 2 decades, and it wasn't policy to recheck credentials for internal promotions. The lie was finally discovered because of an anonymous tip. Previous to that, there wasn't any reason to check them as she was quite competently performing her duties.
Absolutely! I really want one of these. I switched from a Ti-83+ to a HP 33s when I got to college. But wait you say, from a graphing calculator to a scientific one? Surely that's a downgrade. I wouldn't consider it so, mainly because anything that I need to graph is complicated enough to need done via computer. I can do basic calculations on the 33s faster than I ever could on the 83+. (If you don't believe that, then you've never taken the time to master an RPN calculator.)
I have a professor who still carries around a 15C in his shirt pocket, and I lust after it. It's small and landscape. I never even thought about how much more natural a landscape calculator feels until I got to try it one day. You can use both hands, and everything is placed really well. The insides seem to be pretty cool as well. For homework one week our assignment was to reverse engineer its numerical integrator. Anyways, I really hope I'm able to get my hands on one at somepoint. Unfortunately, they still go for hundreds on eBay, which is certainly a testament to just how good a calculator it is.
Cue the:
Two releases in one day! This is like a turtle suddenly accelerating to lightspeed. It should shut up the people who say the Debian cycle is slow! Good thing they've nearly caught up to Windows; only 2.0 more versions to go!
In all seriousness, this stable came out over a year more quickly than 3.0 -> 3.1. That's nice to see. I'm looking forward to giving it a whirl.