shutter speed doesn't have to match frame rate for video cameras-- Many MiniDV cameras are capable of 1/2000 s shutter speeds, even when they're only shooting 30 fps. So you can get a quite clear picture of someone moving pretty fast-- we use 1/1000 for bike races where the finishes are ~60-70 kph and can quite easily read 12 cm high numbers off riders who are 7 m from the camera, and that's with an SD camera and 4:3 format. For road races I know people who use an HD camera with widescreen format to cover the whole road more easily. From other posts it sounds like autocrossers typically finish at less than 100 kph, so it's probably very doable with a MiniDV camera.
Agreed, but it works in bicycle racing, and people race in bunches and teams there. Never heard of anybody tampering with the transponders. Your cars should arrive alone and if the transponder doesn't match the car you disqualify it.
It doesn't work all that well in bicycle racing-- if you're using chips, you still need a good camera at the finish, and if you have a good camera at the finish you don't need chips. Chips are a convenience for picking order in the middle/back of the pack, but aren't good for picking close finishes. I've never seen any published data on the spatial resolution of the chip systems (and asked the sales people directly because they were trying to sell it to me). The demos I've seen for track racing (I did a lot of track promoting for 6 years) were unimpressive to say the least-- they really offered me nothing that couldn't be done for a lot less with a tape system. And for the money that a chip system costs ($12-15K) you can get a finishlynx and some timing tapes that give you what you need with no ambiguity in photo finishes. I also know more than a few cases in stage races and CX where the officials with watches and pads of paper had the results finished and posted before the chip people were even close to unwinding their results.
Chip systems would work well for Autocross (the big market for MyLaps seems to be automotive, and they look decent for that) but are $$$, which I suspect is why the OP submitted in the first place. For the OP, it might be possible to do something reasonable with a miniDV camera reading race numbers (large black on white) combined with either one of the commercial systems for a few hundred $ or something homemade with arduinos and photosensors or timing tapes, and then roll your own software to combine the two data sets.
Specifically, the issue is that normally stock options once vested (ie: you can exercise them) do not expire after an employee leaves a company. In this case they did and the language of the contract did not at all make that clear.
It's not unusual to lose vested but unpurchased shares after you leave the company-- I had a deal like that from a small startup I worked at long before the internet hit. They did allow me to purchase all my vested shares (not many shares-- I was low on the totem pole and only there for a couple years) for the pennies that they were offered at, and then I held them for a few years as unregistered shares until the company eventually went public. they did end up being worth enough to compensate for the lower salaries that they paid for the first year I was there.
What's unusual in this case is that the company added a "nyeah nyeah, didn't really mean it" clause where they could by them back at the vesting price, leaving people who worked for stock options early on out in the cold.
I love the MacBook Air because it's light and easy to carry. Yes, the battery life is a pain, but when it comes to sheer size and weight, it is simply unbeatable.
I kind of liked the idea of the Air, but didn't want to pay the premium, because I don't need it that often, so I picked up a used Dell mini from a friend who wasn't using it and made a HackBook Air out of it. I don't use it that much, but it's nice to have an extra around for guests, it's easy to carry around, and it's pretty tough.
You can DIY for $120 plus the cost of a cell plan with unlimited messaging. There are GPS cat trackers available that weigh about 50 grams and are the size of a couple of quarters and will send you a text with the location of the device, either automatically or on command.
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much like your brokerage is the actual owner of your monkey while you have money deposited with the brokerage.
Watch instantly has the most changes: - images are bigger so you don't see as many of them - there's no text titles, so you can't browse through as quickly since you have to look for titles on the images. - the ratings only show if you mouse over, and the rating+description takes a noticeable time to load, making it harder to browse
Most of those changes aren't implemented on the browse DVD pages-- I still have the text titles, the images are smaller, and the ratings are there. What looks new (I've mostly been browsing via my roku lately anyway, and that has a different interface) is that there's a box on the left taking up the space of one movie and explaining what the source is of the recommendations. I'd rather see that information across the top of the movies, but it's tolerable. The movies also page when I click the arrows, which they did before, too. The scroll on the DVD browse page is plenty fast and smooth.
One of my requirements was that it also have a netflix client. I think it actually has slightly better video than the 1st gen Roku I'm using for netflix, but I still use the Roku most of the time because it has search and the blu ray player doesn't. It's probably only an update or two away, and the blu ray player cost about the same as getting a new roku box.
It's called "Trapster" and it does pretty much all that. It's gotten a little clunky and busy with some of the more recent updates, sometimes with icons and things changing enough that it's distracting rather than helpful. I used it for a while, but I tend to use the sigalert website (which has a decent phone interface) more often-- you get a simple color coded traffic map with incident markers. You can select the markers (you just have to tap kind of close) and it will usually show dispatch details-- time, lane, vehicles involved (or other hazard), time police arrived, ambulance on the way, whether they're going to create a break, etc.
It's not really an outbreak of sense-- if you RTFA the big providers will still have caps, and those caps are too low to support things like netflix. My GF lives in canada and goes over the cap (with Videotron) periodically just from normal use, without watching HD movies or anything. When I finally got around to getting an HD TV I went through 15GB in a few days watching netflix, but I don't have a cap (at least officially). She'd be getting overage bills if she did anything like that-- we were a bit disappointed that when Netflix decided to offer service in Canada it was only online, since the bandwidth caps make it so it's not terribly useful.
With any luck, the small providers will be able to push the big ones into no caps or high enough caps to be useful, but it doesn't look like there will be an immediate effect.
The waiver that the gov't is demanding that "low risk" contract employees, who don't deal with classified or even particularly sensitive information, sign lets them get access to anything they want from the googles and facebooks and twitters of the US.
* It's a special irony that Justice Thomas held (in a minority view) that there's no right to informational privacy at all. (Fortunately, the majority explicitly refused to rule on that point.) Perhaps Justice Thomas would like to tell us what really went on between him and Anita Hill, then? Or maybe privacy is good for the gander, in his view, but not so much for the goose.
Just releasing the sources of money for his wife's lobbying organization (Liberty Central) would be a good start... there's more than a little potential for conflict of interest there.
Note that the number of employees suing is small (28 out of thousands employed at JPL). I got the feeling that these people were protesting on principle. I was always saddened to see how few of the employees bothered to fight back at all.
There was (and is) a great deal of support (financial and moral) among the rest of JPL for the actual plaintiffs in the suit - the small number was more to make it manageable, and motions were filed at some point to create a class and make it class action, but all of this, including the supreme court hearing, revolves just around the preliminary injunction, so the class stuff never really got addressed.
Yeah it should be nothing like a security clearance for a defense contract. They're just shooting giant missiles with possibly nuclear payloads into the sky every couple months. I mean why even background check anyone?
That stuff is all done by Lockheed, Boeing, Orbital, and now Space X. JPL builds the stuff that goes inside the little empty space on the end and that generally is either going to another planet or is going to stay in orbit for 25 years or so.
It takes up to a year to complete a clearance. Maybe there was something else coming up that these guys aren't going to be working on, at least not now.
This wasn't about security clearances, it was about intrusive background investigations (that required signing a very broad waiver/release that is essentially unlimited in scope and duration) for people who are in positions NASA deems "low risk"-- i.e. handle mostly scientific data that's going to be released anyway, or do editing, or engineering on completely unclassified things, or work in the cafeteria, or are janitors, etc. The waivers for clearances have a time limit that they're usable for, but this one doesn't.
JPL also does very little classified work and for much of that small amount of classified work the people doing it aren't all required to have clearances, only those who have system level knowledge or need to know the application. Pretty much everyone who has a clearance there has one because they actively chose to work on something that required it, or it lets them propose work that requires it. Most people don't and most parts of the lab are pretty open once you're in. Things that need to be locked are locked (many buildings are not), and things that have special access requirements have cipher locks or badge reader access with access control lists. You can't accidentally come across classified stuff-- people working on it are required to keep it secret, even from other people who have clearances unless they have a specific need to know.
very well summarized. NSF also doesn't do it at their non-headquarters facilities (e.g. NRAO apparently doesn't do it).
People seem to think NASA makes launch vehicles. Pretty much all launch services these days (including shuttle) are run by private companies (e.g. Lockheed, Boeing, Orbital, Space X), and shuttle's days are numbered.
There are a couple of bright spots: - the government did drop the "suitability matrix" (http://hspd12jpl.org/files/SuitabilitySecurityDeskGuide.pdf ) and replace it with a much less intrusive verification of information for employees in "low risk" positions (about 95% of JPL employees, as determined by NASA). They posted the replacement process a few days before the filed their briefs with the SC, and the NASA URL where the matrix was posted now says something like "that doc is no longer available". It doesn't mean they can't change it again (since it wasn't forced in court), but the SC did notice it enough to mention in their opinion. - Six of the justices also were willing to assume that there is a constitutional right to informational privacy, even if they don't think it was implicated in this case. They weren't even willing to draw a fuzzy line as to where it is, but they do seem to agree that it's there.
I have a mobile phone (two, actually). I also live in a hole in the ground (not quite literally, but close) that's a cell shadow with intermittent coverage at best, and zero signal a lot of the time. Your authentication scheme won't work there, and will also be spotty in my office, which is smack in the center of a building.
It pays better than many (most?) non-tenure-track faculty positions. Adjunct faculty get really low pay for huge amounts of work grading the papers that he writes. The comments on the chronicle site were great-- even a few people suggested that he pull a milo minderbinder and hire himself out as a grader as well.
The article didn't actually ask for a way to organize data, he asked for a way to organize files. He could easily create a database that points to whatever files he wants. Populate the relevant columns, and if he wants to add another type of data to search on, add a column. It's not like you need data in every cell, you simply need data in the cells that you want to find again.
And right now he's using a complicated mess of symlinks that amounts to a db schema that's probably a huge pain to maintain. Pick one straightforward way to organize files (e.g. date, with directories by month or something) and use the db for sifting through them to pick files by pH, lunar phase, and hair color (or whatever).
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shutter speed doesn't have to match frame rate for video cameras-- Many MiniDV cameras are capable of 1/2000 s shutter speeds, even when they're only shooting 30 fps. So you can get a quite clear picture of someone moving pretty fast-- we use 1/1000 for bike races where the finishes are ~60-70 kph and can quite easily read 12 cm high numbers off riders who are 7 m from the camera, and that's with an SD camera and 4:3 format. For road races I know people who use an HD camera with widescreen format to cover the whole road more easily. From other posts it sounds like autocrossers typically finish at less than 100 kph, so it's probably very doable with a MiniDV camera.
Agreed, but it works in bicycle racing, and people race in bunches and teams there. Never heard of anybody tampering with the transponders. Your cars should arrive alone and if the transponder doesn't match the car you disqualify it.
It doesn't work all that well in bicycle racing-- if you're using chips, you still need a good camera at the finish, and if you have a good camera at the finish you don't need chips. Chips are a convenience for picking order in the middle/back of the pack, but aren't good for picking close finishes. I've never seen any published data on the spatial resolution of the chip systems (and asked the sales people directly because they were trying to sell it to me). The demos I've seen for track racing (I did a lot of track promoting for 6 years) were unimpressive to say the least-- they really offered me nothing that couldn't be done for a lot less with a tape system. And for the money that a chip system costs ($12-15K) you can get a finishlynx and some timing tapes that give you what you need with no ambiguity in photo finishes. I also know more than a few cases in stage races and CX where the officials with watches and pads of paper had the results finished and posted before the chip people were even close to unwinding their results.
Chip systems would work well for Autocross (the big market for MyLaps seems to be automotive, and they look decent for that) but are $$$, which I suspect is why the OP submitted in the first place. For the OP, it might be possible to do something reasonable with a miniDV camera reading race numbers (large black on white) combined with either one of the commercial systems for a few hundred $ or something homemade with arduinos and photosensors or timing tapes, and then roll your own software to combine the two data sets.
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The roads are paid for by gas taxes. Oh wait! They're stealing that money for other things!
Gas and Vehicle taxes and tolls cover a little more than half the cost of roads: http://www.uspirg.org/home/reports/report-archives/transportation/transportation2/do-roads-pay-for-themselves-setting-the-record-straight-on-transportation-funding
the rest comes from various non road and vehicle related taxes and fees.
Specifically, the issue is that normally stock options once vested (ie: you can exercise them) do not expire after an employee leaves a company. In this case they did and the language of the contract did not at all make that clear.
It's not unusual to lose vested but unpurchased shares after you leave the company-- I had a deal like that from a small startup I worked at long before the internet hit. They did allow me to purchase all my vested shares (not many shares-- I was low on the totem pole and only there for a couple years) for the pennies that they were offered at, and then I held them for a few years as unregistered shares until the company eventually went public. they did end up being worth enough to compensate for the lower salaries that they paid for the first year I was there.
What's unusual in this case is that the company added a "nyeah nyeah, didn't really mean it" clause where they could by them back at the vesting price, leaving people who worked for stock options early on out in the cold.
I kind of liked the idea of the Air, but didn't want to pay the premium, because I don't need it that often, so I picked up a used Dell mini from a friend who wasn't using it and made a HackBook Air out of it. I don't use it that much, but it's nice to have an extra around for guests, it's easy to carry around, and it's pretty tough.
You can DIY for $120 plus the cost of a cell plan with unlimited messaging. There are GPS cat trackers available that weigh about 50 grams and are the size of a couple of quarters and will send you a text with the location of the device, either automatically or on command.
much like your brokerage is the actual owner of your monkey while you have money deposited with the brokerage.
You owe me a new keyboard.
Bon Cop, Bad Cop was pretty good, and Seducing Doctor Lewis was good in a depressing sort of way.
I just took a look, too.
Watch instantly has the most changes:
- images are bigger so you don't see as many of them
- there's no text titles, so you can't browse through as quickly since you have to look for titles on the images.
- the ratings only show if you mouse over, and the rating+description takes a noticeable time to load, making it harder to browse
Most of those changes aren't implemented on the browse DVD pages-- I still have the text titles, the images are smaller, and the ratings are there. What looks new (I've mostly been browsing via my roku lately anyway, and that has a different interface) is that there's a box on the left taking up the space of one movie and explaining what the source is of the recommendations. I'd rather see that information across the top of the movies, but it's tolerable. The movies also page when I click the arrows, which they did before, too. The scroll on the DVD browse page is plenty fast and smooth.
I bought a cheap LG blu ray player....
One of my requirements was that it also have a netflix client. I think it actually has slightly better video than the 1st gen Roku I'm using for netflix, but I still use the Roku most of the time because it has search and the blu ray player doesn't. It's probably only an update or two away, and the blu ray player cost about the same as getting a new roku box.
The names and zips that go with my grocery store cards are unrelated to the names on the credit cards I use. It's never a problem.
It's called "Trapster" and it does pretty much all that. It's gotten a little clunky and busy with some of the more recent updates, sometimes with icons and things changing enough that it's distracting rather than helpful. I used it for a while, but I tend to use the sigalert website (which has a decent phone interface) more often-- you get a simple color coded traffic map with incident markers. You can select the markers (you just have to tap kind of close) and it will usually show dispatch details-- time, lane, vehicles involved (or other hazard), time police arrived, ambulance on the way, whether they're going to create a break, etc.
he'd make a plan and he'd follow through!
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It's not really an outbreak of sense-- if you RTFA the big providers will still have caps, and those caps are too low to support things like netflix. My GF lives in canada and goes over the cap (with Videotron) periodically just from normal use, without watching HD movies or anything. When I finally got around to getting an HD TV I went through 15GB in a few days watching netflix, but I don't have a cap (at least officially). She'd be getting overage bills if she did anything like that-- we were a bit disappointed that when Netflix decided to offer service in Canada it was only online, since the bandwidth caps make it so it's not terribly useful.
With any luck, the small providers will be able to push the big ones into no caps or high enough caps to be useful, but it doesn't look like there will be an immediate effect.
His comments are especially appropriate in the context of another recent article: http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/01/19/2018206/US-Supreme-Court-Says-NASA-Background-Checks-OK
The waiver that the gov't is demanding that "low risk" contract employees, who don't deal with classified or even particularly sensitive information, sign lets them get access to anything they want from the googles and facebooks and twitters of the US.
* It's a special irony that Justice Thomas held (in a minority view) that there's no right to informational privacy at all. (Fortunately, the majority explicitly refused to rule on that point.) Perhaps Justice Thomas would like to tell us what really went on between him and Anita Hill, then? Or maybe privacy is good for the gander, in his view, but not so much for the goose.
Just releasing the sources of money for his wife's lobbying organization (Liberty Central) would be a good start... there's more than a little potential for conflict of interest there.
Note that the number of employees suing is small (28 out of thousands employed at JPL). I got the feeling that these people were protesting on principle. I was always saddened to see how few of the employees bothered to fight back at all.
There was (and is) a great deal of support (financial and moral) among the rest of JPL for the actual plaintiffs in the suit - the small number was more to make it manageable, and motions were filed at some point to create a class and make it class action, but all of this, including the supreme court hearing, revolves just around the preliminary injunction, so the class stuff never really got addressed.
Yeah it should be nothing like a security clearance for a defense contract. They're just shooting giant missiles with possibly nuclear payloads into the sky every couple months. I mean why even background check anyone?
That stuff is all done by Lockheed, Boeing, Orbital, and now Space X. JPL builds the stuff that goes inside the little empty space on the end and that generally is either going to another planet or is going to stay in orbit for 25 years or so.
It takes up to a year to complete a clearance. Maybe there was something else coming up that these guys aren't going to be working on, at least not now.
This wasn't about security clearances, it was about intrusive background investigations (that required signing a very broad waiver/release that is essentially unlimited in scope and duration) for people who are in positions NASA deems "low risk"-- i.e. handle mostly scientific data that's going to be released anyway, or do editing, or engineering on completely unclassified things, or work in the cafeteria, or are janitors, etc. The waivers for clearances have a time limit that they're usable for, but this one doesn't.
JPL also does very little classified work and for much of that small amount of classified work the people doing it aren't all required to have clearances, only those who have system level knowledge or need to know the application. Pretty much everyone who has a clearance there has one because they actively chose to work on something that required it, or it lets them propose work that requires it. Most people don't and most parts of the lab are pretty open once you're in. Things that need to be locked are locked (many buildings are not), and things that have special access requirements have cipher locks or badge reader access with access control lists. You can't accidentally come across classified stuff-- people working on it are required to keep it secret, even from other people who have clearances unless they have a specific need to know.
very well summarized. NSF also doesn't do it at their non-headquarters facilities (e.g. NRAO apparently doesn't do it).
People seem to think NASA makes launch vehicles. Pretty much all launch services these days (including shuttle) are run by private companies (e.g. Lockheed, Boeing, Orbital, Space X), and shuttle's days are numbered.
There are a couple of bright spots:
- the government did drop the "suitability matrix" (http://hspd12jpl.org/files/SuitabilitySecurityDeskGuide.pdf ) and replace it with a much less intrusive verification of information for employees in "low risk" positions (about 95% of JPL employees, as determined by NASA). They posted the replacement process a few days before the filed their briefs with the SC, and the NASA URL where the matrix was posted now says something like "that doc is no longer available". It doesn't mean they can't change it again (since it wasn't forced in court), but the SC did notice it enough to mention in their opinion.
- Six of the justices also were willing to assume that there is a constitutional right to informational privacy, even if they don't think it was implicated in this case. They weren't even willing to draw a fuzzy line as to where it is, but they do seem to agree that it's there.
I have a mobile phone (two, actually). I also live in a hole in the ground (not quite literally, but close) that's a cell shadow with intermittent coverage at best, and zero signal a lot of the time. Your authentication scheme won't work there, and will also be spotty in my office, which is smack in the center of a building.
It pays better than many (most?) non-tenure-track faculty positions. Adjunct faculty get really low pay for huge amounts of work grading the papers that he writes. The comments on the chronicle site were great-- even a few people suggested that he pull a milo minderbinder and hire himself out as a grader as well.
The article didn't actually ask for a way to organize data, he asked for a way to organize files. He could easily create a database that points to whatever files he wants. Populate the relevant columns, and if he wants to add another type of data to search on, add a column. It's not like you need data in every cell, you simply need data in the cells that you want to find again.
And right now he's using a complicated mess of symlinks that amounts to a db schema that's probably a huge pain to maintain. Pick one straightforward way to organize files (e.g. date, with directories by month or something) and use the db for sifting through them to pick files by pH, lunar phase, and hair color (or whatever).