In about 1994 I was an Apple fan, and had the first version of the Power PC. At that time Apple allowed the operating system to be used by other manufacturers as Apple Clones. They also had the right to make modifications to the OS.
Steve Jobs returned to Apple and breached all the contracts with these clone makers, most of whom went out of business.
Since then I refuse to purchase any Apple product. This was the only way I could think of to object to their behavior as a consumer.
I am a Ph.D. Chemist with 28 years of industrial experience (Dow Chemical) as an analytical chemist. I have over 30 publications in the scientific literature (some of them ground-breaking), have presented talks at national and international scientific meetings, and in my narrow area of expertise, was world renowned for my work in ultra-trace determination of toxic substances (mostly dioxin) in the environment.
I agree with almost everything you said. I would add the resources of the American Chemical Society (http://www.acs.org).
Some of the skills a chemist (or any scientist) needs beyond a knowledge of chemistry are (in no particular order):
1- Documenting your work in a way that stands up to legal scrutiny. (Without documenting what you have done, it is as if you never did it because no one can benefit from it.)
2- Presenting your work orally. (scientific meetings, work-group meetings, job performance reviews,...)
3- Knowledge of the scientific literature in your current area of endeavor. (Has what you plan to do been done before? Can you benefit from what has been done before?)
4- Planning projects. (How should you go about achieving a project's goals?)
You could help your students prepare for a degree in science by making them aware of the importance of these other skills.
Your data appears to be amenable to cluster analysis. Chamelion Statistics has a normal coordinate analysis-graphics package which is easy to use. The graphics are spectacular.
"(a) In General- Each eligible institution participating in any program under this title shall to the extent practicable-" [emphasis added]
Note the use of 'shall' and not 'must'. I believe this means that the section is not mandatory.
[At least this is the interpretation in government contracts, but correct me if I'm wrong.]
Also, the term 'practicable' is open to interpretation.
The security is explained here:
https://www.protectmichild.com/technical_complianc e.html
A simplified explaination is that they send their mailing list (which is encrypted), and get back their list with the protected addresses removed.
All someone would have to do is send in a list and see what is removed to have a list of addresses for households with children.
I could not find any State requirements on how the list holders should protect this information.
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In about 1994 I was an Apple fan, and had the first version of the Power PC. At that time Apple allowed the operating system to be used by other manufacturers as Apple Clones. They also had the right to make modifications to the OS.
Steve Jobs returned to Apple and breached all the contracts with these clone makers, most of whom went out of business.
Since then I refuse to purchase any Apple product. This was the only way I could think of to object to their behavior as a consumer.
I attended MIT as a freshman in 1956. During orientation, we took a test which consisted of writing a paragraph about anything.
The results of the test were used to determine whether the student would be required to take Remedial English.
Guess what... 30% failed.
I am a Ph.D. Chemist with 28 years of industrial experience (Dow Chemical) as an analytical chemist. I have over 30 publications in the scientific literature (some of them ground-breaking), have presented talks at national and international scientific meetings, and in my narrow area of expertise, was world renowned for my work in ultra-trace determination of toxic substances (mostly dioxin) in the environment.
I agree with almost everything you said. I would add the resources of the American Chemical Society (http://www.acs.org).
Some of the skills a chemist (or any scientist) needs beyond a knowledge of chemistry are (in no particular order):
1- Documenting your work in a way that stands up to legal scrutiny. (Without documenting what you have done, it is as if you never did it because no one can benefit from it.)
2- Presenting your work orally. (scientific meetings, work-group meetings, job performance reviews, ...)
3- Knowledge of the scientific literature in your current area of endeavor. (Has what you plan to do been done before? Can you benefit from what has been done before?)
4- Planning projects. (How should you go about achieving a project's goals?)
You could help your students prepare for a degree in science by making them aware of the importance of these other skills.
Lewis Shadoff, Ph.D.
"(a) In General- Each eligible institution participating in any program under this title shall to the extent practicable-" [emphasis added]
Note the use of 'shall' and not 'must'. I believe this means that the section is not mandatory.
[At least this is the interpretation in government contracts, but correct me if I'm wrong.]
Also, the term 'practicable' is open to interpretation.
"Identity-Theft Disclosure Laws"
(about half way down the page)
The security is explained here: https://www.protectmichild.com/technical_complianc e.html
A simplified explaination is that they send their mailing list (which is encrypted), and get back their list with the protected addresses removed.
All someone would have to do is send in a list and see what is removed to have a list of addresses for households with children.
I could not find any State requirements on how the list holders should protect this information.