I concur. I used to run sound and lights (and security, go figure) for a nightclub. One criterion we used when hiring sound techs was a musical background. I figured we could teach musicians how to run the board much easier than we could teach a technician to be musical.
As much as I love The Safehouse and its back door, you do realize that GenCon is called GenCon because it belongs in Lake Geneva, right? I fondly remember MECCA as much as the next guy, but to equate that location with GenCon denies the history of the event.
Methinks you didn't devote much time to looking for examples. I Googled service pig and the first link was this, which indicates "Pigs are very smart are sometimes used as service animals. Pot bellied pigs are small and favored as service animals by persons who are allergic to dogs. The New York City Transit Authority has passenger who travels as a service pig (sic)."
Having been on the receiving end of Tolkein's "accounting" practices (namely, them putting companies like ICE out of business to generate cash for the gorram movies), I can only sit back and laugh at them. They can buy my sympathy for, say, 10 times my lost royalties.
As the parent of a 7 year old daughter, I categorically reject this truism. In fact, we named her after a folk song in which a girl is willing to talk to a stranger (the singer) and the girl shows the stranger around her farm. The song is based on a true story (we've met both the singer and the girl (now a woman)). If you never talk to strangers, you never meet anyone new. So, my advice is for children to talk to strangers.
Damn straight! I typically travel with multiple laptops. All of them are going on the plane with me, or I'm staying home. (Note that I work on behalf of the US government. If I stay home, their work doesn't get done.)
Another ending condition I read about in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction magazine was that the simulation could crash. It takes an awful lot of processing power to simulate the universe. So, presumably they're cutting some corners around the edges---those portions of the universe that we cannot perceive. But, as our ability to perceive increases, they have to start filling in the details. To crash the simulation, all we need to do is send out probes in all directions that can transmit back to us. If we can increase the load on the simulation server faster than they can add processing resources, we should be able to either crash the simulation, or at least make it start paging like crazy (what would that look like?).
I agree that you need a receipt to return an item. However, if a store is unwilling to exchange a defective item*, they run a serious risk of alienating their customers. Since this experience, I have had nothing good to say about Sears, and it will take a long time before I will consider returning.
*Note that to exchange an item, the store must carry exactly that item. Moreover, if the item is defective, they can return the item to the manufacturer.
PS: Target's return policy is why I now buy most of my clothing there. In this case, reasonable customer service has translated into store loyalty, which in turn translates into several thousand dollars worth of business every year.
But, do you need a receipt? I got a shirt for Christmas two years ago. When I first put it on to go to work, I realized it had a stain on it. I took it back to Sears to exchange it and was told that it couldn't be exchanged without a receipt. Now, expecting a receipt for a return is one thing, but they wouldn't take responsibility for selling a damaged product. I haven't returned to Sears since, and if past behaviour is any indication, I won't for another three years.
Or, I am broadcasting my SSID (caetarn) because I don't care if you access my WAP from your house. Yes, there are still some long-haired pinko-fags (to coin a phrase) willing to share their resources.
All they researchers are saying is that they can deduce some of your preferences based on your other preferences.
The researchers are making a stronger claim. They are stating that based on actual public ratings (available from IMDB) they can generate actual private ratings published by Netflix under the guise of anonymity. As the paper notes, someone competing for the Netflix prize could use this data to improve the accuracy of their prediction algorithm. However, the point of this paper is to reveal that public ratings can be used to identify purportedly anonymous private ratings.
As a comparison, imagine if the public information consisted of the dates that various people went to the doctor for a yearly physical. This is hardly sensitive information. Now imagine that your insurance company provided a list of (id, date, diagnosis) records. Ostensibly, the id field is an arbitrary (anonymous) identifier. The paper shows that based on limited background knowledge (a handful of (date, 'physical exam') records), an attacker could reverse engineer your diagnosis history.
Exactly - all they did was found that there was a correlation that might mean that the people are the same on IMDB and NetFlix.
Caveat: I haven't had a chance to pore over the statistical calculations. However, the paper notes that their similarity measure was 38 standard deviations from the norm. Assuming the math is valid, this seems on par with a DNA test, which also provides a correlation. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the results until you can find a serious methodological problem.
The company (Verizon?) can claim whatever the hell they want. It doesn't make it true from a legal standpoint. For example, I claim that anyone using the letter 'e' is in violation of my IP; does that make it true?
I find your particular configuration to be "exceptional," but I, too, leave my WAP wide open. I secure machines with important information. But, if neighbors want to piggy-back, they are free to do so. Should I ever experience bandwidth problems, I'll reconsider. In the meantime, my SSID (Caetarn if you're in the neighborhood) is public and I don't require a key exactly because I accept public access. If the sentiment of sharing a WAP is "exceptional," then screw the majority. ("Majoritetet tar alltid feil" if I remember my Ibsen.)
As many others have noted, a taser is a weapon. I consider the administration of 20,000 and 150,000 volts to be violent. Sure, he was acting like a jerk, but acting like a jerk is not a reasonable justification for unnecessary force. I've had to escort out jerks without liberal applications of electricity.
Yes, I've had to restrain people without hurting them. I was head of security for a mall. As a result, we saw people from all walks of life (including some who were not quite sane). And, some of them had to be restrained before the police could arrive. And no, we didn't have weapons. However, we never had to resort to the level of violence evident in this video.
So, I've never worn your uniform, but I have worn a uniform. When accused of "hiding behind a badge" (a pointless security badge), I've even taken it off to indicate that I'm not afraid of some punk. Based on my experiences, this incident was out of line.
According to HIPAA, groups of 30 or larger are acceptable. This is based on 20,000 people (minimum) per ZIP. This yields 10,000 people per gender per ZIP. Which in turn, yields 30 people per age (in years) per gender per ZIP (for the smallest age categories). So, if we can expose the medical history of people in groups of 30, or larger, I'm guessing that the government (that is, we voters) would accept groups of 30 for drug screening.
I'm not the original poster, but I live in Maryland. Yes, you may connect to my wireless access point (SSID is Caetarn). No, I'm not going to monitor whether or not you're doing anything illegal. See, I believe in personal responsibility, which is why I am willing trust that you are responsible (liable even) for your own actions. By providing an access point, I am emphatically not responsible for your actions.
While introns are certainly excised during transcription, to suggest that they, and other non-coding sequences, are "useless garbage" is probably not a scientific viewpoint.
In fact, we already know that intron-mutations can lead to undesirable results. As a concrete example, in intron-8 of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) gene, the normal pattern is 7T (IIRC). A shorter version of this pattern (5T) results, in homozygous persons, in cystic fibrosis. My genetics professor indicated that this is probably because the amount of energy needed to pull the adjacent exons together is much higher with the shorter intron. Regardless of the exact mechanism, we do know that introns are far from "useless garbage." In other words, I agree with the parent post.
I realize you were (probably) being sarcastic. I enjoyed registering, just to solve their math captcha. So, for those not interesting in exerting the effort: username=qwerty, password=qwerty.
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I concur. I used to run sound and lights (and security, go figure) for a nightclub. One criterion we used when hiring sound techs was a musical background. I figured we could teach musicians how to run the board much easier than we could teach a technician to be musical.
As much as I love The Safehouse and its back door, you do realize that GenCon is called GenCon because it belongs in Lake Geneva, right? I fondly remember MECCA as much as the next guy, but to equate that location with GenCon denies the history of the event.
Methinks you didn't devote much time to looking for examples. I Googled service pig and the first link was this, which indicates "Pigs are very smart are sometimes used as service animals. Pot bellied pigs are small and favored as service animals by persons who are allergic to dogs. The New York City Transit Authority has passenger who travels as a service pig (sic)."
Having been on the receiving end of Tolkein's "accounting" practices (namely, them putting companies like ICE out of business to generate cash for the gorram movies), I can only sit back and laugh at them. They can buy my sympathy for, say, 10 times my lost royalties.
In short (cue Nelson voice): hah-hah!
As the parent of a 7 year old daughter, I categorically reject this truism. In fact, we named her after a folk song in which a girl is willing to talk to a stranger (the singer) and the girl shows the stranger around her farm. The song is based on a true story (we've met both the singer and the girl (now a woman)). If you never talk to strangers, you never meet anyone new. So, my advice is for children to talk to strangers.
Damn straight! I typically travel with multiple laptops. All of them are going on the plane with me, or I'm staying home. (Note that I work on behalf of the US government. If I stay home, their work doesn't get done.)
Another ending condition I read about in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction magazine was that the simulation could crash. It takes an awful lot of processing power to simulate the universe. So, presumably they're cutting some corners around the edges---those portions of the universe that we cannot perceive. But, as our ability to perceive increases, they have to start filling in the details. To crash the simulation, all we need to do is send out probes in all directions that can transmit back to us. If we can increase the load on the simulation server faster than they can add processing resources, we should be able to either crash the simulation, or at least make it start paging like crazy (what would that look like?).
I agree that you need a receipt to return an item. However, if a store is unwilling to exchange a defective item*, they run a serious risk of alienating their customers. Since this experience, I have had nothing good to say about Sears, and it will take a long time before I will consider returning.
*Note that to exchange an item, the store must carry exactly that item. Moreover, if the item is defective, they can return the item to the manufacturer.
PS: Target's return policy is why I now buy most of my clothing there. In this case, reasonable customer service has translated into store loyalty, which in turn translates into several thousand dollars worth of business every year.
PPS: So, in short, screw Sears.
But, do you need a receipt? I got a shirt for Christmas two years ago. When I first put it on to go to work, I realized it had a stain on it. I took it back to Sears to exchange it and was told that it couldn't be exchanged without a receipt. Now, expecting a receipt for a return is one thing, but they wouldn't take responsibility for selling a damaged product. I haven't returned to Sears since, and if past behaviour is any indication, I won't for another three years.
Or, I am broadcasting my SSID (caetarn) because I don't care if you access my WAP from your house. Yes, there are still some long-haired pinko-fags (to coin a phrase) willing to share their resources.
The researchers are making a stronger claim. They are stating that based on actual public ratings (available from IMDB) they can generate actual private ratings published by Netflix under the guise of anonymity. As the paper notes, someone competing for the Netflix prize could use this data to improve the accuracy of their prediction algorithm. However, the point of this paper is to reveal that public ratings can be used to identify purportedly anonymous private ratings.
As a comparison, imagine if the public information consisted of the dates that various people went to the doctor for a yearly physical. This is hardly sensitive information. Now imagine that your insurance company provided a list of (id, date, diagnosis) records. Ostensibly, the id field is an arbitrary (anonymous) identifier. The paper shows that based on limited background knowledge (a handful of (date, 'physical exam') records), an attacker could reverse engineer your diagnosis history.
Caveat: I haven't had a chance to pore over the statistical calculations. However, the paper notes that their similarity measure was 38 standard deviations from the norm. Assuming the math is valid, this seems on par with a DNA test, which also provides a correlation. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the results until you can find a serious methodological problem.
So is a URL; I need permission to access a webpage?
The company (Verizon?) can claim whatever the hell they want. It doesn't make it true from a legal standpoint. For example, I claim that anyone using the letter 'e' is in violation of my IP; does that make it true?
I find your particular configuration to be "exceptional," but I, too, leave my WAP wide open. I secure machines with important information. But, if neighbors want to piggy-back, they are free to do so. Should I ever experience bandwidth problems, I'll reconsider. In the meantime, my SSID (Caetarn if you're in the neighborhood) is public and I don't require a key exactly because I accept public access. If the sentiment of sharing a WAP is "exceptional," then screw the majority. ("Majoritetet tar alltid feil" if I remember my Ibsen.)
As many others have noted, a taser is a weapon. I consider the administration of 20,000 and 150,000 volts to be violent. Sure, he was acting like a jerk, but acting like a jerk is not a reasonable justification for unnecessary force. I've had to escort out jerks without liberal applications of electricity.
Yes, I've had to restrain people without hurting them. I was head of security for a mall. As a result, we saw people from all walks of life (including some who were not quite sane). And, some of them had to be restrained before the police could arrive. And no, we didn't have weapons. However, we never had to resort to the level of violence evident in this video.
So, I've never worn your uniform, but I have worn a uniform. When accused of "hiding behind a badge" (a pointless security badge), I've even taken it off to indicate that I'm not afraid of some punk. Based on my experiences, this incident was out of line.
According to HIPAA, groups of 30 or larger are acceptable. This is based on 20,000 people (minimum) per ZIP. This yields 10,000 people per gender per ZIP. Which in turn, yields 30 people per age (in years) per gender per ZIP (for the smallest age categories). So, if we can expose the medical history of people in groups of 30, or larger, I'm guessing that the government (that is, we voters) would accept groups of 30 for drug screening.
I'm not the original poster, but I live in Maryland. Yes, you may connect to my wireless access point (SSID is Caetarn). No, I'm not going to monitor whether or not you're doing anything illegal. See, I believe in personal responsibility, which is why I am willing trust that you are responsible (liable even) for your own actions. By providing an access point, I am emphatically not responsible for your actions.
That's just because we don't hear about Switzerland in general. They also have a high incidence of handgun violence.
"So, like, Britney and me were goin' to, like, the mall. And Britney was all, like, 'Did ya see ...'"
And none of the links are a problem in Opera.
In fact, we already know that intron-mutations can lead to undesirable results. As a concrete example, in intron-8 of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) gene, the normal pattern is 7T (IIRC). A shorter version of this pattern (5T) results, in homozygous persons, in cystic fibrosis. My genetics professor indicated that this is probably because the amount of energy needed to pull the adjacent exons together is much higher with the shorter intron. Regardless of the exact mechanism, we do know that introns are far from "useless garbage." In other words, I agree with the parent post.
I realize you were (probably) being sarcastic. I enjoyed registering, just to solve their math captcha. So, for those not interesting in exerting the effort: username=qwerty, password=qwerty.
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