Well, you are usually required to sign a disclaimer that the research is yours, original, and not published elsewhere. After the 5th paper on the same data-set, that claim gets a bit thin.
And that is where the plagiarism tends to kick in: the papers get padded out with other people's findings.
When researcher's lives are ruled by arbitrary metrics on volumes of papers published, people will cheat.
It's certainly true in computing. Try picking a few papers from the ACM Digital Library and start following the references. Rehash after rehash of other people's papers. Particularly their own...
Turn it on at the power button only when you need it. That will make a very poor quality connection for the attacker and they will move on, and it will also save you money on your electricity.
If you can't live without an always-on connection then you will have to get aggressive and really go after the attacker.
I replaced Ubuntu with Mint when I was first confronted by Unity because I couldn't abide the new UI.
Sounds like that was the least of the reasons to go...
I was thinking that it's been a while and that I should have another look at how Unity has evolved, but not if they are reduced to doing this to stay in business.
Paid sex, filmed or not, is not a normal job and it is insulting to compare the miseries of your desk job to the degradations of a sex worker. Sex is intimate, invasive, and can seriously affect your health.
Very few people wake up in the morning with the choice of being a rocket scientist or a porn model, and actively choose the porn job. For most people it is something they actively avoid unless circumstances force them down that route. The worry with sex workers is those circumstances can be so bad they don't feel that they have any choice in the matter. As I said, not all sex workers will be in that position, but we have to give thought to those who may be, and legislate to protect them (perhaps even from themselves).
As to the problem of supporting oneself, it is the responsibility of us all to ensure that we provide a helping hand for those in dire circumstances, not to rely on coerced sex (i.e. rape) to pay the bills of vulnerable people.
There is a valid argument for banning paid pornography because of the difficulty in ensuring that performers are not coerced into the profession. Not all are coerced, but some may well be. Human rights are always exist in balance with each other, and protecting people from coercion should definitely figure in that balance.
Truly amateur porn with no financial gain for the participants is different. But again, only so long as you can prove that there is no financial gain.
The problem with your approach is that it is the classic "band-aid on a gaping wound" solution to a problem.
I agree with you that there is nothing in (say) the roman catholic view of science that precludes even the big bang (and I was taught science at a catholic high school which took that view) .
But it doesn't address the underlying cause - the use of speculation about our existence as fact, then inferring laws from these "facts" and using said laws to punish and humiliate those who disagree with them.
The same catholic school that was happy to teach evolution (with gusto it has to be said), also told children that every sperm was sacred, that bread and wine turned into the actual body and blood of Jesus, and that gay people are bad because God says so, All of their assertions (and they had/have many) are arbitrary, some are just silly, and some do serious harm.
Of course the concept of speculations as fact should be mocked for what it is.
There is nothing wrong with speculating about our origins and purpose in life, but it's quite a different matter when that turns into "facts". Because that's just silly.
It was Good Riddance when I finally kicked that crap to the curb.
I don't doubt that a system with the number of security/maintenance/update options as BES is a challenge to get your head around, and that is has some very strange quirks indeed, but I worry that you are more concerned about how easy your life is than about the security of your company's data.
BES is difficult/complex in order to enable the granularity of its offerings so that the company has secure content and up-to-date apps, and that this is virtually invisible to the many phone users. Undoubtedly it could be better written, and pricing is an issue, but there is precious little out there that can achieve the same security at present (beyond basic email).
Obviously it depends on what kind of content your users need mobile access to, and the risks to the business if security is compromised, but I do wonder if you undertook a proper risk assessment before you got rid of your BES.
The whole point of capitalism is that you have multiple companies competing to serve the customer. And you want less of that? A nice monopoly maybe?
In any case, I suggest you have a good look at the underlying OS, and at the developer tools (Ripple for example, is the W3C's recommended tool for testing web apps, not just BB10 web apps). There is a lot going on under the hood that makes BB10 useful.
From the tests done (and in my experience) the Z10 has the most standards-compliant HTML 5 mobile browser, and also one of the fastest. It also has full multi-tasking and multi-threading within apps. It's built on QT, which makes apps much more portable (QT is coming to Android and WinPhone in Q3). Heck, RIM even ported DOSBox, I assume to make a point about Apple's control-freakery.
It's not just a think layer of interface logic, its a mature OS that's quite possibly already in your car, with great development tools and none of the crappy iOS restrictions on emulators/simulators.... It's not perfect by any means, but it's pretty good.
Just imagine, ISPs being billed for tax every time they fail to answer a call to tech support within a reasonable time. Or M$ being billed for their bugs.
We would either clear the national debt, or get the service we were promised. What's not to like?
Yes, but many of the apps are free because there's no point trying to sell them...
Unless you are very lucky or have a huge marketing budget, you either make Android apps for market visibility or in the hope that you might make something from the app advertising.
RIM may not have the largest customer base, but BlackBerry users do actually *buy* apps (unlike Android...)
And the apps are a joy to develop, at least if you have a real BB10 to test with (I do: I have a Dev Alpha). I get a choice between Eclipse and QT Creator for my C/C++, and a huge range of libraries. The platform is QL, and now Nokia have sold that to Digia, QT is coming to Android and Win8 phone in Q3, so I can port even C++ apps between platforms easily.
Depends on the jurisdiction of your invoice. In the UK it's a 222 winding-up order (ask your accountant).
In practice (and I've had to do this myself) you get your lawyer to send them a letter stating that they are in default, that you are to petition the High Court for a 222 winding up order, and that you will call a creditors meeting which will be advertised in the national press. Unless you get immediate payment by return of post.
What got me, was that it didn't even affect my relationship with the client. Their accountants just smirked and said "Ah, you've found out how to get us to pay then". It was like a game to them. Oh, and they sent a man on a motorbike with the money, not even a cheque, so that I had to explain to my bank why I was depositing such a large amount of cash (in the UK, unusual cash deposits are queried and reported to the police).
Sounds like the device management in BlackBerry but not as sophisticated.
With BlackBerry, you can manage what goes on the devices even more precisely. And with BB10 next month comes the private app store where different groups of users can see different sets of apps within your organization. You can also automatically push the apps (and upgrades) to the devices. You can also manage a firewall between personal and corporate content/apps within each phone (it's called Balance).
Good to see Google helping the enterprise, but it sounds like they still have a way to go.
BlackBerry allows fine granularity in managing devices, and covers much more than just email accounts. Is that even possible with an iPhone? Is it possible to do a like-for-like comparison?
Also, if their BES is failing, wouldn't that be the NTSB's own hardware? The BES software will be running on NTSB hardware for security reasons won't it?
It all sounds like BS by someone who wants a shiny new iPhone 5 free from the government. But that's now how government contracts are supposed to be awarded....
Quite lot actually considering our high school had precisely one Commodore PET.
In 1979 we were first taught to program in CESIL on coding forms that got sent to County Hall to be turned into punched cards for us.
In 1980 our school got it's first PET and an ASR 33 teletype connected to the Open University's mainframe.
Because we had only one PET, it (and the teletype) were kept in the store room with the maths text books but we were all encouraged to try programming it. Lunchtimes and after school (until the head of maths locked up and went home for the evening), there were always a few boys, and it was almost always boys, trying to write their own versions of Star Trek and Civil War (which were the two games the school possessed) in BASIC.
Can't imagine it now, but hopefully the Raspberry Pi will fix that.
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Well, you are usually required to sign a disclaimer that the research is yours, original, and not published elsewhere. After the 5th paper on the same data-set, that claim gets a bit thin.
And that is where the plagiarism tends to kick in: the papers get padded out with other people's findings.
When researcher's lives are ruled by arbitrary metrics on volumes of papers published, people will cheat. It's certainly true in computing. Try picking a few papers from the ACM Digital Library and start following the references. Rehash after rehash of other people's papers. Particularly their own...
Turn it on at the power button only when you need it. That will make a very poor quality connection for the attacker and they will move on, and it will also save you money on your electricity.
If you can't live without an always-on connection then you will have to get aggressive and really go after the attacker.
I replaced Ubuntu with Mint when I was first confronted by Unity because I couldn't abide the new UI.
Sounds like that was the least of the reasons to go...
I was thinking that it's been a while and that I should have another look at how Unity has evolved, but not if they are reduced to doing this to stay in business.
I used to his Elan (I think it was an Elan) in the car-park at Waterloo.
Paid sex, filmed or not, is not a normal job and it is insulting to compare the miseries of your desk job to the degradations of a sex worker. Sex is intimate, invasive, and can seriously affect your health.
Very few people wake up in the morning with the choice of being a rocket scientist or a porn model, and actively choose the porn job. For most people it is something they actively avoid unless circumstances force them down that route. The worry with sex workers is those circumstances can be so bad they don't feel that they have any choice in the matter. As I said, not all sex workers will be in that position, but we have to give thought to those who may be, and legislate to protect them (perhaps even from themselves).
As to the problem of supporting oneself, it is the responsibility of us all to ensure that we provide a helping hand for those in dire circumstances, not to rely on coerced sex (i.e. rape) to pay the bills of vulnerable people.
It depends what pressure there is on the models to perform that "art".
Freedom of expression is not the same as freedom to coerce.
There is a valid argument for banning paid pornography because of the difficulty in ensuring that performers are not coerced into the profession. Not all are coerced, but some may well be. Human rights are always exist in balance with each other, and protecting people from coercion should definitely figure in that balance.
Truly amateur porn with no financial gain for the participants is different. But again, only so long as you can prove that there is no financial gain.
The problem with your approach is that it is the classic "band-aid on a gaping wound" solution to a problem.
I agree with you that there is nothing in (say) the roman catholic view of science that precludes even the big bang (and I was taught science at a catholic high school which took that view) .
But it doesn't address the underlying cause - the use of speculation about our existence as fact, then inferring laws from these "facts" and using said laws to punish and humiliate those who disagree with them.
The same catholic school that was happy to teach evolution (with gusto it has to be said), also told children that every sperm was sacred, that bread and wine turned into the actual body and blood of Jesus, and that gay people are bad because God says so, All of their assertions (and they had/have many) are arbitrary, some are just silly, and some do serious harm.
Of course the concept of speculations as fact should be mocked for what it is.
There is nothing wrong with speculating about our origins and purpose in life, but it's quite a different matter when that turns into "facts". Because that's just silly.
These bigoted idiots get away with what they do and say because we,
who do know better,
don't treat them and their ideas with the mockery that they deserve.
Respecting their right to believe (and we must) is not the same as respecting the idiotic beliefs that they hold.
It was Good Riddance when I finally kicked that crap to the curb.
I don't doubt that a system with the number of security/maintenance/update options as BES is a challenge to get your head around, and that is has some very strange quirks indeed, but I worry that you are more concerned about how easy your life is than about the security of your company's data.
BES is difficult/complex in order to enable the granularity of its offerings so that the company has secure content and up-to-date apps, and that this is virtually invisible to the many phone users. Undoubtedly it could be better written, and pricing is an issue, but there is precious little out there that can achieve the same security at present (beyond basic email).
Obviously it depends on what kind of content your users need mobile access to, and the risks to the business if security is compromised, but I do wonder if you undertook a proper risk assessment before you got rid of your BES.
The whole point of capitalism is that you have multiple companies competing to serve the customer. And you want less of that? A nice monopoly maybe?
In any case, I suggest you have a good look at the underlying OS, and at the developer tools (Ripple for example, is the W3C's recommended tool for testing web apps, not just BB10 web apps). There is a lot going on under the hood that makes BB10 useful.
From the tests done (and in my experience) the Z10 has the most standards-compliant HTML 5 mobile browser, and also one of the fastest. It also has full multi-tasking and multi-threading within apps. It's built on QT, which makes apps much more portable (QT is coming to Android and WinPhone in Q3). Heck, RIM even ported DOSBox, I assume to make a point about Apple's control-freakery.
It's not just a think layer of interface logic, its a mature OS that's quite possibly already in your car, with great development tools and none of the crappy iOS restrictions on emulators/simulators.... It's not perfect by any means, but it's pretty good.
Let's tax bad service too.
Just imagine, ISPs being billed for tax every time they fail to answer a call to tech support within a reasonable time. Or M$ being billed for their bugs.
We would either clear the national debt, or get the service we were promised. What's not to like?
Yes, but many of the apps are free because there's no point trying to sell them... Unless you are very lucky or have a huge marketing budget, you either make Android apps for market visibility or in the hope that you might make something from the app advertising.
RIM may not have the largest customer base, but BlackBerry users do actually *buy* apps (unlike Android...)
And the apps are a joy to develop, at least if you have a real BB10 to test with (I do: I have a Dev Alpha). I get a choice between Eclipse and QT Creator for my C/C++, and a huge range of libraries. The platform is QL, and now Nokia have sold that to Digia, QT is coming to Android and Win8 phone in Q3, so I can port even C++ apps between platforms easily.
What's not to like?
Depends on the jurisdiction of your invoice. In the UK it's a 222 winding-up order (ask your accountant).
In practice (and I've had to do this myself) you get your lawyer to send them a letter stating that they are in default, that you are to petition the High Court for a 222 winding up order, and that you will call a creditors meeting which will be advertised in the national press. Unless you get immediate payment by return of post.
What got me, was that it didn't even affect my relationship with the client. Their accountants just smirked and said "Ah, you've found out how to get us to pay then". It was like a game to them. Oh, and they sent a man on a motorbike with the money, not even a cheque, so that I had to explain to my bank why I was depositing such a large amount of cash (in the UK, unusual cash deposits are queried and reported to the police).
They've more than made their point, there is nothing to be gained from losing all brand visibility on one of the most important mobile product ranges.
Brand visibility matters.
Sounds like the device management in BlackBerry but not as sophisticated. With BlackBerry, you can manage what goes on the devices even more precisely. And with BB10 next month comes the private app store where different groups of users can see different sets of apps within your organization. You can also automatically push the apps (and upgrades) to the devices. You can also manage a firewall between personal and corporate content/apps within each phone (it's called Balance). Good to see Google helping the enterprise, but it sounds like they still have a way to go.
Then you use Apple maps to drive around aimlessly until it's cooked (choose any location, it should work).
Also, if their BES is failing, wouldn't that be the NTSB's own hardware? The BES software will be running on NTSB hardware for security reasons won't it?
It all sounds like BS by someone who wants a shiny new iPhone 5 free from the government. But that's now how government contracts are supposed to be awarded....
Always be suspicious when governments use statistics to justify anything.
"Conceding that he hadn't actually played with one..." He was too busy trying to navigate from home using Apple Maps perhaps?
She has a point.
The story of a misogynist looking for a token woman.... Sad.
On the other hand, the reponse on tumblr made it all worthwhile:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc0o62KulO1rj8amio1_1280.jpg
And yes, I know the Mormons haven't preached polygamy for a very long time, but it's still funny.
Quite lot actually considering our high school had precisely one Commodore PET.
In 1979 we were first taught to program in CESIL on coding forms that got sent to County Hall to be turned into punched cards for us.
In 1980 our school got it's first PET and an ASR 33 teletype connected to the Open University's mainframe.
Because we had only one PET, it (and the teletype) were kept in the store room with the maths text books but we were all encouraged to try programming it. Lunchtimes and after school (until the head of maths locked up and went home for the evening), there were always a few boys, and it was almost always boys, trying to write their own versions of Star Trek and Civil War (which were the two games the school possessed) in BASIC.
Can't imagine it now, but hopefully the Raspberry Pi will fix that.