Also on Friday, a forensic biologist testifying for the prosecution, Angela Fitzwater, reiterated for the jury what prosecutors said in opening statements: that Bess was a match for the DNA found inside Samota. The chances that someone else was the contributor to the DNA is one in 2.69 quadrillion Caucasians, Fitzwater said, far more than the population of Earth.
So there still seems to be some disagreement with some of what's being said here and what the experts are saying. Can somebody shed some light on how a supposed expert, under oath, can claim a DNA match that is all but unique in the world's population of Caucasians?
The tests they do have a 99.9% success rate (if it's gone up or that was too optimistic, let me know, but that's last I saw).
Knowing nothing about how DNA testing is done, how does the statement above reconcile with this case, in which an expert witness testified that the odds of a false positive "are 1 in 2.69 quadrillion"?
...as I imagine it will only be a matter of time before some inquisitive folks who are up to the challenge figure out how to detect (and possibly disable) this.
I have to agree, if anything Windows 7 is easier than any MSFT OS that came before it.
Not networking. That high-level "helper" interface they've interposed between the user and the network details? It's meaningless...I still haven't figured out why I would want to make an interface "public" or "private." Not to mention it now takes 3 or 4 properly placed mouse clicks to get to the network setup dialog. I'm sure there's a direct route, but if there is, I've yet to find it.
...because the lawyers know it's cheaper for the insurance companies to just settle out of court rather than go to court and fight the suit. IANAL, but I've been on the driver's side of a pedestrian accident. I hit a guy that ran across a 5-lane highway mere yards from an intersection...he was issued a ticket, and I still got sued. Net result? My insurance company settled out of court for about $250K. Even though the accident clearly was not my fault, the insurance company paid out.
I would imagine the driver's insurance company and Google will do the same in this case as well.
...so those in the know can select the nameserver(s) closest to them without having to depend upon a 3rd party to determine (sometimes erroneously) what servers are closest.
...would be to use the statistically-validated user input in a feed-forward image recognition neural network utilizing error feedback that would "learn" to identify the various features of interest. Use edge detection to identify the features of interest (for instance, by number just like a paint-by-number canvas), and have users "identify" what they see. We're talking about invariant scale here, which vastly simplifies the learning process as well as automated feature measurement.
I was doing this in the '90s using multi-band spectral imagery from LANDSAT with good success. I would imagine there have been some advances in this area since that time.
Even if science isn't illegal by itself, good luck not getting arrested for buying lab glassware, which is illegal in TX
Not quite true...the state requires a permit to purchase certain chemicals and glassware that are commonly used for making certain drugs. The list is on the DPS site. Educate yourself.
...is something of a misnomer. A lot of what passes for "engineering" is actually processes proven empirically, through years of experience, rather than grounded in solid theory. Petroleum engineering is taught based upon what has worked for 80+ years. And petroleum engineers sit in office cubicles, not the rigs. Rigs are supervised by workers who are very experienced at what they do, but really have no way to handle situations "outside the box" because there isn't a drilling manual to consult when things go wrong. Rig workers depend upon the initial calculations of the engineers, and their own experiences of successful drilling operations. I suspect things on the BP rig happened so quickly, and were so outside the norm of crew experience, that there wasn't much chance of recovery. Like they used to teach us in the oilfield, if the mud comes out of the hole, you've got a problem. If the mud disappears in the hole, just wait: you've got an even bigger problem.
Let's hope this doesn't mean they actually try the nuclear option.
Thanks for the environmental message. A little late for that, don't you think?
At this point, a small controlled nuclear explosion to simply fuse the entire mass together into a big piece of molten glass and metal might be what's needed.
...has been around since OBD-1 days, as far back as 1984. OBD-2 programming systems are available for anything from 1994 through 2010. There are even scanners that allow you to enter the PIDs of your choice (obtained from monitoring the data line while performing operations with a scantool).
Since newer vehicles control nearly everything via CANbus, it's no surprise that someone has taken the time to monitor the bus and inject various commands. This sort of hacking has been around for over 20 years (despite auto manufacturers' attempts to protect their hardware with security keys and seeds). I don't see them "solving" this "problem" anytime soon...unless they come up with a way to make a "secure" bus (perhaps using fiber optics).
Speaking as a teacher, it sounds like a fair system to me. Just in case you missed the point: It prevents abuse by petty and vengeful administrators who take a dislike to a teacher for personal reasons. I've seen it many times. Without such protections, the teacher ranks would be reduced to ass-kissing, brown-nosing toads.
That said, there are always a few inept teachers that learn how to "game the system." But you don't revamp a system designed to fight abuse to take care of a few errant teachers.
...who believes that bandwidth leeches (yes, you know who you are) should be capped? There are always those that push the envelope in any situation. Bandwidth leeches belong to that group. I would bet (totally anecdotal here) that the number of bandwidth leeches that are in the top 5% of bandwidth usage comprise only a few percentage points of Comcast subscribers. Why is it a loss to those of us who play nice with others when the few greedy subscribers are throttled?
I'm by no means a Microsoft fanboi, but I have nothing but good things to say about MSE: It's free, the definition files are updated regularly, and (best of all) it doesn't slow down my laptop even when I'm running a scan. If you're not running MSE, you owe it to yourself to try it out. I can almost promise you that you'll toss whatever antivirus software you're running now.
MSE, Anti-Malwarebytes, and SpywareBlaster has taken care of everything the big bad world has thrown at my machine.
...of archived gopherspace content I'm willing to donate to the LoC. Seems to me this dated motherload of data would have far more historical significance and impact than thousands upon thousands of dissociated mindfarts.
I read somewhere once about a scheme to make intersections safer by marking a "point of no return" line prior to an intersection. The idea is that if the light turns yellow (or is yellow) prior to the point of no return, you have room to stop (assuming you're going the speed limit). If you've passed the marking, then it would be more dangerous to stop (and end up in the middle of the intersection) rather than continue through the intersection.
This is good to know. I suspect it's a local RACES requirement, and they make you believe that you have to be part of their organization to run with SKYWARN. Your response has spurred me on to do some additional research. All I really want to do is participate in SKYWARN (lots of nasty weather here in the spring), but I don't have much of a desire to get caught up in RACES.
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Also on Friday, a forensic biologist testifying for the prosecution, Angela Fitzwater, reiterated for the jury what prosecutors said in opening statements: that Bess was a match for the DNA found inside Samota. The chances that someone else was the contributor to the DNA is one in 2.69 quadrillion Caucasians, Fitzwater said, far more than the population of Earth.
So there still seems to be some disagreement with some of what's being said here and what the experts are saying. Can somebody shed some light on how a supposed expert, under oath, can claim a DNA match that is all but unique in the world's population of Caucasians?
The tests they do have a 99.9% success rate (if it's gone up or that was too optimistic, let me know, but that's last I saw).
Knowing nothing about how DNA testing is done, how does the statement above reconcile with this case, in which an expert witness testified that the odds of a false positive "are 1 in 2.69 quadrillion"?
Cars don't scale. Mass transit scales better.
Not in the eighth-largest city in the US.
I would suspect other places as well are finding mass transit is not the panacea the environmentalists make it out to be.
...as I imagine it will only be a matter of time before some inquisitive folks who are up to the challenge figure out how to detect (and possibly disable) this.
I have to agree, if anything Windows 7 is easier than any MSFT OS that came before it.
Not networking. That high-level "helper" interface they've interposed between the user and the network details? It's meaningless...I still haven't figured out why I would want to make an interface "public" or "private." Not to mention it now takes 3 or 4 properly placed mouse clicks to get to the network setup dialog. I'm sure there's a direct route, but if there is, I've yet to find it.
...because the lawyers know it's cheaper for the insurance companies to just settle out of court rather than go to court and fight the suit. IANAL, but I've been on the driver's side of a pedestrian accident. I hit a guy that ran across a 5-lane highway mere yards from an intersection...he was issued a ticket, and I still got sued. Net result? My insurance company settled out of court for about $250K. Even though the accident clearly was not my fault, the insurance company paid out.
I would imagine the driver's insurance company and Google will do the same in this case as well.
...to see who has the balls to announce to the /. world that they don't know what CDN stands for!
I win!
...so those in the know can select the nameserver(s) closest to them without having to depend upon a 3rd party to determine (sometimes erroneously) what servers are closest.
Yadda yadda, outrageous, MAFFIIIIIAAAA, etc. etc., but what's their alternative?
Maybe...gee, I don't know, pay for the movie?
But I thought titanium dioxide was white?
...would be to use the statistically-validated user input in a feed-forward image recognition neural network utilizing error feedback that would "learn" to identify the various features of interest. Use edge detection to identify the features of interest (for instance, by number just like a paint-by-number canvas), and have users "identify" what they see. We're talking about invariant scale here, which vastly simplifies the learning process as well as automated feature measurement.
I was doing this in the '90s using multi-band spectral imagery from LANDSAT with good success. I would imagine there have been some advances in this area since that time.
Even if science isn't illegal by itself, good luck not getting arrested for buying lab glassware, which is illegal in TX
Not quite true...the state requires a permit to purchase certain chemicals and glassware that are commonly used for making certain drugs. The list is on the DPS site. Educate yourself.
...is something of a misnomer. A lot of what passes for "engineering" is actually processes proven empirically, through years of experience, rather than grounded in solid theory. Petroleum engineering is taught based upon what has worked for 80+ years. And petroleum engineers sit in office cubicles, not the rigs. Rigs are supervised by workers who are very experienced at what they do, but really have no way to handle situations "outside the box" because there isn't a drilling manual to consult when things go wrong. Rig workers depend upon the initial calculations of the engineers, and their own experiences of successful drilling operations. I suspect things on the BP rig happened so quickly, and were so outside the norm of crew experience, that there wasn't much chance of recovery. Like they used to teach us in the oilfield, if the mud comes out of the hole, you've got a problem. If the mud disappears in the hole, just wait: you've got an even bigger problem.
And yes, IAAPE.
Fishing and tourism might suffer for a while, but that's not a big deal.
Unless your family's livelihood depends upon fishing and tourism. Then it's a very big deal.
Let's hope this doesn't mean they actually try the nuclear option.
Thanks for the environmental message. A little late for that, don't you think?
At this point, a small controlled nuclear explosion to simply fuse the entire mass together into a big piece of molten glass and metal might be what's needed.
...has been around since OBD-1 days, as far back as 1984. OBD-2 programming systems are available for anything from 1994 through 2010. There are even scanners that allow you to enter the PIDs of your choice (obtained from monitoring the data line while performing operations with a scantool).
Since newer vehicles control nearly everything via CANbus, it's no surprise that someone has taken the time to monitor the bus and inject various commands. This sort of hacking has been around for over 20 years (despite auto manufacturers' attempts to protect their hardware with security keys and seeds). I don't see them "solving" this "problem" anytime soon...unless they come up with a way to make a "secure" bus (perhaps using fiber optics).
Seriously. You'll learn quickly enough whether or not your job is the place you should be.
Run quickly from any job that forces you to be someone you are not.
...is so infested with bad JS I can't view the actual text in FF. Anyone have a working link?
Speaking as a teacher, it sounds like a fair system to me. Just in case you missed the point: It prevents abuse by petty and vengeful administrators who take a dislike to a teacher for personal reasons. I've seen it many times. Without such protections, the teacher ranks would be reduced to ass-kissing, brown-nosing toads.
That said, there are always a few inept teachers that learn how to "game the system." But you don't revamp a system designed to fight abuse to take care of a few errant teachers.
They won't sell Cosmo but they will sell you a gun
A very good reason why I *do* shop at Wal-Mart.
Go figure.
...who believes that bandwidth leeches (yes, you know who you are) should be capped? There are always those that push the envelope in any situation. Bandwidth leeches belong to that group. I would bet (totally anecdotal here) that the number of bandwidth leeches that are in the top 5% of bandwidth usage comprise only a few percentage points of Comcast subscribers. Why is it a loss to those of us who play nice with others when the few greedy subscribers are throttled?
I'm by no means a Microsoft fanboi, but I have nothing but good things to say about MSE: It's free, the definition files are updated regularly, and (best of all) it doesn't slow down my laptop even when I'm running a scan. If you're not running MSE, you owe it to yourself to try it out. I can almost promise you that you'll toss whatever antivirus software you're running now.
MSE, Anti-Malwarebytes, and SpywareBlaster has taken care of everything the big bad world has thrown at my machine.
...of archived gopherspace content I'm willing to donate to the LoC. Seems to me this dated motherload of data would have far more historical significance and impact than thousands upon thousands of dissociated mindfarts.
I read somewhere once about a scheme to make intersections safer by marking a "point of no return" line prior to an intersection. The idea is that if the light turns yellow (or is yellow) prior to the point of no return, you have room to stop (assuming you're going the speed limit). If you've passed the marking, then it would be more dangerous to stop (and end up in the middle of the intersection) rather than continue through the intersection.
This is good to know. I suspect it's a local RACES requirement, and they make you believe that you have to be part of their organization to run with SKYWARN. Your response has spurred me on to do some additional research. All I really want to do is participate in SKYWARN (lots of nasty weather here in the spring), but I don't have much of a desire to get caught up in RACES.