What is it about your society that you aren't allowed to determine who should hold office, and instead allow some schmuck to appoint someone to do the job? Considering how many appointments already exist in the US and how massively that system has been abused this really shouldn't be a difficult idea for you to comprehend.
It IS easy to deal with. The voter-verifiable piece of paper isn't a receipt to take home, it's a paper which is cast into a ballot box, presumably after John Q. Public has scanned through it to check the accuracy. If there's any discrepancy it's immediately brought to the attention of the the election official at the location to be dealt with. If there are later any discrepancies in -- or questions about -- the machine counts, machine data are dumped and those paper slips are counted. Because they're clear print-outs, there's no question about "hanging chads", misplaced punches, overvotes, etc, all of which are prevented by the use of technology. You voted for 7 out of 9 possible councilmen when you're limited to 5? Can't complete transaction. You didn't vote on a particular office/initiative? Machine shows you clearly you didn't and if you confirm your refusal to choose there, the paper slip also indicates this.
You ever see an American ballot in a presidential election year? It's not just "Choose a president, a Representative and maybe a Senator". Along with the Federal level offices there's a multitude of State, County and Municipal positions to fill. Then there are the ballot initiatives; intentionally written as confusingly as possible, just getting through them can be a daunting task. One of the most credible reasons for poor American election turnout I've heard (after "It won't make a difference") is the fear of such an overwhelming task.
AT&T has no claim against Apple since they delivered the phone locked to the AT&T network, as promised.
Any DMCA claim is going to be tough in light of the following:
From the Federal Register:
The Register has concluded that the software locks are access controls that adversely affect the ability of consumers to make noninfringing use of the software on their cellular phones. Moreover, a review of the four factors enumerated in 1201(a)(1)(C)(i)-(iv) supports the conclusion that an exemption is warranted.
There is no evidence in the record of this rulemaking that demonstrates or even suggests
that obtaining access to the mobile firmware in a mobile handset that is owned by a consumer is
an infringing act. Similarly, there has been no argument or suggestion that a consumer desiring to
switch a lawfully purchased mobile handset from one network carrier to another is engaging in
copyright infringement or in activity that in any way implicates copyright infringement or the
interests of the copyright owner. [pg. 50]
...
the Register recommends that the following class of works be subject to exemption:
Computer programs in the form of firmware that enable wireless telephone handsets to connect to
a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is accomplished for the sole
purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network. [pg. 53]
The only claim they might be able to make is one against those selling the information which will, inside a few days, get out and be posted everywhere so that anyone can do it.
Not before April, 2008. And it may get held up even longer since they want to release simultaneously for PC and DS even though the two versions will be different and incompatible.
That was Mercury. Apollo was specifically designed for moving a 100,000 lb. payload including three live humans to the Moon and back. It was not designed as a missile nor could it be repurposed as one that would in any way better the on-hand ICBM stocks.
I had an Atari 800 back in 1979. In 1980 I took a small piece of malware someone else wrote and turned it into a virus which would remain memory-resident and self-replicate. After formatting any diskette the victim inserted into the drive, it wrote a hidden file to infect any machine the disk was then used on. This was a payback for the people who were getting pirated software free and then turning around to sell it. I'm pretty sure I still have the source code for it somewhere.
I'm not claiming mine was the oldest because I'm sure someone did something similar on the old heavy iron even earlier than my little "payload" as we called then it.
There's no mention of RFIDs which in any case aren't transmitters in the sense of the proposal. They could possibly tax the readers, but then that would mean they'd have to also tax in-store anti-theft devices. Japanese politics being what it is, there's no way I'll risk making any sort of prediction.
If I have a band in my bar and they play a single cover, I have to hand over 100 to GEMA (the German equivalent of ASCAP/BMI). One song. One of the first pieces of mail you receive when you open a bar/restaurant in Germany comes from GEMA demanding payment because you no doubt plan on playing recorded music.
In the early days, UPC code readers were really touchy and items often had to be held just so to be read correctly. Even with this problem worked out, the UPC code still has to be found and brought over the scanner. This and the fact that there's no maximum line height allow a neat hack. At discount markets like Aldi and Lidl which contract with suppliers, bar code are often required to run the entire length of the package so that no matter how the check-out girl holds the item, it'll scan. Checkout is noticeably faster. This colour coded triangle system moots this.
While there are markers so that the orientation can be determined by scanners, there's no way to extend this encoding along the length of a package in any relatively inconspicuous manner the way that ISO/IEC 15416 codes do. This is the same problem which has prevented mass adoption of the Datamatrix 2D code outside of specific areas such as postage and shipping which simply needed to include the additional data required.
This is an interesting system and even more capable than Datamatrix and ShotCode of encoding a lot of information in a limited area. Unfortunately it suffers not only from requiring higher printing specs for those who use it (reflectance is of utmost importance; see here) but also from a return to a less usable system in key areas. This is for retail packaging but it will slow (or prevent speeding up of) standard, real-life usage.
Yes, it would be possible to place multiple copies of the code along the length of some item, but the colour factor as well as the required resolution don't allow for interruptions and additional area uses that the current lengthwise 1D barcodes do.
I'm appalled, too. I'm also surprised. What I'm not is a Google apologist. I still stand by the crux of my comment based on my work in I18N and with IMEs.
Google must have committed certain crimes to obtain the data.
No, or at least, "Not necessarily intentionally". The dictionary could've been indexed via the spiders. It could've been indexed via the desktop search app. There are lots of ways that Google could've got the information. Anyone who works for Google, knows the deep ins and outs of their data handling, and who reads and posts on this site ain't gonna tell. As I wrote in the last comment, Google is information. They get it from everywhere, and they know how to store, sort and use it. It may well have been intentional theft, but I don't think Google the corporation has reached the point where they actually believe "All Data Are Belong To Us".
According to TFA, Sohu has patents in several areas related to how popular Internet search terms can be used for predictive text input. Google does, too. And unlike most others, Google constantly tweaks algorithms. Have you noticed how the Google Toolbar now predicts your search terms? And every time you deviate, they do modifications for you personally and tabulate in general to see if other's are also going after such similar versions.
I work in I18N and deal with IMEs all the time, from the basic, non-learning MS Windows versions to the ones which come with the NJ Star and give preference to lesser-used terms previously selected to various other proprietary variants. There are only so many ways to write an IME, and there are only so many ways to do good prediction. If I type "go" in Japanese, my first choice will usually be "5" followed by the symbol for "language" and the game "Go", then various other possibilities. Only when I next type a "z" or a "g" do the symbols for a.m. and p.m. move to the front. Now if I'd written an IME and wanted to protect it I might have it always bring up "Mifune Go" ( as the fifth selection or, more subtly, bring up "Go" as the fifth possibility if you typed a "G" or "Go" after "Mifune". This isn't the case here.
With Google's work and implementation of prediction methods, I find it hard to accuse the company of plagiarism for having the same bug (which comes as a result of predictive methods) as some other company. This is a bug, not some zyzzyx or easter egg which a programmer included to catch thieves. It was unintentional on Sogou's part and likely equally unintentional on Google's.
Then again, there's a lot of pressure to excel at Google and maybe someone gave in to temptation despite working for a company that knows more about data than anyone else out there. Unlikely, but possible... and if Google issue a statement that someone did indeed plagiarise Sohu's work, fine. It could happen anywhere. Doesn't make Google bad, only one programmer. It makes the company culpable, but it hardly looks malicious.
Google plan to make it "more anonymous". Like pregnancy, data either ARE anonymous or they ain't. You can't qualify an absolute, and "anonymous" is an absolute condition indicating lack of information.
The hardwired belief is well-explained by Dawkins in The God Delusion:
Theoretically, children might learn from personal experience not to go too near a cliff edge, not to eat untried red berries, not to swim in crocodile-infested waters. But, to say the least, there will be a selective advantage to child brains that possess the rule of thumb: believe, without question, whatever your grown-ups tell you. Obey your parents; obey the tribal elders, especially when they adopt a solemn, minatory tone. Trust your elders without question. This is a generally valuable rule for a child. But, as with the moths [which fly into flames for reasons also explained in the book], it can go wrong.
This is the clearest, simplest, Occam-obeying explanation for the basic acceptance of religion in most people regardless of culture.
Let's pretend $MegaCorp dumps MS Office and implements Google apps. What the fuck am I supposed to use to write my documents, spreadsheets and now presentations if I'm in a car, plane, train, backwards country -- wherever I can't jack into the Net? Notepad?
The games that those of us over 30 want generally run on 8-bit platforms using simple player-missile graphics and damned near every one of them is already available on MAME or via telnet.
New glass packaging can be made from as much as 90% recycled glass. New glass requires the heating of silica to around 1800C whereas cullet (recycled glass) need only be heated to between 900 and 1450C.
After accounting for the transport and processing needed, 315kg of CO2 is saved per tonne of glass melted (source: wasteonline.org.uk, emphasis mine).
Additionally, old glass can be used in "glasphalt", up to 30% by volume, reducing the energy used to mine rock. This is an especially important use for green and mixed recycled glass since manufacturers generally want clear glass for packaging and flat glass usage, leaving brown and green primarily for certain beverage bottles. While it doesn't save carbon emissions (because the glass isn't being returned to remanufacture), it saves landfill space (more important in the EU than the US) and provides use for otherwise unneeded material.
Penn & Teller are great when it comes to con men, but on other subjects they fail it. Hard. They were wrong about glass recycling. They were wrong about second-hand smoke, using as their sole sources of information a "think tank" run by a woman whose reports echo whatever her tobacco and oil companies want them to as well as to a court case which was vacated by a higher court. They were also as wrong about global warming as Michael Crichton in his horrible passion play, State of Confusion which was wrong, wrong, wrong.
This doesn't mean that anyone challenging a popularly held idea or even accepted theory should be silenced. Far from it. Science needs theories questioned. However, when the questions are being raised by shills in order to confuse and are based in fallacy and reference already disproven works, that's when such "scientists" should have their credentials stripped.
We warned our customers' admins about this back in August but they ignored us... until October 18th. Then they started submitting Prio-1 tickets, the fuckwits.
Based on my experience with corporate networks and home machines, about 85% of those were pushed via Automatic Updates. I expect a maximum of about 20% of those downloads to be intentional or wanted.
This has been the basic nomenclature format in every place I've ever been over the past 15 years. What does "a good deal" or "fairly" mean? Depends on the Project Manager, the goals and objectives. Each project is different. Some don't even have "pre-alpha". In general alpha has meant "the code runs but it's unstable as hell. It can perform the basic tasks that we've described in $ListOfObjectives although you might have to try five times and prod it along."
Of course, you could be ready for beta testing when the shitheel customer or some Marketing droid comes back and wants to add and massively change functionality. In the case of really large applications you have major and minor code freezes, the major being general functionaliteis (normally externally driven) and the minor being internal enhancements, ideas, tweaks and patches.
With numbering, tree, beta and level are internal numbers which rarely see the light of day as anything other than internal build numbers, once released to the public, even if withdrawn, maj.min.ver[.pat] is pretty standard, from Microsoft to Oracle to Sun. That Joe's Software House and Grill doesn't use such nomenclature doesn't change this.
Shall we argue next over the readability of K&R vs. Whitesmiths?
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What is it about your society that you aren't allowed to determine who should hold office, and instead allow some schmuck to appoint someone to do the job? Considering how many appointments already exist in the US and how massively that system has been abused this really shouldn't be a difficult idea for you to comprehend.
It IS easy to deal with. The voter-verifiable piece of paper isn't a receipt to take home, it's a paper which is cast into a ballot box, presumably after John Q. Public has scanned through it to check the accuracy. If there's any discrepancy it's immediately brought to the attention of the the election official at the location to be dealt with. If there are later any discrepancies in -- or questions about -- the machine counts, machine data are dumped and those paper slips are counted. Because they're clear print-outs, there's no question about "hanging chads", misplaced punches, overvotes, etc, all of which are prevented by the use of technology. You voted for 7 out of 9 possible councilmen when you're limited to 5? Can't complete transaction. You didn't vote on a particular office/initiative? Machine shows you clearly you didn't and if you confirm your refusal to choose there, the paper slip also indicates this.
You ever see an American ballot in a presidential election year? It's not just "Choose a president, a Representative and maybe a Senator". Along with the Federal level offices there's a multitude of State, County and Municipal positions to fill. Then there are the ballot initiatives; intentionally written as confusingly as possible, just getting through them can be a daunting task. One of the most credible reasons for poor American election turnout I've heard (after "It won't make a difference") is the fear of such an overwhelming task.
Any DMCA claim is going to be tough in light of the following:
From the Federal Register:
And from the US Copyright Office itself:
The only claim they might be able to make is one against those selling the information which will, inside a few days, get out and be posted everywhere so that anyone can do it.
Not before April, 2008. And it may get held up even longer since they want to release simultaneously for PC and DS even though the two versions will be different and incompatible.
That was Mercury. Apollo was specifically designed for moving a 100,000 lb. payload including three live humans to the Moon and back. It was not designed as a missile nor could it be repurposed as one that would in any way better the on-hand ICBM stocks.
I'm not claiming mine was the oldest because I'm sure someone did something similar on the old heavy iron even earlier than my little "payload" as we called then it.
They're not active transmitters. They only respond to certain radio waves emitted by transmitters, and that within a very limited range.
There's no mention of RFIDs which in any case aren't transmitters in the sense of the proposal. They could possibly tax the readers, but then that would mean they'd have to also tax in-store anti-theft devices. Japanese politics being what it is, there's no way I'll risk making any sort of prediction.
If I have a band in my bar and they play a single cover, I have to hand over 100 to GEMA (the German equivalent of ASCAP/BMI). One song. One of the first pieces of mail you receive when you open a bar/restaurant in Germany comes from GEMA demanding payment because you no doubt plan on playing recorded music.
It wasn't through Crackberry messages that the US caught Airbus bribing the Saudis, Belgians and others. Have people already forgotten about Echelon?
While there are markers so that the orientation can be determined by scanners, there's no way to extend this encoding along the length of a package in any relatively inconspicuous manner the way that ISO/IEC 15416 codes do. This is the same problem which has prevented mass adoption of the Datamatrix 2D code outside of specific areas such as postage and shipping which simply needed to include the additional data required.
This is an interesting system and even more capable than Datamatrix and ShotCode of encoding a lot of information in a limited area. Unfortunately it suffers not only from requiring higher printing specs for those who use it (reflectance is of utmost importance; see here) but also from a return to a less usable system in key areas. This is for retail packaging but it will slow (or prevent speeding up of) standard, real-life usage.
Yes, it would be possible to place multiple copies of the code along the length of some item, but the colour factor as well as the required resolution don't allow for interruptions and additional area uses that the current lengthwise 1D barcodes do.
Google must have committed certain crimes to obtain the data.
No, or at least, "Not necessarily intentionally". The dictionary could've been indexed via the spiders. It could've been indexed via the desktop search app. There are lots of ways that Google could've got the information. Anyone who works for Google, knows the deep ins and outs of their data handling, and who reads and posts on this site ain't gonna tell. As I wrote in the last comment, Google is information. They get it from everywhere, and they know how to store, sort and use it. It may well have been intentional theft, but I don't think Google the corporation has reached the point where they actually believe "All Data Are Belong To Us".
I work in I18N and deal with IMEs all the time, from the basic, non-learning MS Windows versions to the ones which come with the NJ Star and give preference to lesser-used terms previously selected to various other proprietary variants. There are only so many ways to write an IME, and there are only so many ways to do good prediction. If I type "go" in Japanese, my first choice will usually be "5" followed by the symbol for "language" and the game "Go", then various other possibilities. Only when I next type a "z" or a "g" do the symbols for a.m. and p.m. move to the front. Now if I'd written an IME and wanted to protect it I might have it always bring up "Mifune Go" ( as the fifth selection or, more subtly, bring up "Go" as the fifth possibility if you typed a "G" or "Go" after "Mifune". This isn't the case here.
With Google's work and implementation of prediction methods, I find it hard to accuse the company of plagiarism for having the same bug (which comes as a result of predictive methods) as some other company. This is a bug, not some zyzzyx or easter egg which a programmer included to catch thieves. It was unintentional on Sogou's part and likely equally unintentional on Google's.
Then again, there's a lot of pressure to excel at Google and maybe someone gave in to temptation despite working for a company that knows more about data than anyone else out there. Unlikely, but possible... and if Google issue a statement that someone did indeed plagiarise Sohu's work, fine. It could happen anywhere. Doesn't make Google bad, only one programmer. It makes the company culpable, but it hardly looks malicious.
Antigua's certainly a nicer place to put your servers than North Korea.
Google plan to make it "more anonymous". Like pregnancy, data either ARE anonymous or they ain't. You can't qualify an absolute, and "anonymous" is an absolute condition indicating lack of information.
Let's pretend $MegaCorp dumps MS Office and implements Google apps. What the fuck am I supposed to use to write my documents, spreadsheets and now presentations if I'm in a car, plane, train, backwards country -- wherever I can't jack into the Net? Notepad?
The games that those of us over 30 want generally run on 8-bit platforms using simple player-missile graphics and damned near every one of them is already available on MAME or via telnet.
You have to be at least 35 to be president.
Without writing a long treatise...
New glass packaging can be made from as much as 90% recycled glass. New glass requires the heating of silica to around 1800C whereas cullet (recycled glass) need only be heated to between 900 and 1450C.
After accounting for the transport and processing needed, 315kg of CO2 is saved per tonne of glass melted (source: wasteonline.org.uk, emphasis mine).
Additionally, old glass can be used in "glasphalt", up to 30% by volume, reducing the energy used to mine rock. This is an especially important use for green and mixed recycled glass since manufacturers generally want clear glass for packaging and flat glass usage, leaving brown and green primarily for certain beverage bottles. While it doesn't save carbon emissions (because the glass isn't being returned to remanufacture), it saves landfill space (more important in the EU than the US) and provides use for otherwise unneeded material.
Will that do for a start?
Penn & Teller are great when it comes to con men, but on other subjects they fail it. Hard. They were wrong about glass recycling. They were wrong about second-hand smoke, using as their sole sources of information a "think tank" run by a woman whose reports echo whatever her tobacco and oil companies want them to as well as to a court case which was vacated by a higher court. They were also as wrong about global warming as Michael Crichton in his horrible passion play, State of Confusion which was wrong, wrong, wrong.
This doesn't mean that anyone challenging a popularly held idea or even accepted theory should be silenced. Far from it. Science needs theories questioned. However, when the questions are being raised by shills in order to confuse and are based in fallacy and reference already disproven works, that's when such "scientists" should have their credentials stripped.
2) Your admin installed the IE7 Blocker Toolkit for corporate administrators ( http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=65788&site
We warned our customers' admins about this back in August but they ignored us... until October 18th. Then they started submitting Prio-1 tickets, the fuckwits.
Based on my experience with corporate networks and home machines, about 85% of those were pushed via Automatic Updates. I expect a maximum of about 20% of those downloads to be intentional or wanted.
This has been the basic nomenclature format in every place I've ever been over the past 15 years. What does "a good deal" or "fairly" mean? Depends on the Project Manager, the goals and objectives. Each project is different. Some don't even have "pre-alpha". In general alpha has meant "the code runs but it's unstable as hell. It can perform the basic tasks that we've described in $ListOfObjectives although you might have to try five times and prod it along."
Of course, you could be ready for beta testing when the shitheel customer or some Marketing droid comes back and wants to add and massively change functionality. In the case of really large applications you have major and minor code freezes, the major being general functionaliteis (normally externally driven) and the minor being internal enhancements, ideas, tweaks and patches.
With numbering, tree, beta and level are internal numbers which rarely see the light of day as anything other than internal build numbers, once released to the public, even if withdrawn, maj.min.ver[.pat] is pretty standard, from Microsoft to Oracle to Sun. That Joe's Software House and Grill doesn't use such nomenclature doesn't change this.
Shall we argue next over the readability of K&R vs. Whitesmiths?