The summary and TFA are short on details but it seems that Google's arguing that since satellite photos are permissible, there can't be an expectation of privacy wrt street-level photos.
There's a big difference in the detail available in most sat photos versus Street View. It'll be interesting to see what gets considered private or public. Currently, it seems it's okay if you can tell I have a black car but not that my front door's red.
Any chance they could just do a dumb filter and exclude women with obviously female names? I'm really tired of getting spam about enlarging my [non-existent] penis, especially the more explicit ones. It would not 'give my partner more pleasure'.
At least change the 'your' to 'his'. That might even get you more sales than sending it to the men.
Most universities everywhere have more women than men. In Canada I believe every university has a higher number of women than men.
In general, you're absolutely right but I've got to be pedantic. Waterloo still has more men (about 55 percent) than women. The number of females in their engineering programs has been dropping since about 2001. Some of the 100 person electrical engineering classes have a woman. Carleton was around 1:1 around 2001 but that's probably shifted by now.
As a woman who went to UW, I definitely wouldn't want to see quotas. It's not the right solution even if there is a problem. If there's a problem and the government needs to do something, then start with the elementary school curriculum and show how science (and math!) can be interesting.
There's an OSS Matlab clone called GNU Octave, see http://www.octave.org/. It's mostly compatible with Matlab. I've been using it for handling larger datasets or maths-heavy stuff. Works fine.
--Bud There's another called Scilab. It's worth checking out which one has better support for what you need. I switched to Scilab, even though it's less Matlab-compatible, for the graph data structures.
Perhaps the oldest Community Edited work of fiction is the Bible...not sure that it is CC licenced though. It doesn't matter, the copyright has definitely expired by now.
Or to the 9 dots between the first and second stanzas.
I'm probably pushing it too far but if you stick a left-handed music staff (bass clef) in there, it's a nice little melody (approx.: G, low F, D, middle C, low A-E, D, A, G). Perhaps figuring out a Basse Donnee for it might yield something interesting.
A Basse Donnee is, literally, a given bass. In music, that would be to take the bass notes and generate the 'upper three voices' (soprano, alto, tenor). There are rules (though not universally agreed on) that generalize what sounds bad; a Basse Donne is a set of notes for each of soprano, alto, and tenor that doesn't violate any of the rules.
I'm inclined to agree - companies don't want to advertise to people who don't want to buy their stuff, it's a waste of effort and makes people hate them. Unless it's cheaper and easier than figuring out who doesn't want to buy their stuff. If you annoy the extra people, hey, they weren't going to buy it anyway.
customers in shopping centers are having their every move tracked. Which customers? Which shopping centers? ALL OF THEM? Am I being tracked?
Put on your tin-foil hats everyone! Just wrapping your cell phone in tin-foil would be more economical. It would probably defeat the purpose of having it on though.
As a 25 year old, I'll agree that it's more efficient to do a keyword search if you know what you need. In many problems that's more of the difficulty. Keyword searches are terrible for guessing what you're looking for then getting a general overview of that area and related areas. Guessing at a book that contains what you're looking for then browsing that section to narrow down or redefine what you're looking for doesn't have a good online equivalent (yet?). I guess as an old geezer who's found numerous errors and misleading glossing-overs in what are supposedly online equivalents, I may see things a bit differently. Most academic journals are online but if it's a broad or common topic and my library doesn't carry it, I'm checking out the editors and authors more carefully before I use anything from it.
Btw, try GoogleBooks to get a keyword search then put the book on hold at your local library. You will have to leave your car/bus/walking path but, let's face it, you're leaving your house at some point anyway and probably passing nearby. It doesn't hurt. (Oh, and try a university library if you don't like the Dewey decimal system, the Library of Congress system is much better.)
Maybe not, sometimes a firewall and anti-virus just isn't enough to prevent infection. Of course, in that case I doubt there's much chance of them passing it on.
This parallels the real world where people who get venereal diseases tend to get more than one. The reason is simple, the infections computer or cellular are side effects of behavior and consistent behavior tends toward consistent results.
So if a slashdot reader has a chance to get laid he shouldn't do it since obviously the other party will do anyone?
I doubt I'd be that surprised given that I am a (grad) student with a decent credit limit and a long credit history for my age. It's certainly possible to get a few thousand dollars as a credit limit but if your university will let you pay tuition on a credit card that won't go very far that month. Tuition plus a plane ticket home for Christmas (since that's probably the same month that you get your exam schedule) would've exceeded a few thousand dollars for me during undergrad and I had "cheap" Canadian tuition and a relatively short trip home. Plus I already had a few years of credit history with my current card so I wasn't going to cancel it and I didn't want to sign up for more cards before I got a feeling for what would best suit my long-term financial habits. If you're willing to sign up for half a dozen cards (probably even right on campus in September) there's no problem getting the credit that you want.
My point was really just that it's not very far-fetched that a freshman would pay off a credit card twice in a month since they were close to the limit. If I were traveling I'd want to have a reasonable amount of available credit and that could involve partly paying off the ticket to get where I'm going.
I'm a college freshman [...] I pay off the card in full every month, if not more often (if I've made a large purchase) to keep the balance down.
Without a decent income GPs credit limit likely isn't high enough to buy a plane ticket anywhere plus a decent dinner or a Wii plus a few games. It's easy to get a credit card but it's not always easy to get a credit limit for more than a few hundred dollars. Also, if you're getting any incentive from your credit card company (and you should be, unless you need a low interest rate for some reason) you're earning something for each dollar charged to the card, which may offset the minute interest the money would earn in a savings account (assuming if you need it in a few weeks it's not worth the fees to invest it elsewhere).
#4. Friendly, intelligent (if not college educated) people. You could man such a spaceport with people from the area, not have to pay outlandish wages and still have a good experience for the tourists. And if there's any education or experience you want, there's a Cape Bretoner working in Ontario, Alberta, or BC who'd love to be home and is willing to take a pay cut (and a quarter or half priced house with a few acres thrown in) for it. Plus, it's not just people who grew up there: the head of my department would pick up and go tomorrow and half a dozen (recent mech eng grad) friends who visited have been trying to figure out how to make a living in Nova Scotia so they can leave southern Ontario behind. Sure there are people who can't handle not living in a major city but there are also people who feel tied to the big cities by their jobs but would love to be elsewhere.
As a Berkeley grad though, I generally wouldn't attribute very much of the value of my education there to lectures I sat (or slept) through. Especially in Computer Science, most of the lectures probably didn't differ a whole lot in content or form from those taught at other less prestigious institutions. Most of what I learned came from being surrounded by other driven students in a unique environment and completing challenging assignments. In particular, the first of those is all but impossible to capture in an online manner.
Blah blah blah, all code for: "You can't make business contacts over the Internet."
There, FTFY. Often it's not what you know, but who you know (or it's what you know if you know someone).
Why videotape lectures, all of the information is in the books (and journal articles) in the library waiting for you? Why have tutorials (that students do surprisingly attend) when all the material was covered in the lectures and is in the textbook?
Chan, dean of physical sciences at UCLA and a member of the SIAM [Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics] Board of Trustees, was the math consultant for the NUMB3RS pilot.
In the same article they discuss how they work to get Numb3rs integrated into high school curricula:
About three weeks before an episode airs, CBS sends a synopsis of the mathematical topics involved to three NCTM teams (writers and reviewers, from both the high school and the university level). How large a part a topic will play is a matter of guesswork, says Karen Longhart, who coordinates the preparation of materials for NCTM; the actual plot is a closely guarded secret. The teams parcel out the themes and then go to work preparing materials for use by igh school teachers (see www.cbs.com/primetime/numb3rs/ti/activities.shtml). An estimated 20,000 teachers have worked the materials into lesson plans, says NCTM president Cathy Seeley, who expresses delight that this "wonderful opportunity" arose during her term.
I'll agree that the math seems overly simplified but it's done to a reasonable level for high school or early undergrad motivation for the topics. Certainly anyone with a good background in math can come up with better approaches than they use but judging from the half hour conference presentations I've seen they'd be hard pressed to present the solution plus the plot in an hour. It's also nice to see mapping work done that's more analytical than Google Maps and most commercial GIS.
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Hamster wheels.
The summary and TFA are short on details but it seems that Google's arguing that since satellite photos are permissible, there can't be an expectation of privacy wrt street-level photos.
There's a big difference in the detail available in most sat photos versus Street View. It'll be interesting to see what gets considered private or public. Currently, it seems it's okay if you can tell I have a black car but not that my front door's red.
Any chance they could just do a dumb filter and exclude women with obviously female names? I'm really tired of getting spam about enlarging my [non-existent] penis, especially the more explicit ones. It would not 'give my partner more pleasure'.
At least change the 'your' to 'his'. That might even get you more sales than sending it to the men.
Most universities everywhere have more women than men. In Canada I believe every university has a higher number of women than men.
In general, you're absolutely right but I've got to be pedantic. Waterloo still has more men (about 55 percent) than women. The number of females in their engineering programs has been dropping since about 2001. Some of the 100 person electrical engineering classes have a woman. Carleton was around 1:1 around 2001 but that's probably shifted by now.
As a woman who went to UW, I definitely wouldn't want to see quotas. It's not the right solution even if there is a problem. If there's a problem and the government needs to do something, then start with the elementary school curriculum and show how science (and math!) can be interesting.
Or to the 9 dots between the first and second stanzas. I'm probably pushing it too far but if you stick a left-handed music staff (bass clef) in there, it's a nice little melody (approx.: G, low F, D, middle C, low A-E, D, A, G). Perhaps figuring out a Basse Donnee for it might yield something interesting.
A Basse Donnee is, literally, a given bass. In music, that would be to take the bass notes and generate the 'upper three voices' (soprano, alto, tenor). There are rules (though not universally agreed on) that generalize what sounds bad; a Basse Donne is a set of notes for each of soprano, alto, and tenor that doesn't violate any of the rules.
Or that intelligence could evolve in another species on earth.
So that's why pi is 3...
But why would the Matrix waste processor cycles on something nobody notices?
Because it's cheaper than adding a function to check if there's anyone there.Btw, try GoogleBooks to get a keyword search then put the book on hold at your local library. You will have to leave your car/bus/walking path but, let's face it, you're leaving your house at some point anyway and probably passing nearby. It doesn't hurt. (Oh, and try a university library if you don't like the Dewey decimal system, the Library of Congress system is much better.)
Maybe not, sometimes a firewall and anti-virus just isn't enough to prevent infection. Of course, in that case I doubt there's much chance of them passing it on.
My point was really just that it's not very far-fetched that a freshman would pay off a credit card twice in a month since they were close to the limit. If I were traveling I'd want to have a reasonable amount of available credit and that could involve partly paying off the ticket to get where I'm going.
P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernon's grave in the bak yard.
Maybe it's the new American take over strategy for rogue nations. Looks like the implementation went as well as the old way.
Why videotape lectures, all of the information is in the books (and journal articles) in the library waiting for you? Why have tutorials (that students do surprisingly attend) when all the material was covered in the lectures and is in the textbook?
(from http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=926)
In the same article they discuss how they work to get Numb3rs integrated into high school curricula:
I'll agree that the math seems overly simplified but it's done to a reasonable level for high school or early undergrad motivation for the topics. Certainly anyone with a good background in math can come up with better approaches than they use but judging from the half hour conference presentations I've seen they'd be hard pressed to present the solution plus the plot in an hour. It's also nice to see mapping work done that's more analytical than Google Maps and most commercial GIS.