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cant we just be happy for the woman instead of turning it into some gender inequality thing?
She commented on the "gender inequality thing" herself. She also left her homeland (Iran), in part, because she knew her gender would hold her back if she stayed. It would be nice if gender didn't matter, but in the real world, it does.
With all due respect the issues she had in Iran are irrelevant to the 'Fields Medal' at large. In fact she should be singing the praises of an 'enlightened society unlike Iran' that allowed her not just to pursue her chosen career but to excel at it and be recognized for her achievements without bias or sexism.
And unless you have more articles or know her personally I saw nothing in the article that hinted at her being unable to complete her career in Iran, while there are hints of sexism she was able to en
One winner out of five happens to be a female, and all of the sudden the PC themed "Sexual Inequalities" emerged
And the fact that there were no Africans nor East Asians were among the five, all of the sudden the PC-related "Where are the Africans / Chinese" topic emerged
For crying out loud, this is about MATH, and I am really sick and tired with people dragging sex / race / whatever into fields of Math and Science --- as these two are more to the BRAINS rather than anything else
Please, people, can you pleas
I'm not sure what you're getting at. There have been Chinese and Vietnamese Fields Medalists in the past, but until now there has never been a female Fields Medalist. There has also never been an African Fields Medalist. Both of these are indicators of serious issues. First, sub-Saharan Africa has a total lack of access to higher education (with the exception of South Africa), and second, cultural pressures often dissuade women from pursuing STEM fields in Western nations and prevent them from entering higher education entirely in certain non-Western nations.
You could dismiss these concerns as activism, but that's terribly tunnel-visioned. Every African and every women who for some reason or another has missed out on the opportunity to study STEM is another mind that could potentially have been another Euler or Gauss but was denied the chance. Unless women are intrinsically less adept at math (which I personally do not believe is the case), we've been missing out on half the world's great mathematicians. Could you imagine how different the earth would be today if we had two Fermats, two Euclids, two Poincares? How much knowledge have we lost for the lack of women in math and science? This isn't about "leaving math and science alone" from activism. This is about untapping all the math and science talent that has been hidden away for hundreds of years.
You could dismiss these concerns as activism, but that's terribly tunnel-visioned.
Only for some values of terribly.
Every African and every women who for some reason or another has missed out on the opportunity to study STEM is another mind that could potentially have been another Euler or Gauss but was denied the chance. Unless women are intrinsically less adept at math (which I personally do not believe is the case), we've been missing out on half the world's great mathematicians.
Well I'm glad
She commented on the "gender inequality thing" herself.
I'm going to guess you've never given an interview in your life? Some guy (or girl) chats with you, asks 20 questions of you about lots of different things, then excuses himself (herself). You don't hear anything more for a couple of weeks, then you get to read a writeup containing 4 or 5 of those questions, with bits and pieces of your full answers cut and pasted into a shortened "narrative".
There's no way to know why she brought up the "gender in
Muddled? What's muddling about it? She won a Fields Medal and she is the first woman to win a Fields Medal. These are two separate, important events: as to the first, winning a Fields Medal is indicative of superlative contribution to mathematics; as to the second, ~50% of the human population is female, yet there have been dozens of Field Medallists. As a mathematician, I consider both pieces of information important. If you are only able to see one or the other as important, you may wish to review your reasoning.
Congrats to Maryam Mirzakhani for being the first woman to win the Fields Medal.
Congrats to Maryam Mirzakhani for being the first Iranian to win the Fields Medal.
I hope she is an inspiration to women everywhere and especially to Iranian women. I'm not one for hero worship but there is much real value in inspirational figures.
And as far as I can tell, it is an undeniably deserved prize. [edit: I was going to contrast with some other prize winners but this is not the place nor time]
frankly all the profiles look a bit spiced up.
like, that they have some special property to them, like being xmen or something and can "see" stuff mere non-mutants can't.
Of course - it is a great achievement for any mathematician. However, the gender imbalance in Maths is a real thing, and it is a shame - not because it is unfair to women, but because I think mathematical research would benefit from having more women contribute. Mathematical research is highly dependent on creativity, and it seems quite likely to me that women might bring a slightly different perspective.
I don't think it is about women being pushed out - it is probably more about perceptions. Mathematics is
>The gender imbalance in mathematics is long-standing and pervasive...
Enough of this stupid clickbait shit. Good math doesn't know gender.
It is interesting that the Fields Medal is given to 'young' mathematicians, as an encouragement for them to continue doing good work. I think this may mean that more women get awards soon as we don't have to wait for the old guard to move on.
Even when I was in school in the 80s and 90s I knew a professor who felt, and who would say out loud, that women really shouldn't be in the field. People at the time at least thought that was a throwback who was out of touch, but consider that for one professor who sa
for outstanding mathematical achievement?
Go figure....
BTW - this is supposed to be a pun....
It's not a very good pun.
A good pun would present, on the surface, a deeper knowledge of the (admittedly complex) material.
It's not a very good pun.
I'm not surprised that somebody thinks my pun is bad.... My kids don't like them either.
A good pun would present, on the surface, a deeper knowledge of the (admittedly complex) material.
Go figure.....
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I studied math at Stanford. She was always the answer to the question "Who in this department will win a Fields medal next?" I wasn't really qualified to comment.
But I guess they were right.
I think she deserves a somewhat larger wiki page.
I skimmed TFA to find the actual math she earned it for. The summary they give is actually pretty interesting, even though they don't go into much detail on the math. Definitely doesn't seem like a bullshit hey-look-we're-giving-awards-to-minorities-too-now award.
This seems to be the actual paper [arxiv.org], although to be honest it's so far above my knowledge that it could be about something completely different and I wouldn't be able to tell.
First of all, congrats to Ms. Mizrakhani for her award, and it is indeed notable. That put aside, there are a few important reasons why I think Maths education is f***ed up in university which prevents more girls and women from doing it. These reasons are:
While learning maths, the tests are given without an open material, and often require memorising proofs of many pages. This is while a good mathematician can easily look these up and does not need to keep them in his resident mind and that a mathemat
Hey! What's wrong with being nobody? (See my username.)
It would be appropriate if the medal was made of Field's metal [wikipedia.org].
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Mount Union College will hold a Faculty Research Forum on Monday, April 5 at 6:15 p.m. in Bracy Hall L04.
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Dr. Michael O. Grossman, assistant professor of political science, will present "Rethinking New Thinking in Soviet Foreign Policy: A Role Theory Perspective." Dr. Larry Catalano, assistant professor of education, will present "Teaching Within the Comfort Zone. Identifying the Operational Lessons Learned." Dr. Pratibha P. Gupta, instructor of biology, will present "The Effects of Cisplatin the Antitumor Drug on the Activation of Macrophage."
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Many parents wonder how to cope with an older child's busy digital lifestyle. With TV, tablets and mobile phones, it seems like they're always texting, chatting on Facebook, playing games or watching videos. But it's important for parents to be able to set limits on those activities and create time for face-to-face conversations, healthy physical exercise, reading books and magazines, or getting some quiet time without all those distractions.
First of all, you need to realize that digital, mobile and social media is an important part of your child's lifestyle. Forget about the telephone or even email — this is how the younger generation connects with each other. Taking away a child's iPhone or tablet after a misdeed is not something to do lightly.
Instead, it's better to monitor your child's behavior for a week or two to determine if he or she is spending too much time watching those rectangular screens. For example, many children watch far more television than the two hours a day that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends for older children.
Other "tweens" and teens carry their phones everywhere and send out thousands of text messages a month. That's a serious loss of face-to-face time, not to mention the financial burdens. Other children find it hard to concentrate on homework while chatting with friends of Facebook, playing games online or downloading songs, videos or the latest mobile application.
Once you have identified a problem, gather your facts and sit down with your child to discuss the situation. After all, it's better to negotiate an agreement before the situation escalates into a blowup.
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As a parent, you have the right to set realistic limits for your children that address your concerns without causing daily conflicts. Here are some suggestions for setting limits:
- Set a goal for the desired behavior. For example, "I want to see your homework grades increase this semester," or "I want you to spend at least an hour a day reading without your TV, computer or phone."
- Be clear about the limit. Ask your child to repeat it so you know she understands it.
- Be sure you can measure and monitor the limits. It's easy to enforce a rule of "no more than 25 texts a day" when you can see the usage in your monthly bill.
- Set realistic consequences for breaking the limits. If your child watches more than the allotted two hours of daily TV in her room, you might unplug her cable box or disconnect her satellite hookup for a week.
- Be firm. After setting a limit, don't back down.
- Stay calm. Don't get drawn into a fight about whether a rule is fair.
- Be consistent. Don't set a limit one day and ignore it the next day.
- Be positive. Talk about the benefits of physical exercise, family conversation, doing more reading and the importance of a balanced lifestyle.
- Reward good behavior. You might give your child a special treat or do some of his household chores if he respects the limit.
- Finally, it's important for you to watch your own actions. If your rule is "no texting at the dinner table," turn off your own smartphone, or leave it in another room. By setting a good example of a balanced lifestyle, you'll help your child learn there's more to life than Twitter!
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What are the performance differences between these two lamps? Philips claims a 20% improvement for the XV. Are they really worth the extra dough, compared to the XP?
What are the performance differences between these two lamps? Philips claims a 20% improvement for the XV. Are they really worth the extra dough, compared to the XP?
You know the drill: More light and better beam focus and less lifespan as you move up from long life --> standard --> +30 --> +50 --> +80/90 --> +100 etc.
I haven't plotted it out or anything. I might pick the Xtreme Vision if I needed to get the maximum possible output and beam focus out of an H4 headlamp, but then again I might pick the Xtreme Power in 9003/HB2 instead, because the 9003/HB2 filament precision specs are tighter than H4, which means beam focus is better with an HB2 than with an H4, in general. But that said, I think the Xtreme Vision might be past the reasonable center section of the cost/benefit curve.
Don't discount the Osram Nightbreakers
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Or the Osram 70/65 watt!
Thanks SWM, your answer is what I was thinking...just wanted to hear it from someone else too.
Sorry, I don't like the Osram NB...it's OK in my book, but I wouldn't go out of my way to buy one.
I'm currently running with the Osram Rallye 70/65 H4...great lamp if you don't mind spending $22 ea for them and having them last for only 9 months or so.
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You'll get similar lifespan out of the Xtreme Power or Xtreme Vision bulb (or the Night Breaker, for that matter).
I know...I can get a set of XP's for about the same price for one of the Osram Rallyes...this seems to be a better value when compared to the other choices.
Wow, Qship, that is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy off the right side of the bell curve! How much actual usage do you put on these headlamps? Most people don't get anything like that out of them.
If most of your driving is during the day, you get more miles/years out of your headlamps.
about 2 hours a week.
at 2 hours/day, 9 months would be 540 hours, 3 hours/day a total of 810 hours of use, 4 hours/day a total of 1080 hours lifespan.........still VERY,VERY respectable for that level of performance bulb.I dont think you will find a tradeoff of any longer life without seriously compromising the bulbs performance.{like a long life type bulb}
Let's do some math. All of the bulbs we're discussing here have a Tc lifespan of between 150 and 250 hours on low beam at 13.2v. Tc is the hour figure at which 63.2% of a test batch have failed. Lifespan changes exponentially to the power -13 (negative 13) with voltage change, and if you have a relay harness you're feeding those bulbs considerably more than 13.2v. You're likely feeding them at least 13.8v, probably closer to 14v.
13.8v would drop a 200-hour-at-13.2v lifespan down to 112 hours.
14.0v would take the figure to 93 hours.
ALL of these lifespan ratings are with zero vibration. Vibration and mechanical shock greatly decrease lifespan.
2 hours/week means you'd get 100 weeks (about 2 years) out of a 200-hour bulb operated at its rated voltage and subjected to zero vibration. It would mean 50 weeks (just shy of 1 year) at 13.8v, never going above that voltage, and again subjected to zero vibration.
So how am I getting 2x that life on the osram 70/65 and Lightdoctor getting WAY more than I ???? Sterns site says rated life is calculated at 14.0 volts, not 13.2 ???? which would be the only explanation I can think of.
Last edited by Qship1996; 02-26-2012 at 11:16 AM.
US bulbs (HB1, HB2, HB3, HB5, 1157, etc.) are mostly rated for output at 12.8v, lifespan at 14.0v. ECE bulbs (and European-made bulbs that don't conform to ECE R37, such as the 70/65w and 85/80w items) are mostly rated for output and lifespan at 13.2v. Your unusually long lifespan is inexplicable so far. What's your bulb operating voltage with the harness?
Funny you should ask about voltages,because I was so curious,I just came back from a quick drive with the VOM ! I did not measure voltages at back of bulbs{on my car you have to actually remove the headlamp to get to the connector easily} but I measured voltages directly at the battery- got 14.34 at cold startup and it settled at 13.65- 13.7 after a few miles driving. Not sure whether the 14.34 startup voltage is due to a cold alternator or specifically designed to put out a higher voltage to quickly replenish battery after starter operates?
PS the alternator is original, and has 286,180 miles on it!
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Temperature-compensated voltage regulation has been standard on most vehicles for many decades. Internal resistance of a battery is higher at colder temperatures, so charge voltage must be higher. System voltage at the battery looks quite normal, but the answer to your question about bulb life won't be found without a measurement of voltage at the bulbs with the engine running, the headlamps turned on, and both headlamps connected (no pulling the socket off), then a measurement at the same time across the battery.
more work than I am willing to do at the moment considering I am happy with the life I am getting out of the bulbs!! Well, we at least know the bulbs are not getting MORE voltage than I measured,and probably a little less due to the extra length of wire & connections in the harness,but the harness is only 1 year old and quite heavy duty{12 & 10 gauge wire, 3 40 amp relays}} so I would not expect a huge drop.
Still puzzled how Lighdoctor is getting WAY more hours{540-1080 hours} than even I am getting from the same bulbs.....maybe he can easier measure actual voltage at bulb connector and let us know the results!
******* DUH, it just dawned on me that when I ran the Osram 70/65 bulbs for 2 years, it was on the factory wiring- I installed the Rallylights harness 11 months ago when I installed the Osram 85/80 watt bulbs********
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What's the sigma for bulb life?
IE: What's the potential RANGE of life you'd project?
There are sometimes salients/outliers in a batch, that are just at the long or short ends of the typical bell curve...
..and, is it possible that 2 hrs a week is easier on a bulb than 2 hrs a night, or that one drive uses high or low beams more than the other?
whats up with all the double posting today schein??????
funny Lightdoctor is UNHAPPY with the life he is getting on top of it !!!!!!!!!!
Qship...it looks like you're not understanding my point. I have very short lifespan with the Osrams on a relayed harness. The voltage at the lamps varies between 13.8 and 14.0 and they are on 2 to 4 hours a day depending on the season. They last between 6 to 9 months (a sylvania silverstar lasts longer than the Osram rallyes...ugh). You're getting a much longer life span due to your lack of real use...2 hours a week is vertually nothing compared to the average daily driver.
yeah,but 2-4 hous/day X 6-9 months equals 360-1080 HOURS of actual use......a respectable figure for any performance bulb especially when operated at those voltages due to the harness. Only way to get even more hours use{lifespan} would be to ditch the harness, lowering the voltage{and lumens} or go to a specific long life bulb which would also cost you lumens. Hours wise,you are doing quite well with these. lifespan is rated in hours burned,not months since installation....so you do NOT have "a very short lifespan with these" quite the opposite.
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Blame it on the coffee.
Blame it on the coffee.
I have a car with H4 lamps, I recently replaced a set of burnt out Osram Rallye 70/65 with an extra set of Xtreme Power in my car. Very subjectively, I would say the Osrams are brighter but the the focus is not significantly better. I just got a set of Xtreme Vision and put it in two days ago. Drove it last night, it works well, the light cast right under the cut off in a distance works a lot better. In other words the purported better focus seems to be there, again completely subjective. I need to take the car to a place with beam setter to get it aligned right but so far it's promising
I don't drive at night as much as I did last year so I might just stick to the XV for now.
"a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen." -Warren vs District of Columbia, after three women were raped, beaten for 14 hours and police never came after numerous 911 calls were placed
I got well over a year out of my first set of Osram Rallye's, and actually replaced them before they burnt out. They were noticeably dimmer than they used to be and we were headed on a long winter trip so I traded them out (had another set laying around). Probably continue to use them until they fail.
However, my driving is inconsistent so it would not be possible to give a SWAG at operating hours.


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Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco might not be perfect, but try telling the Cleveland Browns that.
Flacco, just hours after his wife gave birth to the couple's second child, passed for 211 yards and a touchdown Sunday as Baltimore beat Cleveland, 14-6, moving the quarterback to 11-0 all-time against the Browns.
Flacco missed the birth of his second child with wife Dana -- she had another boy about an hour before kickoff -- and was 22-for-33. He completed third-down passes of 16 and 18 yards on Baltimore's last scoring drive.
"He came up big. That's the player he's shown he is," said Browns coach Rob Chudzinski.
The reigning Super Bowl champion Ravens (1-1) had their home opener -- finally -- after starting on the road in Denver Week 1, but they lost running back Ray Rice to a hip flexor strain in the fourth quarter.
The Ravens scored 14 unanswered points in the second half on Bernard Pierce's 5-yard touchdown run and Marlon Brown's 5-yard catch for their 11th straight win over Cleveland.
"We came into the locker room, sat down and said we have to get it together and get this running game going. Because once the running game gets going, the passing game gets going," Pierce said of being down 6-0 at halftime.
"We took a deep breath, got it together and went back out there and made plays."
Brandon Weeden threw for 227 yards for the Browns (0-2) but left the game late in the fourth quarter. The Browns said Weeden's hand was being looked at and the Ravens said he had an injured thumb.
Cleveland hasn't beaten Baltimore since a 33-30 overtime win on Nov. 18, 2007.
The Ravens marked their Super Bowl victory with a video tribute and unveiled a banner in the upper deck near midfield.
The celebration came 10 days later than anticipated.
It's tradition for the Super Bowl champs to kick off the NFL season with a home game, but the Ravens started on the road because the Orioles had a game the same day and Baltimore's two pro teams were unable to hash things out. The Ravens were creamed by Peyton Manning and Denver, 49-27, on Sept. 5.
Their celebration came in front of the Browns, the team Art Modell infamously moved to Baltimore almost two decades ago.
Things took a sour turn when Rice, despite going untouched on the play, went down clutching his left hip near the line of scrimmage. He walked gingerly to the sideline and held both stair railings on his way to the locker room.
"Right now he's not scheduled for an MRI but we'll see how it goes overnight," said Ravens coach John Harbaugh.
The Ravens said Flacco was warming up when he took a call that his wife had delivered around noon. His team had a hard time getting started and went into the locker room trailing 6-0.
But Pierce pounded it in from the 5-yard line to cap an 80-yard drive and give the Ravens a 7-6 lead late in the third quarter.
Later, Rice fumbled on first down, stripped by linebacker Craig Robertson near the line of scrimmage, and the Browns recovered. But they couldn't convert a 4th-and-4 from the Baltimore 39 when Jordan Cameron came up just short of a first down.
After Rice went down, the Ravens scored when Brown caught a slant pass and stretched into the end zone for a 5-yard touchdown to make it 14-6.
Campbell threw three straight incompletions after the Browns gained 21 yards on a Baltimore pass interference penalty. His fourth pass, and underhand scoop on fourth down, left Cameron well short of a first down.
"We came up short," said Campbell.
Earlier, Justin Tucker missed a 50-yard field goal try on the Ravens' first possession and a 44-yarder in the final minute of the first half -- both wide right. In between, the Ravens punted four times.
Billy Cundiff kicked a 21-yarder for the Browns in the first quarter, set up by Weeden's 53-yard pass to Cameron, and he made a 51-yarder near the end of the second to give Cleveland a 6-0 lead at halftime.
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EA82 Weber Carb Benefits? Low end Torque?
Posted 16 January 2006 - 11:27 AM
My question for you all is: I'm building up a similar EA82 wagon with an existing SPFI and want to know if it would benefit by adding a Weber carb? I'm not too concerned about added power at higher rpm, but am looking for a way to get that low end high torque capability so as to effectively give me a better crawl advantage. I'm also running the 27" tires, and don't really want to add a transfer case. I don't want to lose the other advantages of having fuel injection by going to a carburetor unless I am convinced it could have a dramatic improvement on low end torque?
Any experience out there on this issue using an EA82?
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Posted 16 January 2006 - 10:09 PM
I've had stock carb, Weber, and SPFI. Like most people who've tried all three, I think SPFI is overall the best way to go. I like the Weber too, for power and gas mileage improvements over the stock carb; but with SPFI you don't have issues with different altitudes, or too much lean angle.
I recommend you get your hands on a 5-speed D/R trans, made for the EA82s from 86 to 89 (I think).
Posted 17 January 2006 - 12:14 AM
And definitely I can see a huge weight difference. The hatch is really stripped down and the wagon still has all it's heavy parts intact.
I was just hoping to find an easier solution for making the wagon go a little better offroad.
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As one of the few on the board that have gone from SPFI to a weber, i can say without hesitation, DON'T. If your SPFI isn't runing right, fix it. the weber won't fix the existing problems in your engine. SPFI is like running 1000 jets, while the weber has 2. 2<1000.
I think that the SPFI wagon had something wrong with it. My EA82 seemed to have more torque with the SPFI on it than with the Weber.
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LINCOLN, Ill.-- The GC men's basketball team earned an impressive road win over Lincoln Christian.
GC fell behind early, allowing the home team to go on a 12-0 run in the first few minutes. Fortunately, the team quickly gained momentum and took control of the game, leading 50-34 by halftime. The impressive play continued in the second half and the Panthers won the game 82-62.
Ron Harris led the Panthers in scoring and rebounding, finishing the game with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Brian Ehresman was also impressive for Greenville, scoring 13 points and going 5-5 in field goals made.
David Graves led Lincoln Christian with 18 points.
Greenville went 6-9 in three point attempts and 10-15 in free throws.
The win improves GC's record to 2-1. The Panthers will play their first home game of the season on Saturday, November 23 at 3:00pm when they take on Dominican.


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This came across in today's news
the thing about it that struck me is that their "supportive" site http://www.mormonsandgays.org/....uses the word "gay" at all. But of course it still preserves their definition of marriage (as between a man and a woman).
Well, some progress even if it's just a lip-service gesture...
An excerpt from their web page:
"...The Church's approach to this issue stands apart from society in many ways. And that's alright. Reasonable people can and do differ. From a public relations perspective it would be easier for the Church to simply accept homosexual behavior. That we cannot
do, for God's law is not ours to change. There is no change in the Church's position of what is morally right. But what is changing — and what needs to change — is to help Church members respond sensitively and thoughtfully when they encounter same-sex attraction in their own families, among other Church members, or elsewhere."
Yeah pawn it off to "God's law".....COWARDS.


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Following a deadly school shooting in Newtown three weeks ago, hundreds of volunteers continue to sort and pack all the items being sent to the town.
On Dec. 14, Adam Lanza, 20, shot and killed his mother while she slept at her home before he went to Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 20 children and six adults.
He killed himself as police made their way into the building.
After the shooting, several items were sent to the town and several memorials were established.
Town officials and volunteers have been cataloguing items such as school supplies, toys and teddy bears, filling boxes and stacking them. The items started to fill a warehouse on Simm Lane right after the shooting.
"We're palletizing boxes in the storage room, bringing that to the back room and making sure to fill the inventory tickets out properly," said one of the volunteers, Dick Zang.
Zang said he and his wife are retired and decided to "put in the hours" to help with the effort. Zang is one of the two to three dozen volunteers each day.
Newtown Town Assessor Chris Kelsey said that teachers have picked through the donations and used them for their new classrooms.
Now town officials have an even better idea of what will happen to all the items not needed by the Sandy Hook and Newtown school communities.
"We're waiting for the families to give us input as to where they'd like stuff directed," Kelsey said. "And then, we'll put a committee together and start distributing to different charities."
Kelsey, whose usual duties have been on hold since the murders, said they've got a list of hundreds of other charities that could benefit from the donations, including battered women's shelters, orphanages and the Department of Children and Families.
Last week, Friends of Newtown's Public Library were called to come in to start sorting through fiction and non-fiction books.
"When it was clear that the number of books coming in was so great that they couldn't just go over to the library at Sandy Hook School," said one of the members of the Friends of Newtown's Public Library.
The daughter of the Sandy Hook Elementary School principal shot and killed in the mass shooting last month kept her mother's memory alive during a fundraiser Monday night.
Erica Lafferty, 27, held a fundraiser in the name of her mother, Dawn Hochsprung, at the Paul Mitchell School in North Haven, with all the proceeds going to a student scholarship at Naugatuck High School, which is Hochsprung's alma mater.
The total amount raised during the event was $2,711.
"It's just overwhelming support," Lafferty said.
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Thomson was a very competent writer who clearly loved his subject matter but for me his books often suffered from hagiography which resulted in him failing to provide a balanced view.
Thomson was a very competent writer who clearly loved his subject matter but for me his books often suffered from hagiography which resulted in him failing to provide a balanced view.
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RIP Fardin Qayyumi (AKA "cricket player"; "Bob"), 1990-2006
RIP Craig Walsh (AKA "Craig"), 1985-2012
Have you read Old Ebor's Talks With Old English Cricketers. It contains rare, rich, rewarding and yet sometimes shocking interviews with many of England's top cricketers of the third quarter of the 19th century, many of whom were struggling to make ends meet by the time the interviews were conducted at the end of the century. I would really recommend getting this if you haven't yet done so, the interviews with Emmett, Pooley and Ulyett really are wonderful.
Pullin also wrote one of the first full length biographies of a cricketer, of Alfred Shaw in 1902.
That's an excellent article you've posted today Martin - not a review of the 2009 Wisden - which is what I was expecting - but a potted history of the almanack. Great stuff. How often do you read them though, and do you think it's possible to read a copy right through? I have 1961 and 1970 by my bedside, for reasons which now escape me.
ok, just looking at a few books online.
These caught my eye. All are 1st ed, most signed. They are all available pretty cheap.
Anyone have any opinions on them? Good, crap, waste of space, required reading etc?
The Bradman Era- Bill O'Reilly and Jack Egan
The Hand That Bowled Bradman: Memories of a Professional Cricketer- Bill Andrews
The Golden Age of Cricket 1890-1914- Frith, David
Sort of a Cricket Person- Swanton, Ernest William
Cricket Crossfire- Miller, Keith
Cricket Indulgence: An Anthology Of The Cricket Writings Of Chris Harte- Harding, D M
Behind the Shades- Fletcher, Duncan
Just My Story- Hutton,Len
The Greatest Test Teams- Graveney, Tom
From Larwood to Lillee- Bailey, Trevor; Trueman, Fred
Oh and if Im going to spend a few dollars more
The Story of Cricket's Early Years (1st ed. SIGNED AND DATED) - John Major
Anyone reviewed it?
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I'd like to see the SOW for all these projects...if they exist.
I cannot fathom any software system costing that much. I imagine even the people over at SAP are going, "Dayum!"
That amount is not for the software and hardware alone. There has been a big reorganization of systems and computerization of records. Staff have been trained to use what has been delivered so far, and patients are being asked for permission to make their records available on the system. It's not a total write-off.
and patients are being asked for permission to make their records available on the system
Maybe they had more people (like me) say no than they expected making it non viable? Given the govt's record on protecting data, there's no way they were putting my medical records on it.
No, they had lots of people that said the system was unusable.. There were priorities of error, and a priority 1 was a showstopper.
The places that consistently tested showed that the system for the first several years (already way past expected implementation date) for the Care Records part was seriously broken, and not fit for live use (bear in mind, this system isn't just supposed to be able to hold your office files, and it's fine if it's down for half an hour now and then, and perhaps lose a few things along the way with only a grumble; it holds your medical records.. The things that make the difference between life and death in some cases).
With things not working out on either side (again, for the Care Records parts; some parts, like PACS [Picture Archival and Communication System;the digitisation of your X-Rays instead of using film] work fine and are in almost universal use now, vastly changing the nature of care in the NHS.
The big problems with it were:
A) Tony Blair not having a clue what was wanted, but saying it should be done in a year.
B) Setting a guy in charge of it that failed his computing degree.. One Richard Granger [wikipedia.org]. It was pretty much his ideas that doomed the Care Records part of it, and allowed out a spec that was more a back of a cigarette packet sketch than a real spec.
C) Failing to have a real spec. Now the companies all bid for a very nebulous thing that said "You give us a lovely system that does what we want, and we'll give you billions.". Of course, they produced what they thought the NHS wanted, but the NHS discovered that it wasn't what they wanted. You know, basic Spec documentation you cover on computing. Which Granger failed.
D) There was also fault with the companies who leaped at the cash without a real spec.. They should have known that the contract was WAY too wooly and actually tied it down to real deliverables.
At renegotiation time, some of the vendors (like Fujitsu) worked out the cost of really doing what the NHS asked for (which was all the project management of the first round, plus a semi accurate spec). Which was a truly staggering figure. More than the NHS could stomach. The two are still in a legal scrap.
Some vendors still kept the lights on in the data centres, and hosted what was there, but those installations are likely going to have to move out of those data centres by about 2015, as they're too expensive to maintain for the few installs.. And none of the vendors want to renew the system contract.
So, the price tag covers all the allocation (it was scaled to host EVERY NHS hospital in the UK, which is most of them), training, consultancy, migration of data (a high precision activity that needs zero data loss on a vast amount of very complex information, coming out of a vast quantity of different databases, and being shoehorned into one uniform schema. Doing this while still providing clinical care (you don't get to shut a hospital down for ripping out the heart of its data systems and replacing them with a new; it's all done while still treating patients and making sure nothing gets mis-recorded).. Training of a huge number of clinical staff (doctors, nurses, and anyone else who needs to use the system inside the NHS), the feeds.. Interfaces between that system and the various disparate ones that it needs to communicate with inside a hospital..
When you look at it, it's a breathtaking proposal, just nobody on high seemed to recognise that, and expected fast results because they said so and waved a fat wallet around. Unsurprisingly it went awry. The current UK government looked at the figures, the legal position and the chances of getting it sorted from a more businesslike side, and canned the bits that wouldn't work (the care records area).
As for the data protection side, that was one of the most heavily guarded I've seen anywhere.. It was pretty robust. The few 'leaks' that happened (people looking at records they shouldn't) were spotted by access audit, and people lost the jobs.. That simple, that strict.
You forgot to factor in health insurance costs. From what I hear, they're quite high due to some boondoggle computerized records project.
Yeah, It certainly is absurd. I can't even imagine it if you factor in the hardware to run it on. Assuming you spent half of it on hardware, you'd have $8 billion worth of hardware (which is just plain ridiculous).
You don't get it at all.
Before you even start buying hardware or writing code you have to build some modern new offices and fill them with nice desks, leather chairs, etc. to attract the right sort of people for the management positions. Then you need hot young secretaries around the place and plenty of thousand-pound lunches to discuss their six figure salaries, annual bonuses and exactly what model of luxury car they'd like to drive to work.
Only then can you start the actual "IT" part of the project.
Yeah, It certainly is absurd. I can't even imagine it if you factor in the hardware to run it on. Assuming you spent half of it on hardware, you'd have $8 billion worth of hardware (which is just plain ridiculous). You now have $8 billion left over to pay people, assuming each person working on the project makes $100,000 a year, for $8b, you can get 80,000 person years. The project was launched in 2002, so even counting 12 years, that means they could have hired 6666.667 (nice how that works out) people to work on the project.
I can imagine it. FIrst off, you are counting salaries, but not benefits, offices, personal computers, and other things it actually take to run a business. That'll cut your estimated number of employees in half right there. They're also not dealing with one location working on one program. They are developing a system that has to integrate and be deployed at every hospital in the nation. Each of those hospitals (and other health care locations) will have to treated individually with most running unique comb
I cannot fathom any software system costing that much.
Padding... The money was/is being stolen, looting the treasury.
Isn't that what happened to New York City's time system?
I cannot fathom any software system costing that much
It cost that much because that was the amount of money available to pay for it. If there had only been £5Bn in the budget, the project proposals would (magically!) have cost that much - and would STILL offered the same results. And exactly the same final outcome would have been proposed if the budget had been doubled. Success or failure was not a function of the budget, nor of the requirements. Even back in the 2000's when this was still a comparatively young project, I was asked to work on it. I spent a day with some of the project people and knew even than that it didn't stand a chance of ever going live. Mainly due to the intransigence of the NHS workers, especially the doctors and consultants (who all believe the only function of the NHS is to keep them employed - any resulting healthcare is merely a bonus).
The sorts of companies who bid for this work, just like defence contractors, are masters at configuring their projects to consume all available resources for a constant output. The problem is that they are much better at negotiating than government employees (who have no personal investment in the project) and more highly motivated, what with their contuned salaries, bonuses and commissions.
I cannot fathom any software system costing that much.
It is easy to fathom if you look at how the program was structured. All the incentives were inverted: nearly everyone involved actually benefited from cost overruns (the contractors got more money, the bureaucrats had the prestige of managing more resources, and the politicians had more patronage to dispense). There was no accountability (no one is being disciplined or fined). There is not even any political fallout because the blame is smeared out over multiple administrations (Conservatives can blame Labour for starting the project, while Labour can blame the Tories for mismanaging the implementation). It is like it was designed to fail. A decade from now you will be reading about some other project that failed in the exact same way, for the exact same reasons.
This is the one area where I think government should do the job but at the same time is incapable of doing it well. Government is no necessarily more corrupt that the private sector and no more greedy. However when government is greedy they tend to just spend more money, whereas when private sector is greedy they spend less money and pocket the savings.
The best outcome I think is a mix. Leave the implementation and management to the private sector but at the same time have a strong and robust regulatory
I cannot fathom any software system costing that much.
Haven't worked on any government programs I see.
Start with lots of money, fuzzy requirements and add general stupidity in the contracts office and you can get a LOT of money wasted. Who's got more money to waste than the government?
I've worked on government programs that I firmly believe where managed to get as much money out of the customer as possible (not to actually *deliver* something they wanted). One such program had taken more than 3x the initial cost estimate, taken 3 times as long and was nowhere near half done (by my estimate) before it got cancelled. Mission accomplished... (I made the mistake of actually voicing this theory in the midst of the program too.. I don't work there anymore...)
And here in the US we are rushing head long into government run health care... Yikes.. It's going to be way more expensive than you can imagine.
I can imagine the cost of your current for-insurance-co.-profit system.
Will it be more expensive than that?
Oh yea, it's going to be LOTS more expensive.. Insurance companies are in business to make money, government is about spending money.
The beauty of capitalism and the profit motive is that if somebody starts making loads of cash in some specific business line, others will see that and rush in to "make their share too". So competition reigns, supply increases and prices go down. The business of health insurance was no different. Government has no such "profit" motive to keep it efficient.
At one time, long
My father was contracted a few years ago as a consultant to help update the NHS's infrastructure. After a year working there for a year he ended his contract. He said that it was impossible to get anything done because the higher ups didn't listen to the engineers and project managers on the teams. There was also a lot of unmotivated and lazy people working on the teams that slowed everything down. Politics also played a big part and people cared more about keeping their comfy job that never really had an end date than finishing the project.
Thats fairly common with IT install projects. Between mission creep and idle time (usually caused by mission creep and work outage disputes) its surprising anything gets done on these contracts. Install projects take a special kind of insanity to manage.
On the NHS projects I was working on, most things were working nicely on Sun systems. Then came this big idea that they should change everything and use Microsoft windows. Chaos ensued. I did what I could for about 2 years, but could just see the change going nowhere. In the meantime, the old systems just kept running.
Thank God that here in the U.S. we're protected from this kind of system. Sure, getting sick here without insurance can bankrupt you, drive you into lifelong debt, etc. But at least we don't have to put up with any red tape in our health care system!
America, America, God shed his grace on theeeeee!
Unfortunately, what we're seeing is a preview of what I expect with Obamacare.
The silly thing is that 'obamacare' doesn't actually change anything. Same doctors, same hospitals, same procedures. No grandiose new projects. For most people, same insurance company. All it does is subsidize health insurance to make it affordable to those on low income - that's it.
2009 just called. They want their blatant lies back.
Just more expensive...as I just saw during open Enrollment. Why? Because although I am single and have a vasectomy, my new and improved, Obamacare approved plan is required to cover Obstetrics.
As if insurance companies do not have red tape. Or death panels, they kill people all the time by denying care. Or computer systems that are running on bubble gum and bailing wire. God Bless the Insurance Companies!
As if insurance companies do not have red tape. Or death panels, they kill people all the time by denying care.
And that is the basis of why you guys can't figure out the real problem.
Insurance companies don't deny care.
They just don't agree to pay for some of it.
The doctors decide not to offer that specific care since you can't pay for it yourself.
And for that, you blame the insurance company.
That's because you're crazy. But, thankfully you'll be able to get affordable coverage starting in a few months.
Honestly, when you look at the cost of health care in America compared with even the most expensive systems in the developed world, the costs are higher here and the outcomes are inferior.
In other words, it may cost more in the near term as preventative care becomes more accessible. But, fewer people using the ER for primary care and fewer bankruptcies caused by medical bills should start to bring the costs down fairly quickly. Then in a few decades the savings from preventative care should be apparent.
It's mostly people who watch Fox Noise and have no idea what it is that they're paying for when they go to the doctor's office that are afraid. All that charity care isn't being paid for by the government, it's being tacked on to the cost of insurance.
Sure, getting sick here without insurance can bankrupt you
Getting sick without insurance may bankrupt you everywhere, where insurance companies are the dominant payers for healthcare.
The problem outlined by this news is that, when the insurer has no competition, they can continue raising their premiums to no end and survive any sort of idiotic inefficiencies and waste. The joys of the "single-payer" system, that Obamacare is the harbinger for...
So, with all that money spent,
how can we, the taxpayer, get the
code open sourced ??
That much money spent on a failed software product? I think releasing it in the public domain would violate a dozen geneva convention regulations. It could be legitimately argued that the code base would constitute a weapon of mass destruction.
No, the only way to effectively handle that steaming pile of...code...is to destroy all copies but one, which you then entomb in a sealed vault miles under the surface of the earth with warnings in every language imaginable.
I say we dust off and nuke it from space.
It's the only way to be sure.
But yeah, source code please or it never happened and we want a refund.
Usually when I hear about a doomed IT project, I share my optimism with other colleagues:
this means that we still have plenty of IT job offers guaranteed by these failing managements.
I'd be more than happy to save them a lot of money by abandoning a similar system for a mere tenth of that amount!
I think it could all be done with Excel.
Dont forget PRINCE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRINCE2)
Yep, sadly I think at some point everybody decided private companies would do it better and cheaper.
When all it really turns out is they did precisely *nothing* for 10 billion pounds.
If they are interested, I'll write the entire thing myself for just one billion.
I am literally one tenth the cost, it's a deal, it's a steal, it's the sale of the f*****g century.
Surely for a few tens of thousands of pounds, it would have been better to publish and API for storing and modifying the info on (secured) web servers locally in a way that could be indexed and catalogued separately. Then, incentivize private firms to make and sell software to surgeries and hospitals that provide the API. Why do people always go for monolithic top down solutions for these things?
Because the moron with the cash listens to the psychopath that wants an early retirement.
The moron with the cash doesn't even have to spend his own cash, it's tax money after all, so he just signs whatever sounds good and goes home.
Before all the anti-government bozos show up to point and laugh:
However, 10 years on CSC has still not delivered the software and "not a single trust has a fully functioning Lorenzo care records system". This failure, the report said, was "extraordinary", while CSC was accused of a "failure to deliver" and "poor performance".
Yeah, that's a private corporation failing to perform/deliver. They're too busy focusing on cashing their checks, locking in their revenue stream, and paying their executives to actually deliver the product they agreed to.
What the government is bad at is managing contracts:
"systemic failure" in the government's ability to draw up and manage large IT contracts.
"there is still a long way to go before government departments can honestly say that they have learned and properly applied the lessons from previous contracting failures."
CSC should be sued for breach of contract, sued for fraud, sued for damages.
Too slow and expensive.
Seize all assets and nationalize them, fire every manager and conscript them into the army.
Good lesson for all the others, play the game and the rewards ($16bn) are tremendous but the risks come with catastrophic consequences.
Too slow and expensive.
Seize all assets and nationalize them, fire every manager and conscript them into the army.
3. Invade Great Britain.
4. Profit !
What the government is bad at is managing contracts
Well, if you broaden contracting to the whole concept of being a professional customer with requirements, deliverables, change orders and decision making. It's not the lawyers to set up a proper contract that is missing, it's that the "the product they agreed to" is some vague concept that is all but impossible to spec, estimate or deliver. No contract can give you cost control when the essentials of the contract are so bad, it's just trying to polish a turd.
Clinical records are the last big domain that resists computerisation.
Why? Because it's really hard to get right. You have a massive quagmire of competing interests, egos, a very complicated domain model and legal/regulatory environment that changes constantly and is different in every country. And to top this off, you have privacy whingers.
Common sense suggests that if it was an easy problem, they've have cracked it by now. As it is, I walk into my local GP for a checkup, and behind the reception, there's a massive wall of paper patient records. In 2013.
You have government of course (let's face it, governments have few very good people, and hire literally millions of bozos), but I'm not sure if it's any worse than the privatized, Balkanized carpetbagger-fest that passes as a health system in the US...
Absolutely not excusing the disgraceful and self-serving behaviour of the big integrators here (CSC and BT, amongst others), but they've blown billions for a reason.
Speaking as a dyed-in-the-wool data modeller and corporate database guy, I wonder what the problem would be with throwing all of that data modeling and medical coding stuff away and just letting people write into the system what actually happened, exactly as they do with paper records. Some tagging for "this was a procedure" or "this was a test", but free text the rest of the way.
At least the information would then be accessible through a computer to far-flung locations (Norwich) in case it was needed there
You can't really. Medicare for example has mandated that specific codes be used for billing and with that the rest of the industry has followed suit. These are called CPT codes and you'll see them on every medical bill you get here in the US. You now have multiple generations of doctors, nurses and medical coders who know what the codes mean and how to enter them for reimbursement but the doctors usually keep their own notes because the billing codes don't form a diagnosis or a treatment regimen, they ju
The two GPs I've used (both in London) have had electronic records. The first, which was the GP attached to my university, had what looked like quite and old system -- full-screen CLI based interface.
The second has a Windows desktop application. I've only seen it twice. It told the doctor I was missing a vaccination, and she set a thing to automatically remind my in 1 year to get the second part of the vaccination (for better immunity).
However, I don't know what would happen if I was taken to hospital an
as a bit of a strawman, I'm suggesting that we IT people have a moral obligation to get involved in projects like this. sort of the way doctors are obliged to help any patient that presents, regardless of who they are or what they've done.
these sort of megaprojects seem to be self-justifying in some weird way: managers who don't know what they're doing adopt an incredibly conservative attitude toward risk management when any large project is proposed. once that phase-space is entered, it's an upward spira
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News Feature
Originally published in Community News, January 30, 2014
MDOT announces work projects for 2014-16
Bridge work, pedestrian improvements and more
Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge work will be returning this March, and then again in 2015, according to the MDOT work plan released this month.
by Jessica Brophy
The Maine Department of Transportation outlined its work plan through 2016 in early January. The work plan consists of more than 1,600 work items and projects performed over three years. The estimated value of the project is $2.02 billion.
For Deer Isle and the Blue Hill Peninsula, there are 11 projects on the docket. There are no projects planned for Castine.
In Brooklin, work will focus on improving safety, including pedestrian safety improvements on Route 175, beginning .14 of a mile north of Naskeag Road and extending southerly for .26 of a mile, with a price tag of $160,000. Those improvements are planned for 2015 and 2016.
A second project on Route 175 in Brooklin includes large culvert rehabilitation .10 of a mile south of Flye Point Road. That project is on the plan for this year at a price tag of $300,000.
Another large culvert replacement project is slated for this year in Brooksville, on Route 175 at .81 of a mile south of the junction with Route 176, at a price of $320,000. Also in Brooksville is maintenance work on Route 176 to improve drainage, including culvert replacement, shoulder work, and ditching beginning .04 of a mile west of Route 175 and extending 10 miles to .10 of a mile northeast of Bridge Road, at a cost of $154,000.
Another $152,000 is on the list for more maintenance and drainage in Brooksville, Penobscot and Sedgwick along Route 175. This work will replace cross pipes and do shoulder work on Bagaduce Road.
There is work slated for 54 bridges, including three in the area. For those who live on or visit Deer Isle—who spent the bulk of 2013 waiting in line to cross the Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge—it may come as some disappointment that the bridge is due for more work in the summer of 2015.
MDOT spokesman Ted Talbot said the work on the bridge will repair the remaining concrete substructure units at a cost of $3.5 million. In 2009-10, the two suspension span tower piers were repaired.
"This should be the last in the series of rehabilitation contracts for this bridge," said Talbot. "For a few years, anyway."
In a meeting in Deer Isle last year, project manager Stephen Bodge said that the cost to replace the Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge would be easily over $100 million. As the bridge celebrates its 75th anniversary in June this year, both Bodge and Talbot readily admit there will likely be more projects in the future.
The bridge work that took up the majority of 2013 is not yet complete, according to Bodge. Work will resume the first week in March and take about three months to complete.
In Stonington, a multi-year project will be conducted on the Oceanville Bridge, located 1.54 miles easterly of Route 15. This year there will be work done to strengthen the steel girders and the bridge will be permanently reduced to a one-lane bridge. In 2015 and 2016, there will be a study completed to investigate whether the bridge should be replaced. The price tag for both projects is $202,000.
In Surry and Ellsworth, there are plans for two projects this year, at a total cost of $870,000. These include paving of a three-quarter-inch overlay on Route 172 beginning three quarters of a mile west of the Ellsworth-Surry town line and extending northeasterly for 2.9 miles. The second project is another drainage maintenance project on the North Bend Road between Route 1 and Route 172, ditching and replacing culverts.
Some of the major works projects around the state include the replacement of the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge in Kittery, with a total price tag of $160 million, half of which is Maine's responsibility. Other big projects include the replacement of the Union Street Bridge in Bangor and highway reconstruction on Route 3 in Bar Harbor.
Projects are chosen based on a number of criteria, including how heavily used the roads are, the safety, condition and service of each road. The plan states that local roads and streets—the responsibility of municipalities—carry only 13 percent of the statewide traffic but make up 61 percent of the total road miles in the state.


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How About you realise that this is Sony BMG - e.g. a partnership between Sony and Bertelssman. The rootkit would have been 100% BMG's idea. The CEO of Sony has gone on the record as saying he thinks online music sales are too expensive and should be close to the 25c mark.
What a great guy. Going on record saying what he sees as fit instead of actually running the company the way he sees fit.The CEO of Sony has gone on the record as saying he thinks online music sales are too expensive and should be close to the 25c mark.
Because he doesn't run the company as he sees fit.Why are they even paying this man?
He does this because Sony does not have an on-line music retail business and therefore he has nothing he could act on. He is simply trying to smear iTunes and music selling mobile operators.
Under the settlement, Sony BMG must allow consumers to exchange affected CDs bought before 31 December 2006, and reimburse them up to $150 (£76) to repair damage to their computers.
Is that $150 per cd "sold through" or $150 per customer who is aware of the lawsuit and actually files to get their cheque? Because I imagine those are entirely different numbers. Also, for those who would like to see Sony hurt worse for this, do remember that that this is more than enough. Any company pulling a stunt like that again will be ignorant, not unconcerned.
So when are desktop OS's going to come installed inside a secure virtual machine OS that is capable of detecting rootkits and possibly doing a little extra scanning on the side? That is long overdue.
Only it comes with its own Rootkit called DRM...
This sounds like the perfect opportunity for one of those chain e-mail letters to be circulated. "Have you played any of these Sony CDs on your computer? If so you're entitled to $150. Pass this along to 5 other people or you will die tomorrow!"How many people won't even know that they have been rooted?
It's not even that simple, FTFA [ftc.gov]:Is that $150 per cd "sold through" or $150 per customer who is aware of the lawsuit and actually files to get their cheque?
It's a reimbursement for costs incurred while trying to repair the damage done. I presume this means you would need a receipt from a vendor or service company that removed the rootkit for you. I doubt Sony will award the full $150 to you if you removed it yourself.As part of the settlement, Sony BMG will allow consumers to exchange CDs containing the concealed software purchased before December 31, 2006 for new CDs that are not content-protected, and will be required to reimburse consumers up to $150 to repair damage that resulted directly from consumers' attempts to remove the software installed without their consent. Sony BMG is required to publish notices on its Web site describing the exchange and repair reimbursement programs.
single user rootkitting a Sony server would never get away with only a $150 fee.
Doesn't this set some kind of precedent, so users now can get away with $150 per rootkit too?
IANAL, so I'm asking seriously.
Probably not, the $150 is likely based on the estimated cost of repairing the damage done by the rootkit, or the cost for removal by a professional at any rate. If you were to rootkit a server then the potential for damage and cost of removal are likely to be much higher. If you were to rootkit individual machines then this would probably be assessed on the basis of the machines in question.
What is most annoying about this is that it requires the injured party to be pro-active in claiming the money, and f
Actually, the $750 per song is for unintentional infringement. This action was obviously intentional and profit-motivated, the statutory damages in that case are $150,000 per infringement...which would be pretty good, I bet that would actually discourage them from doing this again, as opposed to this garbage settlement, which will have roughly the deterrent effect of fining you or me fifty cents.
Also, their player program that shipped with the rootkit CDs had a 'phone-home' function that loaded a banner
From TFA
The US regulator said the anti-piracy software wrongly limited the devices on which music could be played to those made by Sony or Microsoft.
Hmmm... no mention whether Vista or other Microsoft operating systems will come under fire of the same arguement.
Suing lawyer gets $5 million
And that would make me happy in this case, seriously, Sony should burn for this who cares if people get reimbursed for damages. The victims of hackers rarely get reimbursed. The "damage" isn't the problem, they purposefully hacked into millions of people's computers to harvest personal information for profit. $5 million dollar fine would at least be a start regardless who saw the money. Far better people have gone to jail for doing much less.
According to the FTC, the software also exposed consumers to significant security risks and was unreasonably difficult to uninstall.
Don't be. You earned the right to it.
Now if your computer is old enough to be running Win98 (mine is as well), consider it's time to upgrade. Try to get XP installed by the factory, since you'll likely like Vista even less, and give the old computer to the daughter. After that, if she stuffs it up, it's her problem, not yours.
Sony BMG should have to pay each infected person the amount of money that it would take to replace their infected system plus the money they lost from not being able to pull all of their data out of the fire. For the average user, this malware probably made their computer totally unsalvagable, so this seems reasonable.
So it took them this much longer to achieve exactly the same settlement, lawyers billing their time all along the way. That's government in action for you.
That if I get caught planting rootkits on peoples' computers that it's only going to cost me $150 per offense, with no jail time?
Some Sony executives should be serving time. Isn't planting a rootkit on someone's machine a felony in the US?
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Josh Johnson tossed six shutout innings on Monday and the Miami Marlins snapped a five-game slide with a 2-1 win over the Atlanta Braves in the opener of a three-game series.
Johnson (6-7) allowed just one hit and fanned nine to collect the win before leaving the game for precautionary reasons due to irritation on his right middle finger.
Mike Dunn, Edward Mujica and Randy Choate navigated through the seventh and the eighth and Steve Cishek allowed a run in the ninth, but closed it out to record his third save of the season.
Carlos Lee ripped an RBI single and Emilio Bonifacio cracked a solo home run in the victory for the Marlins, who were active in the trade market prior to the game.
Hours before Monday's first pitch, the Marlins acquired top pitching prospect Jacob Turner from the Detroit Tigers in exchange for second baseman Omar Infante and pitcher Anibal Sanchez.
"We lost a couple of guys we thought were going to be players to the end," Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen said. "Unfortunately, we're not playing well enough to keep those guys."
Chipper Jones knocked in Atlanta's lone run and Mike Minor (5-7) pitched well in the team's third straight loss, allowing two runs on six hits and no walks with four strikeouts over seven innings.
Miami struck first in its first at-bat. Jose Reyes and Donovan Solano stroked back-to-back singles to start the frame and Lee blooped a ball into no-man's land between shortstop and left field to score Reyes.
"I felt ok, just the first inning was a little rough," Minor said. "I made some pitches and they kind of snuck in there for some hits."
The Marlins extended their lead to 2-0 in the second when Bonifacio led off the frame by blasting a fastball from Minor over the wall in left.
Michael Bourn singled off Choate to begin the ninth and Martin Prado followed with base hit against Cishek to put two runners on. Cishek then got Jason Heyward to ground into a double play before Jones slapped a single to right, plating Bourn. Freddie Freeman skied one out to shallow center and Scott Cousins made a terrific over-the-shoulder catch to end the game.
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Johnson is expected to make his next start...The Marlins also acquired catcher Rob Brantly and pitcher Brian Flynn and a compensatory pick in the trade. The teams also agreed to swap 2013 Competitive Balance draft selections...In 46 career games against the Braves, Lee has a .316 average...Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez was ejected in the ninth inning by first base umpire Laz Diaz..Bonifacio's home run was his first since Sept. 25, 2011 against Milwaukee...Prior to the game, the Braves recalled outfielder Jose Constanza from Triple-A Gwinnett and optioned pitcher Anthony Varvaro to the farm club.


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It is worth posting for the first time in eight months for this: high-fructose corn syrup is now being called "corn sugar" on food ingredient labels. I ran across this article last fall and wondered if this was actually going to happen. Yesterday the label on the chocolate cakes at Costco proved that the time has arrived.


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UAlbany's All-Around Team Effort Takes Down UNH, 68-62
DURHAM, N.H. - For the first time in the past six trips at Lundholm Gym, the University at Albany takes care of business against New Hampshire, 68-62, on Wednesday, Jan 16. The Great Danes improve to 4-1 in league play, while the Wildcats fall to 0-4.
"We have players who are buying into their roles, whether they are made to take shots or grab the rebounds, we are finding ways to win as a team," said Coach Brown on a strong team win on the road. "A lot of people question why we are 15-4, we may not be the most flashy team but players are understanding what they are capable to do on the floor and not try to go outside their realm."
Mike Black led the Great Danes for the second consecutive game with a 20-plus point performance, scoring 20 points on 7-of-12 shooting along with six rebounds and four assists. Sam Rowley records his third consecutive game with a double-double, tallying 10 points and 10 rebounds.
New Hampshire (4-12, 0-4 America East) came out with a vengeance, scoring 18 points in the first five minutes of the second half to cut the deficit to just one, 35-34, with 14:31 left. The Wildcats hit five-of-six from behind, two coming from Ferg Myrick.
UAlbany (15-4, 4-1 America East) came back on a 14-5 run to extend the lead to 10, 49-39, with 9:31 remaining in the contest. Jayson Guerrier came off the bench and scored six of his points to help spark the run. The Great Danes extended their lead to as much as 13, 60-47, with 3:58 left.
The Wildcats cut the lead down to six, 61-55, with an 11-4 run that was paced by a Patrick Konan and Scott Morris three-pointer.
UAlbany held the lead for the final 1:14 and shot a perfect 4-of-4 to hold on to a six-point lead to finish the game.
Great Danes brought a lock-down defense in the first half, holding the Wildcats to 16 points on 24 percent (7-29) shooting from the floor. The 16 points allowed was the lowest points given up in a half in program's Division I history.
UAlbany finished the half on a 9-3 run with Metcalf scoring four of his seven first-half points during the stretch. The Great Danes were able to hold the Wildcats to no points from 11:15 mark down to the 3:30 mark, going seven minutes and 45 seconds without allowing a point.
The Great Danes take their three-game winning streak to West Hartford, Conn. to play Hartford at the Chase Family Arena. Tip-off scheduled for 7 p.m.


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2.2 Industry newest policy and related laws and rules
2.3 Upstream, downstream industry development status
3 Industry international market analysis
3.1 International market development status
3.2 Key countries and regions development levels
3.3 International market movement and development trend analysis
4 Industry domestic market analysis
4.1 Domestic market development status
4.2 Trends in the domestic market
4.3 Sub-industry development status (or main industry development status)
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5 Analysis of the industry's scale and condition: 2010-2014
5.1 Number of enterprises in the industry: 2010-2014
5.2 Number of loss-making enterprises in the industry: 2010-2014
5.3 Total loss of the industry: 2010-2014
5.4 Number of personnel employed by the industry: 2010-2014
6 Status analysis of gross assets analysis: 2010-2014
6.1 Status and analysis of gross assets: 2010-2014
6.2 Status and analysis of fixed assets: 2010-2014
6.3 Gross floating asset analysis: 2010-2014
Part 3 Economic operation
7 Analysis of gross industrial output: 2010-2014
7.1 Industry gross output value: 2010-2014
7.2 Distribution of gross industrial output value by geographic area: 2014
7.3 Comparison of the top 20 enterprises (based on highest gross output value)
8 Industry sales income analysis: 2010-2014
8.1 Sales income analysis in 2010-2014
8.2 Regional distribution status of sales income in 2014
8.3 Comparison of the top 20 enterprises (based on highest gross sales revenue) in 2014
9 Industry gross profit analysis
9.1 Gross profit analysis: 2010-2014
9.2 Regional distribution status of gross profit in 2014
9.3 Comparison of the top 20 enterprises (based on highest gross profit) in 2014
10 Industry import/export analysis in 2014
10.1 Import/export monthly status in 2014
10.2 Distribution of import/export Customs and countries in 2014
10.3 Distribution of import/export product categories in 2014
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11.1 Regional market competition landscape
11.2 Comparison of enterprise's market share (top 20)
12 Industry key enterprises' competitive power comparison (top 20)
12.1 Comparison analysis of key enterprises' total assets
12.2 Comparison analysis of key enterprises' employees
12.3 Comparison analysis of key enterprises' yearly revenue
12.4 Comparison analysis of key enterprises' export turnover value
12.5 Comparison analysis of key enterprises' total profit
12.6 Comparison analysis and recommendations on key enterprises' overall competitive power
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A Enterprise' basic information
B Analysis of enterprise's business operation
C Assets and liabilities analysis for the enterprise
D Enterprise' operating expense and cost analysis
13.20 Company 20
A Enterprise' basic information
B Analysis of enterprise's business operation
C Assets and liabilities analysis for the enterprise
D Enterprise' operating expense and cost analysis
Part 6 Business strategy
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14.1 Development bottlenecks
14.2 Coping strategies
Part 7 Market investment
15 Comparison and analysis of investment activity coefficient and rate of return on investment in Industry
15.1 Industry activity coefficient comparison and analysis
15.2 Comparison and analysis on industry rate of return on investment
16 Industry investment environment and risks analysis
16.1 Investment environment analysis
16.2 Investment risks analysis
16.3 Investment recommendations
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17.1 Status of the newest technology applications
17.2 Trends of the newest technology applications
Part 9 Developments and trends
18 Development trends and operation capacity forecast for 2015-2019
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Q. People can obviously live with missing arms, legs, kidney, lung, gall bladder, eyes, ears, nose, and much more. But wouldn't a headless human be impossible? I. Crane
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Given its technical feasibility, there will be enormous economic pressure for this to happen, Dixon told the British Press Association. It will likely occur in countries where there is little or no gene legislation.
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So my DX drop-in (This one http://www.dealextreme.com/p/6-cree-...open full view) came in the mail today, and I am planning on putting it into a 4D Mag, but I think I may have killed something on it...
What I did to it was de-soldered the two springs, then I soldered on a screw (to reach down into the lamp holder on the Mag and contact the positive terminal) and soldered the other large outer spring back on for a negative terminal. Then I tried it in the Mag.... and nothing happened. I know it worked before I started screwing with it. Now I really have no idea what is wrong, I've checked for any solder bridges that may be shorting something out, and I didn't find any. I noticed that the positive and negative terminals, including the screw, get very hot. This is a sure sign of a short, but like I said, I can't find one. So, is it possible something could have melted on the driver that is causing a short between the two terminals?
Could I get a new driver for the drop-in and solve all my problems?
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