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"A moderate-grain theory of states of affairs" by Daniel Graham Marshall
Posted on October 30, 2019 by phiees
A state of affairs is either a way things are or a way things aren't. The two most popular theories of states of affairs are the coarse-grain theory, according to which states of affairs are identical if and only if they are necessarily equivalent (that is, if and only if, necessarily, they either both obtain or they both fail to obtain), and the structure theory, according to which states of affairs are structured in the same kind of way sentences are structured. Despite their popularity, both these theories have serious problems. This paper proposes a new moderate-grain theory of states of affairs that avoids these problems by individuating states of affairs more finely than the coarse-grain theory and more coarsely than the structure theory. According to the proposed theory, two states of affairs are identical if and only if they are necessarily equivalent and necessarily about the same things. In addition to arguing that this proposed theory is superior to both the coarse-grain theory and the structure theory, the paper argues that the proposed theory is superior to other existing moderate-grain theories of states of affairs.
Time: 2pm to 4pm
Venue: Philosophy Meeting Room (AS3-05-23)
Dan Marshall primarily works in metaphysics and in related areas in logic, philosophy of language and the philosophy of science. He has a MSc in mathematics from the University of Melbourne and a PhD in philosophy from the Australian National University. He completed his PhD in 2011 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
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"How much should we matter to an Ethical AI?" by Cansu Canca
When we try to navigate potential impacts of artificial intelligence (AI), we invariably ask: Is AI for the good? Often, implicit in the question is: Is AI good for humans and humanity? This vagueness is captured by the interchangeable use of "ethical AI" and "human-centered AI". But those two AI systems—and those two questions posed above—might differ significantly. While an ethical AI is, by definition, for the good, it might not necessarily be good for humans and humanity in all circumstances. Put differently, a human-centered AI might not be an ethical AI.
As we design complex AI systems that assist us in our tasks and decision-making, we have to face the daunting task of integrating value trade-offs into these systems. Going forward, as AI systems grow more robust making more complex or autonomous decisions, these value trade-offs will increasingly matter in how AI systems weigh various competing demands. More specifically, AI systems will have to weigh the value of human well-being against the value of other beings (including the well-being of AI agents if and when AI systems acquire moral status). How then should we design AI systems that accurately take into account the value of ourselves and other beings?
Date: 6 November 2019, Wednesday
Cansu Canca is a philosopher and the founder/director of the AI Ethics Lab, an initiative facilitating interdisciplinary research and providing guidance to researchers and practitioners. She has a Ph.D. (NUS, 2012) in philosophy specializing in applied ethics. She primarily works on ethics of technology and on ethics and health. Prior to the AI Ethics Lab, she was a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong, and a researcher at the Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Osaka University, and the World Health Organization.
Talks by Anik Waldow and Deborah Brown
2pm – 3.30pm
Condillac on Being Human: Control and Reflection Reconsidered by Anik Waldow
Why do humans have reason, while animals do not? This question has long been answered by claiming that humans have rational souls, and because of this, an innate faculty of reason. Condillac breaks with this tradition by arguing that humans start to develop reason at precisely the moment at which they discover signs and learn to control their thoughts. Commentators like Hans Aarsleff and Charles Taylor believe that the discovery of signs is enabled through the presence of a special human capacity: the capacity to reflectively relate to what is given in experience. The problem with this interpretation is that it returns Condillac to a form of innatism from which he was keen to escape, for it assumes that human minds are reflective as a consequence of their original endowments. This paper sets out to offer an alternative interpretation that does not fall prey to the charge of innatism. It argues that for Condillac the capacity to reflect is not simply given, but arises as a result of contingent circumstances encountered in one's experiences with others. This interpretation not only does justice to Condillac's sustained effort to conceive of humans from the point of view of their embodied existence that, like in the case of other animals, is shaped by their interactions with the world. It also explains why many French enlightenment authors, who were inspired by Condillac, defended the claim that the cultivation of reason requires a Lockean programme of experiential learning.
Anik Waldow is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sydney. She mainly works in early modern philosophy and has published articles on the moral and cognitive function of sympathy, early modern theories of personal identity and the role of affect in the formation of the self, skepticism and associationist theories of thought and language. She is the author of Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (Continuum 2009) and Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature (OUP 2020).
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DESCARTES, HOBBES, AGENCY, FORCE by Deborah Brown
There is a common misconception that Descartes denies all agency of bodies—a conflation of the inertial and the inert—relegating all agency in the universe either to God alone (as occasionalists suppose) or to God and minds. Textually and conceptually, this is incorrect. Here, we will explore the kind of agency Descartes ascribes to bodies and how it sits with other core notions of his physics, such as that of motion, rest and force (conatus). The indirect exchange between Descartes and Hobbes over the nature of force reveals much about the kind of reductionist program in which each is engaged. It will be argued that if Descartes' notion is unsatisfying for being primitive, Hobbes' rests on the problematic idea of an infinitesimal motion, which would struggle to make sense of what happens when the contest of forces reaches stalemate.
Deborah Brown is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the UQ Critical Thinking Project at the University of Queensland. She is the author of Descartes and the Passionate Mind (Cambridge, 2006) and co-author of Descartes and the Ontology of Everyday Life (Oxford, 2019), as well as numerous articles on figures in Early Modern Philosophy.
"Truth Pluralism: a lesson from Many-Valued Logic" by Andrea Strollo
According to truth pluralism there is not a single property of truth but many: propositions from different areas of discourse are true in different ways. This position has been challenged to make sense of validity, understood as necessary truth preservation, when inferences involving propositions from different areas (and different truth properties as well) are involved.
To solve this problem, a natural temptation is that of replicating the standard practice in many valued logic, thus appealing to the notion of designated values. Validity would just be preservation of designation.
Such a simple approach, however, is usually considered a non starter, since, in this context, 'designation' seems to embody nothing but a notion of generic truth, namely what truth pluralists abhor.
In my talk, I show how to defend such a simple solution relying on designation by exploring the analogy with Many-Valued Logic even further. I argue that truth pluralism can be coherently formulated in a many valued setting, and that a suitable version of it is already available.
Andrea Strollo is currently Assistant Professor at Nanjing University (China). He received his PhD from Turin University (Italy) and got research positions at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy). He works mainly on the notion of truth, trying to keep philosophical and formal approaches together. He also has research interests in Philosophy of Language and Logic in general.
More information and contact details can be found at his personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/andreastrollophilosophy/home
"The Emergence of Will and Morality in Late Antiquity" by Siegfried Van Duffel
Posted on October 8, 2019 by phiees
Freewill is a perennial topic in Western philosophy. Many historians, however, date the origin of the concept in late antiquity (often either the Stoics or Augustine). If they are right, it would seem that the topic was not felt to be crucial to ethics in antiquity. Some seminal writings on the topic indicate that the concept of freewill was largely absent from Chinese thought before the nineteenth century and from Indian traditions. I suggest that the reason why freewill appears to have been considered a problem only in the post-classical West may have to do with the ethical outlook that emerged in the era. Characteristic of this outlook is the centrality of moral obligation. That would mean that the emergence of the "problem of freewill" is a result of the introduction of a law-like ethics and it would suggest that the problem may not be felt in other cultures because of the absence of a law-like ethics.
Date: 10 October 2019, Thursday
Siegfried Van Duffel is an associate professor and department chair at Nazarbayev University. He was trained as a philosopher and completed a Ph.D. in law at Ghent University (Belgium). Before coming to Nazarbayev University, he taught ethics and Political Theory at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and the University of Hong Kong. He also held post-doc positions at the National University of Singapore and the Center of Excellence in Philosophical Psychology, Morality and Politics of the University of Helsinki and was visiting associate professor at Huafan University and National Taiwan University.
Siegfried's main research interest is cultural differences, which is why he left Europe and continue living and working in a non-Western society. His project is to complete a book on human rights and cultural differences. The aim of this book is to describe human rights theories as an aspect of the culture in which they were developed. He also hopes to do comparative empirical research on intuitions related to human rights.
His work was published in journals such as The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, The Journal of Political Philosophy, The Monist, and The European Journal of Philosophy.
"Has Cognitive Psychology Solved the Generality Problem for Reliabilism?" by Erik J. Olsson
Posted on September 17, 2019 by phiees
We address the generality problem for process reliabilism, i.e. the view that a subject knows the proposition p just in case p is true, the subject believes that p and, characteristically, the subject's belief was acquired through a reliable process. The generality problem is that of classifying the type of process that was actually operative in belief acquisition. If no recipe for classification is given, reliabilism is an empty theory, or so the objectors claim. Our target is the account of the generality problem advanced in the influential work of Conee and Feldman. Specifically, we address their paradigm example of someone, Smith, seeing a maple tree from the window. We show that what we call basic level reliabilism, a reliabilism that relies on the basic level theory of (core) visual object recognition in cognitive psychology for fixing the process types in situations like that of Smith's, satisfies Conee and Feldman's own desiderata for an acceptable theory. We conclude that while Conee and Feldman may have succeeded in rebutting several other purported solutions to the generality problem in the paradigm case of visual object recognition, they have not produced anything that would present a challenge to basic level reliabilism.
Erik J. Olsson is Professor and Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at Lund University, Sweden. His areas of research include epistemology, philosophical logic, pragmatism, and, more recently, epistemological aspects of social networks and search engines like Google. His books include Against Coherence: Truth, Probability, and Justification (Oxford University Press, 2005, paperback 2008), Knowledge and Inquiry: Essays on the Pragmatism of Isaac Levi (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Belief Revision Meets Philosophy of Science (Springer, 2011). Olsson har written extensively on the reliabilist theory of knowledge, which he has defended against various objections. He is presently leading a research project funded by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences investigating Google from the perspective of personalized search, filter bubbles and polarization.
Honours Thesis (HT) Presentations by Mr Goh Zhao Qi
Posted on September 4, 2019 by phiees
Time: 2pm -2.45pm
Venue: AS3-05-23
Presentation by Goh Zhao Qi
Gamer's Dilemma: What can moral feelings inform us about it?
Luck (2009) introduced the gamer's dilemma; if one is willing to grant that virtual murder is permissible because it does not constitute any actual harm, one should also grant that virtual pedophilia is permissible on the same basis that it does not constitute any harm. However, our intuitions tend to approve virtual murder but reject virtual pedophilia as permissible. As such, my thesis seeks to understand why we have differing intuitions which result in differing moral judgments about virtual murder and virtual pedophilia. To achieve this, I will utilize Neil Sinhababu's (2017) meta-ethical theory, Emotional Perception Model (EPM), to analyze our moral judgments about videogames.
"Will we ever run out of work to do?" by Alexander Dietz
Posted on August 29, 2019 by phiees
Will we ever reach a point where there is no more useful work for us to do? Where we can all just relax, and lead lives of leisure, until the end of time? In this talk, I will discuss three ways in which we might think we could run out of work to do. I will then discuss whether running out of work to do would be so bad, whether we should take steps to make sure we will not run out of work to do, and some other possible philosophical and practical implications.
Alexander Dietz is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University. His research interests are in normative ethics and moral psychology. To learn more, see his personal website: http://www.alexdietz.com.
"What is Descartes Meditations?" by Jorge Secada
In it I propose that the Meditations is not an essay and that its order and unity are revealed when seen as a manual for meditation on God and self. Placing Descartes in relation to the Aristotelian and Platonic traditions, as well as the tradition of Christian meditational spirituality, and bringing to light the actual structure of the text, I articulate the philosophical import of Cartesian meditation as providing the starting points for metaphysical argument. I also explore briefly the connection between the literary genre used to write philosophy and the underlying conception of the subject.
He is currently a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, and have been Fellow of St Johns College at the University of Cambridge. He has been a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia in 1990, at the American University in Beirut in 2004, and was NEH Distinguished Visiting Professor at SUNY College at Potsdam in 1998 and 2014. Currently, he is also professor of philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. He is the author of Cartesian Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and of Meditaciones sobre el Perú (Biblioteca Abraham Valdelomar, Huacachina, 2019). And he is ehe editor of the forthcoming volume The Cartesian Mind, Routledge, 2020, as well as the author of several papers on early modern philosophy.
The Real Gettier Challenge by Stephen Hetherington
Posted on August 1, 2019 by phiees
'The Real Gettier Challenge'
Epistemologists have long assumed that they know what main generic thesis is their explicative quarry, as they set out to understand Gettier cases more fully by reaching for one or more of the concepts of epistemic luck, intellectual virtue, defeaters, safety, sensitivity, etc. Not so, I say: epistemologists have also long been badly mistaken about this – that is , about even the generic thesis that they need to be explicating. They have taken the explicandum thesis in question to be something like 'Any belief that is Gettiered fails to be knowledge.' But the real epistemological explicandum lurking in these shadows is slightly different. And this slight difference matters – greatly. It implies that much contemporary epistemological thinking about knowledge has been beside the explicative point at best, when claiming to accommodate and even to illuminate what happens within Gettier cases. I have recently explained all of this (and more) in detail in Knowledge and the Gettier Problem. This talk will present part of that book's argument.
Stephen Hetherington is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, and (since late 2013) the Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. His books include Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2001), Self-Knowledge (Broadview, 207), How To Know (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), Knowledge and the Gettier Problem (Cambridge University Press, 2016/2018), and What Is Epistemology? (Polity, 2019). His edited books include Epistemology Futures (Oxford University Press, 2006), What Makes a Philosopher Great? (Routledge, 2017), and The Gettier Problem (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
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So long, Ninja: Nvidia rebrands Tegra 3 architecture '4-Plus-1'
The company says its ending its use of different names for the Tegra 3's architecture of four high-performance cores and one low-performance core.
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A look at the 4-Plus-1 architecture in the Tegra 3 processor.
Nvidia's Tegra 3 processor will be making an appearance on a host of mobile devices this year, and when that happens, it will no longer come with its clumsy architecture branding.
The chipmaker announced yesterday that it has ditched "variable symmetric multiprocessing," "companion core," and even "ninja core," to describe Tegra 3's architecture. Nvidia will now describe it as the "4-Plus-1" architecture.
"The reason is that, the more popular this technology became, the more our customers wanted a name for it that's unique and descriptive," Nvidia wrote in a blog post yesterday. "A name they could put on a box or a store sign that immediately represents its value."
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Nvidia has struggled for months to describe the Tegra 3's unique architecture. The processor comes with four high-performance cores to handle demanding tasks, like gaming, and a low-performance core designed to save battery life and handle less resource-intensive tasks, like accessing e-mail.
The new branding will not impact the Tegra 3's name. As Nvidia points out in its blog, the name-change applies only to the processor's architecture.
The Tegra 3 is expected to be running on several smartphones and tablets this year, and many of those devices will be announced at the Mobile World Congress next week. Just last week, in fact, LG's specs for its upcoming X3 smartphone were leaked. The handset, expected to be unveiled at Mobile World Congress, will reportedly come with a 4.7-inch HD display and a Tegra 3 chip.
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An Ice Age relic found in a mysterious cave is evidence of prehistoric humans' connection to the supernatural. Using cutting-edge tech, experts investigate this 40,000-year-old treasure to reveal why it was made and the long-lost myths it represents.
In the summer of 1939, a team of explorers unearthed hundred of mammoth ivory fragments within a cave in Germany. Due to the start of World War II, the explorers were forced to abandon their findings, and the fragments laid forgotten in a museum. Decades later, as archeologists began piecing the fragments together, an extraordinary artifact emerged -- a figure with both animal and human features, now known as the 'Lion man.'
Ladder to the Stars
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Following the wildly successful 'Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,' Neil deGrasse Tyson returns as host to translate more revelations of science into a lavish transporting experience, taking audiences on a series of spiritual voyages of exploration. The show reveals previously uncharted realms, including lost worlds, worlds yet to come, and the worlds that humans may one day inhabit. Ann Druyan, original creative collaborator to Carl Sagan, whose iconic docuseries 'Cosmos' provided inspiration for this series, serves as executive producer alongside Seth MacFarlane.
Episode 1 takes viewers on a wild ride with the Ship of Imagination in an adventure spanning billions of years into the evolution of life.
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The second episode takes a look at how humans have always been voyagers and explorers, leaving the comfort of native shores to explore. Neil DeGrasse Tyson will show us a long-term vision of humanity's future worlds.
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Final showcase of the student works from the course Game Space and Virtual Environment, TA-ed by Minshuo Tang. Students in this course are challenged not only to learn the basic technical skills of game design, using 3D animation/game software such as Maya, Unity, Blender, and Sculptris. Rather, they are asked to think critically about art making using these tools by exploring ideas of interactivity, storytelling, simulation, and social events.
This unlikely alliance of restless college students is sinking fast into the moody and unstable world of Autodesk Maya. She's a manic-pixie-dream-software; hard to get, but worth the challenge. The art practice is air-conditioned, but darkness surrounds them as they struggle to function in the dense forests of Michigan. In the show Air Conditioned Art Practice, we see a glimpse of the life they might lead. Together or apart, in prints or in video, love and creation with a computer in the woods: it's complicated. Air Conditioned Art Practice is the final show of the Ox-bow, School of Art and Artists' Residency's 3D Animation, Virtual Environment class, taught by Snow Yunxue Fu and TA-ed by Nick Flaherty in Summer 2017. Exhibiting artists: John Kasarda, Alexander Exum, Ashley Gillanders, Nicholas Cordova, and Max Crider, David Carrillo, Elizabeth Loftus, Angie Gonzalez, Sara Roth, and Nathaniel Gillette.
Simulythos is a new media screening that focuses on experimental 3D animation techniques utilizing simulation software. Appropriating techniques usually used for special effects, advertisement, and mainstream cinema, our artists contextualize these processes to produce experimental media art. These artworks explore new mythos, narratives and themes explored through virtual worlds, and various forms of digital culture. Thus, Simulythos encompasses the uncanny while simulating dynamic environments. The screening features student work from Spring 2017's Atmospheric Animation class taught by Snow Yunxue Fu and TA-ed by Benji Sayed, in the Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Featuring works by: Cheryl Acuña, Daniel Brookman, Max Crider, Nick Flaherty, Jiantao Hu, Dohee Kim, Grant Kraushar, Jooyoung Lee, and Zhihui Long.
The program runs from December 2016 to April 2017, organized by Yuge Zhou and curated by Snow Yunxue Fu, supported by the Riverside Investment & Development Company. The Project showcases selected work of some of the artists from Snow Yunxue Fu's Fall 2016 Atmospheric 3D Animation class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The artists in the order of the exhibition are: Bobby Swainhart, Nick Flaherty, Stefan Glowacki, Minsuh Kim, Hadyn Cortez, Dohee Kim, Antonio Manaligod, Daniel Brookman, Peishi Zhang, Jackie Shin, Mario Acosta-Warren, Anna Romanova, and also Snow Yunxue Fu.
The exhibition is curated by Snow Yunxue Fu and Alfredo Salazar-Caro at the Sullivan Gallery showcase eight 3D video game artwork that is made by the students from the Early College Program Game Design class in the summer 2016 semester at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
An Experimental 3D Animation Screening Event held at the Double Frame Gallery locates in the Mana Contemporary Chicago. The Artists in Oceanic_.bin use environment simulation software made for special effects in movies and advertisements, to create video work in terms of experimental cinema and contemporary media art. The goals of the artwork are to explore our relationship with the physical, and digital environments we inhabit. The software abstracts elements in nature to simulate them, creating a space between the virtual and visceral sensory experience.
Double Frame Gallery is run by a Chicago-based artist collective named Group Format. The gallery aims to regularly present new exhibitions and artistic programming from artists in the group as well as the curation of other local and international artists. Fu is a member of Group Format and manages the gallery's operation.
The Double Frame Gallery is located on the 4th Floor of Mana Contemporary Chicago.
An exhibition of works on the second floor by Jon Cates, Mo Chen, Snow Yunxue Fu, Philip Hanson, Max Hattler, Alan Kwan, and Philip Vanderhyden. Curated by artist curators Mo Chen and Snow Yunxue Fu, the exhibition takes on the idea of abstract space both physically and metaphysically.
The show will also have a panel discussion with the artists and guest panelist Chaz Evens on July 18, 2015 from 12:30 to 2pm.
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Q: Windows 2008 R2 software RAID 1 (disk failure) I've bought myself a new server that I'm going to use for some various software developing projects. I have a simple question about Windows 2008 R2 x64 software raid. What if disk 1 fails? Will it automatically swap over to disk 2? And boot up on disk 2 after reboot? Or how do you handle this?
Should I use some tools for monitoring my RAID 1? So if it fails or if there are any errors, I will receive an email. Do you know of a tool capable of this? Or can I do it by having a tool monitoring the event viewer?
Finally, I'm looking for a tool to test the speed (read/write) of my harddrives, before and after introducing RAID 1. What's the best free tool out there?

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What if disk 1 fails? Will it
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It depends on the computer and how the hard drive failed.  If the BIOS on your computer still sees the first drive it will probably attempted to boot to it.  Typically with software-based RAIDs you have to reconfigured boot drive after a failure.  If you need the computer to be able to survive a disk failure with zero intervention then you really are going to need a good hardware RAID controller.

Should I use some tools for monitoring
  my RAID 1?

Windows will log RAID events to the Eventlog.  There are lots of tools for monitoring the event logs mentioned around the net and on this site.

Finally, I'm looking for a tool to
  test the speed (read/write) of my
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I like BST for for quick testing (http://www.nu2.nu/bst/).
Iometer is far more extensive but it does get a bit complicated because of all the available options.  (http://www.iometer.org/)

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Free Jimmy Buffett tickets pulled from eBay after benefit concert sell-out
IndustryTop Story June 25, 2010 By Allison Reitz
Concerts & Tour Announcements Secondary244 eBay28
No stranger to helping causes in and around his native Gulf Coast, it was no surprise when Jimmy Buffett stepped forward with plans for...
No stranger to helping causes in and around his native Gulf Coast, it was no surprise when Jimmy Buffett stepped forward with plans for a July 1 concert to benefit the region impacted by the ongoing BP oil spill.
It was also no surprise that free tickets for the event — booked for the public beach in Gulf Shores, AL — were gone within minutes when they became available to the public on June 23. But Gulf-area fans were soon upset to find some of the tickets cropping up for $100 or more on Internet auction hub, eBay.com.
According to The Associated Press, Ticketmaster.com distributed 35,000 free tickets during the June 23 sale, which lasted only 10 minutes before the limited ticket supplies were exhausted. Area fans reported long waits and connection problems during that time, followed quickly by the news that all available tickets were gone.
The musician's online fan communities logged complaints from those who were left ticketless. One fan on Buffett's official Facebook page commented, "This benefit concert should be cancelled. As it will only benefit the scalpers, the concert won't do any good for our wildlife, residents and local economies."
Alabama Governor Bob Riley also became involved in the furor, pledging to look into the ticket distribution process that left so many locals without admission. The governor's spokesperson, Todd Stacy, was quoted by WKRG News 5 as saying, "This concert is to benefit the Gulf Coast, not to benefit ticket scalpers. The true beneficiaries need to be local businesses and the local economy of the Gulf Coast."
But eBay responded quickly to the complaints. A few hours after tickets sold out and began appearing for resale, the online marketplace promised to pull the offending tickets from its site.
The company's official statement noted, "While eBay in many cases allows the listing of event tickets that are initially distributed for free, we did not feel that the resale of free tickets to the Gulf Coast benefit concert was appropriate or consistent with the charitable spirit of the event. We will not allow the listing of these tickets on eBay or StubHub and will remove any existing listings."
The policies of many online ticket marketplaces do not allow the resale of tickets for free benefit events. The eBay-owned marketplace StubHub blocked tickets for the event right from the start and will continue to do so, a representative explained to TicketNews.
Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band will appear with a series of special guests, like Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown, during the July 1 concert. A portion of the performance will be broadcast live on cable channel CMT, which will expand the concert's potential audience beyond the 35,000 tickets that were distributed.
"If we could put 500,000 people safely on the beach, we would," said CMT president Brian Philips in an interview with the Press-Register. "I guess I'm looking at it as, well, I'm glad we were able to get 35,000 people in, I'm glad we were able to make the broadcast available to an additional 90 million households via CMT."
A statement on Buffett's official Web site described the free show as an opportunity to "demonstrate support for the people, businesses and culture of the Gulf Coast."
In addition to the special event, Buffett has a dozen other U.S. dates scheduled for the summer 2010 Under the Big Top Tour. His next show is June 26 at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, WI, and his current itinerary extends through an October 23 concert at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV.
Jimmy Buffett itinerary:
(Dates are subject to change.)
June 26 East Troy, WI Alpine Valley Music Theatre
July 1 Gulf Shores, AL Gulf Shores Public Beach
August 7 -10 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
August 12 Burgettstown, PA First Niagara Pavilion
August 14 Bridgeview, IL Toyota Park
August 31 Wantagh, NY Nikon At Jones Beach Theater
September 2 – 4 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live
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Max: Oh! Hello Mr. Mayer.
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EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Call for Papers: Machine Learning for Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications
In recent years, supervised machine learning methods (e.g. k nearest neighbors, Bayes' theorem, decision tree, support vector machine, random forest, neural network, convolutional neural network, recurrent neural network, long short-term memory network, gated recurrent unit network), unsupervised machine learning methods (e.g. association rules, k-means, density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise, hierarchical clustering, deep belief networks, deep Boltzmann machine, auto-encoder, de-noising auto-encoder, etc.), reinforcement learning methods (e.g. generative adversarial network, deep Q network, trust region policy optimization, etc.) and federated learning methods have been applied to trust, security and privacy in computing and communications. For instance, machine learning methods have been used to analyze the behaviors of the data stream in networks and extract the patterns of malicious activities (packet dropping, worm propagation, jammer attacks, etc.) for generating rules in intrusion detection systems. Furthermore, time-series methods (e.g. local outlier factor, cumulative sum, adaptive online thresholding, etc.) have been proposed to retrieve the time-series features of anomalous behaviors for preventing cyber-attacks and malfunctions.
While the area of machine learning methods for trust, security and privacy in computing and communications is a rapidly expanding field of scientific research, several open research questions are still needed to be discussed and studied. For instance, using and improving machine learning methods for malicious activity detection, attack detection, mobile endpoint analyses, repetitive security task automation, zero-day vulnerability prevention and other security applications are the important issues in computing and communications. This special issue named "Machine Learning for Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications" in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking will solicit papers on the following topics across various disciplines of trust, security and privacy in computing and communications.
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New supervised machine learning methods for trust, security and privacy in computing and communications
New unsupervised machine learning methods for trust, security and privacy in computing and communications
New reinforcement learning methods for trust, security and privacy in computing and communications
New federated learning methods for trust, security and privacy in computing and communications
New optimization methods for trust, security and privacy in computing and communications
Manuscript Deadline: June 30, 2022
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Haishuai Wang, Fairfield University & Harvard University, USA
Chi-Hua Chen, Fuzhou University, China
Chunjia Han, Greenwich University, UK
Yu-Chih Wei, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Xiaoyan Li, Fuzhou University, China
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Volumetric upper airway changes after rapid maxillary expansion: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Buck, Lloyd M; Dalci, Oyku; Darendeliler, M Ali; Papageorgiou, Spyridon N; Papadopoulou, Alexandra K (2017). Volumetric upper airway changes after rapid maxillary expansion: a systematic review and meta-analysis. European Journal of Orthodontics, 39(5):463-473.
BACKGROUND Although Rapid Maxillary Expansion (RME) has been used for over a century, its effect on upper airways has not yet adequately been assessed in an evidence-based manner. OBJECTIVE To investigate the volumetric changes in the upper airway spaces following RME in growing subjects by means of acoustic rhinometry, three-dimensional radiography and digital photogrammetry. SEARCH METHODS Literature search of electronic databases and additional manual searches up to February 2016. SELECTION CRITERIA Randomized clinical trials, prospective or retrospective controlled clinical trials and cohort clinical studies of at least eight patients, where the RME appliance was left in place for retention, and a maximum follow-up of 8 months post-expansion. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS After duplicate data extraction and assessment of the risk of bias, the mean differences and 95 per cent confidence intervals (CIs) of upper airway volume changes were calculated with random-effects meta-analyses, followed by subgroup analyses, meta-regressions, and sensitivity analyses. RESULTS Twenty studies were eligible for qualitative synthesis, of which 17 (3 controlled clinical studies and 14 cohort studies) were used in quantitative analysis. As far as total airway volume is concerned patients treated with RME showed a significant increase post-expansion (5 studies; increase from baseline: 1218.3mm(3); 95 per cent CI: 702.0 to 1734.6mm(3)), which did not seem to considerably diminish after the retention period (11 studies; increase from baseline: 1143.9mm(3); 95 per cent CI: 696.9 to 1590.9mm(3)). LIMITATIONS However, the overall quality of evidence was judged as very low, due to methodological limitations of the included studies, absence of untreated control groups, and inconsistency among studies. CONCLUSIONS RME seems to be associated with an increase in the nasal cavity volume in the short and in the long term. However, additional well-conducted prospective controlled clinical studies are needed to confirm the present findings. REGISTRATION None. FUNDING Australian Society of Orthodontics Foundation for Research and Education Inc.
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Media scrutiny of ministerial performance proves embarrassing
Who is Kerala's best minister? This was the subject of an enquiry by a leading television channel during the Left Democratic Front government's second anniversary celebrations last month. Another channel looked for the worst minister.
Obviously, only one individual can emerge totally unscathed from a contest to pick the best minister. Even his closest competitor can only be the second best.
Malayalam television channels have established in recent years a reputation for caricaturing the political leaders mercilessly almost daily. The tallest leaders are perhaps the ones lampooned the most.
Most of the leaders have fans whose loyalty to them can put to shame the most ardent admirers of the superstars of Malayalam cinema. Yet the channels have not encountered any significant hostility on account of their political spoofs, possibly because the viewers treat them as mere entertainment.
The leaders, too, have raised no objection. Some of them even claim to enjoy the mimics' version of them. They would rather be ridiculed than ignored.
Asianet, which pioneered reality shows on Malayalam television, was the one which organised the quest for the best minister. The selection procedure closely parallelled that of the reality shows.
An account of each minister's work was presented and viewers were invited to send SMS to boost his chances. Low-scoring ministers were eliminated, three at a time. The process was continued until only one was left.
The winner was Water Resources Minister NK Premachandran, the Revolutionary Socialist Party's lone representative in the cabinet.
Premachandran is unlikely to feel elated by the honour since he had reservations about the fairness of the exercise. While the elimination round was still on, this writer had occasion to talk to him about the programme.
Labour Minister PK Gurudasan and Fisheries Minister S. Sharma, both belonging to Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan's camp, had just been eliminated. "They are both good ministers, working quietly," Premachandran said sadly.
The "worst minister" contest was organised by Jaihind channel, promoted by the Congress party, emulating the example set by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which set up the Kairali group of channels.
All ministers, including Education Minister MA Baby, who was voted the worst, suffered the electronic humiliation in stoic silence.
There was a lone exception: the garrulous Co-operation Minister G. Sudhakaran. He said he would get the State Consumer Federation, which is under his department's control, to pick the worst journalist.
In a sense, grading of ministers by the electronic media is an extension of the system of awarding marks to them, initiated by the print media a few years ago.
Newspapers gave up the practice, possibly because many opinion leaders, who were asked to evaluate the performance of ministers, disapproved of the system of awarding marks.
Is it proper for the channels to grade ministers on the basis of SMS messages? Media persons and others have discussed the issue in private in recent days, and many of them are known to view it an unhealthy practice.
In the first public discussion on the subject, former Additional Chief Secretary D. Babu Paul asked in a magazine article last week, "Who are we to line up the ministers who rule over us as if they are children competing to pick up lozenges at the school anniversary competitions and determine the winner?"
In a democracy, ministers are not the masters, although some of them seem to imagine they are. They must be ready to face public scrutiny at all times, and not just at the end of their five-year tenure.
While the media and even the general public are entitled to evaluate the performance of ministers, it is incumbent upon them to do so in a responsible manner, without doing damage to the dignity of the high office they hold. Viewed in this light, the procedures adopted by the channels to determine the best and the worst were clearly objectionable.
It is, however, unfair to lay the blame for the general lack of respect for high offices in Kerala on the media. Political parties have contributed more to devaluation of public office and the dignity attached to their holders than anyone else, and it is for them to take the lead to correct the situation.
The spurious contests on the small screen, like the spurious discussions the channels organise, are manifestations of the lack of sufficient professionalism. In a situation of declining values, competition brings out not the best but the worst. –Gulf Today, Sharjah, June 2, 2008.
Labels: Kerala Letter, Media, Ministers
സുജനിക said...
രാഷ്റ്ടീയത്തെ ഗൌരവമായി നിരിക്ഷിക്കുന്ന എത്ര പേര് എസ്.എം.എസ് അയച്ചു കാണും.പിന്നെ ലഭിച്ച എസ്.എം.എസ് ഇത്ര ആണു എന്നതില് എന്താണു സുതാര്യത.ഒക്കെ ഒരു വിദ്യ അല്ലെ.ആവൊ അറിയില്ല.
NazeemOnline said...
Its high time that the channels themselves should try to realise who is damaging more the essence of fourth estate.How many Malayalam channels are doing serious news analysis of political developments? When the world is brimming with so many issues they hook the viewers attention to petty issues and the unreal reality shows.Can they ever present a strong scrutiny like this article????
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The big test came when we reached the shelf on the Spanish side of the bay on the morning of day 3. With each hour the log records the sea state creeping up from calm to slight to moderate. By lunchtime we had 26 knots of wind. In those conditions I am useless on the helm and so Stefan bore the brunt of it, helming all day whilst I tried to make up for it by clearing the bilge pump (6) filter, making tea and navigating us along the now visible Spanish coast.
We arrived in A Coruna at 7.15pm feeling elated and jet lagged all at the same time. The Bay of Biscay is a rite of passage for sailors. Unintentionally but ever so slightly romantically we had done it just the two of us. In the mind fog of tiredness, the Irish accent on the end of the VHF radio confused us slightly but we were finally and very definitely in Spain.
After 12 hours sleep Stefan took the autohelm apart, put it back together again and got it working!
And we were ready to explore our third unexpected destination of the trip….
(1) where we record things like our position, direction, wind strength, barometer readings so we can monitor where we are if all electronic equipment fails!
(2) magic gadget which keeps the boat heading in the direction you want it to and which means when you are on watch on your own you can leave the cockpit to make tea and have a pee!
Clever Stefan re fixing the autohelm. And well done on the crossing.


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MPs label police IT 'not fit for purpose'
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Guardian Government Computing Mon 26 Sep 2011 // 09:27 UTC
The Home Affairs select committee has branded police service IT as "not fit for purpose" and claimed it is damaging the police force's ability to prevent crime and disorder.
In a report titled New Landscape of Policing, the committee calls on the Home Office to revolutionise police IT as a top priority. It says IT is the one area of policing where direction from the centre is vital to effect change.
The document says: "The history of government and Whitehall over the last 20 years or so has demonstrated that this is about not just having the right policies, but also having a good understanding of the strategic direction, achieving the right partnerships, and mutual challenge between policy-makers and delivery organisations."
Information considered by the committee reveals some of the IT issues the police forces face. This includes an admission by Sir Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), that police IT is "a bit of a mess".
The committee concludes that the main reason for this is that the 43 forces in England and Wales use a multiplicity of different IT systems and IT contracts.
According to the report, Home Secretary Theresa May has revealed that there are about 5,000 staff working on 2,000 different ICT systems across the police service. May has also said that the police currently spend £1.2bn on IT each year, and this did not represent good value for money.
Despite these problems, the committee found that the National Policing Improvement Agency has been successful in making savings on IT procurement. In February the agency reported that it would exceed the £25m target set by the Home Office and deliver savings of nearly £30m.
The agency – which is also responsible for major police IT projects such as the Information Systems Improvement Strategy (Isis) and Project Athena to improve IT convergence – is being phased out, however.
The committee says that a successor must be found to take over the agency's many IT functions. It asks the Home Office to clarify which police forces will be responsible for IT systems provided directly by the agency, and which will be taken over the by the new police IT company, promised by the home secretary.
It says it expects Airwave to become the responsibility of the new police IT company, but would like this confirmed.
In addition, the report points out that there is so little detail available about the police IT company that it finds it difficult to reach a conclusion about its viability.
There are advantages in creating a single body to oversee police IT, provided it has the right expertise, says the committee. But it adds that the Home Office's main reason for setting up a company is to avoid EU procurement rules.
It calls on the home secretary to update Parliament about the proposed company by December at the latest.
Keith Vaz, chair of the committee, said: "The police perform a difficult and dangerous task on behalf of the public and the continuing uncertainty about the future of many of the bodies involved in policing has the potential to be very damaging."
This article was originally published at Guardian Government Computing.
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Orphan Adele Beaumont spent her childhood being passed around to cruel or indifferent relatives. She quickly learned the harsh lesson that a fatherless, penniless girl becomes an unmarriageable woman, leaving her alone and vulnerable to the whims of society. Determined to take charge of her own fate, Del decides to pursue the only means to an independent life available to her: become a courtesan to wealthy and powerful men.
Rhys Camden has just turned twenty one and is now employed as factotum in his father's shipping company. He is eager to find his place in the world, but he finds himself fighting against his father's control as the elder Camden seeks to increase the family's social standing to match their newfound wealth.
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Suddenly, Camden was at the settee, looming over Del like an angry storm cloud. "Bloody hell, woman, why can't I stay away?" He dropped on his haunches in front of her, searching her face as if it held the answers to his torment.
Del knew she should say something. She should lay a hand gently on his arm and murmur reassurances. Or she should feign outrage and righteous indignation and throw him out of her townhouse with admonishments to never darken her door again, so he would be released from his anguish by the knowledge that now he had no choice but to leave her alone. But she couldn't. Like Camden, she was conflicted, torn between wanting him to go away and never return, and feeling like she would be empty if he ever left her.
Camden took her by the arms and pulled her toward him. His grip was strong and there was tension in his fingers, yet there was strange tenderness about him too. "Is it just me?" he asked, his voice low and husky. "Am I the only one fighting this madness?"
He leaned into her, and Del was warmed by the heat of his body, touched by the energy thrumming just below the surface of his skin. She simultaneously wanted to move closer to him until his warmth enveloped her, and to pull away before she was singed by his fiery restlessness.
"No," Del said, her voice barely a whisper. She brought her hand up to his face, traced the rough outline of his jaw. "I can't stop thinking about you, though it would be better for both of us if I could."
"Bloody hell," Camden said again.
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Camden made a strangled sound low in his throat, and then some of the tension in him eased, though he didn't become relaxed. That energy was still there, pulsing harder, and Del knew he had given into it and would fight it no longer. He kissed her, hard, like a man long denied of sustenance finally getting his fill.
It was as if all her mental faculties had left Del. Normally in such situations, she felt little and thought much–touch him here, make a hungry noise now, don't forget to pant heavily as if overcome with desire. All of it to create the illusion that she returned her lover's ardor, experienced the same sexual passion. Now, here, with Camden, there was no thinking, no illusions, no careful control of her responses.
She had no control of anything.
Her entire body responded to him automatically, from the fullness of her lips to her genuine lack of breath. It startled and scared her, that her body had overtaken her mind, that she was not carefully orchestrating their every move. In her fear, she wanted to pull back, to demand he leave so she wouldn't have to feel the burgeoning terror of an actual physical and emotional connection with someone.
Camden seemed to sense her hesitation, and he withdrew his lips from hers, though his thumb brushed lightly over her cheek. "Del," he said, and that simple word, gruffly spoken, was her undoing. It was a question, an answer, a plea, and a pledge. It was infused with both an anguished longing that said he wanted everything from her, and a solemn promise that he would never take what she couldn't give. It told her he was filled with a yearning for her he could barely contain, but that if she said the word, he would muster up an inhuman strength and walk away.
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I loved the style of writing; very intelligently written, but easy enough to get completely lost in. This steamy love story is definitely not ordinary. I loved Adele Beaumont, a fiercely independent woman who protects herself by shutting out intimacy in her relationships. Rhys Camden is young man, obedient and earnest, trying to find and define himself having just turned 21 years old. They meet by accident and the sparks fly! This love story is hot, and you yearn for these two to finally give in to each other. The character development is beautiful. You get to watch two burdened souls, Adele and Rhys, find each other and eventually peel away their layers. The result is pure love, and each finds the inner peace that they didn't even know they needed. What a wonderful book.
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I loved this novel. Reading it was like taking a break from my life and going on vacation — to 19th century London. For a week, I experienced life through Adele Beaumont – fierce independence, blissful love and steamy romance, not to mention unspeakable fear and dread. Finishing the last page left me wanting more. I hope Emma Barron has more in store for us.
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Since both documents were prepared by the same writer (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bichhierai), I was surprised to discover that the summary and the transcript bear little resemblance to one another on the subject of Guccifer 2.0's facility with Romanian.
But when we asked him to explain to us how he hacked into the DNC in Romanian, he seemed to stall us, and said he didn't want to "waste" his time doing that. The few short sentences he sent in Romanian were filled with mistakes, according to several Romanian native speakers.
Got that? He only gave them a "few short sentences" of Romanian before losing patience.
Although I can understand Motherboard's impulse to do some linguistic sleuthing on an unknown source of unverified information, I can also understand Guccifer 2.0's display of impatience (under these circumstances) as far more justifiable than the summary made it out to be.
But is this seeming discrepancy even worth mentioning? Shouldn't our primary task concerning anything leaked in the public interest be to focus on what was leaked rather than who leaked it?
I thought so a few days ago. I'm less certain now. As I see the Guccifer 2.0 story dissipating into background noise, it's plain that the main takeaway CrowdSource wanted to impose on the public is almost the only part of the story that is sticking in the public consciousness: "That DNC hack was probably done by Russians, though you can never tell with cybercrime, but it was definitely probably Russians, including that Guccifer 2.0, who was undeniably and indisputably part of a Russian disinformation campaign in all probability."
Even if Guccifer 2.0's claims regarding her/his ethnicity and first language are irrelevant (as I think they are, since hackers generally rely on anonymity and deception), it's still a good idea to keep facts separate from rumors. The fact is that Motherboard's interview proved nothing conclusive about Guccifer 2.0's Romanian-ness, and yet the interview was used to support rumors about the hacker being a Russian who couldn't convincingly impersonate a Romanian in an online interview with web translation tools at his disposal.
That's how things feel today. But I had a DM conversation with @Guccifer_2 this afternoon that makes me think things won't feel that way for long. More on that tomorrow.


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