Understanding Networking: Marketing Attributes Vis-À-Vis Motivation and Downside

Ultimate Truth vis-à-vis stable Truth

We show that the set of ultimately true sentences in Hartry Field’s Revenge-immune solution model to the semantic paradoxes is recursively isomorphic to the set of stably true sentences obtained in Hans Herzberger’s revision sequence starting from the null hypothesis. We further remark that this shows that a substantial subsystem of second order number theory is needed to establish the semantic...

Vis-à-vis Cryptography: Private and Trustworthy In-Person Certifications

The growing role of mobile devices in previously face to face interactions presents new domains for cryptographic applications. At the same, time the increased role of digital systems raises new security and privacy issues. With some thirty thousand notifications sent, inSPOT.org’s electronic notification of exposure to sexually transmitted infections is one such concerning development. This pa...

Understanding Relevance Vis-a-Vis Internal Transfer

Vis-à-Vis: Online Social Networking via Virtual Individual Servers

Online social networks (OSNs) are immensely popular, but they raise important privacy concerns because they concentrate personal information for many users under a single administrative domain. We present Vis-a-Vis, a privacy-preserving framework for OSNs in which each person maintains her own information in her own Virtual Individual Server (VIS), a personal virtual machine running in the clou...

Consent to treatment: practice vis-à-vis principle.

It is a principle recognised not only by our own but by other legal systems that ignorance of the law is no excuse for violating it. This is also expressed in the form of a legal presumption that everyone knows the law. So it is the duty of every person to be acquainted with that part of it which concerns him or her. In recent years there have been a number of malpractice suits based on lack of...