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So in similar circumstances I bring up the same point,

Yes.

I haven't brought up this point before

You brought it up once in this thread. I don't see why I should go to the effort of rebutting you when you have a history of ignoring the rebuttals in other threads, then popping up again in another story, with exactly the same ill thought-out objections.

Decision trees have variance if you want to apply rules unequally.

Nope. Here is the seminal paper on random forests:

http://machinelearning202.pbwo...

which are based on bagging:

http://www.machine-learning.ma...

for variance reduction. Individual decision trees have high variance, and they're not that great. Random forests work so much better than trees because they greatly reduce the variance of the trees.

mi is still arguing like a lawyer. A year or so ago I gave him a link to an article that compared temperature and sea level rise to model projections and showed the models were mostly right on temperature and lagging on sea level rise. Here's a different one that does the same comparison of observations in 2007 to the projections from the IPCC 2001 (AR3) report which started its projections in 1990. But instead of taking in the information mi will reject it because it's not in his cherished format. If mi had any gumption he'd look up the projections from the AR3 report and the observations from 2007 to have his cherished 2 sources and see if what the paper said is true. Instead he's unwilling to meet anyone halfway and wants it all handed to him on a silver platter. Like I said, he argues like a lawyer.

I think that is covered by prior art

Librarians have been fighting the good fight in America at least as far back as the 1940s when they stood up to red scare shenanigans. They were also at the forefront of fighting the PATRIOT act, both in lobbying and in action when they redesigned their lending software to delete all information once a book was returned. They are also at the center of the hackerspace movement.

David Brinn Earth called it Simglish http://earthbydavidbrin.pbworks.com/w/page/15607633/ChineseTourists

Though it is only +20 years' projection

http://earthbydavidbrin.pbworks.com/w/page/15607657/Predictions

Perhaps everyone who needed Yahoo Groups to be different had already left.

In the groups I participate in, this is exactly what is happening. People are leaving. I can't imagine any successful business model that involves no new users, AND the current userbase shrinking.

By forcing current groups to change they didn't necessarily give them any new functionality that they wanted,

Inline attachments seems like a pretty big deal. You no longer have to mention, search the files for this picture that only relates to this post. This seems especially useful for email users (seemingly the core of users) - which I am not one of.

and might have taken away functionality that they did want.

There are only 2 features listed as having been removed. Everything else is implied to be bugs, I suppose that is the definition of "might", it might be a bug, it might be a feature removed.
http://yahoogroupedia.pbworks.com/w/page/68466246/Yahoo%20Groups%20Neo#MissingFeatures
Joseph Elwell.

"Microsoft .. actually managed to continue to innovate in this space, and the PowerPoint presentations I see .. beat anything I've seen from the LibreOffice geeks"

Googling on 'graphics example filetype:odp` brings up some very interesting results, see these examples ..

Stereoscopic vision workshop

Open Source Productivity Tools

Another Earth prediction

http://earthbydavidbrin.pbworks.com/w/page/15607642/Eyeglass%20Cams

That's what the old USAF mechs who taught me sometimes called it.

BTW birds are turned into a mist of blood and feathers when they go down an intake, and it stinks. Inspecting those is nasty.

Jet engines don't always contain catastrophic failures, as the fan. compressor and turbine blades are spinning at high rpm (rate depends on engine).

http://www.remotevisualinspection.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Turbine4_256-1.gif

Google Image Search "bird strike engine damage" for some entertainment.

http://english4aviation.pbworks.com/w/page/24448140/Pictures#Birdsstrikeeverywhere

You would probably find googling for N8VEM SBC v2 to be very interesting. S100 lives! as does a eurocard connector-ized version of the same idea, more or less.

http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/

I have the partially assembled system on my workbench. I need a nice blizzard to keep me inside soldering, that'll take care of it. Its all antique thru-hole instead of modern SMD which I find harder to work with and certainly much bigger but its no big deal.

Add in connector resistance

At least the n8vem design has a standard pc molex on the ecb cpu board. Don't need to, but you can dump power in that way. Very much like a modern graphics card having a dedicated power line rather than drawing current from the motherboard.

For large jobs, I can using air blowing conveyor belts to align and feed the scraps into a series of modified industrial sheet fed image scanners and allow a computer to itemize each of the images and convert them to OCR formatted files. Once completed, write a puzzle algorithm to piece them together electronically.

Vernor Vinge beat you to it. That's precisely the plot device that he used as a nod to books.google.com in Chapter 12 of Rainbows End:

"We want our floor space!"
"We want our Library!"
"And most of all, we want our REAL books"

and build retro micro-computer kits, like the Replica 1 (Apple I clone, MOS Tech 6502), and Spare Time Gizmo's COSMAC Elf 2000 (RCA CDP1802 CPU). I also have an unfinished N8VEM Z80 single board computer (SBC) with an optional S-100 like backplane called ECB, and multiple expansion boards

Who needs more than 4 MHz, I can't type 50wpm anyhow; :-)

Lotus Domino (server) and Notes (client) are actually alive and well. This article is old, obviously, but you can see that Notes/Domino was slowly slipping until 2006 where it began to recover.

http://www.alanlepofsky.net/alepofsky/alanblog.nsf/dx/lotus-notesdomino-marketshare-is-growing

These two pages show that the Notes/Domino combo is actually even closer to Exchange today than it was five years ago.

http://dominoorexchange.pbworks.com/w/page/18061910/FrontPage
http://dominoorexchange.pbworks.com/w/page/18061909/Fortune-Global-500-(2007)

I was a Domino admin for 9 years, from 1999 to 2008, versions 4.5 to 8.0 I believe, with a single server instance. I am now an Exchange admin and have been for about 3 years, versions 2003, 2007, and 2010.

The whole time I was a Domino admin I wanted to convert to Exchange. Now that I am an Exchange admin I wouldn't mind deploying Domino. They both have peculiar issues. Domino has really weird wording in their config documents, but Exchange/Outlook have a really hard time with virus/trojan/malware issues.

It's a toss up. I really don't think you can go wrong with either one, so long as you know what you're doing with the one you've chosen.

Lotus Domino (server) and Notes (client) are actually alive and well. This article is old, obviously, but you can see that Notes/Domino was slowly slipping until 2006 where it began to recover.

http://www.alanlepofsky.net/alepofsky/alanblog.nsf/dx/lotus-notesdomino-marketshare-is-growing

These two pages show that the Notes/Domino combo is actually even closer to Exchange today than it was five years ago.

http://dominoorexchange.pbworks.com/w/page/18061910/FrontPage
http://dominoorexchange.pbworks.com/w/page/18061909/Fortune-Global-500-(2007)

I was a Domino admin for 9 years, from 1999 to 2008, versions 4.5 to 8.0 I believe, with a single server instance. I am now an Exchange admin and have been for about 3 years, versions 2003, 2007, and 2010.

The whole time I was a Domino admin I wanted to convert to Exchange. Now that I am an Exchange admin I wouldn't mind deploying Domino. They both have peculiar issues. Domino has really weird wording in their config documents, but Exchange/Outlook have a really hard time with virus/trojan/malware issues.

It's a toss up. I really don't think you can go wrong with either one, so long as you know what you're doing with the one you've chosen.

Whilst Chess promotes creative thinking, logic and other sorts of strange and whacky buzzwords, it's lacking any school curriculum linked ideas (based on the NSW Primary School Curriculum). I would have thought that if they want to use a game this way, they could have used some sort of D&D or Warhammer style game, where you can link them into parts of the curriculum like Maths or Literacy, hell, you could even throw in Role Playing ideas like creative writing and art, all based on the game they're playing. There's a school that is trialling a similar project using World of Warcraft: http://wowinschool.pbworks.com/w/page/5268731/FrontPage

Grepping through 7GB of email is slower than hell. I have yet to find a mail client that will import and index that much mail without crashing.

You don't want to use a mail *client* to index that mail! Leave it to the server instead. I have no problems searching through my mail archives which are somewhat smaller than yours as am picky in what I archive (no mailing lists etc) but with 1.1 GiB still constitute a lot of data. My mail server is nothing special either, a rebranded Intel NAS box with a 1.4 GHz single core Celeron and 2GiB of memory. It runs a bog-standard dovecot imap client and a web mail server (roundcube with a few site-specific changes) and works its way through our mail just fine. No ads, no big brother, no nothin'. Zuck and Schmidt can recreate Dante's Inferno in email and I'll be happily mailing away. If you have a permanent connection and an always-on machine (NAS box, router, etc) there is no reason not to run your own services as far as I can see - other than interfering ISP's of course. Yes, you'll have to take care of your own backups - which is where Gmail and PGP come in handy if you are so inclined - but that is a small price to pay for 'freedom' IMnsHO.

It was the kind of interface described in "Johnny Mnemonic" by William Gibson. (Written, or more accurately typed, on an old Underwood manual.)

You don't need the latest and greatest wizz-bang tech to have one hell of an imagination. :-)

I have a podcast about Paul Otlet and his vision for a kind of Google years before there was even an internet.

Street Fighter IV for PC has had a pretty strong mod community.
Many sites like this one have existed since it's release.

By the way, if you dislike Objective C, try these Javascript frameworks for iPhone development: Titanium (which is cross-platform to some extent with Android) and PhoneGap.

This makes life as easy as navigator.camera.getPicture(getPicture_Success, null, options);

Well, there's another prediction from David Brin's Earth down. http://earthbydavidbrin.pbworks.com/Predictions

As someone who uses the Menlo Park TechShop, a few comments.

It's a very broad shop. It's not the only public shop in Silicon Valley. If you want to do electronics, Hacker Dojo has better workstations, where surface-mount work is possible. If you're building furniture, The Sawdust Shop has a better wood shop. But TechShop has both sewing machines and CNC milling machines, a stereolithography machine and a plasma cutter, which you usually don't find under one roof.

There are Silicon Valley companies which buy memberships and send their employees over to use the machine tools. The four big manual Bridgeport mills, the big lathes, and the stereolithography machine are usually being used by pros. TechShop gives classes constantly, but most of the people who use TechShop already have considerable familiarity with tools. They just need access to the bigger machines. It's a good place to learn how to use CNC machine tools. CNC software is quite good today, and TechShop has reasonable midrange CNC design software (Vectrix Cut2D/Cut3D, SolidWorks, etc.) installed on their rather sluggish Windows Vista desktop machines.

There's not much electronics and robotics work. Although TechShop gives Arduno programming classes, and people take them and build the projects, not much electronics gets built there. They have power supplies, meters, scopes, and soldering stations, but they're 1980s technology.

The most popular activity is cutting decorative patterns with the laser cutter. It's easy to do, and two laser cutters are busy doing it almost continuously. Those machines just need line art in CorelDraw; you don't have to learn SolidWorks or Vectrix and do real CNC programming. No one activity dominates, though; there are people building birdhouses and people building rocket engines.

We've already started working on the next version of the internet:
* making server based applications (like email and web apps) serverless (and free to host)
* making storage more accessible from anywhere
* making network apps scalable by default
* providing single sign-on across the whole net
* providing infrastructure to authenticate all messages

Read more at http://persistnet.pbworks.com/. Unfortunately a significant amount of the work is still in our staging area being prepped to be made public.

This looks like an attempt to monetize a botnet. What, exactly, do the people running their "client" get out of this? Do they know they're sucking bandwidth, and possibly being billed for it, on behalf of someone else?

I run a web spider of sorts. And I know the people who run a big search engine. Reading the web sites isn't the bottleneck. Analyzing the results and building the database is. Outsourcing the reading part doesn't buy you much. If this just did a crawl, it would be of very limited value. That's not what it does.

What they're really doing is offering a service that lets their customers run the customer's Java code on other people's machines in the botnet. That's worrisome. There are some security limits, which might even work. Supposedly, all the Java apps can do is look at crawled pages and phone results home. Right.

This thing uses the Plura botnet. "Plura® is a grid computing system. We contract with affiliates, who are owners of web pages, software, and other services, to distribute our grid computing code. We utilize the excess resources of peripheral computers that are browsing the internet when such browsing leads to a web page of one of our affiliates. That web page has imbedded code that allows the visitor to participate in the grid computing process. We also utilize embedded code in software and other services to allow such participation." Not good.

The main infection vector is apparently the Digsby chat client, which comes bundled with various crapware. The Digsby feature list does not mention that Plura is in their package.

This thing needs to be treated as hostile code by firewalls and virus scanners.

According to their Wiki - http://80legs.pbworks.com/FAQ#Howdoes80legswork - they do indeed honor robots.txt exclusions.

most of the anger is directed toward the music/movie industry's response to piracy- weaken/destroy fair use, demonize all p2p [possibly restricting its use in the future out of fear] suing people as a scare tactic, excessive/un-constitutional fines, DRMed media etc...

...I don't see why these tactics are unreasonable...

So, just so that you can protect your "copyrighted content" from being stolen by someone other than me, you believe that it is "reasonable" to use bogus or flawed "research" to fool the government into a) taking away my legal rights (fair use); b) criminalizing software that can be and is used for legal purposes (P2P); c) abuse our legal system (suing people as scare tactic/impose excessive/unconstitutional fines); and d) crippling your "copyrighted content" so that I cannot exercise my right of fair use after I have purchased your "copyrighted content" (DRM/refer back to a) )?

It is even more difficult to attach a value to the legitimate uses of file-sharing networks, but if you can point me at examples of how file-sharing systems have a positive economic impact on anyone, please let me know.

Really? So you don't see value in a content provider being able to reduce operating expenses by distributing their content via P2P? Just because you are too lazy to do a simple search using any common search engine doesn't mean such examples don't exist. And why exactly does it have to have a positive economic impact on anyone - why does it have to have any economic impact at all? There are many things that have neither a positive economic impact nor any economic impact whatsoever, should those be illegal too?

10 years? Here you go.

http://voice-of-reason.pbworks.com/f/CA-Ten%20year%20recidivism%20study%20CDCR%206-17-08.pdf

We bounce these guys back to jail for nitpicky violations of parole pretty much exclusively. A 3.38% cumulative recidivism rate for sex offenses is INSANELY low. The odds are probably much better that a slashdotter will commit a sex crime during that same time period.

betterunixthanunix (980855) is willfully spreading misinformation either because he's a massive idiot or because he has some kind of agenda.