they don't need to be omniscient to be a threat to the public. all they need to do is be able to go after enough people to make the public think twice about challenging them.
It wasn't 20 seconds, it was 20 minutes. Technically Bellkor won the prize by virtue of reaching the target first and technically their competitor did beat them by a hair's width but not before the goal was reached and that was apparently the goal of the competition.
The big lesson for me was that most of those collaborations don't work."
Setting an arbitrary goal that only.2% of competitors could meet does not mean that most collaborations don't work. If 90% of the teams met the target, you probably wouldn't be so quick to claim that the vast majority of collaborations do work but rather that the goal wasn't high enough.
At least smoke signals were probably only used by people who understood how to use them properly, you can't say the same about cursive hand writing. That is why it is often banned from being used to sign your name on documents. People are expected to have good penmanship and frankly most people's cursive is atrocious.
am not sure students have a sense of any reason why they should vest their time and effort in writing a message out manually when it can be sent electronically in seconds.'"
Well they have a point. If it is faster, cleaner and generally more efficient to type a message, why should they be required not to type but instead produce an inconsistent, generally lower quality hand written version? I suppose if your printer/computer are broken then hand writing is better but that is because you don't have the ability to create a typed copy, same as if you didn't have a pen or pencil to write out a message. Let students use the skills they have to do the best job they can and don't try to force them to learn a skill that the vast majority will inevitably learn poorly. (see previous post about cursive penmanship) Nostalgia for the old days when computers did not exist and students had no other choice is irrational.
when the law starts making tools illegal rather than going after the "crime" it becomes pre-crime: presumption of guilt by possession regardless of actual guilt. anyone that uses WOW, linux isos, ADV anime promotional materials (they use p2p to avertise their material), distribution of public domain/creative commons material etc. will lose out because the legal system chose to set a catch all trap to stop the evil pirates. the problem is that it is ineffective, feeds contempt for the law and negatively impacts people few or not that use p2p for its legal uses. it has gotten to the point where it isn't enough for these companies to sue actual infringers, now they're going after potential infringers wholesale. there is no justice in that, it is indefensible.
Ruining someone's life for 2-4 years because the Brazilian court system is dabbling in pre-crime... Kind of makes you wonder why society considers the copyright system an equitable trade...
Another instrument has returned hints of water ice in some of these cold spots,... but it also showed signs of water ice in impossibly hot places, too.'" I wonder how much of that water is actually hydrated/hydrogen impregnated minerals and hydroxide compounds which probably are not lost as easily as water. Especially considering that their instruments detect the signature of hydrogen and the assumption is that it is chemically bound in water ice.
what business is it of the government whether or not there is a "balance of viewpoints?" how would it be enforceable and who would decide what "balance" means? Don't like what Fox news is spewing? Good. You can think for yourself. Change the channel.
just because they say they're going to do it is no guarantee that it will benefit us. the real problems which allow these carriers to be discriminative still exist. that is to say that local monopolies, fraud and such still exist.
if firefox is shielded from these export restrictions because of first amendment protection wouldn't any open source implementation of strong encryption also be protected? wouldn't this make those export restrictions very nearly mute?
does anyone else find it odd that the real damage was done to the patients and yet the hospital is being compensated for damages and not the patients? wouldn't the hospital also be liable for the damages considering that theri IT department failed to put up reasonable protection?
if it were not for the possibility that they'll just buy a few more congress critters and subsidize themselves I'd say we let the industry go ahead and commit ritual suicide and finally be done with the RIAA and friends once and for all.
many plastics can't be recycled due to the nature of the bonds made between polymer molecules... these are probably what they are aiming to use to make fuel. there isn't much else you can do with them other than watch them sit there in the nearest garbage heap for the next few centuries..
I would guess that the high sulfur content did them in once we adopted stricter regulations. that or the catalysts got poisoned too quickly by the sulfur...
I am guessing that the people who got infected probably saw the "you're infected" page as being normal [per earlier slashdot article] and once they realized they couldn't go anywhere else they blamed the ISP for it and went elsewhere.
There is no way to make the decision popular without compromising on proper science.
I disagree... strongly... From my experience with the public one of the biggest problems facing the public's understanding and scientific interest lie in the poor teaching methods used to educate them in the sciences. Everyone is taught about science in a very similar way, as if doing so makes sense... I've got news for you- not everyone relates to the sciences in the same way and the monolithic teaching methods used in their education are largely to blame. Worse yet, the educational system discourages experimentation, working at your own pace and independent learning styles. THe teaching of science is like a chore to most peopel because it is taught in such a way as to be a chore. It is no wonder then why there is little interest in science by the public; the learning of proper science is discouraged, the independent thinking that underlies good science eroded away and the entire concept treated as boring and monotonous.
a big part of the problem I suspect is that people don't get to do much science around the house or at school. I suspect that if they were actually allowed/encouraged to do so you would see a rapid increase in the public's interest in science. unfortunately, DIY science has been under attack for quite some time in the home and in the school system its self. mostly in the name of safety... The proper response to safety concerns would be to educate the public on relevant safety practices rather than ban or severely limit scientific experimentation by the public. It would also help to show how the sciences are relevant to everyone's every day lives. Much of the reason the public's interest in the sciences is lower than it could be is that they do not see why knowing basic science is useful to them. It has to be more expansive than "because it will create jobs" which it will certainly but the immediate impact of the sciences must be emphasized.
Don't forget that the bubbles exist only because the cheap credit allowed them to exist. Take a look at the major bubbles and their collapse. what preceeded them was cheap credit doled out by the federal reserve followed by a constriction.
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they can if they are the only ones with defensive weapons.
they don't need to be omniscient to be a threat to the public. all they need to do is be able to go after enough people to make the public think twice about challenging them.
It's one thing for companies in a fairly diverse competitive market to do this, it's quite another when a convicted monopolist does it.
It wasn't 20 seconds, it was 20 minutes. Technically Bellkor won the prize by virtue of reaching the target first and technically their competitor did beat them by a hair's width but not before the goal was reached and that was apparently the goal of the competition.
Setting an arbitrary goal that only .2% of competitors could meet does not mean that most collaborations don't work. If 90% of the teams met the target, you probably wouldn't be so quick to claim that the vast majority of collaborations do work but rather that the goal wasn't high enough.
At least smoke signals were probably only used by people who understood how to use them properly, you can't say the same about cursive hand writing. That is why it is often banned from being used to sign your name on documents. People are expected to have good penmanship and frankly most people's cursive is atrocious.
Well they have a point. If it is faster, cleaner and generally more efficient to type a message, why should they be required not to type but instead produce an inconsistent, generally lower quality hand written version? I suppose if your printer/computer are broken then hand writing is better but that is because you don't have the ability to create a typed copy, same as if you didn't have a pen or pencil to write out a message. Let students use the skills they have to do the best job they can and don't try to force them to learn a skill that the vast majority will inevitably learn poorly. (see previous post about cursive penmanship) Nostalgia for the old days when computers did not exist and students had no other choice is irrational.
take a look at my posts.
when the law starts making tools illegal rather than going after the "crime" it becomes pre-crime: presumption of guilt by possession regardless of actual guilt. anyone that uses WOW, linux isos, ADV anime promotional materials (they use p2p to avertise their material), distribution of public domain/creative commons material etc. will lose out because the legal system chose to set a catch all trap to stop the evil pirates. the problem is that it is ineffective, feeds contempt for the law and negatively impacts people few or not that use p2p for its legal uses. it has gotten to the point where it isn't enough for these companies to sue actual infringers, now they're going after potential infringers wholesale. there is no justice in that, it is indefensible.
Ruining someone's life for 2-4 years because the Brazilian court system is dabbling in pre-crime... Kind of makes you wonder why society considers the copyright system an equitable trade...
mute/moot; It's a nasty habit.
According to wikipedia even pluto is 43 degrees kelvin. the sun shines enough even out that far that pluto is 40 degrees warmer than the CBR.
what business is it of the government whether or not there is a "balance of viewpoints?" how would it be enforceable and who would decide what "balance" means? Don't like what Fox news is spewing? Good. You can think for yourself. Change the channel.
just because they say they're going to do it is no guarantee that it will benefit us. the real problems which allow these carriers to be discriminative still exist. that is to say that local monopolies, fraud and such still exist.
if firefox is shielded from these export restrictions because of first amendment protection wouldn't any open source implementation of strong encryption also be protected? wouldn't this make those export restrictions very nearly mute?
does anyone else find it odd that the real damage was done to the patients and yet the hospital is being compensated for damages and not the patients? wouldn't the hospital also be liable for the damages considering that theri IT department failed to put up reasonable protection?
if it were not for the possibility that they'll just buy a few more congress critters and subsidize themselves I'd say we let the industry go ahead and commit ritual suicide and finally be done with the RIAA and friends once and for all.
many plastics can't be recycled due to the nature of the bonds made between polymer molecules... these are probably what they are aiming to use to make fuel. there isn't much else you can do with them other than watch them sit there in the nearest garbage heap for the next few centuries..
I would guess that the high sulfur content did them in once we adopted stricter regulations. that or the catalysts got poisoned too quickly by the sulfur...
I am guessing that the people who got infected probably saw the "you're infected" page as being normal [per earlier slashdot article] and once they realized they couldn't go anywhere else they blamed the ISP for it and went elsewhere.
I don't think most people need to be educated against their will, in fact quite the opposite- the eucational system beats the curiosity out of them.
I disagree... strongly... From my experience with the public one of the biggest problems facing the public's understanding and scientific interest lie in the poor teaching methods used to educate them in the sciences. Everyone is taught about science in a very similar way, as if doing so makes sense... I've got news for you- not everyone relates to the sciences in the same way and the monolithic teaching methods used in their education are largely to blame. Worse yet, the educational system discourages experimentation, working at your own pace and independent learning styles. THe teaching of science is like a chore to most peopel because it is taught in such a way as to be a chore. It is no wonder then why there is little interest in science by the public; the learning of proper science is discouraged, the independent thinking that underlies good science eroded away and the entire concept treated as boring and monotonous.
a big part of the problem I suspect is that people don't get to do much science around the house or at school. I suspect that if they were actually allowed/encouraged to do so you would see a rapid increase in the public's interest in science. unfortunately, DIY science has been under attack for quite some time in the home and in the school system its self. mostly in the name of safety... The proper response to safety concerns would be to educate the public on relevant safety practices rather than ban or severely limit scientific experimentation by the public. It would also help to show how the sciences are relevant to everyone's every day lives. Much of the reason the public's interest in the sciences is lower than it could be is that they do not see why knowing basic science is useful to them. It has to be more expansive than "because it will create jobs" which it will certainly but the immediate impact of the sciences must be emphasized.
Don't forget that the bubbles exist only because the cheap credit allowed them to exist. Take a look at the major bubbles and their collapse. what preceeded them was cheap credit doled out by the federal reserve followed by a constriction.