Yeah, that's bullshit. For starters, a scientist can contribute to the scientific output of his laboratory/department even without having his name in the author's list. Secondly, experiments can fail - there is no guarantee associated with scientific experiments, and failure is comonplace, and part of scientific life. Thirdly, not all research takes the same amount of time to complete. Some takes longer, other takes less time, and the papers produced could be numerous or very few per unit time. Finally, forcing people into publishing or losing their jobs will achieve the unwanted result of having lots of mediocre papers, instead of a few good ones.
Still, with so many people involved, it seems likely a few people would be blinded if the lasers used were visible light.
A laser does not need be in the visible spectrum to blind you. When you work in an ambient with laser ablation stations of any wavelength, you need protective goggles.
Yeah, I read your "lose lose" post - and found it stupid and uninformed. Sorry, but you didn't understand the first thing of what is going on, wrote a post that a few pathetic idiots modded up - but that doesn't mean it's relevant to the discussion at hand.
...but I'll give it a pass, like I did since 2009, the last time I visited the USA. Please do not get me wrong: I enjoyed my time in Washington DC a lot! It was great, but getting there and getting back home involved truly unpleasant encounters with TSA officers. And I am not too easily frightened of security checks, because I had no issues with the security procedures at Ben Gurion Airport. But there I had the impression I was talking with (not just interrogated by) intelligent humans, and not morons with too much power.
BTW, the same conference was held in Seoul last year, and it was a blast.
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I guess what you're ordering is a photocopy? The original Penguin Science News booklet is hard to find nowadays (*because* of the Turing article).
Yes, Saudi Arabia is the exception. And Malaysia, since they're extradating the guy for what shouldn't even be a crime. OK; so Saudi Arabia and Malaysia are the exceptions.
I could go on, I really could, but I think I already made my point: you can excuse us, uninformed outsiders, when we make the broad conclusion that Islam is fucked up, generally speaking.
As for cables, the only real difference between cheap/expensive cables is how long they last. A cheap cable will most likely not put up with much abuse where as an expensive cable is more robust.
Yeah, that $199 price sticker makes the cable automatically more robust. It's all in the price!
The difference between SJ and most people, not referenced in his report but available from anyone who ever worked closely with him, was that SJ was addicted to backstabbing even when it would hurt him as well. Do a favor for SJ? Either disappear immediately or count on him going out of his way to hurt you
Add the manipulation and the lying he was so good at, and what you get is a textbook psychopath. That's what Steve Jobs was.
Hey, what's the situation with Novell, nowadays? Whom do they belong? I heard they sold their IP to Microsoft, which made me sad. I was very much into Novell up until some 10-12 years ago. I still think Managewise and ZEnworks were excellent, and also NetWare 5. heck, I was quite fond of GroupWise as well, when the alternative was Lotus Notes :
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His full article, as published in Penguin Science News has 18 pages.
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We're going to protest on Saturday, in Helsinki, in spite of the cold. I hope that there would be at least about a hundred people, but I might be pleasantly surprised.
At any rate, I'll be there: one day my son could ask me what did I do while they were trying to silence the internet - and I don't want to have to say that I was just sitting around. Even if it's a lost battle, I owe it to him.
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Make public domain all his works. And I don't mean his manuscripts which are poorly catalogued and barely readable (and unpractical to read, as they are scanned as bitmaps). What I mean is, make public domain his published papers - all of them. It's a damn shame that in 2012 we still can't access his last paper "Solvable and unsolvable problems", published in Penguin Science News 31, in 1954!
And for those who don't know, "Solvable and unsolvable problems" may be Turing's most important work, one that casts a dark cloud over our misplaced certainties.
For a company full to the brim with extraordinarily smart and gifted people, Google sure is being.. less than cunning as of late. Sure, they may succeed, despite themselves, eventually, but fuck, it looks bad. The numerous screw-ups with Google+ come to mind, and then letting Microsoft collect "taxes" from nearly all Android licensees (and Google just sitting around with its dick in hand) and now this.
I look at these apparent mistakes, and kind of hope there is some diabolic plan in place at Google, but the more I observe, the more it looks like good-old stupidity taking hold.
I'm in agreement with all you said. I just want to point this one out:
Frankly I'm amazed we haven't had some nutjob set off a nuke yet as the gun design is VERY crude and with the fall of the USSR there have been plenty of reports of shit just turning up gone.
To be honest, this should keep some people up at night. Someone with enough money and connections could have picked up enough Russian U235 by now. Likely? Maybe not highly, but absolutely possible. The Russians really did steal shit left and right during the disintegration of the USSR.
All to often management is willing to accept the mistakes new people are going to make simply because it helps the bottom line short term. You layoff an experienced engineer making $150,000 and replace him with a fresh out of college guy making $60,000. In the short term the manager cuts the cost of his division and looks more profitable. If they have costs later on because of some problem that the more experienced guy would have simply avoided so what. By the time that happens the manager who made the decision will have usually pocketed his bonuses and moved on. So it is the next guy who is suddenly stuck fixing whatever went wrong. From my point of view this is just more of the same MBA mentality that is one of the factors wrecking American business.
This is absolutely, totally and utterly true. I have seen this happening dozens of times while I worked at Nokia. Yes, there have been corporate psychopaths in Nokia, too. They move on before the damage is apparent, and sometimes they move within Nokia, as they feel powerful enough to muddy up the proofs of their past ineptitude (or malice). Those guys are true pieces of work.
I talked with the researchers involved with Folding@Home, and they told me that indeed, processing power is at least partly used to research Tau protein misfolding.
So, if you want to do something good for your future (since there is a good chance you'll be hit by Alzheimer's if you live long enough), I suggest contributing your CPU and graphics cards cycles to Folding@Home.
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Thank you. I was mostly interested in the CONUS stuff, though.
Yeah, that's bullshit. For starters, a scientist can contribute to the scientific output of his laboratory/department even without having his name in the author's list. Secondly, experiments can fail - there is no guarantee associated with scientific experiments, and failure is comonplace, and part of scientific life. Thirdly, not all research takes the same amount of time to complete. Some takes longer, other takes less time, and the papers produced could be numerous or very few per unit time. Finally, forcing people into publishing or losing their jobs will achieve the unwanted result of having lots of mediocre papers, instead of a few good ones.
Still, with so many people involved, it seems likely a few people would be blinded if the lasers used were visible light.
A laser does not need be in the visible spectrum to blind you. When you work in an ambient with laser ablation stations of any wavelength, you need protective goggles.
There are in fact a good number of warheads buried in inaccessible locations because of aircraft mishaps, including a few in the CONUS.
Could you kindly tell me more about this?
Pure accident. Someone goofed.
That must have been akin to the "million monkeys million typewriters"-scenario. Eventually they will write "War and peace".
Or a sensible law.
Yeah, I read your "lose lose" post - and found it stupid and uninformed. Sorry, but you didn't understand the first thing of what is going on, wrote a post that a few pathetic idiots modded up - but that doesn't mean it's relevant to the discussion at hand.
"It was a blast"? Sorry sir, we aren't going to allow you to enter our country...
Well played Mr. Anonymous Coward, well played.
For those wondering, this is the reference.
...but I'll give it a pass, like I did since 2009, the last time I visited the USA. Please do not get me wrong: I enjoyed my time in Washington DC a lot! It was great, but getting there and getting back home involved truly unpleasant encounters with TSA officers. And I am not too easily frightened of security checks, because I had no issues with the security procedures at Ben Gurion Airport. But there I had the impression I was talking with (not just interrogated by) intelligent humans, and not morons with too much power.
BTW, the same conference was held in Seoul last year, and it was a blast.
I guess what you're ordering is a photocopy? The original Penguin Science News booklet is hard to find nowadays (*because* of the Turing article).
On the face of it, this seems like a common sense piece of legislation that benefits everyone and not just the corporations.
How the fuck did that happen?
Yes, Saudi Arabia is the exception. And Malaysia, since they're extradating the guy for what shouldn't even be a crime. OK; so Saudi Arabia and Malaysia are the exceptions.
And Pakistan, since there blasphemy is punishable by death.
Alright, the Musim world is fine with these three minor exceptions, namely Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Pakistan.
Oh, and Iran, whee you can be sentenced to death for apostasy.
I could go on, I really could, but I think I already made my point: you can excuse us, uninformed outsiders, when we make the broad conclusion that Islam is fucked up, generally speaking.
My previous reply to this comment was modded down, but that's OK, because thanks to the respondents, it still got the message through alright.
For the record, I stated that "Add the manipulation and the lying he was so good at, and what you get is a textbook psychopath."
I forgot to mention his habitual parking in the disabled's spot. Textbooks psychopath indeed.
A frivolous patent troll's suit is stricken down in a Texas court?
What is the world coming to??
As for cables, the only real difference between cheap/expensive cables is how long they last. A cheap cable will most likely not put up with much abuse where as an expensive cable is more robust.
Yeah, that $199 price sticker makes the cable automatically more robust. It's all in the price!
As for the rest of your comments, You Are Not So Smart!
The difference between SJ and most people, not referenced in his report but available from anyone who ever worked closely with him, was that SJ was addicted to backstabbing even when it would hurt him as well. Do a favor for SJ? Either disappear immediately or count on him going out of his way to hurt you
Add the manipulation and the lying he was so good at, and what you get is a textbook psychopath. That's what Steve Jobs was.
Hey, what's the situation with Novell, nowadays? Whom do they belong? I heard they sold their IP to Microsoft, which made me sad. I was very much into Novell up until some 10-12 years ago. I still think Managewise and ZEnworks were excellent, and also NetWare 5. heck, I was quite fond of GroupWise as well, when the alternative was Lotus Notes :
His full article, as published in Penguin Science News has 18 pages.
No, the full article has 18 pages.
too!
We're going to protest on Saturday, in Helsinki, in spite of the cold. I hope that there would be at least about a hundred people, but I might be pleasantly surprised.
At any rate, I'll be there: one day my son could ask me what did I do while they were trying to silence the internet - and I don't want to have to say that I was just sitting around. Even if it's a lost battle, I owe it to him.
Make public domain all his works. And I don't mean his manuscripts which are poorly catalogued and barely readable (and unpractical to read, as they are scanned as bitmaps). What I mean is, make public domain his published papers - all of them. It's a damn shame that in 2012 we still can't access his last paper "Solvable and unsolvable problems", published in Penguin Science News 31, in 1954!
And for those who don't know, "Solvable and unsolvable problems" may be Turing's most important work, one that casts a dark cloud over our misplaced certainties.
For a company full to the brim with extraordinarily smart and gifted people, Google sure is being.. less than cunning as of late. Sure, they may succeed, despite themselves, eventually, but fuck, it looks bad. The numerous screw-ups with Google+ come to mind, and then letting Microsoft collect "taxes" from nearly all Android licensees (and Google just sitting around with its dick in hand) and now this.
I look at these apparent mistakes, and kind of hope there is some diabolic plan in place at Google, but the more I observe, the more it looks like good-old stupidity taking hold.
I'm in agreement with all you said. I just want to point this one out:
Frankly I'm amazed we haven't had some nutjob set off a nuke yet as the gun design is VERY crude and with the fall of the USSR there have been plenty of reports of shit just turning up gone.
To be honest, this should keep some people up at night. Someone with enough money and connections could have picked up enough Russian U235 by now. Likely? Maybe not highly, but absolutely possible. The Russians really did steal shit left and right during the disintegration of the USSR.
All to often management is willing to accept the mistakes new people are going to make simply because it helps the bottom line short term. You layoff an experienced engineer making $150,000 and replace him with a fresh out of college guy making $60,000. In the short term the manager cuts the cost of his division and looks more profitable. If they have costs later on because of some problem that the more experienced guy would have simply avoided so what. By the time that happens the manager who made the decision will have usually pocketed his bonuses and moved on. So it is the next guy who is suddenly stuck fixing whatever went wrong. From my point of view this is just more of the same MBA mentality that is one of the factors wrecking American business.
This is absolutely, totally and utterly true. I have seen this happening dozens of times while I worked at Nokia. Yes, there have been corporate psychopaths in Nokia, too. They move on before the damage is apparent, and sometimes they move within Nokia, as they feel powerful enough to muddy up the proofs of their past ineptitude (or malice). Those guys are true pieces of work.
I talked with the researchers involved with Folding@Home, and they told me that indeed, processing power is at least partly used to research Tau protein misfolding.
So, if you want to do something good for your future (since there is a good chance you'll be hit by Alzheimer's if you live long enough), I suggest contributing your CPU and graphics cards cycles to Folding@Home.