I mean in common treatment. Unless you complain about psychological issues (or act really really weird), you won't see anyone who really cares about your mental status. People with serious illnesses who go to modern medicine for treatment end up in a pharmacological & scientific world where their body will be scanned, probed, checked, double checked, analysed, etc.... they'll be given substances & treatments to cure whatever they find. But psychological assistance to go along with this just doesn't belong in that world it seems. You're here for cancer, not for feeling good about yourself. And i think we still vastly underestimate how much also feeling good actually helps us get trough things, and helps our body going in such grave situations.
I'm actually wondering what the result would be if they began implementing this.
From a pure biological point of view it's ofcourse pure bullshit.
But we can hardly deny that our current doctors just suck with the psychological side of feeling bad/illnesses. A lot of the power in "alternative medicine" is to support the people mentally, which as the placebo effect shows also helps quite a bit. It doesn't cure your cancer, but adding some spiritual side to the process that doesn't treat the people as patient #145563255 might actually give quite a positive result.
I think that no longer ignoring the psychological needs of people who are ill is one of the next big medical challenges. I've read people who fought cancer who said that the interaction with doctors & staff is also one of the hardest things. They seem to think you should be able to deal with all the shit that comes with it yourself and be fully informed and pay attention to every detail etc... while you're feeling like shit due to chemotherapy and are trying to resolve everything in your life before it's too late.
Now we seem to have 2 branches of "medicine". One that cures your body, but doesn't care much about your mind. And one that's full of "you should feel good and be happy" but doesn't know shit about your body (well, depending on the alternative medicine. there are some that do know some things, but still won't cure cancer).
Even more incredible is how the summary is written to make it sound a lot worse than it is. looking at the kickstarter page, the game reminds me a bit of aye evil overlord, passing the buck around, trying to get other people to explode. Sounds like fun. It's nothing like "take turns drawing cards until someone draws an exploding kitten and loses the game.". You can make anything sound bad by taking a single sentence out of context. There are cards to prevent exploding, to pass exploding cards to other players, etc...
Sounds like fun:).
I'm really starting to wonder why i'm still on this site. Even more than it used to be, it's just a stream of clickbait and articles containing half truths just to make it sound controversial...
It's even better than this, the mic apparantly is only on when you press the voice command button to make the tv listen to a voice command. The mic is only on for a short period when you ask it explicitly. Then it sends whatever you said to the speech recognition server (just like every other speech recognition system atm), and the tv will get an answer as to what it's supposed to do.
The reason they have this in their terms and conditions is because the tv doesn't know what it'll send when you push that button, so it could be personal information. They're just covering their asses. And i would never use such a system, but i'm wondering what the big value is of encrypting data that would probably just contain someone saying "channel 77" or whatever the voice commands like that are.
This is just a lot of fuss about nothing, and a lot of people complaining because the summary makes it sound far worse than it actually is... The first article was ridiculous. Ofcourse the voice commands get sent to a third party service. That's also how siri and whatever other such systems exist work. And it's not always on, you have to request it via the remote. So there's no privacy implication at all... It's just covering their asses. And now it's that this data, which is very very unlikely to be sensitive isn't encrypted. If the hackers want to hear people name channels and other commands from the users of said tv's... good for them.
I can't deduce from the article how it works with these tv's. But even if it has that feature, it's bound to fail from time to time, and send personal conversations to its server. So even with that feature i would expect the EULA to mention this.
I'm also wondering the same for when i'll buy my next tv. I don't want some smart tv, but will i find something decent that is not smart? I would love high end dumb a as a brick tv's/screens, but us technical minded folks are probably a minority? I can't really imagine who uses the smart tv functionalities. All i've seen from it so far is tv's being able to play a lot of files, but still a lot of other files don't work for any number of reasons. They'll support a lot of services, probably not all the ones you want. Maybe you can browse the internet on them. On a strange browser, and after you've seen it work an though "this is great" you'll never do it again since your pc is way superior to it. Maybe i'm just not the average consumer XD.
how is it remotely avoidable when your tv has voice recognition? like systems like siri it'll send it off to a remote server for analysis and to see what it has to do:). It will pick up random conversations and try to see if it's a command. I'm not endorsing things like this, i would never want a smart tv, i'll attach a htpc or raspberry pi or whatever to it if i want such features. But i can understand that things like that are pretty unavoidable with voice commands, and don't sound that much like a spying nightmare, just a logical result of voice recognition...
i'm wondering, can there be anything in there that justifies this cost? most of the hardware isn't stellar (the software is android, probably not the fastest chip, some decent batteries and screen on it, some audiodecoding software that is probably already available for all android devices) So all that is left is the hardware for actually creating the audio signal, which should be worth a lot in this thing, is there really hardware that is so suberb in quality that it's worth this price?
I just have to wonder if it's not just a PR stunt. These kind of threats from hackers does indeed sound unbelievable. Hacking a pc and setting up a terrorist strike are quite different skill sets. Am i the only one wondering if this is just a hoax from Sony/the authorities to make people change their stance on the hacks? In the beginning everybody was like "serves them right". Now everybody is like "Omg, poor Sony, i would watch the movie if i could".
These threats seem like the best thing that could happen to them after the hack. I'm kind of wondering if it isn't a bit too convenient.
And if you don't want people to be able to use your site in different ways than you intended, don't put it on the internet. it's that simple:p.
It's always easy to say don't use something if you don't agree with it, but a lot of things are just too big to ignore and if you can just work around the issues and enjoy it how you want it, why the hell not?
Can you explain? what part of the.net collections would be lacking? If you see comparisons between.net and java, it's usually that the past 10 years.net has evolved and java sometimes catches up a tiny bit. I always thought that java collections were weaker since in.net even an array is also still a collection, they have collections for just about anything you need, and with LINQ you've got an incredibly powerful way of manipulating/creating/accessing collections.
Okay, and suppose you took this course and created your own roman numeral reader. How sure are you that they won't find something on the internet that is "too similar"? I agree it's important they learn to do their own work, but i would be wondering how high the odds are for false positives...
It's probably that students are unsure where the line is drawn. As mentioned in the article if you're working on a programming problem, it's natural these days that you look online when you're stuck on a problem, is this cheating? Also, there are only so many ways you can solve a problem (certainly small programming problems in courses). How sure are you that your solution isn't too similar to something someone put online somewhere, or another student who thought the same way you did? Even if you didn't actively cheat, depending on how this would be tested, a student should almost consider "confessing" just to be sure not to get expelled if similar code is found somewhere (and the internet is big...)
and if it's patented, i doubt the dirt cheap claim will become true anytime soon. why would they offer it dirt cheap if they can just make it a bit cheaper than current solutions and get a lot of profit
yup, and makes it seems as if they have something new. there are war plugins for minecraft, so it's not as if the real minecraft doesn't support this yet and if you want somewhat modern graphics instead of the wolfenstein 3D level of graphics, play shootmania or so. It also allows you to create your own FPS maps, and has normal graphics.
your only mistake is that the bittorrent user doesn't affect one other user, but all of the people on the public wifi. So it's one idiot ruining it for the entire cafe, vs one vigilante shutting him up. Yes it's a dirty trick, but it shouldn't be needed...
One situation that opened my eyes is what i heard from friends studying to be a doctor. When dealing with cancer patients, they get training in handling them. And it means looking at their record how the patient wants to be handled. And one of the options is the patient being in denial. They'll come to their appointments and have done what needs to be done, but the word cancer won't be mentioned, and they'll be there as if it's about the flu.
And personally, i've become self confident enough to not fall into this kind of denial, but if people are very insecure, they just shut themselves in on such moments, i would expect a lot of people on slashdot being like that. I know i used to, an threatening me would just shut me in more, and making it criminal even more. You're just getting such people stuck in a downward spiral out of which they don't see any escape.
If you think they don't give a fuck, i'm sure there are also people like that. But i find it a very easy stab at sometimes very insecure people. And making them feel bad just makes the situation worse (that's probably how it started in the first place).
i find it strange that people seem to think that even if he knew, he must be doing it on purpose. some people just go into denial if something like that (that is likely to kill you) happens others just completely get blocked mentally and don't dare to tell the truth because they know what will then happen.
We're not talking about robots that just without emotions can say yes or no you know. people don't always lie because they're evil masterminds bent on infecting the world.
yup, that's the big issue. People need to consume, so a led lamp that lives forever is just totally stupid to make better put some poor electronics behind it that'll burn out a bit after the warranty expires.
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I mean in common treatment. Unless you complain about psychological issues (or act really really weird), you won't see anyone who really cares about your mental status. People with serious illnesses who go to modern medicine for treatment end up in a pharmacological & scientific world where their body will be scanned, probed, checked, double checked, analysed, etc.... they'll be given substances & treatments to cure whatever they find. But psychological assistance to go along with this just doesn't belong in that world it seems. You're here for cancer, not for feeling good about yourself.
And i think we still vastly underestimate how much also feeling good actually helps us get trough things, and helps our body going in such grave situations.
I'm actually wondering what the result would be if they began implementing this.
From a pure biological point of view it's ofcourse pure bullshit.
But we can hardly deny that our current doctors just suck with the psychological side of feeling bad/illnesses. A lot of the power in "alternative medicine" is to support the people mentally, which as the placebo effect shows also helps quite a bit. It doesn't cure your cancer, but adding some spiritual side to the process that doesn't treat the people as patient #145563255 might actually give quite a positive result.
I think that no longer ignoring the psychological needs of people who are ill is one of the next big medical challenges. I've read people who fought cancer who said that the interaction with doctors & staff is also one of the hardest things. They seem to think you should be able to deal with all the shit that comes with it yourself and be fully informed and pay attention to every detail etc... while you're feeling like shit due to chemotherapy and are trying to resolve everything in your life before it's too late.
Now we seem to have 2 branches of "medicine". One that cures your body, but doesn't care much about your mind. And one that's full of "you should feel good and be happy" but doesn't know shit about your body (well, depending on the alternative medicine. there are some that do know some things, but still won't cure cancer).
Even more incredible is how the summary is written to make it sound a lot worse than it is.
looking at the kickstarter page, the game reminds me a bit of aye evil overlord, passing the buck around, trying to get other people to explode. Sounds like fun. It's nothing like "take turns drawing cards until someone draws an exploding kitten and loses the game.". You can make anything sound bad by taking a single sentence out of context. There are cards to prevent exploding, to pass exploding cards to other players, etc...
Sounds like fun :).
I'm really starting to wonder why i'm still on this site. Even more than it used to be, it's just a stream of clickbait and articles containing half truths just to make it sound controversial...
It's even better than this, the mic apparantly is only on when you press the voice command button to make the tv listen to a voice command. The mic is only on for a short period when you ask it explicitly. Then it sends whatever you said to the speech recognition server (just like every other speech recognition system atm), and the tv will get an answer as to what it's supposed to do.
The reason they have this in their terms and conditions is because the tv doesn't know what it'll send when you push that button, so it could be personal information. They're just covering their asses. And i would never use such a system, but i'm wondering what the big value is of encrypting data that would probably just contain someone saying "channel 77" or whatever the voice commands like that are.
This is just a lot of fuss about nothing, and a lot of people complaining because the summary makes it sound far worse than it actually is...
The first article was ridiculous. Ofcourse the voice commands get sent to a third party service. That's also how siri and whatever other such systems exist work. And it's not always on, you have to request it via the remote. So there's no privacy implication at all... It's just covering their asses.
And now it's that this data, which is very very unlikely to be sensitive isn't encrypted. If the hackers want to hear people name channels and other commands from the users of said tv's... good for them.
I can't deduce from the article how it works with these tv's.
But even if it has that feature, it's bound to fail from time to time, and send personal conversations to its server. So even with that feature i would expect the EULA to mention this.
I'm also wondering the same for when i'll buy my next tv. I don't want some smart tv, but will i find something decent that is not smart? I would love high end dumb a as a brick tv's/screens, but us technical minded folks are probably a minority? I can't really imagine who uses the smart tv functionalities. All i've seen from it so far is tv's being able to play a lot of files, but still a lot of other files don't work for any number of reasons. They'll support a lot of services, probably not all the ones you want. Maybe you can browse the internet on them. On a strange browser, and after you've seen it work an though "this is great" you'll never do it again since your pc is way superior to it.
Maybe i'm just not the average consumer XD.
how is it remotely avoidable when your tv has voice recognition? like systems like siri it'll send it off to a remote server for analysis and to see what it has to do :). It will pick up random conversations and try to see if it's a command. I'm not endorsing things like this, i would never want a smart tv, i'll attach a htpc or raspberry pi or whatever to it if i want such features. But i can understand that things like that are pretty unavoidable with voice commands, and don't sound that much like a spying nightmare, just a logical result of voice recognition...
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i'm wondering, can there be anything in there that justifies this cost?
most of the hardware isn't stellar (the software is android, probably not the fastest chip, some decent batteries and screen on it, some audiodecoding software that is probably already available for all android devices)
So all that is left is the hardware for actually creating the audio signal, which should be worth a lot in this thing, is there really hardware that is so suberb in quality that it's worth this price?
Do we really need clickbait titles like "disco clam" on slashdot...
I just have to wonder if it's not just a PR stunt.
These kind of threats from hackers does indeed sound unbelievable. Hacking a pc and setting up a terrorist strike are quite different skill sets.
Am i the only one wondering if this is just a hoax from Sony/the authorities to make people change their stance on the hacks? In the beginning everybody was like "serves them right". Now everybody is like "Omg, poor Sony, i would watch the movie if i could".
These threats seem like the best thing that could happen to them after the hack. I'm kind of wondering if it isn't a bit too convenient.
And if you don't want people to be able to use your site in different ways than you intended, don't put it on the internet. it's that simple :p.
It's always easy to say don't use something if you don't agree with it, but a lot of things are just too big to ignore and if you can just work around the issues and enjoy it how you want it, why the hell not?
no, he means a CEO :)
Can you explain? what part of the .net collections would be lacking? .net and java, it's usually that the past 10 years .net has evolved and java sometimes catches up a tiny bit. .net even an array is also still a collection, they have collections for just about anything you need, and with LINQ you've got an incredibly powerful way of manipulating/creating/accessing collections.
If you see comparisons between
I always thought that java collections were weaker since in
Okay, and suppose you took this course and created your own roman numeral reader. How sure are you that they won't find something on the internet that is "too similar"?
I agree it's important they learn to do their own work, but i would be wondering how high the odds are for false positives...
It's probably that students are unsure where the line is drawn.
As mentioned in the article if you're working on a programming problem, it's natural these days that you look online when you're stuck on a problem, is this cheating?
Also, there are only so many ways you can solve a problem (certainly small programming problems in courses). How sure are you that your solution isn't too similar to something someone put online somewhere, or another student who thought the same way you did?
Even if you didn't actively cheat, depending on how this would be tested, a student should almost consider "confessing" just to be sure not to get expelled if similar code is found somewhere (and the internet is big...)
and if it's patented, i doubt the dirt cheap claim will become true anytime soon.
why would they offer it dirt cheap if they can just make it a bit cheaper than current solutions and get a lot of profit
you mean how we see the universe? because i doubt the universe cares much about the data we generate....
it will be 2 hours now?
yup, and makes it seems as if they have something new.
there are war plugins for minecraft, so it's not as if the real minecraft doesn't support this yet
and if you want somewhat modern graphics instead of the wolfenstein 3D level of graphics, play shootmania or so. It also allows you to create your own FPS maps, and has normal graphics.
but you forgot, it's authorized. they clearly stated it in their EULA!
what do you mean you didn't read it?
your only mistake is that the bittorrent user doesn't affect one other user, but all of the people on the public wifi.
So it's one idiot ruining it for the entire cafe, vs one vigilante shutting him up.
Yes it's a dirty trick, but it shouldn't be needed...
One situation that opened my eyes is what i heard from friends studying to be a doctor. When dealing with cancer patients, they get training in handling them. And it means looking at their record how the patient wants to be handled. And one of the options is the patient being in denial. They'll come to their appointments and have done what needs to be done, but the word cancer won't be mentioned, and they'll be there as if it's about the flu.
And personally, i've become self confident enough to not fall into this kind of denial, but if people are very insecure, they just shut themselves in on such moments, i would expect a lot of people on slashdot being like that. I know i used to, an threatening me would just shut me in more, and making it criminal even more. You're just getting such people stuck in a downward spiral out of which they don't see any escape.
If you think they don't give a fuck, i'm sure there are also people like that. But i find it a very easy stab at sometimes very insecure people. And making them feel bad just makes the situation worse (that's probably how it started in the first place).
i find it strange that people seem to think that even if he knew, he must be doing it on purpose.
some people just go into denial if something like that (that is likely to kill you) happens
others just completely get blocked mentally and don't dare to tell the truth because they know what will then happen.
We're not talking about robots that just without emotions can say yes or no you know.
people don't always lie because they're evil masterminds bent on infecting the world.
yup, that's the big issue. People need to consume, so a led lamp that lives forever is just totally stupid to make
better put some poor electronics behind it that'll burn out a bit after the warranty expires.