It is not the neo-cons that we have to worry about. It is which oligarchs have the reins of which legislators and judges. It is beginning to look like the oligarchs that control the Obama group are going to take our intellectual and cultural freedoms from us, in addition to our constitutional freedoms.
FTFY
Anyone who still thinks that Obama and the rest of his administration will suddenly revert course on constitutional freedoms from the last 8 years has been living under a rock since the Inauguration. He is a politician. Politicians like power. They, repubs and dems, are not going to remove some law in place that benefits them, even if the other side used it first.
For myself, no I do not think "it's Bush's fault." Neither do I think it is Clinton's. Though both men, as president, along with every other president (and Congress Critter) since the end of the Nineteenth Century, have contributed to the mess we are in, last time I checked the citizens of this country were the ones who decided who filled those chairs. Therefore, in my opinion, whoever voted for them, or has supported the two-party system that guarantees that your choices are "Stupid, or Useless" is the sheeple you need to look at for fault.
Yes, but without looking at the specs, I would imagine that if the technology is significantly different, Google would still be eligible for a patent. Especially so if they were aware of the "prior art" and took the necessary steps not to include language that would overlap. Though IANAL, nor am I a patent expert.
I think it is all up to interpretation, forgive the horrendous pun, it was the first thing that came to mind.
I have a working knowledge of English (I have been speaking it twenty-eight years), and at one point had a working knowledge of Spanish (no one around here speaks Castillian Spanish so sadly I have lost a significant amount). From a linguistic standpoint, I found that Spanish was a more concise language when I first studied it because of the simple fact that I was learning what small children would learn in Spain. As one grows, hopefully their command of the language grows. This results in being able to say the same thing in different ways. A native speaker of any language will likely find a new language to be more concise, until they have spent a significant amount of time learning the various idioms to express things differently.
Idioms and other figures of speech should not appear in development comments; the comment should be as concise as possible, while still explaining what the code is for.
For those that are wondering why this would scare me, coming from the perspective of search and rescue: Well-trained dogs who get the scent from something that the person they are searching for was physically touching at some point recent to the search, will hit on that person 999 times out of 1000. The prospect of a scent being put into a database to be pulled out by an algorithm leaves the possibility that there could be massive error before a dog ever gets to scent off of the sample. Or they could use a machine, and I for one do not trust a machine to be right 99.9 percent of the time, in a situation like this.
Um, no. Every creature on earth has an unique scent. Scent will actually come out of a human being, or other "game" in cone shaped form. This is why search and rescue units will work a patch of land moving in the expected cone shape (based on what the dog picks up) when trailing a victim in a search. I have done search and rescue and that is the logic they use because it works. The first thing they do when a new volunteer comes on is show them how it works. Tracking, what you were referring to, also uses the same concept but, with the individual scent being left by brushing against the ground itself.
I have seen a few companies here migrating from Access to MySQL with little difficulty. Obviously it is not a drop-in replacement, but the people I have heard of doing it say there is very little reconfiguration (in comparison to a rewrite from Access to OpenOffice).
The problem with this is that it is, as above noted, an anecdote. Therefore, I will reply with one of my own.
I went to the ER one night due to severe, stabbing pain in my right side. The doctor who saw me did not order any tests, told me I was constipated, and discharged me. My wife and I did not agree with this so she called another doctor she knew that was employed by the same hospital, who diagnosed it as likely gall bladder issues and ordered the tests to confirm. Less than 24 hours after going to the ER I was in emergency surgery for removal of a completely nonfunctioning gall bladder. Because the ER doctor was considered grossly negligent, the hospital, which did the surgery by the way, wrote off the entire bill, and after investigation of the ER doctor's past cases let him go.
Actually, 1 is the country code for both the United States and Canada. Dialing a "1" plus the area code was necessary when phone switches did not have enough logic to know that dialing just 555-555-5555 meant that you actually wanted to call your mother in the next state. Now that you can run a phone switch on your desktop computer, a central office switch can make that connection with no problem.
DOD would use the Blackberry for an "unsecure" line. Standard phone etiquette starts with "unsecure line, so and so speaking." Reading the specs on the spectera, it has one important advantage over the Blackberry: It has native access to the SIPRNET. While I have concerns about any wireless technology being as secure as a landline. SIPRNET encryption is pretty solid. Of course only a select few (of which I am not one) would know if it was hacked.
While I understand your statement completely. I would like to remind you that not everyone in their 20s fell victim to that thought process. Again, when one is raised to be accountable by their parents, they will typically hold their children accountable. I have a 5 year old who has demonstrated enough proficiency on a computer to navigate to games and such. We have an older pc that I have set up for her running ubuntu that does not have an active network connection. When she needs something on it that requires network access I will install it myself, or she is sitting right next to me, if it happens to be an online game. As she gets older and matures, these restrictions will be lifted based on maturity level and discussion. I have no doubt that she will try to circumvent them in the mean time. As I happen to be a computer geek, hopefully I am ahead of the power curve on preventative measures. Though, at the same time, attempting to bypass network restrictions will be teaching her at the same time.
Having worked on HP printers for a number of years and seen the serial numbers (the first two characters are country code), only about a quarter of the printers I have worked on came from China. Most came from Japan or Malaysia.
I agree. TFA makes it sound as though they discovered a family from Lascaux. Various cultures have recorded histories of that time, and before. Granted, they were not nearly as polite, but at least, as is possibly the case here, you knew where you stood with everyone else rather quickly.
TFA places emphasis on the discovery of confirmed, genetically-related family, but, IMHO, the statements made show a bit of arrogance about how much better the archaeologist feels about today's society than the remnants of a society they unearthed.
I always expected all humans to be like that. The only definition of left or right handedness is, what is your default when there are no other variables.
I think this may be what you meant, if not here is my own definition, based on my observation of myself and two daughters (one of whom is very left-side dominant, while the other is moderately right-side dominant).
Handedness is determined by which hand a person uses when an option is given, i. e. which hand do you throw a ball with naturally. As a child, I would throw left-handed, even if someone put a ball in my right hand. My daughter who is left-side dominant is the same way.
When writing was big (dark ages/middle ages), writing used slow drying inks that would smudge if you wrote from right to left when using the "pen" right handed. So they started top left. The monks did the most writing, and they also did the most teaching, so naturally the way they did it predominated.
My daughter (left-handed), if a piece of paper and a pencil or crayon is sitting on the table, will 99.9% of the time pick up the utensil with her left hand and start coloring or writing with that hand. The only time she will not is if the pencil or whatever can not be reached left-handed. At which point she will pick it up with her right hand and move it to her left hand
I am not disagreeing with you, necessarily, just pointing out my own observations.
I would also like to point out that left-handed people are, typically, closer to ambidexterity than right-handed people. I was extremely left-side dominant as a small child, but, now I approach many tasks right handed. This would be a result of the estimation that ~90% of the world is right-side dominant.
As an example, biomechanically, using a screwdriver to drive a screw in left-handed is inefficient so I naturally at this point turn a screwdriver clockwise right-handed and counter-clockwise left-handed.
Actually, contrary to most Christian dogma, the Bible does imply a type of evolution. According to the modern conversions for the measurements for Noach's Ark, it would be about the size of a standard commercial barge. A vessel this size would not hold 1/100 of the land animals we see on Earth today.
The only way to reconcile a belief in the story of a flood as described in the Bible and the number of different animals is through some type of evolution of species.
Pointing this out to Christians puts them in a bit of a quandary because either they have to deny what the Bible says, or deny the belief in their own traditions.
And this is the reason people should learn to protect themselves. Kidnappers and other unsavory people tend to back off once the intended victim has demonstrated that they do not intend to go quietly. My wife would be more than happy to remove someone from the planet, rather than be taken somewhere unwillingly. A handgun (with the requisite training) and martial arts training tend to ensure a little bit more perseverance. It also helps a loved one's nerves.
Sun has talked about making it all GPLv3 if Linux takes their kernel GPLv3 as well. Linux would gain native ZFS in their kernel, but Sun would gain every device driver from Linux.
That is the point of FOSS, though, assuming the Linux kernel were migrated to GPLv3 and Sun migrated Solaris, ultimately, it would be a win/win situation for both sides.
I have run both OpenSolaris and Linux and found that, like any other quality OS, both have their positives and negatives, and preferred usages.
If both were licensed under GPLv3 individual positives, like ZFS and driver support, would then, potentially, start to be found in both OS's and individual negatives would decrease, making both Linux and Solaris better.
I, actually, agree with your statement. I was merely pointing out that splitting the classrooms down this 70/30 split would not be sufficient as there are many other issues that fall into the same arena of consideration if we are going to go down that path. For an individual there might be some overlap, but who knows? Definitely more study needs to be done before we would embark on a change in the educational system of this magnitude.
The knee-jerk reaction to this is to split the classes along this line, which as you say is not a bad start, but if it is not done with a solid plan in place for more diversification as more is learned about the brain, then it will accomplish very little long term.
Sadly, it is likely a moot point because of the red tape surrounding the educational system currently.
And it's not like we don't already have any examples of a single gene resulting in pretty drastic behavioral and cognitive effects.
What we do know is that who we are is a combination of many genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors. None of them fully explains who we are, but that doesn't mean that individual factors can't exert a strong force on who we are.
I will not disagree with that statement, in and of itself. I do, however, want to point out that the (potentially related) causes behind many of the aspects of who we are has not been determined.
Not in the case of your example, necessarily, but many of the current childhood disorders have some sort of genetic link that could, also, have a probability of occurring within the 70/30 split in TFA.
Without examining a potential link between two seemingly separate, but similiar, disorders, it is a fallacy to say that the disorders are, indeed, separate, and each possibly controlled by a single gene.
Unfortunately, it would not be a 70/30 split. If you begin to go down the path of who learns best in a given situation, neurotypicals would not survive in a classroom designed for people with an autism-spectrum disorder. People with ADD/ADHD would need their own prescribed teaching method, and so on. Some of each of the above likely fall on varying sides of the 70/30 split based on the logic that very few aspects of an individual human being's physiology and psychology are governed by one gene.
I would be interested to see how these genetic quirks link with the various psychological/neurological disorders that are already recognized, at which point maybe something logical can be done with their treatment.
What many seem to forget is that the entity using this is a part of the U. S. Government. Should they need anything newer than a 10 year old satellite photo, they can have them, easily. Given the people working at Oak Ridge, it should not be that difficult to incorporate the newer imagery.
Of course, you and I will not see it. If something requires posting images publicly they will revert to those 10 year old photos.
What we are witnessing is a combination of Wells' 1984 and Huxley's A Brave New World. The government has been moving to a police state for years, most Americans do not see this because they do not care about what is going on outside of their bubble.
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It is not the neo-cons that we have to worry about. It is which oligarchs have the reins of which legislators and judges. It is beginning to look like the oligarchs that control the Obama group are going to take our intellectual and cultural freedoms from us, in addition to our constitutional freedoms.
FTFY
Anyone who still thinks that Obama and the rest of his administration will suddenly revert course on constitutional freedoms from the last 8 years has been living under a rock since the Inauguration. He is a politician. Politicians like power. They, repubs and dems, are not going to remove some law in place that benefits them, even if the other side used it first.
If you are going to allude to the tool, you could at least let people know that it is an optical time domain reflectometer.
For myself, no I do not think "it's Bush's fault." Neither do I think it is Clinton's. Though both men, as president, along with every other president (and Congress Critter) since the end of the Nineteenth Century, have contributed to the mess we are in, last time I checked the citizens of this country were the ones who decided who filled those chairs. Therefore, in my opinion, whoever voted for them, or has supported the two-party system that guarantees that your choices are "Stupid, or Useless" is the sheeple you need to look at for fault.
Yes, but without looking at the specs, I would imagine that if the technology is significantly different, Google would still be eligible for a patent. Especially so if they were aware of the "prior art" and took the necessary steps not to include language that would overlap. Though IANAL, nor am I a patent expert.
I think it is all up to interpretation, forgive the horrendous pun, it was the first thing that came to mind. I have a working knowledge of English (I have been speaking it twenty-eight years), and at one point had a working knowledge of Spanish (no one around here speaks Castillian Spanish so sadly I have lost a significant amount). From a linguistic standpoint, I found that Spanish was a more concise language when I first studied it because of the simple fact that I was learning what small children would learn in Spain. As one grows, hopefully their command of the language grows. This results in being able to say the same thing in different ways. A native speaker of any language will likely find a new language to be more concise, until they have spent a significant amount of time learning the various idioms to express things differently. Idioms and other figures of speech should not appear in development comments; the comment should be as concise as possible, while still explaining what the code is for.
For those that are wondering why this would scare me, coming from the perspective of search and rescue: Well-trained dogs who get the scent from something that the person they are searching for was physically touching at some point recent to the search, will hit on that person 999 times out of 1000. The prospect of a scent being put into a database to be pulled out by an algorithm leaves the possibility that there could be massive error before a dog ever gets to scent off of the sample. Or they could use a machine, and I for one do not trust a machine to be right 99.9 percent of the time, in a situation like this.
Um, no. Every creature on earth has an unique scent. Scent will actually come out of a human being, or other "game" in cone shaped form. This is why search and rescue units will work a patch of land moving in the expected cone shape (based on what the dog picks up) when trailing a victim in a search. I have done search and rescue and that is the logic they use because it works. The first thing they do when a new volunteer comes on is show them how it works. Tracking, what you were referring to, also uses the same concept but, with the individual scent being left by brushing against the ground itself.
In a nutshell, this scares the hell out of me.
I have seen a few companies here migrating from Access to MySQL with little difficulty. Obviously it is not a drop-in replacement, but the people I have heard of doing it say there is very little reconfiguration (in comparison to a rewrite from Access to OpenOffice).
The problem with this is that it is, as above noted, an anecdote. Therefore, I will reply with one of my own.
I went to the ER one night due to severe, stabbing pain in my right side. The doctor who saw me did not order any tests, told me I was constipated, and discharged me. My wife and I did not agree with this so she called another doctor she knew that was employed by the same hospital, who diagnosed it as likely gall bladder issues and ordered the tests to confirm. Less than 24 hours after going to the ER I was in emergency surgery for removal of a completely nonfunctioning gall bladder. Because the ER doctor was considered grossly negligent, the hospital, which did the surgery by the way, wrote off the entire bill, and after investigation of the ER doctor's past cases let him go.
Actually, 1 is the country code for both the United States and Canada. Dialing a "1" plus the area code was necessary when phone switches did not have enough logic to know that dialing just 555-555-5555 meant that you actually wanted to call your mother in the next state. Now that you can run a phone switch on your desktop computer, a central office switch can make that connection with no problem.
DOD would use the Blackberry for an "unsecure" line. Standard phone etiquette starts with "unsecure line, so and so speaking." Reading the specs on the spectera, it has one important advantage over the Blackberry: It has native access to the SIPRNET. While I have concerns about any wireless technology being as secure as a landline. SIPRNET encryption is pretty solid. Of course only a select few (of which I am not one) would know if it was hacked.
While I understand your statement completely. I would like to remind you that not everyone in their 20s fell victim to that thought process. Again, when one is raised to be accountable by their parents, they will typically hold their children accountable. I have a 5 year old who has demonstrated enough proficiency on a computer to navigate to games and such. We have an older pc that I have set up for her running ubuntu that does not have an active network connection. When she needs something on it that requires network access I will install it myself, or she is sitting right next to me, if it happens to be an online game. As she gets older and matures, these restrictions will be lifted based on maturity level and discussion. I have no doubt that she will try to circumvent them in the mean time. As I happen to be a computer geek, hopefully I am ahead of the power curve on preventative measures. Though, at the same time, attempting to bypass network restrictions will be teaching her at the same time.
Oh well, the joys of being a parent.
Having worked on HP printers for a number of years and seen the serial numbers (the first two characters are country code), only about a quarter of the printers I have worked on came from China. Most came from Japan or Malaysia.
I agree. TFA makes it sound as though they discovered a family from Lascaux. Various cultures have recorded histories of that time, and before. Granted, they were not nearly as polite, but at least, as is possibly the case here, you knew where you stood with everyone else rather quickly.
TFA places emphasis on the discovery of confirmed, genetically-related family, but, IMHO, the statements made show a bit of arrogance about how much better the archaeologist feels about today's society than the remnants of a society they unearthed.
I always expected all humans to be like that. The only definition of left or right handedness is, what is your default when there are no other variables.
I think this may be what you meant, if not here is my own definition, based on my observation of myself and two daughters (one of whom is very left-side dominant, while the other is moderately right-side dominant).
Handedness is determined by which hand a person uses when an option is given, i. e. which hand do you throw a ball with naturally. As a child, I would throw left-handed, even if someone put a ball in my right hand. My daughter who is left-side dominant is the same way.
When writing was big (dark ages/middle ages), writing used slow drying inks that would smudge if you wrote from right to left when using the "pen" right handed. So they started top left. The monks did the most writing, and they also did the most teaching, so naturally the way they did it predominated.
My daughter (left-handed), if a piece of paper and a pencil or crayon is sitting on the table, will 99.9% of the time pick up the utensil with her left hand and start coloring or writing with that hand. The only time she will not is if the pencil or whatever can not be reached left-handed. At which point she will pick it up with her right hand and move it to her left hand
I am not disagreeing with you, necessarily, just pointing out my own observations.
I would also like to point out that left-handed people are, typically, closer to ambidexterity than right-handed people. I was extremely left-side dominant as a small child, but, now I approach many tasks right handed. This would be a result of the estimation that ~90% of the world is right-side dominant.
As an example, biomechanically, using a screwdriver to drive a screw in left-handed is inefficient so I naturally at this point turn a screwdriver clockwise right-handed and counter-clockwise left-handed.
Just my 10 cents.
Fair enough.
Actually, contrary to most Christian dogma, the Bible does imply a type of evolution. According to the modern conversions for the measurements for Noach's Ark, it would be about the size of a standard commercial barge. A vessel this size would not hold 1/100 of the land animals we see on Earth today.
The only way to reconcile a belief in the story of a flood as described in the Bible and the number of different animals is through some type of evolution of species.
Pointing this out to Christians puts them in a bit of a quandary because either they have to deny what the Bible says, or deny the belief in their own traditions.
And this is the reason people should learn to protect themselves. Kidnappers and other unsavory people tend to back off once the intended victim has demonstrated that they do not intend to go quietly. My wife would be more than happy to remove someone from the planet, rather than be taken somewhere unwillingly. A handgun (with the requisite training) and martial arts training tend to ensure a little bit more perseverance. It also helps a loved one's nerves.
Sun has talked about making it all GPLv3 if Linux takes their kernel GPLv3 as well. Linux would gain native ZFS in their kernel, but Sun would gain every device driver from Linux.
That is the point of FOSS, though, assuming the Linux kernel were migrated to GPLv3 and Sun migrated Solaris, ultimately, it would be a win/win situation for both sides.
I have run both OpenSolaris and Linux and found that, like any other quality OS, both have their positives and negatives, and preferred usages.
If both were licensed under GPLv3 individual positives, like ZFS and driver support, would then, potentially, start to be found in both OS's and individual negatives would decrease, making both Linux and Solaris better.
I, actually, agree with your statement. I was merely pointing out that splitting the classrooms down this 70/30 split would not be sufficient as there are many other issues that fall into the same arena of consideration if we are going to go down that path. For an individual there might be some overlap, but who knows? Definitely more study needs to be done before we would embark on a change in the educational system of this magnitude.
The knee-jerk reaction to this is to split the classes along this line, which as you say is not a bad start, but if it is not done with a solid plan in place for more diversification as more is learned about the brain, then it will accomplish very little long term.
Sadly, it is likely a moot point because of the red tape surrounding the educational system currently.
And it's not like we don't already have any examples of a single gene resulting in pretty drastic behavioral and cognitive effects.
What we do know is that who we are is a combination of many genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors. None of them fully explains who we are, but that doesn't mean that individual factors can't exert a strong force on who we are.
I will not disagree with that statement, in and of itself. I do, however, want to point out that the (potentially related) causes behind many of the aspects of who we are has not been determined.
Not in the case of your example, necessarily, but many of the current childhood disorders have some sort of genetic link that could, also, have a probability of occurring within the 70/30 split in TFA.
Without examining a potential link between two seemingly separate, but similiar, disorders, it is a fallacy to say that the disorders are, indeed, separate, and each possibly controlled by a single gene.
Unfortunately, it would not be a 70/30 split. If you begin to go down the path of who learns best in a given situation, neurotypicals would not survive in a classroom designed for people with an autism-spectrum disorder. People with ADD/ADHD would need their own prescribed teaching method, and so on. Some of each of the above likely fall on varying sides of the 70/30 split based on the logic that very few aspects of an individual human being's physiology and psychology are governed by one gene.
I would be interested to see how these genetic quirks link with the various psychological/neurological disorders that are already recognized, at which point maybe something logical can be done with their treatment.
What many seem to forget is that the entity using this is a part of the U. S. Government. Should they need anything newer than a 10 year old satellite photo, they can have them, easily. Given the people working at Oak Ridge, it should not be that difficult to incorporate the newer imagery. Of course, you and I will not see it. If something requires posting images publicly they will revert to those 10 year old photos.
What we are witnessing is a combination of Wells' 1984 and Huxley's A Brave New World. The government has been moving to a police state for years, most Americans do not see this because they do not care about what is going on outside of their bubble.