In the talk he says open source voice recognition software, e.g. Sphinx, don't work at all, and you have to go for Dragon. But then creates writes his own command language.
So I don't understand why do we need voice recognition software that recognizes English? All we need is a open source package that translates sounds into some phonetic dictionary (e.g. IPA), and from there the second problem is to translate that into a native language.
Or even simpler, give it a dictionary of commands, and get it to find the closest match, or if all are unlikely, do nothing.
Why try to go for something so hard, but there is no software for the simpler problem that would make people very productive by just commanding the computer?
It's not even a crime because Assange was never in US jurisdiction, nor is he a US citizen. And if he was recognized as a reporter/editor in the US, he would also be protected.
Not just that. The 'article' is not a scientific article, published or accepted in a Journal, but just a blog entry parsed through pdflatex. With sentences like "My feeling is that" it's obvious this won't pass peer review in this form. This seems to be quite popular in Computer 'Science' these days -- you can say you wrote a 'scientific article' without caring about whether its novel or sound, when all you did was to make a brain dump of your half knowledge.
And one where you can replace the battery and screen yourself when they are broken, and where you can buy them separately from vendors. Why throw away the whole phone just because one component is damaged? This should be standard.
Germany may be the largest economy in the EU, but by far not the majority (20%). The largest economies are Germany (3,4M), France (2,6M), UK (2,4M), Italy (2,0M) and Spain (1,4M GDP per capita). It's an unfair simplification to say there is one economic engine of the EU.
The assessment that people at MIT and JSTOR would be personally attacked and harassed by internet vigilante is realistic. You can just read the Slashdot articles calling for the hanging of everybody involved.
But bringing more suffering does not help Aaron. We need to create protections against the psychological, financial and social consequences of prosecutions that go on for years. People lose their jobs, sanity and social status due to being under investigation.
Not really - transaction processing takes far to long because the network has to agree on it.
How long does it take these days?
If the store uses what they would pay as fees to credit card companies as Bitcoin safety, it would probably still pay off. Also, only few people will not pay, especially not returning customers.
The problem with dark matter observation in this case is that science is based on empirical observation. If you can't see it, can't measure it, and can't even draw inferences from what you can see and measure to detect something indirectly... it's not science. What this is saying is that the effects are so miniscule that there is no equipment presently capable of separating an actual effect or observation from systemic inaccuracy in the equipment itself. That is, you can't tell whether it's just random 'noise' or an actual signal.
But we do find it empirically. There is extra mass there, affecting other objects. We can detect it through it's gravitation, just not through light. It's a very strong signal, for example in the rotation velocity of galaxies. A lot of other science is, too, done without directly detecting the object of study, but through indirect effects and inference.
Everyone would like to get rid of Dark Matter. But its effects are clearly there. And we need to explain it. It does not have to be particles, or a kind of matter we know. You can call it something else than Dark Matter if you don't like the name. Anyone is welcome to come up with explanations. But they have to be in agreement with the observations.
Yesterday, another secure email provider, Lavabit, shut down their system less they "be complicit in crimes against the American people." We see the writing on the wall, and we have decided that it is best for us to shut down Silent Mail. We have not received subpoenas, warrants, security letters, or anything else by any government, and this is why we are acting now.
Why oh why? Are there no hosters outside the US?
Also, if they (e.g. Lavabit) give up, why don't they publish their hosting source code on e.g. github? Then others (Pirate Bay, Mega) can start from there, and set up servers in Iceland, Skandinavia, Hong Kong,....
It should also be a concern for e.g. Europeans. The alpine latitudes are becoming more Mediterranean. Just this year, we are having a heat wave breaking records. It can be expected that African diseases will spread north-bound due to climate change. Last year, the first mosquito with Malaria was found in Austria. In Greece, the winter was so warm that the population of mosquitoes survived -- a problematic novelty. The costs of climate change are high.
Result 2: Microbial Monitoring and Disinfection aboard NASA Spacecraft... sounds promising, but it's paywalled. For $17.50 though I might be able to get access to a dense academic tomb. Thanks, Google!
I put the name into Scholar, and found a (free) PDF by the same author, 5 years later than that article. It is comparing bacterial and fungal contamination of ISS, Mir and Shuttle missions.
Yes I believe people should be able to recoup their invested time/money and some form of copy protection is needed for that but the current laws are doing it to the detriment of society.
Copyright as it is wielded today for *most* uses is a net loss to society.
Copyright is not evil in principle (authors/artists need to earn a living).
I agree. *Of course* copyright is a net loss to society. Because it is meant to strike a balance between the financial success of individuals and the benefit to society. You can do that in other ways. But complaining that copyright doesn't do best for people who don't create is like... demanding to be admitted to cinemas for free because they are playing the movie anyways.
The US government
* violated the privacy of Americans and foreigners by collecting information on all their communications, regardless of whether they are being investigated or not
* executes people in foreign countries without any trial
* tortures people in foreign countries without any trial
* invades foreign countries by fabricating evidence
* pursues journalists and whistle-blowers through all possible legal and diplomatic channels of pressure
* arbitrarily withdraws the passport of their own citizens without any legal process
* arbitrarily withdraws the right to fly in the US without any legal process
* demands extradition, trials of foreigners and fair treatment based on international law, but refuses it to others
Then, when these things turn up
* nobody is being held accountable [e.g. Bush, Rumsfeld]
* no compensation for the victims [e.g. torture victims, invaded countries]
* no guarantees it will not happen again
You can do whatever you want within your borders, and choose the rules you want to live by. But don't take your stupid decisions out on everyone else. And for the love of god, EU & UN, stand up to this bully.
You mean, yeast, sugar and water? Any supermarket. The article proves that CO2 cylinders are not better. Fascinating setup (the building they chose, how they collected and nurtured the bed bugs, that they kept someone living in the apartment in the 4 weeks the experiment was run).
When there is a leap second. I think the last time this bug was covered on slashdot, the article said it occured on a sizeable number of servers in 2012, and on several in 2013.
If It is known to occur, then why would such platforms be relied upon instead of patching it ahead of time?
Are you seriously asking why not all systems are up to date? We are talking routers, mainframes, computers running legacy software,... You can not just update everything. If you are a business, updates have to be tested, making sure the software still runs. And if it does not, or if your distribution is not releasing an update, you are limited by resources. This should be obvious.
It seems to me that developing new DCIM solutions is a bit of a stretch to solve the leap second issue. Or is that just an excuse to fund new DCIM solutions (in other words, a solution in search of a problem)?
I assume it is a form of fall-back. In case yet-unknown bugs of the same class occur (servers go into a loop), the problem can be detected. Restarting helps.
Randall Munroe is unique because he combines skill in the arts, knowledge, humor and accessibility. In each of these areas separately he might not stand out (for the first two, consider map-making and infographics).
Slashdot Mirror
In the talk he says open source voice recognition software, e.g. Sphinx, don't work at all, and you have to go for Dragon.
But then creates writes his own command language.
So I don't understand why do we need voice recognition software that recognizes English? All we need is a open source package that translates sounds into some phonetic dictionary (e.g. IPA), and from there the second problem is to translate that into a native language.
Or even simpler, give it a dictionary of commands, and get it to find the closest match, or if all are unlikely, do nothing.
Why try to go for something so hard, but there is no software for the simpler problem that would make people very productive by just commanding the computer?
It's not even a crime because Assange was never in US jurisdiction, nor is he a US citizen. And if he was recognized as a reporter/editor in the US, he would also be protected.
Just ask the question in Lojban?
Not just that. The 'article' is not a scientific article, published or accepted in a Journal, but just a blog entry parsed through pdflatex. With sentences like "My feeling is that" it's obvious this won't pass peer review in this form. This seems to be quite popular in Computer 'Science' these days -- you can say you wrote a 'scientific article' without caring about whether its novel or sound, when all you did was to make a brain dump of your half knowledge.
And one where you can replace the battery and screen yourself when they are broken, and where you can buy them separately from vendors. Why throw away the whole phone just because one component is damaged? This should be standard.
Germany may be the largest economy in the EU, but by far not the majority (20%). The largest economies are Germany (3,4M), France (2,6M), UK (2,4M), Italy (2,0M) and Spain (1,4M GDP per capita). It's an unfair simplification to say there is one economic engine of the EU.
The assessment that people at MIT and JSTOR would be personally attacked and harassed by internet vigilante is realistic. You can just read the Slashdot articles calling for the hanging of everybody involved.
But bringing more suffering does not help Aaron. We need to create protections against the psychological, financial and social consequences of prosecutions that go on for years. People lose their jobs, sanity and social status due to being under investigation.
Not really - transaction processing takes far to long because the network has to agree on it.
How long does it take these days?
If the store uses what they would pay as fees to credit card companies as Bitcoin safety, it would probably still pay off. Also, only few people will not pay, especially not returning customers.
It's a pity. Bitcoin would be a powerful payment method on mobile devices, for small amenities (e.g. coffee).
The problem with dark matter observation in this case is that science is based on empirical observation. If you can't see it, can't measure it, and can't even draw inferences from what you can see and measure to detect something indirectly... it's not science. What this is saying is that the effects are so miniscule that there is no equipment presently capable of separating an actual effect or observation from systemic inaccuracy in the equipment itself. That is, you can't tell whether it's just random 'noise' or an actual signal.
But we do find it empirically. There is extra mass there, affecting other objects. We can detect it through it's gravitation, just not through light. It's a very strong signal, for example in the rotation velocity of galaxies. A lot of other science is, too, done without directly detecting the object of study, but through indirect effects and inference.
Everyone would like to get rid of Dark Matter. But its effects are clearly there. And we need to explain it. It does not have to be particles, or a kind of matter we know. You can call it something else than Dark Matter if you don't like the name. Anyone is welcome to come up with explanations. But they have to be in agreement with the observations.
If you go to https://silentcircle.com/ they shut it down "preemptively".
Why oh why? Are there no hosters outside the US?
Also, if they (e.g. Lavabit) give up, why don't they publish their hosting source code on e.g. github? Then others (Pirate Bay, Mega) can start from there, and set up servers in Iceland, Skandinavia, Hong Kong, ....
I am still waiting for a SSL-only browser. And no old buggy versions enabled please.
They put him in a debtors' prison until he has paid his debt off. And he has to pay rent. That's the classical method anyways.
Are there any alternative services that do something similar as Lavabit? Perhaps not US-based?
It should also be a concern for e.g. Europeans.
The alpine latitudes are becoming more Mediterranean. Just this year, we are having a heat wave breaking records. It can be expected that African diseases will spread north-bound due to climate change.
Last year, the first mosquito with Malaria was found in Austria. In Greece, the winter was so warm that the population of mosquitoes survived -- a problematic novelty.
The costs of climate change are high.
Under UK Law, downloading this could result in a prison sentence.
Yes? It sounds like the US has the strictest rules here, punishable by a $250,000 fine and 20 years' imprisonment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb-making_instructions_on_the_internet#Legislation
It is not satisfactory when you change the question to the one you would like to answer.
Have we ever sent a person where it was certain, and known to them, that they would die?
Result 2: Microbial Monitoring and Disinfection aboard NASA Spacecraft... sounds promising, but it's paywalled. For $17.50 though I might be able to get access to a dense academic tomb. Thanks, Google!
I put the name into Scholar, and found a (free) PDF by the same author, 5 years later than that article.
It is comparing bacterial and fungal contamination of ISS, Mir and Shuttle missions.
Perhaps you are searching with the wrong keywords. Try "sterilization of spacecraft".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection
Yes I believe people should be able to recoup their invested time/money and some form of copy protection is needed for that but the current laws are doing it to the detriment of society.
Copyright as it is wielded today for *most* uses is a net loss to society.
Copyright is not evil in principle (authors/artists need to earn a living).
I agree. *Of course* copyright is a net loss to society. Because it is meant to strike a balance between the financial success of individuals and the benefit to society. ... demanding to be admitted to cinemas for free because they are playing the movie anyways.
You can do that in other ways. But complaining that copyright doesn't do best for people who don't create is like
What happened so far:
The US government
* violated the privacy of Americans and foreigners by collecting information on all their communications, regardless of whether they are being investigated or not
* executes people in foreign countries without any trial
* tortures people in foreign countries without any trial
* invades foreign countries by fabricating evidence
* pursues journalists and whistle-blowers through all possible legal and diplomatic channels of pressure
* arbitrarily withdraws the passport of their own citizens without any legal process
* arbitrarily withdraws the right to fly in the US without any legal process
* demands extradition, trials of foreigners and fair treatment based on international law, but refuses it to others
Then, when these things turn up
* nobody is being held accountable [e.g. Bush, Rumsfeld]
* no compensation for the victims [e.g. torture victims, invaded countries]
* no guarantees it will not happen again
You can do whatever you want within your borders, and choose the rules you want to live by. But don't take your stupid decisions out on everyone else. And for the love of god, EU & UN, stand up to this bully.
You mean, yeast, sugar and water? Any supermarket. The article proves that CO2 cylinders are not better.
Fascinating setup (the building they chose, how they collected and nurtured the bed bugs, that they kept someone living in the apartment in the 4 weeks the experiment was run).
You mean like SSL is broken and nobody talks about it?
First there was BEAST in 2011, which was fixed. But the situation in 2013 is not better!
https://www.globalsign.com/blog/is-ssl-broken.html (and links therein, especially the last two)
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/02/04/luckythirteen.html
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/02/attack-of-week-tls-timing-oracles.html
List of all attacks: http://armoredbarista.blogspot.de/2013/01/a-brief-chronology-of-ssltls-attacks.html
How often does the leap second bug recur?
When there is a leap second. I think the last time this bug was covered on slashdot, the article said it occured on a sizeable number of servers in 2012, and on several in 2013.
If It is known to occur, then why would such platforms be relied upon instead of patching it ahead of time?
Are you seriously asking why not all systems are up to date? We are talking routers, mainframes, computers running legacy software, ...
You can not just update everything. If you are a business, updates have to be tested, making sure the software still runs. And if it does not, or if your distribution is not releasing an update, you are limited by resources. This should be obvious.
It seems to me that developing new DCIM solutions is a bit of a stretch to solve the leap second issue. Or is that just an excuse to fund new DCIM solutions (in other words, a solution in search of a problem)?
I assume it is a form of fall-back. In case yet-unknown bugs of the same class occur (servers go into a loop), the problem can be detected. Restarting helps.
Fans had already figured out that it's 39,5 North on April 10th 13291.
Randall Munroe is unique because he combines skill in the arts, knowledge, humor and accessibility. In each of these areas separately he might not stand out (for the first two, consider map-making and infographics).