Agreeing to buy and actually making the transaction are different things. People have been buying over the internet since the 90's. AOL chat was a prime place to ask "poke smot?" then escalate.
> "Common sense" is not a scientific argument. It lacks rigor. > more often than not, common sense is just plain wrong.
You seem to have it out for common sense. Either way, I'm not sure how you could believe that common sense* is more often wrong. The number of common sense affirmations that are correct are literally innumerable because they are simple reasoning about the world around us.
*What you call common sense and I call common sense may be different things.
A study is not required for me to tell my children...
Don't eat things harder than your teeth, they aren't good for you. People in the larger vehicle of a 2 vehicle crash, tend to have longer lifespans post-incident. People who have lost 1 of 2 matching organs, tend to follow physician advice more closely. Don't eat plants that a young animal ate, after which it immediately died. Don't shit where you eat. Don't hit people you don't know. Wash your hands after handling garbage cans.
It's not hard to come up with these. It's how humans have operated, successfully, for millenia. The trick is to know how to craft the grant and produce a rigorous study.
> The argument that some knowledge is too dangerous to know is specious and flawed.
That's not the reasoning given. The knowledge IS known. Some knowledge is dangerous to disseminate. This is a sad fact of humanity, but a fact. Given opportunity and knowledge of vulnerability, you will get attempts to use and abuse knowledge with similar results. People are eager to exercise their imagination and reluctant to exercise restraint or critical thought. I can understand their position.
> I'd stay away from reputation-based approaches. Sometimes the crazy trolls have ideas that should be heard.
This is why meta-moderation is useful. With no context, a post can be generally identified without a the observer being aware of the specific context. Especially topics the user has not participated in.
2. DONT link users to posts, for readership. While internally you will want to track them, to some extent, allowing people to assemble personas they feel they have to protect and that other people feel they have to oppose, is less desirable than the "community" that can be fostered from it. If your goal is a community built from altruism in sharing, there's nothing to be gained by linking a persona (it's all anonymous) to a history.
People totally pay attention to EULA's too. Experian sells the data you put in to freecreditreport.com before you hit the paywall, to 28+ vendors, as of last year. Legislation was never the answer.
While you may be exposed to the concept of derivatives in pre-calc, Calculus is directly applicable to modern software development. At my first programming gig, I used calculus to do selective database usage, based on load. I was told to rewrite it less efficiently to ensure that other developers would understand and be able to maintain it.
If you don't believe calculus is a fundamental for software development, I will believe you haven't really done much software development.
I subscribe to the variation of a maxim: That which can destroy a thing, controls that thing. - Paul Muad'Dib (Dune)
In this, the executive branch is technically the head of the US government...plus the military. Most children only recognize this structure. With a complicit military, the executive branch is the controlling arm. From this perspective, a characterizing the US as a republic is perfectly reasonable.
Turns out, the world isn't so simple. The US cannot be categorized as anything but a hybrid of traditional governmental systems.
> We are a representative democracy or a democratic republic
The US is many forms of government, depending on the locality in question and with a separation of powers. The federal legislative branch is elected via a representative democracy. The executive branch is formed per a democratic republic. This does not make the US either.
> As in we have a representative government, but we vote for the representatives
Saying that individuals can write down a candidate on a ballot for submission, does not decide the nature of the national government (people in China vote for their communist party members too, so do they have a representative government?). Also, see the electoral college. The president is a representative, regardless of formal title. The US does not have a representative national government in any practical sense.
> A nation as large as the US does not function with direct democracy.
Not only is incorrect, it's irrelevant. While a country as large as the US has not operated as a direct democracy, that does not preclude the existence of such a state. Technology is a wonderful thing that may one day put this into practice.
> There's just way too many issues for everybody to vote on everything the way that they do in some smaller countries.
There are many kinds of democracies and none of them precludes a tiered legislative system. While your local US government (city or even HOA) probably functions as a direct democracy, this has little to do with the day to day operations of your national government and vice versa.
> *IF* there were true photographic memory, then the prizes at these world memory championships would be scooped up by people that have it. But they're not.
This is a flawed conclusion.
In all the decades I've been alive I've never once been exposed to this "competition". Given how few people have (and will have) perfect memories, how many of them have encountered this pointless "contest"? What's more, why bother competing there when you can compete in the lucrative world of the casino?
It's not news. It's more frontpage trash that's completely irrelevant because the approved submitters are trying to bring up facebook, as if that makes/. look hip. Heck the story about mexican drug smugglers using catapults is more interesting and relevant to the core purpose of the site.
> They failed, even though it wasn't a good test because both teams had a common history.
Sounds like the test was an abject failure when both sides were at the same technology level and had a common history and were the same specistill couldn't communicate effectively.
I have had 3 aortic valves implanted throughout my lifetime. Starting at the age of 2. I've also survived a Konno procedure and aortic stem reformation the last time around.
First of all, Warfarin is pretty fucking safe. If I take an extra 5mg pill once a week, nothing happens. Out of all the thinners, it's not exactly aspirin mild, but it's not horrendously dangerous. Like all drugs, bodies react differently and while I'm ridiculously allergic to tetracycline, I'm middle of the road for reactions to warfarin (over 30 years of it). It's always shock and awe so a news story can give infotainment. Within my lifetime thinners have gained a lot of traction (due to aging boomers). Look up replacements for warfarin. It's big money and the idea that I'll be on warfarin for the rest of my life is unrealistic. Yes I'll be on something, but that's par for a mechanical valve.
The prosthetic design he came up with, is for his specific problem, weak aortic tissue which involves the stem. As mentioned in the article, a prosthetic aorta isn't a new idea. I'm not exactly sure it's any better an idea than it used to be, nor is anyone else, with a sample size of 30ish. The meat of the story is how the prosthetic is customized. Scan, 3d model, manufacture, affordably. That is pretty radical, from the perspective of current internal medicine. This whole thing sounds like a medical device ad. What I'm more interested in, aortic valves and thinners, they demonize or don't talk about at all. Pity.
> All I want out of this site is a clean way to browse stories and read and write comments. I don't want "web 2.0", tags, autoupdating pages, and all that other clutter.
How very narrow minded of him. In many places, professions and most socioeconomic groups, it certainly is. He was a smart, rich, white guy, born in rural america of course.
Someone is choosing to liquidate this now, after Halloween. Other than complete random circumstance, I'd wager that the collector is looking for income or to cover a loss. Economic times are tough for mr. anon high end collector.
> You can safely assume that if I find a device on my car, it's going to "fall off" on some heavily traveled road. If it happens to be a GPS tracking device, then you'll know exactly where to look when you want to collect data about its durability.
I might possibly lose one in a garbage bin outside a paint store, which will eventually travel to a landfill.
Slashdot Mirror
Stop linking to techdirt. TD is an irreputable news source (it tarnishes the concept of "news"). Thanks.
I'm not sure why it matters if a service is hated or not by a group of people.
> Facebook raises a lot of ire among its customers
Developers learned, not to grease the squeaky wheels, unless it's convenient. The machine works. Token resistance is incidental and expected.
http://adage.com/article/digital/specific-media-ceo-talks-myspace-justin-timberlake/228494/
1. Buy MySpace
2. Have Justin Timberlake promote it
3. ???
PROFIT!!!
Agreeing to buy and actually making the transaction are different things. People have been buying over the internet since the 90's. AOL chat was a prime place to ask "poke smot?" then escalate.
>> Don't eat things harder than your teeth, they aren't good for you.
> Do you allow your children to eat hard candy?
*facepalm*
> "Common sense" is not a scientific argument. It lacks rigor.
> more often than not, common sense is just plain wrong.
You seem to have it out for common sense. Either way, I'm not sure how you could believe that common sense* is more often wrong. The number of common sense affirmations that are correct are literally innumerable because they are simple reasoning about the world around us.
*What you call common sense and I call common sense may be different things.
A study is not required for me to tell my children...
Don't eat things harder than your teeth, they aren't good for you.
People in the larger vehicle of a 2 vehicle crash, tend to have longer lifespans post-incident.
People who have lost 1 of 2 matching organs, tend to follow physician advice more closely.
Don't eat plants that a young animal ate, after which it immediately died.
Don't shit where you eat.
Don't hit people you don't know.
Wash your hands after handling garbage cans.
It's not hard to come up with these. It's how humans have operated, successfully, for millenia. The trick is to know how to craft the grant and produce a rigorous study.
After caps, comes filtering.
> The argument that some knowledge is too dangerous to know is specious and flawed.
That's not the reasoning given. The knowledge IS known. Some knowledge is dangerous to disseminate. This is a sad fact of humanity, but a fact. Given opportunity and knowledge of vulnerability, you will get attempts to use and abuse knowledge with similar results. People are eager to exercise their imagination and reluctant to exercise restraint or critical thought. I can understand their position.
> I promise you that I can write code that has the prescribed level of unit testing and complexity that also doesn't work.
Then your testing is woefully inadequate.
1. Meta-Moderation
> I'd stay away from reputation-based approaches. Sometimes the crazy trolls have ideas that should be heard.
This is why meta-moderation is useful. With no context, a post can be generally identified without a the observer being aware of the specific context. Especially topics the user has not participated in.
2. DONT link users to posts, for readership. While internally you will want to track them, to some extent, allowing people to assemble personas they feel they have to protect and that other people feel they have to oppose, is less desirable than the "community" that can be fostered from it. If your goal is a community built from altruism in sharing, there's nothing to be gained by linking a persona (it's all anonymous) to a history.
> Legislation can.
People totally pay attention to EULA's too. Experian sells the data you put in to freecreditreport.com before you hit the paywall, to 28+ vendors, as of last year. Legislation was never the answer.
Torrents + Tvduck.com + Netflix = everything
> ok, you can win by defining "editing" to be something that you can only do with a gui.
That sounds awfully ignorant.
Load balancing.
While you may be exposed to the concept of derivatives in pre-calc, Calculus is directly applicable to modern software development. At my first programming gig, I used calculus to do selective database usage, based on load. I was told to rewrite it less efficiently to ensure that other developers would understand and be able to maintain it.
If you don't believe calculus is a fundamental for software development, I will believe you haven't really done much software development.
I subscribe to the variation of a maxim:
That which can destroy a thing, controls that thing. - Paul Muad'Dib (Dune)
In this, the executive branch is technically the head of the US government...plus the military. Most children only recognize this structure. With a complicit military, the executive branch is the controlling arm. From this perspective, a characterizing the US as a republic is perfectly reasonable.
Turns out, the world isn't so simple. The US cannot be categorized as anything but a hybrid of traditional governmental systems.
> We are a representative democracy or a democratic republic
The US is many forms of government, depending on the locality in question and with a separation of powers.
The federal legislative branch is elected via a representative democracy. The executive branch is formed per a democratic republic. This does not make the US either.
> As in we have a representative government, but we vote for the representatives
Saying that individuals can write down a candidate on a ballot for submission, does not decide the nature of the national government (people in China vote for their communist party members too, so do they have a representative government?). Also, see the electoral college. The president is a representative, regardless of formal title. The US does not have a representative national government in any practical sense.
> A nation as large as the US does not function with direct democracy.
Not only is incorrect, it's irrelevant. While a country as large as the US has not operated as a direct democracy, that does not preclude the existence of such a state. Technology is a wonderful thing that may one day put this into practice.
> There's just way too many issues for everybody to vote on everything the way that they do in some smaller countries.
There are many kinds of democracies and none of them precludes a tiered legislative system. While your local US government (city or even HOA) probably functions as a direct democracy, this has little to do with the day to day operations of your national government and vice versa.
HTH
> I never thought I'd see the day when Apple is considered an "evil empire", and Microsoft is kind of the underdog/good-guy.
Underdog and evil empire are not mutually exclusive. The empire may be relatively small, but this doesn't change its nature.
> Exactly right, they don't want to be recorded, and it's generally because they behave badly (why else would they object to that recording?)
Whoa. Substitute citizen for officer as your subject. This is the moral high ground logic that screws us. Sigh.
> *IF* there were true photographic memory, then the prizes at these world memory championships would be scooped up by people that have it. But they're not.
This is a flawed conclusion.
In all the decades I've been alive I've never once been exposed to this "competition". Given how few people have (and will have) perfect memories, how many of them have encountered this pointless "contest"? What's more, why bother competing there when you can compete in the lucrative world of the casino?
It's not news. It's more frontpage trash that's completely irrelevant because the approved submitters are trying to bring up facebook, as if that makes /. look hip. Heck the story about mexican drug smugglers using catapults is more interesting and relevant to the core purpose of the site.
> They failed, even though it wasn't a good test because both teams had a common history.
Sounds like the test was an abject failure when both sides were at the same technology level and had a common history and were the same specistill couldn't communicate effectively.
I have had 3 aortic valves implanted throughout my lifetime. Starting at the age of 2. I've also survived a Konno procedure and aortic stem reformation the last time around.
First of all, Warfarin is pretty fucking safe. If I take an extra 5mg pill once a week, nothing happens. Out of all the thinners, it's not exactly aspirin mild, but it's not horrendously dangerous. Like all drugs, bodies react differently and while I'm ridiculously allergic to tetracycline, I'm middle of the road for reactions to warfarin (over 30 years of it). It's always shock and awe so a news story can give infotainment. Within my lifetime thinners have gained a lot of traction (due to aging boomers). Look up replacements for warfarin. It's big money and the idea that I'll be on warfarin for the rest of my life is unrealistic. Yes I'll be on something, but that's par for a mechanical valve.
The prosthetic design he came up with, is for his specific problem, weak aortic tissue which involves the stem. As mentioned in the article, a prosthetic aorta isn't a new idea. I'm not exactly sure it's any better an idea than it used to be, nor is anyone else, with a sample size of 30ish. The meat of the story is how the prosthetic is customized. Scan, 3d model, manufacture, affordably. That is pretty radical, from the perspective of current internal medicine. This whole thing sounds like a medical device ad. What I'm more interested in, aortic valves and thinners, they demonize or don't talk about at all. Pity.
> All I want out of this site is a clean way to browse stories and read and write comments. I don't want "web 2.0", tags, autoupdating pages, and all that other clutter.
+1
> Age is not an accomplishment
How very narrow minded of him. In many places, professions and most socioeconomic groups, it certainly is. He was a smart, rich, white guy, born in rural america of course.
Someone is choosing to liquidate this now, after Halloween. Other than complete random circumstance, I'd wager that the collector is looking for income or to cover a loss. Economic times are tough for mr. anon high end collector.
> You can safely assume that if I find a device on my car, it's going to "fall off" on some heavily traveled road. If it happens to be a GPS tracking device, then you'll know exactly where to look when you want to collect data about its durability.
I might possibly lose one in a garbage bin outside a paint store, which will eventually travel to a landfill.