The Wikinews articles on the Scorpions fiasco should give you a good idea. Most of them were listed there. Thank heavens I left Virgin Media last year, what a shower.
This test may not accurately screen out people with certain particular personality traits, but it does select favourably for people with the intelligence to second-guess the answers required, or find them on the internet.
That alone will cut staff turnover very effectively, at least for the sort of jobs described in the linked article, and unlike an IQ test, it covers intelligence, intuition, and initiative.
These sorts of heavily biased, misleading articles are why I can't stand reading The Register any more. It's all GNU-bashing and items on defence spending.
I don't remember it being this bad a few years ago. In any case, I don't want to read it any more.
With regards to your idea of the 'soul', if we classify self-consciousness as the soul, then according to a number of religious theories, that 'thing that is left after death' is an entirely different concept. In certain forms of buddhism, this could be conceived and the sum consequences of all our actions. The 'soul' or self-consciousness is entirely seperate and is regarded as divisible.
I'd argue that while we can describe the functioning of the brain to a continually more detailed level, our model of the brain fails to account for consciousness, in the same way that classical mechanics fails to account for relativity.
This would suggest that our model of the brain is either incomplete or wrong. As we can predict certain behaviours accurately with our current model, I'd opt for the former.
Yeah, a gap year. I didn't know it was so competitive in the states. Never mind, we'll all lose our jobs when the depression kicks in, in a week or two:-)
I'm from the UK. Here it's considered fairly standard for people to travel, at least for one year, after leaving University (or beforehand, between school and uni).
Maybe I missed it in the patent text, but this would be much more interesting if it was a way of inserting metadata by minutely altering encoding of a jpeg image. There's plenty of room for noise in a jpeg file, and this way the pictures could be posted and copied elsewhere whilst maintaining the notes *and* compatibility.
Does anyone have any idea how often the lunar outpost would need to be resupplied with fissile material?
I guess the risk analysts will be plugging that frequency, and that with which rocket launches fail/explode into a risk equation along with the cost of cleaning up a load of uranium(?) dust in Florida.
I dislike pointing this out, but that's an interesting parallel with climate science.
I remember hearing recently (on Slashdot?) that climate models primarily base their data on one or two sources that, if altered slightly, would throw the simulations pretty severely, one way *or* the other.
The worst thing Gary McKinnon has going for him is that photo that's shown alongside every article that mentions him. I couldn't imagine a better caricature of a 'malevolent hacker' if I tried.
I can't for a moment imagine that Wikileaks would have dared try this if this was email from the US President. As much as they've avoided the courts in the past (and with good reason), trying this with a blanket dump of US government email would have them shut down in a flash, surely? Or have I missed them doing this already.
In any case, they can get away with selling the private email of Hugo Chavez because, well, he's not exactly a personal friend of a lot of Western governments.
This smacks of hypocrisy. Ethically and reasonably, they've not got a leg to stand on. Moreover, it's got to be completely illegal. Leaking important information is one thing, selling someone's recent correspondence is another. What's to stop them selling *your* email?
Unfortunately, the price of gas/petrol/energy is likely to make commuting by car uneconomical long before the control systems are advanced enough to make this all possible.:-(
That would make a lot of sense (pun not intended) and be fairly interesting - LSD apparently works by reducing the brain's sensitivity to inputs from the outside world (the psychedelic effects come from the brain trying to 'fill in the blanks'), and can make things taste metallic.
Perhaps the same mechanism is at work?
Actually, come to think of it, if this theory is right, then perhaps people who have a fear of sex, or complexes or so on are more likely to have sex dreams, which would be a bit of a shame.
May I ask what considerations were made with respect to the name? Give that Sage plc. manufactures accounting software, is this not liable to lead to legal problems, and possibly confusion?
Well regardless of whether Korean is an invented language, Esperanto certainly is, and *is in use*, albeit on a rather small scale.
I'm interested how widespread Chinese-speaking will alter English.
"You all today good, question"
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The Wikinews articles on the Scorpions fiasco should give you a good idea. Most of them were listed there. Thank heavens I left Virgin Media last year, what a shower.
This test may not accurately screen out people with certain particular personality traits, but it does select favourably for people with the intelligence to second-guess the answers required, or find them on the internet. That alone will cut staff turnover very effectively, at least for the sort of jobs described in the linked article, and unlike an IQ test, it covers intelligence, intuition, and initiative.
Shining flying purple wolfhounds show me where you are.
Exactly the same here! I would see my cat in the places that he used to sit. Very strange indeed, something odd going on there (in my head).
These sorts of heavily biased, misleading articles are why I can't stand reading The Register any more. It's all GNU-bashing and items on defence spending. I don't remember it being this bad a few years ago. In any case, I don't want to read it any more.
With regards to your idea of the 'soul', if we classify self-consciousness as the soul, then according to a number of religious theories, that 'thing that is left after death' is an entirely different concept. In certain forms of buddhism, this could be conceived and the sum consequences of all our actions. The 'soul' or self-consciousness is entirely seperate and is regarded as divisible.
I'd argue that while we can describe the functioning of the brain to a continually more detailed level, our model of the brain fails to account for consciousness, in the same way that classical mechanics fails to account for relativity. This would suggest that our model of the brain is either incomplete or wrong. As we can predict certain behaviours accurately with our current model, I'd opt for the former.
Yeah, a gap year. I didn't know it was so competitive in the states. Never mind, we'll all lose our jobs when the depression kicks in, in a week or two :-)
I'm from the UK. Here it's considered fairly standard for people to travel, at least for one year, after leaving University (or beforehand, between school and uni).
If it was straight after graduation, "travelling" is a perfectly believable explanation.
Wouldn't have been the Millennium would it? :-)
Maybe I missed it in the patent text, but this would be much more interesting if it was a way of inserting metadata by minutely altering encoding of a jpeg image. There's plenty of room for noise in a jpeg file, and this way the pictures could be posted and copied elsewhere whilst maintaining the notes *and* compatibility.
Does anyone have any idea how often the lunar outpost would need to be resupplied with fissile material? I guess the risk analysts will be plugging that frequency, and that with which rocket launches fail/explode into a risk equation along with the cost of cleaning up a load of uranium(?) dust in Florida.
Of course, by the time Spore has hit the bargain rack, EA may have turned off the activation servers for the game, and it won't work any longer!
I dislike pointing this out, but that's an interesting parallel with climate science. I remember hearing recently (on Slashdot?) that climate models primarily base their data on one or two sources that, if altered slightly, would throw the simulations pretty severely, one way *or* the other.
As per this article, it relies heavily on unwritten convention: Constitution of the United Kingdom
The worst thing Gary McKinnon has going for him is that photo that's shown alongside every article that mentions him. I couldn't imagine a better caricature of a 'malevolent hacker' if I tried.
I can't for a moment imagine that Wikileaks would have dared try this if this was email from the US President. As much as they've avoided the courts in the past (and with good reason), trying this with a blanket dump of US government email would have them shut down in a flash, surely? Or have I missed them doing this already. In any case, they can get away with selling the private email of Hugo Chavez because, well, he's not exactly a personal friend of a lot of Western governments. This smacks of hypocrisy. Ethically and reasonably, they've not got a leg to stand on. Moreover, it's got to be completely illegal. Leaking important information is one thing, selling someone's recent correspondence is another. What's to stop them selling *your* email?
The Docklands Light Railway in London is computer controlled. It's not terribly fast, though.
Unfortunately, the price of gas/petrol/energy is likely to make commuting by car uneconomical long before the control systems are advanced enough to make this all possible. :-(
That would make a lot of sense (pun not intended) and be fairly interesting - LSD apparently works by reducing the brain's sensitivity to inputs from the outside world (the psychedelic effects come from the brain trying to 'fill in the blanks'), and can make things taste metallic. Perhaps the same mechanism is at work?
They must have forgotten to comment out the appendix.
Actually, come to think of it, if this theory is right, then perhaps people who have a fear of sex, or complexes or so on are more likely to have sex dreams, which would be a bit of a shame.
May I ask what considerations were made with respect to the name? Give that Sage plc. manufactures accounting software, is this not liable to lead to legal problems, and possibly confusion?
Well regardless of whether Korean is an invented language, Esperanto certainly is, and *is in use*, albeit on a rather small scale. I'm interested how widespread Chinese-speaking will alter English. "You all today good, question"