Re:Glad I read this, I learned a few things
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I've yet to see HTML5 as an alternative for casual flash games though. Granted, volume wise flash is used much more for videos than games, but there are many popular websites out there for casual gaming that are powered almost exclusively by Flash. Ignoring this segment of Flash's users and pretending that we can just make flash go *poof* and disappear without addressing that use case is pretty foolish in my opinion.
Maybe it's telling us "this is what we see when we look at the code, we offer no conclusions beyond that". Seriously though, the writers of Stuxnet could be just about anyone, from the US, to Isreal, to Saudi Arabia, to Russia, to a group amateurs in their garage. Without knowing their identity, it's impossible to say what their overall motives could be. The only thing known nearly for sure (and that's assuming the researchers are correct in connecting Duqu and Stuxnet) is the authors are willing to do physical damage to equipment to meet their objectives; presumably up to and including risking other people's lives. The fact that the virus doesn't do anything so far is a bit concerning to me, it shows more planning and thought than normally goes into these things. When it finally receives the packet that updates it to 'active' mode, there's no telling at this point what it could do.
I can't be the only person in the world who it never occurred to that Mario was wearing actual fur, can I? I always assumed he was putting on a costume, not wrapping himself in actually animal parts. I mean, do they think he's crawling inside the dead husk of giant, man sized frogs as well?
Shape is just a filter used to narrow it down to candidate words. Inner letters flters it down further. Order of inner letters pins it down...
Not disagreeing with you in the slightest, that's exactly what I was trying to get at. I just wanted to say this: The human brain, if freaking amazing. When reading full speed, you perform that analysis 2-5 times per second, filtering and filtering and filtering further to pull meaning out of the written word. This isn't even directly a skill that our brains were evolved for, it's an extreme application of our basic pattern matching algorithms. When you stop to think about it, it's absolutely insane.
What's important is that this is finally becoming established fact. Hooked on Phonics (and its sibling programs used the nation over for the past 20 years) produced a load of kids (in my generation specifically) who could barely read aloud at half their speaking pace. Phonics is an important skill for anyone who is literate but we have dedicated hundreds of hours of education time to it when at least some of that time should have been going to sight based reading. It isn't the difference between fast and slow readers, it's the difference between being able to read, and being able to read and comprehend while you do so.
Incidentally, your scrambled words example is a great way to show that word shape is very important, more important than just "the first and last letters". Look at the believe. Scrambled as it is in your example the word shape is identical (bvleiee) but if you scramble it in a way that moves the tall 'l' around it's much harder to read (beivele). The text that went around the internet that you are quoting from is very carefully constructed to be as easy to read as possible. actually becomes aulaclty, according becomes aocdcrnig. There are other tricks used also, making sure that the trickier to decode words have lots of context, preserving multi-letter characters, preserving important syllables, etc. It's a neat piece of brain hacking, but it isn't quite what it's made out to be.
Fortunately outside the digital world- they would probably be hard to prove- and/or the police don't care to prosecute for obscure laws (or don't know them themselves).
This is not fortunate. I mean, obviously it is fortunate that you haven't been thrown into prison, but it creates a situation where you could be tomorrow for little to no reason. Circumstantially connected to a major crime? Sleep with a police officer's wife? Fight that unfair traffic ticket? A few hours or days of work and they can almost certainly find something that will stick at least long enough to make your life miserable. Selective enforcement should be terrifying, it is very little different from saying "we can legally arrest and convict anyone, at anytime we feel like".
His job was to bring customers to the site to read his reviews and articles, the twitter account was a tool used doubtlessly during office hours as part of that job. If I'm told to do something and I make some other software on company time to help with the assigned job, the helper application still belongs to my employer, even if I remove their name from it when I leave.
What do you need their cooperation for? They have fill out paperwork with the EPA before they can begin fracking at a given location and they aren't in charge of maintaining seismology records last time I checked. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that all the information needed to do a baseline study is public domain, available from one public database or another if you knew where to look.
You don't have to be a statistician to know that the figures given there are largely worthless.
Imagine at your work you're in charge of ordering lunch for your department (maybe 300 people). You send out an email asking for suggestions and you get 10 responses back, 9 of which say "anything but Taco Bell". Apparently, your response to this would be to say "well, I'm sure that's not a representative sample so screw 'em" and order Taco Bell anyway.
Instead of an endless stream of anecdotes can someone please do some statistics. Number of quakes within X miles of all fracking sites since fracking began versus number of quakes within X miles of all fracking sites in the years before fracking began. I'm sure it won't be pleasant to gather all the numbers, but there are dozens of places where fracking is being used, I can't imagine we don't have enough data by now to discover if there are some basic trends or not.
The government itself should be laying that cable for anyone to use.
Ehh, I don't know about that. Why doesn't the government just lay quality conduit whenever they tear up the roads, then when the next big thing comes along it's just a cable pull away. Most places tear up most roads every 10 years or less, you'd have conduit run on every major road in the US within a decade and all the arguments for community monopolies disappear.
The authors can let anyone use it any way they like, their word is god. If they say "Google can use them" then by definition, Google isn't in violation of the GPL.
That's not how copyright works. You can only copyright your specific implementation of getting a cell to express certain genes. Someone else can come along and write a different program to express the same genes and, unless there is evidence that they copies your work, there's nothing you can do about it.
20 years is too long to care true; but I see two points to his argument.
First, it's going to take time to roll out a replacement. How fresh does the data have to be for you to consider it worrying? If it takes 5 years to develop a consumer grade replacement and 5 years for it to become ubiquitous online all the sudden data recorded at the end of that window is only 10 years old at the hypothetical 20 year mark. Of course, that just raises the question, is there any asymmetric key encryption algorithm that can't be cracked with quantum computers?
Second, data that is a bit more sensitive than banking information is sent using encryption that is substantially similar. Do governments really want to have potentially classified data from 20 years ago suddenly available to their allies and enemies?
Try downloading a good window manager, I use Winsplit Revolution at work. Easily manage windows between two monitors, vertical and horizontal splits, even corner placements are a keystroke away. I can organize a dozen windows in seconds barely even thinking about it.
There's a lot of nifty design choices that I really like in WebOS, more so than in Android if I'm being honest. Snatch it up, open source the code, keep the patents in reserve for the next round of the patent wars, and give Android a bit of a face lift. Seems like a wining formula to me.
I suspect that it would be physically impossible to read every vote aloud in a reasonable (50 hour work week) time frame. It certainly wouldn't be possible for individual people actually understand, let alone weigh in on and discuss, every aspect of ever law of the current system. Now, maybe that's part of what you're trying to address under the assumption that your secret voters would vote down anything that was so unwieldy and cumbersome.
The story here is that a 3d printer was used to make a prosthetic bone for a patient. That's freaking cool.
That would be very cool, but it isn't what happened. They're using the 3d printer to make a model so that they can visualize and interact with a model of the bones before performing the surgery. Still cool, but not as cool as printing an actual replacement part would be.
Try taking a classified military radio (in a properly marked courier bag with all the paperwork) through security. Between what the xray of the bag showed, his truthful answer to "did you pack this bag yourself" and his response to requests to open the bag (he correctly said that he couldn't do that nor allow it to happen) he spent the night with airport security and only got out when someone from the base personally came to get him and told the TSA that he had done everything correctly.
This is attacking people who are bound by law and PR, the people who are at least complicit and at worst corrupted by the gang. In particular, they claimed to have knowledge of police officers who are collaborating with the gangs, that alone is reason enough they should take the step and release the data. Hide yourself behind every proxy service you can think of and bite the bullet. They almost certainly won't be able to find you, and if they take out their anger on innocents that is, for better or worse, on them, not you.
In this aspect they responded but correctly pointed to the correct part of the government that actually creates legislation.
Oh for crying out loud. The president doesn't enact healthcare law, or pass the budget, or jobs bills, or defense spending or any number of other things. By pretending that they don't influence policy in the other two branches they are, as other people have pointed out, basically just saying "fuck you, we don't want to deal with it".
There are these things in Slashdot discussions called threads, where someone responds to someone else's post. Sometimes, their response only makes sense in light of what they are responding to. In this case, I was responding to someone trying to claim that this was something sinister being done by the insurance companies or the government to reduce healthcare costs at the expense of lives. My post was the point out the failures of logic in the OPs post, not argue for or against anything in the article.
Someone who catches cancer early and has 2 years of treatment is going to have a much smaller bill on average than someone who catches their cancer at stage 2 or 3 and has a 2 year death spiral of expensive, invasive, and life destroying (figuratively if not literally) treatments. Chemo and radiation is expensive, but it's a lot less so than surgery, rehab, months in the ICU, and, eventually, hospice care.
And for gods sakes people, do you really live in a world where you believe every single persons in a decision making position is a certifiable phsychopath who cares nothing for anyone's health and happiness but their own? I have no doubt that they exist in positions of power, perhaps even in significant numbers, but the kinds of conspiracy theories you're throwing out would require complacency from everyone from accountants and doctors to board members and congressmen; without a single one of them willing to step up and blow the whistle.
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I've yet to see HTML5 as an alternative for casual flash games though. Granted, volume wise flash is used much more for videos than games, but there are many popular websites out there for casual gaming that are powered almost exclusively by Flash. Ignoring this segment of Flash's users and pretending that we can just make flash go *poof* and disappear without addressing that use case is pretty foolish in my opinion.
Maybe it's telling us "this is what we see when we look at the code, we offer no conclusions beyond that". Seriously though, the writers of Stuxnet could be just about anyone, from the US, to Isreal, to Saudi Arabia, to Russia, to a group amateurs in their garage. Without knowing their identity, it's impossible to say what their overall motives could be. The only thing known nearly for sure (and that's assuming the researchers are correct in connecting Duqu and Stuxnet) is the authors are willing to do physical damage to equipment to meet their objectives; presumably up to and including risking other people's lives. The fact that the virus doesn't do anything so far is a bit concerning to me, it shows more planning and thought than normally goes into these things. When it finally receives the packet that updates it to 'active' mode, there's no telling at this point what it could do.
I can't be the only person in the world who it never occurred to that Mario was wearing actual fur, can I? I always assumed he was putting on a costume, not wrapping himself in actually animal parts. I mean, do they think he's crawling inside the dead husk of giant, man sized frogs as well?
Shape is just a filter used to narrow it down to candidate words. Inner letters flters it down further. Order of inner letters pins it down...
Not disagreeing with you in the slightest, that's exactly what I was trying to get at. I just wanted to say this: The human brain, if freaking amazing. When reading full speed, you perform that analysis 2-5 times per second, filtering and filtering and filtering further to pull meaning out of the written word. This isn't even directly a skill that our brains were evolved for, it's an extreme application of our basic pattern matching algorithms. When you stop to think about it, it's absolutely insane.
What's important is that this is finally becoming established fact. Hooked on Phonics (and its sibling programs used the nation over for the past 20 years) produced a load of kids (in my generation specifically) who could barely read aloud at half their speaking pace. Phonics is an important skill for anyone who is literate but we have dedicated hundreds of hours of education time to it when at least some of that time should have been going to sight based reading. It isn't the difference between fast and slow readers, it's the difference between being able to read, and being able to read and comprehend while you do so.
Incidentally, your scrambled words example is a great way to show that word shape is very important, more important than just "the first and last letters". Look at the believe. Scrambled as it is in your example the word shape is identical (bvleiee) but if you scramble it in a way that moves the tall 'l' around it's much harder to read (beivele). The text that went around the internet that you are quoting from is very carefully constructed to be as easy to read as possible. actually becomes aulaclty, according becomes aocdcrnig. There are other tricks used also, making sure that the trickier to decode words have lots of context, preserving multi-letter characters, preserving important syllables, etc. It's a neat piece of brain hacking, but it isn't quite what it's made out to be.
Fortunately outside the digital world- they would probably be hard to prove- and/or the police don't care to prosecute for obscure laws (or don't know them themselves).
This is not fortunate. I mean, obviously it is fortunate that you haven't been thrown into prison, but it creates a situation where you could be tomorrow for little to no reason. Circumstantially connected to a major crime? Sleep with a police officer's wife? Fight that unfair traffic ticket? A few hours or days of work and they can almost certainly find something that will stick at least long enough to make your life miserable. Selective enforcement should be terrifying, it is very little different from saying "we can legally arrest and convict anyone, at anytime we feel like".
His job was to bring customers to the site to read his reviews and articles, the twitter account was a tool used doubtlessly during office hours as part of that job. If I'm told to do something and I make some other software on company time to help with the assigned job, the helper application still belongs to my employer, even if I remove their name from it when I leave.
What do you need their cooperation for? They have fill out paperwork with the EPA before they can begin fracking at a given location and they aren't in charge of maintaining seismology records last time I checked. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that all the information needed to do a baseline study is public domain, available from one public database or another if you knew where to look.
You don't have to be a statistician to know that the figures given there are largely worthless.
Imagine at your work you're in charge of ordering lunch for your department (maybe 300 people). You send out an email asking for suggestions and you get 10 responses back, 9 of which say "anything but Taco Bell". Apparently, your response to this would be to say "well, I'm sure that's not a representative sample so screw 'em" and order Taco Bell anyway.
Instead of an endless stream of anecdotes can someone please do some statistics. Number of quakes within X miles of all fracking sites since fracking began versus number of quakes within X miles of all fracking sites in the years before fracking began. I'm sure it won't be pleasant to gather all the numbers, but there are dozens of places where fracking is being used, I can't imagine we don't have enough data by now to discover if there are some basic trends or not.
The government itself should be laying that cable for anyone to use.
Ehh, I don't know about that. Why doesn't the government just lay quality conduit whenever they tear up the roads, then when the next big thing comes along it's just a cable pull away. Most places tear up most roads every 10 years or less, you'd have conduit run on every major road in the US within a decade and all the arguments for community monopolies disappear.
The authors can let anyone use it any way they like, their word is god. If they say "Google can use them" then by definition, Google isn't in violation of the GPL.
That's not how copyright works. You can only copyright your specific implementation of getting a cell to express certain genes. Someone else can come along and write a different program to express the same genes and, unless there is evidence that they copies your work, there's nothing you can do about it.
20 years is too long to care true; but I see two points to his argument.
First, it's going to take time to roll out a replacement. How fresh does the data have to be for you to consider it worrying? If it takes 5 years to develop a consumer grade replacement and 5 years for it to become ubiquitous online all the sudden data recorded at the end of that window is only 10 years old at the hypothetical 20 year mark. Of course, that just raises the question, is there any asymmetric key encryption algorithm that can't be cracked with quantum computers?
Second, data that is a bit more sensitive than banking information is sent using encryption that is substantially similar. Do governments really want to have potentially classified data from 20 years ago suddenly available to their allies and enemies?
Netflix with no DRM support? I'm sure the studios will love the sound of that.
Try downloading a good window manager, I use Winsplit Revolution at work. Easily manage windows between two monitors, vertical and horizontal splits, even corner placements are a keystroke away. I can organize a dozen windows in seconds barely even thinking about it.
There's a lot of nifty design choices that I really like in WebOS, more so than in Android if I'm being honest. Snatch it up, open source the code, keep the patents in reserve for the next round of the patent wars, and give Android a bit of a face lift. Seems like a wining formula to me.
I suspect that it would be physically impossible to read every vote aloud in a reasonable (50 hour work week) time frame. It certainly wouldn't be possible for individual people actually understand, let alone weigh in on and discuss, every aspect of ever law of the current system. Now, maybe that's part of what you're trying to address under the assumption that your secret voters would vote down anything that was so unwieldy and cumbersome.
The story here is that a 3d printer was used to make a prosthetic bone for a patient. That's freaking cool.
That would be very cool, but it isn't what happened. They're using the 3d printer to make a model so that they can visualize and interact with a model of the bones before performing the surgery. Still cool, but not as cool as printing an actual replacement part would be.
Try taking a classified military radio (in a properly marked courier bag with all the paperwork) through security. Between what the xray of the bag showed, his truthful answer to "did you pack this bag yourself" and his response to requests to open the bag (he correctly said that he couldn't do that nor allow it to happen) he spent the night with airport security and only got out when someone from the base personally came to get him and told the TSA that he had done everything correctly.
This is attacking people who are bound by law and PR, the people who are at least complicit and at worst corrupted by the gang. In particular, they claimed to have knowledge of police officers who are collaborating with the gangs, that alone is reason enough they should take the step and release the data. Hide yourself behind every proxy service you can think of and bite the bullet. They almost certainly won't be able to find you, and if they take out their anger on innocents that is, for better or worse, on them, not you.
In this aspect they responded but correctly pointed to the correct part of the government that actually creates legislation.
Oh for crying out loud. The president doesn't enact healthcare law, or pass the budget, or jobs bills, or defense spending or any number of other things. By pretending that they don't influence policy in the other two branches they are, as other people have pointed out, basically just saying "fuck you, we don't want to deal with it".
There are these things in Slashdot discussions called threads, where someone responds to someone else's post. Sometimes, their response only makes sense in light of what they are responding to. In this case, I was responding to someone trying to claim that this was something sinister being done by the insurance companies or the government to reduce healthcare costs at the expense of lives. My post was the point out the failures of logic in the OPs post, not argue for or against anything in the article.
Someone who catches cancer early and has 2 years of treatment is going to have a much smaller bill on average than someone who catches their cancer at stage 2 or 3 and has a 2 year death spiral of expensive, invasive, and life destroying (figuratively if not literally) treatments. Chemo and radiation is expensive, but it's a lot less so than surgery, rehab, months in the ICU, and, eventually, hospice care.
And for gods sakes people, do you really live in a world where you believe every single persons in a decision making position is a certifiable phsychopath who cares nothing for anyone's health and happiness but their own? I have no doubt that they exist in positions of power, perhaps even in significant numbers, but the kinds of conspiracy theories you're throwing out would require complacency from everyone from accountants and doctors to board members and congressmen; without a single one of them willing to step up and blow the whistle.
That's 740,000 false positives, not 74,000. Sorry for the double post.