This does not indemnify you against information uploaded by unwitting friends, relatives, acquaintances, or colleagues. The more people come to rely on the internet as a venue for socializing, the less control any individual will have over their personal information or their privacy. As information collecting becomes more automated, AR will become more useful and hence more commonplace, possibly bringing some of the issues raised by the article to the fore.
I think it's important to recognize that even though AR introduces additional risks to *your* security and privacy, it has the exact same effect on a *criminal's* security and privacy. I'll throw a hypothetical scenario out there - say you enabled a service at the supermarket that automatically emails you a copy of your receipt whenever you make a purchase. If your identity thief makes a purchase at one of these supermarkets, you have an incriminating email containing unrecognizable foodstuffs and a credit account you never opened, which can be used to spearhead an investigation pulling CCTV footage from that supermarket to compare to a facial recognition database, resulting in the identification and arrest of the identity thief.
Given this scenario, I think that rather than rebel against the erosion of our privacy, we need to accept that privacy in its current incarnation will never exist again, and instead work towards ensuring that no single group of people is allowed to exempt themselves or abuse this new information.
Starvation is a geopolitical problem, not a resource problem. Grain production has consistently outpaced population growth for the past 30 years. Even during last year's food crisis, resource shortfalls were not an issue.
What gives the police the right to compel a person to say or do anything?
The way I see it, the police know this exec is going to walk away with a clean record- after all, he's done nothing wrong. The consequence of this mess is that the average person will be more likely to comply when an illegal demand is made by the police, because the average person can't afford the same legal representation as a corporate executive.
You pull that server out of the farm and let other servers pick up the slack while you make repairs.
It's hype, based on the assumption that every server on the planet will be virtualized by 2019, and that the separation of hardware from the software that runs on it will allow IT departments ample time to offload work into "the cloud" while they swap out RAM.
Either that or it's made for large datacenters with multiple redundancies and enormous cooling costs.:)
They say the first thing you hear about research or technology is the best thing you will ever hear about it.
I'm not so sure "neutralizing" this kinase-C will result in any miracle cures, as the protein happens to have a lot of other uses in the body, per wikipedia:
"Recurring themes are that PKC is involved in receptor desensitization, in modulating membrane structure events, in regulating transcription, in mediating immune responses, in regulating cell growth, and in learning and memory"
"Street stupid" is a cop-out, and common sense has been proven again and again by psychologists to be a very poor decision making tool.
Instead, look at a high IQ as just one of the MANY factors that motivate a person's behavior. Emotions like love, greed and envy, self-esteem, past experiences both good and bad, and rational thought are all factored into the decisions we make every day. So a person can have boatloads of intelligence but is so greedy they fall for a 419 scam, financially ruining themselves. Or they're in love enough to stay in an unhealthy relationship and have a stroke from the stress. Or their self-esteem is so much in the gutter that they compulsively buy shit on QVC and eventually file for bankruptcy.
I don't own a smartphone. But in five years, I'll be able to pay $30 for one at the mall's Verizon kiosk.
Neilsen reports smartphone subscribers comprise nearly 20% of the cellphone market, with the number of subscribers growing 72% quarter-over-quarter. Yes, there are some people out there who don't want a smartphone, who don't want to pay for the data plan, who don't want the larger pocket footprint, who don't want to be connected all the time, but as the number of people using traditional cellphones dwindles, those customers will be penalized for their traditionalism in the same way that an internet subscriber is penalized for not bundling basic cable.
And I addressed the in-car GPS argument in my previous post. Integrated GPS is the future, not dashboard mounted. It usually takes about a decade for features to trickle down from luxury automobiles to consumer automobiles, but once glass consoles make it to the Civic, dash-mounted GPS are gone.
Before someone got the bright idea to add road maps and turn-by-turn directions to GPS units, they were used recreationally by hikers and other outdoorsy types, and commercially everywhere.
The few curmudgeons who refuse to use functional smartphones are a negligible market. Unintegrated commuter GPS units are going to fall by the wayside in a couple years, but the *original* applications for GPS in handheld devices aren't going anywhere.
Granted, hikers, industry, and the military are much smaller markets than Joe Sixpack, but they're still large enough to sustain the continued manufacture and production of GPS technology.
Clever, but that's not what pirates are going to do.
Pirates are going to purchase books anonymously, by using prepaid credit cards, stolen credit cards, or hacked amazon accounts. It's the easiest way and it guarantees the pirate isn't associated personally with the distributed work.
I think the idea is to have a homogeneous connective form factor for all data connections on the computer, so that all cables are interchangeable. As far as I know, the bandwidth of an optical transmission isn't limited by the transmitting medium itself, but by the interpretative hardware on either end, which is improving as defined by Moore's law. So you set a standard for the cable and connector now and create interchangeable cables that are not device-specific, which results in all changes to the technology occuring completely on the backend, out of sight to the user.
If this is, indeed, the goal of LightPeak, i *really* hope that they learned a lesson from USB, and make a connector that can be plugged in using tactile feedback, rather than requiring the user guess-and-rotate as is the case today.
Nature doesn't have a knack for anything, it's a dumb process.
But you're kind of right - if the reproductive advantages a species of insect gains from living in human dwellings outweighs the reproductive advantages of an aversion to "Death Stench," insects unaffected by this odor will fill the niche.
Alternately, the deluge of ads could be brain-washing Americans to think, "Without a little purple pill you'll feel bad," such that the illness itself is a nocebo effect, which placebos effectively nullify.
These are productivity gains, not gains in intelligence or literacy. (or plagiarism)
The abundance of similar material written about virtually every topic in existence provides the neophyte writer with organizational ideas and pre-organized information they wouldn't have had access to just ten years ago.
Combine this information superiority with the compositional tools that today's college students have been using their entire lives, and the result is better papers, and more of them.
In the meantime maybe Congress ought to work on providing more funding to science and maths education so that we have the brain capital to spend on Preserving American Pride.
Birds don't herd, they flock. If it's a question of large migratory birds, sure, they face no threat due to predators and the path of least resistance is to take advantage of slipstreams in a V formation, but large flocks of birds exhibit the same wave-like patterns as human traffic, only their highway isn't restricted to a two-dimensional plane, so they break off into multiple flocks and recombine later.
As far as combating the herding tendencies exhibited by so many oblivious drivers on the road, the only way I've found to combat this is to play the role of a sheep dog, to herd and route them by challenging their comfort with the presence of my vehicle.
Take, for example, passing a slow driver on the right while i'm cruise controlling. Many drivers will subconsciously accelerate to match my speed, leaving us driving next to one another. They do this because they're in a comfort zone, they feel safer this way. Every time this happens to me, I challenge the other driver's comfort in two ways. First I speed up just a little more, not so much that it's dangerous but enough that I'm close to losing them. Next, I'll violate the sanctity of their lane- that's right, i'll trace a sidewinder path in my own lane so they see, out of the corner of their eye, an "inattentive" driver about to hit them. Because they're near the limit of their willingness to speed, they brake, and I drive away a happy man.
I was only speculating on China's rationale, that what may not be a problem now becomes problematic as it grows over time.
Examining potential interactions between virtual economies and real economies is more productive than dismissing them outright and failing into your old, familiar free-market-versus-communism-death-penalty-war-on-drugs-blah-blah-blah argumentative schema.
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China may enjoy the tax generated from gold farming, but virtual commerce cannot be regulated and controlled like real commerce. Ignoring the interaction between Real and Virtual economies is headstrong and foolish, so from my vantage point it appears that China is letting some other country pave the way for virtual regulation rather than saddle itself with unique problems caused by this novel form of earning money.
Think of it this way, if gold farming really is worth $1b USD per year, this is equivalent to the annual income of 400,000 Chinese citizens. If, for whatever reason, the purchase of virtual goods is "outlawed" in a country, or the virtual world in which gold farming is performed bans the practice, or the virtual world's maintaining corporation goes out of business, that's 400,000 people without a livelihood anymore, people who are now a burden on the state.
These are pretty basic scenarios and that's just off the cuff. I'm sure more consideration from brighter minds could produce even more coherent objections to allowing gold farming to grow as a legitimate industry.
It's been my experience that Firefox automatically downloads updates and installs them when I restart my browser. Firefox users are up to date because *they don't have a choice.*
Now, who was complaining about MS forcing an update?
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This does not indemnify you against information uploaded by unwitting friends, relatives, acquaintances, or colleagues. The more people come to rely on the internet as a venue for socializing, the less control any individual will have over their personal information or their privacy. As information collecting becomes more automated, AR will become more useful and hence more commonplace, possibly bringing some of the issues raised by the article to the fore.
I think it's important to recognize that even though AR introduces additional risks to *your* security and privacy, it has the exact same effect on a *criminal's* security and privacy. I'll throw a hypothetical scenario out there - say you enabled a service at the supermarket that automatically emails you a copy of your receipt whenever you make a purchase. If your identity thief makes a purchase at one of these supermarkets, you have an incriminating email containing unrecognizable foodstuffs and a credit account you never opened, which can be used to spearhead an investigation pulling CCTV footage from that supermarket to compare to a facial recognition database, resulting in the identification and arrest of the identity thief.
Given this scenario, I think that rather than rebel against the erosion of our privacy, we need to accept that privacy in its current incarnation will never exist again, and instead work towards ensuring that no single group of people is allowed to exempt themselves or abuse this new information.
Starvation is a geopolitical problem, not a resource problem. Grain production has consistently outpaced population growth for the past 30 years. Even during last year's food crisis, resource shortfalls were not an issue.
more here: http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm
What gives the police the right to compel a person to say or do anything?
The way I see it, the police know this exec is going to walk away with a clean record- after all, he's done nothing wrong. The consequence of this mess is that the average person will be more likely to comply when an illegal demand is made by the police, because the average person can't afford the same legal representation as a corporate executive.
You pull that server out of the farm and let other servers pick up the slack while you make repairs.
It's hype, based on the assumption that every server on the planet will be virtualized by 2019, and that the separation of hardware from the software that runs on it will allow IT departments ample time to offload work into "the cloud" while they swap out RAM.
Either that or it's made for large datacenters with multiple redundancies and enormous cooling costs. :)
They say the first thing you hear about research or technology is the best thing you will ever hear about it.
I'm not so sure "neutralizing" this kinase-C will result in any miracle cures, as the protein happens to have a lot of other uses in the body, per wikipedia:
"Recurring themes are that PKC is involved in receptor desensitization, in modulating membrane structure events, in regulating transcription, in mediating immune responses, in regulating cell growth, and in learning and memory"
"Street stupid" is a cop-out, and common sense has been proven again and again by psychologists to be a very poor decision making tool.
Instead, look at a high IQ as just one of the MANY factors that motivate a person's behavior. Emotions like love, greed and envy, self-esteem, past experiences both good and bad, and rational thought are all factored into the decisions we make every day. So a person can have boatloads of intelligence but is so greedy they fall for a 419 scam, financially ruining themselves. Or they're in love enough to stay in an unhealthy relationship and have a stroke from the stress. Or their self-esteem is so much in the gutter that they compulsively buy shit on QVC and eventually file for bankruptcy.
I don't own a smartphone. But in five years, I'll be able to pay $30 for one at the mall's Verizon kiosk.
Neilsen reports smartphone subscribers comprise nearly 20% of the cellphone market, with the number of subscribers growing 72% quarter-over-quarter. Yes, there are some people out there who don't want a smartphone, who don't want to pay for the data plan, who don't want the larger pocket footprint, who don't want to be connected all the time, but as the number of people using traditional cellphones dwindles, those customers will be penalized for their traditionalism in the same way that an internet subscriber is penalized for not bundling basic cable.
And I addressed the in-car GPS argument in my previous post. Integrated GPS is the future, not dashboard mounted. It usually takes about a decade for features to trickle down from luxury automobiles to consumer automobiles, but once glass consoles make it to the Civic, dash-mounted GPS are gone.
Before someone got the bright idea to add road maps and turn-by-turn directions to GPS units, they were used recreationally by hikers and other outdoorsy types, and commercially everywhere.
The few curmudgeons who refuse to use functional smartphones are a negligible market. Unintegrated commuter GPS units are going to fall by the wayside in a couple years, but the *original* applications for GPS in handheld devices aren't going anywhere.
Granted, hikers, industry, and the military are much smaller markets than Joe Sixpack, but they're still large enough to sustain the continued manufacture and production of GPS technology.
Clever, but that's not what pirates are going to do.
Pirates are going to purchase books anonymously, by using prepaid credit cards, stolen credit cards, or hacked amazon accounts. It's the easiest way and it guarantees the pirate isn't associated personally with the distributed work.
I think the idea is to have a homogeneous connective form factor for all data connections on the computer, so that all cables are interchangeable. As far as I know, the bandwidth of an optical transmission isn't limited by the transmitting medium itself, but by the interpretative hardware on either end, which is improving as defined by Moore's law. So you set a standard for the cable and connector now and create interchangeable cables that are not device-specific, which results in all changes to the technology occuring completely on the backend, out of sight to the user.
If this is, indeed, the goal of LightPeak, i *really* hope that they learned a lesson from USB, and make a connector that can be plugged in using tactile feedback, rather than requiring the user guess-and-rotate as is the case today.
Could it be that when the bar for socially acceptable appearance is set so high as to be unattainable, people simply give up on their bodies?
Nature doesn't have a knack for anything, it's a dumb process.
But you're kind of right - if the reproductive advantages a species of insect gains from living in human dwellings outweighs the reproductive advantages of an aversion to "Death Stench," insects unaffected by this odor will fill the niche.
Alternately, the deluge of ads could be brain-washing Americans to think, "Without a little purple pill you'll feel bad," such that the illness itself is a nocebo effect, which placebos effectively nullify.
If anything is surprising about this, it's the discovery that the disc of stars surrounding a galaxy can extend far beyond the bright, central disc.
I'd be interested to know if this additional, distant mass will effect any changes on our existing hypotheses for galactic formation and accretion.
How difficult would it be for an enterprising "computer criminal" to leave a trail of breadcrumbs leading to someone else?
IF this is easy to do, Symantec knows it, and this effort amounts to nothing more than a publicity stunt to sell more licenses.
These are productivity gains, not gains in intelligence or literacy. (or plagiarism)
The abundance of similar material written about virtually every topic in existence provides the neophyte writer with organizational ideas and pre-organized information they wouldn't have had access to just ten years ago.
Combine this information superiority with the compositional tools that today's college students have been using their entire lives, and the result is better papers, and more of them.
In the meantime maybe Congress ought to work on providing more funding to science and maths education so that we have the brain capital to spend on Preserving American Pride.
Birds don't herd, they flock. If it's a question of large migratory birds, sure, they face no threat due to predators and the path of least resistance is to take advantage of slipstreams in a V formation, but large flocks of birds exhibit the same wave-like patterns as human traffic, only their highway isn't restricted to a two-dimensional plane, so they break off into multiple flocks and recombine later.
As far as combating the herding tendencies exhibited by so many oblivious drivers on the road, the only way I've found to combat this is to play the role of a sheep dog, to herd and route them by challenging their comfort with the presence of my vehicle.
Take, for example, passing a slow driver on the right while i'm cruise controlling. Many drivers will subconsciously accelerate to match my speed, leaving us driving next to one another. They do this because they're in a comfort zone, they feel safer this way. Every time this happens to me, I challenge the other driver's comfort in two ways. First I speed up just a little more, not so much that it's dangerous but enough that I'm close to losing them. Next, I'll violate the sanctity of their lane- that's right, i'll trace a sidewinder path in my own lane so they see, out of the corner of their eye, an "inattentive" driver about to hit them. Because they're near the limit of their willingness to speed, they brake, and I drive away a happy man.
Goes to show that ideas are a dime a dozen.
Implementing something like this is what makes the news.
From an economic standpoint, 1000 deaths a year is a small price to pay for the productivity gains had by communicating while in transit.
People, individuals, are irrational. The decisions made by a your public pool, the NTSB and other government agencies generally aren't.
400k times 20% per year.
I was only speculating on China's rationale, that what may not be a problem now becomes problematic as it grows over time.
Examining potential interactions between virtual economies and real economies is more productive than dismissing them outright and failing into your old, familiar free-market-versus-communism-death-penalty-war-on-drugs-blah-blah-blah argumentative schema.
China may enjoy the tax generated from gold farming, but virtual commerce cannot be regulated and controlled like real commerce. Ignoring the interaction between Real and Virtual economies is headstrong and foolish, so from my vantage point it appears that China is letting some other country pave the way for virtual regulation rather than saddle itself with unique problems caused by this novel form of earning money.
Think of it this way, if gold farming really is worth $1b USD per year, this is equivalent to the annual income of 400,000 Chinese citizens. If, for whatever reason, the purchase of virtual goods is "outlawed" in a country, or the virtual world in which gold farming is performed bans the practice, or the virtual world's maintaining corporation goes out of business, that's 400,000 people without a livelihood anymore, people who are now a burden on the state.
These are pretty basic scenarios and that's just off the cuff. I'm sure more consideration from brighter minds could produce even more coherent objections to allowing gold farming to grow as a legitimate industry.
Every infected is likely to infect an additional 2-3.
If everyone wears the masks, disease transmission ends and the pandemic is over.
If X people wear the masks, disease transmission can be significantly reduced, even if X is a relatively small percentage of the population.
It's been my experience that Firefox automatically downloads updates and installs them when I restart my browser. Firefox users are up to date because *they don't have a choice.*
Now, who was complaining about MS forcing an update?
This is not true. Sunburns are caused by UV rays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunburn#Cause