But really, what privacy concern is there in acceleration data?
None. But...
You can bet that their programmers wrote in the conclusion of their presentation to management: "With more data, the test becomes more accurate." So, when they will do the test again next year (they will, don't worry), it will include more data. Did you know that statistics say that secondary roads are more dangerous than highways?
At least it has been banned from being used in the food industry! (Yes, it was used in plastics that came into direct contact with our own food until 2010).
Not exactly newsworthy, but a good inspiration to other schools nonetheless. Let's hope some teachers read this, because education could use a little boost that costs nothing at all.
From a company that takes its social responsibility. Companies discard computers a lot sooner than normal consumers. And they will discard dozens of the same computers (nice for the school's admin)... But alternatively, they can use their HUGE network in the local community. Seriously, the parents will happily bring their old computers to school if that might improve their kids' education...
If they do not care that the computers aren't uniform, and if they only set a sort of minimum system requirement, they'll find plenty. And if they're lucky, they even get a whole room full of the exact same leftovers from some company.
China, Iran and some other countries are only your enemy because you yourselves declared them the enemy. They have no interest to sabotage a peaceful scientific mission.
I found the story a bit confusing. If the climate was so dry that corpses didn't decompose, how was it wet enough to support a human population? Why weren't the corpses buried or burned in the first place? Were they burying the corpses in shallow graves and having them re-emerge for some reason?
Digging had not been invented because the shovel had not been invented - although that's a bit of a chicken and the egg story.:) Why not burn the bodies? It's a desert. Not much wood around. So, the state of their technology only allowed shallow burials.
Finally, the mummification started at the start of the wet period. But that was likely a transition. So, when it slowly started to get wet, that civilization was at was commonly known as "Peak Body". Maybe it lead to mummification to avoid the rotting that all those bodies started to do?
I know that TFA says something different... but could this maybe also mean that a 1-time purchase of an Xbox kinect means I can now shop from home (online) and always get clothes that fit perfectly? Does it mean that somehow I will not even have to try clothes on anymore in the shop?
Will it mean that I will have to spend less time shopping?? That'd be awesome. I hate shopping.
In the Netherlands, the temperature of July 2012 was pretty much right on the long term average. Which means it's a miserable summer.
So, we are indeed also suffering - but at least this year not from the heat. (And yes, I know the difference between the weather and climate - and it is on average heating up here too. Just not this summer.)
A wants X amount of money from B. A loses the case, but B is still bankrupt from the costs of the case.
I may be mistaken, but I think that in the Netherlands, if A loses, they always pay the entire costs of B too. That's the risk of suing someone for financial gain.
It's more like 10 meters. Which means the difference in time is 0.03s, which is (at the 100m sprint) significant, and can mean the difference between winning or losing, or between a world record or no record.
Isn't that our capitalist victory over the communist bastards?:)
It seems that it never occurred to anyone that by winning the cold war, the communist countries would start playing the game by our own (rather ruthless) rules. When they were commies, we could block them out. Now we have to allow them to play the game. Not sure what was a bigger threat for our western economies.
You can either cooperate. It means you have no unique intellectual property (IP) position, but through the widespread use of your IP you might get some benefits back like cheaper space flight. Also, with some luck, new orders for your own local economy, where that IP originated and where the most knowledge is available.
Or you can protect the IP. No cooperation. Create an inflexible closed operation. Costs increase and without cooperation you'll have to invent everything yourself, or buy it under a license agreement. The best case scenario you succeed at being the first at everything. In a worse scenario, you pay for knowledge. In the worst cases, you either have no access, or you're violating someone else's IP.
Look at the money being squandered on patent battles in courts in the IT and also manufacturing industries. Don't get space flight locked into a similar situation, because there's no way out.
Cooperation through openness is the way forward. But it takes some balls to start doing that. (And please note that top managers and politicians, who think only short term, generally don't have those).
Get it done, or no money. I kinda like that actually.
Obviously, this won't work for fundamental sciences, but more applied sciences can be funded this way. I'm thinking of practical engineering and design types of research, which all too often get side tracked by unsolved fundamental questions.
This is only half of it. If people get naive about nearly everything around them, then it's not funny anymore. I don't like to be called stupid, just because I build my own furniture or prepare a fresh meal.
You don't make your own furniture. You just put some planks together, with all kinds of pre-fab materials and equipment. If I give you a tree, and pile of iron ore - which is essentially all you need to make a chair or a table, then you'd be just as much lost as everyone else.
But that's progress. At least you can make a table in a day, instead of two months. Pre-fab stuff makes that possible. And that was my point.
Likewise with the food. You say you prepare a fresh meal. Of what? Most meat comes from a giant warehouse where meat can be frozen up to two years, and you bought it in your local supermarket. Someone else had those cows and butchered them for you. If we'd put you in a wild land with no supermarkets or shops, you'd probably not be able to cook that same meal anymore. You might survive if you're not dumb, but luxury is gone, and gathering food would take all day.
But that's progress. At least you can make a meal in an hour. Pre-fab stuff makes that possible. And that was my point.
A few years ago a young woman mixed flour and water to feed to her baby. The instant milk was empty and it was more "natural" to her understanding to mix a powder with water to get milk than to use the milk in the fridge. Worse, most people didn't see anything wrong with it.
The woman you describe survives because we protect the stupid people. That has nothing to do with this discussion. Eventually, they'll all win a Darwin award.
When technology moves on, the end users learn to use the new tools and new materials, and only experts use the expert's tools to make the tools and materials for the every day man. But the experts do that much more efficiently and at a lower price than the normal people could do before.
There was a time when you could fix your own car, but that car would be so simple that it could only do 100 km/h, had no satnav, no ABS, no fuel injection, no mp3 player, no central locking system, no electrical windows, no indicators when something was wrong. And I spend my time to do something else (like spamming on/.), instead of tinkering on my car.
Nostaligia is a rubbish argument against technological progress.
The good news is that once the competition has a complete map too, their tool can be just as useful as Google maps. Then it's just a matter of who makes the nicest UI and who can generate a map on your screen the quickest.
It's quite unlike Google itself, where their search engine seems to generate more and better results than other search engines (I admit, I might be biased).
So, I can foresee some competition for Google Maps soon. And that is good news.
Meh, true. But such refining processes typically deal with loads of elements anyway, and they use strong acids to extract stuff out, or to create an electrolyte or so. What nasty by-products are you talking about anyway? And how are those produced now?
Regarding to the whole recycling: it's all a matter of scale. A really large process will create large enough waste streams that it is worth it to purify those too.
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But really, what privacy concern is there in acceleration data?
None. But...
You can bet that their programmers wrote in the conclusion of their presentation to management: "With more data, the test becomes more accurate."
So, when they will do the test again next year (they will, don't worry), it will include more data. Did you know that statistics say that secondary roads are more dangerous than highways?
I'll stay out from the start.
The actual issue is that it's just 200 miles - hardly a reasonable sample.
But then again, I would say that monitoring where I go for 5 meters is already an invasion of my privacy, so I wouldn't cooperate anyway. Screw them.
Why is it bouyed with helium, which is incredibly expensive?
It's unmanned, so why not use hydrogen? Who cares if they lose the odd one to lightening?
Because there is no point in doing surveillance over non-populated areas. It may be unmanned, but there are people under it.
At least it has been banned from being used in the food industry! (Yes, it was used in plastics that came into direct contact with our own food until 2010).
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=3574
Not exactly newsworthy, but a good inspiration to other schools nonetheless. Let's hope some teachers read this, because education could use a little boost that costs nothing at all.
From a company that takes its social responsibility. Companies discard computers a lot sooner than normal consumers. And they will discard dozens of the same computers (nice for the school's admin)... But alternatively, they can use their HUGE network in the local community. Seriously, the parents will happily bring their old computers to school if that might improve their kids' education...
If they do not care that the computers aren't uniform, and if they only set a sort of minimum system requirement, they'll find plenty. And if they're lucky, they even get a whole room full of the exact same leftovers from some company.
All I can say is: Stop Watching FOX News.
China, Iran and some other countries are only your enemy because you yourselves declared them the enemy. They have no interest to sabotage a peaceful scientific mission.
I found the story a bit confusing. If the climate was so dry that corpses didn't decompose, how was it wet enough to support a human population? Why weren't the corpses buried or burned in the first place? Were they burying the corpses in shallow graves and having them re-emerge for some reason?
Digging had not been invented because the shovel had not been invented - although that's a bit of a chicken and the egg story. :)
Why not burn the bodies? It's a desert. Not much wood around. So, the state of their technology only allowed shallow burials.
Finally, the mummification started at the start of the wet period. But that was likely a transition. So, when it slowly started to get wet, that civilization was at was commonly known as "Peak Body". Maybe it lead to mummification to avoid the rotting that all those bodies started to do?
That only works if all your friends cooperate.
I don't see the problem with it. It's not like privacy exists in the first place.
Not anymore. But some people want it back, or at least to make privacy optional again. So, there you have your problem.
I know that TFA says something different... but could this maybe also mean that a 1-time purchase of an Xbox kinect means I can now shop from home (online) and always get clothes that fit perfectly?
Does it mean that somehow I will not even have to try clothes on anymore in the shop?
Will it mean that I will have to spend less time shopping?? That'd be awesome. I hate shopping.
In the Netherlands, the temperature of July 2012 was pretty much right on the long term average. Which means it's a miserable summer.
So, we are indeed also suffering - but at least this year not from the heat. (And yes, I know the difference between the weather and climate - and it is on average heating up here too. Just not this summer.)
I've patented everyone. And I've also patented patenting.
Ah, I see what you misunderstood. The 1st line in my post was about the current American situation, where you can win a case, but still go bankrupt.
Then in the 2nd line I explained how it's done in the Netherlands, which apparently is similar to the German situation.
A wants X amount of money from B. A loses the case, but B is still bankrupt from the costs of the case.
I may be mistaken, but I think that in the Netherlands, if A loses, they always pay the entire costs of B too. That's the risk of suing someone for financial gain.
Meh. Just point the gun at the athletes, and they'll easily make up for the few hundreths lost at the start.
Win-win, I'd say.
It's more like 10 meters. Which means the difference in time is 0.03s, which is (at the 100m sprint) significant, and can mean the difference between winning or losing, or between a world record or no record.
Isn't that our capitalist victory over the communist bastards? :)
It seems that it never occurred to anyone that by winning the cold war, the communist countries would start playing the game by our own (rather ruthless) rules.
When they were commies, we could block them out. Now we have to allow them to play the game. Not sure what was a bigger threat for our western economies.
You can either cooperate. It means you have no unique intellectual property (IP) position, but through the widespread use of your IP you might get some benefits back like cheaper space flight. Also, with some luck, new orders for your own local economy, where that IP originated and where the most knowledge is available.
Or you can protect the IP. No cooperation. Create an inflexible closed operation. Costs increase and without cooperation you'll have to invent everything yourself, or buy it under a license agreement. The best case scenario you succeed at being the first at everything. In a worse scenario, you pay for knowledge. In the worst cases, you either have no access, or you're violating someone else's IP.
Look at the money being squandered on patent battles in courts in the IT and also manufacturing industries. Don't get space flight locked into a similar situation, because there's no way out.
Cooperation through openness is the way forward. But it takes some balls to start doing that. (And please note that top managers and politicians, who think only short term, generally don't have those).
Get it done, or no money. I kinda like that actually.
Obviously, this won't work for fundamental sciences, but more applied sciences can be funded this way. I'm thinking of practical engineering and design types of research, which all too often get side tracked by unsolved fundamental questions.
First thing I thought too, lol.
There's something comforting about it though. Even when employed by the government, hackers are just hackers. :-)
This is only half of it. If people get naive about nearly everything around them, then it's not funny anymore. I don't like to be called stupid, just because I build my own furniture or prepare a fresh meal.
You don't make your own furniture. You just put some planks together, with all kinds of pre-fab materials and equipment. If I give you a tree, and pile of iron ore - which is essentially all you need to make a chair or a table, then you'd be just as much lost as everyone else.
But that's progress. At least you can make a table in a day, instead of two months. Pre-fab stuff makes that possible. And that was my point.
Likewise with the food. You say you prepare a fresh meal. Of what? Most meat comes from a giant warehouse where meat can be frozen up to two years, and you bought it in your local supermarket. Someone else had those cows and butchered them for you. If we'd put you in a wild land with no supermarkets or shops, you'd probably not be able to cook that same meal anymore. You might survive if you're not dumb, but luxury is gone, and gathering food would take all day.
But that's progress. At least you can make a meal in an hour. Pre-fab stuff makes that possible. And that was my point.
A few years ago a young woman mixed flour and water to feed to her baby. The instant milk was empty and it was more "natural" to her understanding to mix a powder with water to get milk than to use the milk in the fridge. Worse, most people didn't see anything wrong with it.
The woman you describe survives because we protect the stupid people. That has nothing to do with this discussion. Eventually, they'll all win a Darwin award.
When technology moves on, the end users learn to use the new tools and new materials, and only experts use the expert's tools to make the tools and materials for the every day man. But the experts do that much more efficiently and at a lower price than the normal people could do before.
There was a time when you could fix your own car, but that car would be so simple that it could only do 100 km/h, had no satnav, no ABS, no fuel injection, no mp3 player, no central locking system, no electrical windows, no indicators when something was wrong. And I spend my time to do something else (like spamming on /.), instead of tinkering on my car.
Nostaligia is a rubbish argument against technological progress.
The good news is that once the competition has a complete map too, their tool can be just as useful as Google maps. Then it's just a matter of who makes the nicest UI and who can generate a map on your screen the quickest.
It's quite unlike Google itself, where their search engine seems to generate more and better results than other search engines (I admit, I might be biased).
So, I can foresee some competition for Google Maps soon. And that is good news.
Meh, true. But such refining processes typically deal with loads of elements anyway, and they use strong acids to extract stuff out, or to create an electrolyte or so.
What nasty by-products are you talking about anyway? And how are those produced now?
Regarding to the whole recycling: it's all a matter of scale. A really large process will create large enough waste streams that it is worth it to purify those too.