If the professor posted detailed and complete annotations for all lectures online, there would be no market for someone else to sell the material. The university and the professor are already being paid very well to disseminate the information. If some else can make a living by supplementing the course material, it just says to me that the student didn't get what they paid for in the first place. This is especially true if students can substitute lecture notes for attending the lectures and still perform well in the class. If it is possible to read a book and study a text outline of the professor's focus on the material and still do as well as others who attended the lectures, then what is the thousands of dollars in tuition paying for? The part where the prof takes something fascinating and makes it mind-numbingly dull for 50 minutes a day?
I feel exactly the same way. I focused on the random and accidental possibilities because I was paranoid about sounding paranoid. That says something in itself right there, maybe simply that I'm just paranoid. I'm not sure watching England will be much help to us, but it will certainly be morbidly fascinating! I'm worried that if England is to be our canary, then waiting until it is an ex-canary may be too late for us to get out of the mine in time. The bird already looks kinda sick to me. Also I hope you know the way out, because I don't!
Respectfully, he was trained to blow things up underwater. Ventura makes it clear that he knows nothing about controlled demolitions, even going so far as to say his expertise boils down to throwing more C4 on something if you don't get the job done the first time. He is using the same approach to sell his new book through this radio interview, except he is substituting 9/11 conspiracy for C4.
I say random chance! Every single day relatively innocent and decent people get accidentally pulled into the complex moving machinery of modern human society and are destroyed or mangled.
DARPA has an X-Prize out for a robotic elevator weapons system. It is simply not enough to fight street to street. We must be prepared to fight floor to floor. With robots. If we don't fight them in the 20th floor transfer lobby, we will have to fight them in the mezzanine!
I think that this is an ongoing experiment by Comcast to test methods and especially the political limits of throttling P2P. Like a child testing the limits of parental authority and patience, they have pushed at the boundary until they have judged that to continue might risk immediate consequence. They are backing down only because other corporate players and the FCC are getting involved. They will take the ground they have gained and what they have learned and return later to try again. I wonder how long it will take for them to realize that making geeks hate your internet service is like making kids hate your breakfast cereal?
With Google offering alternatives to a shopper's first whim? I think that companies that protest this see it as a force for erosion of mindless brand loyalty. These are the customers that you just don't have to work to keep. This will only give them ideas, which is obviously what they need. What? You mean I don't have to buy my next gadget at Best Buy after all? I have other alternatives?
The spirit of the law is to preserve documentation of the activities of the White House for history, posterity and oversight. Well I say a well used hard rive is a very rich document indeed. As a historical or forensic document, the original HDD is far superior to any purportedly complete and accurate copy provided by anyone at all. The law was created to prevent the executive from destroying records of wrongdoing. Effectively all the law is asking for is a redacted version of the original historical document at the discretion of White House, while permitting the White House to destroy the original document. How is that supposed to accomplish anything at all? The funny thing is the White House wouldn't even offer us that. My guess is there was too much compromising information to possibly edit it all out, so they just pragmatically threw it all down the memory hole.
Individuals and corporate IT are wise to destroy or overwrite their hard drives for privacy and security reasons. In government, I don't see how that isn't anything less than destruction of the original historical record. What we are left with is something else that is redacted and adulterated by someone with great potential for conflict of interest in the matter. Of course the President has special privacy and security concerns to consider out of nation interest. Isn't that the point of being able to classify some documents in the first place? Is it that much harder to classify the information in a disconnected hard drive than the information in a file cabinet?
I've been reading the economic news lately and relying on the marketplace instead of regulation to maximize consumer welfare has not been proven by experience at all.
Agreed! It begs the questions: What would it take to make the analysis more compliant? What constitutes non-compliance?
I am sure there are many manufacturers that would like to prohibit negative (non-compliant) reviews of their products. This doesn't seem to work in the real world though for some reason...maybe too many tubes disseminating non-compliant analysis world wide.
This idea could be applied to botnets just as easily as physical bots. The storm worm botnet has similar collective immune system functions for defense.
I don't see how the experiment described in the NYT story demonstrated anything other than cockroaches prefer dark places that smell like sex. The robots are "doused" with sex hormones. The way the experiment is presented presupposes that the hormones function to identify the robots as cockroaches to the other roaches. The conclusions drawn in the article present the behavior of the roaches in going where the robots are as imitation of peer behavior. The action of the robots is described as leading the others. It seems to me that the roaches' behavior is more simply explained by attraction to the sex hormones on the robots. Seems to me the experiment just proves that some roaches will abandon a dark hiding place for sexytime, but I am not an entomologist. I make sandwiches. I bet you would get very similar results if instead of using sex hormones, you rubbed a slice of salami on the robots. Do they have salami in Brussels? They should try it.
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If only their was a homophone for pizza.
If the professor posted detailed and complete annotations for all lectures online, there would be no market for someone else to sell the material. The university and the professor are already being paid very well to disseminate the information. If some else can make a living by supplementing the course material, it just says to me that the student didn't get what they paid for in the first place. This is especially true if students can substitute lecture notes for attending the lectures and still perform well in the class. If it is possible to read a book and study a text outline of the professor's focus on the material and still do as well as others who attended the lectures, then what is the thousands of dollars in tuition paying for? The part where the prof takes something fascinating and makes it mind-numbingly dull for 50 minutes a day?
I feel exactly the same way. I focused on the random and accidental possibilities because I was paranoid about sounding paranoid. That says something in itself right there, maybe simply that I'm just paranoid. I'm not sure watching England will be much help to us, but it will certainly be morbidly fascinating! I'm worried that if England is to be our canary, then waiting until it is an ex-canary may be too late for us to get out of the mine in time. The bird already looks kinda sick to me. Also I hope you know the way out, because I don't!
Respectfully, he was trained to blow things up underwater. Ventura makes it clear that he knows nothing about controlled demolitions, even going so far as to say his expertise boils down to throwing more C4 on something if you don't get the job done the first time. He is using the same approach to sell his new book through this radio interview, except he is substituting 9/11 conspiracy for C4.
The one he doesn't have yet, I should add.
This story reads like a kid bragging about his new video card.
I say random chance! Every single day relatively innocent and decent people get accidentally pulled into the complex moving machinery of modern human society and are destroyed or mangled.
Gilliam is the one in your head. I think you should let him stay.
Or Simon Buttle?
I thought the terrorists were making all of their money by pirating music, gold farming, and selling pot to their friends.
Is in the algorithm of the beholder.
I'm a monkey.
If a harmonic of the cable got involved it could be a rough ride.
DARPA has an X-Prize out for a robotic elevator weapons system. It is simply not enough to fight street to street. We must be prepared to fight floor to floor. With robots. If we don't fight them in the 20th floor transfer lobby, we will have to fight them in the mezzanine!
I think that this is an ongoing experiment by Comcast to test methods and especially the political limits of throttling P2P. Like a child testing the limits of parental authority and patience, they have pushed at the boundary until they have judged that to continue might risk immediate consequence. They are backing down only because other corporate players and the FCC are getting involved. They will take the ground they have gained and what they have learned and return later to try again. I wonder how long it will take for them to realize that making geeks hate your internet service is like making kids hate your breakfast cereal?
Is a locking roll top desk too much bling for your cubicle-imprisoned lifestyle?
With Google offering alternatives to a shopper's first whim? I think that companies that protest this see it as a force for erosion of mindless brand loyalty. These are the customers that you just don't have to work to keep. This will only give them ideas, which is obviously what they need. What? You mean I don't have to buy my next gadget at Best Buy after all? I have other alternatives?
The spirit of the law is to preserve documentation of the activities of the White House for history, posterity and oversight. Well I say a well used hard rive is a very rich document indeed. As a historical or forensic document, the original HDD is far superior to any purportedly complete and accurate copy provided by anyone at all. The law was created to prevent the executive from destroying records of wrongdoing. Effectively all the law is asking for is a redacted version of the original historical document at the discretion of White House, while permitting the White House to destroy the original document. How is that supposed to accomplish anything at all? The funny thing is the White House wouldn't even offer us that. My guess is there was too much compromising information to possibly edit it all out, so they just pragmatically threw it all down the memory hole. Individuals and corporate IT are wise to destroy or overwrite their hard drives for privacy and security reasons. In government, I don't see how that isn't anything less than destruction of the original historical record. What we are left with is something else that is redacted and adulterated by someone with great potential for conflict of interest in the matter. Of course the President has special privacy and security concerns to consider out of nation interest. Isn't that the point of being able to classify some documents in the first place? Is it that much harder to classify the information in a disconnected hard drive than the information in a file cabinet?
I've been reading the economic news lately and relying on the marketplace instead of regulation to maximize consumer welfare has not been proven by experience at all.
Agreed! It begs the questions: What would it take to make the analysis more compliant? What constitutes non-compliance? I am sure there are many manufacturers that would like to prohibit negative (non-compliant) reviews of their products. This doesn't seem to work in the real world though for some reason...maybe too many tubes disseminating non-compliant analysis world wide.
It is easier to take people's rights away when they are children and have limited rights to begin with. It makes perfect sense to me.
This idea could be applied to botnets just as easily as physical bots. The storm worm botnet has similar collective immune system functions for defense.
If there is a contributor of added energy in this system I think it is his mouth.
Lobbyists are like robots with doused with money instead of sex hormones.
I don't see how the experiment described in the NYT story demonstrated anything other than cockroaches prefer dark places that smell like sex. The robots are "doused" with sex hormones. The way the experiment is presented presupposes that the hormones function to identify the robots as cockroaches to the other roaches. The conclusions drawn in the article present the behavior of the roaches in going where the robots are as imitation of peer behavior. The action of the robots is described as leading the others. It seems to me that the roaches' behavior is more simply explained by attraction to the sex hormones on the robots. Seems to me the experiment just proves that some roaches will abandon a dark hiding place for sexytime, but I am not an entomologist. I make sandwiches. I bet you would get very similar results if instead of using sex hormones, you rubbed a slice of salami on the robots. Do they have salami in Brussels? They should try it.