"What if such a person could gain enough experience to control those impulses?"
You crazy bleeding-hearts! You'll probably be suggesting that inexperienced job applicants can be 'trained' and turned into valuable employees, rather than just being circular filed by HR, next...
The words are pre-filled for all locations, apparently arbitrarily(with respect to their natural-language meanings), I assume that they used some cute math trick, maybe a hash of some flavor to munge (latitude, longitude) into a unique triplet selected from the dictionary, rather than assigning them fully randomly and having to store the whole collection, rather than being able to re-generate as needed; but they don't say.
Of course, for a low annual fee, you can buy a shorter 'Oneword'(tm) to advertise your place of business or whatever, so maybe somebody will give a damn about those...
"Without being able to look up the mapping from the database, the three words don't seem to be useful."
Exactly, consumer! Our awesome new system replaces those pesky, confusing, 'numbers' that hurt your little head and interoperate with basically any map, globe, or other geography system on earth, with three simple words that are meaningful only in the context of our proprietary service! Isn't it great?
Just think of the possibilities: will it be more lucrative to charge fees for service? Or maybe mine people's queries for marketable insights about their behavior?
Eh, phrenology doesn't discredit all attempts to put psychology on a physical basis, any more than phlogiston proves that chemistry is nothing but a mockery of a science...
However, even if they do find an atypically robust biological marker, I suspect that mumsy and daddy dearest are going to be disappointed:
"Violence" and "Spree killers" are really quite different things. Spree killing is a very, very, very, atypical expression of violence(there've been, what, ~20 school shooters in all of US history? Maybe low hundreds if you count all workplace and miscellanious killing sprees?), and spree killers, while they tend not to be wildly well adjusted(especially with the benefit of raging selection bias and a lot of hindsight), tend to have really banal records before their big event. Unless a test is unbelievably precise(both in terms of false positives and false negatives), the odds of finding who you are looking for, without massive false positives, are just terrible.
Violence/aggression in general are a much easier target; but it still isn't clear what use you'll make of such data(for comparison's sake, criminal records are probably a more robust predictor of future criminality than anything biological that we have, but that information hasn't exactly set the world of recidivism-prevention on fire). Unless you find the anti-violence equivalent of a statin(and even those aren't without controversy), just what are you going to do with probabilities?
Doesn't the phrase "There is concern that science may find biomarkers long before society can deal with its implications." carry some implication that society's ability to deal with such implications is actually improving, or at least might actually improve at some point?
On the one hand, I'm not sure why we would expect society to ever be able to 'deal with its implications'. Moral philosophy isn't exactly a progress-packed field, and people have been chewing on the issue of what moral responsibility does or doesn't mean in the absence of free will for centuries, without apparent result.
On the other hand, I'm not sure that having data delivered that we aren't ready to deal with would actually be all that unfamiliar: In the absence of good data, we don't sit, serenely withholding judgement until the facts become clear, we charge forward based on whatever scraps we have, held together with wild-ass guesses and whatever assumptions happen to flatter us.
Consider, the golden age of Eugenics, the late 19th to mid 20th century: aside from better recordkeeping, we barely had a clue beyond the vague selective tendencies that we've been using on plants and livestock for millenia. Did we let that stop us? Hardly.
Really, the biggest novelty of a (at present hypothetical) biological test is that it might defy our comfortable expectations about who the right sort of people and the wrong sort of people are. As long as it's just adding a stamp of 'objectivity' to the parol board's decision to deny some undesirable with an impressive rap sheet an early release, nobody will care; but once it shows up in little timmy from the 'burbs the hand-wringing will start.
I'm not a rocket surgeon; but I'd guess a failure somewhere in the PLLS. That component is supposed to condense and remove water vapor from the gas(as well as scrubbing CO2 and adding oxygen if needed) before reintroducing the fresh atmosphere into the astronaut's helmet.
Between a possible failure in the mechanism for removing condensation(which would cause the output to be alarmingly damp if you aren't expecting it; but would be a self-limiting problem since there just isn't that much water vapor available), there is the more serious possibility that the LCVG, or the heat exchanger that keeps the coolant water in that chilled, is leaking, which might actually end up being enough water to impair breathing(especially with surface tension but not gravity), or impair the cooling functions enough to threaten the astronaut's ability to function. If he's on a tether, they'd presumably just reel him in if he were to pass out from thermal overload; but a free walk would not be a good time to lose consciousness...
Well, the blogger thinks that type O blood is actually type zero blood. So, yes, let's all just wander away now.
But, but, her first published letter to the editor was at age 6! And she's been involved in writing like 8 pop-health books with people who have 'MD' somewhere in their names and apparently don't have high standards! This is a serious expert we are talking about here.
The UN(as its name might suggest) is representative(approximately, the details can be pretty ideosyncratic, and the Security Council is serious business) of Nations, not people. Given the revelations either connected to, or spurred by, about the spying programs various other countries(even the 'good guys', the fact that any 'bad guys' who can afford to do it are doing it has been known for ages), and other countries collaboration with the US spying program, do you feel lucky?
I certainly wouldn't trust the Americans to operate internet infrastructure without spying on it; but the list of people I would so trust is Not Very Long(and none of them are in power).
Borgoise individualist filth. "Pyongyang Style" would involve several tens of thousands of carefully drilled elements of the masses performing some sort of mass-gymnastic routine...
Even where it is a thing, I don't know of a single jurisdiction where it is the default thing. Arguably, something with no license information at all is probably on the bottom of the heap in terms of utility; because you don't even know who to call to beg for a license. At least 'conventional' proprietary code sometimes has a sales rep you can implore if you really need the stuff.
What was he supposed to do? It's not his fault Apple makes such sexy hardware.
Please observe the symbol on reverse side of your Apple product, facing away from the screen. Look at that: A tasty apple, with a bite taken out.
The fool. He picks up an internet connected device marked with the symbol of man's descent into sin(and nakedness) and then is surprised when his concupiscent flesh is besotted with unclothed harlots? Isn't that the most plausible outcome?
That isn't nearly as bad as some sort of overt moral turpitude; but it doesn't make your incoherent filing full of trivially verifiable nonsense and assorted non sequitors look any saner.
I wasn't imaging the guy in the crane booth doing the math, the computers should be handling that for him; but I imagine that the one really messy variable is that the crane doesn't have access to the weight of the containers it hasn't lifted yet...
So, easy enough to see if the container's manifest is a lie; but you only have 'verified' weights for the containers you have already started to load, which likely makes optimizing the load based on verified weights wholly intractable until much of the loading has already happened.
It presumably wouldn't be rocket surgery to slip a weigh-station earlier into the process somewhere, to try to flag deviations before they get to the crane; but the crane can probably only call out lies: still better than nothing, you can either adjust to make the best of it, if the lies are small, or abort and punish the shipper, if they are large; but not enough information early enough to plot out the optimal load.
Ah! But that just means that the decisions rendered by the remainder are closer to being unanimous! And, obviously, the more unanimous the ruling, the more legal the behavior!
That is the root of the suspicion that Verizon has reasons other than repair costs to not re-run the lines that were cut by the hurricane, to ensure that the area has no copper to any premises, and that whether your phone looks like a landline or not, you are at the tender mercy of Verizon Wireless.
With the exception of the (distinctly expensive) 3-element DLP systems, the frequency is a bit of a lie.
In a single DLP setup, you only have one mirror array, of whatever resolution, which can attenuate each pixel more or less. That alone would only get you a greyscale image, so they toss a color wheel(and it is a literal wheel, the psychedelic seizurevision effect that occurs if the wheel or its drive motor are encumbered by dust or debris and start spinning out of sync with the rest of the system is something to see...) in the beampath and every third frame is R, G, or B, with your eye supposed to be doing the addition(and it mostly works, though your peripheral vision will likely pick up the effect, being more motion sensitive than central vision).
A 3-element unit has 3 DLPs, each with a fixed color filter, and simultaneous RGB output, and should look markedly less odd for the same nominal frequency.
If it were pitched as a premium channel or similar add-on to basic cable, you could also go the 'buy this unless you hate your dog and want it to suffer while you neglect it home, alone and afraid, and probably peeing on your sofa!' angle.
Heck, just look at the success of that 'Baby Einstein' dreck: somewhere between fuck-all and overtly negative effects(once somebody actually bothered to do some research, well after the selling had started) and they still moved a zillion units by telling parents that plunking their little spawn in front of the TV could be done without guilt.
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"What if such a person could gain enough experience to control those impulses?"
You crazy bleeding-hearts! You'll probably be suggesting that inexperienced job applicants can be 'trained' and turned into valuable employees, rather than just being circular filed by HR, next...
Anything that reminds you of AOL Keywords can't be a bad thing, can it?
The words are pre-filled for all locations, apparently arbitrarily(with respect to their natural-language meanings), I assume that they used some cute math trick, maybe a hash of some flavor to munge (latitude, longitude) into a unique triplet selected from the dictionary, rather than assigning them fully randomly and having to store the whole collection, rather than being able to re-generate as needed; but they don't say.
Of course, for a low annual fee, you can buy a shorter 'Oneword'(tm) to advertise your place of business or whatever, so maybe somebody will give a damn about those...
"Without being able to look up the mapping from the database, the three words don't seem to be useful."
Exactly, consumer! Our awesome new system replaces those pesky, confusing, 'numbers' that hurt your little head and interoperate with basically any map, globe, or other geography system on earth, with three simple words that are meaningful only in the context of our proprietary service! Isn't it great?
Just think of the possibilities: will it be more lucrative to charge fees for service? Or maybe mine people's queries for marketable insights about their behavior?
Eh, phrenology doesn't discredit all attempts to put psychology on a physical basis, any more than phlogiston proves that chemistry is nothing but a mockery of a science...
However, even if they do find an atypically robust biological marker, I suspect that mumsy and daddy dearest are going to be disappointed:
"Violence" and "Spree killers" are really quite different things. Spree killing is a very, very, very, atypical expression of violence(there've been, what, ~20 school shooters in all of US history? Maybe low hundreds if you count all workplace and miscellanious killing sprees?), and spree killers, while they tend not to be wildly well adjusted(especially with the benefit of raging selection bias and a lot of hindsight), tend to have really banal records before their big event. Unless a test is unbelievably precise(both in terms of false positives and false negatives), the odds of finding who you are looking for, without massive false positives, are just terrible.
Violence/aggression in general are a much easier target; but it still isn't clear what use you'll make of such data(for comparison's sake, criminal records are probably a more robust predictor of future criminality than anything biological that we have, but that information hasn't exactly set the world of recidivism-prevention on fire). Unless you find the anti-violence equivalent of a statin(and even those aren't without controversy), just what are you going to do with probabilities?
Biomarkers and "predispositions" to behaviors are going to be used to pre-judge individuals. This is inevitable.
We already do our best to do that by use of every other available data point...
Doesn't the phrase "There is concern that science may find biomarkers long before society can deal with its implications." carry some implication that society's ability to deal with such implications is actually improving, or at least might actually improve at some point?
On the one hand, I'm not sure why we would expect society to ever be able to 'deal with its implications'. Moral philosophy isn't exactly a progress-packed field, and people have been chewing on the issue of what moral responsibility does or doesn't mean in the absence of free will for centuries, without apparent result.
On the other hand, I'm not sure that having data delivered that we aren't ready to deal with would actually be all that unfamiliar: In the absence of good data, we don't sit, serenely withholding judgement until the facts become clear, we charge forward based on whatever scraps we have, held together with wild-ass guesses and whatever assumptions happen to flatter us.
Consider, the golden age of Eugenics, the late 19th to mid 20th century: aside from better recordkeeping, we barely had a clue beyond the vague selective tendencies that we've been using on plants and livestock for millenia. Did we let that stop us? Hardly.
Really, the biggest novelty of a (at present hypothetical) biological test is that it might defy our comfortable expectations about who the right sort of people and the wrong sort of people are. As long as it's just adding a stamp of 'objectivity' to the parol board's decision to deny some undesirable with an impressive rap sheet an early release, nobody will care; but once it shows up in little timmy from the 'burbs the hand-wringing will start.
I'm not a rocket surgeon; but I'd guess a failure somewhere in the PLLS. That component is supposed to condense and remove water vapor from the gas(as well as scrubbing CO2 and adding oxygen if needed) before reintroducing the fresh atmosphere into the astronaut's helmet.
Between a possible failure in the mechanism for removing condensation(which would cause the output to be alarmingly damp if you aren't expecting it; but would be a self-limiting problem since there just isn't that much water vapor available), there is the more serious possibility that the LCVG, or the heat exchanger that keeps the coolant water in that chilled, is leaking, which might actually end up being enough water to impair breathing(especially with surface tension but not gravity), or impair the cooling functions enough to threaten the astronaut's ability to function. If he's on a tether, they'd presumably just reel him in if he were to pass out from thermal overload; but a free walk would not be a good time to lose consciousness...
Well, the blogger thinks that type O blood is actually type zero blood. So, yes, let's all just wander away now.
But, but, her first published letter to the editor was at age 6! And she's been involved in writing like 8 pop-health books with people who have 'MD' somewhere in their names and apparently don't have high standards! This is a serious expert we are talking about here.
Yahoo Health? Are you joking?
Unfortunately, we don't have one of those.
The UN(as its name might suggest) is representative(approximately, the details can be pretty ideosyncratic, and the Security Council is serious business) of Nations, not people. Given the revelations either connected to, or spurred by, about the spying programs various other countries(even the 'good guys', the fact that any 'bad guys' who can afford to do it are doing it has been known for ages), and other countries collaboration with the US spying program, do you feel lucky?
Heck, Mr. Secretary General himself, asserts that Snowden's 'digital misuse' has created problems.
I certainly wouldn't trust the Americans to operate internet infrastructure without spying on it; but the list of people I would so trust is Not Very Long(and none of them are in power).
Borgoise individualist filth. "Pyongyang Style" would involve several tens of thousands of carefully drilled elements of the masses performing some sort of mass-gymnastic routine...
The sugar was both the cover and the sophisticated missile technology...
Crafty, crafty.
Even where it is a thing, I don't know of a single jurisdiction where it is the default thing. Arguably, something with no license information at all is probably on the bottom of the heap in terms of utility; because you don't even know who to call to beg for a license. At least 'conventional' proprietary code sometimes has a sales rep you can implore if you really need the stuff.
What was he supposed to do? It's not his fault Apple makes such sexy hardware.
Please observe the symbol on reverse side of your Apple product, facing away from the screen. Look at that: A tasty apple, with a bite taken out.
The fool. He picks up an internet connected device marked with the symbol of man's descent into sin(and nakedness) and then is surprised when his concupiscent flesh is besotted with unclothed harlots? Isn't that the most plausible outcome?
My money would be on 'certifiable mental illness'.
He is currently on "Disability Inactive Status" per Tenessee Supreme Court Rule 9, Section 21.
That isn't nearly as bad as some sort of overt moral turpitude; but it doesn't make your incoherent filing full of trivially verifiable nonsense and assorted non sequitors look any saner.
Who needs IPX when Linsock support is finally included out of the box?
I wasn't imaging the guy in the crane booth doing the math, the computers should be handling that for him; but I imagine that the one really messy variable is that the crane doesn't have access to the weight of the containers it hasn't lifted yet...
So, easy enough to see if the container's manifest is a lie; but you only have 'verified' weights for the containers you have already started to load, which likely makes optimizing the load based on verified weights wholly intractable until much of the loading has already happened.
It presumably wouldn't be rocket surgery to slip a weigh-station earlier into the process somewhere, to try to flag deviations before they get to the crane; but the crane can probably only call out lies: still better than nothing, you can either adjust to make the best of it, if the lies are small, or abort and punish the shipper, if they are large; but not enough information early enough to plot out the optimal load.
Ah! But that just means that the decisions rendered by the remainder are closer to being unanimous! And, obviously, the more unanimous the ruling, the more legal the behavior!
That is the root of the suspicion that Verizon has reasons other than repair costs to not re-run the lines that were cut by the hurricane, to ensure that the area has no copper to any premises, and that whether your phone looks like a landline or not, you are at the tender mercy of Verizon Wireless.
With the exception of the (distinctly expensive) 3-element DLP systems, the frequency is a bit of a lie.
In a single DLP setup, you only have one mirror array, of whatever resolution, which can attenuate each pixel more or less. That alone would only get you a greyscale image, so they toss a color wheel(and it is a literal wheel, the psychedelic seizurevision effect that occurs if the wheel or its drive motor are encumbered by dust or debris and start spinning out of sync with the rest of the system is something to see...) in the beampath and every third frame is R, G, or B, with your eye supposed to be doing the addition(and it mostly works, though your peripheral vision will likely pick up the effect, being more motion sensitive than central vision).
A 3-element unit has 3 DLPs, each with a fixed color filter, and simultaneous RGB output, and should look markedly less odd for the same nominal frequency.
I'm pretty sure it was geese that provided warnings of incipient threats to the empire(though it was the republic, at the time)...
If it were pitched as a premium channel or similar add-on to basic cable, you could also go the 'buy this unless you hate your dog and want it to suffer while you neglect it home, alone and afraid, and probably peeing on your sofa!' angle.
Heck, just look at the success of that 'Baby Einstein' dreck: somewhere between fuck-all and overtly negative effects(once somebody actually bothered to do some research, well after the selling had started) and they still moved a zillion units by telling parents that plunking their little spawn in front of the TV could be done without guilt.
What sort of information are you awaiting that would make you not-ambivalent?
Mod parent up.
How the leader of one of the most warmongering nations on Earth got awarded a Nobel Peace Prize is beyond me.
We will bleed the ground red with those who oppose our peace-efforts!