The "inroads" that brought logographic scripts into existence were born from ignorance, and there's a reason they have died off throughout history.
Wow, that's a remarkably ethnocentric perspective, considering that the world's most populous country uses a logographic script.
Alphabetic scripts have a huge advantage with respect to mechanical typesetting, but I would argue that the rise in popularity of emoji is a de facto demonstration that electronic typesetting is eroding that advantage away to nearly nothing. If I can type a logographic word with five keystrokes that would take ten for the equivalent alphabetic word, which one wins? What we're seeing is that people are realizing that everyday expression is facilitated by a mixed alphabetic / logographic system, and they're voting with their thumbs.
Before the inevitable 60 posts bemoaning the fall of civilization, it's probably worth noting that logographic scripts are very common in the world, and have been used throughout history. What could be more revolutionary, and interesting, in the 21st century to see logographic elements making inroads into languages with alphabetic scripts?
Kudos to Oxford!
Bolden's an ass and a political hack. And, absent a fundamental change, Congress is never going to give NASA enough money to establish a meaningful human presence in space. In the meantime, we flush billions down the toilet with monkeys in a can in LEO, starve real space science nearly to death, and pretend we're going to Mars.
He's absolutely dead right and more people in the security profession need to understand what their job is really about. Security is a support role. Our job is to make someone else's stuff work better. Even if you're secret service protecting the president, the core value in your job isn't security for it's own sake, it's making sure the guy in the suit is able to do his job tomorrow.
Bingo. And over-zealous security can actually be counterproductive when it gets to the point that frustrated users start to work around it in unpredictable ways in order to get their work done. Case in point: I use a network on a large, open campus that implements highly restrictive network access policies, including "secure" wifi login that requires individual authentication via a custom app. It's a total pain in the ass, and is also notoriously flaky and unreliable. So what happens? Everybody has a rogue wifi access point in their office.
And I'm sure your domain provider is happy to pass a copy over to the NSA.
It's pretty hard to send a fucking email without using the network, but luckily that's not the threat model being discussed. If you want to keep email secure from network surveillance, you encrypt it. If you want to reduce vulnerability to a storage breach, you store it locally.
Get an email account with any domain provider, and set it up to forward to your private server. Read mail by connecting to an account on the private IMAP server. No need to run your own SMTP server; outgoing mail can be handled by your domain provider.
I know this is probably being pedantic at this point, but can their first recommendation be to stop calling them "drones"? I feel like words matter, and what we say imparts connotations. Shouldn't we have a lexicon that in some way distinguishes recreational R/C hobby aircraft from mission-specific autonomous or semi-autonomous aircraft.
These things are semi-autonomous. Even the most basic DJI drones, for example, have automated return-to-base functionality in the event of a lost control signal. It's pretty fucking cool: turn off the transmitter (under properly controlled and safe circumstances blah blah blah) and they climb to 60 feet, cruise back to their starting point, and execute a perfect landing. All by themselves.
I was under the understanding that, at least in the US, papers resulting from public funding should already be in the public domain.
This is only now starting to be mandated by funding agencies. Previously, even publicly funded research was routinely paywalled behind incredibly expensive journal subscriptions.
Now if somebody could put together an open-source tool to automate this. The tricky part would be making sure that the requester doesn't get twenty thousand copies of the paper she asked for...
my friend wired together an Eliza-like AI to his editor, and voilà, every function had a few lines of "documentation." The boss wasn't smart enough to understand that the lines meant nothing, so my friend was off the hook. His code was officially documented. I think he even got a promotion!
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The "inroads" that brought logographic scripts into existence were born from ignorance, and there's a reason they have died off throughout history.
Wow, that's a remarkably ethnocentric perspective, considering that the world's most populous country uses a logographic script.
Alphabetic scripts have a huge advantage with respect to mechanical typesetting, but I would argue that the rise in popularity of emoji is a de facto demonstration that electronic typesetting is eroding that advantage away to nearly nothing. If I can type a logographic word with five keystrokes that would take ten for the equivalent alphabetic word, which one wins? What we're seeing is that people are realizing that everyday expression is facilitated by a mixed alphabetic / logographic system, and they're voting with their thumbs.
GTFOML!
ROFL! :-) :-)
I would be glad to, but they generally don't use English which is what the E in OED stands for
Use emoji. They'll get the gist of it.
I wish I had some mod points for you, Sir.
A pictogram does not count as a "word". .
Tell that to the Chinese. Or the ancient Egyptians. Or the Mayans.
Before the inevitable 60 posts bemoaning the fall of civilization, it's probably worth noting that logographic scripts are very common in the world, and have been used throughout history. What could be more revolutionary, and interesting, in the 21st century to see logographic elements making inroads into languages with alphabetic scripts? Kudos to Oxford!
Bolden's an ass and a political hack. And, absent a fundamental change, Congress is never going to give NASA enough money to establish a meaningful human presence in space. In the meantime, we flush billions down the toilet with monkeys in a can in LEO, starve real space science nearly to death, and pretend we're going to Mars.
*drops mike*
Who's Mike, and why would you want to do that to him?
Pay TV with any ads at all is fucking insane. Whey the hell would I pay to watch ads?
Linux box with a couple of tuner cards and MythTV. Works great.
When a user creates a workaround for an established security policy, that is when that user is fired.
As if the security guy in IT has the authority to fire people.
He's absolutely dead right and more people in the security profession need to understand what their job is really about. Security is a support role. Our job is to make someone else's stuff work better. Even if you're secret service protecting the president, the core value in your job isn't security for it's own sake, it's making sure the guy in the suit is able to do his job tomorrow.
Bingo. And over-zealous security can actually be counterproductive when it gets to the point that frustrated users start to work around it in unpredictable ways in order to get their work done. Case in point: I use a network on a large, open campus that implements highly restrictive network access policies, including "secure" wifi login that requires individual authentication via a custom app. It's a total pain in the ass, and is also notoriously flaky and unreliable. So what happens? Everybody has a rogue wifi access point in their office.
And I'm sure your domain provider is happy to pass a copy over to the NSA.
It's pretty hard to send a fucking email without using the network, but luckily that's not the threat model being discussed. If you want to keep email secure from network surveillance, you encrypt it. If you want to reduce vulnerability to a storage breach, you store it locally.
Get an email account with any domain provider, and set it up to forward to your private server. Read mail by connecting to an account on the private IMAP server. No need to run your own SMTP server; outgoing mail can be handled by your domain provider.
Problem solved.
... watch the bottom feeders rise.
I know this is probably being pedantic at this point, but can their first recommendation be to stop calling them "drones"? I feel like words matter, and what we say imparts connotations. Shouldn't we have a lexicon that in some way distinguishes recreational R/C hobby aircraft from mission-specific autonomous or semi-autonomous aircraft.
These things are semi-autonomous. Even the most basic DJI drones, for example, have automated return-to-base functionality in the event of a lost control signal. It's pretty fucking cool: turn off the transmitter (under properly controlled and safe circumstances blah blah blah) and they climb to 60 feet, cruise back to their starting point, and execute a perfect landing. All by themselves.
Try the test yourself:
http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/
http://tiddlywiki.com/
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet.
*Slow Clap*
Even by Slashdot standards, that was really insane.
Why the need for tweeting?
Because you can get the paper from somebody other than the author.
Depends on the field. Most journals are ok with making preprints available, but some are not. Here is a list of policy by journal.
I was under the understanding that, at least in the US, papers resulting from public funding should already be in the public domain.
This is only now starting to be mandated by funding agencies. Previously, even publicly funded research was routinely paywalled behind incredibly expensive journal subscriptions.
Now if somebody could put together an open-source tool to automate this. The tricky part would be making sure that the requester doesn't get twenty thousand copies of the paper she asked for...
From TFA:
my friend wired together an Eliza-like AI to his editor, and voilà, every function had a few lines of "documentation." The boss wasn't smart enough to understand that the lines meant nothing, so my friend was off the hook. His code was officially documented. I think he even got a promotion!
He should have been shot.
Riiight. Lanza and Roof and Rodger and Hasan were actually upset about the deficit. That explains everything, man!
Were you frightened as a child by Alan Greenspan or something?