"We demand responsible gobbement. And they damn well better not touch my benefits." said one voter.
This is unfortunately the root of the problem. We demand spending cuts, but as soon as someone makes the necessary cuts, who ever got shafted by them demonizes them out of office.
We demand safety and security, but then scream bloody murder when the government adds more and more "safety" measures. At some point politics has stopped being about real, reasonable change, and become a game of trying to not piss off any of the voters, which amounts to not doing anything of value.
Your doing it wrong then...you are voting for popular opinion, not those who actually make a difference. You're not voting for those who are willing to make the hard choices to cut back government and defund security agencies like the TSA, Homeland Security, and others.
Voting has consequences. Know who you vote for. I've yet to see a politician, who upon getting elected, was anything other than what common sense told you he was going to be via his past record.
So basically Trap-it is using Bayesian filters or some similar technique to filter news stories, and because Apple managed to cobble together a bunch of existing technologies in a fairly clever manner, now all this AI stuff is "new" and "ground-breaking"?
The study does not "confirm" global warming, and certainly not man-made global warming. It confirms that the analysis from various temperature stations over the last 100 years has been fairly accurate. This indicates a light global average increase in temperature over this period. This tells us nothing about whether the planet is truly warming, or if we are in some sort of long term earth cycle. It also tells us nothing about man-made warming, if it exists. Finally their analysis still can't fully account for the so-called "fudge factor" which has to be applied when you consider the positive effect of concrete cities on temperature readings. All they can prove is that previous samplings of the data were adequate, and that our somewhat inherently faulty data shows a positive temperature trend over the last 100ish years. They also reconfirmed the El Nino impact.
Finally, I think it's important to note that if this study had come to the opposite conclusion, it would have been derided as quack science and laughed off of Slashdot. Furthermore, the fact that the Koch brothers funded an apparently legitimate scientific study is unlikely to challenge the conception of most on this forum that they are a bunch of purely evil monsters, but it should.
If covering some small group of protestors in the OWS movement is considered newsworthy, where were the articles about the Tea Party and their protests of over taxation ect?
My point, is that this political crap doesn't have a place in "News for Nerds" unless it directly pertains to technology or science.
1) Why the hell is this a topic for Slashdot? Has Slashdot given up all pretense of being either unbiased, or a tech news site?
2) If that were truly the thrust of OWS, then shouldn't they be "occupying" a university parking lot protesting the absurd prices of tuition?
3) How are student loans a problem? If you make good choices, you will choose a major which will provide you with the skills/qualifications to get a job which will more than pay for the loans. If you choose a worthless field of study, or go to an Ivy League schools with ridiculous costs (when you can't afford it), then that was your choice, and you deserve the consequences of that stupid choice.
4) The US Government has all but taken over the student loan process. This is Fannie and Freddie 2.0. There is no accountability or recourse when the government is running something. It's the fox in charge of the hen house. The rules don't apply. If OWS really wants to make a difference, then they need to be demanding that government get out of Student Loans, and get out of bailing out banks. They would be far more effective "occupying" a capitol building.
5) Let's not forget the historical context of "college" education. Even 50 years ago, your average person could not afford to go to an institute of higher learning. It was completely impractical unless you were rich. In modern times college is actually feasible for every one. You might have to go to small, no-name college, and you might have to take out some loans, but you can do it. That is incredible progress. Sometime a little perspective is useful.
I got a CS related job right out of college. It would be better if you got the same, however sometimes it might be easier to get an IT job in the meantime. If you do get the IT job, spend the time around your work schedule building a portfolio to show your skill. This is be incredibly handy when you go looking for a CS job.
My point is that tampering with the feed wouldn't be illegal since you own it, but the cops could, and likely would, use it for evidence in the event that it caught a crime. How are they to know whether the footage is legitimate or has been tampered with? Would they even question its legitimacy?
So if private feeds are coming in, what's to prevent a malicious private party from staging anything from a robbery to a murder and editing the footage to implicate their choice of targets and splicing said footage into the feed?
Other than tampering with evidence (and the actual crime), I doubt it would even be illegal since they own the feed.
Even if that were true, which it isn't, the vast majority leave their money in banks or invested in companies. If it is in a bank, the bank is investing it in companies. In either case that wealth is being used to produce more wealth, which is creating jobs.
This article is a glorious example of begging the question.
The obvious answer is that most companies don't want to deal with the shit-storm that COD Modern Warefare 2 and Battle for Falujah. It has nothing to do with the supposed moral recrimination of shooting innocent bystanders as far as the actual players are concerned.
"Niche" implies small. There is nothing small about any of the categories I mentioned. You might argue that they will continue to shrink into small edge cases, but that isn't currently the case. I know that in 10 years I'll be doing all of the above still. A gaming console does not even come close to PC gaming in terms of user ability to control their character or the level of immersion you can get. Video editing, Sound editing, and graphic editing are all done by amateurs as well as professionals on fairly regular basis. Just think of all the videos that hit Youtube. At least half of those have some sort of editing of sound or video.
The "post PC" age is not upon us. Small computers and cellphones largely do what PC's used to, but they don't even come close to being capable of handling high-end gaming, graphic editing, movie editing, sound editing, and heavy mathematical computation. Small computers also aren't particularly convenient for software development in general. Unless the landscape radically shifts those items aren't going away anytime soon.
Someone is just trying to get a little press buzz and desparately hoping the world takes notice of them.
My comment is in the context of whether a Masters gets you any closer to a job in your field or more pay. If you want to teach or do something highly specialized, that's another topic.
I graduated with a BS in Computer Science, Summa cum Laude. The only thing that degree did for me in terms of real practical programming, was in terms of all the coding jobs I did to pay for it, and the experience I could write down from those jobs on my resume.
My current job is with a Fortune 20 defense contractor. They didn't ever even ask to see proof of my degree and GPA that I put on my resume. They did call all my previous employers however.
I can't image how two-three more years of theoretical, non-practical schooling is going to beat out two-three years of practical experience in the field when it comes to hiring. In the meantime, you were making money instead of paying money, and you were clocking more years of experience towards those high-paying jobs asking for 5-10 years of experience.
All these doomsayers always point to their exponential growth charts which have all but been debunked, when you look at how humans adapt in the face of adversity. We stop or severely curtail our growth when resources are rare, and/or more expensive. The other thing we do, is invent our way out of the situation. In spite of all this...in spite of the fact that the earth's population is getting older (which while a good thing for longevity; it's bad for reproductive means), every other day we have a new doomsayer claiming that we'll be eating each other in 20 years.
"Economic Protectionist" is a fancy way of saying Eugenics and Communism. The easy at which people except the false choice of Eugenics or eating each other, is truly frightening.
Where I work, each project gets a formal code review, and after that a security review.
While it definitely serves as a good thing for new developers, and a once-in-a-while review to keep developers honest, it's a waste of time to do one on every project. It takes time and money and after the first couple reviews, the developer should be learning from their mistakes and not making them anymore.
Sure the Supreme court has ruled on sexuality before. This case was about video game violence. They correctly ruled that the responsibilities lies with the parents and not the state to restrict access. Breyer makes a good point, but that doesn't mean that this ruling is bad because it conflicts with a previous ruling, it means that the previous ruling needs to be revisited.
Every game I've ever owned, I've played through multiple times. If the game wasn't good enough to play multiple times, it wasn't worth owning...do you see the inherit catch 22 in your plan, Capcom?
To be fair to Capcom, in previous Resident Evil games, you could "replay" the game after finishing the game without resetting, all the monsters would be tougher, but you'd have access to new, hidden super weapons. So I am guessing this new game will function the same way. Thus, you can't go back and play a "virgin" game, but you'll still be able to replay it.
Oh that's right. I forgot...it's a Conservative position to want to micromanage people's lives...Just like it's a Conservative position to ban Tobacco virtually everywhere, and a Conservative position to pull junk food out of schools, and a Conservative position to ban fast food in certain "food desert" areas.
You're an idiot. Controlling freedoms is neither a right or a left issue in practice...at least the Right's philosophy is to tend towards more personal freedom.
You don't have a problem with continuing a process that allows a whole sub-culture of people to be treated like slaves, paid almost nothing, worked in unsafe environments, and have no representation because you don't want to pay a buck fifty more for you produce?...what a disgusting position. I think you'd have been more in comfortable in the 1800's in the south.
Why is the article treating this guy like some sort of innocent? If he is indeed innocent of passing classified information, then I'm glad justice did not miscarry. If he did indeed pass the data, he isn't a hero, he is most likely a traitor, or at the very least guilty of espionage, wire fraud, or some other similar charge. That makes him an enemy of the US.
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"We demand responsible gobbement. And they damn well better not touch my benefits." said one voter.
This is unfortunately the root of the problem. We demand spending cuts, but as soon as someone makes the necessary cuts, who ever got shafted by them demonizes them out of office.
We demand safety and security, but then scream bloody murder when the government adds more and more "safety" measures. At some point politics has stopped being about real, reasonable change, and become a game of trying to not piss off any of the voters, which amounts to not doing anything of value.
Your doing it wrong then...you are voting for popular opinion, not those who actually make a difference. You're not voting for those who are willing to make the hard choices to cut back government and defund security agencies like the TSA, Homeland Security, and others.
Voting has consequences. Know who you vote for. I've yet to see a politician, who upon getting elected, was anything other than what common sense told you he was going to be via his past record.
So basically Trap-it is using Bayesian filters or some similar technique to filter news stories, and because Apple managed to cobble together a bunch of existing technologies in a fairly clever manner, now all this AI stuff is "new" and "ground-breaking"?
Yes, the only way you can do legitimate science is if you beg-the-question, or set out to prove an outcome. You're a disgrace to science.
Unlike the Slashdot Editors, I actually RTFA.
The study does not "confirm" global warming, and certainly not man-made global warming. It confirms that the analysis from various temperature stations over the last 100 years has been fairly accurate. This indicates a light global average increase in temperature over this period. This tells us nothing about whether the planet is truly warming, or if we are in some sort of long term earth cycle. It also tells us nothing about man-made warming, if it exists. Finally their analysis still can't fully account for the so-called "fudge factor" which has to be applied when you consider the positive effect of concrete cities on temperature readings. All they can prove is that previous samplings of the data were adequate, and that our somewhat inherently faulty data shows a positive temperature trend over the last 100ish years. They also reconfirmed the El Nino impact.
Finally, I think it's important to note that if this study had come to the opposite conclusion, it would have been derided as quack science and laughed off of Slashdot. Furthermore, the fact that the Koch brothers funded an apparently legitimate scientific study is unlikely to challenge the conception of most on this forum that they are a bunch of purely evil monsters, but it should.
If covering some small group of protestors in the OWS movement is considered newsworthy, where were the articles about the Tea Party and their protests of over taxation ect?
My point, is that this political crap doesn't have a place in "News for Nerds" unless it directly pertains to technology or science.
1) Why the hell is this a topic for Slashdot? Has Slashdot given up all pretense of being either unbiased, or a tech news site?
2) If that were truly the thrust of OWS, then shouldn't they be "occupying" a university parking lot protesting the absurd prices of tuition?
3) How are student loans a problem? If you make good choices, you will choose a major which will provide you with the skills/qualifications to get a job which will more than pay for the loans. If you choose a worthless field of study, or go to an Ivy League schools with ridiculous costs (when you can't afford it), then that was your choice, and you deserve the consequences of that stupid choice.
4) The US Government has all but taken over the student loan process. This is Fannie and Freddie 2.0. There is no accountability or recourse when the government is running something. It's the fox in charge of the hen house. The rules don't apply. If OWS really wants to make a difference, then they need to be demanding that government get out of Student Loans, and get out of bailing out banks. They would be far more effective "occupying" a capitol building.
5) Let's not forget the historical context of "college" education. Even 50 years ago, your average person could not afford to go to an institute of higher learning. It was completely impractical unless you were rich. In modern times college is actually feasible for every one. You might have to go to small, no-name college, and you might have to take out some loans, but you can do it. That is incredible progress. Sometime a little perspective is useful.
I got a CS related job right out of college. It would be better if you got the same, however sometimes it might be easier to get an IT job in the meantime. If you do get the IT job, spend the time around your work schedule building a portfolio to show your skill. This is be incredibly handy when you go looking for a CS job.
Try reading what you quoted before you post...
My point is that tampering with the feed wouldn't be illegal since you own it, but the cops could, and likely would, use it for evidence in the event that it caught a crime. How are they to know whether the footage is legitimate or has been tampered with? Would they even question its legitimacy?
So if private feeds are coming in, what's to prevent a malicious private party from staging anything from a robbery to a murder and editing the footage to implicate their choice of targets and splicing said footage into the feed?
Other than tampering with evidence (and the actual crime), I doubt it would even be illegal since they own the feed.
Even if that were true, which it isn't, the vast majority leave their money in banks or invested in companies. If it is in a bank, the bank is investing it in companies. In either case that wealth is being used to produce more wealth, which is creating jobs.
This article is a glorious example of begging the question.
The obvious answer is that most companies don't want to deal with the shit-storm that COD Modern Warefare 2 and Battle for Falujah. It has nothing to do with the supposed moral recrimination of shooting innocent bystanders as far as the actual players are concerned.
It takes far more that 30 minutes of study to know enough about a candidate to make an intelligent vote regarding a race.
If you can't be bothered to spend a 30 minutes to an hour to vote, you certainly don't know enough or care enough about the race to vote.
"Niche" implies small. There is nothing small about any of the categories I mentioned. You might argue that they will continue to shrink into small edge cases, but that isn't currently the case. I know that in 10 years I'll be doing all of the above still. A gaming console does not even come close to PC gaming in terms of user ability to control their character or the level of immersion you can get. Video editing, Sound editing, and graphic editing are all done by amateurs as well as professionals on fairly regular basis. Just think of all the videos that hit Youtube. At least half of those have some sort of editing of sound or video.
The "post PC" age is not upon us. Small computers and cellphones largely do what PC's used to, but they don't even come close to being capable of handling high-end gaming, graphic editing, movie editing, sound editing, and heavy mathematical computation. Small computers also aren't particularly convenient for software development in general. Unless the landscape radically shifts those items aren't going away anytime soon.
Someone is just trying to get a little press buzz and desparately hoping the world takes notice of them.
I believe what you are interested in is called a Eulerian Path: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulerian_path
Also the similarly related Hamiltonian Path: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_path
As others have mentioned the actual method of solving the problem is probably best defined as "The traveling salesman" problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_salesman_problem
Good Luck.
I wonder how soon before this is used in elaborate spear phishing attempts to bypass a lot of trust issues.
"The page looks like it came from Google..."
My comment is in the context of whether a Masters gets you any closer to a job in your field or more pay. If you want to teach or do something highly specialized, that's another topic.
I graduated with a BS in Computer Science, Summa cum Laude. The only thing that degree did for me in terms of real practical programming, was in terms of all the coding jobs I did to pay for it, and the experience I could write down from those jobs on my resume.
My current job is with a Fortune 20 defense contractor. They didn't ever even ask to see proof of my degree and GPA that I put on my resume. They did call all my previous employers however.
I can't image how two-three more years of theoretical, non-practical schooling is going to beat out two-three years of practical experience in the field when it comes to hiring. In the meantime, you were making money instead of paying money, and you were clocking more years of experience towards those high-paying jobs asking for 5-10 years of experience.
Excellent point.
All these doomsayers always point to their exponential growth charts which have all but been debunked, when you look at how humans adapt in the face of adversity. We stop or severely curtail our growth when resources are rare, and/or more expensive. The other thing we do, is invent our way out of the situation. In spite of all this...in spite of the fact that the earth's population is getting older (which while a good thing for longevity; it's bad for reproductive means), every other day we have a new doomsayer claiming that we'll be eating each other in 20 years.
"Economic Protectionist" is a fancy way of saying Eugenics and Communism. The easy at which people except the false choice of Eugenics or eating each other, is truly frightening.
Where I work, each project gets a formal code review, and after that a security review. While it definitely serves as a good thing for new developers, and a once-in-a-while review to keep developers honest, it's a waste of time to do one on every project. It takes time and money and after the first couple reviews, the developer should be learning from their mistakes and not making them anymore.
Sure the Supreme court has ruled on sexuality before. This case was about video game violence. They correctly ruled that the responsibilities lies with the parents and not the state to restrict access. Breyer makes a good point, but that doesn't mean that this ruling is bad because it conflicts with a previous ruling, it means that the previous ruling needs to be revisited.
Every game I've ever owned, I've played through multiple times. If the game wasn't good enough to play multiple times, it wasn't worth owning...do you see the inherit catch 22 in your plan, Capcom?
To be fair to Capcom, in previous Resident Evil games, you could "replay" the game after finishing the game without resetting, all the monsters would be tougher, but you'd have access to new, hidden super weapons. So I am guessing this new game will function the same way. Thus, you can't go back and play a "virgin" game, but you'll still be able to replay it.
Oh that's right. I forgot...it's a Conservative position to want to micromanage people's lives...Just like it's a Conservative position to ban Tobacco virtually everywhere, and a Conservative position to pull junk food out of schools, and a Conservative position to ban fast food in certain "food desert" areas.
You're an idiot. Controlling freedoms is neither a right or a left issue in practice...at least the Right's philosophy is to tend towards more personal freedom.
And yes, I support legalizing all drugs.
You don't have a problem with continuing a process that allows a whole sub-culture of people to be treated like slaves, paid almost nothing, worked in unsafe environments, and have no representation because you don't want to pay a buck fifty more for you produce?...what a disgusting position. I think you'd have been more in comfortable in the 1800's in the south.
Why is the article treating this guy like some sort of innocent? If he is indeed innocent of passing classified information, then I'm glad justice did not miscarry. If he did indeed pass the data, he isn't a hero, he is most likely a traitor, or at the very least guilty of espionage, wire fraud, or some other similar charge. That makes him an enemy of the US.