You are most likely not suffering from any fatal neurological conditions.
Telling everybody that they're most probably healthy is not as good... it improves the accuracy of the mail even further without having the same valuable positive effect on the mood.
Why sacrifice the positive effect on mood for that little extra accuracy? You'll probably only send out a fraction of a percent false negatives, when you tell everybody that they don't have a fatal neurological condition!
This is done with an API method that is only available in iPhone OS 3.1 which is still in Beta.
Consequently the App cannot be officially published in the App Store.
There'll be a whole wave of Apps using this as soon as 3.1 is finally released.
Gematik spokesman Daniel Poeschkens poured scorn on the statement that Gematik had insisted on the service provider carrying out a test without backing up the root CA private keys. "We did not decide against a back-up service. The fact of the matter is that the service provider took over the running of the test system, so it also has to warrant its continuous operation. How it fulfils this obligation is its own responsibility."
...at that moment someone handed him the SLAs at which point he turned white, muttered something about an important meeting and was never heard of since.
IE6 users are greeted with a new "Get faster Gmail" message in the menu bar of the web interface. The link leads to a page that promotes Chrome and Firefox 3.
The Federal Aviation Administration will issue a final decision on an environmental impact statement for the $200 million project and issue a license for the site.
...I understand this to mean that Spaceport America/Virgin submitted their application to the FAA based on a cost estimation of 200 mio $...
The third condition was that the project not exceed $225 million, a condition spaceport officials assure will be met.
So, does this mean as soon as they have 10% cost overrun their license is revoked?
I mean, surely no project ever has 10% cost overrun!
Either this means this is not a hard limit at all or there won't be a spaceport. Or the article is wrong. Or I didn't get it. Please someone explain.
(Also, please be sure to point out that 200-->225 is not a 10% overrun or your geek-license will be revoked.)
I think he was talking about the data traffic cost from the wireless operator. I don't see an operator in the consortium running the project. So, if you have a bad data plan, this will ruin your phone bill - Wikipedia or not.
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Isn't just that the point of the Turing test: if you can fool people into believing you're intelligent, then you are intelligent? No way to tell if something is intelligent apart from its behavior. Lab conditions using language (string manipulation) were probably chosen because the amount of context and the variety of problems that could be encountered during the test are only solvable by humans (until now), and only using that which we call intelligence.
I know this was true for playing chess at a decent level twenty years ago. Ok, probably we'll never accept the intelligence of anything the inner workings of which we understand completely.
But that is not a problem of the test, it is a problem of our willingness to define intelligence. So, no proof of artificial intelligence possible for us, ever. News at eleven.
At least the dog argument doesn't hold. The Turing test does not claim to be able to define all types of intelligence. Also: future dog-driven string manipulation still possible.
Probably has to be custom made to fit all sorts of geometric, weight, material composition, etc. requirements. Plus a lengthy formal process for quality checking etc.
What I find interesting is the ongoing semantic deterioration of the word heroic.
When tracking a phone it is important to differentiate between methods that allow the phone to locate itself or methods that locate the phone from the outside. GPS only allows the phone to locate itself. Consequently it has to be a two step process: First the phone must locate itself, then it must tell a third party about the position.
When it comes to obtaining GPS positions from a phone (without consent of the owner) there are two approaches in my view:
1. The person has installed a client software to use some LBS service
There are a number of services out there that use client software that sends location information to a server to get location-based content. I do not know if loopt does that but probably yes.
Police need to get to the service provider's data to get location information. It will only be current when the phone owner is using the software. Most of these clients will not just be running in the background all the time (due to battery). Not possible to do on most phone OSs anyway.
So you have full control of your position's privacy in this case. Whenever you don't want to be tracked, don't use a location-based service that sends your location over the internet.
2. A client software that sends your information is running without you knowing it.
OS providers could be forced to pre-install OS "features" that transmit your position (on demand by remote command) . May be these lawsuits will show if there ever have been attempts to introduce something like that. May be it exists in the US. I wouldn't know. Even though I doubt that it could go unnoticed.
All in all I think the question is: How hard is it for police to get direct access to the live data of service providers such as loopt. Then they can locate people while their using the client. Otherwise they don't have access to GPS information on phones, unless government spyware is pre-installed on all GPS-enabled phones.
So, stop using loopt when running out of the bank.
The usefulness of this discovery in finding planets or identifying if they have an atmosphere is interesting.
It as interesting as the lengths they went to create a sensationalist headline...any emission in any spectrum can be mapped to audible sound, I guess. Unless it carries information encoded in analog form meant to be replayed as sound, it will always sound like awful, ear-piercing chirps and whistles.
News pattern:
1. Find interesting scientific discovery that features emissions in any spectrum.
2. Map emission to audible sound.
3. Write "The screams X emits to anybody listening"
4. Profit.
FireEagle is a service that allows decoupling location information consumers from location information providers. It handles metadata on how the this information was obtained as well as user rights.
It's not a blogging service. Actually, I don't think it will be of interest to a lot of end-users at all.
It's more of a service to application developers. It can be a very useful service if adopted widely. May be compare it to OpenID for location or something. It shouldn't be seen as another geo-blog thing.
Thinking about classic "flat & linear" Flash movies this makes sense. But Flash is used as an application platform more and more (think of Flex).
Somebody please explain how Google is going to link into complex applications in a meaningful way.
Maybe they should introduce a standard interface that Flash apps could expose that allows Google to get content from the app together with startup arguments that would put the app into a meaningful state. Otherwise the Google result link would just start the app without any further indication where the content is.
Is there such an interface? Or may be this belongs into sitemap.xml...
From wikipedia: Males stand 3.64 meters (12 feet) tall at the shoulder and weigh 5455 kg (12,000 lbs), while females stand 3 meters (10 feet) and weigh 3636 kg to 4545 kg (8,000 to 11,000 lbs).
Article should read: 7,000 kg, or roughly equivalent mass of two female african elephants.
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Telling everybody that they're most probably healthy is not as good... it improves the accuracy of the mail even further without having the same valuable positive effect on the mood.
Why sacrifice the positive effect on mood for that little extra accuracy? You'll probably only send out a fraction of a percent false negatives, when you tell everybody that they don't have a fatal neurological condition!
Government should just mail an official looking letter to everybody:
Dear XY,
You are not suffering from any fatal neurological conditions.
Regards.
This would vastly increase the accuracy of the mailing and would also be better for the general mood.
This is done with an API method that is only available in iPhone OS 3.1 which is still in Beta. Consequently the App cannot be officially published in the App Store.
There'll be a whole wave of Apps using this as soon as 3.1 is finally released.
Oh, of course we're working on something, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGq69Nyi6p0. Not as fancy yet, but it has spaceships.
...the word "urging" was redefined.
The Federal Aviation Administration will issue a final decision on an environmental impact statement for the $200 million project and issue a license for the site.
...I understand this to mean that Spaceport America/Virgin submitted their application to the FAA based on a cost estimation of 200 mio $...
The third condition was that the project not exceed $225 million, a condition spaceport officials assure will be met.
So, does this mean as soon as they have 10% cost overrun their license is revoked?
I mean, surely no project ever has 10% cost overrun!
Either this means this is not a hard limit at all or there won't be a spaceport. Or the article is wrong. Or I didn't get it. Please someone explain.
(Also, please be sure to point out that 200-->225 is not a 10% overrun or your geek-license will be revoked.)
one day we all shall be dead, and all our data will still be safe.
Which is true anyway. At least for a lot of our data, independently of if we put some of it in bunkers or not.
I think he was talking about the data traffic cost from the wireless operator. I don't see an operator in the consortium running the project. So, if you have a bad data plan, this will ruin your phone bill - Wikipedia or not.
Isn't just that the point of the Turing test: if you can fool people into believing you're intelligent, then you are intelligent? No way to tell if something is intelligent apart from its behavior. Lab conditions using language (string manipulation) were probably chosen because the amount of context and the variety of problems that could be encountered during the test are only solvable by humans (until now), and only using that which we call intelligence.
I know this was true for playing chess at a decent level twenty years ago. Ok, probably we'll never accept the intelligence of anything the inner workings of which we understand completely.
But that is not a problem of the test, it is a problem of our willingness to define intelligence. So, no proof of artificial intelligence possible for us, ever. News at eleven.
At least the dog argument doesn't hold. The Turing test does not claim to be able to define all types of intelligence. Also: future dog-driven string manipulation still possible.
Probably has to be custom made to fit all sorts of geometric, weight, material composition, etc. requirements. Plus a lengthy formal process for quality checking etc.
What I find interesting is the ongoing semantic deterioration of the word heroic.
All hail our heroic... ahm... rasp deliverers!
When tracking a phone it is important to differentiate between methods that allow the phone to locate itself or methods that locate the phone from the outside. GPS only allows the phone to locate itself. Consequently it has to be a two step process: First the phone must locate itself, then it must tell a third party about the position.
When it comes to obtaining GPS positions from a phone (without consent of the owner) there are two approaches in my view:
1. The person has installed a client software to use some LBS service There are a number of services out there that use client software that sends location information to a server to get location-based content. I do not know if loopt does that but probably yes. Police need to get to the service provider's data to get location information. It will only be current when the phone owner is using the software. Most of these clients will not just be running in the background all the time (due to battery). Not possible to do on most phone OSs anyway.
So you have full control of your position's privacy in this case. Whenever you don't want to be tracked, don't use a location-based service that sends your location over the internet.
2. A client software that sends your information is running without you knowing it. OS providers could be forced to pre-install OS "features" that transmit your position (on demand by remote command) . May be these lawsuits will show if there ever have been attempts to introduce something like that. May be it exists in the US. I wouldn't know. Even though I doubt that it could go unnoticed.
All in all I think the question is: How hard is it for police to get direct access to the live data of service providers such as loopt. Then they can locate people while their using the client. Otherwise they don't have access to GPS information on phones, unless government spyware is pre-installed on all GPS-enabled phones.
So, stop using loopt when running out of the bank.
The usefulness of this discovery in finding planets or identifying if they have an atmosphere is interesting.
...any emission in any spectrum can be mapped to audible sound, I guess. Unless it carries information encoded in analog form meant to be replayed as sound, it will always sound like awful, ear-piercing chirps and whistles.
It as interesting as the lengths they went to create a sensationalist headline
News pattern:
1. Find interesting scientific discovery that features emissions in any spectrum.
2. Map emission to audible sound.
3. Write "The screams X emits to anybody listening"
4. Profit.
Wait, no ??? line. I must have told it wrong.
I was lucky enough to hear this talk.
FireEagle is a service that allows decoupling location information consumers from location information providers. It handles metadata on how the this information was obtained as well as user rights.
It's not a blogging service. Actually, I don't think it will be of interest to a lot of end-users at all.
It's more of a service to application developers. It can be a very useful service if adopted widely. May be compare it to OpenID for location or something. It shouldn't be seen as another geo-blog thing.
Can google generate working/meaningful deep links from reading an SWF file?
TFA was talking about new possibilities for Google that come from reading and indexing content in SWF files.
Thinking about classic "flat & linear" Flash movies this makes sense. But Flash is used as an application platform more and more (think of Flex).
Somebody please explain how Google is going to link into complex applications in a meaningful way.
Maybe they should introduce a standard interface that Flash apps could expose that allows Google to get content from the app together with startup arguments that would put the app into a meaningful state. Otherwise the Google result link would just start the app without any further indication where the content is.
Is there such an interface? Or may be this belongs into sitemap.xml...
...a keyboard that has keys that are displays?
When remapping characters to keys the display should change accordingly.
Preferably with a nixe tube kind of look.
Please someone tell me there is something like this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_elephant
From wikipedia: Males stand 3.64 meters (12 feet) tall at the shoulder and weigh 5455 kg (12,000 lbs), while females stand 3 meters (10 feet) and weigh 3636 kg to 4545 kg (8,000 to 11,000 lbs).
Article should read: 7,000 kg, or roughly equivalent mass of two female african elephants.