Given the sudden rise in the number of times I've seen that stupid phrase in the news I'm thinking soon we're going to see a "war online" moddled after the war on drugs and the war on terrorism any time soon with all the associated losses of freedom and shitting on civil rights.
The english language has no governing body. If a word or phrase is used by a decent portion of the general population then it's english. No ifs. No buts. The oxford english dictionary is just a private organization with no power to say what is and is not english.
It doesn't matter if your enlish teacher thinks different, that just means he's been too lazy to keep up with the changes in the language.
As such every single fucking time some moron on slashdot tries convince people that against all the evidence he has a triple digit IQ by piping up with pedantic drivel about how something isn't popper english he does nothing but demonstrate his utter ignorance of the matter.
I don't really care if the guys who sell me cola profile me, their motive is simple- profit. I do care if the people who have guns and the power to have me locked up profile me, their motives are complex and involved power, politics and money.
I'm also curious- is there any kind of fire hazard doing this on a large scale?
There isn't a lot to burn in a normal computer(at least not burn really well) but could a short circuit near a leak lead to a inferno in an oil cooled data centre?
Or is the oil treated in some way to make it less likely to burn?
At which point "something else interesting to do" has to involve both explosions and high voltage and will only remain interesting enough for about 15 minutes at which point you have to find something else more interesting.
Do you have no memory of being a teenager at all??? Sex becomes a central obsession and while both those pieces of advice are good healthy ideas they will certainly not keep any teenager from wanting to have sex.
They will engage in it regardless of anything you tell them.
which would be great if the context of the conversation wasn't "are the rules moronic" which they are.
You complain about someone going outside the scope of the conversation after you drift off into some completely irrelevant and illogical tangent trying to compare it to baseball in the most obtuse manner.
The grandparent is willingly skipping class because he feels he already knows what is being taught in that class, which is a completely reasonable justification even if you want to paint it as him just acting like he's "above attending".
The point was that the class shouldn't have penalties for poor attendance at all. You might as well make a rule that to pass the class you have to be wearing all green on every 3rd of the month that is also a Wednesday.
If he can walk in and ace the exam then attending would have served no purpose other than to stoke the ego of the teacher.
If they were going through some kind of back door to read peoples private messages on forums etc then I'm be against this but it looks like they're doing the equivalent of going and reading what you've posted up on the wall of the local community centre.
Yes, the brain really is remarkable. I've seen different variants on this a few times, like encoding images in what to me sounds like modem noise but according to the blind people in question apparently let them see a picture . Or when they were trying to hook monkeys up to an artificial arm with a direct neural interface and once it started working a little and the primates started getting feedback from the arms they found that while the researchers were trying to improve their algorithms for interpreting the output from the brain the brains were adapting their output to fit the algorithms better and as such get better control.
you're calculating the chance for one individual if you're taking the chances or any 2 random individuals as something like 5 billion to 1 for matching then yes the chance of 1 particular individual matching one of the other 300 million people is less than 10%. The chances of any 2 individuals matching is far far far far higher.
You're not calculating the birthday paradox there, you're saying "what is the chance that one of the 22 other people in the class has the same birthday as me" which is less than 10%.
How many serious crimes are there per year? Call that X. tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands if the tests get cheap enough for less serious crimes.
How many samples are found on average at every crime scene? call that Y. 5? 10? 20? more?
how many years do you expect to live?
50? 60? call that Z.
so that's x*y checks against the database every year for Z years.
so your chances or being falsely fingered with solid DNA evidence for a crime is (the number of crimes per year)*X*Y*Z*(chances of any 2 individuals matching)
If the chances of any 2 individuals matching is 5,000,000,000 to 1 Then in a population of 214,597 people there's a 99% chance of at least 1 pair matching.
in a population of 300,000,000 there's going to be a significant number of doubles.
Which would be great if such fingerprints didn't run into the birthday paradox.
The chances of any 2 random individuals sharing the same profile is tiny. The chances of getting a lot of matches in a large population are extremely high.
Also those odds are not entirely independent, second cousin has a higher chance of matching with me than a random stranger so crank up the odds a little more.
And thanks to all the CSI crap DNA evidence is like magical-never-wrong fairy dust. -They find DNA at the scene. -Birthday paradox comes into play -I happen to be in the same city at about the right time. -lazy prosecutor -I'm fucked.
I have nothing to gain from adding my DNA to such a database and plenty to lose.
If you have that much control over what's installed on the system then you might as well just take a snapshot of the system running in a safe state, place any data which needs to change on some kind of hardened remote server(like a seperate database) and just periodically re-image the whole machine from ROM. Probably be more effective than this proposed system as well.
Slashdot Mirror
Ya.
They're on facebook, they don't want to be private or anonymous.
Given the sudden rise in the number of times I've seen that stupid phrase in the news I'm thinking soon we're going to see a "war online" moddled after the war on drugs and the war on terrorism any time soon with all the associated losses of freedom and shitting on civil rights.
And?
How do you think words enter a language?
Someone uses it in a coherent manner and others follow.
http://www.google.ie/search?q=predictioneer
Results 1 - 10 of about 57,900 for predictioneer.
oh fuck off you ignorant pedantic troll.
The english language has no governing body.
If a word or phrase is used by a decent portion of the general population then it's english.
No ifs.
No buts.
The oxford english dictionary is just a private organization with no power to say what is and is not english.
It doesn't matter if your enlish teacher thinks different, that just means he's been too lazy to keep up with the changes in the language.
As such every single fucking time some moron on slashdot tries convince people that against all the evidence he has a triple digit IQ by piping up with pedantic drivel about how something isn't popper english he does nothing but demonstrate his utter ignorance of the matter.
I don't really care if the guys who sell me cola profile me, their motive is simple- profit.
I do care if the people who have guns and the power to have me locked up profile me, their motives are complex and involved power, politics and money.
Aye!
I'm also curious- is there any kind of fire hazard doing this on a large scale?
There isn't a lot to burn in a normal computer(at least not burn really well) but could a short circuit near a leak lead to a inferno in an oil cooled data centre?
Or is the oil treated in some way to make it less likely to burn?
This works until the age of 12.
At which point "something else interesting to do" has to involve both explosions and high voltage and will only remain interesting enough for about 15 minutes at which point you have to find something else more interesting.
Do you have no memory of being a teenager at all???
Sex becomes a central obsession and while both those pieces of advice are good healthy ideas they will certainly not keep any teenager from wanting to have sex.
They will engage in it regardless of anything you tell them.
oh for the love of god.
there's nothing wrong with providing strong leadership and nurturing.
The only sexist part comes when you assume that women can't provide strong leadership or that men can't provide nurturing.
which would be great if the context of the conversation wasn't "are the rules moronic"
which they are.
You complain about someone going outside the scope of the conversation after you drift off into some completely irrelevant and illogical tangent trying to compare it to baseball in the most obtuse manner.
The grandparent is willingly skipping class because he feels he already knows what is being taught in that class, which is a completely reasonable justification even if you want to paint it as him just acting like he's "above attending".
The point was that the class shouldn't have penalties for poor attendance at all.
You might as well make a rule that to pass the class you have to be wearing all green on every 3rd of the month that is also a Wednesday.
If he can walk in and ace the exam then attending would have served no purpose other than to stoke the ego of the teacher.
If they were going through some kind of back door to read peoples private messages on forums etc then I'm be against this but it looks like they're doing the equivalent of going and reading what you've posted up on the wall of the local community centre.
Yes, the brain really is remarkable.
I've seen different variants on this a few times, like encoding images in what to me sounds like modem noise but according to the blind people in question apparently let them see a picture .
Or when they were trying to hook monkeys up to an artificial arm with a direct neural interface and once it started working a little and the primates started getting feedback from the arms they found that while the researchers were trying to improve their algorithms for interpreting the output from the brain the brains were adapting their output to fit the algorithms better and as such get better control.
"Science: it works bitches!"
you're a bit late to the game.
Someone bellow already caught that one.
How am I supposed to make any money from buggy whip manufacture now that these infernal combustion engines are everywhere!!!
you're calculating the chance for one individual if you're taking the chances or any 2 random individuals as something like 5 billion to 1 for matching then yes the chance of 1 particular individual matching one of the other 300 million people is less than 10%.
The chances of any 2 individuals matching is far far far far higher.
You're not calculating the birthday paradox there, you're saying "what is the chance that one of the 22 other people in the class has the same birthday as me" which is less than 10%.
So no.
your maths is all arse backwards
You're correct of course.
How many serious crimes are there per year?
Call that X.
tens of thousands?
hundreds of thousands if the tests get cheap enough for less serious crimes.
How many samples are found on average at every crime scene?
call that Y.
5? 10? 20? more?
how many years do you expect to live?
50? 60?
call that Z.
so that's x*y checks against the database every year for Z years.
so your chances or being falsely fingered with solid DNA evidence for a crime is (the number of crimes per year)*X*Y*Z*(chances of any 2 individuals matching)
several billion to one?
If the chances of any 2 individuals matching is 5,000,000,000 to 1
Then in a population of 214,597 people there's a 99% chance of at least 1 pair matching.
in a population of 300,000,000 there's going to be a significant number of doubles.
Which would be great if such fingerprints didn't run into the birthday paradox.
The chances of any 2 random individuals sharing the same profile is tiny.
The chances of getting a lot of matches in a large population are extremely high.
Also those odds are not entirely independent, second cousin has a higher chance of matching with me than a random stranger so crank up the odds a little more.
And thanks to all the CSI crap DNA evidence is like magical-never-wrong fairy dust.
-They find DNA at the scene.
-Birthday paradox comes into play
-I happen to be in the same city at about the right time.
-lazy prosecutor
-I'm fucked.
I have nothing to gain from adding my DNA to such a database and plenty to lose.
Oh there are good reasons but "can be abused" is a massive understatement.
"is routinely abused" might be closer.
Letting just anyone make decisions for the nation about what should and shouldn't be secret is insane.
the current system for deciding who gets to make those choices seems to be "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours"
The government does not classify documents simply to hide information from the general populace
In theory.
In practice well... read this:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2008/07/09/alharamain_lawsuit/
If you have that much control over what's installed on the system then you might as well just take a snapshot of the system running in a safe state, place any data which needs to change on some kind of hardened remote server(like a seperate database) and just periodically re-image the whole machine from ROM.
Probably be more effective than this proposed system as well.