But is it wrong for me to not like someone because they appear different than me? Keeping in mind that I am talking not about the subjugation of a class of people, or violence or harassment, but rather the simple notion that there is nothing wrong with not liking someone.
More to the point of this experiment, a "black" avatar carries with it no other weight than the subject's own perceived bias. In other words, if a dark-skinned person wearing the latest urban fashion approached them, they would react the same. But if a dark-skinned person in an Armani suit speaking the Queen's English asked of them the same thing, I bet the outcome is different.
In other words, this experiment taps into our internal bias, but it does not project how we will react to an actual person.
It is really just millions of lines of code to obfuscate the fact that the software just looks for turbans and beards, because all terrorists have those, don't they?
But seriously, the medical community is also looking at this technology to spot hemorrhoid suffers from satellites.
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Forget about private data. Far more threatening is the amount of unchecked information. People use blogs who post blog posts from blogs who reference editorial pieces. Little fact-checking happens. Misinformation and mis-education spread like wildfire.
Example: I read a story about how harmful the production of the Prius is to the environment. Every post on blogs and actual news web sites I found all came from the same source: a kid from a CT college writing an editorial using some out-of-date though not totally untrue and unbelievable information. Had I only waded through the first few layers I might have been convinced at all the hits.
I doubt very much twenty years is enough to bring the median income in India to $30k+. It is bound to happen eventually. Also, many Indian people live in the US currently, and I suspect will return to India with there retirements, spawning industry in India to support their needs. And that may be true for other countries, too.
But back to that matter at hand, maybe this is a sign that CAPTCHA as we know it is on the way out.
How about "JFK Reloaded"? Sure, it was an on-line-only offering, but not only was the user required to connect to the internet, but the game became totally useless after they decided to end it. I paid for the damn thing. There were for the company no re-occurring costs associated with me playing the game.
Whatever the specifics behind this choice (youth, woman, HOT), it clearly isn't meant to entice you to vote for McCain. Just accept that it will/may sway people who are looking for a reason to vote one way or the other, while also encouraging otherwise-would-be-staying-home conservative voters to show up on erection - er, election day.
I question the actual value of this project. Sure, it's a grand idea, but for all we know the ancient Egyptians may have never intended the Rosetta Stone be found by us. Maybe they had completely different plans to save their legacy, but we never found it, or we found it but never understood what it was.
Even with very good documentation there are people who don't believe the holocaust ever happened.
You are assuming that nothing else is in operation other than software. I doubt we'll ever know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out it wasn't strictly a software issue, at least not the component to which you allude.
Every computer glitch on a Windows system is not the fault of the OS. Maybe that is a bad example...
I wish I could mod you flaimbait. No elections have been stolen. Don't you realize that every four years, and for a lot longer than you have been voting, millions of people vote for a candidate who loses? Who taught you that you have an inalienable right to get what you want all the time?
in addition to your serious comment, I have a snarky one
Imagine you had motorized legs, inadvertently got too close to a charging coil, and started can-can dancing uncontrollably. It could also serve as a reason for "uncontrollably" copping a feel...
I brought this up to some friends some time ago. I don't pretend to know either way what is happening, but I love the hubris in the statement I read in Newsweek (they ran the global cooling story in the 70s).They said, now we have advanced climate models and really powerful computers, so this time we aren't wrong.
I like to quote Tommy Lee Jones in Men In Black:
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
You are all full of it. If that video were shown to you with no pretext and "Emily" was talking about going to the prom, you would think nothing of the sort. Any oddities in the video would be attributed to frame rate, video quality, or your friend's new monitor you are trying to put down.
My astronomy professor was totally against me using my pre-Copernican scrolls. Still don't know why, but I got an "A." Gotta love community college!
But seriously, and on-topic, there may be a push and interest in open source texts right now, but in the long run a lot of people will realize they stopped making tons of money, and the people churning out the texts will lose interest.
Wikipedia is cool, but ultimately it requires oversight, and if we are talking about texts from which professors teach and students learn, that oversight needs to be stringent. I do, however, like the fact that this enables more flexible texts which can have new "editions" released in short order and much less expensively.
You are right, the Bible is the perfect open source text book. The science section is a little outdated, but it works great whenever I need to calculate how many sheckles a cubit of grains cost.
This problem starts way earlier than even the cable box rental. What about the fact that you only get one choice of cable provider in a given area? The government has sanctioned these pseudo monopolies, though I suppose the intention was to protect us from evil cable companies overcharging.
Maybe the real problem is that some time ago a senator decided that the constitution grants us, among other inalienable rights, the right to watch TV? Clearly if TV watching is not a right, then not being able to afford it doesn't violate your civil rights, and forcing you to rent a box to watch it is OK.
This is exactly why I don't want government pushing mandatory regulations on corporations, which will result in cost increases on the short term and corruption (or at least widespread allegations) in the long term. Let the people show the corporations what they want. These idealists can produce novel prototypes and the car manufacturers may benefit from their research and development. Or at least see there is a demand.
Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft benefit from this all the time when they buy something rather than develop it in house, or when they develop something as a reaction to current trends. Granted, developing web technology is less costly and arguably easier, but the idea is the same.
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And only an idiot would film themselves committing a crime, and it would take an even bigger idiot to post that video to the Internet, and...
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But is it wrong for me to not like someone because they appear different than me? Keeping in mind that I am talking not about the subjugation of a class of people, or violence or harassment, but rather the simple notion that there is nothing wrong with not liking someone.
More to the point of this experiment, a "black" avatar carries with it no other weight than the subject's own perceived bias. In other words, if a dark-skinned person wearing the latest urban fashion approached them, they would react the same. But if a dark-skinned person in an Armani suit speaking the Queen's English asked of them the same thing, I bet the outcome is different.
In other words, this experiment taps into our internal bias, but it does not project how we will react to an actual person.
Exactly. High school is supposed to help you decide what (or if, I suppose) you want to study in college, not prepare for the GREs.
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My wife has a Prius, and she gets about 225 MPG because most of the time she makes me drive her around in my car.
It is really just millions of lines of code to obfuscate the fact that the software just looks for turbans and beards, because all terrorists have those, don't they?
But seriously, the medical community is also looking at this technology to spot hemorrhoid suffers from satellites.
I made the dinosaurs extinct.
Forget about private data. Far more threatening is the amount of unchecked information. People use blogs who post blog posts from blogs who reference editorial pieces. Little fact-checking happens. Misinformation and mis-education spread like wildfire.
Example: I read a story about how harmful the production of the Prius is to the environment. Every post on blogs and actual news web sites I found all came from the same source: a kid from a CT college writing an editorial using some out-of-date though not totally untrue and unbelievable information. Had I only waded through the first few layers I might have been convinced at all the hits.
I doubt very much twenty years is enough to bring the median income in India to $30k+. It is bound to happen eventually. Also, many Indian people live in the US currently, and I suspect will return to India with there retirements, spawning industry in India to support their needs. And that may be true for other countries, too.
But back to that matter at hand, maybe this is a sign that CAPTCHA as we know it is on the way out.
How about "JFK Reloaded"? Sure, it was an on-line-only offering, but not only was the user required to connect to the internet, but the game became totally useless after they decided to end it. I paid for the damn thing. There were for the company no re-occurring costs associated with me playing the game.
Because the stupid lobby votes.
Whatever the specifics behind this choice (youth, woman, HOT), it clearly isn't meant to entice you to vote for McCain. Just accept that it will/may sway people who are looking for a reason to vote one way or the other, while also encouraging otherwise-would-be-staying-home conservative voters to show up on erection - er, election day.
On a related note, 4500 years ago the pyramids were built as tombs. We're now looking to them for efficient high-rise living.
If you are referring to the repetition of "he hates rap...," I think that was on purpose to show how bad the book really is.
I question the actual value of this project. Sure, it's a grand idea, but for all we know the ancient Egyptians may have never intended the Rosetta Stone be found by us. Maybe they had completely different plans to save their legacy, but we never found it, or we found it but never understood what it was.
Even with very good documentation there are people who don't believe the holocaust ever happened.
You are assuming that nothing else is in operation other than software. I doubt we'll ever know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out it wasn't strictly a software issue, at least not the component to which you allude.
Every computer glitch on a Windows system is not the fault of the OS. Maybe that is a bad example...
I wish I could mod you flaimbait. No elections have been stolen. Don't you realize that every four years, and for a lot longer than you have been voting, millions of people vote for a candidate who loses? Who taught you that you have an inalienable right to get what you want all the time?
I'm sure this post is encrypted...If only there were a way to use Schneier's algorithm...Wait...Got it! Here is the decrypted text:
in addition to your serious comment, I have a snarky one
Imagine you had motorized legs, inadvertently got too close to a charging coil, and started can-can dancing uncontrollably. It could also serve as a reason for "uncontrollably" copping a feel...
I brought this up to some friends some time ago. I don't pretend to know either way what is happening, but I love the hubris in the statement I read in Newsweek (they ran the global cooling story in the 70s).They said, now we have advanced climate models and really powerful computers, so this time we aren't wrong.
I like to quote Tommy Lee Jones in Men In Black:
You are all full of it. If that video were shown to you with no pretext and "Emily" was talking about going to the prom, you would think nothing of the sort. Any oddities in the video would be attributed to frame rate, video quality, or your friend's new monitor you are trying to put down.
My astronomy professor was totally against me using my pre-Copernican scrolls. Still don't know why, but I got an "A." Gotta love community college!
But seriously, and on-topic, there may be a push and interest in open source texts right now, but in the long run a lot of people will realize they stopped making tons of money, and the people churning out the texts will lose interest.
Wikipedia is cool, but ultimately it requires oversight, and if we are talking about texts from which professors teach and students learn, that oversight needs to be stringent. I do, however, like the fact that this enables more flexible texts which can have new "editions" released in short order and much less expensively.
You are right, the Bible is the perfect open source text book. The science section is a little outdated, but it works great whenever I need to calculate how many sheckles a cubit of grains cost.
This problem starts way earlier than even the cable box rental. What about the fact that you only get one choice of cable provider in a given area? The government has sanctioned these pseudo monopolies, though I suppose the intention was to protect us from evil cable companies overcharging.
Maybe the real problem is that some time ago a senator decided that the constitution grants us, among other inalienable rights, the right to watch TV? Clearly if TV watching is not a right, then not being able to afford it doesn't violate your civil rights, and forcing you to rent a box to watch it is OK.
This is exactly why I don't want government pushing mandatory regulations on corporations, which will result in cost increases on the short term and corruption (or at least widespread allegations) in the long term. Let the people show the corporations what they want. These idealists can produce novel prototypes and the car manufacturers may benefit from their research and development. Or at least see there is a demand.
Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft benefit from this all the time when they buy something rather than develop it in house, or when they develop something as a reaction to current trends. Granted, developing web technology is less costly and arguably easier, but the idea is the same.