I think tcr was trying to make a more general point. Even if it is possible to currently game PageRank, the world will not benefit if it becomes easier to do so, and it certainly won't benefit if Google fixes those shortcomings and then the code is released. Any way you put it, it's a lose–lose situation for us and Google.
It couldn't, though. The United Federation of Planets has only a few hundred member worlds; the only available figures for the Empire suggest it's at least in the "millions" category. The Empire inevitably must require a vast fleet to keep said vast territory within its grasp, internally; by contrast, Starfleet only needs to do border patrol on... not even all of its borders.
One's subjective experience, however subjective it may be, is still relevant. I should also point out that you're very much in the minority position by being comfortable with what you're proposing. Science fiction authors generally argue that clones have the right to be treated as distinct people since their experiences are distinct if they live simultaneously with the prototype—so by natural extension, regardless of the apparent result, you're still creating a new person and then killing the other.
Also, with our current understanding of the brain, the technology you describe would probably be a lot harder than replacing neurons gradually.
It's called the duplicates paradox or sometimes the transporter paradox. If you get duplicated and then the original is destroyed, there isn't a continuity of consciousness. You seem to have completely missed this in order to make your point about biological renewal.
Just because they exist doesn't mean they've arisen yet. The internet simply does not yet consider the censorship it's experiencing to be sufficient damage to necessitate routing around it.
But then we wouldn't have Kevin Butler! You need to understand the brilliance of the character in order to comprehend how hilarious and in-character that tweet was.
I believe the standard reply to your post is "why trust a corporation with a profit margin to protect when you can trust a government that's unafraid of wasteful spending?" The number of lives lost in the US space program is paltry compared to certain attempts to get into space on a cost-cutting budget. If there's a place in the universe where wasteful government spending is preferable to a "get it done" mentality, surely it's when so many lives are at stake if a rocket fails to launch correctly.
That being said, the private industry for space launch vehicles has been very efficient and reliable for launching satellites, but a shuttle is a very baroque piece of hardware with many points of potential failure. You also have the people factor: the NASA engineers who work with the shuttle today have been operating it for decades. That's either a lot of rehiring or a lot of lost experience.
That is most definitely what I mean. Being a university student makes it pretty easy to read articles on Science Direct. I said "the paper," did I not? (Technically, it's still just an "accepted manuscript," also.)
The paper describes the region as being 17 km by 72.8 km, and there are photographs/screenshots from Google Earth at the end. It's also described as being along the Western side of the peninsula, "similar to Jordan". I'm pretty sure that's enough information to find the region in Google Earth in about half an hour.
Hold up: we're not talking about visiting natural satellites here. The page advertises EOS for web kiosks and FTP servers. An FTP server is probably something you want to have considerable disk space for, web kiosks by their very nature have to be user-accessible (and thus virus-prone!), and both are going to be relying on that TCP stack. So you may want to look more closely before making generalisations about the typical usage of the word "embedded".
Check out this quote: "EOS is Secure. Security for both you and your customers. We can build systems that resist tampering from your customers and your competitors. We secure your (and our) intellectual property against intrusion."
Does that sound like Windows 98 to you? It sounds like system policies to me.
So what are you trying to say? That a Win98 box is "next generation" compared to most embedded systems? 'cause otherwise, the fact stands that the EOS guys are spinning total BS.
That page you linked to is insane. "Enhanced security"? From Windows 9x and its legendarily bad TCP stack, not likely. "Advanced next generation hardware support"? What about all those WDMI-only drivers from the current generation, guys? Or using more than 256 MB of RAM? Or a hard drive with more than 20 GB capacity? It's schizophrenia at its best!
A lot of people don't bother voting because they don't feel the institutions (or the available candidates) won't do things right. In Canada we've got less than 50% voter turnout most of the time. That's pretty much the same situation you're talking about, since a vote of abstinence is a vote of no confidence. But for some reason, no democracy ever bothers putting a "dissolution-by-referendum" clause in its constitutions.
No, they'd pretty much walk into the same electric fence repeatedly. Either outcome is acceptable, though, since we're talking about a human disease, here!
By "vaccine" I do mean "horrible toxin". I should point out that there are a *lot* of toxic molecules that are fairly hard to develop immunities to, and that complex eukaryotes like bugs are a lot worse at it than bacteria responding to antibiotics.
IAABiologist, and what will most likely happen is that their experiment will die off without affecting the rest of the population. The actual process of disabling or excising a gene would probably take a while, TBH; it's way more likely that evolution will simply select against the released mosquitoes. In order to win, Malaysia would have to replace all of the males in the population, which is just silly, or give their mosquitoes some advantage, like breeding more aggressively (which is how our favourite examples of humans screwing with ecosystems, alien invasive species, become invasive.) But that's not even compatible with their goal!
What they really need to do is to poison the food supply: vaccinate humans with something that targets mosquitoes only.
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I think tcr was trying to make a more general point. Even if it is possible to currently game PageRank, the world will not benefit if it becomes easier to do so, and it certainly won't benefit if Google fixes those shortcomings and then the code is released. Any way you put it, it's a lose–lose situation for us and Google.
You are alone in the world.
Um. No?
TFA may show a picture of a dime next to the accelerometer, but it's clearly at least the size of a nickel!
It couldn't, though. The United Federation of Planets has only a few hundred member worlds; the only available figures for the Empire suggest it's at least in the "millions" category. The Empire inevitably must require a vast fleet to keep said vast territory within its grasp, internally; by contrast, Starfleet only needs to do border patrol on... not even all of its borders.
One's subjective experience, however subjective it may be, is still relevant. I should also point out that you're very much in the minority position by being comfortable with what you're proposing. Science fiction authors generally argue that clones have the right to be treated as distinct people since their experiences are distinct if they live simultaneously with the prototype—so by natural extension, regardless of the apparent result, you're still creating a new person and then killing the other.
Also, with our current understanding of the brain, the technology you describe would probably be a lot harder than replacing neurons gradually.
It's called the duplicates paradox or sometimes the transporter paradox. If you get duplicated and then the original is destroyed, there isn't a continuity of consciousness. You seem to have completely missed this in order to make your point about biological renewal.
Just because they exist doesn't mean they've arisen yet. The internet simply does not yet consider the censorship it's experiencing to be sufficient damage to necessitate routing around it.
That really depends on how you feel about sackpeople.
But then we wouldn't have Kevin Butler! You need to understand the brilliance of the character in order to comprehend how hilarious and in-character that tweet was.
I believe the standard reply to your post is "why trust a corporation with a profit margin to protect when you can trust a government that's unafraid of wasteful spending?" The number of lives lost in the US space program is paltry compared to certain attempts to get into space on a cost-cutting budget. If there's a place in the universe where wasteful government spending is preferable to a "get it done" mentality, surely it's when so many lives are at stake if a rocket fails to launch correctly.
That being said, the private industry for space launch vehicles has been very efficient and reliable for launching satellites, but a shuttle is a very baroque piece of hardware with many points of potential failure. You also have the people factor: the NASA engineers who work with the shuttle today have been operating it for decades. That's either a lot of rehiring or a lot of lost experience.
So did you fail the "knowing" part of the battle, or the rest?
That is most definitely what I mean. Being a university student makes it pretty easy to read articles on Science Direct. I said "the paper," did I not? (Technically, it's still just an "accepted manuscript," also.)
The paper describes the region as being 17 km by 72.8 km, and there are photographs/screenshots from Google Earth at the end. It's also described as being along the Western side of the peninsula, "similar to Jordan". I'm pretty sure that's enough information to find the region in Google Earth in about half an hour.
Hold up: we're not talking about visiting natural satellites here. The page advertises EOS for web kiosks and FTP servers. An FTP server is probably something you want to have considerable disk space for, web kiosks by their very nature have to be user-accessible (and thus virus-prone!), and both are going to be relying on that TCP stack. So you may want to look more closely before making generalisations about the typical usage of the word "embedded".
Check out this quote: "EOS is Secure. Security for both you and your customers. We can build systems that resist tampering from your customers and your competitors. We secure your (and our) intellectual property against intrusion."
Does that sound like Windows 98 to you? It sounds like system policies to me.
So what are you trying to say? That a Win98 box is "next generation" compared to most embedded systems? 'cause otherwise, the fact stands that the EOS guys are spinning total BS.
That page you linked to is insane. "Enhanced security"? From Windows 9x and its legendarily bad TCP stack, not likely. "Advanced next generation hardware support"? What about all those WDMI-only drivers from the current generation, guys? Or using more than 256 MB of RAM? Or a hard drive with more than 20 GB capacity? It's schizophrenia at its best!
A lot of people don't bother voting because they don't feel the institutions (or the available candidates) won't do things right. In Canada we've got less than 50% voter turnout most of the time. That's pretty much the same situation you're talking about, since a vote of abstinence is a vote of no confidence. But for some reason, no democracy ever bothers putting a "dissolution-by-referendum" clause in its constitutions.
Separate twins at birth and attempt to raise them identically. Look for significant (p < 0.05) deviations.
Interestingly, so does TFA. It's even quoted in the summary!
I would offer you a *woosh*, but all I can muster is a dismayed sigh.
No, they'd pretty much walk into the same electric fence repeatedly. Either outcome is acceptable, though, since we're talking about a human disease, here!
By "vaccine" I do mean "horrible toxin". I should point out that there are a *lot* of toxic molecules that are fairly hard to develop immunities to, and that complex eukaryotes like bugs are a lot worse at it than bacteria responding to antibiotics.
IAABiologist, and what will most likely happen is that their experiment will die off without affecting the rest of the population. The actual process of disabling or excising a gene would probably take a while, TBH; it's way more likely that evolution will simply select against the released mosquitoes. In order to win, Malaysia would have to replace all of the males in the population, which is just silly, or give their mosquitoes some advantage, like breeding more aggressively (which is how our favourite examples of humans screwing with ecosystems, alien invasive species, become invasive.) But that's not even compatible with their goal!
What they really need to do is to poison the food supply: vaccinate humans with something that targets mosquitoes only.
Caching to the rescue!