This is simply taking it to another level. Why make a pretense of actual examination when one can write a prescription serving as a bandaid to mask symptoms sight unseen and move on to the next "patient"? That's what most doctors do today anyway, except they go through a 5 minute theater of taking your vital signs.
This may be a good step, however, if it results in computers one day diagnosing patients. They will possess vast medical knowledge and will actually attempt to correlate multiple symptoms. Today most doctors seem utterly incapable of not only telling a cause from effect, but also of looking systemically at more than one symptom at a time. If anyone, god forbid, has a complex issue, most will diagnose it as 5 unrelated issues, and will treat them separately, at best helping none, and usually making it worse.
So for now, let's cut the pretense, and one day let's move to a system that may help patients instead of just separating sick people from their money.
Mind boggles reading garbage like this offered as at the end of the sentence as if it was a fact.
Do you consider over 80,000 killed within a span of a few weeks (15,000 Germans, over 65,000 Poles) as "almost no resistance"? How about the fact Germany lost nearly 700 tanks and over 500 aircraft in the same short amount of time? That is "almost no resistance"? Where did you learn history?
It is a pity they picked afternoon to shoot this photo. As a result the most beautiful part of the city, historic center, is in a deep shadow. With so much work put into this, one would think image aesthetics would be also be a consideration besides just technological accomplishment.
Ford F-150 was the single best selling vehicle (including all cars!) in US for 23 consecutive years up to 2004. I'm shocked. I understand the need for personal pickup trucks for certain categories of people, but there's no way the majority of citizens need anything like that.
Some of the fault for this rests with governmental regulation. At some point CAFE was so skewed against full-size station wagons, that it almost eliminated them from the market. At the same time, it had loopholes excluding truck-based vehicles from punitive rules. Since many people wanted ability to haul cargo (many people own their own homes) and haul their family, the market for pickups, SUVs, and minivans was born. In Europe (where I believe you are located) and Canada station wagons still dominate.
Okay, I just changed the background on my Windows XP to black and removed all the icons. Now I can sit and stare at the screen. No need to upgrade anymore.
Experimental physicist Boris Blinov says that one of the most exciting things about the new study is that the quantum computer may be scaled up. “What’s most impressive and important is that they did it in the way that can be applied to a larger-scale system,” says Blinov, of the University of Washington in Seattle. “The very same techniques they’ve used for two qubits can be applied to much larger systems.”
Pretty soon they will be able to calculate the US budget with accuracy heretofore unmatched by any recent administration.
Truly, as long as people hide behind anonymity when moderating, no one can take the scoring seriously. It damages Slashdot.
Not everything is just a technical glitch. Some roots go much deeper. Just because you do not understand it, or do not agree with it, it doesn't make it trolling.
And here I was, thinking that the Presidential Apology Tour would make it all better.
On a serious note, by moving our high tech industry offshore we have helped to make it happen. Now, with a broken economy, we appear weak, and we invite ridicule and attack. Clever bandaids added to firewalls will make little difference long term. We need to regain strength and respect. This is not just a technical problem. Our recent administrations (Republicrats and Demopublican alike) through suicidal short-sighted policies aimed only to benefit a few fat cats have made us an easy target. Such is the fate of a fallen giant. Everyone wants to kick him. After all, what are we going to do about it?
Like it or not, most people do work for a living, even though in higher income brackets, and some of the software they need to use may not be available on a Mac, or their client may be using Windows, and it is always smart to develop on the same platform. Technical writers, course developers, etc. face the same issue. The de facto standard software package in the industry, Adobe Technical Suite, is now Windows-only. What are you going to do? You can run VMware on your desktop, but more likely than not, you also own a Windows-based laptop for travel and presentations. I am sure there are examples from other fields.
This is also a reason that is stopping me and probably other people from going over to the Mac side - knowing that I would still have to own Windows-based hardware. I tend not to own more than I functionally need.
See it started as EBIT, then became EBITDA because the PHBs said no, really we need to look profitable so we can get this loan or whatever. Pretty soon it'll be EBITDAP (payroll) and then EBITDAPHAB (hookers and blow) etc.
This is a standard accounting operating procedure for Silicon Valley startups. In fact, compared to the late 90s "boom", this is positively conservative.
Kind of like how the mortgage brokers in their heyday were allowed to use a modified credit rating, essentially calculated as "here's what your credit rating WOULD be if we overlooked all the negative stuff". I wish I was kidding.
Back in the day when I worked in mortgages (more than a quarter of a century ago - yes, I am older than dirt underneath my feet), we didn't have credit scores. We just used common sense. What a concept.
The biggest mistake was a naive belief that TLDs would be respected, with their silly.com,.org, etc. It created a royal mess of duplicate domain names with irrelevant TLDs as the only difference. Now companies have to buy up.com,.org,.net, etc to protect their domain name, otherwise someone will use other TLDs to sucker in unsuspecting victims into scams.
Getting rid of TLDs would be painful, but it needs to be done to restore a semblance of sanity. We can then have truly unique domain names and avoid not only confusion but scams and speculation (how many.tv domains do you think are legitimately Tuvalu domains?).
Don't you feel most of the time like you're surrounded by idiots? Seriously, I want super-intelligent robots. All the social experiments only succeeded in depressing average IQ, perhaps this will reverse the trend.
Wait. E.coli? As in a Escherichia The Killer Diarrhea Coli? Millions and millions and millions of reproducing E.coli bacteria? Not on my desk, thank you very much.
Might be easier and more practical to build an artificial human body that would accept a living human brain. It would likely solve a lot more debilitating illnesses than the opposite approach. Frankly, I would get into the queue right now.
Still, I am sure building a simulation of a human brain must be challenging.
It has always been that way. Nothing has changed. A lot of people just cannot read a map. A lot of those people probably never had to. I still believe that at least ability to follow a map has improved as a result of the exposure to the mapping technology on the Internet. Also, Google maps allows people to be involved in the process, actively modify the route and observe the results.
Cry me a river. This is a typical whiny kumbaya nonsense about how we are losing important skills because of encroaching technology, a theory that immediately falls apart if you look at it from up close. Anyone who can read Google maps can read paper maps just fine for normal use. In fact, Google maps, GPS, and Google Earth probably immensely improved average map reading skills, not just street but topo.
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This is simply taking it to another level. Why make a pretense of actual examination when one can write a prescription serving as a bandaid to mask symptoms sight unseen and move on to the next "patient"? That's what most doctors do today anyway, except they go through a 5 minute theater of taking your vital signs.
This may be a good step, however, if it results in computers one day diagnosing patients. They will possess vast medical knowledge and will actually attempt to correlate multiple symptoms. Today most doctors seem utterly incapable of not only telling a cause from effect, but also of looking systemically at more than one symptom at a time. If anyone, god forbid, has a complex issue, most will diagnose it as 5 unrelated issues, and will treat them separately, at best helping none, and usually making it worse.
So for now, let's cut the pretense, and one day let's move to a system that may help patients instead of just separating sick people from their money.
Mind boggles reading garbage like this offered as at the end of the sentence as if it was a fact.
Do you consider over 80,000 killed within a span of a few weeks (15,000 Germans, over 65,000 Poles) as "almost no resistance"? How about the fact Germany lost nearly 700 tanks and over 500 aircraft in the same short amount of time? That is "almost no resistance"? Where did you learn history?
It is a pity they picked afternoon to shoot this photo. As a result the most beautiful part of the city, historic center, is in a deep shadow. With so much work put into this, one would think image aesthetics would be also be a consideration besides just technological accomplishment.
The article says clearly:
On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT) Project Honey Pot received its billionth email spam message
In fact, the title of the article is:
Our 1 Billionth Spam Message
It was supposed to detonate over the polar cap and melt it to shut up the global warming deniers.
I had no idea Brazil used Cyrillic character set.
Ford F-150 was the single best selling vehicle (including all cars!) in US for 23 consecutive years up to 2004. I'm shocked. I understand the need for personal pickup trucks for certain categories of people, but there's no way the majority of citizens need anything like that.
Some of the fault for this rests with governmental regulation. At some point CAFE was so skewed against full-size station wagons, that it almost eliminated them from the market. At the same time, it had loopholes excluding truck-based vehicles from punitive rules. Since many people wanted ability to haul cargo (many people own their own homes) and haul their family, the market for pickups, SUVs, and minivans was born. In Europe (where I believe you are located) and Canada station wagons still dominate.
Okay, I just changed the background on my Windows XP to black and removed all the icons. Now I can sit and stare at the screen. No need to upgrade anymore.
You don't need two quantum states for that, one will suffice.
Funny +1
In The Red, until the end of the universe
Insightful +1
Too bad I cannot moderate in the same thread I post in.
Experimental physicist Boris Blinov says that one of the most exciting things about the new study is that the quantum computer may be scaled up. “What’s most impressive and important is that they did it in the way that can be applied to a larger-scale system,” says Blinov, of the University of Washington in Seattle. “The very same techniques they’ve used for two qubits can be applied to much larger systems.”
Pretty soon they will be able to calculate the US budget with accuracy heretofore unmatched by any recent administration.
Truly, as long as people hide behind anonymity when moderating, no one can take the scoring seriously. It damages Slashdot.
Not everything is just a technical glitch. Some roots go much deeper. Just because you do not understand it, or do not agree with it, it doesn't make it trolling.
And here I was, thinking that the Presidential Apology Tour would make it all better.
On a serious note, by moving our high tech industry offshore we have helped to make it happen. Now, with a broken economy, we appear weak, and we invite ridicule and attack. Clever bandaids added to firewalls will make little difference long term. We need to regain strength and respect. This is not just a technical problem. Our recent administrations (Republicrats and Demopublican alike) through suicidal short-sighted policies aimed only to benefit a few fat cats have made us an easy target. Such is the fate of a fallen giant. Everyone wants to kick him. After all, what are we going to do about it?
Grandma would be proud of her cold compress technology.
I think it's a great opportunity to make money. As soon as Apple starts implementing it, short their stock.
IT company I work for implemented 5% pay cuts across the board this year, and then went out and made a ~$2B acquisition
:)
Like it or not, most people do work for a living, even though in higher income brackets, and some of the software they need to use may not be available on a Mac, or their client may be using Windows, and it is always smart to develop on the same platform. Technical writers, course developers, etc. face the same issue. The de facto standard software package in the industry, Adobe Technical Suite, is now Windows-only. What are you going to do? You can run VMware on your desktop, but more likely than not, you also own a Windows-based laptop for travel and presentations. I am sure there are examples from other fields.
This is also a reason that is stopping me and probably other people from going over to the Mac side - knowing that I would still have to own Windows-based hardware. I tend not to own more than I functionally need.
This is a standard accounting operating procedure for Silicon Valley startups. In fact, compared to the late 90s "boom", this is positively conservative.
Back in the day when I worked in mortgages (more than a quarter of a century ago - yes, I am older than dirt underneath my feet), we didn't have credit scores. We just used common sense. What a concept.
The biggest mistake was a naive belief that TLDs would be respected, with their silly .com, .org, etc. It created a royal mess of duplicate domain names with irrelevant TLDs as the only difference. Now companies have to buy up .com, .org, .net, etc to protect their domain name, otherwise someone will use other TLDs to sucker in unsuspecting victims into scams.
Getting rid of TLDs would be painful, but it needs to be done to restore a semblance of sanity. We can then have truly unique domain names and avoid not only confusion but scams and speculation (how many .tv domains do you think are legitimately Tuvalu domains?).
Don't you feel most of the time like you're surrounded by idiots? Seriously, I want super-intelligent robots. All the social experiments only succeeded in depressing average IQ, perhaps this will reverse the trend.
Wait. E.coli? As in a Escherichia The Killer Diarrhea Coli? Millions and millions and millions of reproducing E.coli bacteria? Not on my desk, thank you very much.
Might be easier and more practical to build an artificial human body that would accept a living human brain. It would likely solve a lot more debilitating illnesses than the opposite approach. Frankly, I would get into the queue right now.
Still, I am sure building a simulation of a human brain must be challenging.
I think corporate VPs have been using this tool for years, with the delay trigger set to "0".
It has always been that way. Nothing has changed. A lot of people just cannot read a map. A lot of those people probably never had to. I still believe that at least ability to follow a map has improved as a result of the exposure to the mapping technology on the Internet. Also, Google maps allows people to be involved in the process, actively modify the route and observe the results.
... just like digital cameras have disappeared because of the arrival of camera phones.
Sheesh.
Cry me a river. This is a typical whiny kumbaya nonsense about how we are losing important skills because of encroaching technology, a theory that immediately falls apart if you look at it from up close. Anyone who can read Google maps can read paper maps just fine for normal use. In fact, Google maps, GPS, and Google Earth probably immensely improved average map reading skills, not just street but topo.