You say "Google won't disclose it's own bugs". I'm not sure I believe that, but I do believe they won't publicize them. But the real question is "Do they fix them?". Of course, that would mean they would need to inspire upgrades...which probably means they would need to disclose the bugs, if not how to abuse them.
OTOH, the was reported a way to evade almost all bugs in recent MicroSoft products... disable administrator mode. This sounds like it might come with considerable in the way of downsides, but it was reported to evade almost all MS* bugs.
I'm sorry, but the primary injured party are the users. The manufacturer is at most a secondary victim. So the delay to fix is appropriate. But 90 days is about right. If you hold off forever an unscrupulous manufacturer would just let the problem persist, and once it becomes known to the criminals, it WILL be abused. 90 days may be too long, because they might have found the problem even before Google did, but you need to allow the manufacturer *some* time to fix the problem, because they aren't the primary injured party.
IIUC, supercapacitors don't exactly use plates, but rather in multiple tree-ish nets. So the charges are distributed through a volume. So I'm not sure your argument is convincing. (This is also why they can accept a large charge quickly.) I'm no expert in that area, of course, but few are.
You're saying what *you* want. *I* want a self-driving car.
(I'ld rather like it to be similar to a Prius, so I don't need to figure out how to charge it. The garage attached to this house is designed to hold a wagon without the horse, and to assume that on-coming vehicles are similar in speed and accident aversion. So the car would need to park on the street, and there isn't any electricity in the garage anyway. But even if there were I'd need a flagman to get the car in and out.)
I *do* keep hoping that the supercapacitors will eventually arrive, which would make a full electric car reasonable. Charge in minutes, hold the charge for weeks, hold as much charge as a tank of gas. But I've been waiting for them for over a decade now, and progress seems slow.
I've read that, and certainly there was lots of political interference. And the whole "food pyramid" thing was (and is) bad. But when I read the reports of what was actually recommended I didn't come away thinking that processed food was particularly healthy, or the highly refined starch was good for you. I did come away thinking they were unfairly down on cholesterol on scant evidence, as was later proved correct.
The "food pyramid" is really a marketing device, and I don't see how anyone can take it as honest nutritional advice. If for no other reason, it's missing too much in the way of information. E.g., not all legumes are the same. (And does it even get into a detail as fine as legumes vs. corn?)
Possibly in the year 1000 BCE Occam's Razor would have suggested the world was flat, but not since Aristarchus. Unless you map "I don't know, I haven't looked" onto "there's no evidence".
Proven by who in what year? At one point this was clearly true. Currently this isn't so clear. In a couple of years it may well be clearly false.
Also, to assert that the neuron network has little to do with how rel complex brains function requires decent evidence. To assert that some particular neural network doesn't have much similarity may well be true, but there are lots of different designs of neural nets out there.
Now I've heard plausible arguments to the effect that the chemical gradients mediated by glia cells are so significant to the functioning of a mammalian brain that you can't have a reasonable emulation without also emulating them, and this may well be correct. Proving that it's correct is a bit of a task, and if anyone has done it, I haven't encountered the reference, much less decided whether or not I believe it.
It seems reasonable that a fasting diet might help this, also, however. But 5 days a month is a bit extreme. I could do it a few times, but I think I know myself well enough to say I probably wouldn't be able to continue doing it. And from my past experience 1000 calories a day is harder to handle than a complete fast (except water).
What I'm trying is an extremely restricted carbohydrate diet. I even consider Oat bran to be high in carbohydrates. Wheat bran, however, and wheat germ are essentially free. I'm not totally pleased with the results, but it's certainly an improvement, and it seems to be something I can tolerate on a continued basis. I allow myself one meal a day which has, perhaps, a couple of slices of bread, or some potato. This seems to be important. If I get too low on non-fiber carbohydrates my glucose level rises...and I'm still trying to get a handle on whether that's good or bad.
No, you won't see teeth evolved to crush grain. You will see teeth evolved to eat vegetables and fruit (among other things). Also tubers. But grains were not edible before the invention of fire and grinding (with stones, not teeth). (Well, green oats are edible, but you can't get much food that way, it takes too long. And I don't believe oats grow where we evolved anyway.)
It's been guessed, I don't know how reliably, that the first reason we started growing grain was to feet to cattle, and the second reason was for beer. Once we started growing grain for beer, we started selecting for larger grain head, and thence to something reasonable to eat after grinding.
Perhaps it depends on exactly how well you read the reports. When I read the reports I *never* got the idea that they were recommending refined flours, sugar, or other similar sources of sugar or starch. The closest I can come is a recommendation for baked potatoes...which is still sort of valid, though now we (or at least I) worry more about the starch.
Cholesterol is an interesting example, though. Lots of "experts" believed that cholesterol was a very bad thing, despite the fact that the myelin sheathes around the myleinated nerves require it to insulate the nerves. Also despite the fact that it's disassembled during digestion, and that the body makes its own cholesterol from available ingredients, even if there is none in your diet. And the evidence against it in the diet was always quite shaky. That's a real example of the "experts" being stampeded by a unreliable study.
The actual dietary recommendations haven't changed as much as the public image of them, but the "food pyramid" is by PR people. Some of them are also dietitians, but they're mainly political or marketing. So you need to read a bit carefully, because while the "best available recommendations" are available, they aren't always obvious. But lots of starch was NEVER among the "best available recommendations", and *I* didn't even read the old food pyramid that way. I read it as recommending lots of whole grains, but that's a lot different from corn starch and sugar.
To be fair, over the decades the cost of internet service in constant dollars has gone down and the speed of transmission has improved. Some of the content has also improved, and that isn't the fault of the ISP anyway.
When you compare the US to the rest of the world, of course, it's a far different story. And it may be different outside the metropolises (whatever the proper plural is). When my sister lived in a city in South Dakota the local phone company refused to allow internet connections...it can't have gotten worse than that.
While that is true, they've gotten worse since standardized testing was implements. There are *reasonable* standardized tests. They'd happen perhaps once per year. Possibly twice. Three times is definitely overkill. And if you want to make them mandatory, make them mandatory for ALL schools. Otherwise make them local option.
Only if one of the regulations overthrown is government guarantees behind contracts. Even then I think that's a hopelessly optimistic prediction. But as long as contract law stands many areas, perhaps most, are required to only allow one vendor access to their lines.
Come to that, you might also need to overthrow government enforcement of the right to property. Sometimes those lines are officially property of some particular private entity even though they were paid for by the government.
Well, IIRC Xerxes thought the Greek economy worked "sort of" that way. The translated quote is "Who are these people who have special places where they go to cheat each other?".
I think it would really be years or decades, not months. The current legal environment allows companies to have contracts that monopolize access to the telecommunication lines, and wireless frequencies are also strictly regulated. You might be able to handle SOME connections with laser links, but not most of them.
FWIW, there used to be many more ISPs when things were over dial-up *because* it was impossible to monopolize the lines.
If you want to go dial-up, you can probably still find a choice of ISPs, but who wants a connection that slow. You may need to call long distance, but that's a lot cheaper now than it used to be. (Checking, the first page of a Google search only listed 3 dial up ISPs, and one of them was AT&T.)
Sorry, but that doesn't work. It works for batteries, because YOU are the one inconvenienced if the battery dies. But if the company bears the liability even if you are the owner, then the company isn't going to be willing to allow you to own the car. Not without a huge up-front payment. (The car may drive ever so safely, but accidents will happen, and legal judgments sometimes ignore facts.) I suppose it might turn out that the legal owner was the bank rather than the auto company, but it won't be the presumptive purchaser.
And I'm not sure I see a reasonable way around this. Automated cars are already so automated that people can't manage to pay attention to what's happening (see Ford engineers sleeping). So the liability *has* to be with the auto company. But if the liability is with them, then they're going to need to retain control so they can fix problems, ensure maintenance, etc. And that's an on-going expense...so they need to ensure either an on-going cash flow, or a sufficiently large initial payment...and it works better for responsible action if it's an on-going cash flow that the payer can get out of for good cause.
So I think that either the liability stays with the auto company, and so does the ownership, or the company only sells an initial period of liability coverage with renewal options and ownership (and control) lies with the individual. And the second option has all kinds of traps and potholes in it...probably more than the first.
I only read it on popular sites, so I don't know the details, but AFAIKT they didn't have any good idea of how low a pressure it might be stable under. Only hopes, and some reason to believe that it would be stable at lower pressures. (And I don't even know what their "reason to believe that it would be stable at lower pressures" was, just that they had one.)
Certainly, some of the people writing the articles I read thought that this meant STP, but I didn't see any quotes from the concerned scientists that indicated that *they* thought so.
In practice that requirement seems to never be enforced. IIRC someone got a patent on an FTL drive, but I'm not certain it was in the US. However, they needed a specific rule to eliminate patents on perpetual motion machines even back in the 1800's, so it's been a long time when the requirement that "someone skilled in the arts" can understand it and duplicate it has been enforced.
And THAT is the way this should be done, not be removing comments. I'm perfectly fine with having it score comments. In fact I think there should be several different factions allowed to score comments. And people should be able to browse, for each service, at any minimum score required they choose. Personally, I'd like a score service that rated any post that mentioned "SJW" at -1, and that one I'd use setting the minimum score at zero. But this doesn't mean I think the posts should be removed, merely hidden from me. (I find them almost always worthless, and usually stupid.) That I don't want to experience them doesn't mean I don't feel that others should be allowed to experience them, if that's what they chose.
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One hopes that's what's going on, but I don't use Chrome, so I don't follow it closely enough to know. Do *you*? Or are you just being optimistic?
OTOH, Google definitely has a better reputation for fixing bugs than MS does.
You say "Google won't disclose it's own bugs". I'm not sure I believe that, but I do believe they won't publicize them. But the real question is "Do they fix them?". Of course, that would mean they would need to inspire upgrades...which probably means they would need to disclose the bugs, if not how to abuse them.
OTOH, the was reported a way to evade almost all bugs in recent MicroSoft products ... disable administrator mode. This sounds like it might come with considerable in the way of downsides, but it was reported to evade almost all MS* bugs.
* MS: It's not just a disease anymore.
I'm sorry, but the primary injured party are the users. The manufacturer is at most a secondary victim. So the delay to fix is appropriate. But 90 days is about right. If you hold off forever an unscrupulous manufacturer would just let the problem persist, and once it becomes known to the criminals, it WILL be abused. 90 days may be too long, because they might have found the problem even before Google did, but you need to allow the manufacturer *some* time to fix the problem, because they aren't the primary injured party.
IIUC, supercapacitors don't exactly use plates, but rather in multiple tree-ish nets. So the charges are distributed through a volume. So I'm not sure your argument is convincing. (This is also why they can accept a large charge quickly.) I'm no expert in that area, of course, but few are.
You're saying what *you* want. *I* want a self-driving car.
(I'ld rather like it to be similar to a Prius, so I don't need to figure out how to charge it. The garage attached to this house is designed to hold a wagon without the horse, and to assume that on-coming vehicles are similar in speed and accident aversion. So the car would need to park on the street, and there isn't any electricity in the garage anyway. But even if there were I'd need a flagman to get the car in and out.)
I *do* keep hoping that the supercapacitors will eventually arrive, which would make a full electric car reasonable. Charge in minutes, hold the charge for weeks, hold as much charge as a tank of gas. But I've been waiting for them for over a decade now, and progress seems slow.
I've read that, and certainly there was lots of political interference. And the whole "food pyramid" thing was (and is) bad. But when I read the reports of what was actually recommended I didn't come away thinking that processed food was particularly healthy, or the highly refined starch was good for you. I did come away thinking they were unfairly down on cholesterol on scant evidence, as was later proved correct.
The "food pyramid" is really a marketing device, and I don't see how anyone can take it as honest nutritional advice. If for no other reason, it's missing too much in the way of information. E.g., not all legumes are the same. (And does it even get into a detail as fine as legumes vs. corn?)
Even that wouldn't suffice, as your "corrupted copy" probably wouldn't compile.
His arguments as to why it isn't serious are reasonable. If you want your arguments to be considered, you need to make some.
Possibly in the year 1000 BCE Occam's Razor would have suggested the world was flat, but not since Aristarchus. Unless you map "I don't know, I haven't looked" onto "there's no evidence".
Proven by who in what year? At one point this was clearly true. Currently this isn't so clear. In a couple of years it may well be clearly false.
Also, to assert that the neuron network has little to do with how rel complex brains function requires decent evidence. To assert that some particular neural network doesn't have much similarity may well be true, but there are lots of different designs of neural nets out there.
Now I've heard plausible arguments to the effect that the chemical gradients mediated by glia cells are so significant to the functioning of a mammalian brain that you can't have a reasonable emulation without also emulating them, and this may well be correct. Proving that it's correct is a bit of a task, and if anyone has done it, I haven't encountered the reference, much less decided whether or not I believe it.
Not just bees, bumble bees. You'd think it would be honey bees that went in for team sports.
It seems reasonable that a fasting diet might help this, also, however. But 5 days a month is a bit extreme. I could do it a few times, but I think I know myself well enough to say I probably wouldn't be able to continue doing it. And from my past experience 1000 calories a day is harder to handle than a complete fast (except water).
What I'm trying is an extremely restricted carbohydrate diet. I even consider Oat bran to be high in carbohydrates. Wheat bran, however, and wheat germ are essentially free. I'm not totally pleased with the results, but it's certainly an improvement, and it seems to be something I can tolerate on a continued basis. I allow myself one meal a day which has, perhaps, a couple of slices of bread, or some potato. This seems to be important. If I get too low on non-fiber carbohydrates my glucose level rises...and I'm still trying to get a handle on whether that's good or bad.
No, you won't see teeth evolved to crush grain. You will see teeth evolved to eat vegetables and fruit (among other things). Also tubers. But grains were not edible before the invention of fire and grinding (with stones, not teeth). (Well, green oats are edible, but you can't get much food that way, it takes too long. And I don't believe oats grow where we evolved anyway.)
It's been guessed, I don't know how reliably, that the first reason we started growing grain was to feet to cattle, and the second reason was for beer. Once we started growing grain for beer, we started selecting for larger grain head, and thence to something reasonable to eat after grinding.
Perhaps it depends on exactly how well you read the reports. When I read the reports I *never* got the idea that they were recommending refined flours, sugar, or other similar sources of sugar or starch. The closest I can come is a recommendation for baked potatoes...which is still sort of valid, though now we (or at least I) worry more about the starch.
Cholesterol is an interesting example, though. Lots of "experts" believed that cholesterol was a very bad thing, despite the fact that the myelin sheathes around the myleinated nerves require it to insulate the nerves. Also despite the fact that it's disassembled during digestion, and that the body makes its own cholesterol from available ingredients, even if there is none in your diet. And the evidence against it in the diet was always quite shaky. That's a real example of the "experts" being stampeded by a unreliable study.
The actual dietary recommendations haven't changed as much as the public image of them, but the "food pyramid" is by PR people. Some of them are also dietitians, but they're mainly political or marketing. So you need to read a bit carefully, because while the "best available recommendations" are available, they aren't always obvious. But lots of starch was NEVER among the "best available recommendations", and *I* didn't even read the old food pyramid that way. I read it as recommending lots of whole grains, but that's a lot different from corn starch and sugar.
By my rough calculation, 100g is less than a quarter pound. If you want it exact, Google will do the conversion.
To be fair, over the decades the cost of internet service in constant dollars has gone down and the speed of transmission has improved. Some of the content has also improved, and that isn't the fault of the ISP anyway.
When you compare the US to the rest of the world, of course, it's a far different story. And it may be different outside the metropolises (whatever the proper plural is). When my sister lived in a city in South Dakota the local phone company refused to allow internet connections...it can't have gotten worse than that.
While that is true, they've gotten worse since standardized testing was implements. There are *reasonable* standardized tests. They'd happen perhaps once per year. Possibly twice. Three times is definitely overkill. And if you want to make them mandatory, make them mandatory for ALL schools. Otherwise make them local option.
Only if one of the regulations overthrown is government guarantees behind contracts. Even then I think that's a hopelessly optimistic prediction. But as long as contract law stands many areas, perhaps most, are required to only allow one vendor access to their lines.
Come to that, you might also need to overthrow government enforcement of the right to property. Sometimes those lines are officially property of some particular private entity even though they were paid for by the government.
Well, IIRC Xerxes thought the Greek economy worked "sort of" that way. The translated quote is "Who are these people who have special places where they go to cheat each other?".
I think it would really be years or decades, not months. The current legal environment allows companies to have contracts that monopolize access to the telecommunication lines, and wireless frequencies are also strictly regulated. You might be able to handle SOME connections with laser links, but not most of them.
FWIW, there used to be many more ISPs when things were over dial-up *because* it was impossible to monopolize the lines.
If you want to go dial-up, you can probably still find a choice of ISPs, but who wants a connection that slow. You may need to call long distance, but that's a lot cheaper now than it used to be. (Checking, the first page of a Google search only listed 3 dial up ISPs, and one of them was AT&T.)
Sorry, but that doesn't work. It works for batteries, because YOU are the one inconvenienced if the battery dies. But if the company bears the liability even if you are the owner, then the company isn't going to be willing to allow you to own the car. Not without a huge up-front payment. (The car may drive ever so safely, but accidents will happen, and legal judgments sometimes ignore facts.) I suppose it might turn out that the legal owner was the bank rather than the auto company, but it won't be the presumptive purchaser.
And I'm not sure I see a reasonable way around this. Automated cars are already so automated that people can't manage to pay attention to what's happening (see Ford engineers sleeping). So the liability *has* to be with the auto company. But if the liability is with them, then they're going to need to retain control so they can fix problems, ensure maintenance, etc. And that's an on-going expense...so they need to ensure either an on-going cash flow, or a sufficiently large initial payment...and it works better for responsible action if it's an on-going cash flow that the payer can get out of for good cause.
So I think that either the liability stays with the auto company, and so does the ownership, or the company only sells an initial period of liability coverage with renewal options and ownership (and control) lies with the individual. And the second option has all kinds of traps and potholes in it...probably more than the first.
I only read it on popular sites, so I don't know the details, but AFAIKT they didn't have any good idea of how low a pressure it might be stable under. Only hopes, and some reason to believe that it would be stable at lower pressures. (And I don't even know what their "reason to believe that it would be stable at lower pressures" was, just that they had one.)
Certainly, some of the people writing the articles I read thought that this meant STP, but I didn't see any quotes from the concerned scientists that indicated that *they* thought so.
Well, they *had* theorized that after it was originally made it might be stable at much lower pressures. This may not have been correct.
In practice that requirement seems to never be enforced. IIRC someone got a patent on an FTL drive, but I'm not certain it was in the US. However, they needed a specific rule to eliminate patents on perpetual motion machines even back in the 1800's, so it's been a long time when the requirement that "someone skilled in the arts" can understand it and duplicate it has been enforced.
Well, yes, but I read the comments at -1.
And THAT is the way this should be done, not be removing comments. I'm perfectly fine with having it score comments. In fact I think there should be several different factions allowed to score comments. And people should be able to browse, for each service, at any minimum score required they choose. Personally, I'd like a score service that rated any post that mentioned "SJW" at -1, and that one I'd use setting the minimum score at zero. But this doesn't mean I think the posts should be removed, merely hidden from me. (I find them almost always worthless, and usually stupid.) That I don't want to experience them doesn't mean I don't feel that others should be allowed to experience them, if that's what they chose.