The question isn't whether or not police should be able to gather this kind of evidence ever, it's whether police should be able to gather it without a warrant. If you have enough evidence to convince a judge, then hey, you can go look. If you don't... why was that you thought you should be able to? It's a terribly high standard of oversite, but it does provide some check
So, do you have an actual suggestion? Both major parties at this point have pretty egregious records when it comes to civil liberties. Neither not voting nor voting for third parties seem likely to affect the situation in a useful manner....which would then mean that the ways to address the situation are probably things other than voting. So why did you post?
I had one of the old wince phones (I think it was already technically windows mobile). Now, I did love that phone - especially after the poor thing started falling apart: I got my start in surface mounting reattaching components to its board. But it was a clunk piece of hardware, with a UI that would seem clunky to most people. It was still the best option I found for mobile internet at the time, hence my adoption, but I can see how it wasn't really going to be a go for most users.
So yes, I think it's both, and I think the hardware software integration becomes more important as one moves into the more mobile devices. Certainly, the early wince phones sported OSes not really well suited to the medium.
He's discussing the time period right about when I finally bailed on MS. I had been trying to be a security advocate for my group for a couple of years - and was told over and over again that users don't want security, and who cares? (Admittedly, the group I'd worked for before that, which was more server focused, was also more security focused.)...and then the security initiative began, and while I was cheerfully packing up my office, I suddenly had coworkers stopping by, picking my brain and trying to get me to give them my phone number so I could, continue to work for the company I was so eager to depart from, for free. And, of course, the security infrastructure they produced was incredibly annoying and non helpful for most users. (Somewhere in here my not particularly computer literate mother switched over to linux.)
Of all the stupid statements I've heard coming out of Microsoft about why they have made lousy products and terrible missteps which were, inaccountably, not embraced by customers, this has got to be the stupidest.
Mobile? The core problem continues to be that mobile is much more about hardware (which Microsoft itself has finally acknowledged). And even aside from the hardware, more about clean interface design than market dominance.
Oh come now, if Fox news were an organ of the state, you would expect its reporting to reflect the policies of the current administration rather than the past one. One could, I imagine, make a case for it being a tool of the republican party, but that probably overdramatizes the arrangement.
I can't be the only person who, after working with tablets / netbooks with touch screens (in my case primarily an Asus Transformer) finds that I now have a deep seated expectation that all screens should have touch interfaces, and not infrequently find myself poking at my laptop. Not for all uses, of course. For heavy use I'm far more likely to use another point controller (by preference either a clit mouse or wacom tablet) but as another option? I'd use it all the time on any screen that's fairly close to me.
I think it is still up in the air how useful this will be - and not just in the research side of things, though certainly it will be used there first. It doesn't seem that unlikely to me that you want to have finer control over what is expressed when, that you want different things expressed at different times, or that you want a series of things expressed in a particular order under different circumstances.
This as it stands it pretty rudimentary, but it could be the first step in allowing us to program cells in a much more defined and complex way than anything we can do yet.
Though if you're going to mention the ansible, you really ought to credit Ursula K Le Guin, who wrote about it first in 1966. (I always thought it rather classy that Card so overtly credited her, maintaining her name.) It's one of the major underpinnings of her Hainish universe, and that's some damned good writing. (Including as it does The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed, two of her best known books, and both excellent... Though I have a personal fondness for Four Ways to Forgiveness, a collection of interwoven novellas, and A Fisher of the Inland Seas, which is a collection of short stories.)
(And do I know you? I mean, how many Blue Phoenixes are there, anyway?)
Oh! And if you're going to mention magazines, The Economist kicks all kinds of ass. The only way I can deal with the political debates involves their live blogging...
Na Han - "A Call to Arms" by Lu Xun. A Chinese revolutionary writer. Worth reading even in translation. Why do I get crushes on dead authors? Cyteen by CJ Cherryh - seriously one of the best pieces of science fiction of the last century (and had some influence on my heading into biomed from the computer industry. Might have done it anyway...) Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Strogatz - which was probably a better reason to go into the mathy side of biomed, but I didn't run into it until I was already in research. (I was explicitly looking for dynamical systems theory, I just didn't know that's what it was called.) Oh, and I must put in a word for Apostol's Calculus. The hundreds of hours of my life sucked up by these books... (Really, they're the most rigorous, in ever sense of the word, books on calculus.) And let's throw in Before European Hegemony by Abu-Lughod just to balance things out a bit. (This cound easily become the poli-econ section...)...that all having been said, I have probably beed deeply influenced by Heinlein, but perhaps in questionable ways. (And I'm female. Kind of sick and wrong.) And others I don't even want to admit to...
I'm still using my HTC Vision, and as a piece of hardware, I do adore it (and hope to pass it on to my sister when I upgrade*). But their policies towards unlocking bootloaders have varied between inconsistent to evil. I love their hardware, but I'm pretty much done.
Sadly, I don't think those of us who root our phones and install community OSes constitute much of a demographic for marketing purposes.
* Likely soon. Likely to the Galaxy S Relay - I'm old fashioned enough to strongly prefer a hard keyboard, and by preference a five row keyboard.
I've spent time in steam tunnels, but it hasn't overlapped much with the time I've spent doing swordplay, either armored or not. There have been examples of metal in many instances. But clearly we had our invocations wrong from the get-go.
Whenever I run across those Chick tracts, I figure we was robbed.
(Actually, as part of a bid to get me to assist with a class during a semester I otherwise wouldn't have had any teaching load, I was recently given direction on our to get in to our local steam tunnels, and which ones had cameras. And our youngest grad student has never had any such experiences... but I digress.)
Okay, anyway your look at it, the thorium technology is wicked cool - but it's also still early days. I think wind is one of many interesting and potentially viable energy sources - and it to is still in development with regard to the really entertaining applications.
The bit I really don't get is the NIMBY response - I'd totally put on in my back yard. They're quiet, and rather pretty if you are a fossil fuels fetishist.
Some of these studies have been done (well, somewhat - studies are hard and expensive, so most things are done "somewhat".)
From recollection, if you look at places where people live the longest, one of the things that is typical is that they have moderate and consistent amounts of exercise throughout their lives - not crazy high amounts, which at some point get associated with an increased risk of ill effects. (That having been said, there's some interested research about people with certain kinds of spine injuries having the best outcomes if they do high impact rather than low impact exercise. Er, which I'd been doing to deal with spine issues since before the research was done, so it made me feel a little less crazy.)
The other point of interest is that studies have been done contrasting the health outcomes (not longevity outcomes - that would be long and expensive) of people doing fairly serious CR (25% calorie reduction, IIRC) contrasted with people doing increased exercise and less severe CR (12.5%) and the outcomes were pretty similar - so by that study, at least, exercise substitutes pretty well.
If anyone particularly cares, I can dig up the references.
Back in '01, I was released back to work after a spine injury (at, ahem, a major software company in Washington State) with the restriction that I not use a keyboard or a mouse.* So there I was, writing C++ code using Naturally Speaking on an alpha version of Windows that wasn't entirely compatible with the OS. Oh, yeah, and there wasn't any built in C++ support.)
And seriously? It took some training, but it really wasn't bad - and I had to use it for all my navigation, which is a lot more painful than just producing text, even code. You do have to set aside a few to train it well, and then have the discipline to learn all the special characters. (The macro support is also really useful.)
Pfeh. Everyone knows the waranty wears off at 25 (though, ahem, you can void it earlier) but they generally are still in reasonable functioning condition through 2-3 times that long and in extreme cases have still been known to still be in service after more than 100 years.
And that's what makes the more recent data about protein conformational changes so interesting - it gives the impression that there could be something vaguely equivalent to a hard disk, that it's not all electrical signals needing to be maintained, but something a little more enduring.
The visual decoding is all about electrical impulse carried through neurons. (And good luck resurrecting long dead neurons - especially in the CNS!*) But long term memory storage is looking to be more about protein conformation change... and it's barely conceivable that in a well enough preserved brain there might be enough residual information to decode. Kind of the biggest baddest hard drive forensics project ever.
Mind you, we aren't even close to being able to "read" memory information even under ideal circumstances.
* The CNS tends to suppress neuron regrowth. Sucks for people with spine or brain injuries, though I suppose it's a boon in terms of fewer tumors.
And my motivation may well return.* In the last twenty months I got to try to juggle the usual grad school stuff with being hit by a van, a spine injury, a prolonged course of treatment and a few months back, spine surgery. Honestly, I've had a great recovery - I was back teaching martial arts within two weeks! though getting my energy back for real has taken longer - but I'm still digging my way through the backlog. I mostly love my research again. Being off the drugs and having a brain is pretty great.
* Though there's always the chance that it will return in the form of a need to pick up a cinical degree as well. Do I really want to do another 4 (or 8) years of school? Even with a free ride?
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And this is why we have warrants.
The question isn't whether or not police should be able to gather this kind of evidence ever, it's whether police should be able to gather it without a warrant. If you have enough evidence to convince a judge, then hey, you can go look. If you don't... why was that you thought you should be able to? It's a terribly high standard of oversite, but it does provide some check
So, do you have an actual suggestion? Both major parties at this point have pretty egregious records when it comes to civil liberties. Neither not voting nor voting for third parties seem likely to affect the situation in a useful manner. ...which would then mean that the ways to address the situation are probably things other than voting. So why did you post?
I had one of the old wince phones (I think it was already technically windows mobile). Now, I did love that phone - especially after the poor thing started falling apart: I got my start in surface mounting reattaching components to its board. But it was a clunk piece of hardware, with a UI that would seem clunky to most people. It was still the best option I found for mobile internet at the time, hence my adoption, but I can see how it wasn't really going to be a go for most users.
So yes, I think it's both, and I think the hardware software integration becomes more important as one moves into the more mobile devices. Certainly, the early wince phones sported OSes not really well suited to the medium.
Thank you, though for the sake of the record, I'm no one's bro. (And "sis" just has the wrong sound to it, y'know?)
He's discussing the time period right about when I finally bailed on MS. I had been trying to be a security advocate for my group for a couple of years - and was told over and over again that users don't want security, and who cares? (Admittedly, the group I'd worked for before that, which was more server focused, was also more security focused.) ...and then the security initiative began, and while I was cheerfully packing up my office, I suddenly had coworkers stopping by, picking my brain and trying to get me to give them my phone number so I could, continue to work for the company I was so eager to depart from, for free. And, of course, the security infrastructure they produced was incredibly annoying and non helpful for most users. (Somewhere in here my not particularly computer literate mother switched over to linux.)
Of all the stupid statements I've heard coming out of Microsoft about why they have made lousy products and terrible missteps which were, inaccountably, not embraced by customers, this has got to be the stupidest.
Mobile? The core problem continues to be that mobile is much more about hardware (which Microsoft itself has finally acknowledged). And even aside from the hardware, more about clean interface design than market dominance.
What bufoonery.
Oh come now, if Fox news were an organ of the state, you would expect its reporting to reflect the policies of the current administration rather than the past one. One could, I imagine, make a case for it being a tool of the republican party, but that probably overdramatizes the arrangement.
I can't be the only person who, after working with tablets / netbooks with touch screens (in my case primarily an Asus Transformer) finds that I now have a deep seated expectation that all screens should have touch interfaces, and not infrequently find myself poking at my laptop. Not for all uses, of course. For heavy use I'm far more likely to use another point controller (by preference either a clit mouse or wacom tablet) but as another option? I'd use it all the time on any screen that's fairly close to me.
I think it is still up in the air how useful this will be - and not just in the research side of things, though certainly it will be used there first. It doesn't seem that unlikely to me that you want to have finer control over what is expressed when, that you want different things expressed at different times, or that you want a series of things expressed in a particular order under different circumstances.
This as it stands it pretty rudimentary, but it could be the first step in allowing us to program cells in a much more defined and complex way than anything we can do yet.
It is most often Tylik. (Er, but I forgot the password to my old ./ account.) And if so, I know your wife better...
Though if you're going to mention the ansible, you really ought to credit Ursula K Le Guin, who wrote about it first in 1966. (I always thought it rather classy that Card so overtly credited her, maintaining her name.) It's one of the major underpinnings of her Hainish universe, and that's some damned good writing. (Including as it does The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed, two of her best known books, and both excellent... Though I have a personal fondness for Four Ways to Forgiveness, a collection of interwoven novellas, and A Fisher of the Inland Seas, which is a collection of short stories.)
(And do I know you? I mean, how many Blue Phoenixes are there, anyway?)
Oh! And if you're going to mention magazines, The Economist kicks all kinds of ass. The only way I can deal with the political debates involves their live blogging...
Though if we're going to have a Buddhist slant, ShengYen's "Hoofprint of the Ox" is probably my favorite...
+1
Though I like KSR's "The Years of Rice and Salt" the best.
Na Han - "A Call to Arms" by Lu Xun. A Chinese revolutionary writer. Worth reading even in translation. Why do I get crushes on dead authors? ...that all having been said, I have probably beed deeply influenced by Heinlein, but perhaps in questionable ways. (And I'm female. Kind of sick and wrong.) And others I don't even want to admit to...
Cyteen by CJ Cherryh - seriously one of the best pieces of science fiction of the last century (and had some influence on my heading into biomed from the computer industry. Might have done it anyway...)
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Strogatz - which was probably a better reason to go into the mathy side of biomed, but I didn't run into it until I was already in research. (I was explicitly looking for dynamical systems theory, I just didn't know that's what it was called.)
Oh, and I must put in a word for Apostol's Calculus. The hundreds of hours of my life sucked up by these books... (Really, they're the most rigorous, in ever sense of the word, books on calculus.)
And let's throw in Before European Hegemony by Abu-Lughod just to balance things out a bit. (This cound easily become the poli-econ section...)
I'm still using my HTC Vision, and as a piece of hardware, I do adore it (and hope to pass it on to my sister when I upgrade*). But their policies towards unlocking bootloaders have varied between inconsistent to evil. I love their hardware, but I'm pretty much done.
Sadly, I don't think those of us who root our phones and install community OSes constitute much of a demographic for marketing purposes.
* Likely soon. Likely to the Galaxy S Relay - I'm old fashioned enough to strongly prefer a hard keyboard, and by preference a five row keyboard.
I've spent time in steam tunnels, but it hasn't overlapped much with the time I've spent doing swordplay, either armored or not. There have been examples of metal in many instances. But clearly we had our invocations wrong from the get-go.
Whenever I run across those Chick tracts, I figure we was robbed.
(Actually, as part of a bid to get me to assist with a class during a semester I otherwise wouldn't have had any teaching load, I was recently given direction on our to get in to our local steam tunnels, and which ones had cameras. And our youngest grad student has never had any such experiences... but I digress.)
...in the steam tunnels, worshipping Satan and listening to death metal, right?
Okay, anyway your look at it, the thorium technology is wicked cool - but it's also still early days. I think wind is one of many interesting and potentially viable energy sources - and it to is still in development with regard to the really entertaining applications.
The bit I really don't get is the NIMBY response - I'd totally put on in my back yard. They're quiet, and rather pretty if you are a fossil fuels fetishist.
Some of these studies have been done (well, somewhat - studies are hard and expensive, so most things are done "somewhat".)
From recollection, if you look at places where people live the longest, one of the things that is typical is that they have moderate and consistent amounts of exercise throughout their lives - not crazy high amounts, which at some point get associated with an increased risk of ill effects. (That having been said, there's some interested research about people with certain kinds of spine injuries having the best outcomes if they do high impact rather than low impact exercise. Er, which I'd been doing to deal with spine issues since before the research was done, so it made me feel a little less crazy.)
The other point of interest is that studies have been done contrasting the health outcomes (not longevity outcomes - that would be long and expensive) of people doing fairly serious CR (25% calorie reduction, IIRC) contrasted with people doing increased exercise and less severe CR (12.5%) and the outcomes were pretty similar - so by that study, at least, exercise substitutes pretty well.
If anyone particularly cares, I can dig up the references.
Actually, I am serious.
Back in '01, I was released back to work after a spine injury (at, ahem, a major software company in Washington State) with the restriction that I not use a keyboard or a mouse.* So there I was, writing C++ code using Naturally Speaking on an alpha version of Windows that wasn't entirely compatible with the OS. Oh, yeah, and there wasn't any built in C++ support.)
And seriously? It took some training, but it really wasn't bad - and I had to use it for all my navigation, which is a lot more painful than just producing text, even code. You do have to set aside a few to train it well, and then have the discipline to learn all the special characters. (The macro support is also really useful.)
* Yeah, my doctor had a sadistic sense of humor.
There are plenty of reasons to avoid apple products even if one can afford them.
I would certainly have been willing to try it, otherwise.
(OTOH, I find myself annoyed by how many things are available only as video these days, so perhaps I should just admit that I'm old.)
Pfeh. Everyone knows the waranty wears off at 25 (though, ahem, you can void it earlier) but they generally are still in reasonable functioning condition through 2-3 times that long and in extreme cases have still been known to still be in service after more than 100 years.
And that's what makes the more recent data about protein conformational changes so interesting - it gives the impression that there could be something vaguely equivalent to a hard disk, that it's not all electrical signals needing to be maintained, but something a little more enduring.
It's science fiction, but not utterly fantasy.
The visual decoding is all about electrical impulse carried through neurons. (And good luck resurrecting long dead neurons - especially in the CNS!*) But long term memory storage is looking to be more about protein conformation change... and it's barely conceivable that in a well enough preserved brain there might be enough residual information to decode. Kind of the biggest baddest hard drive forensics project ever.
Mind you, we aren't even close to being able to "read" memory information even under ideal circumstances.
* The CNS tends to suppress neuron regrowth. Sucks for people with spine or brain injuries, though I suppose it's a boon in terms of fewer tumors.
* Though there's always the chance that it will return in the form of a need to pick up a cinical degree as well. Do I really want to do another 4 (or 8) years of school? Even with a free ride?