Nice straw man - I don't think the AC"s point is that they "deserve" it, rather that its largely avoidable. When I cross the road, regardless of whether I have the right of way I'm watching traffic because I'd rather be whole than exercise my right.
Its avoidable. But do you really want to live in a world where a couple cant take risque photos of each other for whatever kink gets their rocks off. Mate of mine had a wife who lived in the US while he spent a year here in aust juggling visa requiements. So she sent over naughty pics to keep his mind on the prize. Should she have to fear that her goof of a husband might lose the phone and she ends up on the internet? Well yeah I guess she does. And thats a sad thing, and it would be nice if the law provide some protection in case the worst happens.
From best I can work out, its actually a bit of both.
This "leak" apparently is just a slightly revised version of the public comment version. So not really a "leak" but its not exactly the same as "Was already publically available", and its entirely plausible the scientists interviewed do believe it will be buried. Having worked in climate research theres incredible pressure on scientists to bury results that confirm just how bad its getting, particularly when goverments start putting faux-conservative barbarians in charge hell bent on silencing scientsts. I'm out of govt too, and a lot of other australian researchers are looking for outs due to the culture of silence the govt has tried to enforce on the CSIRO.
I'm kind of in both camps. Flash can not die soon enough. However I do have a collection of youthful stupidity that I made many moons ago that I'd love to be able to show to my grandkids one day. Maybe what's really needed is proper spec docs so a html5 converter project doesn't get bogged down in hellish reverse engineering
You would have had a hard time learning programming back in the day with FORTRAN IV on punched cards. A continuation line had a "-" in column 6 and columns 7-71 were for language statements.
Oh god, Cobol had that sort of thing as well. First job, back in the early 90s maintaining shitty old mainframe cobol on a Vax. Various positions in the line had different meanings,such as line numbwea, labels, etc and depending on which section of the code you are in (storage division, procedure division, i/o sections etc) those indents would changed.
it was a fucking nightmare. Granted in the 1950s people where just making shit up as they went because "computer science" was really the sole domain of british code breakers at that point, so "compiler theory" wasnt yet a thing, but man , gnarly stuff to deal with.
Pythons use of white space? Perfectly logical and quite intuitive. People who complain about it dont know what they are talking about, imho
It makes me uncomfortable to say it, but he's prefereable to 99% of the others. I suspect that statement, made in the UK to a UK paper, was made to impress politicians in the UK that he's being tough and standing up to the cyber-terrorists.
Whatever Turnbull may be as a person, is pretty much redundant as he's completely incapable of standing up to the regressives in his party. He's so frightened of being rolled by the catholic far right in the party (Tony abbot, etc) he's sold everything he stood for down the river and just does whatever the ultra conservartives tell him to do, even s that behavior further sinks his reputation down the toilet of public opinion.
And the stupefying thing is, he's still getting knived by the far right anyway. He gains nothing by continuing to inflict unpopular and authoritarian far right nonsense on the population.
Although storing a *movie* in DNA isn't in it self particularly useful, this is an impressive feat and demonstrative of just how much of a revolution CRISPR really is. The golden age of gene tweaking we where promised is upon us. Now, what are we gonna do with it.
I honestly would if it could replace my laptop. Mobile Phones nowadays are perfectly able to do so, the only thing they lack is a screen and a battery. I am looking forward to a laptop that can detach and become a phone. We already have tablet/laptop hybrids, phone/laptop hybrids are just the next step.
An iPhone that ran OSX , not IOS, OSX, and could dock into a monitor and screen would be spectacular and it baffles me it hasn't been done yet (I know the ubuntu phone tried, but that never really took off for some reason, and I'll pass on android)
SCO tried pulling the same stunt with Linux a decade or so back...
SCO was copyright license trolling, not patent trolling. Very different kettle of fish. (The fact that SCO didnt even own the copyrights they where suing over, Novel did and told them to stop, made it even more ludicrous. SCOs entire board should have been thrown in prison for fraud, frankly, it was obviously bullshit to literally everyone, and it was designed to force IBM to buy out SCO. Fortunately IBM had the lawyers to fuck that plan up good and proper, even though it probably would have been cheaper to just pay out the go-away money)
If they want to decentralize the web, DNS and the SSL racket has to change. Domains have been completely compromised by both business interests, particularly the.com domains which have been squatted to hell and back, and government interests that can take away those names just because your politically inconvenient (See: Torrent sites).. And the SSL racket has to go, why the hell should we have to pay huge sums of cash to companys that *clearly* can not guarantee the integrity of the trust chain for certificates and have let us down again and again.
To my thinking, whatever must come next must be decentralized and let *US* choose who we trust and who we don't, both for domains, and for encryption.
What does this have to do with left vs right? I just don't get this demented US debate.
Last job I had, I worked with a number of physicists working in climatography and oceanography. Thats pretty much their take too. The politics *baffle* them. Conservative politiciians declariing that theres some sort of sneaky conspiriacy going on, meanwhile actual scientists are just following the evidence where it leads, regardless of what the policy wonks proclaimed. Hell at one point conservative newspaper types started announcing some bad spooky conspiracy theory that the bureau of meteorology was lying about temperatures. Well II sure as fuck never heard about this sinister plot to lie about weatherr (FOR SOME REASON) when I was writing the bloody code running some of those "lying"weather statiions. I'm kinda glad I'm not in that job anymore, its frusturating as hell watching right wing newspaper and blog commenters straight up lie about you and not being able to do a damn thing about it, without gettiing in the target sights of some very shady campaiigners
But...CO2 levels haven't actually dropped. They may have maybe slowed down acceleration but they haven't dropped.
Correct, and the general trend is still very firmly warming (Its basic physics really). However within the warming climate systems various cycles as well as other less periodic phenomena are still at play desspite the increased energy being absorbed by the atmosphere.
There should be no surprises here, it all falls out of the math, but remember ; less energy here means more energy somewhere else. Theres no respite to be had.
Weak bait. IIRC, Apple only made Core 1 systems for a year or so, and they stopped supporting Core 1 with 10.7. Core 2 lasted a bit longer (2010 mac mini is C2D), has x64, and is still supported by El Capitan. What's more interesting is that they are forcing 64-bit on ARM first, which hasn't been 64-bit for as long.
Theres a big diffrence. All iPhone apps are more or less Cocoa apps. On macs however many 32bit apps used the carbon API which was an api that let developers compile pre OSX apps for OSX as well as letting those apps take advantage of the more up to date OS's features.
These apps can't be easily upgraded unless apple releases a 64bit carbon api, which they probably wont.
Theres a lot of coders that'll need to scramble to get their stuff off carbon and onto cocoa
Yes. Baysian algorithms are classic examples of machine learning, in fact it's one of the first things they teach, and spam whacking was one of the first mainstream uses of it
Maybe the safest of the hallucinogens they were compared to, but to say they are the safest recreational drug likely means the researchers were themselves shrooming.:P
Yeah its an odd claim. To be honest, last tim I tried mushrooms, back in my university days, I ended up having an absolutely nasty anxiety attack that only seemed to pass when some tripping genius threw ABBA on (is it even possible not to smile at daft 70s disco?) . Sure my health wasn't threatened, but it was far from a fun experience.
The IRA where never beaten by counterterrorism forces. They where beaten by the peace process. Thats a historical fact. All the spies, wiretapes and surveilance from the full might of the british establishment could never crack the IRAs primary command structure, only bust the occasional cell and react to incidents after the fact. What succeeded was creating a political environment where Sinn Fein and the UK govt could negotiate a peace such that Irish patriots didn't need the IRA anymore.
Thats a very different kettle of fish to the jihadis
You people keep using the term "Marxism" without even the slightest inkling of what it means. Hint: it's not liberalism and the closest we have to a Marxist is Bernie who's more a social democrat than a Marxist
Apple doesn't have an "anti american" attitude. It's just capitalism , and the choice is either affordable China/India phones or beyond ridiculous priced local one. Anyway , decades of nafta has stripped US tech manufacturing to the point America *cant* make iPhones. The factory capacity simply doesn't exist
I pay $540 per year for my internet connection. That's pure internet cost. I don't have cable or landline. I've not included my mobile though at least some of that is arguably internet too. They are trying to do it with a one time payment of about $1500 per person? That seems like they've low-balled it, especially when you consider that their landmass is almost equal to the contiguous US. So with less than a tenth of the population density, their costs per connection should be higher than ours.
Most of the population are in relatively compact (compared to the US) cities. Those outside the suburbs in the 'outback' get satelite.
Luckily it's Netflix's own IP that was leaked, and it won't affect their partnerships with other studios, although they obviously need to get a handle on their security.
From the sounds of it they hacked the studio, not netflix themselves
"Oh, bullshit. You've fallen for marketing. No one voted them in charge of the dictionary"
This is not how standards bodies work.
NGMNA is simply a working group of mobile networks and handset makers who sit around and come up with a set of standards as to what will be called "5G". For 4G they settled on the LTE family of protocols of which LTEX is one of those standards. They are recognized by governments, standards super-bodies such as the IEEE, the mobile handset makers and the networks. Thats as close to "voted in" as your going to get.
No you dont get a say in it, unless your making handsets or own a mobile network, anything else is solipsist nonsense. Words actually have meanings dude, and they are not "Whatever I stamp my feet and demand to be true".
NGMNA's current prototype is based around the Snapdragon X50 modem which runs in the mm range (around 28ghz range) and supposedly can operate at a burst bandwidths of 35gbps.
Which is actually ridiculous and I have doubts they'll give consumers that much to play with. But a "generation" in mobile networks is around ten years, and we're still a long way off anything the NGMA and its member companies will agree on as worth locking in for a decade as a standard
No, the 5G network will be what the The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (The guys who actually define this, being the telco working body in charge). Its a work in process and all the stakeholders agree on that much.
My iphone 7 gets 127mbps/s8.87mbps. Thats 4G
5G research is including things like milimeter wavelength coms (20+ghz) and likely will crack the 1gbps barrier.
We heard the same sort of claims made about climate 'science'. We were told that 'the science was settled'. Then it turns out that it actually wasn't settled at all. There was much to be doubtful about. The accuracy of measurement techniques became doubted. Questionable assumptions were made. Data had to be 'adjusted' to fit models. All in all, it left a bad taste in the mouths of people who strive to apply the scientific method rigorously and properly.
Anthropic climate change is very much "settled", except in the minds of conservative conspiracy theorists who's opinions don't count towards "the scientific consensus" (Principally because they are wrong).
Where was the data "adjusted". Time and time again when these claims where made, when people look into it, the evidence disapears. And "the measurements" are the same.
The whole "urban heat island" thing was unscientific nonsense thats been debunked time and time again. And that whole "hide the decline" nonsense was a specific case where a known deviation from observations regarding arctic tree ring samples in the 50s (Likely from nuclear testing pounding the trees in the area with radiation) was removed from a dataset to make the data *MORE* accurate.
But hey, why let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.
As for dating, we're talking Thorium/Uranium dating here, which is very robust to the time span we're refering to with an accuracy to within 1% (Much better than the 1std-deviation of carbon).
All of these figures fall out the apriori calculations that derive from fundamental physics and observation.
Another problem is the new date is almost an order of magnitude older than all prior evidence. One isolated sample set is not sufficient evidence to revise the estimate that much. We'd need more samples from the likes of say 40k and 90k to give more credence to the 130k date.
Needing samples from other dates is unnecessary. A quick search of the journals will show thousands of samples from various time periods tested with the method. Its a solved problem.
More samples from the *same* source however will reduce the error margins
Nah. These new methods aren't accurate either. Everyone said carbon dating was accurate for decades, but it really wasn't. Don't believe everything you read.
Where are you getting this guff from? Carbon dating is precisely as reliable as it always has been, within one standard deviation. We've always known that, and the accuracy can be derived a-priori from fundamental physics.
There are more accurate methods, but all are basically derived from the fundamental determinism that radioactive decay occurs at a predictable rate.
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Its avoidable. But do you really want to live in a world where a couple cant take risque photos of each other for whatever kink gets their rocks off. Mate of mine had a wife who lived in the US while he spent a year here in aust juggling visa requiements. So she sent over naughty pics to keep his mind on the prize. Should she have to fear that her goof of a husband might lose the phone and she ends up on the internet? Well yeah I guess she does. And thats a sad thing, and it would be nice if the law provide some protection in case the worst happens.
From best I can work out, its actually a bit of both.
This "leak" apparently is just a slightly revised version of the public comment version. So not really a "leak" but its not exactly the same as "Was already publically available", and its entirely plausible the scientists interviewed do believe it will be buried. Having worked in climate research theres incredible pressure on scientists to bury results that confirm just how bad its getting, particularly when goverments start putting faux-conservative barbarians in charge hell bent on silencing scientsts. I'm out of govt too, and a lot of other australian researchers are looking for outs due to the culture of silence the govt has tried to enforce on the CSIRO.
I'm kind of in both camps. Flash can not die soon enough. However I do have a collection of youthful stupidity that I made many moons ago that I'd love to be able to show to my grandkids one day. Maybe what's really needed is proper spec docs so a html5 converter project doesn't get bogged down in hellish reverse engineering
Oh god, Cobol had that sort of thing as well. First job, back in the early 90s maintaining shitty old mainframe cobol on a Vax. Various positions in the line had different meanings,such as line numbwea, labels, etc and depending on which section of the code you are in (storage division, procedure division, i/o sections etc) those indents would changed.
it was a fucking nightmare. Granted in the 1950s people where just making shit up as they went because "computer science" was really the sole domain of british code breakers at that point, so "compiler theory" wasnt yet a thing, but man , gnarly stuff to deal with.
Pythons use of white space? Perfectly logical and quite intuitive. People who complain about it dont know what they are talking about, imho
Whatever Turnbull may be as a person, is pretty much redundant as he's completely incapable of standing up to the regressives in his party. He's so frightened of being rolled by the catholic far right in the party (Tony abbot, etc) he's sold everything he stood for down the river and just does whatever the ultra conservartives tell him to do, even s that behavior further sinks his reputation down the toilet of public opinion.
And the stupefying thing is, he's still getting knived by the far right anyway. He gains nothing by continuing to inflict unpopular and authoritarian far right nonsense on the population.
Although storing a *movie* in DNA isn't in it self particularly useful, this is an impressive feat and demonstrative of just how much of a revolution CRISPR really is. The golden age of gene tweaking we where promised is upon us. Now, what are we gonna do with it.
An iPhone that ran OSX , not IOS, OSX, and could dock into a monitor and screen would be spectacular and it baffles me it hasn't been done yet (I know the ubuntu phone tried, but that never really took off for some reason, and I'll pass on android)
SCO was copyright license trolling, not patent trolling. Very different kettle of fish. (The fact that SCO didnt even own the copyrights they where suing over, Novel did and told them to stop, made it even more ludicrous. SCOs entire board should have been thrown in prison for fraud, frankly, it was obviously bullshit to literally everyone, and it was designed to force IBM to buy out SCO. Fortunately IBM had the lawyers to fuck that plan up good and proper, even though it probably would have been cheaper to just pay out the go-away money)
The new economy is webscale. Mongodb wired into nodejs mining coins and buying star citizen spaceship gifs. Its the future man
If they want to decentralize the web, DNS and the SSL racket has to change. Domains have been completely compromised by both business interests, particularly the .com domains which have been squatted to hell and back, and government interests that can take away those names just because your politically inconvenient (See: Torrent sites).. And the SSL racket has to go, why the hell should we have to pay huge sums of cash to companys that *clearly* can not guarantee the integrity of the trust chain for certificates and have let us down again and again.
To my thinking, whatever must come next must be decentralized and let *US* choose who we trust and who we don't, both for domains, and for encryption.
Last job I had, I worked with a number of physicists working in climatography and oceanography. Thats pretty much their take too. The politics *baffle* them. Conservative politiciians declariing that theres some sort of sneaky conspiriacy going on, meanwhile actual scientists are just following the evidence where it leads, regardless of what the policy wonks proclaimed. Hell at one point conservative newspaper types started announcing some bad spooky conspiracy theory that the bureau of meteorology was lying about temperatures. Well II sure as fuck never heard about this sinister plot to lie about weatherr (FOR SOME REASON) when I was writing the bloody code running some of those "lying"weather statiions. I'm kinda glad I'm not in that job anymore, its frusturating as hell watching right wing newspaper and blog commenters straight up lie about you and not being able to do a damn thing about it, without gettiing in the target sights of some very shady campaiigners
Correct, and the general trend is still very firmly warming (Its basic physics really). However within the warming climate systems various cycles as well as other less periodic phenomena are still at play desspite the increased energy being absorbed by the atmosphere.
There should be no surprises here, it all falls out of the math, but remember ; less energy here means more energy somewhere else. Theres no respite to be had.
Theres a big diffrence. All iPhone apps are more or less Cocoa apps. On macs however many 32bit apps used the carbon API which was an api that let developers compile pre OSX apps for OSX as well as letting those apps take advantage of the more up to date OS's features.
These apps can't be easily upgraded unless apple releases a 64bit carbon api, which they probably wont.
Theres a lot of coders that'll need to scramble to get their stuff off carbon and onto cocoa
Yes. Baysian algorithms are classic examples of machine learning, in fact it's one of the first things they teach, and spam whacking was one of the first mainstream uses of it
Yeah its an odd claim. To be honest, last tim I tried mushrooms, back in my university days, I ended up having an absolutely nasty anxiety attack that only seemed to pass when some tripping genius threw ABBA on (is it even possible not to smile at daft 70s disco?) . Sure my health wasn't threatened, but it was far from a fun experience.
The IRA where never beaten by counterterrorism forces. They where beaten by the peace process. Thats a historical fact. All the spies, wiretapes and surveilance from the full might of the british establishment could never crack the IRAs primary command structure, only bust the occasional cell and react to incidents after the fact. What succeeded was creating a political environment where Sinn Fein and the UK govt could negotiate a peace such that Irish patriots didn't need the IRA anymore.
Thats a very different kettle of fish to the jihadis
You people keep using the term "Marxism" without even the slightest inkling of what it means. Hint: it's not liberalism and the closest we have to a Marxist is Bernie who's more a social democrat than a Marxist
Apple doesn't have an "anti american" attitude. It's just capitalism , and the choice is either affordable China/India phones or beyond ridiculous priced local one. Anyway , decades of nafta has stripped US tech manufacturing to the point America *cant* make iPhones. The factory capacity simply doesn't exist
Most of the population are in relatively compact (compared to the US) cities. Those outside the suburbs in the 'outback' get satelite.
Its not a valid excuse.
From the sounds of it they hacked the studio, not netflix themselves
"Oh, bullshit. You've fallen for marketing. No one voted them in charge of the dictionary"
This is not how standards bodies work.
NGMNA is simply a working group of mobile networks and handset makers who sit around and come up with a set of standards as to what will be called "5G". For 4G they settled on the LTE family of protocols of which LTEX is one of those standards. They are recognized by governments, standards super-bodies such as the IEEE, the mobile handset makers and the networks. Thats as close to "voted in" as your going to get.
No you dont get a say in it, unless your making handsets or own a mobile network, anything else is solipsist nonsense. Words actually have meanings dude, and they are not "Whatever I stamp my feet and demand to be true".
NGMNA's current prototype is based around the Snapdragon X50 modem which runs in the mm range (around 28ghz range) and supposedly can operate at a burst bandwidths of 35gbps.
Which is actually ridiculous and I have doubts they'll give consumers that much to play with. But a "generation" in mobile networks is around ten years, and we're still a long way off anything the NGMA and its member companies will agree on as worth locking in for a decade as a standard
No, the 5G network will be what the The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (The guys who actually define this, being the telco working body in charge). Its a work in process and all the stakeholders agree on that much.
My iphone 7 gets 127mbps/s8.87mbps. Thats 4G
5G research is including things like milimeter wavelength coms (20+ghz) and likely will crack the 1gbps barrier.
Anthropic climate change is very much "settled", except in the minds of conservative conspiracy theorists who's opinions don't count towards "the scientific consensus" (Principally because they are wrong).
Where was the data "adjusted". Time and time again when these claims where made, when people look into it, the evidence disapears. And "the measurements" are the same.
The whole "urban heat island" thing was unscientific nonsense thats been debunked time and time again. And that whole "hide the decline" nonsense was a specific case where a known deviation from observations regarding arctic tree ring samples in the 50s (Likely from nuclear testing pounding the trees in the area with radiation) was removed from a dataset to make the data *MORE* accurate.
But hey, why let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.
As for dating, we're talking Thorium/Uranium dating here, which is very robust to the time span we're refering to with an accuracy to within 1% (Much better than the 1std-deviation of carbon).
All of these figures fall out the apriori calculations that derive from fundamental physics and observation.
Much like modern climate modelling, actually.
Needing samples from other dates is unnecessary. A quick search of the journals will show thousands of samples from various time periods tested with the method. Its a solved problem.
More samples from the *same* source however will reduce the error margins
Where are you getting this guff from? Carbon dating is precisely as reliable as it always has been, within one standard deviation. We've always known that, and the accuracy can be derived a-priori from fundamental physics.
There are more accurate methods, but all are basically derived from the fundamental determinism that radioactive decay occurs at a predictable rate.
Source: I dont read creationist propaganda.