Not that it doesn't belong here, but this is less tech story and more a human story.
I agree with you. But one interesting (somewhat) relevant aspect of this article is the fact that it was online. Does it make a difference that it was a blog? Would he have any different legal footing if she had said this on television or on the radio? The web version certainly does leave a quite tangible trace of the "crime". Finally, if anything becomes of this, will it set a precedent? These are certainly interesting topics to explore.
Time to move up to Canada. Seriously, I would think it would depend on the size of the meteor. In the video I posted on a thread above, the inhabitants of the Earth don't fare so well.
I'm surprised the original post didn't link to this article from Sandia National Labs. There is a pretty interesting analysis of what would actually happen if an asteroid did hit (complete with nifty graphics).
From the Sandia article:So what would happen during such an impact, really? According to the simulation, the impact would vaporize the asteroid, deform the ocean floor, and eject hundreds of cubic miles of superheated water vapor, melted rock, and other debris into the upper atmosphere and back into space. Much of the debris would then rain down over the world for the next several hours and also form a high global cloud, says David Crawford of Sandia's Computational Physics and Mechanics Department. The shock wave from the impact would level much of the New England region. The heat would incinerate cities and forests there instantaneously. The global cloud would then lower temperatures worldwide, and a global snowstorm likely would ensue and last several days to several weeks, initiating a "nuclear winter" that would create more hardships for earth's inhabitants.
This is a really interesting article. Although the point out the weaknesses of the theories behind the attacks, it is interesting that there is a pattern at all. Perhaps one way to look at this might be the same way we determined the validity of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Basically, the researchers looked for patterns within certain target groups (e.g., depressed, schizophrenic, bipolar) and detected answer patterns. In the same way, detecting the patterns of attack without attempting to determine the causality might still provide the best predictive power.
They are making quite a leap by stating that by shaming someone online will motivate them to loose weight. I wonder if they can back this up from published research? This strikes me as extremely ironic, as MS is probably responsible for a great deal of the extra heft that is now plaguing our society. How many people do you know that now sit in front of a machine that is created and/or run by MS products that would have otherwise been out biking/walking/exercising in some way. Guilty conscience?
Also, there are a number of different reasons a person could be overweight - perhaps they are unable to exercise? Are they going to measure MBI? Or will they just assume that anyone who xxx lb is overweight? Don't get me started - this strikes me as cut and dried discrimination.
MS is doing a great job with their patents - I wonder if this will fall in to the same category as their recently slashdotted sparklines?
Nice try, but that's a different market. At McDs, they want to lure you in and keep you there as long as possible. Even if you don't order anything, at least you will be immersed in their branding. The airport is just the opposite - they have a *captive* audience, and they're the only game in town. That's why a soda at the airport costs 5.00 while the same one at McDs costs $.79. Basic supply and demand.
No - I agree with all you wrote, and with what psycho12345 wrote too. My issue is that the author almost seemed to paint anything other than a space battle as a 2 dimensional battle. I have a number of flying hours, and I'm pretty well versed in aircraft battle tactics. The Z dimension usually comes into play when pilots talk about "energy conservation" - if you start the battle from 2000 ft above an enemy, you are considered to have an "energy advantage" - you can trade in your altitude for airspeed for example.
I just saw an interesting example of this while watching the History Channel last night. It was talking about the tactics of the Zero pilots: in the early part of the war they would perform a high loop against the underpowered F4F Wildcat. One of the leading aces of Japan tried this against a 2000 HP F6F Hellcat, and he was able to follow him up through the loop and shoot him down at the top. Battle in 3 Dimensions. In fact, it is widely thought that one of the differentiators between beginner and expert dogfighters is the ability to take the battle into 3 dimensions.
FTA: "It's different than land, sea and air battles in that the enemy can come at you from any direction". I don't know what kind of aircraft you fly, but mine generally operate in 3 dimensions.
Second, are we assuming that the aliens have equal technology as us? If we set up our defense network in an orbit as they suggest, and the aliens have alternative means of propulsion, we are hosed.
Yeah, I was half facetious when I wrote that, thinking of an analogy in the software (MS vs open source) world to what we have in the hardware world. I've always been impressed with the way the Linux world has done an end-around on the lock MS/Apple has on the home computer market. I think the issues involved with the telecom monopolies will be a little bit tougher to circumvent, though. Why shoot, just look at the map Verizon has with all their coverage;^D
I've got it! We can create our own open source network lines. Each person will go to the hardware store and buy 10 meters of fibreoptic cable and dig a trench in front of their house. We can take our spare parts and combine them and make servers! Power to the people! Stickin it to the man! Yeah!!!
There are so many info sources out there right now. Posting embarrassing pictures of yourself on Facebook is one thing, but do you think your future employer will really be able to find the information on you, and really tell it's you? It might be that they won't even be able to find the info on you, and will probably not connect the dots if they do.
I would go to the interviews and wait to see if they bring it up. You may want to go to an interview you don't care about first just to see how much damage control you actually have to do.
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Geez - they probably didn't even read the whole thing. I think you're right. Next time, I'll send a cup of coffee with my ironically phrased posts.
If this trend is true, it points towards our "habituation" with the notion of the lack of privacy in our society. I think that along with the flood of information in our society comes the feeling that "all information should be freely available". People in general are becoming de-sensitized to this trend more and more, and expect more information about themselves to be available publicly. Not even just online - take a popular show like CSI. I think it's just sort of assumed that everyone is leaving this massive digital fingerprint behind them.
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That is the most asinine, idiotic comment I have ever read. If your intellect was 1/8th of mine, you would simply burn your keyboard and never show your face on/. again. I shall now go back to reveling in my own smugness - the rest of you may continue the conversation.
*...I hope the mods have a sense of humor this morning*
Hey Anonymous Coward - if you're going to write something, at least don't cut and paste from your previous post (...your post from Iranian Crackdowns yesterday):
In the absence of an external interfering force (e. g., the army of the Soviet Union), the fate of a nation is determined by its people. Period.
After the Kremlin exited Eastern Europe, the peoples of each nation in Eastern Europe rapidly established a genuine democracy and a free market. Except for Romania (where its people killed their dictator), there was no violence.
In Iran (and many other failed states), no external force is imposing the current brutal government on the Iranians. The folks running the government are Iranian. The president is Iranian. The secret police are Iranian. The thugs who will torture and kill democracy advocates are Iranian.
If the democracy advocates attempt to establish a genuine democracy in Iran, violence will occur. Why? A large percentage of the population supports the brutal government and will kill the democracy advocates.
Let us not merely condemn the Iranian government. We must condemn Iranian culture. Its product is the authoritarian state.
We should not intervene in the current crisis in Iran. If the overwhelming majority of Iranians (like the overwhelming majority of Poles) truly support democracy, human rights, and peace with Israel, then a liberal Western democracy will arise -- without any violence. Right now, the overwhelming majority clearly oppose the creation of a liberal Western democracy. The Iranians love a brutal Islamic theocracy.
The Iranians created this horrible society. It is none of our business unless they attempt to develop nuclear weapons. We in the West are morally justified in destroying the nuclear-weapons facilities.
Note that, 40 years ago, Vietnam suffered a worse fate (than the Iranians) at the hands of the Americans. They doused large areas of Vietnam with agent orange, poisoning both the land and the people. Yet, the Vietnamese do not channel their energies into seeking revenge (by, e. g., building a nuclear bomb) against the West. Rather, the Vietnamese are diligently modernizing their society. They will reach 1st-world status long before the Iranians.
Cultures are different. Vietnamese culture and Iranian culture are different. The Iranians bear 100% of the blame for the existence of a tyrannical government in Iran. We should condemn Iranian culture and its people.
Here's the answer. I was wondering the same thing myself. It appears that the solution was very low tech: just get a bunch of people, and when they see a balloon, send a message to the group. Instead of splitting the 40k among the group, they donated it to charity. Reward for MIT? Bragging rights.
No no - I was actually suggesting the opposite. Basically that the reason the researchers were moving their hands was because we are not used to moving objects with only our minds. Therefore, the physical motion was the "priming" that was needed in conjunction with the mental movement. Once we are more practiced at "using the force" to move things, the hand movements shouldn't be necessary. And it's at this point that a person in a vegetative state could use the technology. I wonder how difficult it would be to train someone in that state to use the apparatus?
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Not that it doesn't belong here, but this is less tech story and more a human story.
I agree with you. But one interesting (somewhat) relevant aspect of this article is the fact that it was online. Does it make a difference that it was a blog? Would he have any different legal footing if she had said this on television or on the radio? The web version certainly does leave a quite tangible trace of the "crime". Finally, if anything becomes of this, will it set a precedent? These are certainly interesting topics to explore.
How can you read the subject title of this post without hearing with the sound of Mr. Kruger's voice (at 2:40)?
I know, but he said booorring. Just thought I'd spice things up a little.
Time to move up to Canada. Seriously, I would think it would depend on the size of the meteor. In the video I posted on a thread above, the inhabitants of the Earth don't fare so well.
I'm surprised the original post didn't link to this article from Sandia National Labs. There is a pretty interesting analysis of what would actually happen if an asteroid did hit (complete with nifty graphics).
From the Sandia article:So what would happen during such an impact, really? According to the simulation, the impact would vaporize the asteroid, deform the ocean floor, and eject hundreds of cubic miles of superheated water vapor, melted rock, and other debris into the upper atmosphere and back into space. Much of the debris would then rain down over the world for the next several hours and also form a high global cloud, says David Crawford of Sandia's Computational Physics and Mechanics Department. The shock wave from the impact would level much of the New England region. The heat would incinerate cities and forests there instantaneously. The global cloud would then lower temperatures worldwide, and a global snowstorm likely would ensue and last several days to several weeks, initiating a "nuclear winter" that would create more hardships for earth's inhabitants.
Posted above, but here it is again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw
Your vish is my command:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw
This is a really interesting article. Although the point out the weaknesses of the theories behind the attacks, it is interesting that there is a pattern at all. Perhaps one way to look at this might be the same way we determined the validity of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Basically, the researchers looked for patterns within certain target groups (e.g., depressed, schizophrenic, bipolar) and detected answer patterns. In the same way, detecting the patterns of attack without attempting to determine the causality might still provide the best predictive power.
No pun intended...
They are making quite a leap by stating that by shaming someone online will motivate them to loose weight. I wonder if they can back this up from published research? This strikes me as extremely ironic, as MS is probably responsible for a great deal of the extra heft that is now plaguing our society. How many people do you know that now sit in front of a machine that is created and/or run by MS products that would have otherwise been out biking/walking/exercising in some way. Guilty conscience?
Also, there are a number of different reasons a person could be overweight - perhaps they are unable to exercise? Are they going to measure MBI? Or will they just assume that anyone who xxx lb is overweight? Don't get me started - this strikes me as cut and dried discrimination.
MS is doing a great job with their patents - I wonder if this will fall in to the same category as their recently slashdotted sparklines?
Ha ha... you just caused my brain to explode. I guess the result would be similar to the buttered toast cat phenomenon.
hah...that is AWESOME!!! A server farm made out of transformer parts and mini-barbie dolls. You sir, are a genius.
Nice try, but that's a different market. At McDs, they want to lure you in and keep you there as long as possible. Even if you don't order anything, at least you will be immersed in their branding. The airport is just the opposite - they have a *captive* audience, and they're the only game in town. That's why a soda at the airport costs 5.00 while the same one at McDs costs $.79. Basic supply and demand.
No - I agree with all you wrote, and with what psycho12345 wrote too. My issue is that the author almost seemed to paint anything other than a space battle as a 2 dimensional battle. I have a number of flying hours, and I'm pretty well versed in aircraft battle tactics. The Z dimension usually comes into play when pilots talk about "energy conservation" - if you start the battle from 2000 ft above an enemy, you are considered to have an "energy advantage" - you can trade in your altitude for airspeed for example.
I just saw an interesting example of this while watching the History Channel last night. It was talking about the tactics of the Zero pilots: in the early part of the war they would perform a high loop against the underpowered F4F Wildcat. One of the leading aces of Japan tried this against a 2000 HP F6F Hellcat, and he was able to follow him up through the loop and shoot him down at the top. Battle in 3 Dimensions. In fact, it is widely thought that one of the differentiators between beginner and expert dogfighters is the ability to take the battle into 3 dimensions.
FTA: "It's different than land, sea and air battles in that the enemy can come at you from any direction". I don't know what kind of aircraft you fly, but mine generally operate in 3 dimensions.
Second, are we assuming that the aliens have equal technology as us? If we set up our defense network in an orbit as they suggest, and the aliens have alternative means of propulsion, we are hosed.
Yeah, I was half facetious when I wrote that, thinking of an analogy in the software (MS vs open source) world to what we have in the hardware world. I've always been impressed with the way the Linux world has done an end-around on the lock MS/Apple has on the home computer market. I think the issues involved with the telecom monopolies will be a little bit tougher to circumvent, though. Why shoot, just look at the map Verizon has with all their coverage ;^D
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I've got it! We can create our own open source network lines. Each person will go to the hardware store and buy 10 meters of fibreoptic cable and dig a trench in front of their house. We can take our spare parts and combine them and make servers! Power to the people! Stickin it to the man! Yeah!!!
There are so many info sources out there right now. Posting embarrassing pictures of yourself on Facebook is one thing, but do you think your future employer will really be able to find the information on you, and really tell it's you? It might be that they won't even be able to find the info on you, and will probably not connect the dots if they do.
I would go to the interviews and wait to see if they bring it up. You may want to go to an interview you don't care about first just to see how much damage control you actually have to do.
Geez - they probably didn't even read the whole thing. I think you're right. Next time, I'll send a cup of coffee with my ironically phrased posts.
If this trend is true, it points towards our "habituation" with the notion of the lack of privacy in our society. I think that along with the flood of information in our society comes the feeling that "all information should be freely available". People in general are becoming de-sensitized to this trend more and more, and expect more information about themselves to be available publicly. Not even just online - take a popular show like CSI. I think it's just sort of assumed that everyone is leaving this massive digital fingerprint behind them.
That is the most asinine, idiotic comment I have ever read. If your intellect was 1/8th of mine, you would simply burn your keyboard and never show your face on /. again. I shall now go back to reveling in my own smugness - the rest of you may continue the conversation.
*...I hope the mods have a sense of humor this morning*
Hey Anonymous Coward - if you're going to write something, at least don't cut and paste from your previous post (...your post from Iranian Crackdowns yesterday):
In the absence of an external interfering force (e. g., the army of the Soviet Union), the fate of a nation is determined by its people. Period.
After the Kremlin exited Eastern Europe, the peoples of each nation in Eastern Europe rapidly established a genuine democracy and a free market. Except for Romania (where its people killed their dictator), there was no violence.
In Iran (and many other failed states), no external force is imposing the current brutal government on the Iranians. The folks running the government are Iranian. The president is Iranian. The secret police are Iranian. The thugs who will torture and kill democracy advocates are Iranian.
If the democracy advocates attempt to establish a genuine democracy in Iran, violence will occur. Why? A large percentage of the population supports the brutal government and will kill the democracy advocates.
Let us not merely condemn the Iranian government. We must condemn Iranian culture. Its product is the authoritarian state.
We should not intervene in the current crisis in Iran. If the overwhelming majority of Iranians (like the overwhelming majority of Poles) truly support democracy, human rights, and peace with Israel, then a liberal Western democracy will arise -- without any violence. Right now, the overwhelming majority clearly oppose the creation of a liberal Western democracy. The Iranians love a brutal Islamic theocracy.
The Iranians created this horrible society. It is none of our business unless they attempt to develop nuclear weapons. We in the West are morally justified in destroying the nuclear-weapons facilities.
Note that, 40 years ago, Vietnam suffered a worse fate (than the Iranians) at the hands of the Americans. They doused large areas of Vietnam with agent orange, poisoning both the land and the people. Yet, the Vietnamese do not channel their energies into seeking revenge (by, e. g., building a nuclear bomb) against the West. Rather, the Vietnamese are diligently modernizing their society. They will reach 1st-world status long before the Iranians.
Cultures are different. Vietnamese culture and Iranian culture are different. The Iranians bear 100% of the blame for the existence of a tyrannical government in Iran. We should condemn Iranian culture and its people.
Here's the answer. I was wondering the same thing myself. It appears that the solution was very low tech: just get a bunch of people, and when they see a balloon, send a message to the group. Instead of splitting the 40k among the group, they donated it to charity. Reward for MIT? Bragging rights.
No no - I was actually suggesting the opposite. Basically that the reason the researchers were moving their hands was because we are not used to moving objects with only our minds. Therefore, the physical motion was the "priming" that was needed in conjunction with the mental movement. Once we are more practiced at "using the force" to move things, the hand movements shouldn't be necessary. And it's at this point that a person in a vegetative state could use the technology. I wonder how difficult it would be to train someone in that state to use the apparatus?