OTOH, I can see Watson being immensely useful on the back end. For example, which second-line blood pressure medications have been show to be highly effective with few side effects in 65 year old male caucasians who also have diabetes, and, of those, which has the best interaction profile with the other drugs this patient is taking? Clinical guidelines help, but they're obviously simplified and generalized. It'd take a human ages to research the literature to figure that out, but an AI like Watson could potentially do it in a few seconds. Such a tool could take a lot of the guesswork out of medicine.
Give Watson an electronic nose, in-fared vision, and the ability to analyse blood and DNA - then it *might* be able to out diagnose the best doctors.
Last time I checked IBM shares were a good investment, and opening a medical practice was an expensive proposition.
I suspect access to Watson will be something that IBM profits from (which is good), and that it won't reduce the costs of running a medical practice.
Don't be surprised if pharmaceutical companies "sponsor" Watson for medical practitioners.
Would you like a bowel resection with that haemorroid removal and fissure stitch? May I recommend the fat reducing asthma medication trials? Perhaps sir would like to try our discount-medication-for-pharmaceutical-research-program??
Wait for the "but sir requested the penile reduction, crackle, hiss, my programmer desires you wife, crackle...
How about - "I'm sorry sir, but I must halt your heart surgery due to an injunction granted in East Texas by SCO-rebooted"
But wait, there's more! Nintendo's recently announced homeopathic robot, Poirot, faces a patent challenge from Microsoft's mobile acupuncture and moxybustion robots- Pricks and Burns!
Anyone notice Obama is acting a lot like Bush lately?
I'm hoping you're being sarcastic... should anyone be overly surprised that a Kennedy style candidate is just a different dog with the same leg action? But then I keep forgetting how many people actually bought the whole Camelot myth. (sigh).
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Strewth Ya drongo, if Obama's internet freezes, Jilleroo (the bluey in the big house) 'll kick our doors down, rip our cables out and send them to him. I tell ya it's enough to make a bloke chunder in the old Pacific.
Julia (the dingo in the big house) - there, fixed *that* for you.
For those that don't speak strine (a fictional language invented by Paul Hogan and Barry Humphries to make fun of septic tanks) I'll translate for ewes....
dingo == someone who, if you woke beside would make you want to chew your own arm off rather than wake.
Julia == the empty headed dingo acting as Prime Minister "I can't think of a law he's broken, but he's a criminal" (talking about Julian Assange, she *is* a lawyer).
Drongo == dropbear padding.
Septic tank == a term used to denote respect and admiration.
OK, fine. But you should know that my credit card company are already happy that I am who I claim to be (and that I pay my bill on time, natch) and my bank have already given me a free security token. Oh, and I have no problem with remembering a few different passwords so thanks, but no thanks.
To be honest, I'm more interested in whether this Schmidt fellow even knows what a smartcard or CA is. I doubt he could be more ignorant than that fool in France that started the OO.org is a firewall thing though.
I'm feeling a bit cynical tonight so I suspect you forgot "to think of the children". Besides the last time I heard that (last year) it was a twerp from Microsoft advising our department of insane internet censorship that we need internet drivers licenses - which is of course, a completely different thing.
Isn't this normal? I mean if the government is building a case against Manning, they are probably going to subpoena companies that they think have evidence that will help their case. The three are hardly just "supporters" of Wikileaks, they were named producers of the "Collateral Murder" video.
If this were the police state people think the US has become, they wouldn't need subpoenas. The government would have just raided the place.
Normal for a hypocritical government perhaps - but other countries were denied access to US records and personnel when they were investigating serious crimes that actually did involve deaths (Nugan Hand coronial inquest and inquiry). When we want information - US says fuck you, when the US wants information the US says fuck you. This is not going to end well.
So they are demanding the personal information of a Non-US citizen, that's not in the country and did not access Twitter from within the United States? Nor did any of them commit any sort of crime on US soil. Could a middle eastern country charge my wife for wearing a bikini to the beach in Florida and then demand her personal information from Twitter?
You could test it by painting a picture of the Prophet on her belly and posting the video on Youtube.... is Saudi Arabia in the middle east?
and Australia/Canada are less free then even the US. (Australia is filtering the net, arrests people who DRAW sex images of children,
Settle down sport - there's no need to exaggerate. BigPuddle censors the 'net, but that entirely voluntary.
Just wait till *our*( National Broadband Network comes on line. We're gunna raise some eyebrows then. We'll see who's laughing at us then.... [mutters - bloody yanks]
There is a threat to the twitterati, quick, suspend all consequences for the stupid believing they were anonymous!
Sorry to report your very nonymous.
Duhaa
Supercilious rant indeed - I clearly demonstrated what I meant by executable, just as you ignored that to demonstrate that you are a dick.
Extension pretension - that's no more relevant than separating the first dozen bytes and re-joining them after downloading. What a wanker! All that to try and rescue your script-kiddie click on my executable attachment bullshit. If the system won't execute it - it ain't executable, changing the extension or changing the magic number means - duh - changing it. Meh
I use to write for a hardcore punk zine in the late 80s/early 90s. While I think it was useful for outreach, we never had a very large reader base. Maybe 100 readers at the peak.
You'd be surprised what those sort of mags did. Some of the regulars collected those mags. Most indie pubs had at least someone on staff who knew the collectors, or was a collector. Tapes get passed around. Band's send tapes to publicans - publicans listen and say what's this crap Suzie/whoever - Suzie - goes oh I've heard those guys - now Whitlams, Ratcat, Nunbait, Sunnyboys, Cruel Sea, etc. get's a second gig.
I'd like to know your literature examples of people that it has worked for.
I don't have a ready answer/link to that one. From memory it is writers offering custom variations for a fee - if enough readers pony up the money the writer will expand on what happens with minor characters. Just go time to dash off some quick responses then I need to sleep - I'll dig through my bookmarks and references in a couple of days and post the links here.
Here's a publishing company offering some free downloads as part of their business model.
Having since listened to the Radiohead album in question (In Rainbows) they might have done better if the album wasn't so bad.
Bittorrent alone won't work - I agree. Something fan based that reviews and points at bittorrents might be useful - I'm thinking of the sort of photocopied music mags that used to get dropped off at pubs around the Sydney Indie scene.
Yes - I think a published "target" might help - even an ego type board posting messages and/or donators names.
With movies - product placement'd be interesting - given the small budget Pioneer One was made with. And actors could be very cheap - most NIDA graduates'd jump at the chance to work in a production that would get a large audience.
Which email provider allows you to send executable attachments?
Plenty. What makes you think it's difficult to send executable attachments?
Um, you didn't actually answer my question.... and yes I was serious, the rest of my post wasn't.
I would like to be able to send executable files as email attachments. Gmail won't let me though.
I often have to send largish files to non-techie clients with tiny size limits on their Outlook accounts - breaking up the files is easy, getting them to install WinRAR or similar, *and* getting them to re-assemble the multi-part archives is a pain. Much easier if I could just make it a self-extracting archive (they're often confused as to what a compressed archive is). But, as I said Gmail blocks executables.
So the question is - *which* email providers allow the sending of executable files?
Never thought I'd ask to be modded down!. But seriously, it's a joke - a reference to the movie Revolver. I agree the movie is "insightful", but my post was "off-topic", maybe "funny"...aw.. whatever, I'm going back to doing some work, continue as you were.
Fail to scan the summary *before* clicking the link == fail.
It's a samzenpus submitted "story". Apparently in a fit of anti-discrimination stupidity Slashdot decided that trolls should be allowed to be editors - and samzenpus got the job. At least it's consistently wrong - from naming the author to interpreting meaning.
Dear Cowboy - please stop by sometime, the bots you left in charge are all broken.
From: Joe User (sksj3838lsk@reallywarmmail.com)
To: You
Subject: Bunny
Attachment: bunnyhop.exe
Hey check out this cool bunny, it hops around the screen and follows your mouse pointer, it sometimes hides behind windows! Just double-click on the attachement.
Bye!
Joe
Which email provider allows you to send executable attachments?
I've attached a free e-book explaining the weak points in your marketing campaign, and why anti-virus scanners are no substitute for knowledge, you sound like a smart individual - and I'd really appreciate your thoughts on my book, if you'd take the time to fill out the attached Word.doc and return it to me I'll send you $50US.
Would publish their full name, real address, data of birth, etc on a social media site, but on some sites that info is mandatory.
Holy crap! I have to ask - where is this "social media" site where giving that "info" is "mandatory"? And how can they determine you are being truthful?
Slashdot is an example of a social media site. In fact one of the original ones.
Have you seen Pioneer One? It has the first two episodes out, and it's not bad. Reminds me of X Files at times, with a bit less budget.
No - but bloody good point - I remember seeing it advertised on the PirateBay, and reading up on it. I meant to find out what it was like and forgot. Thanks for the reminder.
And no problems sending email to fake address from it - no hint of a "what is your phone number". I'm starting to think you're either.... well, either way...
Slashdot Mirror
OTOH, I can see Watson being immensely useful on the back end. For example, which second-line blood pressure medications have been show to be highly effective with few side effects in 65 year old male caucasians who also have diabetes, and, of those, which has the best interaction profile with the other drugs this patient is taking? Clinical guidelines help, but they're obviously simplified and generalized. It'd take a human ages to research the literature to figure that out, but an AI like Watson could potentially do it in a few seconds. Such a tool could take a lot of the guesswork out of medicine.
Give Watson an electronic nose, in-fared vision, and the ability to analyse blood and DNA - then it *might* be able to out diagnose the best doctors.
Will Watson have scanned in all those excellent Chiropractic YouTube videos?
I certainly hope not. Or ping pong, or psychic healing. The idea is to teach Watson about medicine.
Last time I checked IBM shares were a good investment, and opening a medical practice was an expensive proposition.
I suspect access to Watson will be something that IBM profits from (which is good), and that it won't reduce the costs of running a medical practice.
Don't be surprised if pharmaceutical companies "sponsor" Watson for medical practitioners.
Would you like a bowel resection with that haemorroid removal and fissure stitch? May I recommend the fat reducing asthma medication trials? Perhaps sir would like to try our discount-medication-for-pharmaceutical-research-program??
Wait for the "but sir requested the penile reduction, crackle, hiss, my programmer desires you wife, crackle...
How about - "I'm sorry sir, but I must halt your heart surgery due to an injunction granted in East Texas by SCO-rebooted"
But wait, there's more! Nintendo's recently announced homeopathic robot, Poirot, faces a patent challenge from Microsoft's mobile acupuncture and moxybustion robots- Pricks and Burns!
:-D
Anyone notice Obama is acting a lot like Bush lately?
I'm hoping you're being sarcastic... should anyone be overly surprised that a Kennedy style candidate is just a different dog with the same leg action? But then I keep forgetting how many people actually bought the whole Camelot myth. (sigh).
--
The new Star Chamber - exclusive to News Corporation
Strewth Ya drongo, if Obama's internet freezes, Jilleroo (the bluey in the big house) 'll kick our doors down, rip our cables out and send them to him. I tell ya it's enough to make a bloke chunder in the old Pacific.
Julia (the dingo in the big house) - there, fixed *that* for you.
For those that don't speak strine (a fictional language invented by Paul Hogan and Barry Humphries to make fun of septic tanks) I'll translate for ewes....
dingo == someone who, if you woke beside would make you want to chew your own arm off rather than wake.
Julia == the empty headed dingo acting as Prime Minister "I can't think of a law he's broken, but he's a criminal" (talking about Julian Assange, she *is* a lawyer).
Drongo == dropbear padding.
Septic tank == a term used to denote respect and admiration.
If this is exaggeration and voluntary come to Germany. Here is drawn child pornography and written fictional stories treated as the real thing.
Es ist ein Witz Schultz!
It's a joke Schultz! (I zee nuffingk!)
Wenn sie bis zum hals in der scheiße sind, und jemand uriniert auf sie .. sie ente - oder nehmen sie die pissen?
When you're up to your neck in shit, and someone takes a leak.. do you duck - or take the piss?
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Warning - irony is not detectable with magnets (and puns don't always translate)
You don't have to have one of these IDs if you don't want to use the internet.
Of course not [puts on tin-foil hat] just like you don't need photographic identification if you don't fly or drive.
And that's not a foot in the door - it's our new draft stopper. (sigh)
OK, fine. But you should know that my credit card company are already happy that I am who I claim to be (and that I pay my bill on time, natch) and my bank have already given me a free security token. Oh, and I have no problem with remembering a few different passwords so thanks, but no thanks.
To be honest, I'm more interested in whether this Schmidt fellow even knows what a smartcard or CA is. I doubt he could be more ignorant than that fool in France that started the OO.org is a firewall thing though.
I'm feeling a bit cynical tonight so I suspect you forgot "to think of the children". Besides the last time I heard that (last year) it was a twerp from Microsoft advising our department of insane internet censorship that we need internet drivers licenses - which is of course, a completely different thing.
Isn't this normal? I mean if the government is building a case against Manning, they are probably going to subpoena companies that they think have evidence that will help their case. The three are hardly just "supporters" of Wikileaks, they were named producers of the "Collateral Murder" video.
If this were the police state people think the US has become, they wouldn't need subpoenas. The government would have just raided the place.
Normal for a hypocritical government perhaps - but other countries were denied access to US records and personnel when they were investigating serious crimes that actually did involve deaths (Nugan Hand coronial inquest and inquiry). When we want information - US says fuck you, when the US wants information the US says fuck you. This is not going to end well.
So they are demanding the personal information of a Non-US citizen, that's not in the country and did not access Twitter from within the United States? Nor did any of them commit any sort of crime on US soil. Could a middle eastern country charge my wife for wearing a bikini to the beach in Florida and then demand her personal information from Twitter?
You could test it by painting a picture of the Prophet on her belly and posting the video on Youtube.... is Saudi Arabia in the middle east?
They do not have nukes, they have volcanoes.
Weapons and power sources.... me thinks they might have to be freed from the yoke of oppression. Anarchy is yesterday's Communism.
What is this satire thing you speak of? Is there a newsletter?
and Australia/Canada are less free then even the US. (Australia is filtering the net, arrests people who DRAW sex images of children,
Settle down sport - there's no need to exaggerate. BigPuddle censors the 'net, but that entirely voluntary.
Just wait till *our*( National Broadband Network comes on line. We're gunna raise some eyebrows then. We'll see who's laughing at us then.... [mutters - bloody yanks]
There is a threat to the twitterati, quick, suspend all consequences for the stupid believing they were anonymous! Sorry to report your very nonymous. Duhaa
b/tard is that you?
that is a rant
Supercilious rant indeed - I clearly demonstrated what I meant by executable, just as you ignored that to demonstrate that you are a dick.
Extension pretension - that's no more relevant than separating the first dozen bytes and re-joining them after downloading. What a wanker! All that to try and rescue your script-kiddie click on my executable attachment bullshit. If the system won't execute it - it ain't executable, changing the extension or changing the magic number means - duh - changing it. Meh
I use to write for a hardcore punk zine in the late 80s/early 90s. While I think it was useful for outreach, we never had a very large reader base. Maybe 100 readers at the peak.
You'd be surprised what those sort of mags did. Some of the regulars collected those mags. Most indie pubs had at least someone on staff who knew the collectors, or was a collector. Tapes get passed around. Band's send tapes to publicans - publicans listen and say what's this crap Suzie/whoever - Suzie - goes oh I've heard those guys - now Whitlams, Ratcat, Nunbait, Sunnyboys, Cruel Sea, etc. get's a second gig.
It happens.
I'd like to know your literature examples of people that it has worked for.
I don't have a ready answer/link to that one. From memory it is writers offering custom variations for a fee - if enough readers pony up the money the writer will expand on what happens with minor characters. Just go time to dash off some quick responses then I need to sleep - I'll dig through my bookmarks and references in a couple of days and post the links here.
Here's a publishing company offering some free downloads as part of their business model.
Having since listened to the Radiohead album in question (In Rainbows) they might have done better if the album wasn't so bad.
Bittorrent alone won't work - I agree. Something fan based that reviews and points at bittorrents might be useful - I'm thinking of the sort of photocopied music mags that used to get dropped off at pubs around the Sydney Indie scene.
Yes - I think a published "target" might help - even an ego type board posting messages and/or donators names.
With movies - product placement'd be interesting - given the small budget Pioneer One was made with. And actors could be very cheap - most NIDA graduates'd jump at the chance to work in a production that would get a large audience.
Which email provider allows you to send executable attachments?
Plenty. What makes you think it's difficult to send executable attachments?
Um, you didn't actually answer my question.... and yes I was serious, the rest of my post wasn't.
I would like to be able to send executable files as email attachments. Gmail won't let me though.
I often have to send largish files to non-techie clients with tiny size limits on their Outlook accounts - breaking up the files is easy, getting them to install WinRAR or similar, *and* getting them to re-assemble the multi-part archives is a pain. Much easier if I could just make it a self-extracting archive (they're often confused as to what a compressed archive is). But, as I said Gmail blocks executables.
So the question is - *which* email providers allow the sending of executable files?
Wake up Jake!
Never thought I'd ask to be modded down!. But seriously, it's a joke - a reference to the movie Revolver. I agree the movie is "insightful", but my post was "off-topic", maybe "funny"...aw.. whatever, I'm going back to doing some work, continue as you were.
Sanity test.
Fail to scan the summary *before* clicking the link == fail.
It's a samzenpus submitted "story". Apparently in a fit of anti-discrimination stupidity Slashdot decided that trolls should be allowed to be editors - and samzenpus got the job. At least it's consistently wrong - from naming the author to interpreting meaning.
Dear Cowboy - please stop by sometime, the bots you left in charge are all broken.
From: Joe User (sksj3838lsk@reallywarmmail.com) To: You Subject: Bunny Attachment: bunnyhop.exe
Hey check out this cool bunny, it hops around the screen and follows your mouse pointer, it sometimes hides behind windows! Just double-click on the attachement.
Bye! Joe
Which email provider allows you to send executable attachments?
I've attached a free e-book explaining the weak points in your marketing campaign, and why anti-virus scanners are no substitute for knowledge, you sound like a smart individual - and I'd really appreciate your thoughts on my book, if you'd take the time to fill out the attached Word.doc and return it to me I'll send you $50US.
Thanks for your time.
Are you from planet obtuse?
Would publish their full name, real address, data of birth, etc on a social media site, but on some sites that info is mandatory.
Holy crap! I have to ask - where is this "social media" site? And how can they determine you are being truthful?
Have you seen Pioneer One? It has the first two episodes out, and it's not bad. Reminds me of X Files at times, with a bit less budget.
No - but bloody good point - I remember seeing it advertised on the PirateBay, and reading up on it. I meant to find out what it was like and forgot. Thanks for the reminder.
And no problems sending email to fake address from it - no hint of a "what is your phone number". I'm starting to think you're either.... well, either way...
I did with someone who was going to get an e-mail address for the first time. They were unable to send e-mails until that was filled out.
They must of fixed it - how lucky for you.
Another disposable account - less than 2 minutes - no sigh of demand for a 'phone number.
Bad google, bad.