Just to play the devil's advocate: What is the difference between a fingerprint sample and a DNA sample? Both are personal, unique and can be used to tie a suspect to other crimes. While I understand that DNA is more alarming, can someone give me a good (rational, not FUD) reason why DNA is worse than fingerprints? If you think that the state should delete the sample from the database if the person is found innocent, then the same should be done for fingerprints.
P.S. Before someone talks about big brother using this info to sequence my genes, please remember that sequencing DNA right now is an expensive procedure. Law enforcement agencies use SNPs as markers used to differentiate DNA from different people. Ostensibly, this is the information they will take from the DNA sample.
Although you took care to attack your parent's knowledge of computer basics, he does have a point you did not address: The only information captured automatically about me is that IP X visited the site. The rest of the info is stuff I gave them voluntarily (my name, etc.). After that, the sites just cooperate (either directly or through a third party) to aggregate all the instances of IP X visiting their site. It is not like 7/11 hiring somebody to follow me, but more like 7/11 talking with WalMart and any other shop in the area and asking them if I went there. You may not like this, but your privacy was not invaded. The details of your public appearance was shared among different entities. Of course, if they share private details (name, CC, gender, whether or not you like bondage [/joke, no trolling], etc.) without consent in their TOS then we have a problem. Now you might say that the details of what they share are buried in a 10 page, small-fonted TOS document, but that is another discussion. We can open a new anti-legalese rant thread.
Thanks, it was an interesting read. As I understand it, only 2 of those are manned: the space shuttle and the Russian Soyuz-TMA. Which soon will leaves only the Soyuz.
btw, could someone tell us a bit about the other spacecrafts docking at the ISS. With all the talk about the shuttles, I know nothing about what the Russians, Japanese and Europeans use. Anyone?
Well, usually science starts with finding something and then finding what it does and later why it does that. You usually don't find a single study that finds a phenomenon, shows its effects and what causes it. When you do find such a study, we usually criticize it for bad science and jumping to conclusions. The researchers at this study found some nice results (scientifically speaking) and dis not resort to FUD to garner more attention. It's now up to further studies to find out the effects of these findings and what causes them.
And how exactly that has to do with the article? If you read the abstract, they took the subjects, put a cellphone near each ear. Measured the metabolism of brain tissue (using PET-FDG) when both were OFF and when only the right phone was ON. The phones were muted at all times. This way they got control values of one ear against the other and of the same region when the cellphone was ON versus OFF. Now re-read your comment and try to apply it to the research. They did a seemingly well-designed research with a very elegant setup. Nice results, and even they do not assume any adverse effect of the finding. The researchers only report what they found. No unsubstantiated assumptions or FUD.
So, HP doesn't fight the developers that hack their own OS. Not only that, they also donate a server to that same group... and you complain that they don't donate enough? You are correct, total "bleh".
The funny thing is that your sig is the Konami code, which is used to enter developer mode in WebOS... which is the first part in homebrewing it. Coincidence? I should think not!
So their IT guy hired an SEO firm without the board's knowledge, does it matter to Google? No. A company gamed the system and they punish the company. Too bad for JC Penny they hired the wrong guy for the job. You can't expect Google to start investigating who in the company originated the SEO move.
Not exactly, they don't want people posting part of their movies without permission. It's the studios' content and they are free to post it on their own terms - their terms being that only they may post parts of the movie. For example, if you buy a DVD of a movie, you may watch it, but you may not take some parts of the movie, edit them together, add some titles and overdub it in an ominous voice. The studio may do it (and we call it a trailer). The only problem I can see is that they do it under false usernames, thus giving the impression that the video are posted by independent parties. But even that is not such a big deal, IMHO.
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Just to play the devil's advocate:
What is the difference between a fingerprint sample and a DNA sample? Both are personal, unique and can be used to tie a suspect to other crimes. While I understand that DNA is more alarming, can someone give me a good (rational, not FUD) reason why DNA is worse than fingerprints?
If you think that the state should delete the sample from the database if the person is found innocent, then the same should be done for fingerprints.
P.S.
Before someone talks about big brother using this info to sequence my genes, please remember that sequencing DNA right now is an expensive procedure. Law enforcement agencies use SNPs as markers used to differentiate DNA from different people. Ostensibly, this is the information they will take from the DNA sample.
11:17 here us Israel. I win!
Don't confuse statistics/probabilities and the real world. Vegas is not the real world.
1) Yes.
2) Yes.
3) A lot.
4) Yes.
5) No.
And 42 is always true. Well done, my good friend.
I believe it was the Bible that said: "Thou shall not toot thy horn".
Just sayin'
"Theoretically, there is no limit on how small an object we will be able to see.
Move over LHC. Higgs Boson, here we come!
Right next to your bed? /rimshot
No chance in hell am I sitting next to you. Pervert!
Memes, fads, it's all just catchphrases to me.
Although you took care to attack your parent's knowledge of computer basics, he does have a point you did not address: The only information captured automatically about me is that IP X visited the site. The rest of the info is stuff I gave them voluntarily (my name, etc.). After that, the sites just cooperate (either directly or through a third party) to aggregate all the instances of IP X visiting their site. It is not like 7/11 hiring somebody to follow me, but more like 7/11 talking with WalMart and any other shop in the area and asking them if I went there. You may not like this, but your privacy was not invaded. The details of your public appearance was shared among different entities.
Of course, if they share private details (name, CC, gender, whether or not you like bondage [/joke, no trolling], etc.) without consent in their TOS then we have a problem. Now you might say that the details of what they share are buried in a 10 page, small-fonted TOS document, but that is another discussion. We can open a new anti-legalese rant thread.
Thanks, it was an interesting read. As I understand it, only 2 of those are manned: the space shuttle and the Russian Soyuz-TMA. Which soon will leaves only the Soyuz.
btw, could someone tell us a bit about the other spacecrafts docking at the ISS. With all the talk about the shuttles, I know nothing about what the Russians, Japanese and Europeans use.
Anyone?
well, if you look at her 9 months later and she's having a baby, that's pretty good corroborative evidence.
Well, usually science starts with finding something and then finding what it does and later why it does that. You usually don't find a single study that finds a phenomenon, shows its effects and what causes it. When you do find such a study, we usually criticize it for bad science and jumping to conclusions.
The researchers at this study found some nice results (scientifically speaking) and dis not resort to FUD to garner more attention. It's now up to further studies to find out the effects of these findings and what causes them.
And how exactly that has to do with the article? If you read the abstract, they took the subjects, put a cellphone near each ear. Measured the metabolism of brain tissue (using PET-FDG) when both were OFF and when only the right phone was ON. The phones were muted at all times. This way they got control values of one ear against the other and of the same region when the cellphone was ON versus OFF.
Now re-read your comment and try to apply it to the research.
They did a seemingly well-designed research with a very elegant setup. Nice results, and even they do not assume any adverse effect of the finding. The researchers only report what they found. No unsubstantiated assumptions or FUD.
It might not matter from a technical point of view, but all the "are we there yet?" questions could really drive you mad.
And... I should stop posting comments at 5AM during a night shift. I mighte mek meny misteks
That'll teach me to proofread the title and not only the summery itself. My bad.
It's like our cable guy, my wife only calls him when thing go wrong... and I'm at work...
So, HP doesn't fight the developers that hack their own OS. Not only that, they also donate a server to that same group... and you complain that they don't donate enough?
You are correct, total "bleh".
The funny thing is that your sig is the Konami code, which is used to enter developer mode in WebOS... which is the first part in homebrewing it.
Coincidence? I should think not!
So their IT guy hired an SEO firm without the board's knowledge, does it matter to Google? No. A company gamed the system and they punish the company. Too bad for JC Penny they hired the wrong guy for the job. You can't expect Google to start investigating who in the company originated the SEO move.
For which we say: Directories: it works, bitches.
Not exactly, they don't want people posting part of their movies without permission. It's the studios' content and they are free to post it on their own terms - their terms being that only they may post parts of the movie.
For example, if you buy a DVD of a movie, you may watch it, but you may not take some parts of the movie, edit them together, add some titles and overdub it in an ominous voice. The studio may do it (and we call it a trailer). The only problem I can see is that they do it under false usernames, thus giving the impression that the video are posted by independent parties. But even that is not such a big deal, IMHO.