What, do something fun and intellectually stimulating AND make money? What madness is this? Everyone knows you have to be bored and trolling youtube for 8 hours a day in an office setting to make a decent salary!
It's like a superhero stepping in to save the day... and then demanding monetary compensation. Except $400,000 sounds more appropriate if it was someone's life or limb on the line rather than a video of a kid dancing.
PE = mgh ~= 76Kg*10m/s^2*120000ft*0.3m/ft = 27,360,000Nm.
This is the equivalent energy of a man the same weight traveling at about 848m/s: over twice the speed of sound.
(to be fair I used the minimal mass of the average human male)
I consider this significant help from technology.
Agreed. That term definitely not applicable here. maturity for a technology implies quite a few working revisions, ending in a better performance (by whatever metric is applicable) and a certain integration into society.
Not just that but excessive neuronal activity is highly inefficient. There's evidence that even within specialized tasks, such as visual and auditory perception, the brain is trying to minimize the number of neurons firing (see work pertaining to sparse decomposition in neural activity such as some of the research done here: https://redwood.berkeley.edu/). Still, I don't think that %10 is a good number to quote, even for instantaneous usage. Very, very little is actually known about the brain aside from rather weak correlations.
For every gene, there is an enzyme that actually expresses that gene. DNA itself does nothing, it's the expression of the DNA that makes cells develop etc. By blocking the enzymes that express the genes, the genes themselves get suppressed. So it's all about the enzymes that exist in the cell.
There's a doggy pound by the airport at JFK... Maybe adopting a dog reflects positively, making them less of a threat? most people i know who adopt dogs are pretty nice people!
You don't have to use the airlines. It's not a right to get on a plane without being searched. There are alternatives: buses, trains, boats... When I buy a plane ticket, I am aware that I might be pulled aside, questioned and searched, and that is part of the price I pay to travel from one place to another quickly. Just as an example, the last time I flew back from Israel, I was questioned for a good 10 minutes and everything I had was thoroughly searched. There it's just another part of the process, and I don't complain because they realize that safety is such a big issue. The point is to mix the various detection schemes to best identify terrorists in case (as what just happened) the CIA/FBI fail to stop the boarding of a known/suspected terrorist. Despite the best efforts of the security teams, both the underwear and shoe bombers had to be stopped by other passengers. Yes, 16/1.25billion is a very difficult number to detect, but just one missed terrorist is 200+ people dead, assuming that plane is all that's taken out. So despite that this method alone is, I admit, a low-information measure, in conjunction with other measures already in place, the result might be better able to determine if a person is a danger. If anything maybe a computer can figure out that a single young male with a one way ticket to Detroit from Nigeria with no luggage, no carry-on and not even a jacket is probably more suspicious that a couple with a round trip ticket to some common vacation locale with the expected amount of luggage for the week. (too much luggage from Columbia might be more of interest to the DEA:P)
Yes of course, because no one tried to blow up a plane in the past month or so.... nobody ever gets past security with explosives and needs to be stopped by on board passengers ever....
The last guy who tried this (underwear bomber) was not a seasoned veteran of the terrorism wars. He was a young recruit. If you notice, these aren't exactly repeatable missions, meaning majority of the people who should be under suspicion are probably amateurs: the exact type of people who could be detected, despite additional false positives.
I'm pretty sure they won't shoot you on sight if you look around too suddenly. That said, this is one case where the only truly informative test is a full body scan. If the cold war spy revelations have taught us anything, even background checks can fail. In the SNR formulation, this is the exact situation i would rather have excess false positives than a single missed detection...
Heh, sorry for the harsh response but I can get pretty intense when it comes to philosophical discussions. I do appreciate other people's views, and intelligence/knowledge is a big topic (aesthetics is the other). I was just sharing my opinions back!:)
Yes, Apple, more to the point Apple users, live in this wondrous world where they are safer from hackers and viruses. The truth is that most of the world is/was on a PC and that skews the statistics because most hackers and viruses know this and target PCs. I'm sure that if the people responsible spent the same number of man-hours on apple software, the numbers would be a lot more even. Note: I'm not saying that Microsoft doesn't have a responsibility to fix their software, only that the skewed numbers have to be kept in mind when comparing these types of statistics. If anything Microsoft should know that they're the biggest target and code appropriately... Otherwise, yes, of course magazines with an agenda will be spinning the story appropriately (meaning I do agree with you).
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As much as it pains me to say this: Probably because we can't.
What, do something fun and intellectually stimulating AND make money? What madness is this? Everyone knows you have to be bored and trolling youtube for 8 hours a day in an office setting to make a decent salary!
When botnets start adjusting the templates, they upgrade to skynet. Then we're all screwed!
It's like a superhero stepping in to save the day... and then demanding monetary compensation. Except $400,000 sounds more appropriate if it was someone's life or limb on the line rather than a video of a kid dancing.
If not, it would only be appropriate to have one playing during
I can't wait for the Lego based game
I think a Moebius Coin would be more apropo
And by no one I mean Mr. Anonymous Coward...
Jeez, has no one ever heard of a back of an envelope calculation? Here, let me blow your mind: Pi = 3
Actually, I wonder about the heat from the friction of the air for that long. in addition to the freezing temperatures prior to high velocity.
PE = mgh ~= 76Kg*10m/s^2*120000ft*0.3m/ft = 27,360,000Nm. This is the equivalent energy of a man the same weight traveling at about 848m/s: over twice the speed of sound. (to be fair I used the minimal mass of the average human male) I consider this significant help from technology.
They usually tell engineers to over-engineer, when in doubt, but props to these guys for taking it to the next level!
Agreed. That term definitely not applicable here. maturity for a technology implies quite a few working revisions, ending in a better performance (by whatever metric is applicable) and a certain integration into society.
Some users might be dim enough to need a backlight for that anyways...
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Is there a walkthrough online for this game yet? I keep getting stuck right at the start!
Not just that but excessive neuronal activity is highly inefficient. There's evidence that even within specialized tasks, such as visual and auditory perception, the brain is trying to minimize the number of neurons firing (see work pertaining to sparse decomposition in neural activity such as some of the research done here: https://redwood.berkeley.edu/). Still, I don't think that %10 is a good number to quote, even for instantaneous usage. Very, very little is actually known about the brain aside from rather weak correlations.
For every gene, there is an enzyme that actually expresses that gene. DNA itself does nothing, it's the expression of the DNA that makes cells develop etc. By blocking the enzymes that express the genes, the genes themselves get suppressed. So it's all about the enzymes that exist in the cell.
There's a doggy pound by the airport at JFK... Maybe adopting a dog reflects positively, making them less of a threat? most people i know who adopt dogs are pretty nice people!
You don't have to use the airlines. It's not a right to get on a plane without being searched. There are alternatives: buses, trains, boats... When I buy a plane ticket, I am aware that I might be pulled aside, questioned and searched, and that is part of the price I pay to travel from one place to another quickly. Just as an example, the last time I flew back from Israel, I was questioned for a good 10 minutes and everything I had was thoroughly searched. There it's just another part of the process, and I don't complain because they realize that safety is such a big issue. The point is to mix the various detection schemes to best identify terrorists in case (as what just happened) the CIA/FBI fail to stop the boarding of a known/suspected terrorist. Despite the best efforts of the security teams, both the underwear and shoe bombers had to be stopped by other passengers. Yes, 16/1.25billion is a very difficult number to detect, but just one missed terrorist is 200+ people dead, assuming that plane is all that's taken out. So despite that this method alone is, I admit, a low-information measure, in conjunction with other measures already in place, the result might be better able to determine if a person is a danger. If anything maybe a computer can figure out that a single young male with a one way ticket to Detroit from Nigeria with no luggage, no carry-on and not even a jacket is probably more suspicious that a couple with a round trip ticket to some common vacation locale with the expected amount of luggage for the week. (too much luggage from Columbia might be more of interest to the DEA :P)
Yes of course, because no one tried to blow up a plane in the past month or so.... nobody ever gets past security with explosives and needs to be stopped by on board passengers ever....
The last guy who tried this (underwear bomber) was not a seasoned veteran of the terrorism wars. He was a young recruit. If you notice, these aren't exactly repeatable missions, meaning majority of the people who should be under suspicion are probably amateurs: the exact type of people who could be detected, despite additional false positives.
I'm pretty sure they won't shoot you on sight if you look around too suddenly. That said, this is one case where the only truly informative test is a full body scan. If the cold war spy revelations have taught us anything, even background checks can fail. In the SNR formulation, this is the exact situation i would rather have excess false positives than a single missed detection...
Heh, sorry for the harsh response but I can get pretty intense when it comes to philosophical discussions. I do appreciate other people's views, and intelligence/knowledge is a big topic (aesthetics is the other). I was just sharing my opinions back! :)
Yes, Apple, more to the point Apple users, live in this wondrous world where they are safer from hackers and viruses. The truth is that most of the world is/was on a PC and that skews the statistics because most hackers and viruses know this and target PCs. I'm sure that if the people responsible spent the same number of man-hours on apple software, the numbers would be a lot more even. Note: I'm not saying that Microsoft doesn't have a responsibility to fix their software, only that the skewed numbers have to be kept in mind when comparing these types of statistics. If anything Microsoft should know that they're the biggest target and code appropriately... Otherwise, yes, of course magazines with an agenda will be spinning the story appropriately (meaning I do agree with you).