Look at all the members of Anonymous posting replies here!
But really, there does seem to be a bias to cover stories about "Anonymous" here on Slashdot. I mean, the mainstream tech news takes far less heed to the activities of this loosely knit group of hacktivists.
The algorithms used in facial recognition are mostly quantitative in nature. They find unique numbers given by the proportion of various facial parts. Whereas this robot's algorithm is much closer to a Photoshop effect, an irreversible image filter. Given slightly different angles of the same face, the robot would draw vastly different pictures (talking about line placement only, yes, they would look similar to us humans)
But... I like the idea that some day there will be thousands of robots furiously sketching at some remote government building on the outskirts of Area 51.
I think it's a little early to draw conclusions on this. People were fairly skeptical about Android when it was new, and now look at it.
I'm not rooting for it overtly, but I'd like to see more integration in our products. Face book's messaging system is so redundant. Perhaps it's time that we have email duplicate social rather than social duplicate email.
If ANY of what I copied below is ambiguous, please repeat second grade.
"Section 8 - Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;... "
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
If the FAA wanted to reduce our risk, they would require us all to own smart phones (and Li-Ion batteries). How many dangerous car trips could be avoided if we all had mobile internet? How many unruly passengers would be pacified by the plane's WiFi?
Astronomy may have been revolutionized by the telescope, but the field was founded on the naked eye. I know it seems like a great idea to show off a new gadget to your students, but doing this will bias their minds to believe that one can only appreciate the stars with an expensive telescope. This is flat out false.
Teach them about constellations. Make it a contest to point out the most constellations! Knowledge of the constellations can lead to other insights, like the importance of the north star. When your students understand this, they might be ready for a telescope.
Don't focus on deep sky objects initially. While planet's may be cool to look at in a good telescope, try constellations first.Knowledge of constellations can lead to more intricate and profound understanding of the sky. You students will be able to see the constellations 'orbit' the north star. Planets will be easier to find, as they will seem like an out of place star. All of this can be done with the naked eye or a pair of binoculars!
To become a judge, a lawyer, or a politician, you need charisma and knowledge of the legal system. Knowledge of the internet is not a prerequisite. Hence.... this futile ruling.
The big names in networking (AT&T, Charter, etc.) are going to sue Google on antitrust grounds because it is easier to hire lawyers than to upgrade failing and obsolete networks.
We can speak ad nauseum about what would be better, but the thesis here is pragmatic. Oppressive governments don't care about what the enlightened world thinks about freedom of speech/expression.. But thankfully, we have annoying ads that force people in countries with free speech to develop the tools used in those without free speech.
Pages directed at 'technical audiences' often are composed of vanilla HTML and/or links to PDF files. There are of course exceptions to this, but a large proportion of the pages you described would easily support every modern browser.
For the exceptions to this, I think that there comes a point where it does not make sense to continue support for legacy systems. Now seems to be a good time to end support for old versions of IE, since this recent security fiasco that has put greater attention on upgrading to more secure browsers.
Whatever the reasons behind the temporary shutdown of services, perhaps it could have been resolved by a less dramatic action. PayPal is obviously a great convenience for its many users. I do not see why this investigation required a complete cessation of the PayPal services when legitimate users are going to be victimized, while sneaky users will find other ways around the government.
While PayPal may be convenient, shutting down paypal will not stop remittences. People can simply place a check in an envelope and mail it. Money orders are also an option.
I realize that there is an API, but that only means that Buzz is open to development of plugins/extensions and other web integration features.
The Buzz system is closed. The only provider of Buzz is currently Google. And they have not announced plans to open Buzz as a protocol as they did with Wave. This model is no different than Facebook or MySpace, and that is the central problem.
The problem is that Gmail is a client for the open communication protocol known as e-mail. Many people use Gmail, but not everybody wants to. I doubt Yahoo mail, or AOL mail users are interested in dropping their mail service just to join Google's new social venture, or adding 'Buzz' to their list of things to check every day.
Google had a better idea with Wave: produce an open protocol that anybody could host. If Google did this from the get-go with 'Buzz', it would have a fighting chance. As it is, I doubt that it will ever reach wide adoption. Facebook is just too big to beat without an innovative product.
For most diseases the antibodies are easier to see because they are more widespread. It only takes a few virally infected cells to set off a massive immune response. The difficulty in engineering an antibody is the same difficulty as engineering any protein. Our knowledge of protein folding is still in it's infancy. So far, we have used evolutionary methods to find new antibodies. Perhaps someday we will be able to build them from the ground up, but not now.
I have to second that point. But if my livescribe were to break, my fallback would be a regular pen/paper combo. In the natural sciences diagrams are a must!
Slashdot Mirror
Look at all the members of Anonymous posting replies here!
But really, there does seem to be a bias to cover stories about "Anonymous" here on Slashdot. I mean, the mainstream tech news takes far less heed to the activities of this loosely knit group of hacktivists.
The algorithms used in facial recognition are mostly quantitative in nature. They find unique numbers given by the proportion of various facial parts. Whereas this robot's algorithm is much closer to a Photoshop effect, an irreversible image filter. Given slightly different angles of the same face, the robot would draw vastly different pictures (talking about line placement only, yes, they would look similar to us humans)
But... I like the idea that some day there will be thousands of robots furiously sketching at some remote government building on the outskirts of Area 51.
I think it's a little early to draw conclusions on this. People were fairly skeptical about Android when it was new, and now look at it.
I'm not rooting for it overtly, but I'd like to see more integration in our products. Face book's messaging system is so redundant. Perhaps it's time that we have email duplicate social rather than social duplicate email.
If ANY of what I copied below is ambiguous, please repeat second grade.
"Section 8 - Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and Post Roads; ... "
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The religious minority in France is probably going to be the deciding factor in this vote. I'm not talking about the catholics here.
If the FAA wanted to reduce our risk, they would require us all to own smart phones (and Li-Ion batteries). How many dangerous car trips could be avoided if we all had mobile internet? How many unruly passengers would be pacified by the plane's WiFi?
The X-Prize brain-computer interface will make this obsolete in only 40 years.
In the mind of a tyrant:
Trust == respect == fear
"to build trust between people and government"
Because, as China has shown, censoring communication is the fastest and easiest way to built trust. Go Iran!
Astronomy may have been revolutionized by the telescope, but the field was founded on the naked eye. I know it seems like a great idea to show off a new gadget to your students, but doing this will bias their minds to believe that one can only appreciate the stars with an expensive telescope. This is flat out false.
Teach them about constellations. Make it a contest to point out the most constellations! Knowledge of the constellations can lead to other insights, like the importance of the north star. When your students understand this, they might be ready for a telescope.
Don't focus on deep sky objects initially. While planet's may be cool to look at in a good telescope, try constellations first.Knowledge of constellations can lead to more intricate and profound understanding of the sky. You students will be able to see the constellations 'orbit' the north star. Planets will be easier to find, as they will seem like an out of place star. All of this can be done with the naked eye or a pair of binoculars!
To become a judge, a lawyer, or a politician, you need charisma and knowledge of the legal system. Knowledge of the internet is not a prerequisite. Hence.... this futile ruling.
Linux was a community many years ago, but the days of songs around a camp fire are over. These days when I think of Linux, I think of:
Tivo
Apache Web Server
Android phones,
WiFi routers,
OLPC
Portable media players
Server Farms
Linux has really come into it's own, but I don't think anybody will ever mistake it for a hobbyist niche again.
I'm inclined to agree with you, but it sucks that innovative companies like Google will have to deal with this.
Notice that prior to laying down the fiber network, they took the town to court to prevent competition:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/want-50mbps-internet-in-your-town-threaten-to-roll-out-your-own.ars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_hoaxes#Google_TiSP
The big names in networking (AT&T, Charter, etc.) are going to sue Google on antitrust grounds because it is easier to hire lawyers than to upgrade failing and obsolete networks.
We can speak ad nauseum about what would be better, but the thesis here is pragmatic. Oppressive governments don't care about what the enlightened world thinks about freedom of speech/expression.. But thankfully, we have annoying ads that force people in countries with free speech to develop the tools used in those without free speech.
We are anonymous, we are legion! we do not forg...
Crap! I forgot to log out.
Pages directed at 'technical audiences' often are composed of vanilla HTML and/or links to PDF files. There are of course exceptions to this, but a large proportion of the pages you described would easily support every modern browser.
For the exceptions to this, I think that there comes a point where it does not make sense to continue support for legacy systems. Now seems to be a good time to end support for old versions of IE, since this recent security fiasco that has put greater attention on upgrading to more secure browsers.
Whatever the reasons behind the temporary shutdown of services, perhaps it could have been resolved by a less dramatic action. PayPal is obviously a great convenience for its many users. I do not see why this investigation required a complete cessation of the PayPal services when legitimate users are going to be victimized, while sneaky users will find other ways around the government.
While PayPal may be convenient, shutting down paypal will not stop remittences. People can simply place a check in an envelope and mail it. Money orders are also an option.
I realize that there is an API, but that only means that Buzz is open to development of plugins/extensions and other web integration features.
The Buzz system is closed. The only provider of Buzz is currently Google. And they have not announced plans to open Buzz as a protocol as they did with Wave. This model is no different than Facebook or MySpace, and that is the central problem.
The problem is that Gmail is a client for the open communication protocol known as e-mail. Many people use Gmail, but not everybody wants to. I doubt Yahoo mail, or AOL mail users are interested in dropping their mail service just to join Google's new social venture, or adding 'Buzz' to their list of things to check every day.
Google had a better idea with Wave: produce an open protocol that anybody could host. If Google did this from the get-go with 'Buzz', it would have a fighting chance. As it is, I doubt that it will ever reach wide adoption. Facebook is just too big to beat without an innovative product.
For most diseases the antibodies are easier to see because they are more widespread. It only takes a few virally infected cells to set off a massive immune response. The difficulty in engineering an antibody is the same difficulty as engineering any protein. Our knowledge of protein folding is still in it's infancy. So far, we have used evolutionary methods to find new antibodies. Perhaps someday we will be able to build them from the ground up, but not now.
I have to second that point. But if my livescribe were to break, my fallback would be a regular pen/paper combo. In the natural sciences diagrams are a must!