Ah, But the problem there is that there's no solipsist's lemma.
Philosophically speaking, the only thing you can be sure about is your own existence. You can also see that your senses are flawed, so you can't trust them either. You vividly hallucinate at night, and constantly misinterpret your senses during the day.
On these grounds, who's to say what is real and what is simulation?
OTOH, if we focus on information theory, and don't think about philosophy for a second, the real world out there has more than 10^100 "moving parts" than your own brain has, even if you count down to the atoms and electrons that make up your neurons... How could you possibly hope to simulate all of reality if the simulation itself is embedded within reality? That's a recursive nightmare.
No, you can only make approximate models of the "Real World Out There" and then that's only useful if you can prove that the real world out there exists.
If thought like a businessman, I would create a disease that would cause cold symptoms, but be more contagious.
Step two would then be to make a patent medicine that can treat the discomfort slightly from the cold, and sell it cheaply enough that the public would be convinced that it's a good deal.
I Just read through the study on PLoS.
I'm certainly not a geneticist or virologist, or even run of the mill biologist.
My qualifications consist of High school AP Bio, and a LOT of surfing wikipedia, reading bio articles over the last five years or so. (I enjoy reading wikipedia. It's stimulating.)
With that in mind, I think I understand the mechanism of action for DRACO. I don't read too many full fledged bio studies, so I don't know how often results like this happen, but it looks very, very, exciting on the surface.
From the initial results, DRACO looks like a Panacea, and I'm scared of putting my hope in it's development. I'm wary that it may never hit the market due to the horrible US Patent system.
This explanation of the mechanism of DRACOs work sounds to me very similar to how the normal immune system works.
Human NK cells look for antigens that are produced by infected cells, when they encounter the antigens, they release Apoptosis signals to the infected cell and move along to the next cell.
In this case the antigen are dsRNAs that can be found by the DRACO.
Seriously?!
They're using Google's style of logo!
God you're right! They are the most incompetent clowns I have ever seen! They must be violating Google trademark! What a bunch of assholes.
At the time of posting I saw people asking the question "Why has the patent been granted" and I obliged.
In the end all I can say is that I am very passionate about IP law, and don't mind rehashing what common sense, and logic show to be true. At least when speaking to the American public who are so ill-informed and scientifically illiterate that they seem like baby birds waiting for regurgitated worms.
When I see all the propaganda in the media claiming things that are categorically untrue, it feels like we have traded truth and fact for some kind of mysticism and religion (eg: that the Idea of climate change is CONTROVERSIAL when it has been proven to exist).
I understand it's not my responsibility to fight against the horrible illogical fallacies of modern "Commentators" but the least I can do is try to reveal the problems in the popular ideas of the time.
The Reason why this disgusting troll is being awarded a patent is because of multiple reasons
The most prescient is that the USPTO doesn't look for prior art, obviousness or novelty when granting patents.
The next reason is that the USPTO along with many ill-informed politicians believe that the number of patents granted in a year has a direct correlation to the technological development of the country. This is easily nullified by the very fact that patent trolls exist. Since a company can buy a patent which is a monopoly on a theoretical device, method, or nowadays even a data set (see Monsanto's gene patents), the actual technological imperative to produce is gone. It has been replaced with an incentive to suppress a technology defined in a patent, and when it has been developed by an independent company unaware of the patent, to sue and generate a profit.
Patents are defined in US law as a way to promote the progress of useful sciences and arts. In the last twenty or more years, it has been shown hands-down that patents do the exact opposite. They grant a monopoly to a company. The company then stands to gain in the short term far more by suing than by investing money in developing the device or method described in it's patents.
The way that the patent system has been gamed to prevent the public from doing real research and development is deplorable, and I will be glad of the day when patent is done away with.
I'm sure that patent will exist forever in US government, but all of my observations have show that it is not merely worthless as an institution, but detrimental to technological progress.
The fact is:
The FBI has a whole suite of tools for copying hard disks and other digital media in 1:1 format very quickly
A couple of them are EnCase and FTK (both of which I found on This Wikipedia page.) Just at a glance, there are over a dozen tools the FBI could have used to make a 1:1 copy of the hard disk they were searching for.
If it were a criminal investigation I would assume they would have to take at least some hardware anyway for original evidence.
If it were a civil deal I can't imagine a single instance in which the need to grab that equipment was so damn urgent that they'd be obligated to screw over a business.
Take my commentary with a grain of salt though....I've never been raided by the FBI, and I'm sure they can get approval to do anything in the name of protecting MPAA or RIAA's interests, since so much of the work that justifies the FBI's existence comes directly from the pockets of industry in greasing the wheels of government.
Hasn't this already been done at least 2 years ago?
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere (possibly PopSci SciAm, or maybe Nat'l Geographic) that emotional pain looks exactly the same as physical pain in an MRI in 2009 or so.
Sorry for not linking. I'll look it up and see if I can find corroborating evidence or a counter to my gangrenous mind.
Just appreciating the irony that of any group to shoot with wanton abandon, lawyers would probably be the best equipped to ruin you financially and have you put in jail if you do.
There's really no such thing as anonymized data when it comes to large aggregate databases. For example, you're facebook page can be matched to your netflix account 9 out of 10 times because of the sheer volume of similarity in the data pertaining to your advertizing profile.
I'm all for early warning systems based on genetic markers, but I think it is a horrible idea to make a national system for it. I know a small company in the Seattle area where I live that does the testing on their own premises, and doesn't keep any data about the samples they process. There is no database that my information is stored in. If I want to knock $50 off the charge for my genetic processing, I can let them do a little experimentation on the dna, but they don't hold on to individual results.
I understand your point in that an anonymized national database would make a good standard. But the thing is any useful database for tracking a personal medical record can, and probably will be exploited.
I really wish the world could work that way...
I don't see how any company with a national database of "Anonymous" user IDs could resist doing a cross correlation and using that for direct medical advertizing.
The thing is, what you're suggesting is that rights to medical privacy will be revoked from the patients, and their information will be commercialized at the highest rate possible.
I understand the value of having a dataset like this, but it gives me chills to think of the consequences of it's implementation.
I live in the Seattle area, and have a sump pump and dehumidifier in the basement. The dehumidifier has to run year round, and uses twice the energy in a day that the air conditioning uses in 5 days. Granted, the dehumidifier is about 25 years old, and the air conditioning is only 4 years old. But they have about the same volume of air to modify the composition of.
Western Washington is a really beautiful part of the country. But I have to admit, it's the least friendly place to any size of businesses. High sales tax (up to 9.6% depending on county/city) high cost of living etc. But I gotta say I love it here.
-1 for not even remotely knowing what you're talking about.
But anyway, IPv6 is essentially the same thing as using a longer name. Instead of having only 2^32 addresses, IPv6 has 2^128 addresses. Enough to give every man woman and child on earth a trillion permanent addresses a year for 4.85*10^16 years. (caveat: assuming the population will stay at 7 billion people for 4.85*10^16 years)
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Ah, But the problem there is that there's no solipsist's lemma.
Philosophically speaking, the only thing you can be sure about is your own existence. You can also see that your senses are flawed, so you can't trust them either. You vividly hallucinate at night, and constantly misinterpret your senses during the day.
On these grounds, who's to say what is real and what is simulation?
OTOH, if we focus on information theory, and don't think about philosophy for a second, the real world out there has more than 10^100 "moving parts" than your own brain has, even if you count down to the atoms and electrons that make up your neurons... How could you possibly hope to simulate all of reality if the simulation itself is embedded within reality? That's a recursive nightmare.
No, you can only make approximate models of the "Real World Out There" and then that's only useful if you can prove that the real world out there exists.
Also real velociraptors would only be about nipple high on most people. Not the size of a thorogh bred race horse as depicted in the movies
Bender: Would you censor The Venus de Venus just because you can see its spewers?
Planet Express Ship: Ugh! Disgusting! While you're at it why not create a National Endowment for strip clubs?!
Bender: Why not Indeed!
Why would you choose to live in reality when you can imagine something better?
Unused Fiber: The main cause of American Obesity.
Mom: Billy eat your vegetables
Billy: But Mooom, they aren't even deep fried!
Just like THX 1138
police bot: we're here for your safety. You have nothing to fear. No one will hurt you
Jabs THX with riot prod.
I'll see you and raise:
If thought like a businessman, I would create a disease that would cause cold symptoms, but be more contagious.
Step two would then be to make a patent medicine that can treat the discomfort slightly from the cold, and sell it cheaply enough that the public would be convinced that it's a good deal.
I Just read through the study on PLoS.
I'm certainly not a geneticist or virologist, or even run of the mill biologist.
My qualifications consist of High school AP Bio, and a LOT of surfing wikipedia, reading bio articles over the last five years or so. (I enjoy reading wikipedia. It's stimulating.)
With that in mind, I think I understand the mechanism of action for DRACO. I don't read too many full fledged bio studies, so I don't know how often results like this happen, but it looks very, very, exciting on the surface.
From the initial results, DRACO looks like a Panacea, and I'm scared of putting my hope in it's development. I'm wary that it may never hit the market due to the horrible US Patent system.
This explanation of the mechanism of DRACOs work sounds to me very similar to how the normal immune system works.
Human NK cells look for antigens that are produced by infected cells, when they encounter the antigens, they release Apoptosis signals to the infected cell and move along to the next cell.
In this case the antigen are dsRNAs that can be found by the DRACO.
What about Klienfelter's (46/47 XXY) and Turner's Syndrome (46XX/45XO, and several other chromosomal abnormalities implicated.)?
HaHa!
Seriously?!
They're using Google's style of logo!
God you're right! They are the most incompetent clowns I have ever seen! They must be violating Google trademark! What a bunch of assholes.
I guess I restated it for the noobs.
At the time of posting I saw people asking the question "Why has the patent been granted" and I obliged.
In the end all I can say is that I am very passionate about IP law, and don't mind rehashing what common sense, and logic show to be true. At least when speaking to the American public who are so ill-informed and scientifically illiterate that they seem like baby birds waiting for regurgitated worms.
When I see all the propaganda in the media claiming things that are categorically untrue, it feels like we have traded truth and fact for some kind of mysticism and religion (eg: that the Idea of climate change is CONTROVERSIAL when it has been proven to exist).
I understand it's not my responsibility to fight against the horrible illogical fallacies of modern "Commentators" but the least I can do is try to reveal the problems in the popular ideas of the time.
The Reason why this disgusting troll is being awarded a patent is because of multiple reasons
The most prescient is that the USPTO doesn't look for prior art, obviousness or novelty when granting patents.
The next reason is that the USPTO along with many ill-informed politicians believe that the number of patents granted in a year has a direct correlation to the technological development of the country. This is easily nullified by the very fact that patent trolls exist. Since a company can buy a patent which is a monopoly on a theoretical device, method, or nowadays even a data set (see Monsanto's gene patents), the actual technological imperative to produce is gone. It has been replaced with an incentive to suppress a technology defined in a patent, and when it has been developed by an independent company unaware of the patent, to sue and generate a profit.
Patents are defined in US law as a way to promote the progress of useful sciences and arts. In the last twenty or more years, it has been shown hands-down that patents do the exact opposite. They grant a monopoly to a company. The company then stands to gain in the short term far more by suing than by investing money in developing the device or method described in it's patents.
The way that the patent system has been gamed to prevent the public from doing real research and development is deplorable, and I will be glad of the day when patent is done away with.
I'm sure that patent will exist forever in US government, but all of my observations have show that it is not merely worthless as an institution, but detrimental to technological progress.
The fact is:
The FBI has a whole suite of tools for copying hard disks and other digital media in 1:1 format very quickly A couple of them are EnCase and FTK (both of which I found on This Wikipedia page.) Just at a glance, there are over a dozen tools the FBI could have used to make a 1:1 copy of the hard disk they were searching for.
If it were a criminal investigation I would assume they would have to take at least some hardware anyway for original evidence.
If it were a civil deal I can't imagine a single instance in which the need to grab that equipment was so damn urgent that they'd be obligated to screw over a business.
Take my commentary with a grain of salt though....I've never been raided by the FBI, and I'm sure they can get approval to do anything in the name of protecting MPAA or RIAA's interests, since so much of the work that justifies the FBI's existence comes directly from the pockets of industry in greasing the wheels of government.
Hasn't this already been done at least 2 years ago?
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere (possibly PopSci SciAm, or maybe Nat'l Geographic) that emotional pain looks exactly the same as physical pain in an MRI in 2009 or so.
Sorry for not linking. I'll look it up and see if I can find corroborating evidence or a counter to my gangrenous mind.
Heh if he doesn't shoot first you might have half a chance to keep from getting fried like greedo
I read it Astrocycles Like exercycles on the space station
Shooting lawyers on sight.
Just appreciating the irony that of any group to shoot with wanton abandon, lawyers would probably be the best equipped to ruin you financially and have you put in jail if you do.
I'm all for early warning systems based on genetic markers, but I think it is a horrible idea to make a national system for it. I know a small company in the Seattle area where I live that does the testing on their own premises, and doesn't keep any data about the samples they process. There is no database that my information is stored in. If I want to knock $50 off the charge for my genetic processing, I can let them do a little experimentation on the dna, but they don't hold on to individual results.
I understand your point in that an anonymized national database would make a good standard. But the thing is any useful database for tracking a personal medical record can, and probably will be exploited.
The thing is, what you're suggesting is that rights to medical privacy will be revoked from the patients, and their information will be commercialized at the highest rate possible.
I understand the value of having a dataset like this, but it gives me chills to think of the consequences of it's implementation.
Also:
Roberto: "Death to the 1X Robots!!"
*Electric arc through his head*
"I love those magnificent 1X Robots! The 1X Robots are my Friends."
Bender: "What happened to your previous enthusiasm for stabbing them?"
Roberto: "I'm past that man. Later blood"
I'll have to agree. PuppyLinux has at least 3 dozen variants, and I'm probably horribly underestimating.
Does anyone see people using puppy linux as an important and critical operating system?
It's a toy, and everyone wants their own decals for it.
Completely True.
I live in the Seattle area, and have a sump pump and dehumidifier in the basement. The dehumidifier has to run year round, and uses twice the energy in a day that the air conditioning uses in 5 days. Granted, the dehumidifier is about 25 years old, and the air conditioning is only 4 years old. But they have about the same volume of air to modify the composition of.
Western Washington is a really beautiful part of the country. But I have to admit, it's the least friendly place to any size of businesses. High sales tax (up to 9.6% depending on county/city) high cost of living etc. But I gotta say I love it here.
Dr. Zoidberg: What a Captain! I'd follow that man to hell and back I would!
-1 for not even remotely knowing what you're talking about.
But anyway, IPv6 is essentially the same thing as using a longer name. Instead of having only 2^32 addresses, IPv6 has 2^128 addresses. Enough to give every man woman and child on earth a trillion permanent addresses a year for 4.85*10^16 years. (caveat: assuming the population will stay at 7 billion people for 4.85*10^16 years)