This wast my first thought when I saw the article.... I thought I'd see a "First" post that actually went somewhere:) But thinking about it further, maybe this was just a conspiracy to give the petitions some legitimacy.
So THIS is how Mega is getting all their disk space.... Imagine: Everyone who uses the site is a node that is getting filled up by other people's encrypted garbage.... Free space, redundant, encrypted, distributed, and can charge for it... Perfect.
It is kinda what I do..... Who said I had to be in a cold, foggy city to do tech work? Quality of life over income. If you have ever outsourced, you'd find that it is really hard to find good programmers and system administrators too far below market rates. And usually there are communication issues with those people. Me, being in a lower cost of living area, am able to accept a lower wage, and give the high quality work that most businesses have come to expect of an american professional. In exchange, I get to go scuba diving in tropical waters every weekend and enjoy a hammock office. Yes there are tradeoffs, but from my point of view there is very little that would change my mind from my current course.
I love it, I can't imagine going back. I like my hammock office, and every time I am forced to work at a desk or table, and can physically feel my mind cramping up. If that is innovation and productivity, count me out! Don't get me started about my years facing grey half-walls feeling like someone was watching what I was doing behind my back. Gave me the creeps, and again, just made me feel uncomfortable working.
Yeah, I kinda predict that the jobs of doctors will move to collecting the information the computer asks for, volunteering info that they notice from experience/sight/interaction (try a computer on a mental disease patient...) And whenever the diagnosis is wrong the doctor would do research and/or try to teach the computer what other questions steps would be required to detect and treat the special case.. That way it is improving the system for everyone. Also the computer could be smart about how it prescribes anti-biotics and the like as to reduce the possibility of drug resistant strains.
it's also important to realize that drug testing in mice IS necessary.
See that is the part I don't understand... Why must it be mice? And how many drugs have a negligible effect in mice, but would work well in humans, or have a toxic effect in mice, but only minor side effects in humans? These days the drug would be overlooked or rejected. Humans are not mice... How often are we overlooking good drugs because of bad animal models?
I get the point, we need to protect humans first, and not be doing stupid/dangerous tests on humans just for the sake of science. I think, for me, this just makes more of a point that suggests we should go in the direction of testing first with human tissues and actual model organs then test in full system creatures like marmosets. So far, this ted.com talk is the direction I think would benefit us most as a species. Not that I think we are there yet, it definitely looks like the way to go.
What would happen if I opened an email account with gmail, and sent all ads to an outlook.com account, and viceversa... Would they reach equilibrium, or would the chaos ensue?
"Air currents from whatever source were eliminated in the first Proof of Concept project by testing the experimental thruster mounted in a hermetically sealed box. The experiment was reviewed and accepted by professional government scientists." [The research was being supported by the British government at the time.]
He also points out that real ion drives need much higher voltage and that "Anyone who thinks they can create grammes of thrust from ion wind at the voltages we work at clearly doesn’t understand physics." He does not believe a vacuum chamber test would show anything, as ion drives function in a vaccum and there would still be the question of wehther some ionised material was somehow being ejected. However, the hermetically sealed box test should have negated that possibility.
I don't like how easy it is for people to take down other peoples work, and lately we have seen a lot of that. Though it is nice to see when the evil tool is used for good.
Though it was believed by early mathematicians that Mp is prime for all primes p, Mp is very rarely prime. In fact, of the 1,622,441 prime numbers p up to 25,964,951,[5] Mp is prime for only 42 of them. The smallest counterexample is the Mersenne number
Now if that were true wouldn't we be able to say the largest known prime is: 2^((2^57,885,161)-1) ? That can't be true or they would have found it already.
The moment you connect your car up to the internet, it too will need software updates. In a car no-one is constantly trying to run you off the road or blow you up. Not true online, you are almost always being probed to find out if you are susceptible to the latest car disabling technology. Online it is an arms race, not a status quo.
If the manufacturers simply passed their OS / device driver updates back to the core Android Open Source Project, it'd make everyone's lives easier.
If they want to keep their launcher and misc add-on apps private, that's their call.
Somebody mod this up... It is exactly what they should be doing! Honestly I don't know why low margin hardware manufacturers are keeping themselves in the picture at all (with little to no economic gain for holding the code they won't support).
Out of curiosity, did they control for browser/ip/cookies? We know that major search engines personalize the results. They do this by tracking cookies, browsers, ip addresses. Unless they controlled for those things, then this could just be a flawed experiment.
Also do those names, unfortunately, have more pop-cultural references related to crime or arrests? It could just be revealing an unfortunate historical social trend. In which case more positive news with people with those names would stem the tide of "racist ad results."
I know when I was setting up google ads I was never asked the ethnicity of my target market.
Slashdot Mirror
Somebody, mod the parent up. I'd also add that Canada and most of Europe are in the same boat.
common sense
What is that? I haven't seen that from government within my lifetime.
This wast my first thought when I saw the article.... :)
I thought I'd see a "First" post that actually went somewhere
But thinking about it further, maybe this was just a conspiracy to give the petitions some legitimacy.
So THIS is how Mega is getting all their disk space....
Imagine:
Everyone who uses the site is a node that is getting filled up by other people's encrypted garbage.... Free space, redundant, encrypted, distributed, and can charge for it... Perfect.
It is kinda what I do..... Who said I had to be in a cold, foggy city to do tech work?
Quality of life over income.
If you have ever outsourced, you'd find that it is really hard to find good programmers and system administrators too far below market rates. And usually there are communication issues with those people. Me, being in a lower cost of living area, am able to accept a lower wage, and give the high quality work that most businesses have come to expect of an american professional. In exchange, I get to go scuba diving in tropical waters every weekend and enjoy a hammock office.
Yes there are tradeoffs, but from my point of view there is very little that would change my mind from my current course.
I love it, I can't imagine going back. I like my hammock office, and every time I am forced to work at a desk or table, and can physically feel my mind cramping up. If that is innovation and productivity, count me out!
Don't get me started about my years facing grey half-walls feeling like someone was watching what I was doing behind my back. Gave me the creeps, and again, just made me feel uncomfortable working.
Yeah, I kinda predict that the jobs of doctors will move to collecting the information the computer asks for, volunteering info that they notice from experience/sight/interaction (try a computer on a mental disease patient...) And whenever the diagnosis is wrong the doctor would do research and/or try to teach the computer what other questions steps would be required to detect and treat the special case.. That way it is improving the system for everyone. Also the computer could be smart about how it prescribes anti-biotics and the like as to reduce the possibility of drug resistant strains.
it's also important to realize that drug testing in mice IS necessary.
See that is the part I don't understand... Why must it be mice? And how many drugs have a negligible effect in mice, but would work well in humans, or have a toxic effect in mice, but only minor side effects in humans? These days the drug would be overlooked or rejected. Humans are not mice... How often are we overlooking good drugs because of bad animal models?
I get the point, we need to protect humans first, and not be doing stupid/dangerous tests on humans just for the sake of science. I think, for me, this just makes more of a point that suggests we should go in the direction of testing first with human tissues and actual model organs then test in full system creatures like marmosets.
So far, this ted.com talk is the direction I think would benefit us most as a species. Not that I think we are there yet, it definitely looks like the way to go.
I often wonder how many drugs we reject long before human trials because some researcher used the wrong animal to test.
Also an obligatory SMBC comic
If you have a password, and I get a copy of it, then you still have your password! We can both use the password, IT'S NOT STEALING.
Haha, I love it!
So I suppose copying passwords should be legal... Just transferring funds and identity theft need to be covered...
Only a noob needs a French programming language.
Certainly you mean a 'nouveaub'.
Come now, this is the 'texting' age: 'nuvob'
What would happen if I opened an email account with gmail, and sent all ads to an outlook.com account, and viceversa... Would they reach equilibrium, or would the chaos ensue?
Source
"Air currents from whatever source were eliminated in the first Proof of Concept project by testing the experimental thruster mounted in a hermetically sealed box. The experiment was reviewed and accepted by professional government scientists." [The research was being supported by the British government at the time.]
He also points out that real ion drives need much higher voltage and that "Anyone who thinks they can create grammes of thrust from ion wind at the voltages we work at clearly doesn’t understand physics." He does not believe a vacuum chamber test would show anything, as ion drives function in a vaccum and there would still be the question of wehther some ionised material was somehow being ejected. However, the hermetically sealed box test should have negated that possibility.
That isn't to say I disagree with you...
I too can quote myself.
--canadiannomad
But how would a drawing being cut into 4 pieces do any good? o_O
I don't like how easy it is for people to take down other peoples work, and lately we have seen a lot of that.
Though it is nice to see when the evil tool is used for good.
The french had a good solution for politicians that got out of hand....... :)
Old solution to a modern problem
Lol, touché.
Though it was believed by early mathematicians that Mp is prime for all primes p, Mp is very rarely prime. In fact, of the 1,622,441 prime numbers p up to 25,964,951,[5] Mp is prime for only 42 of them. The smallest counterexample is the Mersenne number
Mv11 = 2^11 1 = 2047 = 23 × 89.
Now if that were true wouldn't we be able to say the largest known prime is:
2^((2^57,885,161)-1) ? That can't be true or they would have found it already.
Um, no. read that wiki article again.
The moment you connect your car up to the internet, it too will need software updates.
In a car no-one is constantly trying to run you off the road or blow you up.
Not true online, you are almost always being probed to find out if you are susceptible to the latest car disabling technology.
Online it is an arms race, not a status quo.
If the manufacturers simply passed their OS / device driver updates back to the core Android Open Source Project, it'd make everyone's lives easier.
If they want to keep their launcher and misc add-on apps private, that's their call.
Somebody mod this up... It is exactly what they should be doing! Honestly I don't know why low margin hardware manufacturers are keeping themselves in the picture at all (with little to no economic gain for holding the code they won't support).
Out of curiosity, did they control for browser/ip/cookies?
We know that major search engines personalize the results.
They do this by tracking cookies, browsers, ip addresses. Unless they controlled for those things, then this could just be a flawed experiment.
Also do those names, unfortunately, have more pop-cultural references related to crime or arrests? It could just be revealing an unfortunate historical social trend. In which case more positive news with people with those names would stem the tide of "racist ad results."
I know when I was setting up google ads I was never asked the ethnicity of my target market.