what happens when DNA is used to determine 'potential criminal' and they come collect you, just in case
I propose a contest. We find 1000 people. A brilliant geneticist is given a DNA sample from each. I get to look at each of the persons for a few seconds from 10 feet away. The scientist pics the 10% they think will end up committing crime by looking at their DNA, I pick the 10% I think will end up commiting crime by looking at them.
Harnessing the power of street smarts, intuition, gut feel, and fashion sense, I bet I do way better than the scientist.
What if I invented an inexpensive device, that when pointed at a loaf of bread, created a duplicate of it. I could do this as much as I want, for negligable cost.
This device would obviously be a great boon to society, making food virtually free. Certainly this technology would have a big effect on society, and society would need to adjust. Farmers would be less useful, highly creative chefs would be more useful.
Sadly, that adjustment would probably be to pass laws against the use of the device, saying that it constitutes theft of bread. Even if you do it in the privacy of your home, to bread you bought legally, and you didn't sell the dupe bread to anyone.
They have this at the EMP in Seattle. When you go in, they give you a handheld gizmo with headphones. You point the gizmo at special 'link' icons that are all over the museum, near exhibit items. When you 'click' on a link you get info about the item, or hear the associated band/instrument playing.
Mine went nuts and got stuck in perma-click mode. Everything I walked by started talking to me or playing something for me, until I went back to the base and got a new one. There's several links within range at any given moment, it was 'changing channel' every time I turned or moved at all.
Why did he use pens and not electronic formats? For a CS person that surprises me.
One of my profs said he was giving a speach at Dijkstra's school. He wanted to make sure Dijkstra didn't attend (apperently Dijkstra was an asshole), so he sent out the announcement via email only. This ensured that Dijkstra would never get the announcement, as he did have a computer.
I gotta agree with Bill's reaction on that one. The interviewer lost all credibility when he said that. He's one of those people that thinks he knows the technology market because he uses technology, which at best only tells you about consumer technology.
None of his friends used OS/2 so nobody used it. I guess nobody uses mainframes either, and the Internet was invented 10 years ago.
I for one didn't know that any school in Utah had electricity,
Mod parent down as Troll!;)
I am of course taking a shot at BYU, which is manditory for a UofU grad. But it is true, we had a class in, well basically engineering process. By way of an exercise, the prof thought is would be too easy to have us engineer software, so we got to choose between making a scanner, a self-navigating robot, and creating a robot programming language.
OB Joke: Why do Mormons stop having children at 35? -- Because 36 is too many.
With all due respect (none) to out neighbors to the South, at the University of Utah, building a scanner out of legos is an undergrad assignment. Is this all you got BYU? Your are light years from hangin with us.
does that mean that bio-tech companies could concievably hold patents on YOUR body?
Where have you been? You must have missed that whole debate. I'm sorry to inform you that you are already owned, by a number of private companies, and some research groups. The leading owner of you is, Incyte --
-Code was 46 pairs of printouts, no dates associated. -2 sections of code looked very similar -The rest was mostly copied comments, including jokes that were copied. -Observer found it curious that the source code near the copied comments was completely different.
"Zion" - the name of the mythical Jewish homeland.
And non-mythical Mormon homeland. Many businesses and places in Utah are named Zion, as the Moromons think of Utah as "our Zion".
But typically if you say "Zion" in Utah, you are referring to Zion National Park.
Visitors to Salt Lake often notice the big statue of Brigham Young downtown faces away from the Temple, with his hand outstretched to the Zion Bank building.
the company will just replace you with people that are hungry for work.
And the new guys will look at your code (or whatever you do) and say, "Man this is a mess. Where do I begin refactoring? I'm going to have to re-write this whole thing! How did you people ever put up with those losers? [language1]? Who uses [language1] anymore? We'll rewrite the whole thing in [language2]. You guys are so lucky those wankers quit!".
I suspect you don't understand how easy this is. When I was in elementary school, me and my friends made guns, in school, during recess. A teacher caught us shooting 22 rounds on the playgound and made us stop, gave us some stern words. We thought she was totally overreacting by scolding us.
If guns were banned here (U.S.), there really would be an undergound gun making establishment, and the guns would be pretty good. (We are Americans after all). The 'No RFID' feature would make them all the more desirable.
Senator Brownback supports legislation the protect our rights to copy DVDs, but at the same time, supports legislation to abolish our rights to copy Humans.
Hey, it's my DNA, if I want to rip it to another fleshpod, that's my right. d00d!
isn't this a realisation that a good coder makes by the third year of tertiary education?
Or before. People should realize that before they even sign up to be a CS major, or they're probaly not cut out for it.
I went toUtah, which I think is a decent school, very simliar to most good CS schools in the USA. The curriculum was 4 years packed with science and engineering classes, excactly zero of which were programming classes. Any Computer Science school which actually makes majors take classes like "Programming in C++" is really just a trade school.
It's weird how sure people are that CS is about programming. It's like thinking that learning to be a surgeon is 4 years of learning how to cut with a scalpel.
You buy the software, you choose to use it, YOU DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.
But what if you didn't choose to use SQL Server? Most of the victims of Slammer were not people using SQL Server, the victims were everyone who was connected to the Internet, which is, well everyone. My site, runs Slackware, and all the other sites at my hoster are on Linux or BSD, but we all went down that night.
Where's the Slackware EULA that says I agree not to sue Microsoft?
The singer they are working with has a voice that requires hiding behind effects.
*cough* Kelly Osbourne *cough*
On the flip side, I love listening to old Zeppelin albums and hearing the bleed between tracks. Ah, magnetic tape. What has the world come to. Oh baby baby, you're killing me.
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what happens when DNA is used to determine 'potential criminal' and they come collect you, just in case
I propose a contest. We find 1000 people. A brilliant geneticist is given a DNA sample from each. I get to look at each of the persons for a few seconds from 10 feet away. The scientist pics the 10% they think will end up committing crime by looking at their DNA, I pick the 10% I think will end up commiting crime by looking at them.
Harnessing the power of street smarts, intuition, gut feel, and fashion sense, I bet I do way better than the scientist.
What if I invented an inexpensive device, that when pointed at a loaf of bread, created a duplicate of it. I could do this as much as I want, for negligable cost.
This device would obviously be a great boon to society, making food virtually free. Certainly this technology would have a big effect on society, and society would need to adjust. Farmers would be less useful, highly creative chefs would be more useful.
Sadly, that adjustment would probably be to pass laws against the use of the device, saying that it constitutes theft of bread. Even if you do it in the privacy of your home, to bread you bought legally, and you didn't sell the dupe bread to anyone.
They have this at the EMP in Seattle. When you go in, they give you a handheld gizmo with headphones. You point the gizmo at special 'link' icons that are all over the museum, near exhibit items. When you 'click' on a link you get info about the item, or hear the associated band/instrument playing.
Mine went nuts and got stuck in perma-click mode. Everything I walked by started talking to me or playing something for me, until I went back to the base and got a new one. There's several links within range at any given moment, it was 'changing channel' every time I turned or moved at all.
Why did he use pens and not electronic formats? For a CS person that surprises me.
One of my profs said he was giving a speach at Dijkstra's school. He wanted to make sure Dijkstra didn't attend (apperently Dijkstra was an asshole), so he sent out the announcement via email only. This ensured that Dijkstra would never get the announcement, as he did have a computer.
I gotta agree with Bill's reaction on that one. The interviewer lost all credibility when he said that. He's one of those people that thinks he knows the technology market because he uses technology, which at best only tells you about consumer technology.
None of his friends used OS/2 so nobody used it. I guess nobody uses mainframes either, and the Internet was invented 10 years ago.
I for one didn't know that any school in Utah had electricity,
;)
Mod parent down as Troll!
I am of course taking a shot at BYU, which is manditory for a UofU grad. But it is true, we had a class in, well basically engineering process. By way of an exercise, the prof thought is would be too easy to have us engineer software, so we got to choose between making a scanner, a self-navigating robot, and creating a robot programming language.
OB Joke: Why do Mormons stop having children at 35? -- Because 36 is too many.
With all due respect (none) to out neighbors to the South, at the University of Utah, building a scanner out of legos is an undergrad assignment. Is this all you got BYU? Your are light years from hangin with us.
does that mean that bio-tech companies could concievably hold patents on YOUR body?
Where have you been? You must have missed that whole debate. I'm sorry to inform you that you are already owned, by a number of private companies, and some research groups. The leading owner of you is, Incyte
--
-Code was 46 pairs of printouts, no dates associated.
-2 sections of code looked very similar
-The rest was mostly copied comments, including jokes that were copied.
-Observer found it curious that the source code near the copied comments was completely different.
"Zion" - the name of the mythical Jewish homeland.
And non-mythical Mormon homeland. Many businesses and places in Utah are named Zion, as the Moromons think of Utah as "our Zion".
But typically if you say "Zion" in Utah, you are referring to Zion National Park.
Visitors to Salt Lake often notice the big statue of Brigham Young downtown faces away from the Temple, with his hand outstretched to the Zion Bank building.
the company will just replace you with people that are hungry for work.
And the new guys will look at your code (or whatever you do) and say, "Man this is a mess. Where do I begin refactoring? I'm going to have to re-write this whole thing! How did you people ever put up with those losers? [language1]? Who uses [language1] anymore? We'll rewrite the whole thing in [language2]. You guys are so lucky those wankers quit!".
I suspect you don't understand how easy this is. When I was in elementary school, me and my friends made guns, in school, during recess. A teacher caught us shooting 22 rounds on the playgound and made us stop, gave us some stern words. We thought she was totally overreacting by scolding us.
If guns were banned here (U.S.), there really would be an undergound gun making establishment, and the guns would be pretty good. (We are Americans after all). The 'No RFID' feature would make them all the more desirable.
Senator Brownback supports legislation the protect our rights to copy DVDs, but at the same time, supports legislation to abolish our rights to copy Humans.
Hey, it's my DNA, if I want to rip it to another fleshpod, that's my right. d00d!
Finland?
"My God, it's full of chickens"
Ah, now that movie makes sense.
A five-man crew using a mechanical harvester can do the work of eight men
My god, it's like something out of science fiction.
Lots of people are posting that the business world has never heard of this story and doesn't care. Read this: Does Linux Have a Dark Secret?
If you die in The Journey, do you die in real life?
Can't belive I'm correcting you but...it's actually spelled 'googol'.
*cough* *cough*
Java in a Nutshell??? Aren't they called coffeebeans?
Before posting jokes, it's useful to read the 'from department', to ensure non-redundancy.
if (
me.acceptsLanguage(CODE) &&
me.acceptsLanguage(KLINGON) &&
!me.acceptsLangauge(ENGLISH)
) {
&(me.do) = discussion.ask(WHAT);
}
isn't this a realisation that a good coder makes by the third year of tertiary education?
Or before. People should realize that before they even sign up to be a CS major, or they're probaly not cut out for it.
I went toUtah, which I think is a decent school, very simliar to most good CS schools in the USA. The curriculum was 4 years packed with science and engineering classes, excactly zero of which were programming classes. Any Computer Science school which actually makes majors take classes like "Programming in C++" is really just a trade school.
It's weird how sure people are that CS is about programming. It's like thinking that learning to be a surgeon is 4 years of learning how to cut with a scalpel.
You buy the software, you choose to use it, YOU DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.
But what if you didn't choose to use SQL Server? Most of the victims of Slammer were not people using SQL Server, the victims were everyone who was connected to the Internet, which is, well everyone. My site, runs Slackware, and all the other sites at my hoster are on Linux or BSD, but we all went down that night.
Where's the Slackware EULA that says I agree not to sue Microsoft?
The singer they are working with has a voice that requires hiding behind effects.
*cough* Kelly Osbourne *cough*
On the flip side, I love listening to old Zeppelin albums and hearing the bleed between tracks. Ah, magnetic tape. What has the world come to. Oh baby baby, you're killing me.