Confirmation bias has long since infected entire scientific disciplines. When that happened, peer review ceased to be useful -- within that discipline.
What if physicists started reviewing climatologists papers? What if geologists started reviewing the papers of astrophysicists?
As an aside: the problem with CBT is, to paraphrase AA, it "only works if you work it".
I went from being cripplingly OCD and agoraphobic to functional enough to do some pretty extraordinary things from that perspective entirely on the back of CBT, with no medication. But I WANTED to, and I think that's the real key with CBT.
Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled Slashdotting...
1) There is no Bill or Charter of Rights. The Government can technically do whatever it wants.
BUT:
2) The pool of 'swing' voters (those people who don't vote for a particular political party no-matter-what -- many people here vote the way their parents did just out of tradition) is very small, and thus the Government of the day is very sensitive to an upset electorate, since a single issue can see them removed from office.
Historically, the system has worked given 1) and 2); however, recently both major political parties have been on the right-side of politics -- so at the moment it's a bit Kang and Kodos... but things change here faster than an episode of Dallas, so who knows if this legislation will ever get through...
The argument is simple really; marriage more than anything is about giving another person the right to make decisions about your welfare in your absence, or if you are unable to do so. You can't give this right equally to more than one other person -- unless you want people to be voting on your best interests as if they were on a committee, which would be impractical in most cases.
Two people giving each other consent to make any and all decisions regarding each other's welfare is generally practical, whereas several people giving each other similar rights is largely impractical. Hence, two individuals of the same sex can marry while still satisfying the spirit of the exercise while several people cannot.
...have been around since the 1980's. They indexed and catalogued both books and periodicals inside the local library, AND were able to also include materials available in other libraries in a SINGLE, combined search result.
I also seem to recall a later version (but still before MacOS 9) that integrated web-pages into the search results as well... electronic card catalogues are something Google might want to look into, in terms of prior art...
I thought Startup Weekend was an interesting exercise in pitching and ad-hoc collaboration, but I agree, anyone who takes a serious project to it is just in for a world of hurt.
That said, none of the ideas at the SW I attended had any hope of becoming the 'next big thing', so I don't think anyone had their ideas stolen.
As for what happened to you, the people who run these things are 'entrepreneurs' not 'coders' and as such, I'm not sure you can really be surprised by their reaction. These folks are outgoing, pleasant people who see everything in very simple terms -- IE not slashdotters.;)
countries didn't 'publicly' intervene in other countries' civil wars.
And that's what's happening in Syria -- you can try to spin it as big-bad-evil-dictator vs. poor helpless (well-armed, well supported) 'freedom fighters' all you like, but in the end, it's a civil war. If Assad started carpet-bombing entire towns (he hasn't) then maybe you could get away with a no-fly zone, but otherwise, WTF?
You _want_ to install an Islamic government in Syria? Really? You do? Interesting. Tell me more...
That theory could _also_ say that the far-off land is the only land in that region when there are several other lands that are missed because we A) found the predicted far-off land and B) then assumed that the second prediction, that it was the only far-off land, was also true, and failed to look any further.
...until Apple tries to sue Google over its upcoming tablets / smartphones. Google will hand Apple it's own ass on a plate, and blast them back to 1995.
The day Google begins to aggressively 'defend' Android will be a very glorious day...
'Social' sites have been seeding themselves since the beginning. Nobody really wants to join a ghost-town, and no site-owner really wants a free-for-all.
This is less a 'revelation' and more just an acknowledgement of what everyone savvy knew was going on anyway.
This has class action written all over it. Everyone ripped off by FunnyJunk should join it, and bury that f**cker so deep that his bones will only be exposed for a brief millisecond when a supernova Sun eventually envelopes the Earth.
Nobody from 'MyCleanPC' is posting this crap, it's just a stupid meme. So posting links to disgusting shit in an attempt to 'fight it' just encourages it.
It's basically just the new version of Frost Piss. Sad you lot haven't gotten that by now...
I'd suspect that anyone who traveled through a post-911 NORAD-airspace airport who hadn't already assumed that their conversations might be monitored and / or recorded is either:
A) Naive, or B) a fool (and also A.)
If you're standing inside a modern-day airport in North America, consider that you may have had more liberty hanging out in a Stalinist Gulag. The airport is just a cage slightly more gilded.
The fact is, Megaupload offered NO guarantee any data stored on its servers would be accessible at any given point in the future, if at all. Whether its servers were destroyed by an act of God, or the US government makes no difference -- there was never any contract between Megaupload and its users to safeguard their data, and as a result its users were not deprived of anything tangible when that data was taken offline.
It's kind of like sticking your stuff in a locker at a swimming pool or a gym -- they put up big signs saying they're not responsible for your stuff. Of course, you would never store anything valuable in a locker room, now would you? This sort of 'rejection of liability' flows on -- if the government turns up, takes over the building for some reason or another, and throws you out, they're not responsible for your stuff either. You're just SOL.
A locker in a gym is not the same as a safety deposit box in a bank vault. To argue that they are is just plain silly, and if you tried it in court, I imagine a judge would laugh at you. Your argument would be swiftly defeated by a rebuttal of simple common sense.
So although it's fun to rant about 'suing the gubbermint', such a pointless exercise would never lead anywhere, and the government knows that. By pointing out that you could recover your data through Megaupload's hosting provider, they're really just being 'nice'. They owe you nothing.
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Confirmation bias has long since infected entire scientific disciplines. When that happened, peer review ceased to be useful -- within that discipline.
What if physicists started reviewing climatologists papers? What if geologists started reviewing the papers of astrophysicists?
Do that, and maybe peer-review can work again.
As an aside: the problem with CBT is, to paraphrase AA, it "only works if you work it".
I went from being cripplingly OCD and agoraphobic to functional enough to do some pretty extraordinary things from that perspective entirely on the back of CBT, with no medication. But I WANTED to, and I think that's the real key with CBT.
Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled Slashdotting...
Like they aren't already?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_room
Er, they kind of have to pay for marketing, etc... a material cost is just... well, materials.
Two things you need to know about Australia:
1) There is no Bill or Charter of Rights. The Government can technically do whatever it wants.
BUT:
2) The pool of 'swing' voters (those people who don't vote for a particular political party no-matter-what -- many people here vote the way their parents did just out of tradition) is very small, and thus the Government of the day is very sensitive to an upset electorate, since a single issue can see them removed from office.
Historically, the system has worked given 1) and 2); however, recently both major political parties have been on the right-side of politics -- so at the moment it's a bit Kang and Kodos... but things change here faster than an episode of Dallas, so who knows if this legislation will ever get through...
Sadly I'm old enough to remember the phrase as "What you talkin' 'bout Willis?"
I think that's even worse than your recollection...
The argument is simple really; marriage more than anything is about giving another person the right to make decisions about your welfare in your absence, or if you are unable to do so. You can't give this right equally to more than one other person -- unless you want people to be voting on your best interests as if they were on a committee, which would be impractical in most cases.
Two people giving each other consent to make any and all decisions regarding each other's welfare is generally practical, whereas several people giving each other similar rights is largely impractical. Hence, two individuals of the same sex can marry while still satisfying the spirit of the exercise while several people cannot.
...have been around since the 1980's. They indexed and catalogued both books and periodicals inside the local library, AND were able to also include materials available in other libraries in a SINGLE, combined search result.
I also seem to recall a later version (but still before MacOS 9) that integrated web-pages into the search results as well... electronic card catalogues are something Google might want to look into, in terms of prior art...
I thought Startup Weekend was an interesting exercise in pitching and ad-hoc collaboration, but I agree, anyone who takes a serious project to it is just in for a world of hurt.
That said, none of the ideas at the SW I attended had any hope of becoming the 'next big thing', so I don't think anyone had their ideas stolen.
As for what happened to you, the people who run these things are 'entrepreneurs' not 'coders' and as such, I'm not sure you can really be surprised by their reaction. These folks are outgoing, pleasant people who see everything in very simple terms -- IE not slashdotters. ;)
+1 Dupe
countries didn't 'publicly' intervene in other countries' civil wars.
And that's what's happening in Syria -- you can try to spin it as big-bad-evil-dictator vs. poor helpless (well-armed, well supported) 'freedom fighters' all you like, but in the end, it's a civil war. If Assad started carpet-bombing entire towns (he hasn't) then maybe you could get away with a no-fly zone, but otherwise, WTF?
You _want_ to install an Islamic government in Syria? Really? You do? Interesting. Tell me more...
At least this is honest, when the popular press is stating emphatically in its headlines that we 'found the God particle'...
The truth is, we found a dog in the street that may, or may not, belong to Mr Higgs. All we know at this point is it's just a dog.
That theory could _also_ say that the far-off land is the only land in that region when there are several other lands that are missed because we A) found the predicted far-off land and B) then assumed that the second prediction, that it was the only far-off land, was also true, and failed to look any further.
This is the mistake I fear CERN is going to make.
WRT Australia, you can only qualify for skilled migration if you're under 40...
...until Apple tries to sue Google over its upcoming tablets / smartphones. Google will hand Apple it's own ass on a plate, and blast them back to 1995.
The day Google begins to aggressively 'defend' Android will be a very glorious day...
I can't wait!
Oblgatory 'The Newsroom' rant clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h__uutzcQXc
Making patents end on insolvency would be a great one too. No more vultures raiding carcasses.
'Social' sites have been seeding themselves since the beginning. Nobody really wants to join a ghost-town, and no site-owner really wants a free-for-all.
This is less a 'revelation' and more just an acknowledgement of what everyone savvy knew was going on anyway.
Dallas is a bad example -- it's not a remake, they've picked up the storyline 20 years later.
(It's not bad, BTW, but that's a bit OT)
This has class action written all over it. Everyone ripped off by FunnyJunk should join it, and bury that f**cker so deep that his bones will only be exposed for a brief millisecond when a supernova Sun eventually envelopes the Earth.
Nobody from 'MyCleanPC' is posting this crap, it's just a stupid meme. So posting links to disgusting shit in an attempt to 'fight it' just encourages it.
It's basically just the new version of Frost Piss. Sad you lot haven't gotten that by now...
I'd suspect that anyone who traveled through a post-911 NORAD-airspace airport who hadn't already assumed that their conversations might be monitored and / or recorded is either:
A) Naive, or
B) a fool (and also A.)
If you're standing inside a modern-day airport in North America, consider that you may have had more liberty hanging out in a Stalinist Gulag. The airport is just a cage slightly more gilded.
+1
As this http://www.techspot.com/news/48924-mpaa-would-allow-megaupload-users-access-to-non-copyrighted-files.html article notes, "the MPAA expressed sympathy towards legitimate users who may have lost access to original content or data that was obtained legally, although they also point out that Megaupload's terms of service offered no guarantee of the safety or accessibility of uploaded data."
The fact is, Megaupload offered NO guarantee any data stored on its servers would be accessible at any given point in the future, if at all. Whether its servers were destroyed by an act of God, or the US government makes no difference -- there was never any contract between Megaupload and its users to safeguard their data, and as a result its users were not deprived of anything tangible when that data was taken offline.
It's kind of like sticking your stuff in a locker at a swimming pool or a gym -- they put up big signs saying they're not responsible for your stuff. Of course, you would never store anything valuable in a locker room, now would you? This sort of 'rejection of liability' flows on -- if the government turns up, takes over the building for some reason or another, and throws you out, they're not responsible for your stuff either. You're just SOL.
A locker in a gym is not the same as a safety deposit box in a bank vault. To argue that they are is just plain silly, and if you tried it in court, I imagine a judge would laugh at you. Your argument would be swiftly defeated by a rebuttal of simple common sense.
So although it's fun to rant about 'suing the gubbermint', such a pointless exercise would never lead anywhere, and the government knows that. By pointing out that you could recover your data through Megaupload's hosting provider, they're really just being 'nice'. They owe you nothing.
The price disparity is already so broad it could pay for the ACCC fine and much, much more...