Your questions are common to this situation, but I believe it comes down to the control over the online persona, as it is used on each site individually - and sharing to another without your knowledge or permission. If you post something here on slashdot, would you want the opinions, language, tone or anything else discernible from your specific writing to be used at another site you browsed?
The "AC" capability of the web is an ever-growing facade, so having a vendor reveal each little piece to other vendors is the next hurdle of privacy.
At it's ultimate consolidation, something you put online would be uncontrollably linked to whatever online persona you presented elsewhere, simply from having all entities agree to share data based on IP, etc.
So perhaps your shopping history is available to readers of your amazon reviews, your browser home page is listed in the sig of your email, or the top news sites you visit are listed in your LinkedIn profile. This would be jarring to most people.
"Beacon" let a site send your personal information and activity to Facebook, so that they could post it to your friends.
So review a movie at blockbuster, then see it offered on your fb page as a post ready to publish.
Exchanging information in this way may or may not be legal where the user lives, but it's certainly not open and explicit.
I'm not sure how many people this will quiet, since nobody is revealing what actual info was shared (contact info? payment info?) and what was done with it (sold?).
Same could have been said for microwave ovens, computers. Somehow, demand causes all kinds of change. When gas hits a high enough cost, building an entirely new *anything* might be cheaper.
Sweet potatoes seem to be the best food ever made. Any way they are prepared, and my mouth is in love from the first taste.
I'm not sure how I feel about Biofeedback Therapy. It's kinda spooky.
When will they upgrade these tired outdated office phones? Given that so few people use them any more, perhaps we'll just unplug them and never notice.
In all actuality, minor players' crawlers ignore robots.txt, and then list it in their results, which are then used by bloggers, etc. And then, these are then indexed by Google, Yahoo, Bing.
It's is a trust-based system, and once information bypasses the trust, it is only a short time before it fans out and gets indexed by everyone.
Drupal has a steep learning curve. Installing it and expecting your ideal site out of the box just isn't going to happen
I'd challenge you to find any CMS,..that can make the variety of sites Drupal does and does it right out of the box.
Which "box" are you speaking of? The one that has 6 months of testing, reading forums for module opinions, and 2 consultants?
When I think of "right out of the box" I think..within a day, maybe a week. While the "box" is still on my desk, not shredded in anger about a steep learning curve.
Actually, this is to be expected. "doth protest too much" - even Billy Shakespeare knew that at the core of someone's over-the-top repulsion is infatuation. Someone's self-punishment projected to anyone who they can influence is common. It's also how they stay mentally engaged in their behavior.
Psychology and Psychiatry were LRH's sworn enemies of Dianetics, but he was infatuated with them.
I'm sure LRH wanted to explore the mental/brain sciences more in his lifetime, but probably got lazy seeing how well the self-help Dianetics program he made up did in the market. It was everywhere for a while. Then he merged in the Scientology sci-fi mythology and took it into secret-society mode, IIRC.
If you look at the Narcon models, the huge amount of mineral supplements, steam baths, diet manipulation and outright wishing is a pseudo-science that tries to be all things NOT Psychiatry and yet still somewhat effective through chemical means.
Of course, in the model of mental conditioning and behavioral therapy (yet still not with a traditional Psychology study of the mind) they exceed at the cult-like hypnosis of believing Truth only arises from their own.
Overall, it's a self-limiting system, and only that only fights itself (info leaks, legal battles, peddling influence).
Their overall OT X goals have been revealed to be the eventual departure from Earth on a big "Space Org" ship.
As yes, thank you. Yes, this is true; you are right. But I thought it was posted in a comment since that the logs of the postings were handed over(?) That was really what raised eyebrows.
The OTIII is such old hat now. Funny how Scientology gets more holes as it gets more members. I'm the entire OT course will be online via a paypal link at some point.
If you weren't around, a few years ago, Taco caved in and released the info behind/. posters that Scientology came asking for. They are incessant, aggressive, and well-funded. If you want to post your OT III+ info, you may want to put it elsewhere.
As a suggestion to manufacturers: Please offer a laptop lid or overlay with an eInk screen & drivers, and leave the rest to us.
The closer we see these things with open-able underpinnings, the more I'll trust them. If it simply started as an eInk peripheral (does that word date me?), I think we'd be way ahead of the game. But then again the publishers would be sour on that, I'm sure.
There's more than that, when you think of all the times we've been burned:
- Archivability ? physical book can go on shelf, can ebook be stored outside of reader device?
- Format conversion? can I export passages as raw text?
- Right of resale? used ebooks?
- Annontations? can i write in margins?
- Distribution? can I read the book aloud? to a group?
- Expiration? can the content be revoked?
The paper is interesting, but if you look at the source code they published, their algorithms are doing terrible segmentation (at least on my samples).
Also, each image must be brought local, segmented, then labeled with appropriate text matches for each segment. This is nontrivial, and akin to splitting apart of images and then associating text with each cutout.
Then you search by keyword, find the segmentation with the best fit to your doodle, and import.
They have some interesting ways to fit and segment, especially as the masks are applied together, from what the paper says. The binaries don't actually complete the work as published.
Perhaps I have misunderstood something, but after playing around with it, I'm not a believer outright. Remember, it's a collaboration between them and the scientific community to repeat the results to get what's actually being done here.
Going by the sample output they published, I'm a little doubtful this was attained with just a "doodle and compile" concept. This from a short bit of time with the binaries. IF anyone can create anything similar, let me know.
Yes, I've gotten it to run, partially. I think most of this project is somewhat interesting compositing around a bunch of manual masking, actually.
Got CV bin's of 1.0 (renamed to 110)
PhotoSketch.exe still bombs, but i'm able to piece together some behavior with the other exe's.
I went to Google images myself and downloaded 10 jpg's for "cowboy hat","spaceship","domo kun","stormtrooper","courtyard" and put them into a "c:\photosketch\download" dir
Then ran "segmentation.exe c:\photosketch\domokun\*.jpg c:\photosketch\NormorlizedImages" (NormorlizedImages is hard-coded in some of the apps if seems). I get a pile of posterized images.
I'm still unsure where the masking and labeling is involved. I'm skipping "ImportImages" for the moment.
"RefineRegions" seems to be part of the matching-by-entropy logic.
PhotoSketch.exe bombs with a msvcr90.dll module issue.
build a local, empty "log.txt" file, as the tools seem to want that to exist first.
Downloaded. NOTE: the as-compiled binaries require the OpenCV libraries of the 110 variety (SourceForge holds the 200 version now). So, get older 110 binaries. From the file list
See the OpenCV Wiki on setting up and checking you OpenCV installation.
I'm still setting up, but I'll post back when I get it working...
Depending on system API's, external libraries, etc is how one gets a LOT done on a modern programming platform. You want to fix time to some point and code everything after that, be my guest. But you cannot keep up with the world, and yes sometimes you'll use exploitable or buddy code (most likely your own). It comes with the territory of programmable machines (in hw or sw).
I'm all for keeping software towards the "free" side or other philosophical goals, but replacing components is just dumb. Using them appropriately once you understand them, and their quirks has been the mark of a guru for a long time. IF they don't function for your purpose, look elsewhere, but for chrissakes don't ignore the efforts off the world around you.
I think you've nailed it: Why would any country want technology for it's core financial markets that is already open-source to instead be held in check by a foreign company?
MS just can't garner the trust for large-scale mission-critical deployments yet, at least in the financial sector. That outage was a painful lesson. They have plenty of other clients though.
Let me correct that: Nuclear-sourced energy is the only option. The issues with energy sources are:
- Availability during specific, only-slightly-predictable (mostly weather-based) times of demand
- Transmission from gen to load zones. wind has big problems with this.
- Construction footprint, hydro and wind also suffer compared to a typical nuclear plant of relative capacity
- The current US consumption (29000 TWh in 05) need is way beyond current and predicted wind+hydro 25 year generation plans (example).
- Newer (ESBWR, other Gen IV) reactors have radically different designs than TMI and 60's tech. The downside is the designs are quite untested in the real world.
We're going towards a more diverse portfolio, for sure. But only nuclear can replace gas/coal for the heavy lifting, IMHO.
Older underground oil tanks also have copper tubes poking through the foundation in my neighborhood (houses circa 1905 to 1920s). Flushing, filling and capping old tanks/lines isn't a big deal.
I'm wondering how useful this would really be, since the concrete would retain any rise in temperatures as well.
Slashdot Mirror
Your questions are common to this situation, but I believe it comes down to the control over the online persona, as it is used on each site individually - and sharing to another without your knowledge or permission. If you post something here on slashdot, would you want the opinions, language, tone or anything else discernible from your specific writing to be used at another site you browsed?
The "AC" capability of the web is an ever-growing facade, so having a vendor reveal each little piece to other vendors is the next hurdle of privacy.
At it's ultimate consolidation, something you put online would be uncontrollably linked to whatever online persona you presented elsewhere, simply from having all entities agree to share data based on IP, etc.
So perhaps your shopping history is available to readers of your amazon reviews, your browser home page is listed in the sig of your email, or the top news sites you visit are listed in your LinkedIn profile. This would be jarring to most people.
"Beacon" let a site send your personal information and activity to Facebook, so that they could post it to your friends.
So review a movie at blockbuster, then see it offered on your fb page as a post ready to publish.
Exchanging information in this way may or may not be legal where the user lives, but it's certainly not open and explicit.
I'm not sure how many people this will quiet, since nobody is revealing what actual info was shared (contact info? payment info?) and what was done with it (sold?).
Same could have been said for microwave ovens, computers. Somehow, demand causes all kinds of change. When gas hits a high enough cost, building an entirely new *anything* might be cheaper.
How are they choosing notes, keys and other aspects of music? This looks a lot like a very complicated version of the historical crank organ.
Sweet potatoes seem to be the best food ever made. Any way they are prepared, and my mouth is in love from the first taste.
I'm not sure how I feel about Biofeedback Therapy. It's kinda spooky.
When will they upgrade these tired outdated office phones? Given that so few people use them any more, perhaps we'll just unplug them and never notice.
'Ah ha!' said the blind man, as he fell into the hole.
Peh! I am named FAH KING AWESOME
In all actuality, minor players' crawlers ignore robots.txt, and then list it in their results, which are then used by bloggers, etc. And then, these are then indexed by Google, Yahoo, Bing.
It's is a trust-based system, and once information bypasses the trust, it is only a short time before it fans out and gets indexed by everyone.
Your statements seem to conflict:
Drupal has a steep learning curve. Installing it and expecting your ideal site out of the box just isn't going to happen
I'd challenge you to find any CMS, ..that can make the variety of sites Drupal does and does it right out of the box.
Which "box" are you speaking of? The one that has 6 months of testing, reading forums for module opinions, and 2 consultants?
When I think of "right out of the box" I think..within a day, maybe a week. While the "box" is still on my desk, not shredded in anger about a steep learning curve.
Actually, this is to be expected. "doth protest too much" - even Billy Shakespeare knew that at the core of someone's over-the-top repulsion is infatuation. Someone's self-punishment projected to anyone who they can influence is common. It's also how they stay mentally engaged in their behavior.
Psychology and Psychiatry were LRH's sworn enemies of Dianetics, but he was infatuated with them.
I'm sure LRH wanted to explore the mental/brain sciences more in his lifetime, but probably got lazy seeing how well the self-help Dianetics program he made up did in the market. It was everywhere for a while. Then he merged in the Scientology sci-fi mythology and took it into secret-society mode, IIRC.
If you look at the Narcon models, the huge amount of mineral supplements, steam baths, diet manipulation and outright wishing is a pseudo-science that tries to be all things NOT Psychiatry and yet still somewhat effective through chemical means.
Of course, in the model of mental conditioning and behavioral therapy (yet still not with a traditional Psychology study of the mind) they exceed at the cult-like hypnosis of believing Truth only arises from their own.
Overall, it's a self-limiting system, and only that only fights itself (info leaks, legal battles, peddling influence).
Their overall OT X goals have been revealed to be the eventual departure from Earth on a big "Space Org" ship.
I can only hope they hurry up.
As yes, thank you. Yes, this is true; you are right. But I thought it was posted in a comment since that the logs of the postings were handed over(?) That was really what raised eyebrows.
The OTIII is such old hat now. Funny how Scientology gets more holes as it gets more members. I'm the entire OT course will be online via a paypal link at some point.
If you weren't around, a few years ago, Taco caved in and released the info behind /. posters that Scientology came asking for. They are incessant, aggressive, and well-funded. If you want to post your OT III+ info, you may want to put it elsewhere.
As a suggestion to manufacturers: Please offer a laptop lid or overlay with an eInk screen & drivers, and leave the rest to us.
The closer we see these things with open-able underpinnings, the more I'll trust them. If it simply started as an eInk peripheral (does that word date me?), I think we'd be way ahead of the game. But then again the publishers would be sour on that, I'm sure.
There's more than that, when you think of all the times we've been burned:
- Archivability ? physical book can go on shelf, can ebook be stored outside of reader device?
- Format conversion? can I export passages as raw text?
- Right of resale? used ebooks?
- Annontations? can i write in margins?
- Distribution? can I read the book aloud? to a group?
- Expiration? can the content be revoked?
Yeah, i only had 10 minutes to get it all together today, and that's what i saw precompiled.
Even with the correct versions, their published binaries aren't complete.
The paper is interesting, but if you look at the source code they published, their algorithms are doing terrible segmentation (at least on my samples).
Also, each image must be brought local, segmented, then labeled with appropriate text matches for each segment. This is nontrivial, and akin to splitting apart of images and then associating text with each cutout.
Then you search by keyword, find the segmentation with the best fit to your doodle, and import.
They have some interesting ways to fit and segment, especially as the masks are applied together, from what the paper says. The binaries don't actually complete the work as published.
Perhaps I have misunderstood something, but after playing around with it, I'm not a believer outright. Remember, it's a collaboration between them and the scientific community to repeat the results to get what's actually being done here.
Going by the sample output they published, I'm a little doubtful this was attained with just a "doodle and compile" concept. This from a short bit of time with the binaries. IF anyone can create anything similar, let me know.
No. I keep hitting a null pointer issue. I think they did some really bad documentation and/or pointer checking.
See a related thread
When you change the path, you have to restart any "cmd" window, since it only reads the system settings on initial construction.
The current OpenCV has later dll's (200) than the project (110) and even the Open1.0 archive (100). I just renamed the 100 ones.
You should also have "msvcr90.dll" in your path.
Yes, I've gotten it to run, partially. I think most of this project is somewhat interesting compositing around a bunch of manual masking, actually.
Got CV bin's of 1.0 (renamed to 110)
PhotoSketch.exe still bombs, but i'm able to piece together some behavior with the other exe's.
I went to Google images myself and downloaded 10 jpg's for "cowboy hat","spaceship","domo kun","stormtrooper","courtyard" and put them into a "c:\photosketch\download" dir
Then ran "segmentation.exe c:\photosketch\domokun\*.jpg c:\photosketch\NormorlizedImages" (NormorlizedImages is hard-coded in some of the apps if seems). I get a pile of posterized images.
I'm still unsure where the masking and labeling is involved. I'm skipping "ImportImages" for the moment.
"RefineRegions" seems to be part of the matching-by-entropy logic.
PhotoSketch.exe bombs with a msvcr90.dll module issue.
build a local, empty "log.txt" file, as the tools seem to want that to exist first.
Downloaded. NOTE: the as-compiled binaries require the OpenCV libraries of the 110 variety (SourceForge holds the 200 version now). So, get older 110 binaries. From the file list
See the OpenCV Wiki on setting up and checking you OpenCV installation.
I'm still setting up, but I'll post back when I get it working...
Depending on system API's, external libraries, etc is how one gets a LOT done on a modern programming platform. You want to fix time to some point and code everything after that, be my guest. But you cannot keep up with the world, and yes sometimes you'll use exploitable or buddy code (most likely your own). It comes with the territory of programmable machines (in hw or sw).
I'm all for keeping software towards the "free" side or other philosophical goals, but replacing components is just dumb. Using them appropriately once you understand them, and their quirks has been the mark of a guru for a long time. IF they don't function for your purpose, look elsewhere, but for chrissakes don't ignore the efforts off the world around you.
I think you've nailed it: Why would any country want technology for it's core financial markets that is already open-source to instead be held in check by a foreign company?
MS just can't garner the trust for large-scale mission-critical deployments yet, at least in the financial sector. That outage was a painful lesson. They have plenty of other clients though.
Let me correct that: Nuclear-sourced energy is the only option. The issues with energy sources are:
- Availability during specific, only-slightly-predictable (mostly weather-based) times of demand
- Transmission from gen to load zones. wind has big problems with this.
- Construction footprint, hydro and wind also suffer compared to a typical nuclear plant of relative capacity
- The current US consumption (29000 TWh in 05) need is way beyond current and predicted wind+hydro 25 year generation plans (example).
- Newer (ESBWR, other Gen IV) reactors have radically different designs than TMI and 60's tech. The downside is the designs are quite untested in the real world.
We're going towards a more diverse portfolio, for sure. But only nuclear can replace gas/coal for the heavy lifting, IMHO.
Older underground oil tanks also have copper tubes poking through the foundation in my neighborhood (houses circa 1905 to 1920s). Flushing, filling and capping old tanks/lines isn't a big deal.
I'm wondering how useful this would really be, since the concrete would retain any rise in temperatures as well.
Here's some science
http://www.concretethinker.com/solutions/Thermal-Mass.aspx