i worked at one of these companies. we all remember back in 97 and 98 when the free stuff just wouldn't stop coming. And the headhunters grew on trees, and the option agreements were printed with liquid silver typefaces. It was never going to last forever, and it was never, never going to sustain itself on advertising.
i used them with great success in DC. Not that much faster than the Metro, but there's really something to be said for not being crowded in dank underground passageways, watching the phosphorescent moss.
There's a lot of great gc titles, and many of the better ps2 game are also available for gc. But what really makes the console for me is the promise of a new MarioKart.
It's positive depictions of sharing like this that will sway public opinion. Everyone liked using Napster, but there was still a popular attitude towards sharing which thought of it as a naturally sinister and criminal act, akin to theft, thanks to longstanding propaganda from the BSA among other groups.
But this article could make people think "gee - i could really use all those old Gilligan's Island episodes."
Spam is "spam" until registrations, licenses, warranty agreements, etc, require a valid email address and/or an opt-in to that company's "news". Then it becomes legit. i get plenty of unsolicited email from companies legitly possessing my addy, even email with opt-out links. if every company i interact with sends me just one of these, that's still a lot of undesirable, often image- and HTML-laden emails to have show up.
That's why i don't think spam will cease to be a problem for end-users, even if the signal-to-porn ratio improves.
Well, the problem starts when innocent people are accused of doing something by mistake.
The problem starts long before that. That is a problem, which results from imperfect implementation of their processes. What about problems that result from intentional bias? or deeply seated bias? or moronic application of bad statistics?
i used to live in SW DC; just south of the Smithsonian, just north of a military installation (it's something else to see tanks rolling down the street, in front of housing projects, homeless, and narcs). Certain to be one of the first areas to be saturated with cameras. The whole existence of my neighborhood was a result of legal and economic discrimination. Now, i also passed through deep NW DC; quiet at night, huge mansions for diplomats sitting far back from the street, behind fences and green expanses of lawn.
The problems start when a corrupt and biased authority massively augments their ability to selectively enforce unjust laws.
See, the objections to this echo my objections to the whole problem. Granting open access to the surveillance cameras will result in citizens harassing each other and corporations profiling everyone's motion through the city long before anyone's rights are protected against infringement by the authority putting these cameras in place.
When i lived in DC, i was conscious of the ubiquitous cameras in the Metro. i thought: it's just a matter of time before these disparate video feeds are 'watched' by software to identify and track all Metro-goers.
DC also has cameras at intersections to automatically identify and report certain traffic violations. This most recent step will only fill in Big Brother's few remaining blind spots.
There isn't a single piece of technology that isn't a double edged sword. Computerized processes are faster and more accurate, but on the flip side they require fewer jobs.
This is not intrinsically a bad thing. Only in a society where those squeezed out of employment must starve rather than, say, study to follow their interests. Only in a society where technological advances line the pockets of the wealthy.
Yeah, see, "math" is actually, a pretty damn big subject. The kinds of statistics in use for biology is not much like problems of NP completeness, or of hash functions, or...
IMHO, you wouldn't, although i question the selection of Oracle here. There are a variety of tools suited for the actual kinds of analysis one might do - but i'd be surprised if any "enterprise" DB or general data mining software could be most effectively used. Check out meta-meme as an example of bioinformatics-specific statistical software.
I felt the same about the lack of statistical approaches. While this book is probably great for biologists just learning to write code, for coders entering the field (bioinformatics) it contains too little biology or math to be really educational. My opinion.
What I'd love would be a dissection of the construction of various motif analysis tools, critiquing various impl's of HMMs, really going into detail. This seems like a perfect complementary work to OSS, so I might even find one, someday...
Well, let me state that there are cases where starting from scratch makes sense...
Beware a programmer who ever claims that they need to rewrite something: 9 times out of 10 it's because they are lazy, or they're just not smart enough to figure it out.
Yep, there are cases when starting from scratch makes sense. And there are reasons unrelated to a coder's lack of skill that can push projects to that point. The determination as to if a prior work should be scrapped ought to be left to the person most familiar with the project. If you hire good programmers and good workers, and later need to rely upon them to make this decision, you won't need to "beware" them.
Well. I don't think rating psychedelics on entertainment value (qua video games?) is very wise. Probably compares better in ROI to learning LISP, or camping. Not something you'd do all the time, but capable of long term benefits.
But hey, while we're comparing - buying in bulk, $1k will get you well over 1k hits, figure average of 8 hours of playtime each, then compare to Half Life.
Right. CAT won't solve the problem until it is legally required to address the industry-defined "problem" which the article compares to various thefts.
Propaganda like this doesn't really exist to convince cable modem execs. If it makes them money, they're already persuaded. It's the advance wave of legislation against NAT-capable "home network devices".
That's a pretty long term perspective. In the shorter term, i see it more like this:
it's the very rich who are dimishing the capacity of the earth to support everyone else. The poorer and their children are always the first to feel the effects of pollution and the tightened belts of unsustainable development. The very rich will be around and comfortable for a long time.
Do they even have to admit to detecting the heat at all? Use the scanner to find hot houses, then find some other 'probable cause' to enter into the police report after you search.
The FBI agent has no reason to expect that it will be ruled an illegal search,
While the question of the validity of the FBI's expectation of the legality of their search is obviously debatable, one thing i am quite certain of is this: i don't want law enforcement agencies to get creative with their search techniques where there is a grey area legally. Some searches are legal; let those be enough.
they are just trying to do their job
which is to ensure that our laws are upheld, to act as the embodiment of our principles as a nation - not to violate our rights.
A good book on the subject of ethnobotany, "Tale of a Shaman's Apprentice" claims that over three quarters of the world's pharmaceuticals are based on compounds derived from plants.
Now, i imagine that researching naturally occurring alkaloids is a hell of a lot cheaper than exploring & testing the huge range of possible synthetic designer drugs, and given the above i'd say is probably done a lot more often.
Just suggesting that our perception of what is involved in 'creating' new drugs may be inflated.
'we should control Napster because it benefits only private users and not business'
That's exactly the line i expect (& hear) from businesses. Corporations (& powerful organizations in general) are a different kind of entity from us humans. i'll advocate all kinds of restrictions and scrutiny for them because i bear little sympathy for their poor hearts & souls. i notice that they behave the same way towards us.
That's an awful lot of punishment to endure to make a point. Does anyone make moral stands like this anymore, in the face of handcuffs, jailtime, etc? In the face of a prejudiced media and society? You're just going to be branded as an unruly wacko.
It occurs to me we have the oppression we do because nothing like this ever happens. pardon my cynicism.
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i worked at one of these companies. we all remember back in 97 and 98 when the free stuff just wouldn't stop coming. And the headhunters grew on trees, and the option agreements were printed with liquid silver typefaces. It was never going to last forever, and it was never, never going to sustain itself on advertising.
oh well.
Are rollerblades verboten in SF?
i used them with great success in DC. Not that much faster than the Metro, but there's really something to be said for not being crowded in dank underground passageways, watching the phosphorescent moss.
There's a lot of great gc titles, and many of the better ps2 game are also available for gc. But what really makes the console for me is the promise of a new MarioKart.
This is great to see.
It's positive depictions of sharing like this that will sway public opinion. Everyone liked using Napster, but there was still a popular attitude towards sharing which thought of it as a naturally sinister and criminal act, akin to theft, thanks to longstanding propaganda from the BSA among other groups.
But this article could make people think "gee - i could really use all those old Gilligan's Island episodes."
Spam is "spam" until registrations, licenses, warranty agreements, etc, require a valid email address and/or an opt-in to that company's "news". Then it becomes legit. i get plenty of unsolicited email from companies legitly possessing my addy, even email with opt-out links. if every company i interact with sends me just one of these, that's still a lot of undesirable, often image- and HTML-laden emails to have show up.
That's why i don't think spam will cease to be a problem for end-users, even if the signal-to-porn ratio improves.
Well, the problem starts when innocent people are accused of doing something by mistake.
The problem starts long before that. That is a problem, which results from imperfect implementation of their processes. What about problems that result from intentional bias? or deeply seated bias? or moronic application of bad statistics?
i used to live in SW DC; just south of the Smithsonian, just north of a military installation (it's something else to see tanks rolling down the street, in front of housing projects, homeless, and narcs). Certain to be one of the first areas to be saturated with cameras. The whole existence of my neighborhood was a result of legal and economic discrimination. Now, i also passed through deep NW DC; quiet at night, huge mansions for diplomats sitting far back from the street, behind fences and green expanses of lawn.
The problems start when a corrupt and biased authority massively augments their ability to selectively enforce unjust laws.
Check the history of US censorship. Publishers are more than happy to avoid controversial materials, and publish something else, which will sell.
Paragons like SF's City Lights excepted, of course.
See, the objections to this echo my objections to the whole problem. Granting open access to the surveillance cameras will result in citizens harassing each other and corporations profiling everyone's motion through the city long before anyone's rights are protected against infringement by the authority putting these cameras in place.
When i lived in DC, i was conscious of the ubiquitous cameras in the Metro. i thought: it's just a matter of time before these disparate video feeds are 'watched' by software to identify and track all Metro-goers.
DC also has cameras at intersections to automatically identify and report certain traffic violations. This most recent step will only fill in Big Brother's few remaining blind spots.
i am always surprised by the breadth of this "it doesn't affect me" mentality.
Part of America's freedom and equality rhetoric is that when any are oppressed, it hurts everybody. i agree.
<sigh> Wake up, people.
This is not intrinsically a bad thing. Only in a society where those squeezed out of employment must starve rather than, say, study to follow their interests. Only in a society where technological advances line the pockets of the wealthy.
Yeah, see, "math" is actually, a pretty damn big subject. The kinds of statistics in use for biology is not much like problems of NP completeness, or of hash functions, or ...
IMHO, you wouldn't, although i question the selection of Oracle here. There are a variety of tools suited for the actual kinds of analysis one might do - but i'd be surprised if any "enterprise" DB or general data mining software could be most effectively used. Check out meta-meme as an example of bioinformatics-specific statistical software.
I felt the same about the lack of statistical approaches. While this book is probably great for biologists just learning to write code, for coders entering the field (bioinformatics) it contains too little biology or math to be really educational. My opinion.
What I'd love would be a dissection of the construction of various motif analysis tools, critiquing various impl's of HMMs, really going into detail. This seems like a perfect complementary work to OSS, so I might even find one, someday...
Yep, there are cases when starting from scratch makes sense. And there are reasons unrelated to a coder's lack of skill that can push projects to that point. The determination as to if a prior work should be scrapped ought to be left to the person most familiar with the project. If you hire good programmers and good workers, and later need to rely upon them to make this decision, you won't need to "beware" them.
Well. I don't think rating psychedelics on entertainment value (qua video games?) is very wise. Probably compares better in ROI to learning LISP, or camping. Not something you'd do all the time, but capable of long term benefits.
But hey, while we're comparing - buying in bulk, $1k will get you well over 1k hits, figure average of 8 hours of playtime each, then compare to Half Life.
Right. CAT won't solve the problem until it is legally required to address the industry-defined "problem" which the article compares to various thefts.
Propaganda like this doesn't really exist to convince cable modem execs. If it makes them money, they're already persuaded. It's the advance wave of legislation against NAT-capable "home network devices".
That's a pretty long term perspective. In the shorter term, i see it more like this:
it's the very rich who are dimishing the capacity of the earth to support everyone else. The poorer and their children are always the first to feel the effects of pollution and the tightened belts of unsustainable development. The very rich will be around and comfortable for a long time.
i always think of East St Louis.
Do they even have to admit to detecting the heat at all? Use the scanner to find hot houses, then find some other 'probable cause' to enter into the police report after you search.
or am i just being paranoid?
The FBI agent has no reason to expect that it will be ruled an illegal search,
While the question of the validity of the FBI's expectation of the legality of their search is obviously debatable, one thing i am quite certain of is this: i don't want law enforcement agencies to get creative with their search techniques where there is a grey area legally. Some searches are legal; let those be enough.
they are just trying to do their job
which is to ensure that our laws are upheld, to act as the embodiment of our principles as a nation - not to violate our rights.
IANAL but i've been arrested; no, cops don't need a warrant to arrest somebody. Where'd you get that idea?
true, true.
A good book on the subject of ethnobotany, "Tale of a Shaman's Apprentice" claims that over three quarters of the world's pharmaceuticals are based on compounds derived from plants.
Now, i imagine that researching naturally occurring alkaloids is a hell of a lot cheaper than exploring & testing the huge range of possible synthetic designer drugs, and given the above i'd say is probably done a lot more often.
Just suggesting that our perception of what is involved in 'creating' new drugs may be inflated.
'we should control Napster because it benefits only private users and not business'
That's exactly the line i expect (& hear) from businesses. Corporations (& powerful organizations in general) are a different kind of entity from us humans. i'll advocate all kinds of restrictions and scrutiny for them because i bear little sympathy for their poor hearts & souls. i notice that they behave the same way towards us.
i'm glad someone else caught this. What about the rest of you? do all of you sniff your crack as well?
That's an awful lot of punishment to endure to make a point. Does anyone make moral stands like this anymore, in the face of handcuffs, jailtime, etc? In the face of a prejudiced media and society? You're just going to be branded as an unruly wacko.
It occurs to me we have the oppression we do because nothing like this ever happens.
pardon my cynicism.