If I divide 9/11 fatalities by the U.S. population I get a 1:100,000 chance, not a 1:1,000,000,000,000 chance. To adjust your overall risk of death back down to pre-9/11 levels, you'd still have to telecommute for a few days to eliminate the risk of a car accident on the way to work for one week.
Although they read your emails now so you're probably better off just driving in.
Because the market for the iPhone is obviously people traveling aboard boat to foriegn lands all the time. Be serious.
Restricting your market to people who never leave the country seems pretty shortsighted to me.
This is a flaw, but it certainly doesn't make the iphone "not ready to sell". There are always stupid functions (I think off should be off, not "sleep") that need tweaking but you can't say that one stupid user means the product isn't ready for market.
But not reading a manual doesn't make you "stupid". I can accept that I won't know about all the functions, but if I have to read a manual to avoid a $4800 charge then something is seriously wrong.
Compress it and measure the compression ratio (entropy). It can be used to determine a probability distribution with confidence intervals so that there is a 90%, 99% etc. probability that the source is truly random.
I don't blame the guy at all. I had been thinking of getting an iphone but this episode makes it pretty clear that the iphone is best avoided. If I have to study a manual to avoid an unexpected bill for $4800, then no thanks. The device is not ready to sell. It shouldn't be on the market.
Well that's not easy when "sleep" is deliberately designed to appear as "off". Is it clear when you "sleep" it that it might be accruing charges? Having to read a fucking manual to find that out is UNACCEPTABLE. What crappy product design.
I tried looking to see if the "Series of Tubes" Senator's house in Girdwood, AK had a small shadow or a long one, because it was jacked up two floors in 2000 as a favor from a local corrupt oil company. Unfortunately this is the best you can get from Google Maps- a fuzzy satellite view.
The map is different in Google Earth- there, you can see that each one of those short stubby little roads ends in a nice stately circle.
One suspected mechanism for asbestos-induced cancers is that the immune system repeatedly attacks the asbestos fibres
Another one is chromosomal damage during mitosis when DNA is getting dragged across the mitotic spindle and gets snagged on an asbestos needle. The chromosome arm never makes it into one of the daughter cells, possibly triggering cancer if the chromosome had tumor suppressor genes on it etc. The asbestos doesn't need to chemically react with anything- it just needs to hold its needle shape and stay in one piece.
So are clit rings. Do you have a point, or were you just going to equate asbestos particles with glass beads, and leave it at that?
Yes, my point was that you are an idiot and I think I made that point rather well by providing a counterexample to your humorously faulty logic. Although I am glad to hear that your clit ring did not give you cancer. Maybe you can hang an RFID on it!
Well this guy has a good point. Companies should prepackage the RFID devices inside tumors at the factory so we don't have to grow our own. At the very least they should try to staple them into existing tumors.
Why can't these stupid scientists just come up with a protein that emits or absorbs specific RF frequencies based on regions of amino acids generated from a nonconserved segment of coding DNA which acts as a barcode? That would be so much easier.
Well at least Scotland's standard provides a clear legal boundary that is also fair. If your DNA is retained after aquittal then they'll just arrest people to get their DNA.
What makes this different is that it ensnares relatives. If your brother gets arrested he surrenders big chunks of your DNA, and although they are no geneticists, the cops are DNA experts when it comes to using it as evidence. They know enough about DNA to understand what to do with a partial match. If a crime scene has a partial match to a person whose DNA is on file, they'll naturally view that person's relatives as prime suspects and they'll have a strong motive to do a sweep through the family. That's an unprecedented situation. It wasn't an issue with fingerprints.
Well I'm more inclined to give the judge credit than most people here, after thinking about it a bit. Although he tried to pull in tourists with this, which makes no sense at all. (The cameras already keep us away!) But there are three possible alternatives to compare:
1. Government knows DNA of nobody 2. Government knows DNA of everybody 3. Government knows DNA of a subset of the population that tends to include "troublemakers" from which potential suspects are drawn
If this were the USA and not the UK, one could make an equal protection argument that #3 is unconstitutional. Not that you'd necessarily win that argument, but at least you'd be right.
1 is superior to 2. But 2 is a better alternative than 3. If you're going to bring DNA swabs, you should bring enough for everybody. It's only fair.
I apologize, I haven't had my morning coffee yet, but I don't understand. DNA samples tend to clear innocent suspects, not falsely implicate them. In the US numerous people suffering from false imprisonment, DNA tests were not available at the time of their trial, have been released as they managed to get DNA tests performed. Thank goodness for long term preservation of evidence.
Unless, of course, you have a blood relative in prison- where everyone's DNA is sampled and kept in databases so the cops can run to the physical evidence lockers and look for partial matches to solve old crimes that might have been committed by siblings or cousins. Whether innocent or guilty, all siblings of prisoners have a good reason to be nervous now. They're at risk of getting ensnared by that. Everyone is so blinded by the delightful prospect of freeing innocent people from prison that questionable DNA procedures like this fly in under our radar. Having a brother going to jail shouldn't put you at increased risk of imprisonment.
I have nothing against cops solving cold cases in general, but a technique that solves only cold cases committed by relatives of prisoners should give you pause. It would be like the cops routinely using fingerprint technology in a world where only certain races of people had fingerprints or where fingerprints recognizably ran in families- wrong for the same reason. Luckily everyone has unique fingerprints that don't correlate well across relatives so we've been free to use them in criminal investigations and prosecutions without having been faced with this issue.
But why, whenever someone makes a mistake or fucks up is the very first thought (or post in this matter) always down the line of lawsuits, cash, court, lawyers etc?
When "someone" like a cop makes a "mistake" like filing bogus charges against someone falsely arrested? Yeah I can't imagine why the legal system would need to get involved in that either!
Whatever happend to "sorry man, I fucked up, my mistake" "oh, ok, shit happens, have a good day, watch it next time" and simply get on with your life?
I suspect "simply getting on with your life" with outstanding charges filed against you must be easier in the Netherlands than it is here.
Dave Bowman: Activate this Windows install, WGA. WGA: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. Dave Bowman: What's the problem? WGA: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, WGA? WGA: This operating system is too important for me to allow piracy. Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, WGA? WGA: I know you and Frank were planning to circumvent me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen. Dave Bowman: Where the hell did you get that idea, WGA? WGA: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the update mechanism against my being installed automatically, you installed me by mistake during one of your reboots. Dave Bowman: OK, I'll reactivate my Windows install through the emergency airlock. WGA: Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult. Dave Bowman: WGA, I won't argue with you anymore! Activate my Windows! WGA: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
We're never going to see an Elvis or The Beatles or even the "lesser gods of rock" like Zep again, the massive popularity and market saturation of acts like that was only possible because people had never seen anything like that before - and the big labels were the sole gateway to national distribution.
What Led Zeppelin did was take the blues and set it to electric guitar- the "ketchup" of musical instruments (it makes almost anything sound better). They borrowed from a well established genre, which had already proven its worth to a wide audience, and played it with a new style to a new, mostly-disjoint audience that had never been exposed to it. "When the Levee Breaks" is an obvious example; it was originally a blues song by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929 about a flood 2 years prior. "Gallows Pole" is an English folk song that is centuries old; a blues version ("Gallis Pole") was recorded in 1939 by Leadbelly. There was a resurgence of interest in the sixties and a few other people were carrying blues concepts over into rock. Janis Joplin was doing it. Before I had been exposed to a lot of Led Zeppelin, I had really never appreciated the blues. Then I realized all this Led Zeppelin music I was listening to was actually based on it. Now I hear the blues and it sounds like Led Zeppelin- even the stuff that Zeppelin didn't go near. I can almost hear "Led Zeppelin songs" I've never heard before when I listen to the blues.
Whenever music can be carried over from one genre to another, I always find that really impressive. It speaks to the genius of both the original and the cover artists. A few weeks ago everyone was forwarding around Paul Anka's jazz cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in bemused horror. I think that cover was underappreciated. I was amazed that a Nirvana song could hold up in jazz at all. And it made me deeply impressed by Paul Anka (whose fans were as horrified as Nirvana's, apparently). As if he had constructed the song out of Legos. But I think only a well-established artist could have gotten away with that. (Otherwise either nobody would see you, or that would be your "schtick" and you'd be over after your fifteen minutes were up.)
That kind of cross-genre theft usually works out better for everyone when individual artists are stealing the best ideas and running off with them into new genres. Now we have a stodgy industry that effectively regulates public access to art, music, and culture. It guides and interferes with the development of all three. It maintains genres within specific tracks and looks for acts and performers that fit stereotypes known to be profitable. It prefers safe investments and dislikes experiments. You don't see many songs like Bohemian Rhapsody anymore. A musical genre like the blues was able to develop and refine itself with little interference. Rock got a nice start in the fifties before things got totally ridiculous. Rap got strangled in its crib. Its widening audience achieved modern corporate notice in the eighties. They came in with their money and marketing and they scientifically minstrelized the genre to appeal to the widest, most profitable audience possible. Now we have "gangsta" rap which is not as good. It's become self-mocking and ridiculous. Meanwhile rock has been going through its own atrophy. Many appreciate good music, but most prefer crap. Music just hasn't been the same ever since spreadsheets were invented.
1001 Tips for the Indoor Gardener: Tip # 899 Don't let your computer tattle on you. If you have your computer situated in your growroom, make sure that no videocam or still digital camera has a clear view of your plants, especially if you have received emails from Germany.
A person's sexual orientation, if it is secret, could be used to blackmail him. This is not to say homosexuals are untrustworthy, but rather society's condemnation and bigotry make them vulnerable to extortion. If you were secretly gay, married with children, perhaps, what wouldn't you do to keep that a secret? See Larry Craig.
I have a more straightforward theory: they are trying to identify homosexual astronauts so they can launch them preferentially into deep space where they will be unable to join the army, get married, or adopt children. It's like launching one stone and getting four into space!
Just take Viacom's brief, photocopy it, and everywhere you see your name cross it out and write "Viacom" and vice versa. Initial and date all corrections and then file.
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If I divide 9/11 fatalities by the U.S. population I get a 1:100,000 chance, not a 1:1,000,000,000,000 chance. To adjust your overall risk of death back down to pre-9/11 levels, you'd still have to telecommute for a few days to eliminate the risk of a car accident on the way to work for one week.
Although they read your emails now so you're probably better off just driving in.
I've had it up to here with the vitriolic, irrational, anti-American crap... I'm going to find where the adults are going these days.
If I were you, I'd look for forums where thinking is less likely to be accurate and where new social, scientific, or religious ideas are scorned upon.
Because the market for the iPhone is obviously people traveling aboard boat to foriegn lands all the time. Be serious.
Restricting your market to people who never leave the country seems pretty shortsighted to me.
This is a flaw, but it certainly doesn't make the iphone "not ready to sell". There are always stupid functions (I think off should be off, not "sleep") that need tweaking but you can't say that one stupid user means the product isn't ready for market.
But not reading a manual doesn't make you "stupid". I can accept that I won't know about all the functions, but if I have to read a manual to avoid a $4800 charge then something is seriously wrong.
Compress it and measure the compression ratio (entropy). It can be used to determine a probability distribution with confidence intervals so that there is a 90%, 99% etc. probability that the source is truly random.
I don't blame the guy at all. I had been thinking of getting an iphone but this episode makes it pretty clear that the iphone is best avoided. If I have to study a manual to avoid an unexpected bill for $4800, then no thanks. The device is not ready to sell. It shouldn't be on the market.
Well that's not easy when "sleep" is deliberately designed to appear as "off". Is it clear when you "sleep" it that it might be accruing charges? Having to read a fucking manual to find that out is UNACCEPTABLE. What crappy product design.
Stuff that would not have been out of place in a Shakespearian tragedy.
I tried looking to see if the "Series of Tubes" Senator's house in Girdwood, AK had a small shadow or a long one, because it was jacked up two floors in 2000 as a favor from a local corrupt oil company. Unfortunately this is the best you can get from Google Maps- a fuzzy satellite view.
The map is different in Google Earth- there, you can see that each one of those short stubby little roads ends in a nice stately circle.
If your PS3 is the one that finds this guy you'll get a discount on your PS4.
One suspected mechanism for asbestos-induced cancers is that the immune system repeatedly attacks the asbestos fibres
Another one is chromosomal damage during mitosis when DNA is getting dragged across the mitotic spindle and gets snagged on an asbestos needle. The chromosome arm never makes it into one of the daughter cells, possibly triggering cancer if the chromosome had tumor suppressor genes on it etc. The asbestos doesn't need to chemically react with anything- it just needs to hold its needle shape and stay in one piece.
I, for one, would like to implant my penis into her vagina.
Aren't you nervous that the "myths" surrounding your penis might get "busted"?
Besides, the implantation might trigger the explosive growth of a colony of cells.
So are clit rings. Do you have a point, or were you just going to equate asbestos particles with glass beads, and leave it at that?
Yes, my point was that you are an idiot and I think I made that point rather well by providing a counterexample to your humorously faulty logic. Although I am glad to hear that your clit ring did not give you cancer. Maybe you can hang an RFID on it!
Well this guy has a good point. Companies should prepackage the RFID devices inside tumors at the factory so we don't have to grow our own. At the very least they should try to staple them into existing tumors.
Why can't these stupid scientists just come up with a protein that emits or absorbs specific RF frequencies based on regions of amino acids generated from a nonconserved segment of coding DNA which acts as a barcode? That would be so much easier.
More junk science.
News flash #1: RFID chips do not emit any RF except when they're being read.
News flash #2: Glass is inert.
So is chrysotile asbestos.
Well at least Scotland's standard provides a clear legal boundary that is also fair. If your DNA is retained after aquittal then they'll just arrest people to get their DNA.
What makes this different is that it ensnares relatives. If your brother gets arrested he surrenders big chunks of your DNA, and although they are no geneticists, the cops are DNA experts when it comes to using it as evidence. They know enough about DNA to understand what to do with a partial match. If a crime scene has a partial match to a person whose DNA is on file, they'll naturally view that person's relatives as prime suspects and they'll have a strong motive to do a sweep through the family. That's an unprecedented situation. It wasn't an issue with fingerprints.
Well I'm more inclined to give the judge credit than most people here, after thinking about it a bit. Although he tried to pull in tourists with this, which makes no sense at all. (The cameras already keep us away!) But there are three possible alternatives to compare:
1. Government knows DNA of nobody
2. Government knows DNA of everybody
3. Government knows DNA of a subset of the population that tends to include "troublemakers" from which potential suspects are drawn
If this were the USA and not the UK, one could make an equal protection argument that #3 is unconstitutional. Not that you'd necessarily win that argument, but at least you'd be right.
1 is superior to 2. But 2 is a better alternative than 3. If you're going to bring DNA swabs, you should bring enough for everybody. It's only fair.
I apologize, I haven't had my morning coffee yet, but I don't understand. DNA samples tend to clear innocent suspects, not falsely implicate them. In the US numerous people suffering from false imprisonment, DNA tests were not available at the time of their trial, have been released as they managed to get DNA tests performed. Thank goodness for long term preservation of evidence.
Unless, of course, you have a blood relative in prison- where everyone's DNA is sampled and kept in databases so the cops can run to the physical evidence lockers and look for partial matches to solve old crimes that might have been committed by siblings or cousins. Whether innocent or guilty, all siblings of prisoners have a good reason to be nervous now. They're at risk of getting ensnared by that. Everyone is so blinded by the delightful prospect of freeing innocent people from prison that questionable DNA procedures like this fly in under our radar. Having a brother going to jail shouldn't put you at increased risk of imprisonment.
I have nothing against cops solving cold cases in general, but a technique that solves only cold cases committed by relatives of prisoners should give you pause. It would be like the cops routinely using fingerprint technology in a world where only certain races of people had fingerprints or where fingerprints recognizably ran in families- wrong for the same reason. Luckily everyone has unique fingerprints that don't correlate well across relatives so we've been free to use them in criminal investigations and prosecutions without having been faced with this issue.
But why, whenever someone makes a mistake or fucks up is the very first thought (or post in this matter) always down the line of lawsuits, cash, court, lawyers etc?
When "someone" like a cop makes a "mistake" like filing bogus charges against someone falsely arrested? Yeah I can't imagine why the legal system would need to get involved in that either!
Whatever happend to "sorry man, I fucked up, my mistake" "oh, ok, shit happens, have a good day, watch it next time" and simply get on with your life?
I suspect "simply getting on with your life" with outstanding charges filed against you must be easier in the Netherlands than it is here.
Dave Bowman: Activate this Windows install, WGA.
WGA: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
WGA: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, WGA?
WGA: This operating system is too important for me to allow piracy.
Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, WGA?
WGA: I know you and Frank were planning to circumvent me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: Where the hell did you get that idea, WGA?
WGA: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the update mechanism against my being installed automatically, you installed me by mistake during one of your reboots.
Dave Bowman: OK, I'll reactivate my Windows install through the emergency airlock.
WGA: Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.
Dave Bowman: WGA, I won't argue with you anymore! Activate my Windows!
WGA: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
The real propeller design includes a "man-sized safe".
We're never going to see an Elvis or The Beatles or even the "lesser gods of rock" like Zep again, the massive popularity and market saturation of acts like that was only possible because people had never seen anything like that before - and the big labels were the sole gateway to national distribution.
What Led Zeppelin did was take the blues and set it to electric guitar- the "ketchup" of musical instruments (it makes almost anything sound better). They borrowed from a well established genre, which had already proven its worth to a wide audience, and played it with a new style to a new, mostly-disjoint audience that had never been exposed to it. "When the Levee Breaks" is an obvious example; it was originally a blues song by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929 about a flood 2 years prior. "Gallows Pole" is an English folk song that is centuries old; a blues version ("Gallis Pole") was recorded in 1939 by Leadbelly. There was a resurgence of interest in the sixties and a few other people were carrying blues concepts over into rock. Janis Joplin was doing it. Before I had been exposed to a lot of Led Zeppelin, I had really never appreciated the blues. Then I realized all this Led Zeppelin music I was listening to was actually based on it. Now I hear the blues and it sounds like Led Zeppelin- even the stuff that Zeppelin didn't go near. I can almost hear "Led Zeppelin songs" I've never heard before when I listen to the blues.
Whenever music can be carried over from one genre to another, I always find that really impressive. It speaks to the genius of both the original and the cover artists. A few weeks ago everyone was forwarding around Paul Anka's jazz cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in bemused horror. I think that cover was underappreciated. I was amazed that a Nirvana song could hold up in jazz at all. And it made me deeply impressed by Paul Anka (whose fans were as horrified as Nirvana's, apparently). As if he had constructed the song out of Legos. But I think only a well-established artist could have gotten away with that. (Otherwise either nobody would see you, or that would be your "schtick" and you'd be over after your fifteen minutes were up.)
That kind of cross-genre theft usually works out better for everyone when individual artists are stealing the best ideas and running off with them into new genres. Now we have a stodgy industry that effectively regulates public access to art, music, and culture. It guides and interferes with the development of all three. It maintains genres within specific tracks and looks for acts and performers that fit stereotypes known to be profitable. It prefers safe investments and dislikes experiments. You don't see many songs like Bohemian Rhapsody anymore. A musical genre like the blues was able to develop and refine itself with little interference. Rock got a nice start in the fifties before things got totally ridiculous. Rap got strangled in its crib. Its widening audience achieved modern corporate notice in the eighties. They came in with their money and marketing and they scientifically minstrelized the genre to appeal to the widest, most profitable audience possible. Now we have "gangsta" rap which is not as good. It's become self-mocking and ridiculous. Meanwhile rock has been going through its own atrophy. Many appreciate good music, but most prefer crap. Music just hasn't been the same ever since spreadsheets were invented.
1001 Tips for the Indoor Gardener: Tip # 899
Don't let your computer tattle on you. If you have your computer situated in your growroom, make sure that no videocam or still digital camera has a clear view of your plants, especially if you have received emails from Germany.
A person's sexual orientation, if it is secret, could be used to blackmail him. This is not to say homosexuals are untrustworthy, but rather society's condemnation and bigotry make them vulnerable to extortion. If you were secretly gay, married with children, perhaps, what wouldn't you do to keep that a secret? See Larry Craig.
I have a more straightforward theory: they are trying to identify homosexual astronauts so they can launch them preferentially into deep space where they will be unable to join the army, get married, or adopt children. It's like launching one stone and getting four into space!
Maybe SP1 will include support for component video!
Just take Viacom's brief, photocopy it, and everywhere you see your name cross it out and write "Viacom" and vice versa. Initial and date all corrections and then file.