3D CAD software that runs on Windows 14, Playstation 7, an Android Smartphone, Nintendo's latest handheld gaming device and an Ubuntu PC in exactly the same way with no compatibility problems whatsoever occurring. What would and would not change in such a computing world?
Confusing operating systems and devices is a problem here. The devices (desktop computer, Playstation 7, an Android Smartphone, Nintendo's latest handheld gaming device) should all be capable of running the GNU operating system, which you may know by another name (Linux, OSX, Ubuntu, but *not* Android, and probably not iOS).
We already have a standardised set of software that runs on pretty much every platform, and it gives us the wonderful plasticity and variety in our technological world today. The problem is not that it doesn't exist; it's that people (and corporations) are apt to make their own solutions and encourage the use of software that doesn't work everywhere.
Lab experiments showed that the mutation increased in frequency as expected over several generations, but resistance to the gene drive also emerged, preventing some mosquitoes from inheriting the modified genome....
Resistance to gene drives is unavoidable, so researchers are hoping that they can blunt the effects long enough to spread a desired mutation throughout a population. Some have floated the idea of creating gene drives that target multiple genes, or several sites within the same gene, diminishing the speed with which resistance would develop. By surveying a species’ natural genetic diversity, researchers could target genes common to all individuals.
If someone (generally meaning someone I don't or shouldn't trust) has my phone, I consider it compromised. Finger smudges are the easiest way to get into a pattern-locked device; this demonstrates that there are others. As JWZ says,
And if the screen locker is not secure, then it's better to not lock the screen at all: giving the impression of security when there is no actual security is far worse than having no security at all. It's a matter of expectations: if people don't expect to be able to lock their screens, they'll log out. But if they expect to be able to lock their screens and it doesn't actually work, then they're screwed.
I use pattern lock to stop my phone auto-dialling Aunt Sarah when its in my pocket, not to keep other people out. If I had a flip phone, I wouldn't have a lock screen at all.
Corning Brings Gorilla Glass To The Automotive Industry
Great. I wonder if they'd be interested in expanding to other industries, like food for example. I'm sure there'd be plenty of applications in the food industry for strong glass.
Hey, maybe we should give Mozilla more money, so that they can spend it on community education projects and saving hungry children instead of fixing their browser.
If there's a Universal Basic Income, then the minimum wage needs to be abolished, because people are already effectively getting their minimum wage through the UBI.
The point of the UBI is that no one should need to work if they don't want to. It is equivalent to giving all people a minimum wage job that involves doing nothing useful.
If companies want to hire volunteers to work for free, that's fine. If they want to pay a small amount per hour, that's fine too, because the people are already being paid sufficiently for that work through the UBI.
The answer, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School, is "not quite."
Oh, well, that's okay then. Everyone, pack up your computers and smartphones; they're completely useless. Let the medical school researchers diagnose your conditions in the future, because this is the best it's ever going to be.
Except the 2010 study points out that given an old password and simple changes for the new password (as is common), it only takes a few seconds to discover a new iteration of a previous password.
Research reports like this on e-cigarettes annoy me. Ordinarily I might suggest that the press releases are making things appear more shocking than the paper, but it seems like the paper writers have also overemphasised the results of this study. This research appears to be a presence/absence experiment, rather than an actual harm experiment. The thought process seems to follow something like the following:
E-cigarettes contain some nasty toxic chemicals in detectable quantities
These toxic chemicals are nasty and toxic, and cause damage in high concentrations
Therefore, E-cigarettes are bad and shouldn't be used
The problem is that studies of this sort aren't actually demonstrating harm. It's like saying that air contains carbon monoxide, so we shouldn't breathe it. In the paper, there are a few weasel words used that encourage thoughts like this:
Chemical analysis of e-liquids and vapors emitted by e-cigarettes led to the identification of several compounds of concern due to their potentially harmful effects on users and passively exposed nonusers... compounds are considered possible or probable carcinogens
The researchers say that they'll do the actual harm testing as an additional step:
The researchers are working on a follow-up study focusing on the health and environmental impacts of e-cigarettes.
Or, in the paper:
These chemical emissions are associated with both cancer and noncancer health impacts that will be quantitatively evaluated in an ensuing paper.
But until that's done (and has meaningful results) it's difficult to make a good case that E-cigarettes are doing the wrong thing and should be avoided.
The hygiene hypothesis is still unproven and controversial
That's not quite correct; "unproven" is a confusing word here. It's more of an "it depends" situation, rather than a "true/false" situation.
The hygiene hypothesis can be sort-of demonstrated in some situations (e.g. reduced allergic response to peanuts in mice via oral sensitisation with very low amounts of CpG-coated peanut extract), and rejected in others (e.g. the parasitic worm H. polygyrus suppresses the adaptive immune response).
Would anyone care for some uranium-free orange juice? How about feeding your cat with low ash cat food? What about washing your hands with reduced-bacteria hand wash?
We've got an ADSL modem with integrated wireless router, but our WRT45G (purchased second-hand about 10 years ago) is still in use as a bridge from wireless to wired for our web server (with no wireless card).
I'm still keeping the WRT45G around, just in case we change to a cable or fibre modem, and have further need for a separate router.
Koby77 suggested that whether or not people were breaking the law should have a substantial (and possibly overriding) role in the decision to injure them. I disagree with this.
should it be the person who put themselves in a dangerous situation or the person who has tried to make the safe choice?
Ah, but that's not the choice. It's ten people who have put themselves in a dangerous situation voluntarily versus one person who has put themselves in a dangerous situation involuntarily.
If the car is driving in a perfectly legal manner down its lane in the road, and the 10 people in the road are jaywalking, then the car/driver is in the right of way and should proceed rather than kill its driver.
That's not right, at least not in my country. I don't have a legal right to kill people who are breaking the law, especially not if it is a minor offense like jaywalking.
Slashdot Mirror
Richard Feynman's talk discussed manipulation at the atomic level as a target to strive for, demonstrating how much room there is for miniaturisation.
Now it seems that we're going to need to drop to the sub-atomic level for further manipulation.
3D CAD software that runs on Windows 14, Playstation 7, an Android Smartphone, Nintendo's latest handheld gaming device and an Ubuntu PC in exactly the same way with no compatibility problems whatsoever occurring. What would and would not change in such a computing world?
Confusing operating systems and devices is a problem here. The devices (desktop computer, Playstation 7, an Android Smartphone, Nintendo's latest handheld gaming device) should all be capable of running the GNU operating system, which you may know by another name (Linux, OSX, Ubuntu, but *not* Android, and probably not iOS).
We already have a standardised set of software that runs on pretty much every platform, and it gives us the wonderful plasticity and variety in our technological world today. The problem is not that it doesn't exist; it's that people (and corporations) are apt to make their own solutions and encourage the use of software that doesn't work everywhere.
They probably haven't even seen this:
https://soylentnews.org/articl...
http://www.nature.com/news/gen...
Lab experiments showed that the mutation increased in frequency as expected over several generations, but resistance to the gene drive also emerged, preventing some mosquitoes from inheriting the modified genome. ...
Resistance to gene drives is unavoidable, so researchers are hoping that they can blunt the effects long enough to spread a desired mutation throughout a population. Some have floated the idea of creating gene drives that target multiple genes, or several sites within the same gene, diminishing the speed with which resistance would develop. By surveying a species’ natural genetic diversity, researchers could target genes common to all individuals.
Deep Learning Algorithm Diagnoses Skin Cancer As Well As Seasoned Dermatologists
"I'm sorry Sam, it looks like you have a potentially fatal condition."
"What, skin cancer?"
"No, it's worse than that. You are infected with a seasoned dermatologist".
If someone (generally meaning someone I don't or shouldn't trust) has my phone, I consider it compromised. Finger smudges are the easiest way to get into a pattern-locked device; this demonstrates that there are others. As JWZ says,
And if the screen locker is not secure, then it's better to not lock the screen at all: giving the impression of security when there is no actual security is far worse than having no security at all. It's a matter of expectations: if people don't expect to be able to lock their screens, they'll log out. But if they expect to be able to lock their screens and it doesn't actually work, then they're screwed.
[from https://www.jwz.org/xscreensav...
I use pattern lock to stop my phone auto-dialling Aunt Sarah when its in my pocket, not to keep other people out. If I had a flip phone, I wouldn't have a lock screen at all.
Corning Brings Gorilla Glass To The Automotive Industry
Great. I wonder if they'd be interested in expanding to other industries, like food for example. I'm sure there'd be plenty of applications in the food industry for strong glass.
Hey, maybe we should give Mozilla more money, so that they can spend it on community education projects and saving hungry children instead of fixing their browser.
There is lots president for presidents granting pardons for alleged crimes
You can hope that Obama can pardon a public persona,
'Cos there's a precedent for presidents that press the tense situations
Police Officer: "The light was red; you went through an intersection on a stop light"
Starship Officer: "It was green at the speed I was going"
If there's a Universal Basic Income, then the minimum wage needs to be abolished, because people are already effectively getting their minimum wage through the UBI.
The point of the UBI is that no one should need to work if they don't want to. It is equivalent to giving all people a minimum wage job that involves doing nothing useful.
If companies want to hire volunteers to work for free, that's fine. If they want to pay a small amount per hour, that's fine too, because the people are already being paid sufficiently for that work through the UBI.
A colleague of mine was working on cigarette particulates for her PhD research about 10 years ago, and used the smoking machines from Labstat, Canada:
http://www.labstat.com/equipme...
The answer, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School, is "not quite."
Oh, well, that's okay then. Everyone, pack up your computers and smartphones; they're completely useless. Let the medical school researchers diagnose your conditions in the future, because this is the best it's ever going to be.
You don't need eggs to make good bread, just a bit of seed ground up and mixed with yeast and salty water to a thick viscous substance.
Better not show this fan any Alfred Hitchcock trailers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Changing it every 60 days is B+, changing it every 30 days is A+, hey, if they got another + for it they'd have you change it ever 30 minutes.
Or every use, otherwise known as one-time-pad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Except the 2010 study points out that given an old password and simple changes for the new password (as is common), it only takes a few seconds to discover a new iteration of a previous password.
Research reports like this on e-cigarettes annoy me. Ordinarily I might suggest that the press releases are making things appear more shocking than the paper, but it seems like the paper writers have also overemphasised the results of this study. This research appears to be a presence/absence experiment, rather than an actual harm experiment. The thought process seems to follow something like the following:
The problem is that studies of this sort aren't actually demonstrating harm. It's like saying that air contains carbon monoxide, so we shouldn't breathe it. In the paper, there are a few weasel words used that encourage thoughts like this:
Chemical analysis of e-liquids and vapors emitted by e-cigarettes led to the identification of several compounds of concern due to their potentially harmful effects on users and passively exposed nonusers... compounds are considered possible or probable carcinogens
The researchers say that they'll do the actual harm testing as an additional step:
The researchers are working on a follow-up study focusing on the health and environmental impacts of e-cigarettes.
Or, in the paper:
These chemical emissions are associated with both cancer and noncancer health impacts that will be quantitatively evaluated in an ensuing paper.
But until that's done (and has meaningful results) it's difficult to make a good case that E-cigarettes are doing the wrong thing and should be avoided.
The hygiene hypothesis is still unproven and controversial
That's not quite correct; "unproven" is a confusing word here. It's more of an "it depends" situation, rather than a "true/false" situation.
The hygiene hypothesis can be sort-of demonstrated in some situations (e.g. reduced allergic response to peanuts in mice via oral sensitisation with very low amounts of CpG-coated peanut extract), and rejected in others (e.g. the parasitic worm H. polygyrus suppresses the adaptive immune response).
Low Acrylamide Spuds
Would anyone care for some uranium-free orange juice? How about feeding your cat with low ash cat food? What about washing your hands with reduced-bacteria hand wash?
We've got an ADSL modem with integrated wireless router, but our WRT45G (purchased second-hand about 10 years ago) is still in use as a bridge from wireless to wired for our web server (with no wireless card).
I'm still keeping the WRT45G around, just in case we change to a cable or fibre modem, and have further need for a separate router.
Koby77 suggested that whether or not people were breaking the law should have a substantial (and possibly overriding) role in the decision to injure them. I disagree with this.
should it be the person who put themselves in a dangerous situation or the person who has tried to make the safe choice?
Ah, but that's not the choice. It's ten people who have put themselves in a dangerous situation voluntarily versus one person who has put themselves in a dangerous situation involuntarily.
If the car is driving in a perfectly legal manner down its lane in the road, and the 10 people in the road are jaywalking, then the car/driver is in the right of way and should proceed rather than kill its driver.
That's not right, at least not in my country. I don't have a legal right to kill people who are breaking the law, especially not if it is a minor offense like jaywalking.
Brilliant, but it needs a tiny bit more work to avoid the obviously wrong word "hyperspace":
Dynamically expanding the search space by utilising multiple concurrent haystacks in an emergent fashion via a cloud-based neural network.
I call this approach "adding more haystacks".