Well, I can't read her blog unless I enable javascript so I'm going to have to skip reading her point of view. But the calmly reasoned and stated response from one of the audience members behind Adria (a Mr Hank) whom Adria "twitter-shamed" (rather than speaking to directly) said (in quotes below) :
He was less forgiving of her reporting him and his associate in the manner that she did -- that is, taking her complaint to Twitter, complete with their photo, rather than confronting them face to face. He pointed out that she is well known for her work and social activism and has an extensive Web audience. "With that great power and reach comes responsibility. As a result of the picture she took I was let go from my job today. Which sucks because I have three kids and I really liked that job," he wrote. -- from http://www.infoworld.com/t/technology-business/twitter-shaming-can-cost-you-your-job-214956
I think that he's right. In the time that it took to turn around and take that picture, she could just as easily have said "Hey, cut it out! Those kinds of comments are inappropriate, and I'm offended, okay?" This is a point where saying "don't make a federal case out of it" may be apropos. Does she want them to walk around wearing big "L" for losers on their foreheads, or "D" for "dicks" for what offensive things they said? Maybe she needs to reread that Scarlet Letter book.
That was, and is, my point exactly. Some anonymous person responded to my comment and misread it entirely as thinking that I was saying that the cyber-warriors were off limits so I replied politely asking them
to reread what I'd said. Thanks for agreeing with me. I'm glad that you got the point that I was making.
Learn to read. I said that those engaged in warfare are legitimate targets during the course of the war / police action / aggression of an "un-declared war". . I also pointed out that these aggressors are still part of the aggressive force while performing other actions, even while buying groceries. We don't get to call a fucking "time out, I'm pissing/shitting/taking a shower/jacking off/buying my wife her wine/buying my babies some diapers, so I'm not really a valid war-target right now," even if you are a drone pilot in Podunk New Mexico and you've changed into civvies. If you're active duty military engaged in the aggressor forces, then you are a valid target. If you become part of the "cyber warfare command", either by becoming active duty military or being a part of the "blackwater or whatever new name they've become" hired mercenary forces or being a part of an our-sourced software team engaging in actions requested by the military, then you become part of the subset of legitimate targets of aggession. . I have no clue how you misread what I said, but I'm not going to try to read your mind. Don't try to read my mind: read my written words in the GP post. Try reading it again.
2 = 2/1 is a fraction which is a proportion. 1 = 1/1 is a fraction which is a proportion. 0.5 = 1/2 is also a fraction which is a proportion. So the word "proportional" has no definable meaning in this case. Also, if "equivalent" is meant by "proportional", then there can be no kinetic response to non-kinetic actions or aggressions. Kind of like the admonition to not hit someone because of the words they say. But there's no point in laying out these fine points of law and warfare when the USA is unilaterally going to not be a party to the rules of the Geneva Convention by claiming that during our war on terrorists, since the terrorists are not of a nation-state, or they're not wearing uniforms, or they're not espousing the beliefs or magical thinking which we think they ought, then of course they're not capable of being humans so of course the Geneva convention doesn't apply. Or how the USA always wants to make sure that the soldiers and the hierarchy of the USA military forces is never subject to the review of or consideration by or punishment or incarceration by the International Criminal Courts or any international tribunals, e.g. the Hague. Or how the USA can decide that we can flout (yes, that's the proper use of the word "flout", not "flaunt") any other country's rules or sovereignty because of course we're in the right. .
oops, I mis-spelled "asymmetry" as "assymetry", but then again our "asymmetry" is a metric/measure of our assiness, isn't it? humor from mis-spelling, or freudian slipperiness from mis-spelling? signed, ms. mis-spellings-r-us.
And shouldn't drone pilots from and within the USA be just as much a target for targeted killing by the "other side" even while they are located in the USA geographical boundaries? So if the cyberwarfare hacker is still a legitimate target while not actively engaged in the "war activity", couldn't a USA drone pilot be legitimately targeted while walking into a grocery store to buy groceries for her/his family and herself/himself? There's a lot to think about when we decide to expand the boundaries of what we are allowed to do while still claiming "nya-nya-nya, you can't do that to us while we can do that to you", mostly because of the assymetry of our tactical abilities. . Overreaching on moral boundaries because of our tactical abilities could be our downfall when we no longer have the tactical advantage. We no longer have the moral advantage (considering the things that have already been done in "our" name, since it is our USA and our armed forces and our "special forces" that have carried out extra-ordinary rendition, torture in Abu Ghraim, extra-judicial kidnappings and extra-judicial extra-warfare executions/assassinations) but it makes to sense to keep digging ourselves deeper when we could actually be a beacon of sensibility to the world. Oh, wait, that's not really our goal, is it, regardless of whether the Republicans or Democrats are leading in the Executive or in the Legislative branches of our government.
What, should the main page return a "Red Cross" or a "Red Crescent" or an appropriate meta-tag on a web-site's front page in order for it to qualify as an "off-limits" target? Will it be like saying "hey they're not really soldiers 'cause they're not wearing a uniform with patches 'n' shit!" forgetting that the USA's minute-men and civilian militia were definitely a rag-tag bunch of townies who also wore no uniform, while King George's men had their beautiful red-coats! .
Has the USA turned ourselves into the British colonial empire building with our own red-coats? Why would anyone think the USA would follow a NATO directive or another Geneva convention about "cyber-warfare" when the USA is currently unwilling to follow the already agreed-to Geneva Convention against torture and extra-ordinary rendition and recognition of the sovereignty of other states?
Well, thank you so very much for that link. I'd never before heard of "what-if.xkcd.com" and I am pleased to become a fan. I like the thinking and calculation* that went into that article. (* I am a fan of arithmetic and of calculating whatever I can whenever I can, as any review of my posts would show you. Recent example: Amazing! 4513 bytes per neuron per data-entry showing that the average data-cube per neuron is a cube of 16 pixels on the side for monochromatic laser, or a cube of 11 pixels edge-length if three different color lasers are used for data acquisition)
You are indeed correct, and I was pretty sure I thought that way too (which is why I included that line of reasoning). It just seems underhanded how they try to undercut or lowball the price when things aren't going their way. That sort of low-ball bidding is a different kind of corruption than bribery. I was trying to see if there was a way to see it as a form of bribery style of corruption, and I can see now that there's probably not a valid way to equate the two. Still seems bad though, IMHO. Thanks for the even-handed tone and reply.:>)
re: your statement "The reality of it is you don't give a flying fuck about 'open' so much as 'I don't have to pay for it'." .
Hey, big boy, don't bother trying to put words in my mouth. The reality of it is that you have no fucking idea what's in my mind. What is in my mind is the freedom of the software, not that it is free of cost. The fact that it is free of cost, and unencumbered by the idiocracy of the BSA (boy scouts or software, take your pick) trying to beat down your door to check to see if you've got
(a) - valid licenses
(b) - the correcto number of licenses
(c) - a way for them to anally probe your hardware and software frequently in perpetuity to make sure you keep dancing when they tell you to
is worth a lot more to me than the useless crap that other people are willing to pay for. .
You know that the internet you're using right now to post your comments on? "You didn't build that!" (ha ha ha) In fact, Microsoft didn't even see the internet coming 'til it started passing them by and Trumpet-WinSock gave people a way to do dial-up access to TCP-IP. Seriously, look it up. Microsoft must have thought that the internet was going to be a fad, right? .
So please don't try to read my mind or put words in my mouth or voice opinions for me. And also, sharpen your reading skills. This person here whom you tried to denigrate as a "fanboy" is a girl.;>p .
And if you don't want Linux and GNU to "infect you", buddy-boy, nobody in the world is forcing you to use it. (and you probably have enough infections as it is.... ooh, your mean-ness is pretty contagious!)
Considering how frequently the MS sales people seem to present a new option with lower licensing prices whenever a city or governmental agency is about to jump ship and get on board with Linux, isn't that sudden presentation of huge discounts almost like a bribe? Yes, i know that a bribe goes to a separate person in order for a transaction to go through, but when you've got to discount your prices that much for people to buy your stuff, that doesn't seem like a good sign! .
And before some idiot goes the other way and sez "gnu/linux must suck real bad since the only way they get people to take it is to give it away for free!", realize that the concept of Free software (with liberty) being free (of price and cost) is secondary to the freedom it gives to the end-user and the things that come back to the developer(s) with GNU-GPL-licensed software. The freedom is an inherent essence to free software. It's not priced at $zero because people don't want it. It's priced at $zero because the community of developers believes in giving away and sharing the fruits of their labor to the community of the world
It's not just photos (2-d) but three-dimensional volumetric acquisition, so if it's got the same resolution in all three dimensions, then each three-dimensional slab acquired every 1.3 seconds is 361MB ( = 1.2 TB / 2769.23 slabs acquired per hour) [ which is also = 1.2 TB / (3600 seconds / 1.3 seconds per slab acquisition) ]. .
Then, 361 MB per slab / 80Kneurons per slab ~= 4512.5 (the original result was 361,111,111 / 80k ~= 4513.88888763503 from perl -e "print 1e12/(2769.23077)/(.8*1e5)"; echo. Then, since it's a 3-d volume acquisition, take the cube root of 4513.888 to get 16.525 for the edge of the cube for monochromatic 8-bit depth data. .
So on average, each neuronal body occupies a cube in the 3-d slab of approximately 16.5 pixels $\times$ 16.5 pixels $\times$ 16.5 pixels, if the volume acquisition is done with a single monochromatic laser using a single byte to encode intensity. If the images for the 3-d slab are acquired as an RGB dataset with three different colored lasers (which is not what is going on, i believe) then take 4513 per neuron per slab acquired and divided by three is 1504.27ish, take the cube root of that and get 11.45 pixels for the cube edge length (again assuming pixel intensity is one byte per RGB color channel). Smaller again if colors are encoded using more than one byte per color channel. Arithmetic done. (or/arithmetic or/arithmegeek, to use slashdot-speak);>)
It's not so much about parents parenting but about stopping the powerful from taking advantage of the powerless. It's kind of like what the whole Transformers' cartoon crap was: the show was a full half-hour length commercial for toys. It takes the FCC or governmental action to stop everything on TV from being straight-out plain marketing to kids who can't tell the difference between content and commercials, between truth and puffery/advertising, between reality and fantasy. .
It's why kids fall for things like opening themselves up to ridicule and bullying on sites like formspring or (while it existed) dailybooth, where junior-high-schoolers I knew (and even middle-school kids below us) set themselves up to deviants and bullies asking them stupid salacious questions and they answered them. Now of course they brought a bit of it upon themselves by their own action, but sometimes it is up to those who are more responsible to get in the way of the weak from being trod upon, eh? .
Consumer laws exist to protect adults from sleazy car salesmen and criminally-intent stock-brokers (though kickstarter and the decrease in regulation of allowing funding of companies is going to kick down that safety net). IMHO it's okay to have laws that protect kids at or under the age of 13 from the nefarious intentions of the googler-corporations of the world. I know that the free-market-eers and the libertarians will say "let the free market work it out" and "let capitalism work it out", but sometimes regulations are necessary so that the young and weak are not exploited.
Re: Fish's last thought recorded... Oh look, a hook!" .
Ha ha ha! No, they were zebra-fish embryos still in development. No need to hook them; the scientists already had them ensnared. And they probably had not developed up to the "thinking" stage! (jk, jk, just in case someone thinks i'm serious about fish thinking deep thoughts...)
That's amazing! I hope that there will be good data that can be pulled out of the large dataset. I wonder if the 1.3 seconds per frame time is enough resolution to capture some of the key activities since there are many neurons that can fire more than once per second. .
Each hour-long experiment generated 1 terabyte of data and they were able to detect 80% of the 100k neurons in the fish's brain. So that works out to
1 terabyte $\div$ 1 hour * (3600 seconds/hour) / (1.3 seconds / data item) / (80000 neurons) = 4513 bytes per neuron in the dataset.
Re:Cheap hardware mitigates... if you can get your hands on it...
My parents have an iLo dvd player that does not lock itself to a region and plays all kinds of media. Unfortunaltey, the company that made it got sued out of existence. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILo_Technologies for how Cyberhome owns their intellectual property after their warehouse was raided for creating "unlicensed" DVD players.
Makes sense. Roadways are like long linear fields and plains, cleared out by us and maintained as a cleared plain. You often see sea-birds sitting on the lamp posts as you go on and off Coronado island's bridge.
I assume that you've gotten the express consent of the ABA, or possibly the express consent of Major League Baseball or at least from the Commissioner of MLB, right?;>) IANACLoCA (i am not a copyright lawyer or copyright attorney...)
I checked the page and the problem is that the actual title of the page is coded as being that long file address.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\www.pdfdownload.org\pdf2html\conversions\p2h_5981445\tmpF695.tmp</TITLE>
Change the title to be what you want the title to be as
<TITLE>Corrected Title Here</TITLE>
rather than as the long file-name from your windows computer's C: drive.:>)
Re: Which link "Are you talking about..." ? .
In your slashdot post above, you point out a link to
"Large Recording Companies vs The Defenseless", ABA Judges Journal, Equal Access to Justice issue, 2008
That's probably because there's a missing title tag in the web page. Wait, strike that. I checked the page and the problem is that the actual title of the page is that long file address.
re: I see hawks or eagles circling some highways nowadays :>)
My understanding of why birds of prey are often seen circling highways is that they are taking advantage of thermals, rising columns of air heated by the asphalt/cement roadway surfaces, to power and maintain their gliding and flying. The fact that there's also an abundance of roadkill may have something to do with it also. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge-tailed_Eagle#Behaviour_and_diet for how the eagles can observe thermals with their infrared vision.
exactamundo. I agree with you completely. And no fair getting rid of the boolean search capabilities on the main page, either. Don't make us go into the "advanced search" options capability to do it. Be a search engine, which is what you claim to be!!!! Khaaaann!!!! (shouting google into a spiraling ascending camera doesn't feel as good, since there are two syllables...:>) why is it that way?)
The functional equivalence I was getting at was not the DNA (or any sort of "API" sort of thing) but the fact that mitochondria play a role as the energy provider in cells by phosphorylation of AMP -> ADP -> ATP. ATP is used as the main energy source in cells, and it's the mitochondria within cells that provides the "refueling"/"recharging" via the Krebs cycle also known as the citric acid cycle. .
Yes, mitochondria also play other roles, but you could (probably) take a different DNA-source mitochondrion and be an evil "cellular surgeon" and replace the original mitochondria with Folger's Crystals mitochondria, and the cell will never know the difference. So the functional equivalence I meant is that in terms of generating
ATP by phosphorylation and providing the recharging station for the host cell body.:>) Functional equivalence means "makes ATP" here!
Their old motto is better understood if you parse it as "Do? No, Evil!" with Evil taken to be a verb form meaning "to do evil". That makes more sense, doesn't it, of how they transformed from their benign P.R. (which is all it was even in the first place, Public Relations, not a real motto to be followed) into more insidious P.R. (Privacy Raping).
dude, this is not sensibility we're talking about here. It's not even that google has asked people what they should bring back. This is a fucking slashdot article about what people would like to see back at google. It's just a wishlist!!! So there's no need to bring sensibility or rationality or complaining about what a free service really needs to provide us!!! No need to be on a high horse; my post is completely on topic as to "what google project didn't deserve to die?". It's your comment that is "off-topic" and not useful.
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I think that he's right. In the time that it took to turn around and take that picture, she could just as easily have said "Hey, cut it out! Those kinds of comments are inappropriate, and I'm offended, okay?" This is a point where saying "don't make a federal case out of it" may be apropos. Does she want them to walk around wearing big "L" for losers on their foreheads, or "D" for "dicks" for what offensive things they said? Maybe she needs to reread that Scarlet Letter book.
That was, and is, my point exactly. Some anonymous person responded to my comment and misread it entirely as thinking that I was saying that the cyber-warriors were off limits so I replied politely asking them to reread what I'd said. Thanks for agreeing with me. I'm glad that you got the point that I was making.
Learn to read. I said that those engaged in warfare are legitimate targets during the course of the war / police action / aggression of an "un-declared war".
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I also pointed out that these aggressors are still part of the aggressive force while performing other actions, even while buying groceries. We don't get to call a fucking "time out, I'm pissing/shitting/taking a shower/jacking off/buying my wife her wine/buying my babies some diapers, so I'm not really a valid war-target right now," even if you are a drone pilot in Podunk New Mexico and you've changed into civvies. If you're active duty military engaged in the aggressor forces, then you are a valid target. If you become part of the "cyber warfare command", either by becoming active duty military or being a part of the "blackwater or whatever new name they've become" hired mercenary forces or being a part of an our-sourced software team engaging in actions requested by the military, then you become part of the subset of legitimate targets of aggession.
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I have no clue how you misread what I said, but I'm not going to try to read your mind. Don't try to read my mind: read my written words in the GP post. Try reading it again.
2 = 2/1 is a fraction which is a proportion. 1 = 1/1 is a fraction which is a proportion. 0.5 = 1/2 is also a fraction which is a proportion. So the word "proportional" has no definable meaning in this case. Also, if "equivalent" is meant by "proportional", then there can be no kinetic response to non-kinetic actions or aggressions. Kind of like the admonition to not hit someone because of the words they say. But there's no point in laying out these fine points of law and warfare when the USA is unilaterally going to not be a party to the rules of the Geneva Convention by claiming that during our war on terrorists, since the terrorists are not of a nation-state, or they're not wearing uniforms, or they're not espousing the beliefs or magical thinking which we think they ought, then of course they're not capable of being humans so of course the Geneva convention doesn't apply. Or how the USA always wants to make sure that the soldiers and the hierarchy of the USA military forces is never subject to the review of or consideration by or punishment or incarceration by the International Criminal Courts or any international tribunals, e.g. the Hague. Or how the USA can decide that we can flout (yes, that's the proper use of the word "flout", not "flaunt") any other country's rules or sovereignty because of course we're in the right.
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oops, I mis-spelled "asymmetry" as "assymetry", but then again our "asymmetry" is a metric/measure of our assiness, isn't it? humor from mis-spelling, or freudian slipperiness from mis-spelling? signed, ms. mis-spellings-r-us.
And shouldn't drone pilots from and within the USA be just as much a target for targeted killing by the "other side" even while they are located in the USA geographical boundaries? So if the cyberwarfare hacker is still a legitimate target while not actively engaged in the "war activity", couldn't a USA drone pilot be legitimately targeted while walking into a grocery store to buy groceries for her/his family and herself/himself? There's a lot to think about when we decide to expand the boundaries of what we are allowed to do while still claiming "nya-nya-nya, you can't do that to us while we can do that to you", mostly because of the assymetry of our tactical abilities.
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Overreaching on moral boundaries because of our tactical abilities could be our downfall when we no longer have the tactical advantage. We no longer have the moral advantage (considering the things that have already been done in "our" name, since it is our USA and our armed forces and our "special forces" that have carried out extra-ordinary rendition, torture in Abu Ghraim, extra-judicial kidnappings and extra-judicial extra-warfare executions/assassinations) but it makes to sense to keep digging ourselves deeper when we could actually be a beacon of sensibility to the world. Oh, wait, that's not really our goal, is it, regardless of whether the Republicans or Democrats are leading in the Executive or in the Legislative branches of our government.
What, should the main page return a "Red Cross" or a "Red Crescent" or an appropriate meta-tag on a web-site's front page in order for it to qualify as an "off-limits" target? Will it be like saying "hey they're not really soldiers 'cause they're not wearing a uniform with patches 'n' shit!" forgetting that the USA's minute-men and civilian militia were definitely a rag-tag bunch of townies who also wore no uniform, while King George's men had their beautiful red-coats!
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Has the USA turned ourselves into the British colonial empire building with our own red-coats? Why would anyone think the USA would follow a NATO directive or another Geneva convention about "cyber-warfare" when the USA is currently unwilling to follow the already agreed-to Geneva Convention against torture and extra-ordinary rendition and recognition of the sovereignty of other states?
Well, thank you so very much for that link. I'd never before heard of "what-if.xkcd.com" and I am pleased to become a fan. I like the thinking and calculation* that went into that article. (* I am a fan of arithmetic and of calculating whatever I can whenever I can, as any review of my posts would show you. Recent example: Amazing! 4513 bytes per neuron per data-entry showing that the average data-cube per neuron is a cube of 16 pixels on the side for monochromatic laser, or a cube of 11 pixels edge-length if three different color lasers are used for data acquisition)
You are indeed correct, and I was pretty sure I thought that way too (which is why I included that line of reasoning). It just seems underhanded how they try to undercut or lowball the price when things aren't going their way. That sort of low-ball bidding is a different kind of corruption than bribery. I was trying to see if there was a way to see it as a form of bribery style of corruption, and I can see now that there's probably not a valid way to equate the two. Still seems bad though, IMHO. Thanks for the even-handed tone and reply. :>)
re: your statement "The reality of it is you don't give a flying fuck about 'open' so much as 'I don't have to pay for it'." ;>p
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Hey, big boy, don't bother trying to put words in my mouth. The reality of it is that you have no fucking idea what's in my mind. What is in my mind is the freedom of the software, not that it is free of cost. The fact that it is free of cost, and unencumbered by the idiocracy of the BSA (boy scouts or software, take your pick) trying to beat down your door to check to see if you've got
(a) - valid licenses
(b) - the correcto number of licenses
(c) - a way for them to anally probe your hardware and software frequently in perpetuity to make sure you keep dancing when they tell you to
is worth a lot more to me than the useless crap that other people are willing to pay for.
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You know that the internet you're using right now to post your comments on? "You didn't build that!" (ha ha ha) In fact, Microsoft didn't even see the internet coming 'til it started passing them by and Trumpet-WinSock gave people a way to do dial-up access to TCP-IP. Seriously, look it up. Microsoft must have thought that the internet was going to be a fad, right?
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So please don't try to read my mind or put words in my mouth or voice opinions for me. And also, sharpen your reading skills. This person here whom you tried to denigrate as a "fanboy" is a girl.
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And if you don't want Linux and GNU to "infect you", buddy-boy, nobody in the world is forcing you to use it. (and you probably have enough infections as it is.... ooh, your mean-ness is pretty contagious!)
Considering how frequently the MS sales people seem to present a new option with lower licensing prices whenever a city or governmental agency is about to jump ship and get on board with Linux, isn't that sudden presentation of huge discounts almost like a bribe? Yes, i know that a bribe goes to a separate person in order for a transaction to go through, but when you've got to discount your prices that much for people to buy your stuff, that doesn't seem like a good sign!
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And before some idiot goes the other way and sez "gnu/linux must suck real bad since the only way they get people to take it is to give it away for free!", realize that the concept of Free software (with liberty) being free (of price and cost) is secondary to the freedom it gives to the end-user and the things that come back to the developer(s) with GNU-GPL-licensed software. The freedom is an inherent essence to free software. It's not priced at $zero because people don't want it. It's priced at $zero because the community of developers believes in giving away and sharing the fruits of their labor to the community of the world
It's not just photos (2-d) but three-dimensional volumetric acquisition, so if it's got the same resolution in all three dimensions, then each three-dimensional slab acquired every 1.3 seconds is 361MB ( = 1.2 TB / 2769.23 slabs acquired per hour) [ which is also = 1.2 TB / (3600 seconds / 1.3 seconds per slab acquisition) ]. /arithmetic or /arithmegeek, to use slashdot-speak) ;>)
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Then, 361 MB per slab / 80Kneurons per slab ~= 4512.5 (the original result was 361,111,111 / 80k ~= 4513.88888763503 from perl -e "print 1e12/(2769.23077)/(.8*1e5)"; echo. Then, since it's a 3-d volume acquisition, take the cube root of 4513.888 to get 16.525 for the edge of the cube for monochromatic 8-bit depth data.
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So on average, each neuronal body occupies a cube in the 3-d slab of approximately 16.5 pixels $\times$ 16.5 pixels $\times$ 16.5 pixels, if the volume acquisition is done with a single monochromatic laser using a single byte to encode intensity. If the images for the 3-d slab are acquired as an RGB dataset with three different colored lasers (which is not what is going on, i believe) then take 4513 per neuron per slab acquired and divided by three is 1504.27ish, take the cube root of that and get 11.45 pixels for the cube edge length (again assuming pixel intensity is one byte per RGB color channel). Smaller again if colors are encoded using more than one byte per color channel. Arithmetic done. (or
It's not so much about parents parenting but about stopping the powerful from taking advantage of the powerless. It's kind of like what the whole Transformers' cartoon crap was: the show was a full half-hour length commercial for toys. It takes the FCC or governmental action to stop everything on TV from being straight-out plain marketing to kids who can't tell the difference between content and commercials, between truth and puffery/advertising, between reality and fantasy.
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It's why kids fall for things like opening themselves up to ridicule and bullying on sites like formspring or (while it existed) dailybooth, where junior-high-schoolers I knew (and even middle-school kids below us) set themselves up to deviants and bullies asking them stupid salacious questions and they answered them. Now of course they brought a bit of it upon themselves by their own action, but sometimes it is up to those who are more responsible to get in the way of the weak from being trod upon, eh?
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Consumer laws exist to protect adults from sleazy car salesmen and criminally-intent stock-brokers (though kickstarter and the decrease in regulation of allowing funding of companies is going to kick down that safety net). IMHO it's okay to have laws that protect kids at or under the age of 13 from the nefarious intentions of the googler-corporations of the world. I know that the free-market-eers and the libertarians will say "let the free market work it out" and "let capitalism work it out", but sometimes regulations are necessary so that the young and weak are not exploited.
Re: Fish's last thought recorded... Oh look, a hook!"
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Ha ha ha! No, they were zebra-fish embryos still in development. No need to hook them; the scientists already had them ensnared. And they probably had not developed up to the "thinking" stage! (jk, jk, just in case someone thinks i'm serious about fish thinking deep thoughts...)
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Each hour-long experiment generated 1 terabyte of data and they were able to detect 80% of the 100k neurons in the fish's brain. So that works out to 1 terabyte $\div$ 1 hour * (3600 seconds/hour) / (1.3 seconds / data item) / (80000 neurons) = 4513 bytes per neuron in the dataset.
Run that as
perl -e "print 1e12/(2769.23077)/(.8*1e5)"; echo 4513.88888763503I wonder how much faster the ata really needs to be captured in order to get as much resolution as needed to understand what's going on.
Re:Cheap hardware mitigates... if you can get your hands on it... My parents have an iLo dvd player that does not lock itself to a region and plays all kinds of media. Unfortunaltey, the company that made it got sued out of existence. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILo_Technologies for how Cyberhome owns their intellectual property after their warehouse was raided for creating "unlicensed" DVD players.
Makes sense. Roadways are like long linear fields and plains, cleared out by us and maintained as a cleared plain. You often see sea-birds sitting on the lamp posts as you go on and off Coronado island's bridge.
I assume that you've gotten the express consent of the ABA, or possibly the express consent of Major League Baseball or at least from the Commissioner of MLB, right? ;>) IANACLoCA (i am not a copyright lawyer or copyright attorney...)
Oops. The quoted code had "<" and ">" in it which got interpreted as HTML code. Here's the web-page-source which I copied from your page at
:>)
http://beckermanlegal.com/Documents/080729LargeRecordingCompaniesVsTheDefenselessHTMLVERSION.htm
I checked the page and the problem is that the actual title of the page is coded as being that long file address.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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rather than as the long file-name from your windows computer's C: drive.
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In your slashdot post above, you point out a link to "Large Recording Companies vs The Defenseless", ABA Judges Journal, Equal Access to Justice issue, 2008
where the link itself is
http://beckermanlegal.com/Documents/080729LargeRecordingCompaniesVsTheDefenselessHTMLVERSION.htmThe problem is that when you go to that link, the title at the top of the browser page is
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\www.pdfdownload.org\pdf2html\conversions\p2h_5981445\tmpF695.tmp:That's probably because there's a missing title tag in the web page. Wait, strike that. I checked the page and the problem is that the actual title of the page is that long file address.
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re: I see hawks or eagles circling some highways nowadays
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My understanding of why birds of prey are often seen circling highways is that they are taking advantage of thermals, rising columns of air heated by the asphalt/cement roadway surfaces, to power and maintain their gliding and flying. The fact that there's also an abundance of roadkill may have something to do with it also. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge-tailed_Eagle#Behaviour_and_diet for how the eagles can observe thermals with their infrared vision.
exactamundo. I agree with you completely. And no fair getting rid of the boolean search capabilities on the main page, either. Don't make us go into the "advanced search" options capability to do it. Be a search engine, which is what you claim to be!!!! Khaaaann!!!! (shouting google into a spiraling ascending camera doesn't feel as good, since there are two syllables... :>) why is it that way?)
The functional equivalence I was getting at was not the DNA (or any sort of "API" sort of thing) but the fact that mitochondria play a role as the energy provider in cells by phosphorylation of AMP -> ADP -> ATP. ATP is used as the main energy source in cells, and it's the mitochondria within cells that provides the "refueling"/"recharging" via the Krebs cycle also known as the citric acid cycle. :>) Functional equivalence means "makes ATP" here!
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Yes, mitochondria also play other roles, but you could (probably) take a different DNA-source mitochondrion and be an evil "cellular surgeon" and replace the original mitochondria with Folger's Crystals mitochondria, and the cell will never know the difference. So the functional equivalence I meant is that in terms of generating ATP by phosphorylation and providing the recharging station for the host cell body.
Their old motto is better understood if you parse it as "Do? No, Evil!" with Evil taken to be a verb form meaning "to do evil". That makes more sense, doesn't it, of how they transformed from their benign P.R. (which is all it was even in the first place, Public Relations, not a real motto to be followed) into more insidious P.R. (Privacy Raping).
dude, this is not sensibility we're talking about here. It's not even that google has asked people what they should bring back. This is a fucking slashdot article about what people would like to see back at google. It's just a wishlist!!! So there's no need to bring sensibility or rationality or complaining about what a free service really needs to provide us!!! No need to be on a high horse; my post is completely on topic as to "what google project didn't deserve to die?". It's your comment that is "off-topic" and not useful.