re: Runs at 1/3600 real time .
No, it appears that running the Spaun model on NENGO in a Java Virtual machine on a quad-core cpu running at 2.5 GHz takes 3 hours to run an emulated 1 second: . http:models.nengo.ca/spaun
Notes:
--------
- This model requires a machine with at least 24GB of RAM to run the full implementation.
Estimated run times for a quad-core 2.5GHz are 3 hours per 1 second of simulation time.
- See the run_spaun.py file in the spaun directory for experiment
options.:
This model requires a machine with at least 24GB of RAM to run the full implementation.
Estimated run times for a quad-core 2.5GHz are 3 hours per 1 second
of simulation time. :>)
So running the model requires running it inside a Java Virtual Machine and running the Spaun model appears to require having a machine with 24 GigaBytes of RAM to allow the JVM enough space for doing its thing. And the simulation runs at 3 hours of wall-clock time (I assume) per 1 second of simulated time, ~ 10800:1. .
Perhaps not using Java might help a bit; perhaps just Python; perhaps just straight in C to really speed things up? Perhaps even a GPU version to really-zoom-speed it up?
Re: I find it interesting is that every statement like this excludes (or more frequently, omits) the cost ($80-100 or higher) of a legal [Microsoft] Windows installation. :>)
First point: I've got a legal Windows installation: it's called X windows. Don't just say "Windows" when you mean "Microsoft Windows". Now on to the original retort.
This is/. , where there are users of GNU user space programs, Linux kernels, BSD boxen, and loaded hardware with various styles of free software and open source software and MIT/BSD licensed software. We don't need no stinkin' Windows installation. (note I am not implying that we don't need a "legal Microsoft windows installation" and thereby allowing for an "illegal" install of MSwindows; I am stating clearly that we [and you] do NOT NEED any sort of Microsoft Windows installation). You can get your windows the MIT-licensed way: X-windows!
Re: you also get the advantage of being among the first to get the latest OS updates (when other devices might never get them).
Except, of course, when the next iteration of the hottest new thing in android hardware comes along in anywhere from 3 to 12 months, and your oh-so-new-now hardware also joins the list of hardware that is no longer on the "updateable" list. A lot of Honeycomb devices do not get to upgrade. And that was just a single software revision level. So I don't think you should get your hopes up about the latest OS update even being applicable in the future even for a current Nexus.
So is this a real funding issue, or is this a clarion call about the overall general funding issue which NASA has in that it wants more money? .
I read that the "Washington Monument" model of funding allocation is that if the National Parks service is given a smaller budget, the first response in trying to scale back expenditures is to close the Washington Monument. Thus, a very popular and impressive program is shut down rather than trying to actually trim real money-wasters or really trivial non-essential or non-popular budget items. The plan is that the uproar will be loud enough to get the budget reinstated to full values, or least not cut as much. The police do this locally too, in the "if you cut our budget, we have to cut down the number of patrol officers", rather than reallocating overtime payments and schedules.
But then again, that might have been what they were trying to do with shutting the Space Shuttle program down. I don't know that this cubesat thing had gotten ahold of the popular imagination, or even any hold on publicity. I hadn't heard of it til now.:>(
Look at what happened to Dmitry Skylarov for doing some coding that did not break the law in his home country, and led to his being arrested whle in the USA making a presentation about the software he had created. He was charged with circumventing the
DMCA: . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Skylarov .
So even if, ultiimately, you are let go or exonerated or allowed to leave, it may be after false imprisonment or after true imprisonment for charges different from what his plea bargain covers. Why take the risk of traveling to a country that thinks that "might makes right" and is willing to use governmental powers and governmental agencies and forces to impose actions that break civil copyright laws instead of criminal laws. (e.g. New Zealand, Megaupload, Kim Dotcom)
Re:Just wrote a 2500 pg [page?] paper on flash trading .
Dude, you must be tired. 2500 pages? Or did you really mean 2500 words? Or was this a deliberate attempt to add to the humor by using the wrong units with the number? Or an amusing way to show how easily errors can slip by humans? Or just a result of tired-ness after typing and proof-reading that 2500 page essay? ;>)
SNAFU = Situation Normal: All Fucked Up.
That seems like the perfect description of what happened, either in terms of bad coding without type checking or input validation or in terms of the stock exchanges so frequently doing stupid things these days. . I think most likely it's a case of mismatched types between the calling function and how the function itself defines the calling variables. Errors that occured (possibly) (is there a link to the description/report that shows how this really happened?): .
1 -- No Sanity Checking at Broker's end of transaction request: no validation of input at the customer or broker's computer, thus allowing a negative number entry for amount of shares to sell by the broker. aka Trusting the user to not input stupid values into a field.
2 -- Poor division of actionsactually not spliiting BUY and SELL into two different transaction categories and letting the sign of the number be the indicator as to the intent to buy or sell
3 -- Allowing wild extrema and outliers to affect trading: it's crazy to allow BID/buy orders at (average sale price)\dividedby(large positive integer) or to allow ASK/sell orders at (average sale price)\times(large positive integer). It's crazy for algorithms or humans to interpret any buy or sell price requests that are more than 50% deviated from the current running average price to be considered as anything other than either an anomaly or a deliberate attempt to fuck things up.
4 -- No sanity checking at the Stock Exchange board computer:no bounds checking on the board computer that accepts the buy/sell from the brokers. seriously, shouldn't there have been at least two places this poor interpretation could have been caught?
5 -- Unit Error / Representation Error: like letting a spacecraft go lost or kablooey by thinking the units are Imperial instead of Metric/Systeme_Internationale, maybe the order entry system represents the number X as signed long integer value, and the order-taker system (who knows what it's really called?) at the exchange interprets the number X as unsigned long integer value. ;>)
Now that number (5) error seems likely to me, as I have been learning C programmng and note that since it does not do type checking, it's possible to call a function with a variable that is holding a signed long integer, but the program is written with a
unsigned int functionname(unsigned long c1) {
\\... code goes here
}
\\... more intervening stuff
signed long int yabbadabbadoo = -6;
signed long int resultinganswer = 0;
resultinganswer=functionname(yabbadabbadoo);
so the same bit-representation is seen as two things. Akin to using the same words to mean two different things.
So the point that's being missed is "when exactly and why did having a link become illegal?" .
Doesn't the fact that Google searches the web and provides links to copyright infringing material that is hosted on Youtube show that Google is performing contributory copyright infringement by providing links to material which infringes copyright? Should Google be facing the same charges?
It's a trap. Just like on Law and Order, you've got a deal with one set of cops and an agreement or plea bargain, and you're forgetting that there are other branches of the government with teeth, so either
-- a different prosecuting branch will arrest and try on the same charges
-- the same branch with which he thinks he's made an agreement will arrest him on a different set of charges with a slight variation, using the old "we gave you immunity for X, but not for Y" trick.
I agree, there's no reason he should come over to the US to avoid extradition,, when the point of extradition is to bring him over to the USA. Seriously, he's trusting this?
At a residential weekend for sufferers, there was one true doctor who gave a short 10 minute presentation and then tried to escape before he got hounded for everyone's personal problems. .
And this guy in Italy has turned this around on its head and put all his medical records on line for all to see, hoping that the doctors will swarm to him and he can agglomerate all of that into "the cure" for himself. Whereas since he's acknowledging the homeopaths and spiritualists and quacks who've been responding to him, he's getting responses from those who are like the rest of the salesmen at that residential weekend: selling things that don't work. . Best wishes to you and yours, and you did a great job helping her and supporting her and finding your own way through and with keeping on the rational/medical path. It's separating the wheat from the chaff that's the tough part and that tough part is exactly what the patient and the patient's family and support system (like you:) ) have to do: find out what is applicable and push as many buttons as needed to solve the problem.
Well, that's what happens when you outsource a significant privacy-related concern to someone outside of your internal domain: they might not shred it well enough or finely enough so that it is unrecoverable. Just look at the DARPA Shredder Challenge to see how much can be recovered from shredded documents.
Also, see the movie
Argo for another example of the carpet-weaving approach to unshredding strip-shredded documents when you've got enough manpower.
re:
>"If you just write them off as a bunch of idiotic kooks,"
.
"But they are. It's like arguing with creationists."
.
Yep, it's as bad as trying to argue with the anti-fluoride idiot brigades which keep popping up over and over and over. Example, even the additional fluoride for La Jolla didn't start until 2011, and if you read the comment at the end of the article, you'll see someone calling it "poisoning": http://www.lajollalight.com/2011/01/31/city-set-to-start-fluoridation-on-tuesday/ .
One place in florida voted fluoride out of its water in 2011, and the commissioners who voted to remove fluoride were all voted out and fluoridation is being considered again. There is no need to treat these anti-medicine and anti-science point of view people with kid gloves: they need to be respectfully told just how wrong they are. http://www.infowars.com/the-coming-re-fluoridation-of-pinellas-county/
Pinellas commission sets vote on restoring fluoride to drinking water:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/pinellas-commission-sets-next-tuesday-for-fluoride-vote/1262454
Re: virus living in your system for a long period of time: Chickenpox already does this. Chickenpox is caused by the Varicella zoster virus. After the initial infection, the virus lays dormant in the nervous system of the human infected, and then can flare up in the adult as Herpes zoster also known as Shingles because it can appear on the skin in a shingle like shape because of the spreading pattern of the nerve level which is infected by the virus (dermatome).
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I didn't RTFA to see whether it's modified chickenpox that they are proposing to use for this.
Re: The might look at the ability to prevent 50% of automobile related deaths for $1 a car and decide they can save $1 a car at the cost of a 25% increase in automobile related deaths, and choose that option. .
That's why the automobile industry has regulations imposed upon it in the USA at the governmental level: if there were not regulations requiring the placement of seat-belts and airbags in cars/trucks, the auto industry would be quick to save the $1-$2 per vehicle by leaving those safety devices out. That's why corporations can be thought of as greedy sociopathic individuals: the primary goal of corporations is to maximize profit. If there is not a check or balance on that with laws that regulate this type of greedy sociopathic behaviour on the part of the corporations, then they would continue to act that way.
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It's also the same with costs: if you can get your costs shuttled off to a different division or a different heading / column on the ledger where it's no longer counted as a "negative" in your sum, then you've done well regardless of where the cost was shifted to. The blame can be shifted there along with the cost. That's the same for taxes being relabeled as use-fees, or taxes at one level being turned into taxes at a different level. You can say "we've reduced X" while simultaenously shuffling the balls around and playing keep-away with the increase that occured in Y hoping that no-one notices.
You're missing my point. And you're obviously misreading or misinterpreting what I am typing and saying. I'm agreeing that the Apple-1 is an important artefact and point out that there is a ][ and a trs-80 in the garage which i've turned on and played with. This posting is about the finding and "resurfacing" of a set of polaroid photos of this important artefact. There are already actual exemplars of this artefact extant; there are already full circuit diagrams and specs and emulators and re-makeover-replicas of the Apple-1 also in existence. . The photograph of an artefact does not carry the weight of the artefact itself, in my opinion. Now the DINAAO emulator (at dinaao.sourceforge.net is interesting and nerd-news worthy!!! I downloaded that, compiled it, played with it. An actual Apple-1 I can play with. A photograph of an Apple-1, well I can look at and talk about. And that's about all we're doing here.
Cool. Very nice. Downloaded; maked (made?); run and "hello worlded". Pretty neat code. Now to look at the source and learn! Version 1.0, 2008-01-14 initial release ./dinaao replica1.bin
Welcome to Dinaao.
Written by John Gilbert.
Hit F1 for Help, F9 to Exit, F12 to Reset.
Right, the Apple 1 is an important artefact. A store that bought 500 of them whole sale at $500 apiece to sell them for $666.66 apiece is also interesting. But seriously, just the "polaroid photos of the Apple 1" by themselves is not worthy of much, but surrounded by the facebook posting of these photos and a blog on the Time magazine website about these, well that just barely takes it up a millimeter above the floor level of being uninteresting. :>p Where's the tech aspect? Where's the nerd aspect? Did they have to do cool digital image restoration to recover theimages? Did the polaroids somehow help Apple make enough money off the Apple 1 to keep them afloat until they could build and sell the apple ][ and move on to fame? I don't see any more gnews for gnerds capacity in this story. Time to move on....
And it's not that I'm so young that I can't see the importance of this. My parents have a trs80 and a running apple ][ bought in 1977 and some punchcard programs with fortran watfor (what for?:) ) on it in the garage for play and giggles; so I do know about and appreciate the history of computing. But seriously, the title of this topic is "1976 Polaroids of an Apple-1 Resurface". Seriously. Sad. Seriously sad.
Dude, stackexchange is NOT stackoverflow. Stackexchange evens hosts a forum on bicycles, so why not a forum on Judaism? With questions of key values in times like these (!):
-- http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/22315/kashrus-status-of-turkeys : Are turkeys kosher?
-- http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/10358/may-one-use-a-computer-script-to-do-something-specifically-on-shabbos-yom-tov : Can you use computer scripts to automate actions to allow certain [forbidden?] activities on the Sabbath? The point in this one seems to be that the only ones who can earn Enthusiast or Fanatic badges on judaism.stackexchange.com would be those who use a computer on the sabbath and thus show themselves to be non-observant jews. Or perhaps I misread this. Either way, it sure seems like a valid forum. .;>)
As to "is this [posting about polaroids] news", I have a memory of a very interesting thing that happened a while ago. I typed three letters as I had this memory. The thing that happened was tech related. Perhaps I ought to write a/. article and submit it. So as to the original point, I agree that the concept of a polaroid photograph of a techy object from the prior century has dubious standing to be an article on the "one true/." (reference to the "true scotsman" fallacy), but boy it fits with the stinking pile of non-tech articles that/. has become. So I agree with that your first point. (also see five to ten of my previous posts that agree with the drab-ness, non-tech-ness, non-news-for-nerdness of this site). I was tempted to not even answer this Q so as not to give this particular topic/posting any more validity. In fact, your questioning of the usefulness of this posting of a polaroid is more relevant to/. than the posting of the polaroid itself is. . But I believe you are mistaking the narrow scope of stackoverflow for the wide berth of stackexchange's multiple topics and stacks.
Yeah, but/. has had a box up for me since two weeks after I started navigating here as a logged in user that says "hey we like you and we can turn ads off for you!", here's the actual text: . Disable Advertising
As our way of thanking you for your positive contributions to Slashdot, you are eligible to disable advertising. ;>)
So obviously, the/. revenue model can deal with posters being able to stop ads. And no, I didn't bother turning off the ads because since I've got noscript and adblock, I haven't seen them. And you're a logged-in user with a six-digit UID, so you've also cleared their threshold for being a "positive contributor"!!
BTW, I've seen how atrocious the Union-trib news-site looks at school on a browser without adblock and without no-script: UGH! I can't believe people pay subscription fees to sites like WSJ or NYT and then also get flooded with flash and javascript and animating and scrolling over ads. Ri-dic-u-lous!
Yep, regarding the 9-yo-girl with the Winnie the Pooh laptop: she searched (or her dad searched) on Google for the link to get the video/music on piratebay. So shouldn't google be held just as liable for contributory infringement. And hell, look at the youtube "videos" which have static images and mp3 music in the background. Isn't that the epitome of hosting copyright infringing material?
Slashdot Mirror
Dude, at that level of paranoia, go ahead and install Tor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)) and use the version of Firefox it comes with to route your requests through the onion router.
re: Runs at 1/3600 real time
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No, it appears that running the Spaun model on NENGO in a Java Virtual machine on a quad-core cpu running at 2.5 GHz takes 3 hours to run an emulated 1 second:
.
http:models.nengo.ca/spaun
Notes:
--------
- This model requires a machine with at least 24GB of RAM to run the full implementation.
Estimated run times for a quad-core 2.5GHz are 3 hours per 1 second of simulation time.
- See the run_spaun.py file in the spaun directory for experiment options.:
This model requires a machine with at least 24GB of RAM to run the full implementation. Estimated run times for a quad-core 2.5GHz are 3 hours per 1 second of simulation time.
:>)
So running the model requires running it inside a Java Virtual Machine and running the Spaun model appears to require having a machine with 24 GigaBytes of RAM to allow the JVM enough space for doing its thing.
And the simulation runs at 3 hours of wall-clock time (I assume) per 1 second of simulated time, ~ 10800:1.
.
Perhaps not using Java might help a bit; perhaps just Python; perhaps just straight in C to really speed things up? Perhaps even a GPU version to really-zoom-speed it up?
Re: I find it interesting is that every statement like this excludes (or more frequently, omits) the cost ($80-100 or higher) of a legal [Microsoft] Windows installation. /. , where there are users of GNU user space programs, Linux kernels, BSD boxen, and loaded hardware with various styles of free software and open source software and MIT/BSD licensed software. We don't need no stinkin' Windows installation. (note I am not implying that we don't need a "legal Microsoft windows installation" and thereby allowing for an "illegal" install of MSwindows; I am stating clearly that we [and you] do NOT NEED any sort of Microsoft Windows installation). You can get your windows the MIT-licensed way: X-windows!
:>)
First point: I've got a legal Windows installation: it's called X windows. Don't just say "Windows" when you mean "Microsoft Windows". Now on to the original retort.
This is
Except, of course, when the next iteration of the hottest new thing in android hardware comes along in anywhere from 3 to 12 months, and your oh-so-new-now hardware also joins the list of hardware that is no longer on the "updateable" list. A lot of Honeycomb devices do not get to upgrade. And that was just a single software revision level. So I don't think you should get your hopes up about the latest OS update even being applicable in the future even for a current Nexus.
So is this a real funding issue, or is this a clarion call about the overall general funding issue which NASA has in that it wants more money? :>(
.
I read that the "Washington Monument" model of funding allocation is that if the National Parks service is given a smaller budget, the first response in trying to scale back expenditures is to close the Washington Monument. Thus, a very popular and impressive program is shut down rather than trying to actually trim real money-wasters or really trivial non-essential or non-popular budget items. The plan is that the uproar will be loud enough to get the budget reinstated to full values, or least not cut as much. The police do this locally too, in the "if you cut our budget, we have to cut down the number of patrol officers", rather than reallocating overtime payments and schedules.
But then again, that might have been what they were trying to do with shutting the Space Shuttle program down. I don't know that this cubesat thing had gotten ahold of the popular imagination, or even any hold on publicity. I hadn't heard of it til now.
Look at what happened to Dmitry Skylarov for doing some coding that did not break the law in his home country, and led to his being arrested whle in the USA making a presentation about the software he had created. He was charged with circumventing the DMCA:
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitri_Skylarov
.
So even if, ultiimately, you are let go or exonerated or allowed to leave, it may be after false imprisonment or after true imprisonment for charges different from what his plea bargain covers. Why take the risk of traveling to a country that thinks that "might makes right" and is willing to use governmental powers and governmental agencies and forces to impose actions that break civil copyright laws instead of criminal laws. (e.g. New Zealand, Megaupload, Kim Dotcom)
Re:Just wrote a 2500 pg [page?] paper on flash trading
;>)
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Dude, you must be tired. 2500 pages? Or did you really mean 2500 words? Or was this a deliberate attempt to add to the humor by using the wrong units with the number? Or an amusing way to show how easily errors can slip by humans? Or just a result of tired-ness after typing and proof-reading that 2500 page essay?
SNAFU = Situation Normal: All Fucked Up.
;>)
That seems like the perfect description of what happened, either in terms of bad coding without type checking or input validation or in terms of the stock exchanges so frequently doing stupid things these days.
.
I think most likely it's a case of mismatched types between the calling function and how the function itself defines the calling variables. Errors that occured (possibly) (is there a link to the description/report that shows how this really happened?):
.
1 -- No Sanity Checking at Broker's end of transaction request: no validation of input at the customer or broker's computer, thus allowing a negative number entry for amount of shares to sell by the broker. aka Trusting the user to not input stupid values into a field.
2 -- Poor division of actionsactually not spliiting BUY and SELL into two different transaction categories and letting the sign of the number be the indicator as to the intent to buy or sell
3 -- Allowing wild extrema and outliers to affect trading: it's crazy to allow BID/buy orders at (average sale price)\dividedby(large positive integer) or to allow ASK/sell orders at (average sale price)\times(large positive integer). It's crazy for algorithms or humans to interpret any buy or sell price requests that are more than 50% deviated from the current running average price to be considered as anything other than either an anomaly or a deliberate attempt to fuck things up.
4 -- No sanity checking at the Stock Exchange board computer:no bounds checking on the board computer that accepts the buy/sell from the brokers. seriously, shouldn't there have been at least two places this poor interpretation could have been caught?
5 -- Unit Error / Representation Error: like letting a spacecraft go lost or kablooey by thinking the units are Imperial instead of Metric/Systeme_Internationale, maybe the order entry system represents the number X as signed long integer value, and the order-taker system (who knows what it's really called?) at the exchange interprets the number X as unsigned long integer value.
Now that number (5) error seems likely to me, as I have been learning C programmng and note that since it does not do type checking, it's possible to call a function with a variable that is holding a signed long integer, but the program is written with a
unsigned int functionname(unsigned long c1) {
\\... code goes here
}
\\... more intervening stuff
signed long int yabbadabbadoo = -6;
signed long int resultinganswer = 0;
resultinganswer=functionname(yabbadabbadoo);
so the same bit-representation is seen as two things. Akin to using the same words to mean two different things.
So the point that's being missed is "when exactly and why did having a link become illegal?"
.
Doesn't the fact that Google searches the web and provides links to copyright infringing material that is hosted on Youtube show that Google is performing contributory copyright infringement by providing links to material which infringes copyright? Should Google be facing the same charges?
It's a trap. Just like on Law and Order, you've got a deal with one set of cops and an agreement or plea bargain, and you're forgetting that there are other branches of the government with teeth, so either
-- a different prosecuting branch will arrest and try on the same charges
-- the same branch with which he thinks he's made an agreement will arrest him on a different set of charges with a slight variation, using the old "we gave you immunity for X, but not for Y" trick.
I agree, there's no reason he should come over to the US to avoid extradition,, when the point of extradition is to bring him over to the USA. Seriously, he's trusting this?
At a residential weekend for sufferers, there was one true doctor who gave a short 10 minute presentation and then tried to escape before he got hounded for everyone's personal problems. :) ) have to do: find out what is applicable and push as many buttons as needed to solve the problem.
.
And this guy in Italy has turned this around on its head and put all his medical records on line for all to see, hoping that the doctors will swarm to him and he can agglomerate all of that into "the cure" for himself. Whereas since he's acknowledging the homeopaths and spiritualists and quacks who've been responding to him, he's getting responses from those who are like the rest of the salesmen at that residential weekend: selling things that don't work.
.
Best wishes to you and yours, and you did a great job helping her and supporting her and finding your own way through and with keeping on the rational/medical path. It's separating the wheat from the chaff that's the tough part and that tough part is exactly what the patient and the patient's family and support system (like you
There was a DARPA challenge competition just about the feasbility and ability to do this.
The problem is when they might not shred it well enough or finely enough so that it is unrecoverable. Just look at the DARPA Shredder Challenge to see how much can be recovered from shredded documents. The last challenge involved multiple cross-cut shredded documents mixed together.
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Also, see the movie for another example of the carpet-weaving approach to unshredding strip-shredded documents when you've got enough manpower, even if you multiple documents mixed together.
Well, that's what happens when you outsource a significant privacy-related concern to someone outside of your internal domain: they might not shred it well enough or finely enough so that it is unrecoverable. Just look at the DARPA Shredder Challenge to see how much can be recovered from shredded documents.
Also, see the movie Argo for another example of the carpet-weaving approach to unshredding strip-shredded documents when you've got enough manpower.
re:
>"If you just write them off as a bunch of idiotic kooks,"
.
"But they are. It's like arguing with creationists."
.
Yep, it's as bad as trying to argue with the anti-fluoride idiot brigades which keep popping up over and over and over. Example, even the additional fluoride for La Jolla didn't start until 2011, and if you read the comment at the end of the article, you'll see someone calling it "poisoning":
http://www.lajollalight.com/2011/01/31/city-set-to-start-fluoridation-on-tuesday/
.
One place in florida voted fluoride out of its water in 2011, and the commissioners who voted to remove fluoride were all voted out and fluoridation is being considered again. There is no need to treat these anti-medicine and anti-science point of view people with kid gloves: they need to be respectfully told just how wrong they are.
http://www.infowars.com/the-coming-re-fluoridation-of-pinellas-county/
Pinellas commission sets vote on restoring fluoride to drinking water:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/pinellas-commission-sets-next-tuesday-for-fluoride-vote/1262454
Re: virus living in your system for a long period of time: Chickenpox already does this. Chickenpox is caused by the Varicella zoster virus. After the initial infection, the virus lays dormant in the nervous system of the human infected, and then can flare up in the adult as Herpes zoster also known as Shingles because it can appear on the skin in a shingle like shape because of the spreading pattern of the nerve level which is infected by the virus (dermatome).
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I didn't RTFA to see whether it's modified chickenpox that they are proposing to use for this.
They only said infinite; they did not say non-repeating infinite. An infinite plane with the same region tiled over and over again is still infinite.
Re:
The might look at the ability to prevent 50% of automobile related deaths for $1 a car and decide they can save $1 a car at the cost of a 25% increase in automobile related deaths, and choose that option.
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That's why the automobile industry has regulations imposed upon it in the USA at the governmental level: if there were not regulations requiring the placement of seat-belts and airbags in cars/trucks, the auto industry would be quick to save the $1-$2 per vehicle by leaving those safety devices out. That's why corporations can be thought of as greedy sociopathic individuals: the primary goal of corporations is to maximize profit. If there is not a check or balance on that with laws that regulate this type of greedy sociopathic behaviour on the part of the corporations, then they would continue to act that way.
.
It's also the same with costs: if you can get your costs shuttled off to a different division or a different heading / column on the ledger where it's no longer counted as a "negative" in your sum, then you've done well regardless of where the cost was shifted to. The blame can be shifted there along with the cost. That's the same for taxes being relabeled as use-fees, or taxes at one level being turned into taxes at a different level. You can say "we've reduced X" while simultaenously shuffling the balls around and playing keep-away with the increase that occured in Y hoping that no-one notices.
You're missing my point. And you're obviously misreading or misinterpreting what I am typing and saying. I'm agreeing that the Apple-1 is an important artefact and point out that there is a ][ and a trs-80 in the garage which i've turned on and played with. This posting is about the finding and "resurfacing" of a set of polaroid photos of this important artefact. There are already actual exemplars of this artefact extant; there are already full circuit diagrams and specs and emulators and re-makeover-replicas of the Apple-1 also in existence.
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The photograph of an artefact does not carry the weight of the artefact itself, in my opinion. Now the DINAAO emulator (at dinaao.sourceforge.net is interesting and nerd-news worthy!!! I downloaded that, compiled it, played with it. An actual Apple-1 I can play with. A photograph of an Apple-1, well I can look at and talk about. And that's about all we're doing here.
Cool. Very nice. Downloaded; maked (made?); run and "hello worlded". Pretty neat code. Now to look at the source and learn!
./dinaao replica1.bin
Version 1.0, 2008-01-14 initial release
Welcome to Dinaao.
Written by John Gilbert.
Hit F1 for Help, F9 to Exit, F12 to Reset.
Loading replica13a.bin... -> 0xE000 - 0xFFFF
Loading cffa1.bin... -> 0x9000 - 0xAFFF
Loading cassette.bin... -> 0xC100 - 0xC1FF
\
E000R
E000: 4C
>10 PRINT "HELLO"
>20 END
>RUN
HELLO
Right, the Apple 1 is an important artefact. A store that bought 500 of them whole sale at $500 apiece to sell them for $666.66 apiece is also interesting. But seriously, just the "polaroid photos of the Apple 1" by themselves is not worthy of much, but surrounded by the facebook posting of these photos and a blog on the Time magazine website about these, well that just barely takes it up a millimeter above the floor level of being uninteresting. :) ) on it in the garage for play and giggles; so I do know about and appreciate the history of computing. But seriously, the title of this topic is "1976 Polaroids of an Apple-1 Resurface". Seriously. Sad. Seriously sad.
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Where's the tech aspect? Where's the nerd aspect? Did they have to do cool digital image restoration to recover theimages? Did the polaroids somehow help Apple make enough money off the Apple 1 to keep them afloat until they could build and sell the apple ][ and move on to fame? I don't see any more gnews for gnerds capacity in this story. Time to move on.... And it's not that I'm so young that I can't see the importance of this. My parents have a trs80 and a running apple ][ bought in 1977 and some punchcard programs with fortran watfor (what for?
Dude, stackexchange is NOT stackoverflow. Stackexchange evens hosts a forum on bicycles, so why not a forum on Judaism? With questions of key values in times like these (!): /. article and submit it. So as to the original point, I agree that the concept of a polaroid photograph of a techy object from the prior century has dubious standing to be an article on the "one true /." (reference to the "true scotsman" fallacy), but boy it fits with the stinking pile of non-tech articles that /. has become. So I agree with that your first point. (also see five to ten of my previous posts that agree with the drab-ness, non-tech-ness, non-news-for-nerdness of this site). I was tempted to not even answer this Q so as not to give this particular topic/posting any more validity. In fact, your questioning of the usefulness of this posting of a polaroid is more relevant to /. than the posting of the polaroid itself is.
-- http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/22315/kashrus-status-of-turkeys : Are turkeys kosher?
-- http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/10358/may-one-use-a-computer-script-to-do-something-specifically-on-shabbos-yom-tov : Can you use computer scripts to automate actions to allow certain [forbidden?] activities on the Sabbath? The point in this one seems to be that the only ones who can earn Enthusiast or Fanatic badges on judaism.stackexchange.com would be those who use a computer on the sabbath and thus show themselves to be non-observant jews. Or perhaps I misread this. Either way, it sure seems like a valid forum.
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As to "is this [posting about polaroids] news", I have a memory of a very interesting thing that happened a while ago. I typed three letters as I had this memory. The thing that happened was tech related. Perhaps I ought to write a
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But I believe you are mistaking the narrow scope of stackoverflow for the wide berth of stackexchange's multiple topics and stacks.
Yeah, but /. has had a box up for me since two weeks after I started navigating here as a logged in user that says "hey we like you and we can turn ads off for you!", here's the actual text: /. revenue model can deal with posters being able to stop ads. And no, I didn't bother turning off the ads because since I've got noscript and adblock, I haven't seen them. And you're a logged-in user with a six-digit UID, so you've also cleared their threshold for being a "positive contributor"!!
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So obviously, the
BTW, I've seen how atrocious the Union-trib news-site looks at school on a browser without adblock and without no-script: UGH! I can't believe people pay subscription fees to sites like WSJ or NYT and then also get flooded with flash and javascript and animating and scrolling over ads. Ri-dic-u-lous!
Yep, regarding the 9-yo-girl with the Winnie the Pooh laptop: she searched (or her dad searched) on Google for the link to get the video/music on piratebay. So shouldn't google be held just as liable for contributory infringement. And hell, look at the youtube "videos" which have static images and mp3 music in the background. Isn't that the epitome of hosting copyright infringing material?
Then why aren't the communication stream providers also deemed to be just as liable and guilty for this infrinement/infringing activity?