The whole thing is tragic, but the part that really made me raise my eyebrows was this: Even data entered on secure websites -- such as passwords, credit card numbers and bank account numbers, information that is supposed to be viewable only by the sender and the intended recipient -- is accessible to Marketscore, since the company has developed a method that allows it to view encrypted information.
I'm dubious, but if this is true, it means they've broken the public key encryption used in SSL and are running a classic man-in-the-middle attack on everyone in their "panel"!
I agree. There must be a balance between rigor and creativity. I think science has struck that balance pretty well -- if an idea has merit it will eventually be accepted (because others can reproduce it).
Continental drift is a good case study, I think. It wasn't accepted until a plausible cause (plate techtonics) was identified. It took a long time, but the process worked well.
Democracy is a wonderful system, and widely applicable. However, when it comes to gathering and presenting ideas (including facts, which are the most basic kind of idea), democracy is probably a poor model. People who care about ideas are looking for the best ones (the most powerful, the clearest, etc.), not the most popular ones.
I would put more credence in the Wikipedia if it followed the kind of peer review model used in scientfic journals. Nothing is published unless it meets a high standard set by experts in the field. This approach has made science remarkably successful over the last few centuries, and I think it would probably work well for encyclopedias too.
Surely this is not true of Compact Flash cards, is it? Number of reads and writes are nearly equal when I take digital photos, and I expect my CF card to last as long as my camera.
Traditionally, I believe the revenue generated from newspaper sales merely covers the cost of distribution (paper, trucks, delivery people, etc.). Since distributing bits is very cheap by comparison, one could plausibly conclude that the "subscription" price for software should be very low.
I have to disagree. This scene was the highlight of the movie. The lightsaber battle was the only one of the three end-of-movie "threads" that I enjoyed.
From the article: "Shostak came up with an estimate of between 10,000 and 1 million radio transmitters in the galaxy."
The Drake Equation is just a fancy way of saying SWAG (silly wild-ass guess). Personally, I find this SWAG to be wild high by several orders of magnitude.
Personally, my guess is that our galaxy has 0-5 other species actively transmitting.
One of the great things about having kids is that you get to revisit all the things you liked about being a kid yourself and see it all in a new way.
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I've been playing Nintendo with my two boys (ages 8 and 3). We just finished playing Donkey Kong Country I and II -- 16-bit games from about 10 years ago. They loved them. Compared to Donkey Kong 64 from a few years ago, the older games are much better -- much more exciting, challenging, and satisfying. My kids don't care about retro, they just want to play fun games.
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That first review is freaking hilarious. Thanks for the laughs.
Picking on Fred Brooks' TMMM by noting it's anacrhonisms is about the most juvenile thing I can imagine.
I completely agree. It's like critiquing the U.S. Constitution because it was written with a quill pen instead of a word processor. Or mocking the Founding Fathers because they had to ride horses to get anywhere.
You can see a group of craters that look like a skull just south of the equator and something that looks like George Washington (wearing his wig) near the north pole.
Is this really the most important/interesting thing that Slashdot can tell us about the Phoebe mission so far? What next, a bulletin about a cloud that is shaped like a bunny rabbit?
You may be right about the Polar Express. Seeing the conductor with a simulacrum of Tom Hanks' face is strange.
On the other hand, I think that Shrek 2 is quite realistic in places. The King and the Fairy Godmother in particular, are utterly convincing. Not cartoonish at all (for some reasonable definition of "cartoonish").
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The whole thing is tragic, but the part that really made me raise my eyebrows was this:
Even data entered on secure websites -- such as passwords, credit card numbers and bank account numbers, information that is supposed to be viewable only by the sender and the intended recipient -- is accessible to Marketscore, since the company has developed a method that allows it to view encrypted information.
I'm dubious, but if this is true, it means they've broken the public key encryption used in SSL and are running a classic man-in-the-middle attack on everyone in their "panel"!
Software should NOT be simultaneously closed source and patented. They are two different protection schemes that are incompatable.
Excellent point, well made. I agree.
Sorry.
Sure, that would be fine. Sort of like the Slashdot moderation system.:-)
I agree. There must be a balance between rigor and creativity. I think science has struck that balance pretty well -- if an idea has merit it will eventually be accepted (because others can reproduce it).
Continental drift is a good case study, I think. It wasn't accepted until a plausible cause (plate techtonics) was identified. It took a long time, but the process worked well.
Democracy is a wonderful system, and widely applicable. However, when it comes to gathering and presenting ideas (including facts, which are the most basic kind of idea), democracy is probably a poor model. People who care about ideas are looking for the best ones (the most powerful, the clearest, etc.), not the most popular ones.
I would put more credence in the Wikipedia if it followed the kind of peer review model used in scientfic journals. Nothing is published unless it meets a high standard set by experts in the field. This approach has made science remarkably successful over the last few centuries, and I think it would probably work well for encyclopedias too.
David is the primary author of FlexWiki. See his blog here.
Not so strange. Remember how they busted Al Capone for failing to pay taxes on his ill-gotten income?
I broke it in about 20 seconds. If that's the best AI we can produce after all this time, perhaps it's time to try another approach.
I think the answer to your second question is certain to be no. Microsoft is perhaps evil, but not stupid.
Surely this is not true of Compact Flash cards, is it? Number of reads and writes are nearly equal when I take digital photos, and I expect my CF card to last as long as my camera.
Traditionally, I believe the revenue generated from newspaper sales merely covers the cost of distribution (paper, trucks, delivery people, etc.). Since distributing bits is very cheap by comparison, one could plausibly conclude that the "subscription" price for software should be very low.
I have to disagree. This scene was the highlight of the movie. The lightsaber battle was the only one of the three end-of-movie "threads" that I enjoyed.
From the article: "Shostak came up with an estimate of between 10,000 and 1 million radio transmitters in the galaxy."
The Drake Equation is just a fancy way of saying SWAG (silly wild-ass guess). Personally, I find this SWAG to be wild high by several orders of magnitude.
Personally, my guess is that our galaxy has 0-5 other species actively transmitting.
Link?
it's a shame noone understood what I meant. oh wait, they did.
We also realized that you don't understand the words you are using. This tends to reduce our opinion of your writing.
You're welcome.
One of the great things about having kids is that you get to revisit all the things you liked about being a kid yourself and see it all in a new way.
I've been playing Nintendo with my two boys (ages 8 and 3). We just finished playing Donkey Kong Country I and II -- 16-bit games from about 10 years ago. They loved them. Compared to Donkey Kong 64 from a few years ago, the older games are much better -- much more exciting, challenging, and satisfying. My kids don't care about retro, they just want to play fun games.
That first review is freaking hilarious. Thanks for the laughs.
Great. Just consider the more likely possibility that a plug has come loose before reconfiguring the entire system.
Picking on Fred Brooks' TMMM by noting it's anacrhonisms is about the most juvenile thing I can imagine.
I completely agree. It's like critiquing the U.S. Constitution because it was written with a quill pen instead of a word processor. Or mocking the Founding Fathers because they had to ride horses to get anywhere.
You can see a group of craters that look like a skull just south of the equator and something that looks like George Washington (wearing his wig) near the north pole.
Is this really the most important/interesting thing that Slashdot can tell us about the Phoebe mission so far? What next, a bulletin about a cloud that is shaped like a bunny rabbit?
Then it seems to me that the new platform-agnostic utility could request the same info from Google, thereby eliminating the problem. No?
You may be right about the Polar Express. Seeing the conductor with a simulacrum of Tom Hanks' face is strange.
On the other hand, I think that Shrek 2 is quite realistic in places. The King and the Fairy Godmother in particular, are utterly convincing. Not cartoonish at all (for some reasonable definition of "cartoonish").