Right now prosecutors make the decision to prosecute. Internal reviews are useless. Pass a law making it mandatory to criminally prosecute serious accusations of crimes against police.
... will be routed around. Regulate DNS and something else will be used. Block IP addresses and new ones will take their place. While governments dictate indefinite ownership of ideas for their corporate owners and prosecute dissent, technology has been pulling society in the other direction. You can outlaw reality, but that doesn't make it go away, anymore than outlawing weeds stops them from growing.
2) Autism is a very poorly defined disease, and so probably encompasses many. I seriously doubt a region-specific white-matter analysis of an MRI image will prove useful in predicting it. Perhaps a subset of the patients have a white-matter cause of their disorder, but it would still be very hard to detect. The inspiration for this approach was the similar test done (usually with ultrasound) for Down's, which is a much more clearly defined disorder. But even with that test there are plenty of false positives and negatives. It's not the most useful test and I doubt it ever will be, brain structure varies a great deal between individuals, and doesn't tell us much about function.
The wikipedia page makes some big claims with some nice pictures, but there is little evidence of use and their website consists of single link to download a zip file.
I've been following the protyping languages closely, looking for a better and more open option than Matlab. I haven't found it, but in the process of writing a book on scientific prototype-to-product development, I'm getting a better idea of what this language/environment should do.
If you remove the politicians who are selling out, they'll just be replaced by other sellouts. It's not enough to defeat bad laws as they come up, new laws affirming the freedom of data need to be fought for and won. The best defense is a good offense, and that is something sorely lacking in the IP wars. And the great difficulty with mounting that offense, is deciding what the objectives should be.
The brain doesn't work that way. You could trigger a thought, and then extract the thought as it happens. But is it a memory, or a response to the trigger? Is the memory real, or was it planted earlier? There is little difference in the brain between remembering that someone said something, and remembering that you were told that someone said it.
Sounds like you might want a content management system like Drupal or Joomla. Those are big, well-supported and widely used. Classic asp support exists, but I don't know how good it is. Haven't used those features myself.
Congress has little authority to stop this. It's the Whitehouse which has authority over the Federal agencies and can initiate or end investigations. This is all in Obama's lap.
Slashdot Mirror
yup
Right now prosecutors make the decision to prosecute. Internal reviews are useless. Pass a law making it mandatory to criminally prosecute serious accusations of crimes against police.
... will be routed around. Regulate DNS and something else will be used. Block IP addresses and new ones will take their place. While governments dictate indefinite ownership of ideas for their corporate owners and prosecute dissent, technology has been pulling society in the other direction. You can outlaw reality, but that doesn't make it go away, anymore than outlawing weeds stops them from growing.
There's links all over this page!
2) Autism is a very poorly defined disease, and so probably encompasses many. I seriously doubt a region-specific white-matter analysis of an MRI image will prove useful in predicting it. Perhaps a subset of the patients have a white-matter cause of their disorder, but it would still be very hard to detect. The inspiration for this approach was the similar test done (usually with ultrasound) for Down's, which is a much more clearly defined disorder. But even with that test there are plenty of false positives and negatives. It's not the most useful test and I doubt it ever will be, brain structure varies a great deal between individuals, and doesn't tell us much about function.
Flash is no good with big files.
The wikipedia page makes some big claims with some nice pictures, but there is little evidence of use and their website consists of single link to download a zip file.
Easily fails points A, B, and E.
I was going to say "yes", but that's not what I was thinking.
How well does it eat gigabyte files? I'm thinking not very well.
heh
I've been following the protyping languages closely, looking for a better and more open option than Matlab. I haven't found it, but in the process of writing a book on scientific prototype-to-product development, I'm getting a better idea of what this language/environment should do.
Where's the love, KDE is unsinkable!
rock on
If you remove the politicians who are selling out, they'll just be replaced by other sellouts. It's not enough to defeat bad laws as they come up, new laws affirming the freedom of data need to be fought for and won. The best defense is a good offense, and that is something sorely lacking in the IP wars. And the great difficulty with mounting that offense, is deciding what the objectives should be.
aww com'on. that's comedy
nice quote
The brain doesn't work that way. You could trigger a thought, and then extract the thought as it happens. But is it a memory, or a response to the trigger? Is the memory real, or was it planted earlier? There is little difference in the brain between remembering that someone said something, and remembering that you were told that someone said it.
Brains aren't the best place to seek truth
lol
If Gary McKinnon can drag it out for ten years, I can see why Jullian Assange is willing to start new projects.
Sounds like you might want a content management system like Drupal or Joomla. Those are big, well-supported and widely used. Classic asp support exists, but I don't know how good it is. Haven't used those features myself.
+1 Nice list
Data smuggler is the new drug smuggler
Congress has little authority to stop this. It's the Whitehouse which has authority over the Federal agencies and can initiate or end investigations. This is all in Obama's lap.