Without having independent 3rd parties analyse the algorithms and check the results against different use case scenarios and data sets, there's no verification against the vendor's claims. We're left with what they choose to publish and, as we've seen from big pharma, which has way more oversight than software, we end up with impressions of it's validity, reliability, and accuracy that are so distorted that they're essentially no better than reading their marketing and PR.
Take out all references to fMRI scans/monitoring. What does the article say? Anything new? Why is this news?
Now, about that research paper... some interesting stuff about how the brain works. It'd be nice to know more about how the different brain systems and processes interact with each other and what implications this paper has. How do the processes interact? Do they compete or compliment or both? When and how? What effects does this have on our consciousness, i.e. our thought processes?
This is a classic example of yet another meaningless social sciences paper. What does it actually establish? And what does this mean? What predictions can we reasonably make based on it? Does violence in society really cause violence in videogames? Are people with locus of control issues and aggressive tendencies likely to be attracted to playing violent videogames? What happens if we replicate the study in a culture with low rates of violence?
The best way to enrage a biggot is to show him that he's a biggot. Gamergate has enraged a lot of biggots. Problem is, some of these biggots have nothing better to do than harrass and threaten the people they don't like, i.e. people who aren't like them. You don't have to be like the person/people they've chosen to harrass and threaten this time around to be their next focus of attack, you just have to be different to them. Everyone's vulnerable. Now someone has to deal with them before they pick their next target. What's the best way to deal with trolls again?
The OP initially sounds plausible and hooks enough readers in with an interesting but ultimately unsolveable problem. The bit where he says, "..and my server keeps running." is guaranteed to score brownie points with/.-ers. The Russian fossil fuel industry is in the business of making money and it's not going to allow anything get in the way of it maximising its profits. Unstable, irregular energy supplies on their part will encourage consumer countries to increase investments in alternative sources, e.g. wind, solar, and geothermal, and supplies (other pipelines). That's the last thing they want. Irregular and more expensive energy supplies would also affect the competitiveness of their customer countries' economies, thereby further reducing their ability to pay top dollar for their energy.
This post appears to be pure FUD. I'm not exactly sure what the OP is trying to do but it's not at all convincing.
Accurate? They never make mistakes? Remember when Google claimed they could accurately track and predict pandemics like colds and flu? Their algorithms are secret and the processes and results opaque. When the outcomes of algorithm generated analyses are high-stakes, e.g. employment, health, and legal, they should be subjected to public scrutiny and accountability. How else can we ensure that the algorithms actually do what their vendors claim?
If you're talking burger flippers, those jobs aren't MEANT for people to earn a living at, those are jobs for college and HS kids working as first jobs, to learn what a job is about and have a little extra money in school, while their parents are still supporting them and their education.
Why shouldn't people who work in the fast food and service industries earn a living wage even when they work more than 50 hours a week? Most fast food workers are single mothers and there's also a high percentage of college graduates. Do they deserve to suffer in poverty from your point of view? And why does the fast food industry cost the tax payer around $7 Billion a year in tax payer subsidies when they're paying poverty wages and abusing their 3.5 Million employees? (That's a subsidy of around $2,000 per employee per year).
You sir, are a victim of ill-informed, vicious, insensitive, and inhumane right-wing propaganda.
From my experience, Canada doesn't actually have universal healthcare. Under certain conditions, Canadians and Permanent Residents can lose their healthcare coverage and have to pay out of their own pockets. There are also charges for medicines that are over and above the prescription fee. I'd call that semi-public healthcare. If I go back to any country in the EU, the fact that I have an EU passport is enough to get me healthcare without any charges, except a modest prescription charge if I'm earning a salary. EU countries still spend less per capita on healthcare than the US' "competitive" privatised healthcare system.
In addition, in makes more sense for public healthcare systems to pursue policies that reduce the overall cost of the system. In EU countries, there's a greater emphasis on early intervention, e.g. in Germany doctors can prescribe preventative therepeutic massage and spa visits to reduce stress and overwork (that would normally lead to sickness and longer periods of time off work and in treatment), and on prevention, rather than the more profitable "sick-care" that people in the US get, i.e. later, more expensive interventions and unnecessary drug therapies. People in the US take far more prescription drugs than anywhere else and it takes a toll on their overall health, e.g. through not attending to underlying causes of health problems, masking symptoms, and adverse side-effects.
Those CEOs, executives, and their "pay-per-use" politicians are terrified of there ever being a self-aware, critically thinking labour force. Those are the seeds of democratic participation and social, non-violent revolution, i.e. true democracy, which would undermine their power. The so called "education reformers" are simply asking for more of the same: More of what Paulo Freire called the banking model of education:
"This solution is not (nor can it be) found in the banking concept. On the contrary, banking education maintains and even stimulates the contradiction through the following attitudes and practices, which mirror oppressive society as a whole:
the teacher teaches and the students are taught;
the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing;
the teacher thinks and the students are thought about;
the teacher talks and the students listen -- meekly;
the teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined;
the teacher chooses and enforces his choice, and the students comply;
the teacher acts and the students have the illusion of acting through the action of the teacher;
the teacher chooses the program content, and the students (who were not consulted) adapt to it;
the teacher confuses the authority of knowledge with his or her own professional authority, which she and he sets in opposition to the freedom of the students;
the teacher is the Subject of the learning process, while the pupils are mere objects.
It is not surprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings. The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world. The more completely they accept the passive role imposed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them."
Yep, the Chemical Weapons Convention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... Also, deliberately targeting civilians with chemical weapons or anyone outside of a declared war zone would be against the Geneva Conventions. Tear gas, pepper spray, etc. are nerve agents which carry a high risk of permanent injury and death. They're classified as chemical weapons. The vast majority of the world's supply of tear gas is manufactured by companies based in New York, Wyoming, and Pennsylvania.
Silly? Do you think the "ideas" people at McDonald's watched Idiocracy and thought it was a documentary? Yo! Come git yo' big-ass fries! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
These stories have been circulating for decades. I've yet to see any that correlate estrogen in contraceptive pills with the quantities of estrogen in waste water. Modern contraceptive pills use minute amounts. Additionally, our bodies produce estrogen in the liver,adrenal glands, breasts (in women), and fat cells (are increased obesity rates producing more waste estrogen?). We put far larger amounts into some cosmetics and shampoos. We also use synthetic estrogen compounds in substantial amounts plastics in our food packaging and containers. They've long been known to leech into our food and are harmful endocrine disruptors which can have effects that are passed on to our offspring, including infertiility and cancers.
So, have they established that contraceptive pills are the source of the estrogen theyr'e finding in the water? Anyone have a link to the study handy?
In K-12 education, changes in policy, curricula, and other interventions such as supplementary classes (in this case) don't show much effect on learning outcomes until they've been in effect for at least 10-15 years. So, if Google, Faccebook, Microsoft, et al. can maintain their coding instruction projects for the next 10-15 years, they'll see what's possible with those approaches. So far, extra-curricula interventions in other subjects don't appear to show significant differences in learning outcomes. It's safe to ignore all the marketing B.S. from private and commercial after-school providers and heart-rending case histories from parents... that's the road that leads to snake-oil and quackery.
So you're claiming that Flash Player is a security threat and a vector for malware. Is that correct?
OK, the article is about developing apps and web content that don't use Flash Player, i.e. HTML+JS+CSS, C++, etc.
An IDE they mention, OpenFL is free and open source. Anyone can see the source code and check for any potential malware or exploits.
Installing native apps in your OS is a way bigger security and privacy risk than accessing web content and apps through a browser.
Even if you do publish apps for Flash Player, Flash Player is less of a security/malware threat than Apple Quicktime, Adobe Acrobat, and Javascript (JS usually tops the malware threat charts). In fact, Flash Player consistently falls low on the lists of security threats. Flash Player is iTunes' App Store and Google Play's biggest competitor. Where did you hear that Flash Player is a malware problem again?
BTW, has anyone mentioned that FlashDevelop http://www.flashdevelop.org/ is free and open source and supports multiple export/compiling formats?
Isn't it still murder if you kill someone outside of any judicial process or theatre of war? Is the US at war with Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, etc.? Is Israel at war with Palestine?
"Targeted killing (also known as Selective assassination) is the premeditated killing of an individual by a state organization or institution outside a judicial procedure or a battlefield." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Yep, USA, Canada, UK, Australia, & New Zealand, AKA "The Five Eyes." They're valiantly defending us from an unprecedented wave of attacks from paedophiles, kidnappers, and terrorists. If it weren't for them we'd be overrun, our children taken into sex slavery, our families kidnapped, and our public buildings and spaces blown up. I'm so grateful they've been able to stop all this simply by recording and storing every electronic communication we make.
So, how many child abductions/abuses, kidnappings, and terror attacks have they stopped because of this so far? How much does that add up to per crime?
The current system isn't broken, it's the system that's cheap enough to administer and accurate enough to be acceptable to colleges. All testing and assessment is a big bunch of compromises between validity, reliability, accuracy, and how well it predicts future learning outcomes for candidates, vs. how long it takes to administer and how much expertise is required to assess candidates (you need to pay experts). There are dozens of alternative assessment methods available that are more reflective of candidates knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as teamwork skills and perseverence. The trouble is they cost more to adminsiter in their present forms than people are willing and able to pay.
How quickly we forget who's behind the changes to net neutrality. Here's a quick reminder from early 2011: http://www.marketwatch.com/sto... Are the Koch Brothers gonna be celebrating yet another victory over us?
Re: "...are people so fucking stupid to voluntarily put all that information out there, and on Facebook to top it off?!?!" -- Sadly, yes. And why do you think Facebook have being trying so hard to make sure that users are identifiable as real people with phone numbers, credit cards, workplaces, and home addresses?
And hey, it'll be rich pickings for any scammers to find new victims. "Hey, are you dying of cancer? I have this miracle cure that absolutely, most definitely works, and only costs... erm... let me see, how much have you got in your bank account?.... ah, here it is... and your credit rating?.... (Thank you JP Morgan Chase!)... Yes, it costs $15,000 for the full treatment. (At least I think that's the maximum you could borrow).
Perhaps someone in the Chinese ministry for security and cointer-terrorism mistook the film "Four Lions" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F..., which featured a plot to bomb London using explosives strapped to crows as a training video? If so, did they ban anyone from attending the ceremony dressed as animals or mascots?
I think the City of London police saw this: https://xkcd.com/386/ (Duty Calls) and misunderstood it. Now duty calls them to govern and correct the internet.
Surprised that nobody's mentioned http://mediagoblin.org/ yet. Probably better than Youtube for a video oriented knowledge base. BTW, I don't recommend LMS'/VLE's. They're designed for controlled, linear progressions through courses and so are usually a nightmare to find random stuff on, i.e. often no global search, no filtering, no tagging, and no categories. You could always use an LMS/VLE and have MediaGoblin as a sitewide repository; best of both worlds!
Gladwell took a German study of the practising habits of orchestral violinists compared to their achievement. In this particular study, the violinists who achieved mastery practised a wide ranging number of hours. 10,000 was only the average. Some practised far more and some practised far less. Gladwell clearly doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Without having independent 3rd parties analyse the algorithms and check the results against different use case scenarios and data sets, there's no verification against the vendor's claims. We're left with what they choose to publish and, as we've seen from big pharma, which has way more oversight than software, we end up with impressions of it's validity, reliability, and accuracy that are so distorted that they're essentially no better than reading their marketing and PR.
Take out all references to fMRI scans/monitoring. What does the article say? Anything new? Why is this news?
Now, about that research paper... some interesting stuff about how the brain works. It'd be nice to know more about how the different brain systems and processes interact with each other and what implications this paper has. How do the processes interact? Do they compete or compliment or both? When and how? What effects does this have on our consciousness, i.e. our thought processes?
This is a classic example of yet another meaningless social sciences paper. What does it actually establish? And what does this mean? What predictions can we reasonably make based on it? Does violence in society really cause violence in videogames? Are people with locus of control issues and aggressive tendencies likely to be attracted to playing violent videogames? What happens if we replicate the study in a culture with low rates of violence?
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The best way to enrage a biggot is to show him that he's a biggot. Gamergate has enraged a lot of biggots. Problem is, some of these biggots have nothing better to do than harrass and threaten the people they don't like, i.e. people who aren't like them. You don't have to be like the person/people they've chosen to harrass and threaten this time around to be their next focus of attack, you just have to be different to them. Everyone's vulnerable. Now someone has to deal with them before they pick their next target. What's the best way to deal with trolls again?
The OP initially sounds plausible and hooks enough readers in with an interesting but ultimately unsolveable problem. The bit where he says, "..and my server keeps running." is guaranteed to score brownie points with /.-ers. The Russian fossil fuel industry is in the business of making money and it's not going to allow anything get in the way of it maximising its profits. Unstable, irregular energy supplies on their part will encourage consumer countries to increase investments in alternative sources, e.g. wind, solar, and geothermal, and supplies (other pipelines). That's the last thing they want. Irregular and more expensive energy supplies would also affect the competitiveness of their customer countries' economies, thereby further reducing their ability to pay top dollar for their energy.
This post appears to be pure FUD. I'm not exactly sure what the OP is trying to do but it's not at all convincing.
Accurate? They never make mistakes? Remember when Google claimed they could accurately track and predict pandemics like colds and flu? Their algorithms are secret and the processes and results opaque. When the outcomes of algorithm generated analyses are high-stakes, e.g. employment, health, and legal, they should be subjected to public scrutiny and accountability. How else can we ensure that the algorithms actually do what their vendors claim?
BTW, was that Buttle or Tuttle? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you're talking burger flippers, those jobs aren't MEANT for people to earn a living at, those are jobs for college and HS kids working as first jobs, to learn what a job is about and have a little extra money in school, while their parents are still supporting them and their education.
Why shouldn't people who work in the fast food and service industries earn a living wage even when they work more than 50 hours a week? Most fast food workers are single mothers and there's also a high percentage of college graduates. Do they deserve to suffer in poverty from your point of view? And why does the fast food industry cost the tax payer around $7 Billion a year in tax payer subsidies when they're paying poverty wages and abusing their 3.5 Million employees? (That's a subsidy of around $2,000 per employee per year).
You sir, are a victim of ill-informed, vicious, insensitive, and inhumane right-wing propaganda.
From my experience, Canada doesn't actually have universal healthcare. Under certain conditions, Canadians and Permanent Residents can lose their healthcare coverage and have to pay out of their own pockets. There are also charges for medicines that are over and above the prescription fee. I'd call that semi-public healthcare. If I go back to any country in the EU, the fact that I have an EU passport is enough to get me healthcare without any charges, except a modest prescription charge if I'm earning a salary. EU countries still spend less per capita on healthcare than the US' "competitive" privatised healthcare system.
In addition, in makes more sense for public healthcare systems to pursue policies that reduce the overall cost of the system. In EU countries, there's a greater emphasis on early intervention, e.g. in Germany doctors can prescribe preventative therepeutic massage and spa visits to reduce stress and overwork (that would normally lead to sickness and longer periods of time off work and in treatment), and on prevention, rather than the more profitable "sick-care" that people in the US get, i.e. later, more expensive interventions and unnecessary drug therapies. People in the US take far more prescription drugs than anywhere else and it takes a toll on their overall health, e.g. through not attending to underlying causes of health problems, masking symptoms, and adverse side-effects.
Those CEOs, executives, and their "pay-per-use" politicians are terrified of there ever being a self-aware, critically thinking labour force. Those are the seeds of democratic participation and social, non-violent revolution, i.e. true democracy, which would undermine their power. The so called "education reformers" are simply asking for more of the same: More of what Paulo Freire called the banking model of education:
"This solution is not (nor can it be) found in the banking concept. On the contrary, banking education maintains and even stimulates the contradiction through the following attitudes and practices, which mirror oppressive society as a whole:
the teacher teaches and the students are taught;
the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing;
the teacher thinks and the students are thought about;
the teacher talks and the students listen -- meekly;
the teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined;
the teacher chooses and enforces his choice, and the students comply;
the teacher acts and the students have the illusion of acting through the action of the teacher;
the teacher chooses the program content, and the students (who were not consulted) adapt to it;
the teacher confuses the authority of knowledge with his or her own professional authority, which she and he sets in opposition to the freedom of the students;
the teacher is the Subject of the learning process, while the pupils are mere objects.
It is not surprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings. The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world. The more completely they accept the passive role imposed on them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them."
Source: http://www2.webster.edu/~corbe...
Yep, the Chemical Weapons Convention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... Also, deliberately targeting civilians with chemical weapons or anyone outside of a declared war zone would be against the Geneva Conventions. Tear gas, pepper spray, etc. are nerve agents which carry a high risk of permanent injury and death. They're classified as chemical weapons. The vast majority of the world's supply of tear gas is manufactured by companies based in New York, Wyoming, and Pennsylvania.
Silly? Do you think the "ideas" people at McDonald's watched Idiocracy and thought it was a documentary? Yo! Come git yo' big-ass fries! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
These stories have been circulating for decades. I've yet to see any that correlate estrogen in contraceptive pills with the quantities of estrogen in waste water. Modern contraceptive pills use minute amounts. Additionally, our bodies produce estrogen in the liver,adrenal glands, breasts (in women), and fat cells (are increased obesity rates producing more waste estrogen?). We put far larger amounts into some cosmetics and shampoos. We also use synthetic estrogen compounds in substantial amounts plastics in our food packaging and containers. They've long been known to leech into our food and are harmful endocrine disruptors which can have effects that are passed on to our offspring, including infertiility and cancers.
So, have they established that contraceptive pills are the source of the estrogen theyr'e finding in the water? Anyone have a link to the study handy?
Re: I'd rather pay Google than M$.
Why? What's the difference? Aren't they equally bad but in different ways?
In K-12 education, changes in policy, curricula, and other interventions such as supplementary classes (in this case) don't show much effect on learning outcomes until they've been in effect for at least 10-15 years. So, if Google, Faccebook, Microsoft, et al. can maintain their coding instruction projects for the next 10-15 years, they'll see what's possible with those approaches. So far, extra-curricula interventions in other subjects don't appear to show significant differences in learning outcomes. It's safe to ignore all the marketing B.S. from private and commercial after-school providers and heart-rending case histories from parents... that's the road that leads to snake-oil and quackery.
So you're claiming that Flash Player is a security threat and a vector for malware. Is that correct?
OK, the article is about developing apps and web content that don't use Flash Player, i.e. HTML+JS+CSS, C++, etc.
An IDE they mention, OpenFL is free and open source. Anyone can see the source code and check for any potential malware or exploits.
Installing native apps in your OS is a way bigger security and privacy risk than accessing web content and apps through a browser.
Even if you do publish apps for Flash Player, Flash Player is less of a security/malware threat than Apple Quicktime, Adobe Acrobat, and Javascript (JS usually tops the malware threat charts). In fact, Flash Player consistently falls low on the lists of security threats. Flash Player is iTunes' App Store and Google Play's biggest competitor. Where did you hear that Flash Player is a malware problem again?
BTW, has anyone mentioned that FlashDevelop http://www.flashdevelop.org/ is free and open source and supports multiple export/compiling formats?
Isn't it still murder if you kill someone outside of any judicial process or theatre of war? Is the US at war with Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, etc.? Is Israel at war with Palestine?
"Targeted killing (also known as Selective assassination) is the premeditated killing of an individual by a state organization or institution outside a judicial procedure or a battlefield." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Yep, USA, Canada, UK, Australia, & New Zealand, AKA "The Five Eyes." They're valiantly defending us from an unprecedented wave of attacks from paedophiles, kidnappers, and terrorists. If it weren't for them we'd be overrun, our children taken into sex slavery, our families kidnapped, and our public buildings and spaces blown up. I'm so grateful they've been able to stop all this simply by recording and storing every electronic communication we make.
So, how many child abductions/abuses, kidnappings, and terror attacks have they stopped because of this so far? How much does that add up to per crime?
The current system isn't broken, it's the system that's cheap enough to administer and accurate enough to be acceptable to colleges. All testing and assessment is a big bunch of compromises between validity, reliability, accuracy, and how well it predicts future learning outcomes for candidates, vs. how long it takes to administer and how much expertise is required to assess candidates (you need to pay experts). There are dozens of alternative assessment methods available that are more reflective of candidates knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as teamwork skills and perseverence. The trouble is they cost more to adminsiter in their present forms than people are willing and able to pay.
How quickly we forget who's behind the changes to net neutrality. Here's a quick reminder from early 2011: http://www.marketwatch.com/sto... Are the Koch Brothers gonna be celebrating yet another victory over us?
Re: "...are people so fucking stupid to voluntarily put all that information out there, and on Facebook to top it off?!?!" -- Sadly, yes. And why do you think Facebook have being trying so hard to make sure that users are identifiable as real people with phone numbers, credit cards, workplaces, and home addresses?
And hey, it'll be rich pickings for any scammers to find new victims. "Hey, are you dying of cancer? I have this miracle cure that absolutely, most definitely works, and only costs... erm... let me see, how much have you got in your bank account?.... ah, here it is... and your credit rating?.... (Thank you JP Morgan Chase!)... Yes, it costs $15,000 for the full treatment. (At least I think that's the maximum you could borrow).
Welcome to free market capitalist America!
Perhaps someone in the Chinese ministry for security and cointer-terrorism mistook the film "Four Lions" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F..., which featured a plot to bomb London using explosives strapped to crows as a training video? If so, did they ban anyone from attending the ceremony dressed as animals or mascots?
I think the City of London police saw this: https://xkcd.com/386/ (Duty Calls) and misunderstood it. Now duty calls them to govern and correct the internet.
Surprised that nobody's mentioned http://mediagoblin.org/ yet. Probably better than Youtube for a video oriented knowledge base. BTW, I don't recommend LMS'/VLE's. They're designed for controlled, linear progressions through courses and so are usually a nightmare to find random stuff on, i.e. often no global search, no filtering, no tagging, and no categories. You could always use an LMS/VLE and have MediaGoblin as a sitewide repository; best of both worlds!
Gladwell took a German study of the practising habits of orchestral violinists compared to their achievement. In this particular study, the violinists who achieved mastery practised a wide ranging number of hours. 10,000 was only the average. Some practised far more and some practised far less. Gladwell clearly doesn't know what he's talking about.