You knew about the interaction between the front and rear hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex? Heck, why did the researchers bother doing the fMRI study rather than posting an Ask Slashdot?
I presume here you're not simply reacting to the clickbait headline - that would be unkind.
apparently looking pretty is far more important than having accurate data.
yeah, most people believe that. People figure if they put very little effort into ease-of-use (aka aesthetics) they probably put very little effort into accuracy. It's not true, but humans are the desired userbase and humans use such heuristics.
Everybody has been telling OSM that for a decade but they refuse to accept that reality, so the userbase remains small. It's a shame to cede the territory to Google.
I wonder how many young non-English speaking Asian hookers fall into that category?
Why wonder? Legalize it, have a $10 license, issue work visas and check their ID.
Boom, you've solved the trafficking problem. Only problem is the Puritans who will be offended by the "insult" to their religion (that other people don't believe in), but they should go move to a place with Sharia if they want to be coddled by religious laws -- it's far more important to rational people to end trafficking than to preventual consensual sex for money.
You expect the CIA to not have professional complainers on the Internet? Cute. Look above and you have a guy who admits he does work for the "Navy" calling Wikileaks extortionists already (that word does not mean what he thinks it means).
We can be quite sure Wikileaks isn't asking for anything for themselves for the disclosure (because they never have) - it seems like they must be asking for something for the users in return or they could just do a Project Zero type of disclosure.
MoFo obviously didn't have a problem with the terms, so it's not going to be something against user freedom (say what you want about Rust and WebExtensions, they get the freedom part mostly right). But MoFo doesn't have an ongoing private relationship with intelligence agencies, and that's what they claim the issue is about, so it passes the smell test. n.b. Wikileaks is apparently leveraging one disclosure for another disclosure.
Right - even if you start with a space-telescope mirror quality finish, by time a bunch of GI's handle it and you fly it through the atmosphere you won't, with current materials.
And in the process of making the missile all shiny you've given up any effort at stealth.
Until there is liability for poor designs and implementation there will be changes to improve quality and security.
Show me the equations that show if a bridge will hold up. Fine, those are well-known.
Now show me the equations that prove that a computer system is secure, for a non-trivial algorithm, so that a Computer Science "Engineer" can place his professional stamp on one. And remember, nobody will buy Windows that takes thirty years to get out the door at six-thousand bucks a copy.
Really, though, do you even CS, bro? Besides the software-provability problem, a bridge engineer is not responsible for any shoddy work that is hidden from him by a lackluster construction crew (and no, inspections are not fool-proof if there is professional malpractice occurring).
You can't simply make a comparison between a static and a dynamic system and declare equivalene. That's as silly as Schnier thinking that regulators will save us from ourselves. He should look into real insurance, strict liability, and/or marketable torts if he wants a system that can actually provide better results.
There was nothing fantastic, fun or exhilarating about it...
That sounds like a normative claim. I betcha he had lots of fun and excitement.
There is no precedent for so foolish an escapade"...
Oh, c'mon - now she's just trying to damage Canada's hard-won reputation. They practically invented "here, hold my beer"! It's as if she doesn't know any actual Canadians.
My reaction to this story was "well, duh." Anyone who didn't already know this is someone who isn't familiar enough with the concepts involved.
Huh? There's no "concept involved" that leads to the inevitable conclusion that some HTTPS proxies won't do certificate authentication. It's an implementation error.
Of course increasing complexity will increase the programming error rate, but that's not at all specific to this vulnerability. And since the vendors have patched these flaws, they're not inherent to the concept of HTTPS interception.
Exactly this. Google seems to do a decent job of keeping spam out of my inbox.
You're arguing against a decentralized Internet because one example of a highly centralized Internet service has a competitive advantage, probably because there's no successful anti-spam cooperation protocol.
DCC/Razor/Pyzor do help, but somehow Google's spent a decade improving their detection AI and the open solutions have stalled. Our community seems to not chase diminishing returns, even when the 20% is ultimately more valuable than the 80%.
It was better 30 years ago. Coconut oil and fake butter flavor with big salt crystals. Now it's coated in some sort of nanotech salt and the texture is more crunchy, like packing material. Fortunately I only need to go for IMAX-worthy presentations these days.
So apparently it's a protocol like torrents or something? So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them And how is this "irrevocable"? Somebody needs to do a lot more explaining about this LBRY thing instead of just namedropping it and expecting people to know what they're talking about.
It's like a blockchain for media, so you cannot do a "takedown" on content that is uploaded with that parameter set without destroying the whole system. The idea is to make a censorship-resistant media platform for the Internet.
It's a good project but yeah the submitter should have done some editing. I went to a development demo last year at NH Liberty Forum so I'm familiar with it but it's definitely not a household name yet.
Nah, the lesson here is that it's IMPOSSIBLE to keep government and economics as separate as possible, and that trying to keep them away is not a sustainable solution.
You're right - when you allow a government, they stick their 'fingers' into business, every time, guaranteed. And when you give the psychopaths "government" power, you get 300 million dead in just a hundred years.
I'm not claiming I know a better solution. I'm just saying we need to find a better solution.
If 300 million dead isn't going to teach humanity that government is the most deadly creation humans have ever divised, I'm not sure that anything can. Masses of ignorant people will still claim that we need a government system to keep us safe from "the anarchists" (who are meanwhile busy selling shoes and cryptocurrencies) and that we just need to "vote harder" until the killing stops. They apparently took both history and mathematics in a government school.
I still think Bill Gates is a dick, but I'd put up with his crappy business practices over Stalin's any day. Nobody is going to vote to allow Bill Gates to have nukes. Because without the blinder of politics they realize that would be an incredibly stupid move.
Neo did all kind of "magical" stuff at the end of #3. That's direct evidence that he was in a simulation. He may have been The One who was capable of manipulating the outer simulation, but he did not escape it. The trilogy is a tragedy.
Remember that the next time somebody gives you a choice between two realities and promises you that one will give you freedom while the other will be your enslavement.
Would this also be a property of time? That you can't reach absolute zero because doing so, would be akin to stopping time, if only for that specific single point in space?
Now that has me wondering about the singularity in a black hole. And now my brain hearts a little as so many things seem to conflict with all of this.
Read Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" - it's from the 80's but he deals with this and related concepts elegantly. Time never gets to zero - as soon as you try you're back to where you started. cf. Alice's Adventures.
I think the proof in this case is a bit different, though. If a system had zero energy, you couldn't even interact with it (i.e. observe it). And there's the quantum noise of everything in the universe; it probably isn't possible to stop the soup without removing space from the universe, and fields will always be interacting with matter no matter how hard a scientist wishes otherwise.
Unless we develop technology to create voids in the universe or to exclude fields we're going to have vibrating matter.
Hard, absolutely, occasionally heartrending and frustrating, but those who skip it aren't gaining 18 years, they're losing the richest experiences life offers.
Right - every successful parent I know feels that rearing children is a chance to reevaluate most of life's choices, learn everything anew with improved understanding, and to realize what it is to be part of this thing called Life, and by extension Society. Sure, fewer books get read, fewer vacations are taken, and the Netflix queue only ever grows in length, but it's important to note that most parents don't lament those delays and most deathbed regrets are devoid about notions of game release dates.
People who revel in "their 18 years" (ha, they forget that most people have 2+ children) almost always insist that the experience of people who have reared children does not exist or that it does not have really have deep and important meaning. Because apparently parents don't actually understand something unique that wouldn't be obvious without 18+ years of experience.
But, frankly the most surprising aspect of this research is that the stress of childrearing doesn't seem to take years off one's life!
Sadly, it appears that Dear Leader Trump will suppress any investigation and attempt to find the truth about the election.
Were you expecting to read a daily status report about investigations into an attempted CIA coup d'etat in the free copy of USA Today in your hotel room? Because that's not how it works.
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't this obvious?
You knew about the interaction between the front and rear hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex? Heck, why did the researchers bother doing the fMRI study rather than posting an Ask Slashdot?
I presume here you're not simply reacting to the clickbait headline - that would be unkind.
apparently looking pretty is far more important than having accurate data.
yeah, most people believe that. People figure if they put very little effort into ease-of-use (aka aesthetics) they probably put very little effort into accuracy. It's not true, but humans are the desired userbase and humans use such heuristics.
Everybody has been telling OSM that for a decade but they refuse to accept that reality, so the userbase remains small. It's a shame to cede the territory to Google.
There are usually people in populated areas who are looking to trade BTC for FRN's. Do you have thousands to offload?
I wonder how many young non-English speaking Asian hookers fall into that category?
Why wonder? Legalize it, have a $10 license, issue work visas and check their ID.
Boom, you've solved the trafficking problem. Only problem is the Puritans who will be offended by the "insult" to their religion (that other people don't believe in), but they should go move to a place with Sharia if they want to be coddled by religious laws -- it's far more important to rational people to end trafficking than to preventual consensual sex for money.
Police calls phone number in the ad.
Not just that - they're now allowed to have sex with the prostitute before arresting him/her. Talk about getting fucked by the state!
Wish you critics would make up your fucking mind.
You expect the CIA to not have professional complainers on the Internet? Cute. Look above and you have a guy who admits he does work for the "Navy" calling Wikileaks extortionists already (that word does not mean what he thinks it means).
We can be quite sure Wikileaks isn't asking for anything for themselves for the disclosure (because they never have) - it seems like they must be asking for something for the users in return or they could just do a Project Zero type of disclosure.
MoFo obviously didn't have a problem with the terms, so it's not going to be something against user freedom (say what you want about Rust and WebExtensions, they get the freedom part mostly right). But MoFo doesn't have an ongoing private relationship with intelligence agencies, and that's what they claim the issue is about, so it passes the smell test. n.b. Wikileaks is apparently leveraging one disclosure for another disclosure.
Nothing is 100% reflective
Right - even if you start with a space-telescope mirror quality finish, by time a bunch of GI's handle it and you fly it through the atmosphere you won't, with current materials.
And in the process of making the missile all shiny you've given up any effort at stealth.
Until there is liability for poor designs and implementation there will be changes to improve quality and security.
Show me the equations that show if a bridge will hold up. Fine, those are well-known.
Now show me the equations that prove that a computer system is secure, for a non-trivial algorithm, so that a Computer Science "Engineer" can place his professional stamp on one. And remember, nobody will buy Windows that takes thirty years to get out the door at six-thousand bucks a copy.
Really, though, do you even CS, bro? Besides the software-provability problem, a bridge engineer is not responsible for any shoddy work that is hidden from him by a lackluster construction crew (and no, inspections are not fool-proof if there is professional malpractice occurring).
You can't simply make a comparison between a static and a dynamic system and declare equivalene. That's as silly as Schnier thinking that regulators will save us from ourselves. He should look into real insurance, strict liability, and/or marketable torts if he wants a system that can actually provide better results.
Not just that:
"dumb and dangerous" and "unconscionably stupid.
Well, he's there in her courtroom.
There was nothing fantastic, fun or exhilarating about it...
That sounds like a normative claim. I betcha he had lots of fun and excitement.
There is no precedent for so foolish an escapade"...
Oh, c'mon - now she's just trying to damage Canada's hard-won reputation. They practically invented "here, hold my beer"! It's as if she doesn't know any actual Canadians.
My reaction to this story was "well, duh." Anyone who didn't already know this is someone who isn't familiar enough with the concepts involved.
Huh? There's no "concept involved" that leads to the inevitable conclusion that some HTTPS proxies won't do certificate authentication. It's an implementation error.
Of course increasing complexity will increase the programming error rate, but that's not at all specific to this vulnerability. And since the vendors have patched these flaws, they're not inherent to the concept of HTTPS interception.
Exactly this. Google seems to do a decent job of keeping spam out of my inbox.
You're arguing against a decentralized Internet because one example of a highly centralized Internet service has a competitive advantage, probably because there's no successful anti-spam cooperation protocol.
DCC/Razor/Pyzor do help, but somehow Google's spent a decade improving their detection AI and the open solutions have stalled. Our community seems to not chase diminishing returns, even when the 20% is ultimately more valuable than the 80%.
Are you new here?
Fortunately there are scripts on github to download the data. A sad day for the non-Bayesians.
You're claiming that nobody really likes theatres, that they just put up with them for the sake of access to new content.
You might be projection your options onto the masses. And not in 70mm.
It was better 30 years ago. Coconut oil and fake butter flavor with big salt crystals. Now it's coated in some sort of nanotech salt and the texture is more crunchy, like packing material. Fortunately I only need to go for IMAX-worthy presentations these days.
There you go challenging the Newspeak again. Your adherence to reality is a threat to our society.
Really? Please link to the service where I can get a lecture on quantum field theory accurately captioned for $1/minute.
So apparently it's a protocol like torrents or something?
So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them
And how is this "irrevocable"? Somebody needs to do a lot more explaining about this LBRY thing instead of just namedropping it and expecting people to know what they're talking about.
It's like a blockchain for media, so you cannot do a "takedown" on content that is uploaded with that parameter set without destroying the whole system. The idea is to make a censorship-resistant media platform for the Internet.
It's a good project but yeah the submitter should have done some editing. I went to a development demo last year at NH Liberty Forum so I'm familiar with it but it's definitely not a household name yet.
The university had two choices - spend all kinds of money to make them available meeting the requirements of the ADA, or take them down.
No, they had a very clear third choice - tell the Feds to go fuck themselves and sue the Department for First Amendment violations.
UC and Berkeley in particular used to care about civil liberties. But some shithead on MSNBC might have cried, right?
I am guessing that the real reason is that Trump would have sided with UC and that would be a "worse" outcome than taking down the videos.
Kudos to LBRY.io for mirroring.
Nah, the lesson here is that it's IMPOSSIBLE to keep government and economics as separate as possible, and that trying to keep them away is not a sustainable solution.
You're right - when you allow a government, they stick their 'fingers' into business, every time, guaranteed. And when you give the psychopaths "government" power, you get 300 million dead in just a hundred years.
I'm not claiming I know a better solution. I'm just saying we need to find a better solution.
If 300 million dead isn't going to teach humanity that government is the most deadly creation humans have ever divised, I'm not sure that anything can. Masses of ignorant people will still claim that we need a government system to keep us safe from "the anarchists" (who are meanwhile busy selling shoes and cryptocurrencies) and that we just need to "vote harder" until the killing stops. They apparently took both history and mathematics in a government school.
I still think Bill Gates is a dick, but I'd put up with his crappy business practices over Stalin's any day. Nobody is going to vote to allow Bill Gates to have nukes. Because without the blinder of politics they realize that would be an incredibly stupid move.
The vice-versa doesn't seem too great, either.
Do you prefer the psychopaths with dysfunctional boardrooms or the psychopaths with large arsenals of weaponry?
Apportion power appropriately to your risk analysis.
Neo did all kind of "magical" stuff at the end of #3. That's direct evidence that he was in a simulation. He may have been The One who was capable of manipulating the outer simulation, but he did not escape it. The trilogy is a tragedy.
Remember that the next time somebody gives you a choice between two realities and promises you that one will give you freedom while the other will be your enslavement.
True freedom can only come from within.
That's Microsoft's "teenage-girl" AI. Not even being snarky.
Would this also be a property of time? That you can't reach absolute zero because doing so, would be akin to stopping time, if only for that specific single point in space?
Now that has me wondering about the singularity in a black hole. And now my brain hearts a little as so many things seem to conflict with all of this.
Read Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" - it's from the 80's but he deals with this and related concepts elegantly. Time never gets to zero - as soon as you try you're back to where you started. cf. Alice's Adventures.
I think the proof in this case is a bit different, though. If a system had zero energy, you couldn't even interact with it (i.e. observe it). And there's the quantum noise of everything in the universe; it probably isn't possible to stop the soup without removing space from the universe, and fields will always be interacting with matter no matter how hard a scientist wishes otherwise.
Unless we develop technology to create voids in the universe or to exclude fields we're going to have vibrating matter.
Hard, absolutely, occasionally heartrending and frustrating, but those who skip it aren't gaining 18 years, they're losing the richest experiences life offers.
Right - every successful parent I know feels that rearing children is a chance to reevaluate most of life's choices, learn everything anew with improved understanding, and to realize what it is to be part of this thing called Life, and by extension Society. Sure, fewer books get read, fewer vacations are taken, and the Netflix queue only ever grows in length, but it's important to note that most parents don't lament those delays and most deathbed regrets are devoid about notions of game release dates.
People who revel in "their 18 years" (ha, they forget that most people have 2+ children) almost always insist that the experience of people who have reared children does not exist or that it does not have really have deep and important meaning. Because apparently parents don't actually understand something unique that wouldn't be obvious without 18+ years of experience.
But, frankly the most surprising aspect of this research is that the stress of childrearing doesn't seem to take years off one's life!
Sadly, it appears that Dear Leader Trump will suppress any investigation and attempt to find the truth about the election.
Were you expecting to read a daily status report about investigations into an attempted CIA coup d'etat in the free copy of USA Today in your hotel room? Because that's not how it works.