Using google means that this would have to contend with a lot of noise - looking for one nugget of information on the internet will tend to yield a low signal-to-noise ratio. I wonder what would happen if instead, you were to run it using Wikipedia as a back end (full discosure - I'm a wikipedia admin). There'd be less information, but I suspect the quality of the results would be better.
The cell phone industry issued an internal memo discouraging employees from using the term 'mutation', and instead having them call it 'unanticipated DNA improvements'
As a long time Wikipedian and quiz bowler, I think that quiz bowlers tend to make the best wikipedians (I know I'm biased, but...). Quiz bowlers tend to be knowledgable in a lot of areas, which is particularly helpful in a project like ours.
My advisor (David Mills, first chairman of the Internet Architecture Committee and inventor of NTP) mentioned this once. He said that Al Gore's staff were at every technical meeting related to internet development, and that the funding Gore helped push through Congress was critical to the project. Furthermore, he said after that quote was widely distorted in the media (where Gore rightfully claimed credit for providing the funding), he and several others who *did* invent the internet signed a public affidavit attesting to the veracity of the claim.
Speaking as a long time Wikipedia admin - Wikipedia occasionally has articles on current events. They typically degrade into cross-fire like back-and-forth debates in article form. These phenomenon doesn't really make me hopeful for the chances of Wiki-news.
Without mentioning any names - on Wikipedia, we do have a small number of editors from countries not friendly to the West. One editor in particular is from Iran. A troublesome user threatened to report him (her?) to the authorities in Iran. That troublesome user was immediately given a lifetime ban. The jusitification used was that he had violated the policy against no death threats (which is effectively what his threat was).
Easily countered - then you simply change the hash question on a per email basis. So I ask potential email A a question about FOO and potential emailer B a question about OOF. There's no way to know in advance what I am going to ask. That way, the only way to email me is to actually compute the answer.
When I asked, the mediawiki devs told me that Mediawiki 1.4 should be out and installed on Wikipedia by the end of the year. It should be faster, include fast rollbacks of page moves, and in general will have lots more goodies. If you want, you can ask them yourself on freenode at #mediawiki.
Interesting idea but financially inviable
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Think about it - they are tergetting a niche market (Ipod owners) with an even nichier product (downloading songs on the road). And, to top it off, how often will a given person do it? Maybe once or twice, for that one time you are own the road and need a particular song. Otherwise, you'd get most of your music at home. I mean, they are losing money with telephone calls (where you might actually get repeat customers), and that doesn't even require them to pay for a high speed connection. No, I suspect this project is doomed already.
Just a little something to keep in mind - all it takes is one (faulty) popular model putting out EMI interference to fuck up an entire range of the spectrum into unusability. So yes, I STRONGLY support keeping tight screws on EMI interference, because you can't rely on Corps to be ethical and act responsibly if it weren't legally mandated. And, as the Netgear NTP issue so eloquently demonstrates, even after you tell a company that they are doing harm and need to stop, they might not necessarily do it.
So we are supposed to trust companies to use their judgement and ethics when slaping a "This device probably meets federal EMI regulations" sticker on a device. I feel better already.
Music retailers are middlemen. They add exactly no value to the merchandise they sell. So when you make distribution cheap and easy (like buying direct on Amazon, or Itunes, etc), OF COURSE the middlemen are going to suffer. Thus is the nature of structure unemployment.
Actually, the first case of HIV was 1959 . However, the leading theories are that HIV was spawned from SIV, which is, in fact, harmless to monkeys. It jumped species into HIV, which is deadly in humans.
HIV is only twenty-five years old, which certainly isn't enough time for genetic evolution to take place.
Mutations happen all the time - 0.0000000000000214/nucleotide/generation according to these guys . Now multiply that by 3 billion nucleotides in a human, and 70(?) days to replace all the cells in your body. Most of the time, the mtuation is fatal and the cell dies. Most of the rest of the time, it does nothing at all. Once in a while, you get a mutation that is actually beneficial. And once in a while, that mutation happens to occur in gamates, so it actually gets passed on to children. That's clearly what happened in this case.
"Government shouldn't intrude on the right of companies... who wish to outsource work to foreigners... it's almost a fundamental human right. " - Repeat after me - corperations are not people, they do not have human rights. They should not be entitled to constitutional protections (although one very bad Surpreme court decision gave it to them).
The way I see it, with Moore's law still in effect, there will be plenty of work to go around for years to come.
Oh, there will be engineering jobs long into the future - especially after all those baby boomers retire. But that's a decade off. There are those of us who don't want to wait 10 years to get a job. And, the point is - there are none right now, and outsourcing/H-1B workers only exacerbate a bad situation.
A company is not legally allowed to bring in H-1Bs unless they can show they have no qualified Americans willing to take the job. There are some industries where this is, in fact, the case - nursing is a prime example. Engineering, on the other hand, has a huge pool of unemployed talent. Intel is bringing in foreign workers because they're cheap and replacable, and why should a little thing like legality stop them?
"We're graduating a decreasing number of engineers each year" -- Get your ass whomped for 4 years in a engineering program, while all your friends slide by as buisness majors. When you all graduate, they get jobs as managers and you stand in the unemployment line because Intel outsourced all those jobs to India or filled them with H-1B workers. Wow, with those prospects, who *wouldn't* want to go into engineering. (PS - I say this as a PhD student in engineering)
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Using google means that this would have to contend with a lot of noise - looking for one nugget of information on the internet will tend to yield a low signal-to-noise ratio. I wonder what would happen if instead, you were to run it using Wikipedia as a back end (full discosure - I'm a wikipedia admin). There'd be less information, but I suspect the quality of the results would be better.
The cell phone industry issued an internal memo discouraging employees from using the term 'mutation', and instead having them call it 'unanticipated DNA improvements'
As a long time Wikipedian and quiz bowler, I think that quiz bowlers tend to make the best wikipedians (I know I'm biased, but...). Quiz bowlers tend to be knowledgable in a lot of areas, which is particularly helpful in a project like ours.
My advisor (David Mills, first chairman of the Internet Architecture Committee and inventor of NTP) mentioned this once. He said that Al Gore's staff were at every technical meeting related to internet development, and that the funding Gore helped push through Congress was critical to the project. Furthermore, he said after that quote was widely distorted in the media (where Gore rightfully claimed credit for providing the funding), he and several others who *did* invent the internet signed a public affidavit attesting to the veracity of the claim.
Speaking as a long time Wikipedia admin - Wikipedia occasionally has articles on current events. They typically degrade into cross-fire like back-and-forth debates in article form. These phenomenon doesn't really make me hopeful for the chances of Wiki-news.
You have a fatal flaw in your logic. You are assuming that people will read the article.
Without mentioning any names - on Wikipedia, we do have a small number of editors from countries not friendly to the West. One editor in particular is from Iran. A troublesome user threatened to report him (her?) to the authorities in Iran. That troublesome user was immediately given a lifetime ban. The jusitification used was that he had violated the policy against no death threats (which is effectively what his threat was).
Easily countered - then you simply change the hash question on a per email basis. So I ask potential email A a question about FOO and potential emailer B a question about OOF. There's no way to know in advance what I am going to ask. That way, the only way to email me is to actually compute the answer.
Don't mess with people who measure their server power in acres. :p
There's only one option here - you must vote for Fxjkhr. And remember - regime change begins at home.
Especially if he doesn't speak english.
Ahh, Tibor, how many times you've saved my butt."
When I asked, the mediawiki devs told me that Mediawiki 1.4 should be out and installed on Wikipedia by the end of the year. It should be faster, include fast rollbacks of page moves, and in general will have lots more goodies. If you want, you can ask them yourself on freenode at #mediawiki.
Think about it - they are tergetting a niche market (Ipod owners) with an even nichier product (downloading songs on the road). And, to top it off, how often will a given person do it? Maybe once or twice, for that one time you are own the road and need a particular song. Otherwise, you'd get most of your music at home. I mean, they are losing money with telephone calls (where you might actually get repeat customers), and that doesn't even require them to pay for a high speed connection. No, I suspect this project is doomed already.
Just a little something to keep in mind - all it takes is one (faulty) popular model putting out EMI interference to fuck up an entire range of the spectrum into unusability. So yes, I STRONGLY support keeping tight screws on EMI interference, because you can't rely on Corps to be ethical and act responsibly if it weren't legally mandated. And, as the Netgear NTP issue so eloquently demonstrates, even after you tell a company that they are doing harm and need to stop, they might not necessarily do it.
So we are supposed to trust companies to use their judgement and ethics when slaping a "This device probably meets federal EMI regulations" sticker on a device. I feel better already.
I'm sure this is something that laywers have wet dreams over.
This is added value. The CD is worth the same whether you bought it from the shop or online. Therefore, the shop adds 0 value.
Music retailers are middlemen. They add exactly no value to the merchandise they sell. So when you make distribution cheap and easy (like buying direct on Amazon, or Itunes, etc), OF COURSE the middlemen are going to suffer. Thus is the nature of structure unemployment.
Actually, the first case of HIV was 1959 . However, the leading theories are that HIV was spawned from SIV, which is, in fact, harmless to monkeys. It jumped species into HIV, which is deadly in humans.
HIV is only twenty-five years old, which certainly isn't enough time for genetic evolution to take place.
Mutations happen all the time - 0.0000000000000214/nucleotide/generation according to these guys . Now multiply that by 3 billion nucleotides in a human, and 70(?) days to replace all the cells in your body. Most of the time, the mtuation is fatal and the cell dies. Most of the rest of the time, it does nothing at all. Once in a while, you get a mutation that is actually beneficial. And once in a while, that mutation happens to occur in gamates, so it actually gets passed on to children. That's clearly what happened in this case.
No need for unreliable amatuer modding, when you can but them pre-modded from these guys.
"Government shouldn't intrude on the right of companies... who wish to outsource work to foreigners ... it's almost a fundamental human right. " - Repeat after me - corperations are not people, they do not have human rights. They should not be entitled to constitutional protections (although one very bad Surpreme court decision gave it to them).
The way I see it, with Moore's law still in effect, there will be plenty of work to go around for years to come.
Oh, there will be engineering jobs long into the future - especially after all those baby boomers retire. But that's a decade off. There are those of us who don't want to wait 10 years to get a job. And, the point is - there are none right now, and outsourcing/H-1B workers only exacerbate a bad situation.
A company is not legally allowed to bring in H-1Bs unless they can show they have no qualified Americans willing to take the job. There are some industries where this is, in fact, the case - nursing is a prime example. Engineering, on the other hand, has a huge pool of unemployed talent. Intel is bringing in foreign workers because they're cheap and replacable, and why should a little thing like legality stop them?
"We're graduating a decreasing number of engineers each year" -- Get your ass whomped for 4 years in a engineering program, while all your friends slide by as buisness majors. When you all graduate, they get jobs as managers and you stand in the unemployment line because Intel outsourced all those jobs to India or filled them with H-1B workers. Wow, with those prospects, who *wouldn't* want to go into engineering. (PS - I say this as a PhD student in engineering)