It could as well be a marketing ploy to get more eyeballs to the website. Did this really (I mean really???) happen. Can someone independent confirm this?
A scientist (??) got hold of a cockroach and decided to perform a scientific experiment. He ordered the roach to walk and released it. The roach started running on all six legs. He noted in his journal. Roaches respond to human commands.
He then cut off 2 middle legs and ordered it to run again. The roach started crawling. He noted, when ordered sternly and when they are hurt, roaches feel bad and do the ordered tasks grudgingly.
He then cut of another 2 legs and ordered it to walk again. The roach started wiggling. He noted in his journal. When 4 legs are cut off, roaches become defiant.
He then cut off all six legs. He screamed at the the roach to walk. He then concluded the experiment with following observation. When all six legs are cut off.. roaches become deaf.
will M$ force yahoo not to support messenger on Linux? And the Linux users will have to give up their IM contacts? If not.. how can M$ tolerate linux users chatting with MSN users?
Yes, free cell phone service would have possibly been something that t-mobile has which would be even more useful, but there are practical barriers there.
I remember that after 9/11, T-Mobile gave all its subscribers in NY/NJ area about 100 to 200 bonus minutes because many people exceeded their minutes calling their near and dear. They let the users know about this during the next bill cycle. So they *did* accomodate their customers during emergencies. So, I wouldn't just jump to conclusions and say that this is just PR gimmick. They do need to weed out abuse of their system and optimize the best whatever available wireless (wi-fi or cellular) bandwidth.
This stuff is being reported as a very novel stuff. But there has significant research being
done in academia.
Stony Brook (SUNY) ECSL has developed a Videoserver prototype. The difference between this technology and that of ECSL's is that, ECSL videoserver uses closed captions available in the news clips. This way the burden of speech recongnition is taken off the archiving and indexing servers.
This was developed in 1999. This is a well documented project and publicly available. During its initial days it was made available at several download sites. This is still available (documentation + sources) from ecsl website.
The only problem is that, this was developed on
redhat 5.2 version and used many Beta Stage libraries of gtk(--) etc. Which are now obsolete.
It will take a little bit of effort to get it working on latest platforms.
--
Srikant
Is the sampling technique correct?
on
The Eyes Have It
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· Score: 1
The success rate of 75% and the false positives
at a level of 10% need not represent the actual
success (or failure) rate that can be observered.
Since this experiment deals with the psychological
behavior of an individual, the prior knowledge of
being subject to test may change the statistics
completely.
A person, even if he/she is innocent may start feeling uncomfortable just by knowing that he/she
is under scrutiny and may trigger a false positive. On the other hand, I don't think it would be too tough for a hardened criminal to control his/her feelings.
The sample set for the experiments is improper.
It is improper because it contains only simple
people who are lying about a mannequin. It does
not contain people who are trained to control their feelings. A system like this should be tested under the presence of adversaries who are
trying to fool the system.
Before deploying such a system, before spending
may be billions of dollars on it, I think it should go through some careful analysis, like:
*How easy, it might be to defeat the system?
*What would be the success rate when a person is
aware of being subjected to such a test?
*Are there any chemicals available, that can be
applied on your face to fool the thermal cameras?
*Is the behavioral makeup of fanatics and hardened criminals (we are trying to catch them, right?) same as that of people who were subject
to this experiment?
--
Srikant
Consider the use of cigarette lighters.
These use butane. If one really goes by the properties of butane then a cigarette ligher is
more hazardous than this new invention.
Butane gas is the main component chemical found in lighter refills, usually making up 90% of the product. As these flammable containers are activated under pressure, the fuel gas is released at a very low temperature, presenting a risk through direct oral abuse of cold burns, respiratory difficulties and death by vagal inhibition due to rapid cooling of the larynx. The vagal nerve runs through the neck and inhibition of this nerve leads directly to heart failure, slowing of the heart, and cardiac arrest.
The dangers of using these fuel cells is miniscule compared to the widely used lighters.
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It could as well be a marketing ploy to get more eyeballs to the website. Did this really (I mean really???) happen. Can someone independent confirm this?
Not that it is a tech story anyways.
Reminds me of a science experiment:
.. roaches become deaf.
A scientist (??) got hold of a cockroach and decided to perform a scientific experiment.
He ordered the roach to walk and released it. The roach started running on all six legs.
He noted in his journal. Roaches respond to human commands.
He then cut off 2 middle legs and ordered it to run again. The roach started crawling.
He noted, when ordered sternly and when they are hurt, roaches feel bad and do the ordered tasks grudgingly.
He then cut of another 2 legs and ordered it to walk again. The roach started wiggling.
He noted in his journal. When 4 legs are cut off, roaches become defiant.
He then cut off all six legs. He screamed at the the roach to walk.
He then concluded the experiment with following observation.
When all six legs are cut off
will M$ force yahoo not to support messenger on Linux? And the Linux users will have to give up their IM contacts? .. how can M$ tolerate linux users chatting with MSN users?
If not
I remember that after 9/11, T-Mobile gave all its subscribers in NY/NJ area about 100 to 200 bonus minutes because many people exceeded their minutes calling their near and dear. They let the users know about this during the next bill cycle. So they *did* accomodate their customers during emergencies. So, I wouldn't just jump to conclusions and say that this is just PR gimmick. They do need to weed out abuse of their system and optimize the best whatever available wireless (wi-fi or cellular) bandwidth.
This stuff is being reported as a very novel stuff. But there has significant research being done in academia.
Stony Brook (SUNY) ECSL has developed a Videoserver prototype. The difference between this technology and that of ECSL's is that, ECSL videoserver uses closed captions available in the news clips. This way the burden of speech recongnition is taken off the archiving and indexing servers.
You can read all about it at this page
This was developed in 1999. This is a well documented project and publicly available. During its initial days it was made available at several download sites. This is still available (documentation + sources) from ecsl website. The only problem is that, this was developed on redhat 5.2 version and used many Beta Stage libraries of gtk(--) etc. Which are now obsolete. It will take a little bit of effort to get it working on latest platforms.
-- Srikant
The success rate of 75% and the false positives at a level of 10% need not represent the actual success (or failure) rate that can be observered.
Since this experiment deals with the psychological behavior of an individual, the prior knowledge of being subject to test may change the statistics completely.
A person, even if he/she is innocent may start feeling uncomfortable just by knowing that he/she is under scrutiny and may trigger a false positive. On the other hand, I don't think it would be too tough for a hardened criminal to control his/her feelings.
The sample set for the experiments is improper. It is improper because it contains only simple people who are lying about a mannequin. It does not contain people who are trained to control their feelings. A system like this should be tested under the presence of adversaries who are trying to fool the system.
Before deploying such a system, before spending may be billions of dollars on it, I think it should go through some careful analysis, like: *How easy, it might be to defeat the system?
*What would be the success rate when a person is aware of being subjected to such a test?
*Are there any chemicals available, that can be applied on your face to fool the thermal cameras?
*Is the behavioral makeup of fanatics and hardened criminals (we are trying to catch them, right?) same as that of people who were subject to this experiment?
-- Srikant
I picked this para from : Re-Solv
Butane gas is the main component chemical found in lighter refills, usually making up 90% of the product. As these flammable containers are activated under pressure, the fuel gas is released at a very low temperature, presenting a risk through direct oral abuse of cold burns, respiratory difficulties and death by vagal inhibition due to rapid cooling of the larynx. The vagal nerve runs through the neck and inhibition of this nerve leads directly to heart failure, slowing of the heart, and cardiac arrest.
The dangers of using these fuel cells is miniscule compared to the widely used lighters.