do you smoke? what do you eat? do you participate in risky sports? All of these things suddenly become part of the government's purview.
You take illogical shortcuts. Where I live, there's healthcare for everybody. And that means everybody, not just for people who do not smoke, eat right and don't climb mountains. Of course it must be specified in the system as it's designed and currently it's much worse in the US as the many private companies that do health care implement exactly what you say (I couldn't get insurance because I'm a climber).
Yes, but that's manipulated by a lot of willing people, so it's perfectly adequate that google should return it. And honestly I have difficulty distinguishing between the two main definitions of the word...
If I was at google, the very first thing I would implement would be a double robot:
- the classic one, identified as googlebot
- another discreet one, identified as IE7 (or whatever is the most common browser at the time), with the page rendered by IE7, blurred a bit and then OCRed.
The two are then compared, and if they are far from matching, dump the pagerank in the bit bucket. This way you eliminate hidden text, white on white and see text in GIFs.
You are right on the money. I've spent a year in Antarctica twice for a winterover, meaning 9 months when you have no way out, 13 people sitting in a building with -80C temperatures outside. You HAVE to cope with minor issues. And indeed the only fight broke out on the day before the arrival of the first airplane of the summer. Also you have the feeling of doing something important [research] while there, which is not something you'd get from sitting in a tuna can with nothing to do for 500 days... I'm amazed they've made it so far.
they hew closely to the principle of simplification of the end user's experience instead of packing a product with buttons and a thousand "features"
Yeah, like their stupid mail reader, which incidentally doesn't even seem to have a name (try to tell a user the difference between his email and the program used to read email) which doesn't have the usual security enhancements because... that would be too many buttons to clic ? Spent a bunch of hours on the phone with mac/icrap users today before giving up in disgust as they could only configure their mail with no security. The firt sniffer at the cofee shop will get their passwd and they've been warned. Installing Thunderbird is "too complicated"...
Mountain rescue helicopter is seen hovering at length above a biker going slowly up a mountain pass. After inquiries were made, it happened that the pilots had spotted one of their own as the biker, so they flew close by. The biker had his radio with him, so they chatted: "how is it going?", "Fine, but it's too hot", so they decided to fan him for a while... True story.
Hmmm, I wonder if this ties in with the fact that last night my computer started spewing tens of thousands of packets on port 443 (https). My guess is that it became a Spype supernode. Needless to say, the network admins were not very happy about this. I couldn't find a way to disable it in Ubuntu, so it's gonna be goodbye Skype for now, unless someone can suggest a solution.
Instead of taking the advent of electric vehicles as an opportunity to quiet our cities, requiring them to make more noise seems counter productive.
Yeah, that's ridiculous. Why don't we make electric cars stink as well so that the deaf can keep on hating them too ? And while we are at it force all cars owners to have a buggy whip.
I had the same remarks about the evolution of life. The way I see it is that the first billion years wrote the lib and toolkits, to put it in computer terms. They were rewritten and modified many times by extreme environmental pressure like whole-Earth glaciations, supervolcanoes, oxygen catastrophe, etc... But all life basically looked the same (simple cells) because the tollkits weren't developped enough yet.
Once the lib/toolkit of genes got 'good enough' there was a big radiation of phenotypes. But now you have complex organisms which all have the same library of code to run stuff under the hood (like the haemin you quote), but changing any of this base code would break everything, that's why this part doesn't change. Less important stuff does, hence I think your "Nothing has evolved, it has only specialized" is basically correct.
Meanwhile, people working "in the real world" embedded devices (from Refrigerators to DVD/BluRay players to Mobile phones) work in Java.
Maybe I should be ashamed, but I work with embedded devices (in C) and I have no idea how I could do the same work with Java. How do you even get a JVM to understand the specifics of the hardware ?!? Unless you meant Android which is a world in itself and where all the low level stuff is Linux anyway (in C).
This 'baptism for the dead' thing annoys me for one reason: If I have an offspring who, long after I'm dead, adheres to the LDS and wants to baptise me, he can. And that something I do not want. Maybe there's a way to opt out while I'm still alive, but if I wanted to be a mormon, I would. And I don't.
People will get around this by (1) switching carriers, there are now some rather unknown carriers that charge by the Mb, be it voice or data. And (2) use VPN like IPredator so as to avoid being spied upon by the carriers and also to avoid having to pay extra taxes like those suggested here. All it takes is an IPredator (or similar) cell phone app and they are powerless.
This is actually a non-story. You just can't DO that, in ANY court. No newspapers, encyclopedias, nothing like that. Thanks to that one dumb juror, Broward County just wasted a lot of taxpayers' money. I guess you have to partially fault whoever gives instructions to the jurors, as well.
So what ? Are you supposed to be ignorant as to what a 'rape' is when you get into a jury ? Maybe ignore what the meaning of 'is' is ? What about knowing english ? If you feel like there is something you ought to know, while on jury duty or not, it PERFECTLY NORMAL to want to check it out, be it on the internet, on a dictionary, asking your neighbors or any other way. To think otherwise is obtuse, dumb and retrograde.
If juries want to select only people who are ignorant, then don't be surprised when they award money to McDonald hot coffee defendants.
I recently read a philosophy/history book about Pythagoras that was written in an excessively simple style. All sentences were "subject verb complement" and shorter than one line, with no adverbs ever and hardly any adjectives. I don't know if the author did this to imitate some ancient style, but it was hell to read. It was like having a clock ticking behind my head at every sentence since they all repeated with the same regularity. Game me headaches just like good old Proust !!!
Revolt and go where? The other ad-free open-access Internet encyclopedia? There really aren't any alternatives to Wikipedia right now, so no matter how mad the purists would be there's nowhere for them to go.
Yes, there is conservapedia ! Sorry. At least it's worth going there every once in a while for a good laugh...
My contributions to wikipedia are really minor, so all I know of the 'problem' is what I've read on slashdot and other sites. Shouldn't it be enough to set up a 'complaint box' with people on the other side checking the work of editors and other 'managers' ?
Charles Stross' science-ficiton book 'Accelerando' has this interesting twist about the singularity: it posits that the first artificial intelligences that grow out of the singularity won't be benevolent unuversity lab creations, or extensions of human minds, but corporate tools taking over corporations... with interesting consequences. Like you say, they already have way more rights than we puny humans do...
I specifically wrote that this problem was with geosync satphones (like Arabsat), not with Iridium. Iridium works fine at the Pole (been there, done that), it's just useless for data.
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do you smoke? what do you eat? do you participate in risky sports? All of these things suddenly become part of the government's purview.
You take illogical shortcuts. Where I live, there's healthcare for everybody. And that means everybody, not just for people who do not smoke, eat right and don't climb mountains. Of course it must be specified in the system as it's designed and currently it's much worse in the US as the many private companies that do health care implement exactly what you say (I couldn't get insurance because I'm a climber).
Yes, but that's manipulated by a lot of willing people, so it's perfectly adequate that google should return it. And honestly I have difficulty distinguishing between the two main definitions of the word...
If I was at google, the very first thing I would implement would be a double robot:
- the classic one, identified as googlebot
- another discreet one, identified as IE7 (or whatever is the most common browser at the time), with the page rendered by IE7, blurred a bit and then OCRed.
The two are then compared, and if they are far from matching, dump the pagerank in the bit bucket. This way you eliminate hidden text, white on white and see text in GIFs.
You are right on the money. I've spent a year in Antarctica twice for a winterover, meaning 9 months when you have no way out, 13 people sitting in a building with -80C temperatures outside. You HAVE to cope with minor issues. And indeed the only fight broke out on the day before the arrival of the first airplane of the summer. Also you have the feeling of doing something important [research] while there, which is not something you'd get from sitting in a tuna can with nothing to do for 500 days... I'm amazed they've made it so far.
Of course I forgot to mention that security in that case had to rely on TLS, not SSL, which is nowhere to be seen on Apple products.
they hew closely to the principle of simplification of the end user's experience instead of packing a product with buttons and a thousand "features"
Yeah, like their stupid mail reader, which incidentally doesn't even seem to have a name (try to tell a user the difference between his email and the program used to read email) which doesn't have the usual security enhancements because... that would be too many buttons to clic ? Spent a bunch of hours on the phone with mac/icrap users today before giving up in disgust as they could only configure their mail with no security. The firt sniffer at the cofee shop will get their passwd and they've been warned. Installing Thunderbird is "too complicated"...
Mountain rescue helicopter is seen hovering at length above a biker going slowly up a mountain pass. After inquiries were made, it happened that the pilots had spotted one of their own as the biker, so they flew close by. The biker had his radio with him, so they chatted: "how is it going?", "Fine, but it's too hot", so they decided to fan him for a while... True story.
What part of 'Ubuntu' didn't you understand ?
The Linux version of the Skype client doesn't have those "Use ports 80 and 443" options that i can see.
Hmmm, I wonder if this ties in with the fact that last night my computer started spewing tens of thousands of packets on port 443 (https). My guess is that it became a Spype supernode. Needless to say, the network admins were not very happy about this. I couldn't find a way to disable it in Ubuntu, so it's gonna be goodbye Skype for now, unless someone can suggest a solution.
Just be happy no one is exposing the filth you do with your mother and sister.
Even if true it concerns only those 3. The filth that my gov does concerns me.
Instead of taking the advent of electric vehicles as an opportunity to quiet our cities, requiring them to make more noise seems counter productive.
Yeah, that's ridiculous. Why don't we make electric cars stink as well so that the deaf can keep on hating them too ? And while we are at it force all cars owners to have a buggy whip.
I had the same remarks about the evolution of life. The way I see it is that the first billion years wrote the lib and toolkits, to put it in computer terms. They were rewritten and modified many times by extreme environmental pressure like whole-Earth glaciations, supervolcanoes, oxygen catastrophe, etc... But all life basically looked the same (simple cells) because the tollkits weren't developped enough yet.
Once the lib/toolkit of genes got 'good enough' there was a big radiation of phenotypes. But now you have complex organisms which all have the same library of code to run stuff under the hood (like the haemin you quote), but changing any of this base code would break everything, that's why this part doesn't change. Less important stuff does, hence I think your "Nothing has evolved, it has only specialized" is basically correct.
...Finally we are now able to slashdot slashdot...
Meanwhile, people working "in the real world" embedded devices (from Refrigerators to DVD/BluRay players to Mobile phones) work in Java.
Maybe I should be ashamed, but I work with embedded devices (in C) and I have no idea how I could do the same work with Java. How do you even get a JVM to understand the specifics of the hardware ?!? Unless you meant Android which is a world in itself and where all the low level stuff is Linux anyway (in C).
And most importantly, Scott's entire portfolio is very diverse in genre and subject matter. Unlike Lucas
What, you don't think Star Wars and Howard the Duck are diverse enough ?!?
This 'baptism for the dead' thing annoys me for one reason: If I have an offspring who, long after I'm dead, adheres to the LDS and wants to baptise me, he can. And that something I do not want. Maybe there's a way to opt out while I'm still alive, but if I wanted to be a mormon, I would. And I don't.
People will get around this by (1) switching carriers, there are now some rather unknown carriers that charge by the Mb, be it voice or data. And (2) use VPN like IPredator so as to avoid being spied upon by the carriers and also to avoid having to pay extra taxes like those suggested here. All it takes is an IPredator (or similar) cell phone app and they are powerless.
This is actually a non-story. You just can't DO that, in ANY court. No newspapers, encyclopedias, nothing like that. Thanks to that one dumb juror, Broward County just wasted a lot of taxpayers' money.
I guess you have to partially fault whoever gives instructions to the jurors, as well.
So what ? Are you supposed to be ignorant as to what a 'rape' is when you get into a jury ? Maybe ignore what the meaning of 'is' is ? What about knowing english ? If you feel like there is something you ought to know, while on jury duty or not, it PERFECTLY NORMAL to want to check it out, be it on the internet, on a dictionary, asking your neighbors or any other way. To think otherwise is obtuse, dumb and retrograde.
If juries want to select only people who are ignorant, then don't be surprised when they award money to McDonald hot coffee defendants.
I recently read a philosophy/history book about Pythagoras that was written in an excessively simple style. All sentences were "subject verb complement" and shorter than one line, with no adverbs ever and hardly any adjectives. I don't know if the author did this to imitate some ancient style, but it was hell to read. It was like having a clock ticking behind my head at every sentence since they all repeated with the same regularity. Game me headaches just like good old Proust !!!
Revolt and go where? The other ad-free open-access Internet encyclopedia? There really aren't any alternatives to Wikipedia right now, so no matter how mad the purists would be there's nowhere for them to go.
Yes, there is conservapedia ! Sorry. At least it's worth going there every once in a while for a good laugh...
My contributions to wikipedia are really minor, so all I know of the 'problem' is what I've read on slashdot and other sites. Shouldn't it be enough to set up a 'complaint box' with people on the other side checking the work of editors and other 'managers' ?
Charles Stross' science-ficiton book 'Accelerando' has this interesting twist about the singularity: it posits that the first artificial intelligences that grow out of the singularity won't be benevolent unuversity lab creations, or extensions of human minds, but corporate tools taking over corporations... with interesting consequences. Like you say, they already have way more rights than we puny humans do...
I specifically wrote that this problem was with geosync satphones (like Arabsat), not with Iridium. Iridium works fine at the Pole (been there, done that), it's just useless for data.
It's Jeopardy -- the question must be given in the form of an answer.
Hmmm, that's why I had no idea what those questions meant... TV is such a mind killer.