...but the SEND/RECEIVE pins between modem and computer are always named from the perspective of the computer. There's precedent to use server-centric nomenclature.
So how would one indicate a lack of confidence in the system, as opposed to the specific candidates? Abstaining is not simply a way of expressing apathy; it can also indicate that one finds the office itself illegitimate.
...That is an excellent point.
Also, from a pragmatic point-of-view, spoiled ballots tend to be reported and counted exactly the same as uncast ballots, so showing up just to cast a spoiled ballot is a complete waste of time (yours and the officials') regardless of the reason.
Well, Toronto just finished its mayoral election, which was decided by a margin of almost 100K people (out of the roughly 500K votes that seemed to be counted for the mayor's office). My showing up (to vote not for the guy I thought would do the best job, but in typically Canadian fashion, against the guy I thought would do the worst) feels like it was a waste of my time, other than councillor, where i did vote for the winner. School board trustee, they gave me the wrong ballot, so I had to abstain there.
Basically, I don’t think showing up and spoiling your ballot is a waste of time; it’s speaking up and registering your discontent. I know they’re counted the same as uncast ballots, but maybe they shouldn’t be.
I disagree. I think that abstaining is a vote of "I don't care", but actually spoiling your ballot is a way to indicate you have no confidence in any of the candidates--and *those* ballots should be counted toward the overall total.
Of course, I also think that an election should be won by a majority of eligible voters, rather than a simple plurality of voters who turned up... But that's just me. And I'm aware that those are kind of contradictory statements... it's hard to explain. More just of a case of what I think abstentions and ballot-spoils mean in terms of intent.
I can think of worse people than undertakers to describe as “scummy bottom-feeders”&hellip personal-injury lawyers who encourage people to sue their own elderly parents, just for one example. Undertakers provide a fairly valuable service—they work with death on a daily basis, so they can help the bereaved through what has to get done. Anyone who encourages someone to sue family for their own carelessness they need to be introduced to the business end of a hot poker.
If it weren't for lawyers, gay men and women wouldn't be allowed to marry in Canada. Tell me, honestly, that you believe that providing equal rights doesn't create value for society.
Can, sure, but it sounds like that isn’t the default action. While the default’s safer, and I’m all for safety in my systems, too many end users have become too dependent on email for it to suddenly go away because of a package failure like that. It’s especially disturbing, reading TFA, to find that a lot of high-profile spam services abruptly shut down as a result. Those guys should have been ready for it.
That’s a very good thing to point outstill, though, it’s certainly not fair that having ClamAV get administratively killed from afar means that your email service coughs and dies.
It could be a long-dormant genetic thing. My mother’s brother and his entire family look like they have a great tan, at all times. Because that side of the family is Irish through and through, we’re guessing that there’s some Black Irish in our family—long-since descendants of Spanish and Portuguese settlers in Ireland—and my uncle, for whatever reason, wound up with a phenotype that expresses it.
Of course, how that would come through Hong Kong and a Latvian Jew, I can’t explain, but I’m also not a geneticist maybe your mother has some ancient Australian Aboriginal ancestors?
It's anonymous at the time that it happens. You can walk up to a total stranger, in a foreign city, and punch them in the mouth, and it's completely anonymous, despite the fact that ultimately, your identity hasn't been hidden.
You make a good point, and I'll admit that I responded hastily, and didn't properly explain my objection. It's not that I think women who game should be protected from these asshats, it's that these asshats shouldn't be acting like this, but a service like these just kind of encourages it, by giving them an anonymous way to do it privately. That's why it bugs me; it allows dickheads to continue being dickheads, and encourages their behaviour.
It bothers me because it tacitly encourages the continued objectification and marginalisation of women within gaming circles. I don't doubt for a minute that people will people will pay for the privilege of going onto the system and berating the women on the other end of the line for being women, because now they know who they're talking to. If there was a way to police the behaviour of the users of the system, that would be one thing. There can't be, though, so all this is is a perfect avenue for misogynistic gamers to hurt people.
I'll put it this way: even if there were no pimps anywhere in the world, and every prostitute in the field did it because they enjoyed what they did, there would still be people out there who would pay for the ability to beat the shit out of them. Even if the women involved aren't being coerced into it, there's a significant number of men who will abuse the system in order to abuse women.
And even there was, it still doesn't excuse all the disgusting, misogynistic comments on this article.
Shame on you, CmdrTaco, for posting this. Shame on the organisation behind it for creating it. And every one of you assholes who immediately started joking about it, you disgust me.
Air travel has a damn-near impeccable safety record in terms of deaths-per-flight. Better than most hospitals do in terms of deaths-per-ER-visit. Seriously, you're significantly more likely to die as a result of going to the hospital (improper sterilisation, exposure to pathogens, and surgical foulups) than you are because you decided to fly. I've lost track of where I found the numbers, but I'm sure it's readily Googleable.
Remember kids, just because you hear more about plane crashes and violent homicides doesn't mean that the incidence rate is going up. It's much more rare than it was thirty or forty years ago; we just have better coverage these days.
The English language, sadly, is not standardised, which is why we have differences like “kerb” and “curb”, “lorry” and “truck”, “lift” and “elevator”, and so on, and so forth.
French, on the other hand, has L’Académie française, an institute that actually does define a standard French language. Québec also has their own OQLF (who will have none of that bastard English in their French, merci beaucoups) and they’re both happily ignored by the Acadians and northern Québécois, who speak their own dialects and who are almost completely incomprehensible by people who speak real French (Joual in particular is nasty; it’s barely considered French).
Okay, so having a standardised version of French hasn’t exactly helped matters, but there is a Defined French Language, unlike English. That’s what happens when there are two major world powers, both speaking the same language, neither of whom will bow to other in such affairs!
Well, okay, a little more accurately: during your tenure at the company, and probably the lifetime of the company, you'll never run out of eligible names. Unless, somehow, your company name is Blue Sun... but even then, the next admin after you will probably decide on a "better" naming scheme.
Another scheme that I was a party to was based on batches. I worked for the Faculty of Computer Science for a while and every batch of computers we bought (approx. 40 at a time) was given a different naming scheme, so we tended to have matching names for the labs throughout the building. One was world capitals, one was chemical elements, but my favourite was guitar equipment.. we had three or four musicians in the twelve-person admin staff, so it was pretty much a given.
I once used stellar bodies, in progressive order away from Sol. I gave the company president permanent use of SOL and PROXIMACENTAURI for his desktop and laptop, respectively. Everything else was in order of purchase. You'll never run out, and it gives you (if you maintain your familiarity with what stars are where) a rough idea of how old the thing is. The only hard part is finding the right table of stars to work from, and deciding how to deal with the the eventual alpha-sirius, beta-sirius, gamma-sirius issues if you want to just call one SIRIUS.
First tried out MeeMix shortly after moving from Halifax to Toronto (early months of 2007), discovering that they'd finally started cracking down on non-US IPs, and saw an ad for it on Facecrook.
Here's the thing: MeeMix has some pretty cool interface options that I wish Pandora had. I couldn't give a toss about the social aspects of MeeMix--I don't care who listening to the same bands that I've never met--but I really like their sliding scale of like/dislike of a song. Pandora's very... polar about it. Thumbs up, meh, or die-in-a-fire. I really prefer being able to say anything between "This is awesome, I want to hear more like this", "This is pretty cool, I like it", "I'm not a huge fan, but it's not terrible" and "Seriously?!" before getting to die-in-a-fire.
That being said, Pandora's been trained quite well. I have an entire station of nothing but early-to-mid-nineties alt rock (I can listen at work, I don't know why). It's great, it reminds me of when music was good. MeeMix hasn't been trained nearly so well, but they also introduced me to Fluke and Sparta.
I say, if you miss Pandora, go with MeeMix. Takes a bit of doing to train it as well as Pandora, but they've got some pretty good stuff in there that might surprise you. And the eleven-point scale of like/dislike (and that doesn't even include the "I never want to hear this again" option) is great.
That being said.. I really wish I could get Pandora at home.
So the robot vision was created as a model of human vision, and it succeeded at doing so. That's sort of interesting, I suppose, but what does it tell us? That we were right about the way human vision works? Seems to me that the point here is really that in some ways, human vision is 'broken' and that maybe it isn't the best apparatus for machines to use. If we want to welcome our robotic overlords, we should be improving on the vision model, not trying to give machines the same flawed framework.
You've nailed the purpose of this experiment right on the head. Not all {artificial intelligence|machine learning|computer vision|natural language processing} research is immediately about developing a machine that can {think|learn|see|speak}. I won't deny that there's a huge amount of it done to that end, but the opposite direction can be taken by anyone with even the merest inkling of interest in psychology. These researchers are the ones who want to know how human beings {think|learn|see|speak}. Computer modeling provides an excellent venue for this kind of research, because, unlike with human beings, it's entirely replicable. We can eliminate specific factors, or introduce new ones, and run the experiment again and see what happens.
Far more specific results than live-creature experiments, we can establish a completely deterministic model that may allow us to say, one day, "the patient's psychotic tendencies are caused by this very specific problem that we can correct with this specific treatment." And no cute little lab animals need to be vivisected, as is the common misconception of animal testing. Everybody wins.
Although the animal researchers would lose the argument of "computer modelling isn't sufficiently sophisticated, so it's either Fido or you."
Anyway, I digress. Not all AI research aims to creating a sentient computer. A lot of it's about figuring out how humans work.
The story is that Ligeti was pissed, so Kubrick invited him to a private screening of the film, before its release. After seeing the context in which Kubrick used Atmosphères, Ligeti turned around 180 and gave the film his blessing.
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I'm working on software with a similar problem--I want to store the SQL database username and password in some halfway-to-secure fashion, because leaving it in cleartext in the PHP is just asking for the database to be compromised. So, the only alternatives are to encrypt it within the code or to put it in an external file. The external file makes it easier to change the username and password after the fact, so that's where I'm going.
Problem here is that the contents of the file need to be encrypted in some way. Using a key-based encryption still means that a password needs to be stored in cleartext somewhere, so it needs to be non-key based. Downside to this means that anyone with access to the source can decrypt it trivially. Best you can hope for, rather than making it completely secure, is to make it difficult to determine the cleartext from the cyphertext. So, you have to encrypt it a couple of times using different algorithms and get the cleartext the hell out of memory as soon as possible. From what I've been reading in this thread here, it's really the best you can hope for.
Because of their limited experience (I'm not just talking about sexually, but socially as well) with real women, if they consume lots of porn, they might get warped ideas about real women.
That's a very good point; I hadn't thought of it. However, if you don't mind my cynicism, it seems as thought most young women these days are "just a couple of drinks away from a girl-on-girl adventure". And you're right, that kind of thing can be mitigated with frank discussion. Why these young women seem to want to be seen as pieces of meat is beyond me. Drunken one night stands just don't feel anywhere near as good as sober, loving, sexual relations. Your senses are dulled by the alcohol and you're not trying to share yourself with that person, you're just looking for some way to relieve tension. Sure, it feels good, but it doesn't feel great.
Odd as it sounds, I'm almost glad I was raised in the Catholic school system. As twisted as it is that they have to avoid any discussion of contraception, the early sex education that I got in grade school did teach me that sex should be meaningful, that it should be something more than "I wanna get off"—and I've realised that it can only be meaningful if you're in a meaningful relationship with that person.
Of course, that sort of ethic does put the porn industry on rocking footing, doesn't it? Well, maybe it doesn't. As I said previously, the human body is a great thing and we should be proud of them, not ashamed. Publications like Playboy work pretty much exclusively in the realm of pinup nudity; I don't recall seeing any lesbian or penetration scenes in any photoset in that magazine. If I'm mistaken, please let me know the publication dates, but Hugh Hefner's on the record as saying that Playboy is, ultimately, about celebrating the beauty of the human body.
So what does my ideal universal attitude towards sex look like? Get rid of all the other porn producers except Playboy and let anybody buy it. Parents, teach your children about what sex is really about—procreation—and that you should only have sex with someone you'd be willing to have a family with. Teach them this early. Don't be ashamed of your body and don't teach your children the same. While it isn't particularly appropriate to masturbate in public, there's absolutely nothing wrong with doing it privately. If our children grow up seeing sex and their bodies as good things, not bad things, maybe the world we give them will be a lot less insane.
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...but the SEND/RECEIVE pins between modem and computer are always named from the perspective of the computer. There's precedent to use server-centric nomenclature.
So how would one indicate a lack of confidence in the system, as opposed to the specific candidates? Abstaining is not simply a way of expressing apathy; it can also indicate that one finds the office itself illegitimate.
...That is an excellent point.
Also, from a pragmatic point-of-view, spoiled ballots tend to be reported and counted exactly the same as uncast ballots, so showing up just to cast a spoiled ballot is a complete waste of time (yours and the officials') regardless of the reason.
Well, Toronto just finished its mayoral election, which was decided by a margin of almost 100K people (out of the roughly 500K votes that seemed to be counted for the mayor's office). My showing up (to vote not for the guy I thought would do the best job, but in typically Canadian fashion, against the guy I thought would do the worst) feels like it was a waste of my time, other than councillor, where i did vote for the winner. School board trustee, they gave me the wrong ballot, so I had to abstain there.
Basically, I don’t think showing up and spoiling your ballot is a waste of time; it’s speaking up and registering your discontent. I know they’re counted the same as uncast ballots, but maybe they shouldn’t be.
I disagree. I think that abstaining is a vote of "I don't care", but actually spoiling your ballot is a way to indicate you have no confidence in any of the candidates--and *those* ballots should be counted toward the overall total.
Of course, I also think that an election should be won by a majority of eligible voters, rather than a simple plurality of voters who turned up... But that's just me. And I'm aware that those are kind of contradictory statements... it's hard to explain. More just of a case of what I think abstentions and ballot-spoils mean in terms of intent.
THERE! ARE! FOUR! LIGHTS!
I can think of worse people than undertakers to describe as “scummy bottom-feeders”&hellip personal-injury lawyers who encourage people to sue their own elderly parents, just for one example. Undertakers provide a fairly valuable service—they work with death on a daily basis, so they can help the bereaved through what has to get done. Anyone who encourages someone to sue family for their own carelessness they need to be introduced to the business end of a hot poker.
I feel that the use of Leviticus and Deuteronomy to provide the original basis of the majority of Western law is the problem here.
If it weren't for lawyers, gay men and women wouldn't be allowed to marry in Canada. Tell me, honestly, that you believe that providing equal rights doesn't create value for society.
Can, sure, but it sounds like that isn’t the default action. While the default’s safer, and I’m all for safety in my systems, too many end users have become too dependent on email for it to suddenly go away because of a package failure like that. It’s especially disturbing, reading TFA, to find that a lot of high-profile spam services abruptly shut down as a result. Those guys should have been ready for it.
That’s a very good thing to point outstill, though, it’s certainly not fair that having ClamAV get administratively killed from afar means that your email service coughs and dies.
It could be a long-dormant genetic thing. My mother’s brother and his entire family look like they have a great tan, at all times. Because that side of the family is Irish through and through, we’re guessing that there’s some Black Irish in our family—long-since descendants of Spanish and Portuguese settlers in Ireland—and my uncle, for whatever reason, wound up with a phenotype that expresses it.
Of course, how that would come through Hong Kong and a Latvian Jew, I can’t explain, but I’m also not a geneticist maybe your mother has some ancient Australian Aboriginal ancestors?
It's anonymous at the time that it happens. You can walk up to a total stranger, in a foreign city, and punch them in the mouth, and it's completely anonymous, despite the fact that ultimately, your identity hasn't been hidden.
You make a good point, and I'll admit that I responded hastily, and didn't properly explain my objection. It's not that I think women who game should be protected from these asshats, it's that these asshats shouldn't be acting like this, but a service like these just kind of encourages it, by giving them an anonymous way to do it privately. That's why it bugs me; it allows dickheads to continue being dickheads, and encourages their behaviour.
Oh, all right, I'll bite.
That feminist is my wife. Good try, though. Better luck next time.
It bothers me because it tacitly encourages the continued objectification and marginalisation of women within gaming circles. I don't doubt for a minute that people will people will pay for the privilege of going onto the system and berating the women on the other end of the line for being women, because now they know who they're talking to. If there was a way to police the behaviour of the users of the system, that would be one thing. There can't be, though, so all this is is a perfect avenue for misogynistic gamers to hurt people.
I'll put it this way: even if there were no pimps anywhere in the world, and every prostitute in the field did it because they enjoyed what they did, there would still be people out there who would pay for the ability to beat the shit out of them. Even if the women involved aren't being coerced into it, there's a significant number of men who will abuse the system in order to abuse women.
And even there was, it still doesn't excuse all the disgusting, misogynistic comments on this article.
...but it's not.
Shame on you, CmdrTaco, for posting this. Shame on the organisation behind it for creating it. And every one of you assholes who immediately started joking about it, you disgust me.
Air travel has a damn-near impeccable safety record in terms of deaths-per-flight. Better than most hospitals do in terms of deaths-per-ER-visit. Seriously, you're significantly more likely to die as a result of going to the hospital (improper sterilisation, exposure to pathogens, and surgical foulups) than you are because you decided to fly. I've lost track of where I found the numbers, but I'm sure it's readily Googleable.
Remember kids, just because you hear more about plane crashes and violent homicides doesn't mean that the incidence rate is going up. It's much more rare than it was thirty or forty years ago; we just have better coverage these days.
The English language, sadly, is not standardised, which is why we have differences like “kerb” and “curb”, “lorry” and “truck”, “lift” and “elevator”, and so on, and so forth.
French, on the other hand, has L’Académie française, an institute that actually does define a standard French language. Québec also has their own OQLF (who will have none of that bastard English in their French, merci beaucoups) and they’re both happily ignored by the Acadians and northern Québécois, who speak their own dialects and who are almost completely incomprehensible by people who speak real French (Joual in particular is nasty; it’s barely considered French).
Okay, so having a standardised version of French hasn’t exactly helped matters, but there is a Defined French Language, unlike English. That’s what happens when there are two major world powers, both speaking the same language, neither of whom will bow to other in such affairs!
Well, okay, a little more accurately: during your tenure at the company, and probably the lifetime of the company, you'll never run out of eligible names. Unless, somehow, your company name is Blue Sun... but even then, the next admin after you will probably decide on a "better" naming scheme.
Another scheme that I was a party to was based on batches. I worked for the Faculty of Computer Science for a while and every batch of computers we bought (approx. 40 at a time) was given a different naming scheme, so we tended to have matching names for the labs throughout the building. One was world capitals, one was chemical elements, but my favourite was guitar equipment.. we had three or four musicians in the twelve-person admin staff, so it was pretty much a given.
I once used stellar bodies, in progressive order away from Sol. I gave the company president permanent use of SOL and PROXIMACENTAURI for his desktop and laptop, respectively. Everything else was in order of purchase. You'll never run out, and it gives you (if you maintain your familiarity with what stars are where) a rough idea of how old the thing is. The only hard part is finding the right table of stars to work from, and deciding how to deal with the the eventual alpha-sirius, beta-sirius, gamma-sirius issues if you want to just call one SIRIUS.
First tried out MeeMix shortly after moving from Halifax to Toronto (early months of 2007), discovering that they'd finally started cracking down on non-US IPs, and saw an ad for it on Facecrook. Here's the thing: MeeMix has some pretty cool interface options that I wish Pandora had. I couldn't give a toss about the social aspects of MeeMix--I don't care who listening to the same bands that I've never met--but I really like their sliding scale of like/dislike of a song. Pandora's very... polar about it. Thumbs up, meh, or die-in-a-fire. I really prefer being able to say anything between "This is awesome, I want to hear more like this", "This is pretty cool, I like it", "I'm not a huge fan, but it's not terrible" and "Seriously?!" before getting to die-in-a-fire. That being said, Pandora's been trained quite well. I have an entire station of nothing but early-to-mid-nineties alt rock (I can listen at work, I don't know why). It's great, it reminds me of when music was good. MeeMix hasn't been trained nearly so well, but they also introduced me to Fluke and Sparta. I say, if you miss Pandora, go with MeeMix. Takes a bit of doing to train it as well as Pandora, but they've got some pretty good stuff in there that might surprise you. And the eleven-point scale of like/dislike (and that doesn't even include the "I never want to hear this again" option) is great. That being said.. I really wish I could get Pandora at home.
You've nailed the purpose of this experiment right on the head. Not all {artificial intelligence|machine learning|computer vision|natural language processing} research is immediately about developing a machine that can {think|learn|see|speak}. I won't deny that there's a huge amount of it done to that end, but the opposite direction can be taken by anyone with even the merest inkling of interest in psychology. These researchers are the ones who want to know how human beings {think|learn|see|speak}. Computer modeling provides an excellent venue for this kind of research, because, unlike with human beings, it's entirely replicable. We can eliminate specific factors, or introduce new ones, and run the experiment again and see what happens.
Far more specific results than live-creature experiments, we can establish a completely deterministic model that may allow us to say, one day, "the patient's psychotic tendencies are caused by this very specific problem that we can correct with this specific treatment." And no cute little lab animals need to be vivisected, as is the common misconception of animal testing. Everybody wins.
Although the animal researchers would lose the argument of "computer modelling isn't sufficiently sophisticated, so it's either Fido or you."
Anyway, I digress. Not all AI research aims to creating a sentient computer. A lot of it's about figuring out how humans work.
The story is that Ligeti was pissed, so Kubrick invited him to a private screening of the film, before its release. After seeing the context in which Kubrick used Atmosphères, Ligeti turned around 180 and gave the film his blessing.
</nit>
You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us!
I'm working on software with a similar problem--I want to store the SQL database username and password in some halfway-to-secure fashion, because leaving it in cleartext in the PHP is just asking for the database to be compromised. So, the only alternatives are to encrypt it within the code or to put it in an external file. The external file makes it easier to change the username and password after the fact, so that's where I'm going.
Problem here is that the contents of the file need to be encrypted in some way. Using a key-based encryption still means that a password needs to be stored in cleartext somewhere, so it needs to be non-key based. Downside to this means that anyone with access to the source can decrypt it trivially. Best you can hope for, rather than making it completely secure, is to make it difficult to determine the cleartext from the cyphertext. So, you have to encrypt it a couple of times using different algorithms and get the cleartext the hell out of memory as soon as possible. From what I've been reading in this thread here, it's really the best you can hope for.
/me deposits two cents in the jar
That's a very good point; I hadn't thought of it. However, if you don't mind my cynicism, it seems as thought most young women these days are "just a couple of drinks away from a girl-on-girl adventure". And you're right, that kind of thing can be mitigated with frank discussion. Why these young women seem to want to be seen as pieces of meat is beyond me. Drunken one night stands just don't feel anywhere near as good as sober, loving, sexual relations. Your senses are dulled by the alcohol and you're not trying to share yourself with that person, you're just looking for some way to relieve tension. Sure, it feels good, but it doesn't feel great.
Odd as it sounds, I'm almost glad I was raised in the Catholic school system. As twisted as it is that they have to avoid any discussion of contraception, the early sex education that I got in grade school did teach me that sex should be meaningful, that it should be something more than "I wanna get off"—and I've realised that it can only be meaningful if you're in a meaningful relationship with that person.
Of course, that sort of ethic does put the porn industry on rocking footing, doesn't it? Well, maybe it doesn't. As I said previously, the human body is a great thing and we should be proud of them, not ashamed. Publications like Playboy work pretty much exclusively in the realm of pinup nudity; I don't recall seeing any lesbian or penetration scenes in any photoset in that magazine. If I'm mistaken, please let me know the publication dates, but Hugh Hefner's on the record as saying that Playboy is, ultimately, about celebrating the beauty of the human body.
So what does my ideal universal attitude towards sex look like? Get rid of all the other porn producers except Playboy and let anybody buy it. Parents, teach your children about what sex is really about—procreation—and that you should only have sex with someone you'd be willing to have a family with. Teach them this early. Don't be ashamed of your body and don't teach your children the same. While it isn't particularly appropriate to masturbate in public, there's absolutely nothing wrong with doing it privately. If our children grow up seeing sex and their bodies as good things, not bad things, maybe the world we give them will be a lot less insane.