Not that I like her, but everyone's entitled to having personal accounts which should be respected.
If she used her.gov account for everything some people would be complaining about her usage of public resources to email her family.
Now, about what was found in the yahoo account: Obviously it would inadmissible in court, but it's very useful to her enemies anyway. Which I find disgusting.
You are pointing out the real issue without reaizing it. She has a history of making the public private and the private public. Cases in point: she appears to have used her Yahoo account to hide conversations with state officials from public scrutiny which is clearly illegal, but she revealed details of ongoing cases to her husband Todd which he used to exert inappropriate pressure on those with whom she disagrees.
Clearly if someone _knows_ the answer, then the wisdom of crowds doesn't work. The 1000 rednecks are clearly not going to out-guess the guy that packed the pickles in the jar if he counted them. But that's totally not the point. Experimental data shows that a group of rednecks beats any individual redneck, that a group of Harvard graduates will beat any individual Harvard graduate, and sometimes a large group of rednecks will beat a small group of Harvard graduates.
I did an experiment in the high school math classes I teach during the NCAA basketball tournament. On the day of the final game, I asked each student to predict the score. I was shocked at the results. In each class (5), the class average beat the best individual guess and the aggregate average beat each of the class averages. The final score was predicted to be 75-69 with Kansas winning, in reality they won 75-68. Try it yourself. It definitely works.
There's this new architural feature being built into many homes called a garage in which a person can store a car. Some of them even include electrical outlets within feet of the aforesaid vehicle. Futurists envision a retractable cord being used to charge the vehicle from the outlet although the technical aspects of this connection are unresolved.
Note to moderators: +1 humorous.
Dewalt has been marketing this battery as a part of their 36V line of tools since last August. All indications are that it's characteristics, quick charging, low internal resistance, over 2000 lifetime charging cycles will revolutionize battery power. Hobbyist are beginning to use it for R/C planes and cars. It's being put into electric bicycles. The Tesla car is being designed around it.
Go to Ebay, buy a Dewalt 36V battery and become part of the revolution. I'll be using mine to build a hybrid bicycle.
On one hand since the NSA has been helping with linux security for years with SELinux, it seems only fair that they would be willing to similarly assist M$. But my concern would be whether they are violating the GPL under which they released SELinux. If they are using concepts they developed for the open source SELinux in Vista, shouldn't M$ be required to open source at least those portions of Vista?
Again you are just reframing the question. I don't care about your negative connotations! If internet addiction is just "Man's natural tendency to fulfill his desires", then wouldn't we all be addicted. Why do some people exhibit "selfish" traits, or "laziness", while others are altruistic or highly productive?
I think a lot of these addictions are not addictions, but rather a lack of self-control and discipline.
Fair enough... if you're a judge, but scientists aren't really interested in judgments. Science asks why. If you choose to reframe the situation as a lack of self-control and discipline fine. The question becomes why do some people lack self-control and discipline. If you can answer that one in a rigorous way you'll probably win a Nobel prize.
When I was in 4th grade, I got in trouble by reading the encyclopedia before I had my homework done. Now I'm 50, have been a teacher for years, and tend to scan my live bookmarks, the make blog, and slashdot before I grade tests or make lesson plans. Does it affect my work? Probably. Does it make me a better teacher? Arguably. Could I stop if I chose to? Probably not?
About 15 years ago I lived in an African village for 3 years. What did I miss most? My morning newspaper and public library! I know people who would say the same thing about the NY Times Crossword Puzzle. I don't see any difference between these examples and so-called internet addiction. Maybe psychologists should include these in the DSM too!
I have a computer that I've used daily for about the last three years, when I turn it on it is instantly (less than.4 sec) on. It has software compatible with MS Office documents, has a fast browser, a good media player and a nice selection of games. I only have to re-boot it about once a month unless I've installed new software. Oh and did I say its small enough to fit in a shirt pocket.
My point is that if Palm can do it on such limited hardware with a RISC chip emulating a 68000, why the heck can't Windows and/or Linux do the same on much more powerful machines.
Most of the comments I've read just confirm the submitters question: "Why can't a computer reboot faster?" Ummm, because that's all the faster a computer can reboot. The correct answer is: computers could be engineered to boot faster, but they would be slightly more expensive and far less flexible.
This is so lame. The report will not get published until February. We only have an unnamed source saying that while the estimated magnitude of the effects of global warming on sea level are lower than previously thought, this does not reflect a lowering of the risk posed by global warming. The reason given for this lowered estimate is unexpected reflection of solar rays by man-made aerosol sprays. How does this deserve the headline, "UN downgrades man's impact on the climate"? If anything it means that humanity has had more impact, albeit counteractive.
But I believe we should all wait for the report before either arguing for or against what it may/may not contain.
the vast body of the evidence indicates climate change is real; Lomborg is the only serious counter-claimaint that I am aware of.
Others have pointed out that Lomborg isn't disputing global warming but have failed to point out why. He can't! He's not a scientist, well, at least not physical science.
As his bio points out, he is a political scientist. His area of expertise is public policy and since 1998 his major focus has been on public policy surrounding global warming. If it wasn't in the original post, I'd probably have modded (yes, I'm sitting on mod points but decided to respond directly) comments regarding Lomborg as off-topic; the BBC is looking for evidence of scientific bias not of political dissension.
How timely! I was just looking at the Sabre Foundation website since I had some books to donate. Their motto is Humanitarian Aid for the Mind. I've lived in an Africa village 3 years and in a small town in India 4 years, and while hunger existed in both places it wasn't the only need. Many people were hungry for good reading material and intellectual stimulation as well. Once when I wasn't taking notes at a meeting, I was chastised by an illiterate farmer. He said, "You can read and write but don't use it. What good is that? If I were able to read and write I would use it all the time."
In fact after 3 years in Chad my dream project was to set up a literacy program and bookmobile. There were so many ways that even a bit of education could be leveraged to improve village life. I believe that the OLPC project is in this spirit. The FAs premise seems to be that anyone outside a developed country has physical needs which far outweigh their intellectual needs. That is blatently false and just a little bit patronizing.
Their assertions are backed up by a volume of evidence found in similar conspiracy theories. NONE WHATSOEVER.
I don't know exactly which assertions you are questioning, since you chose to be non-specific, but the gist of the conversation is confirmed by the Cost Benefit Analysis of the proposed regulation.
Quote: Executive Summary
The primary purpose of this proposed rule is to prevent passengers that have been
identified as high-risk on government watchlists from boarding aircraft bound for or
departing from the United States and to prevent passengers and crew so identified
from departing on vessels leaving the Unites States.
The crucial issue is that government watch lists are classified with no recourse for those misidentified. This is an important human rights and constitutional issue which has nothing to do with conspiracy theories.
We have always had a fairly well-administered network, but when we started using Drive Shield the effect was amazing. It has changed student behavior in two ways. First, since they know that they'll lose everything on a re-boot anyway, they don't try nearly as much "customizing". Second, since the user experience is consistent kids don't get frustrated and mess things up out of spite.
Others have suggested Deep Freeze which I assume would be similar.
does a good job of making the case for the evolution to a 3D web
As other readers have already commented, the web is already multi-dimensional. TFA is actually referring to the user interface, not the web itself. I already use a couple of 3-d interfaces, namely Google Earth and NASA World Wind. For the type of information they display, the 3-d interface is wonderful. In fact when using plain old Google Maps I often attempt to treat it as a 3-d interface and am frustrated when I realize my mistake. Displaying maps is, of course, just the beginning. Much information is better illumined when put into a geographic/chronologic context. Imagine taking all the biographical information in Wikipedia and using a Google Earth type interface to follow someone through their life. It would be easy to cross-reference to other famous people who they met / worked with along with the historical context. World Wind already does this sort of thing for climatic info. I guess what I'm saying is that I'm as excited about a 3-d user interface as much as the next/.er.
But...for most information, a 2-d interface is always going to be better. Why? Because thats the only way to display everything without hiding anything. The problem isn't technical it's visual. I'll use an analogy from Art. For thousands of years artists have both painted and sculted, but the 3-d technology (sculpting) has remained niche. Sculture has been mostly used for portrait/figures, while painting has been used for everything else. I can't think of a single sculpted landscape. Why? I'll posit that its because it's poor medium for portraying a broad sweep of information. Even when its used, such as dioramas in a Museum, it necessarily shows a very narrow slice of reality. 2-d is an excellent way to avoid clutter and present information in an easily understood way. Sometimes we even prefer to go 1-d such as timelines to distill the information even more.
So I downloaded the specification and the very first line after the LOC and copyright information said:
"NOTICE: All information contained herein is the property of Adobe Systems Incorporated."
Have they fixed or provided a work-around to the close button per tab problem?
When I tried RC1 this "feature" drove me absolutely batty. All of the other buttons such as go back, go forward, refresh, etc. remain in one place on the user interface, but for some misguided reason it was decided that close tab has to follow the tab. I typically open several tabs at a time then read through them deleting as I go. Having to chase the tab with the mouse is terribly annoying when moving rapidly through search results, news articles or whatever group of tabs I happen to have open. This is especially an issue when I have more than 20 or so tabs showing, which makes the target small and the page title non-existent on the tab.
All I can think of is that this would be a huge waste of resources. Nobody would ever want to watch more than a small fraction of the tape. And even if they did want to, it would be physically impossible without alot of skimming and skipping. If the idea is still attractive to you, I can only say get a life!
It is a rare movie indeed that I'd agree to seeing twice, or book that I would re-read; there's too much to see, read and do in life to start repeating old experiences.
Hey, I've got an idea. Let's do something based on the Hindu concept of rewards for good deeds. We could call it "Karma". Like if someone had done a bunch of editing that nobody disapproved of they could accumulate points and after they get a certain number of points they earn the right to approve changes... we could call that "moderating."
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Not that I like her, but everyone's entitled to having personal accounts which should be respected. If she used her .gov account for everything some people would be complaining about her usage of public resources to email her family.
Now, about what was found in the yahoo account: Obviously it would inadmissible in court, but it's very useful to her enemies anyway. Which I find disgusting.
You are pointing out the real issue without reaizing it. She has a history of making the public private and the private public. Cases in point: she appears to have used her Yahoo account to hide conversations with state officials from public scrutiny which is clearly illegal, but she revealed details of ongoing cases to her husband Todd which he used to exert inappropriate pressure on those with whom she disagrees.
Clearly if someone _knows_ the answer, then the wisdom of crowds doesn't work. The 1000 rednecks are clearly not going to out-guess the guy that packed the pickles in the jar if he counted them. But that's totally not the point. Experimental data shows that a group of rednecks beats any individual redneck, that a group of Harvard graduates will beat any individual Harvard graduate, and sometimes a large group of rednecks will beat a small group of Harvard graduates. I did an experiment in the high school math classes I teach during the NCAA basketball tournament. On the day of the final game, I asked each student to predict the score. I was shocked at the results. In each class (5), the class average beat the best individual guess and the aggregate average beat each of the class averages. The final score was predicted to be 75-69 with Kansas winning, in reality they won 75-68. Try it yourself. It definitely works.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/ps/19_7_inpress/vul.pdf
There's this new architural feature being built into many homes called a garage in which a person can store a car. Some of them even include electrical outlets within feet of the aforesaid vehicle. Futurists envision a retractable cord being used to charge the vehicle from the outlet although the technical aspects of this connection are unresolved. Note to moderators: +1 humorous.
Dewalt has been marketing this battery as a part of their 36V line of tools since last August. All indications are that it's characteristics, quick charging, low internal resistance, over 2000 lifetime charging cycles will revolutionize battery power. Hobbyist are beginning to use it for R/C planes and cars. It's being put into electric bicycles. The Tesla car is being designed around it. Go to Ebay, buy a Dewalt 36V battery and become part of the revolution. I'll be using mine to build a hybrid bicycle.
On one hand since the NSA has been helping with linux security for years with SELinux, it seems only fair that they would be willing to similarly assist M$. But my concern would be whether they are violating the GPL under which they released SELinux. If they are using concepts they developed for the open source SELinux in Vista, shouldn't M$ be required to open source at least those portions of Vista?
Public: ...
MS: They throw chairs at us. Help. Please.
Funny, I always thought it M$ that threw chairs.
How rude! [note to moderators: Please mod parent "flamebait".
Again you are just reframing the question. I don't care about your negative connotations! If internet addiction is just "Man's natural tendency to fulfill his desires", then wouldn't we all be addicted. Why do some people exhibit "selfish" traits, or "laziness", while others are altruistic or highly productive?
I think a lot of these addictions are not addictions, but rather a lack of self-control and discipline.
Fair enough... if you're a judge, but scientists aren't really interested in judgments. Science asks why. If you choose to reframe the situation as a lack of self-control and discipline fine. The question becomes why do some people lack self-control and discipline. If you can answer that one in a rigorous way you'll probably win a Nobel prize.
When I was in 4th grade, I got in trouble by reading the encyclopedia before I had my homework done. Now I'm 50, have been a teacher for years, and tend to scan my live bookmarks, the make blog, and slashdot before I grade tests or make lesson plans. Does it affect my work? Probably. Does it make me a better teacher? Arguably. Could I stop if I chose to? Probably not?
About 15 years ago I lived in an African village for 3 years. What did I miss most? My morning newspaper and public library! I know people who would say the same thing about the NY Times Crossword Puzzle. I don't see any difference between these examples and so-called internet addiction. Maybe psychologists should include these in the DSM too!
I considered that also but since the report isn't yet available, I only had the reporters comments to go on...
I have a computer that I've used daily for about the last three years, when I turn it on it is instantly (less than .4 sec) on. It has software compatible with MS Office documents, has a fast browser, a good media player and a nice selection of games. I only have to re-boot it about once a month unless I've installed new software. Oh and did I say its small enough to fit in a shirt pocket.
My point is that if Palm can do it on such limited hardware with a RISC chip emulating a 68000, why the heck can't Windows and/or Linux do the same on much more powerful machines.
Most of the comments I've read just confirm the submitters question: "Why can't a computer reboot faster?" Ummm, because that's all the faster a computer can reboot. The correct answer is: computers could be engineered to boot faster, but they would be slightly more expensive and far less flexible.
This is so lame. The report will not get published until February. We only have an unnamed source saying that while the estimated magnitude of the effects of global warming on sea level are lower than previously thought, this does not reflect a lowering of the risk posed by global warming. The reason given for this lowered estimate is unexpected reflection of solar rays by man-made aerosol sprays. How does this deserve the headline, "UN downgrades man's impact on the climate"? If anything it means that humanity has had more impact, albeit counteractive.
But I believe we should all wait for the report before either arguing for or against what it may/may not contain.
the vast body of the evidence indicates climate change is real; Lomborg is the only serious counter-claimaint that I am aware of.
Others have pointed out that Lomborg isn't disputing global warming but have failed to point out why. He can't! He's not a scientist, well, at least not physical science.
As his bio points out, he is a political scientist. His area of expertise is public policy and since 1998 his major focus has been on public policy surrounding global warming. If it wasn't in the original post, I'd probably have modded (yes, I'm sitting on mod points but decided to respond directly) comments regarding Lomborg as off-topic; the BBC is looking for evidence of scientific bias not of political dissension.
How timely! I was just looking at the Sabre Foundation website since I had some books to donate. Their motto is Humanitarian Aid for the Mind. I've lived in an Africa village 3 years and in a small town in India 4 years, and while hunger existed in both places it wasn't the only need. Many people were hungry for good reading material and intellectual stimulation as well. Once when I wasn't taking notes at a meeting, I was chastised by an illiterate farmer. He said, "You can read and write but don't use it. What good is that? If I were able to read and write I would use it all the time." In fact after 3 years in Chad my dream project was to set up a literacy program and bookmobile. There were so many ways that even a bit of education could be leveraged to improve village life. I believe that the OLPC project is in this spirit. The FAs premise seems to be that anyone outside a developed country has physical needs which far outweigh their intellectual needs. That is blatently false and just a little bit patronizing.
Care to explain?
That's an easy one, you are too lazy to follow links....
Their assertions are backed up by a volume of evidence found in similar conspiracy theories. NONE WHATSOEVER.
I don't know exactly which assertions you are questioning, since you chose to be non-specific, but the gist of the conversation is confirmed by the Cost Benefit Analysis of the proposed regulation.
Quote: Executive Summary The primary purpose of this proposed rule is to prevent passengers that have been identified as high-risk on government watchlists from boarding aircraft bound for or departing from the United States and to prevent passengers and crew so identified from departing on vessels leaving the Unites States.
The crucial issue is that government watch lists are classified with no recourse for those misidentified. This is an important human rights and constitutional issue which has nothing to do with conspiracy theories.
We have always had a fairly well-administered network, but when we started using Drive Shield the effect was amazing. It has changed student behavior in two ways. First, since they know that they'll lose everything on a re-boot anyway, they don't try nearly as much "customizing". Second, since the user experience is consistent kids don't get frustrated and mess things up out of spite.
Others have suggested Deep Freeze which I assume would be similar.
does a good job of making the case for the evolution to a 3D web
/.er.
As other readers have already commented, the web is already multi-dimensional. TFA is actually referring to the user interface, not the web itself. I already use a couple of 3-d interfaces, namely Google Earth and NASA World Wind. For the type of information they display, the 3-d interface is wonderful. In fact when using plain old Google Maps I often attempt to treat it as a 3-d interface and am frustrated when I realize my mistake. Displaying maps is, of course, just the beginning. Much information is better illumined when put into a geographic/chronologic context. Imagine taking all the biographical information in Wikipedia and using a Google Earth type interface to follow someone through their life. It would be easy to cross-reference to other famous people who they met / worked with along with the historical context. World Wind already does this sort of thing for climatic info. I guess what I'm saying is that I'm as excited about a 3-d user interface as much as the next
But...for most information, a 2-d interface is always going to be better. Why? Because thats the only way to display everything without hiding anything. The problem isn't technical it's visual. I'll use an analogy from Art. For thousands of years artists have both painted and sculted, but the 3-d technology (sculpting) has remained niche. Sculture has been mostly used for portrait/figures, while painting has been used for everything else. I can't think of a single sculpted landscape. Why? I'll posit that its because it's poor medium for portraying a broad sweep of information. Even when its used, such as dioramas in a Museum, it necessarily shows a very narrow slice of reality. 2-d is an excellent way to avoid clutter and present information in an easily understood way. Sometimes we even prefer to go 1-d such as timelines to distill the information even more.
You can download the specification
So I downloaded the specification and the very first line after the LOC and copyright information said: "NOTICE: All information contained herein is the property of Adobe Systems Incorporated."
So how do _you_ spell proprietary???
Have they fixed or provided a work-around to the close button per tab problem?
When I tried RC1 this "feature" drove me absolutely batty. All of the other buttons such as go back, go forward, refresh, etc. remain in one place on the user interface, but for some misguided reason it was decided that close tab has to follow the tab. I typically open several tabs at a time then read through them deleting as I go. Having to chase the tab with the mouse is terribly annoying when moving rapidly through search results, news articles or whatever group of tabs I happen to have open. This is especially an issue when I have more than 20 or so tabs showing, which makes the target small and the page title non-existent on the tab.
All I can think of is that this would be a huge waste of resources. Nobody would ever want to watch more than a small fraction of the tape. And even if they did want to, it would be physically impossible without alot of skimming and skipping. If the idea is still attractive to you, I can only say get a life!
It is a rare movie indeed that I'd agree to seeing twice, or book that I would re-read; there's too much to see, read and do in life to start repeating old experiences.
The report is available at http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/threatreport/in dex.jsp
It never fails to amaze me that slashdotters tend to post news stories rather than the source.
And who decides who will be part of the cadre?
Hey, I've got an idea. Let's do something based on the Hindu concept of rewards for good deeds. We could call it "Karma". Like if someone had done a bunch of editing that nobody disapproved of they could accumulate points and after they get a certain number of points they earn the right to approve changes... we could call that "moderating."