Second, I would like to see how the computer fares against a consensus of experts. By consensus, I'm imagining a group of 5-10 top players who discuss the best next move and then select the next move hopefully by consensus or at least by majority vote.
So you want a RAGE against the machine? (Redundant Array of Go Experts)
So, you have never encountered a road hazard? Or been in an accident? All it takes is a rock to hit your oil pan, or a bad pothole to damage your wheel, or snow/ice/debris on a road to send you into the ditch, or a deer that decides it wants to commit suicide.
Sure - on AVERAGE people are better off just paying for the service when they need it, but that doesn't work if you have something unusual/expensive. For example, my AAA membership (Premier RV - and I drive a reliable car) includes being pulled out of a ditch by 2 tow trucks and 200 miles of towing. If you went into a steep ditch a ways from home/your preferred mechanic, that is going to cost you over $500 - and may head towards $1k.
Since I've had a deer run in front of my car, and been sent into a ditch by ice (I was doing 15 MPH on a straight highway, and just started sliding sideways) I am more than happy to pay my $100/year to KNOW I am covered. Plus, I don't have to worry about finding a local towing company that wants to come out in the middle of the night. I call AAA and they handle everything else.
When one refers to a "1 in a million chance" they are not implying that they actually tried something 1 million times and it only worked once. They are implying that *if* they would have tried something 1 million times it would have only worked once. So if you win the lottery jackpot, your winning ticket was still "1 in 300 million" regardless of how many other tickets you bought or how many exist.
This is slightly flawed thinking. What those odds mean is that, when dealing with large numbers, you expect the average distribution of results to be 1 for every million. However, it makes no guarantee that there will be exactly 1 incident per million.
For example, when flipping a fair coin randomly, the odds of getting "heads" is 1 in 2. However, that doesn't mean you will get exactly 1 head in 2 flips; you could get 2 heads, or 0 heads. However, if you flip the coin a million times you will get somewhere around 500,000 heads. You might get 499,999 heads, or even 501,234 heads. That's the beauty of probability - the results have distributions that you can readily calculate.
So, back to the topic, if there is a 1-in-700 quintillion chance of having an Earth, then it may not be likely we have 1, 2 or even 100 of them - but it doesn't mean it is impossible.
For an M16, the max effective range against a point target (single person) is 550 meters. For an area target (vehicle or troop formation) it is 800 meters.
It is a useless question since it devolves into endless "What ifs..."
For example, what if Canada invades and starts killing everyone in North Dakota? Sure, that seems pretty justified to use force to defend yourself. What if you want to invade another country to take their farmland? Well, that doesn't seem justified. Then you get the, well what if you had a bad harvest and half your country will starve over winter without the extra crops? Or, what if both countries are short on food and neither wants to have their population die from starvation, so plan to attack each other? Or, what if a country is massing forces on your border? Do you have to wait for them to cross the border/start killing people before you can be justified in using force? What if they have chemical weapons near the border and you think they are waiting for favorable winds before releasing them?
Oh, and never justified means you are willing to watch someone torture, maim, blind and mutilate your friends and family (and yourself) because it only takes one side to start something. Anyone who says differently has no idea how cruel the world - and people - can be.
If you do implement both HTTP and HTTPS, if you could add something on the page that indicates what you are using, it would be appreciated. Yes, I know the browser will let you know, but I would like something slightly more intrusive just in case.
You are wrong. To quote George Carlin, "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
You, and most people on Slashdot, are not the market for Windows. (Although, for full disclosure, I am very happy with my Windows 10 box.) However, the average person knows how to do things on their Windows box! It doesn't matter if it is only a small change, they won't learn the new way and they are going to stick with Windows.
In addition, according to their financial statements, they are taking in more revenue than ever. So, while you may not like them, to steal from Mark Twain, "The reports of Microsoft's death are greatly exaggerated."
You are correct. However, you have no idea what the firmware behavior is. For example, if the SSD is 80% unused, does it need to clear blocks? What is the logic for determining "idle time"? Is the SSD file system aware? (i.e. - Does the OS have to trigger the trim, or does the drive have enough intelligence to do it without the OS?) Also, just for fun, remember that there are people who have phones that are 5+ years old, and may use antiquated techniques for determining their behavior.
I have a recent (less than 1-year old) flash drive that doesn't clear blocks on its own - until it has to. Which sucks when you watch performance go from 100+ Mbps to 7 Mbps and your 3 minute data transfer takes over 20 minutes.
You want 'facts'? You want 'informed opinions'? You're not going to find it here. Why? Because nobody here is a scientist specializing in climatology, and while it's possible, I find it highly unlikely that anyone who posts here, myself included, is academically qualified enough to interpret what climate data has been collected, if you could even find such analysis to be scientifically valid in any significant way.
You are begging the question. If you assume that there are no ways to conduct analyses that are scientifically valid, then of course you won't find someone who can do that on Slashdot. However, your premise is false; there are piles of publications with valid mathematics and statistics that have been published in this area. Just go to Google Scholar and start investigating; you'll find lots of values for glacier loss, global mean temperature changes, changes in ocean temperature and acidity, etc.
Now, are people who have already done the research going to post on Slashdot? Maybe not - like you said, threads seem to devolve quickly, and you can never win an argument with someone on the Internet, so they might just stay away.
My advice: Ignore the media when they talk about climate change. Have you ever cringed when you saw a story about your field, and how horribly wrong they got it? That's what they do with climate change as well - you just don't know it. So, my advice is: Go to Google Scholar and dig up the original publications, or check out some of the information the NOAA or NASA releases. Then, after you look at the raw data, draw your own conclusions.
If the world were perfect, it would be. However, in my experience, it doesn't work that way. I saw numerous people who were good at the social game and spotlighting (performing well when someone is looking) get ahead. I've even seen people who simply looked the part (tall and athletic) be promoted faster than those who was better than them in literally every test - practical and paper.
I was even on a board for a meritorious promotion and I was the sole person against one of the selections who got along well with the leadership. I didn't think he was mature enough to handle the responsibilities but everyone said he was a great guy, and would be fine. Short version: They promoted him and two months later he was busted back down for assaulting an officer while out drinking.
While you need a certain level of knowledge and ability, once you have that how well you do is often based on how tall, athletic and attractive you are. I don't have access to the entire paper, but you can look at an interesting abstract here.
It's largely because of context. I *hate* how my dealership inserts itself between me an my purchase and tries to siphon off money for itself. I went through the trouble of looking for the *same* model and make of my previous purchase between two dealers - and got two "rock bottom" prices that were $1000 different. I know they were "rock bottom" prices, because the dealership told me so.
Now, it depends on the total price of the car but, given a new car in the $30k range, that isn't a big difference (Would you be upset if someone said a rock bottom price was $100 and another said it was $97?)
One dealer may be paying a lot more to occupy their lot - or may have less sales volume, requiring them to make up the overhead over fewer purchases.
Now, I'm not saying you want to pay $1k more but, percentage-wise (assuming a $30k vehicle) a 3% difference is pretty minor - or may be due to something as weird as different rims on the car.
However, if someone renders you unconscious, they can take your hand and unlock your phone - and you'll have no idea whether you were robbed in the normal sense, or robbed and forced to unlock your device (which might have your saved banking and credit card passwords).
Of course, the real solution is to decide who/what you need to protect against and plan for that. If you are worried about someone in your family that could take advantage of you when you are exhausted, sick or inebriated - then a password is better. Protection against regular criminals - a fingerprint is probably the way to go. Someone targeting you, who is willing to commit assault to get what they want - a password might be better. Unless they would hit you with a $5 wrench to get your password. In that case you are pretty much screwed.
Finally - an advantage to being an old guy. All you young kids can worry about your DNA privacy AND get off my lawn!
In all seriousness, privacy is being eroded from so many directions, if we (and by we I mean almost everyone) don't start fighting against it, we will discover that the War on Privacy is over, and we have lost. In fact, between Facebook, Google, ISPs and electronic health records, it's probably over already - but I want to be optimistic.
It appears to me sometimes, that a lot of CEOs spend their entire tenure as CEO . . . as NOT being the CEO. Instead, they spend all of their time doing interviews on CNBC and conference calls with with Wall Street analysts.
That's what CEOs are supposed to do. If they are publicly traded, they need to manage Wall Street since those funds are generally the majority stakeholders in the company. Also, you do interviews to get your corporate message out there, and get a little free publicity.
2) Scope creep (the customer asked for a no-frills Ford, then says they need air, cruise, and a high-end stereo/GPS)
Or, they say they don't need air, cruise and a high-end stereo and then complain it is too hot, doesn't maintain its speed and they aren't able to hear any music during their test drives.
Thankfully polling has been done on privacy issues with results freely available to all:
http://www.pewinternet.org/201...
Here's the problem with the poll - they ask people about privacy, security and surveillance - but they don't test to see if people understand those topics, or how much they REALLY care about it.
Here's a (bad) car analogy - if I asked, "Do you want cars to be safer?" Most people would probably answer, "Yes." However, if I followed that with, "Do you want cars to be limited to 35 MPH?" Most people would think I'm crazy.
Here's the reality - even people who are aware of their data, how it might be shared, and are actively trying to protect it, are leaking data like a sieve. Most aren't willing to go to the lengths necessary to protect their information properly. Using gmail or any web mail provider? You are leaking information. Buying something online? Name, address, credit card info. Carrying a cell phone? GPS location and contacts. Using iCloud, Dropbox or any online storage service? I hope you have everything encrypted - and I mean your encryption, not their baked in service. I also hope you have never accidentally clicked a link or ad you didn't intend to (or even intended to) - because that info is going all over the place. See the complexity of ad networks here: http://www.lumapartners.com/resource-center/lumascapes-2/
You might claim you care about privacy, security and surveillance; but how much effort are you really putting into protecting it?
Just to be a spoil-sport, "subsequent encounter" isn't that they've experienced whatever injury again, it's that a complication popped up after primary treatment, such that they need more medical care.
What you describe is known as sequela which also has a code.
From Wikipedia: In ordinary language it may be described as a further condition that is different from, but a consequence of, the first condition.
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional, so I could be mistaken.
Except a $250k house in the midwest is probably large, with a big yard and close to work. In San Francisco, Alex has a multi-hour commute, higher taxes on his house and not much space if he has children.
I had a 45-minute commute when I lived in Iowa because I lived in a small town about 30 miles out. However, in that town you could get a 5 bedroom, 4 bath house on 2 acres for less than $100k. So, having the same commute as SF, but saving crazy amounts of money, is an option...
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Second, I would like to see how the computer fares against a consensus of experts. By consensus, I'm imagining a group of 5-10 top players who discuss the best next move and then select the next move hopefully by consensus or at least by majority vote.
So you want a RAGE against the machine? (Redundant Array of Go Experts)
I've read that somewhere before..
It was shown in the documentary Kung Fury. The best robots were unable to master the intricate fighting moves.
So, you have never encountered a road hazard? Or been in an accident? All it takes is a rock to hit your oil pan, or a bad pothole to damage your wheel, or snow/ice/debris on a road to send you into the ditch, or a deer that decides it wants to commit suicide.
Sure - on AVERAGE people are better off just paying for the service when they need it, but that doesn't work if you have something unusual/expensive. For example, my AAA membership (Premier RV - and I drive a reliable car) includes being pulled out of a ditch by 2 tow trucks and 200 miles of towing. If you went into a steep ditch a ways from home/your preferred mechanic, that is going to cost you over $500 - and may head towards $1k.
Since I've had a deer run in front of my car, and been sent into a ditch by ice (I was doing 15 MPH on a straight highway, and just started sliding sideways) I am more than happy to pay my $100/year to KNOW I am covered. Plus, I don't have to worry about finding a local towing company that wants to come out in the middle of the night. I call AAA and they handle everything else.
When one refers to a "1 in a million chance" they are not implying that they actually tried something 1 million times and it only worked once. They are implying that *if* they would have tried something 1 million times it would have only worked once. So if you win the lottery jackpot, your winning ticket was still "1 in 300 million" regardless of how many other tickets you bought or how many exist.
This is slightly flawed thinking. What those odds mean is that, when dealing with large numbers, you expect the average distribution of results to be 1 for every million. However, it makes no guarantee that there will be exactly 1 incident per million.
For example, when flipping a fair coin randomly, the odds of getting "heads" is 1 in 2. However, that doesn't mean you will get exactly 1 head in 2 flips; you could get 2 heads, or 0 heads. However, if you flip the coin a million times you will get somewhere around 500,000 heads. You might get 499,999 heads, or even 501,234 heads. That's the beauty of probability - the results have distributions that you can readily calculate.
So, back to the topic, if there is a 1-in-700 quintillion chance of having an Earth, then it may not be likely we have 1, 2 or even 100 of them - but it doesn't mean it is impossible.
For an M16, the max effective range against a point target (single person) is 550 meters. For an area target (vehicle or troop formation) it is 800 meters.
Wikipedia
It is a useless question since it devolves into endless "What ifs..."
For example, what if Canada invades and starts killing everyone in North Dakota? Sure, that seems pretty justified to use force to defend yourself. What if you want to invade another country to take their farmland? Well, that doesn't seem justified. Then you get the, well what if you had a bad harvest and half your country will starve over winter without the extra crops? Or, what if both countries are short on food and neither wants to have their population die from starvation, so plan to attack each other? Or, what if a country is massing forces on your border? Do you have to wait for them to cross the border/start killing people before you can be justified in using force? What if they have chemical weapons near the border and you think they are waiting for favorable winds before releasing them?
Oh, and never justified means you are willing to watch someone torture, maim, blind and mutilate your friends and family (and yourself) because it only takes one side to start something. Anyone who says differently has no idea how cruel the world - and people - can be.
If you do implement both HTTP and HTTPS, if you could add something on the page that indicates what you are using, it would be appreciated. Yes, I know the browser will let you know, but I would like something slightly more intrusive just in case.
You are wrong. To quote George Carlin, "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
You, and most people on Slashdot, are not the market for Windows. (Although, for full disclosure, I am very happy with my Windows 10 box.) However, the average person knows how to do things on their Windows box! It doesn't matter if it is only a small change, they won't learn the new way and they are going to stick with Windows.
In addition, according to their financial statements, they are taking in more revenue than ever. So, while you may not like them, to steal from Mark Twain, "The reports of Microsoft's death are greatly exaggerated."
You are correct. However, you have no idea what the firmware behavior is. For example, if the SSD is 80% unused, does it need to clear blocks? What is the logic for determining "idle time"? Is the SSD file system aware? (i.e. - Does the OS have to trigger the trim, or does the drive have enough intelligence to do it without the OS?) Also, just for fun, remember that there are people who have phones that are 5+ years old, and may use antiquated techniques for determining their behavior.
I have a recent (less than 1-year old) flash drive that doesn't clear blocks on its own - until it has to. Which sucks when you watch performance go from 100+ Mbps to 7 Mbps and your 3 minute data transfer takes over 20 minutes.
You want 'facts'? You want 'informed opinions'? You're not going to find it here. Why? Because nobody here is a scientist specializing in climatology, and while it's possible, I find it highly unlikely that anyone who posts here, myself included, is academically qualified enough to interpret what climate data has been collected, if you could even find such analysis to be scientifically valid in any significant way.
You are begging the question. If you assume that there are no ways to conduct analyses that are scientifically valid, then of course you won't find someone who can do that on Slashdot. However, your premise is false; there are piles of publications with valid mathematics and statistics that have been published in this area. Just go to Google Scholar and start investigating; you'll find lots of values for glacier loss, global mean temperature changes, changes in ocean temperature and acidity, etc.
Now, are people who have already done the research going to post on Slashdot? Maybe not - like you said, threads seem to devolve quickly, and you can never win an argument with someone on the Internet, so they might just stay away.
My advice: Ignore the media when they talk about climate change. Have you ever cringed when you saw a story about your field, and how horribly wrong they got it? That's what they do with climate change as well - you just don't know it. So, my advice is: Go to Google Scholar and dig up the original publications, or check out some of the information the NOAA or NASA releases. Then, after you look at the raw data, draw your own conclusions.
Actually, it was adults who invented leet, and it was back when everyone was still using BBS's. By the way, you are on my lawn.
You also drink Budweiser. So let's call it a draw.
My method is even easier... Take a bottle of regular water and pour it on your electronics. Problem solved!
It's actually the other way around.
If the world were perfect, it would be. However, in my experience, it doesn't work that way. I saw numerous people who were good at the social game and spotlighting (performing well when someone is looking) get ahead. I've even seen people who simply looked the part (tall and athletic) be promoted faster than those who was better than them in literally every test - practical and paper.
I was even on a board for a meritorious promotion and I was the sole person against one of the selections who got along well with the leadership. I didn't think he was mature enough to handle the responsibilities but everyone said he was a great guy, and would be fine. Short version: They promoted him and two months later he was busted back down for assaulting an officer while out drinking.
While you need a certain level of knowledge and ability, once you have that how well you do is often based on how tall, athletic and attractive you are. I don't have access to the entire paper, but you can look at an interesting abstract here.
It's largely because of context. I *hate* how my dealership inserts itself between me an my purchase and tries to siphon off money for itself. I went through the trouble of looking for the *same* model and make of my previous purchase between two dealers - and got two "rock bottom" prices that were $1000 different. I know they were "rock bottom" prices, because the dealership told me so.
Now, it depends on the total price of the car but, given a new car in the $30k range, that isn't a big difference (Would you be upset if someone said a rock bottom price was $100 and another said it was $97?)
One dealer may be paying a lot more to occupy their lot - or may have less sales volume, requiring them to make up the overhead over fewer purchases.
Now, I'm not saying you want to pay $1k more but, percentage-wise (assuming a $30k vehicle) a 3% difference is pretty minor - or may be due to something as weird as different rims on the car.
However, if someone renders you unconscious, they can take your hand and unlock your phone - and you'll have no idea whether you were robbed in the normal sense, or robbed and forced to unlock your device (which might have your saved banking and credit card passwords).
Of course, the real solution is to decide who/what you need to protect against and plan for that. If you are worried about someone in your family that could take advantage of you when you are exhausted, sick or inebriated - then a password is better. Protection against regular criminals - a fingerprint is probably the way to go. Someone targeting you, who is willing to commit assault to get what they want - a password might be better. Unless they would hit you with a $5 wrench to get your password. In that case you are pretty much screwed.
Finally - an advantage to being an old guy. All you young kids can worry about your DNA privacy AND get off my lawn!
In all seriousness, privacy is being eroded from so many directions, if we (and by we I mean almost everyone) don't start fighting against it, we will discover that the War on Privacy is over, and we have lost. In fact, between Facebook, Google, ISPs and electronic health records, it's probably over already - but I want to be optimistic.
It appears to me sometimes, that a lot of CEOs spend their entire tenure as CEO . . . as NOT being the CEO. Instead, they spend all of their time doing interviews on CNBC and conference calls with with Wall Street analysts.
That's what CEOs are supposed to do. If they are publicly traded, they need to manage Wall Street since those funds are generally the majority stakeholders in the company. Also, you do interviews to get your corporate message out there, and get a little free publicity.
2) Scope creep (the customer asked for a no-frills Ford, then says they need air, cruise, and a high-end stereo/GPS)
Or, they say they don't need air, cruise and a high-end stereo and then complain it is too hot, doesn't maintain its speed and they aren't able to hear any music during their test drives.
Does that mean Literature and Peace are now sciences?
I believe Peace is one of the hard sciences.
Thankfully polling has been done on privacy issues with results freely available to all: http://www.pewinternet.org/201...
Here's the problem with the poll - they ask people about privacy, security and surveillance - but they don't test to see if people understand those topics, or how much they REALLY care about it.
For example, people claim they care about things being made in America - http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/05/01/gallup-60-percent-of-u-s-willing-to-pay-more-for-american-made-products/ - However, one look at how much we import from overseas, and it is obvious how much they (don't) care.
Here's a (bad) car analogy - if I asked, "Do you want cars to be safer?" Most people would probably answer, "Yes." However, if I followed that with, "Do you want cars to be limited to 35 MPH?" Most people would think I'm crazy.
Here's the reality - even people who are aware of their data, how it might be shared, and are actively trying to protect it, are leaking data like a sieve. Most aren't willing to go to the lengths necessary to protect their information properly. Using gmail or any web mail provider? You are leaking information. Buying something online? Name, address, credit card info. Carrying a cell phone? GPS location and contacts. Using iCloud, Dropbox or any online storage service? I hope you have everything encrypted - and I mean your encryption, not their baked in service. I also hope you have never accidentally clicked a link or ad you didn't intend to (or even intended to) - because that info is going all over the place. See the complexity of ad networks here: http://www.lumapartners.com/resource-center/lumascapes-2/
You might claim you care about privacy, security and surveillance; but how much effort are you really putting into protecting it?
Just to be a spoil-sport, "subsequent encounter" isn't that they've experienced whatever injury again, it's that a complication popped up after primary treatment, such that they need more medical care.
What you describe is known as sequela which also has a code.
From Wikipedia:
In ordinary language it may be described as a further condition that is different from, but a consequence of, the first condition.
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional, so I could be mistaken.
Probably not because they made a classic OBOB error.
No, they didn't. Zero is a value. So, the 256th day is found at index 255 in the calendar.
You weren't forced to take it - you chose to take it. It might have been less socially awkward to do so, but you weren't forced to.
Except a $250k house in the midwest is probably large, with a big yard and close to work. In San Francisco, Alex has a multi-hour commute, higher taxes on his house and not much space if he has children.
I had a 45-minute commute when I lived in Iowa because I lived in a small town about 30 miles out. However, in that town you could get a 5 bedroom, 4 bath house on 2 acres for less than $100k. So, having the same commute as SF, but saving crazy amounts of money, is an option...