Computers can help in two ways to read and interprete and ECG:
1. They can measure the distances and size of certain spikes and waves. This is very useful (the physician doesn't need to count all those little boxes and calculate the times and amplitudes) and most ECG machines do this very reliably.
BTW: A defilibrator needs this technique, too. When trying to do a cardioversion (re-set the atria during atrial fillibration), this should only be done in a special timewindow to avoid fillibrating the ventricles. Thus, a defi has to recognize the R-spike and be able to calculate the heartfrequency.
2. Interpreting the overall picture of the ECG. This is a tough one, but not only for machines. Traditional computer algorithms are not suited for this. Modern statistical methods or machine learning techniques that can do pattern recognition are better suited. Being right in 95% is a very excellent result. Normally, those techniques have an error of 20% or more.
An artificial neural network (one possible algorithm) works like your physician's mind. Only with the difference, that your physician might have forgotten some rare diseases. Therefore, machines are always superior to humans.
Todays key problem is to get all needed information into the machine. E.g., your ECG does not know whether your patient takes drugs, uses a pacemaker, or whether the surgeon is currently cutting with his electro cutter. That's IMHO the only reason why you should check an ECG.
BTW: My guess on the ECG presented on the site:
- Hypokalemia (this strange negative wave between T and U
What about a emulation that runs NGSCB? E.g. some kind of Wine or Bochs? You could easely compromise secured connections (and windows) because for the host OS they're running in normal, unprotected memory.
Even worse: What about a NGSCB client that pretends to be a real NGSCB-aware OS but is a fake in reality? You say asymmetric encryption? I say: Once these NGSCB-ready computers are out, it's only a matter of days until/. runs a story about cracked private keys.
From the article: "The royalties, were there to be any at some later date, would come back to basically foster further research here."
So... there are actually royalties?
So... they patent it now and claim to do this without any interest in money, and tomorrow they want royalties?
Or what?
Both things - detecting dupes and creating dupes - should be a simple thing today.
Concerning the first one, you could easely use a spam filter, modify it, and run it over all new posts. Whenever something bears high similiarity to a former/. article, the system should print out a dupe-warning.
Of course, sometimes there is wanted similiarity between different posts (like Mozilla 1.0 is out, Mozilla 1.1 is out, Mozilla 1.2 is out, Mozilla, 1.3 is out... and, guess what? Mozilla 1.4 alpha is out!)
this is a reply to a letter we haven't read. My guess is the original was belligerent, accusative, haranguing, and likely with erroneous facts. I don't know that for a fact; these are my suspicions
Yes, the original letter was indeed accusative, a typical flamebait. The response is just adequate for such a complaint, although not very professional.
Thank you for those links.
And I must excuse for not really understanding "libel" but now I have looked it up in my dictionary.:-)
Yes, it very sad that mostly people who look not western european are controlled. But as I said in my first post that's the case with all border patrols in all countries and thus doesn't make Germany any special in this matter.
It is especially molesting for the people who were sued for libel, but I still believe (and I truly hope you won't prove me wrong) in the German jurisdiction and that judges will come to an adequate judgement, that means pay some kind of reparation, for instance.
Being suspicious about people with another colour of their skin is a trait we can find in everybody (I even do not exclude myself). Let's hope that our new global world will sometime overcome this biases.
Concerning freedom of speech: Yes, it's an interesting thought. But I don't know whether all people are grown up enough not to believe everything.
The government is elected for and has its duty to protect a nation from harm.
That's why drugs are forbidden in most countries. The government claims that there is no right way to use drugs. You could argue in the same way that there is no right way to use Nazi ideology.
So we face two different ways of handling "harmful material":
- Allow it and hope that people are grown-up.
- Disallow it.
Thinking about the large amount of people who fail to use drugs, religion and ideology in the right way, you can get scared about giving still more rights to them.
Being a German and reading this bullshit about the Bundesgrenzschutz and censorship I feel like I need to say something about this.
First of all, censorship is happening everywhere. And I think it's worse if the U.S. government manages to supress information in the Linux kernel changelog for all people (U.S.American or not!), for instance. You might argue that this is a special case, but on the other hand Nazi-propaganda is a special case in Germany as well.
The Linux kernel changelog doesn't harm anybody. Nazi-propaganda can destroy a whole nation (and I'm not just talking about the German nation, think of all those anti-black-sites and the likes on AMERICAN servers that are polluting and twisting YOUR children's brains).
The German "constitution" (as Grundgesetz could be translated) has a very strict set of laws regarding anti-constitutional organisations and opinions. But just imagine, we wouldn't have this: There would be no legal (!!!) possibility to stop Nazi-propaganda and soon other countries (and I guess on first place the USA) would be raving about Nazi-Germany. So they are left raving about Censorship-Germany.
This censorship is and will always be a complicated process. The discussion about a censorship of the NPD (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschland = Nationaldemocratic Party of Germany) became very difficult: Apart from discussions whether it's good or bad to ban a right-wing party and its impact on all people associated with this party, there was also the issue whether the NPD was truly anti-constitutional and whether banning a whole party is anti-democratic.
I've been told from Swedish people that young German people have a very bad conscience. That's true.
Hitler destroyed the German nation not only with his Nazi-ideology-venom but he also rendered all non-Nazis inable to discuss a right-wing-idea neutrally and non-emotionally.
When Günther Grass hinted that he has the opinion that the Holocaust should not be revived in every new generation, he was called a "Nazi".
This is not only because non-nazistic Germans themselves are against Nazismn, but also because of all the other countries in the world which tend to look very careful on Germany and whether a new Hitler is popping up.
Regarding this Bundesgrenzschutz-issue: Bundesgrenzschutz is officially translated with "Protection of Borders". Those people tend to be picky in all nations.
It is true that the Bundesgrenzschutz focuses on non-western-people (like Russians and all those USA-hating people from the Near East).
I wonder whether the U.S. american customs police isn't doing the same? Or are they never suspicious if somebody from Cuba wants to enter the USA? (My father was being investigated upon entering the USA, I guess because of his style of clothing.)
And last not least: I don't believe that you can "sue people for libel".
All governments have their dark sides (just think of the atomic bomb experiments on american soldiers in the 1940s) and I wouldn't be too suprised to learn something new evil about the German government but for now I don't believe you. Please prove your accusations!
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1. They can measure the distances and size of certain spikes and waves. This is very useful (the physician doesn't need to count all those little boxes and calculate the times and amplitudes) and most ECG machines do this very reliably.
BTW: A defilibrator needs this technique, too. When trying to do a cardioversion (re-set the atria during atrial fillibration), this should only be done in a special timewindow to avoid fillibrating the ventricles. Thus, a defi has to recognize the R-spike and be able to calculate the heartfrequency.
2. Interpreting the overall picture of the ECG. This is a tough one, but not only for machines. Traditional computer algorithms are not suited for this. Modern statistical methods or machine learning techniques that can do pattern recognition are better suited. Being right in 95% is a very excellent result. Normally, those techniques have an error of 20% or more.
An artificial neural network (one possible algorithm) works like your physician's mind. Only with the difference, that your physician might have forgotten some rare diseases. Therefore, machines are always superior to humans.
Todays key problem is to get all needed information into the machine. E.g., your ECG does not know whether your patient takes drugs, uses a pacemaker, or whether the surgeon is currently cutting with his electro cutter. That's IMHO the only reason why you should check an ECG.
BTW: My guess on the ECG presented on the site:
- Hypokalemia (this strange negative wave between T and U
- Hypertrohpy of the left atrium (double-spike P)
And now for something completely different...
/. runs a story about cracked private keys.
What about a emulation that runs NGSCB? E.g. some kind of Wine or Bochs? You could easely compromise secured connections (and windows) because for the host OS they're running in normal, unprotected memory.
Even worse: What about a NGSCB client that pretends to be a real NGSCB-aware OS but is a fake in reality? You say asymmetric encryption? I say: Once these NGSCB-ready computers are out, it's only a matter of days until
From the article: "The royalties, were there to be any at some later date, would come back to basically foster further research here." So... there are actually royalties? So... they patent it now and claim to do this without any interest in money, and tomorrow they want royalties? Or what?
Both things - detecting dupes and creating dupes - should be a simple thing today. Concerning the first one, you could easely use a spam filter, modify it, and run it over all new posts. Whenever something bears high similiarity to a former /. article, the system should print out a dupe-warning.
Of course, sometimes there is wanted similiarity between different posts (like Mozilla 1.0 is out, Mozilla 1.1 is out, Mozilla 1.2 is out, Mozilla, 1.3 is out... and, guess what? Mozilla 1.4 alpha is out!)
this is a reply to a letter we haven't read. My guess is the original was belligerent, accusative, haranguing, and likely with erroneous facts. I don't know that for a fact; these are my suspicions
Yes, the original letter was indeed accusative, a typical flamebait.
The response is just adequate for such a complaint, although not very professional.
Thank you for those links. :-)
And I must excuse for not really understanding "libel" but now I have looked it up in my dictionary.
Yes, it very sad that mostly people who look not western european are controlled. But as I said in my first post that's the case with all border patrols in all countries and thus doesn't make Germany any special in this matter.
It is especially molesting for the people who were sued for libel, but I still believe (and I truly hope you won't prove me wrong) in the German jurisdiction and that judges will come to an adequate judgement, that means pay some kind of reparation, for instance.
Being suspicious about people with another colour of their skin is a trait we can find in everybody (I even do not exclude myself). Let's hope that our new global world will sometime overcome this biases.
Concerning freedom of speech: Yes, it's an interesting thought. But I don't know whether all people are grown up enough not to believe everything.
The government is elected for and has its duty to protect a nation from harm.
That's why drugs are forbidden in most countries. The government claims that there is no right way to use drugs. You could argue in the same way that there is no right way to use Nazi ideology.
So we face two different ways of handling "harmful material":
- Allow it and hope that people are grown-up.
- Disallow it.
Thinking about the large amount of people who fail to use drugs, religion and ideology in the right way, you can get scared about giving still more rights to them.
Being a German and reading this bullshit about the Bundesgrenzschutz and censorship I feel like I need to say something about this.
First of all, censorship is happening everywhere. And I think it's worse if the U.S. government manages to supress information in the Linux kernel changelog for all people (U.S.American or not!), for instance. You might argue that this is a special case, but on the other hand Nazi-propaganda is a special case in Germany as well.
The Linux kernel changelog doesn't harm anybody. Nazi-propaganda can destroy a whole nation (and I'm not just talking about the German nation, think of all those anti-black-sites and the likes on AMERICAN servers that are polluting and twisting YOUR children's brains).
The German "constitution" (as Grundgesetz could be translated) has a very strict set of laws regarding anti-constitutional organisations and opinions. But just imagine, we wouldn't have this: There would be no legal (!!!) possibility to stop Nazi-propaganda and soon other countries (and I guess on first place the USA) would be raving about Nazi-Germany. So they are left raving about Censorship-Germany.
This censorship is and will always be a complicated process. The discussion about a censorship of the NPD (Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschland = Nationaldemocratic Party of Germany) became very difficult: Apart from discussions whether it's good or bad to ban a right-wing party and its impact on all people associated with this party, there was also the issue whether the NPD was truly anti-constitutional and whether banning a whole party is anti-democratic.
I've been told from Swedish people that young German people have a very bad conscience. That's true.
Hitler destroyed the German nation not only with his Nazi-ideology-venom but he also rendered all non-Nazis inable to discuss a right-wing-idea neutrally and non-emotionally.
When Günther Grass hinted that he has the opinion that the Holocaust should not be revived in every new generation, he was called a "Nazi".
This is not only because non-nazistic Germans themselves are against Nazismn, but also because of all the other countries in the world which tend to look very careful on Germany and whether a new Hitler is popping up.
Regarding this Bundesgrenzschutz-issue: Bundesgrenzschutz is officially translated with "Protection of Borders". Those people tend to be picky in all nations.
It is true that the Bundesgrenzschutz focuses on non-western-people (like Russians and all those USA-hating people from the Near East).
I wonder whether the U.S. american customs police isn't doing the same? Or are they never suspicious if somebody from Cuba wants to enter the USA? (My father was being investigated upon entering the USA, I guess because of his style of clothing.)
And last not least: I don't believe that you can "sue people for libel".
All governments have their dark sides (just think of the atomic bomb experiments on american soldiers in the 1940s) and I wouldn't be too suprised to learn something new evil about the German government but for now I don't believe you. Please prove your accusations!