It is (almost) a 100% certainty that humans ARE looking at at least some slice of the data, because the computer algorithms didn't spring from the forehead of Jupiter. They were written and being tweaked by humans, based on real, actual, live user data.
yeah, because in this election, with the other trivial issues on the line like women's health, Medicare, dealing with Iran, the budget deficit, the economy, for sure I'm going to vote based on space policy.
yeah... because since the 60s, all NASA has done is launch probes to all of the planets, orbiters to a bunch of them, rovers on Mars, interstellar probes at the boundary of the solar system, ion drives, missions to asteroids... gee I sure wish we were still trying to put a couple of guys into low earth orbit.
So for everyone who thinks this is a great idea: your employer says "work for us for a couple of months. We'll decide at the end whether we feel like paying your or not".
The nuclear non-proliferation treaty has lots of requirements, none of which Iran is in compliance with. So I don't think you want to be holding up the NNPT as an example of how the world is discriminating against Iran.
The issue with countries like Iran isn't that they are worried that their supply of nuclear fuel will be cut off. They want to build nuclear weapons. They aren't interested in guarantees of actual fuel. If Iran was truly interested in nuclear fuel, the deal would have been done by now. A fuel bank is solution to a non-problem.
Yeah, Mars is probably the limit for a long time. Don't compare this to any voyage of discovery we've undertaken before. Tis is like is transition of life from water to land. Space travel is moving into a completely different, hostile environment. It may take a new form of life... robotic life... to make that transition.
Ok, Google uses a library that picks up extra data.... not impossible. Google writes all this data to log files without noticing the excess... a little unlikely but lets go with it. Google writes parsers to pick out the info they are interested in... and doesn't notice all of the payload data???? No. No way. There were clearly people within Google who knew damn well they were picking up extra data, personal data, and Google's approach was "We're Google, we can do what we want". That's the part I object to.
... It's merely that it would be intellectually dishonest for the average guy sitting at home to claim that he has evidence of what's a lie and what's the truth - anyone who claims so is usually just allowing his prejudices to select the evidence which backs up his views.
I'm having a flashback to when I used Thunderbird. The server configuration was a disaster. Instead of just typing in the configuration, which anyone can do, you had to interrupt the auto-configure at EXACTLY the right time and THEN type in the parameters. If you interrupted it to early, there wasn't any way to get the configuration in place. Thunderbird was the most annoying email program I've ever had the misfortune to use, and that's covering a lot of ground.
But the dilemma is of your own creation. When I make a gaming rig, I just put Windows on it because that's where the games are.
Using the O/S as a platform to run the software that you want... what a crazy idea, it will never catch on. Aren't O/S's supposed to be political statements?
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It is (almost) a 100% certainty that humans ARE looking at at least some slice of the data, because the computer algorithms didn't spring from the forehead of Jupiter. They were written and being tweaked by humans, based on real, actual, live user data.
I watched Curiosity land recently on Mars. Give me more of that "nothing", please.
You might want to read your tag line and think about it.
yeah, because in this election, with the other trivial issues on the line like women's health, Medicare, dealing with Iran, the budget deficit, the economy, for sure I'm going to vote based on space policy.
yeah... because since the 60s, all NASA has done is launch probes to all of the planets, orbiters to a bunch of them, rovers on Mars, interstellar probes at the boundary of the solar system, ion drives, missions to asteroids... gee I sure wish we were still trying to put a couple of guys into low earth orbit.
So for everyone who thinks this is a great idea: your employer says "work for us for a couple of months. We'll decide at the end whether we feel like paying your or not".
Sound like a good business model?
My PCs last pretty much indefinitely. Funny thing, my officemate's Mac has had all kinds of problems.
Guess anecdotal stories are what you make of them.
The nuclear non-proliferation treaty has lots of requirements, none of which Iran is in compliance with. So I don't think you want to be holding up the NNPT as an example of how the world is discriminating against Iran.
The issue with countries like Iran isn't that they are worried that their supply of nuclear fuel will be cut off. They want to build nuclear weapons. They aren't interested in guarantees of actual fuel. If Iran was truly interested in nuclear fuel, the deal would have been done by now. A fuel bank is solution to a non-problem.
Yeah, Mars is probably the limit for a long time. Don't compare this to any voyage of discovery we've undertaken before. Tis is like is transition of life from water to land. Space travel is moving into a completely different, hostile environment. It may take a new form of life... robotic life... to make that transition.
Do you live in a slum?
I had no idea the people in slums could afford bullet proof cars.
don't recall the last time I saw any of my neighbors in a bullet proof car in the USA... care to elaborate?
Lets not forget the success of the Lunar Probe (Chandrayaan-1) which cost about $90 million and was completed in 3 years time frame.
Yes, but it's a few years later and they are talking about delivering a Mars probe for less money. Is that believable?
"Often when the price tag on something seems to good to be true, it is."
Yeah, like offshored software development.
So true... you can hire people for 1/3rd of what you'd pay locally, and you end up getting what you pay for.
Ok, Google uses a library that picks up extra data.... not impossible. Google writes all this data to log files without noticing the excess... a little unlikely but lets go with it. Google writes parsers to pick out the info they are interested in... and doesn't notice all of the payload data???? No. No way. There were clearly people within Google who knew damn well they were picking up extra data, personal data, and Google's approach was "We're Google, we can do what we want". That's the part I object to.
Well, other than violating the law, yeah, Google didn't do anything wrong.
So what you are saying is that your friends use Google Plus instead of Skype, so they are easier to find on Google Plus instead of Skype.
You mean, because everyone has 3D, like everyone has a PC?
How many IT guys are chopping wood?
So your logic is: if Syria = Terrorism and Syria = (RAT) , there for (RAT) = Terrorism?
I'm rescuing the parent post from being modded to oblivion since it hits the nail right on the head.
What's even worse is the government is tracking sales of tin foil so they know who has their hats ready.
... It's merely that it would be intellectually dishonest for the average guy sitting at home to claim that he has evidence of what's a lie and what's the truth - anyone who claims so is usually just allowing his prejudices to select the evidence which backs up his views.
Including yourself, of course.
I'm having a flashback to when I used Thunderbird. The server configuration was a disaster. Instead of just typing in the configuration, which anyone can do, you had to interrupt the auto-configure at EXACTLY the right time and THEN type in the parameters. If you interrupted it to early, there wasn't any way to get the configuration in place. Thunderbird was the most annoying email program I've ever had the misfortune to use, and that's covering a lot of ground.
Personally, I like having cheaters being banned, but YMMV.
yes, the world would work so much better if we all did what you want, of course.
But the dilemma is of your own creation. When I make a gaming rig, I just put Windows on it because that's where the games are.
Using the O/S as a platform to run the software that you want... what a crazy idea, it will never catch on. Aren't O/S's supposed to be political statements?