The largest demographic in american prisons are black americans. Real statistic but is it true?
Given a particular sample that indicates blacks are 60% of the prison population this would appear to be true.
But what if I said: "The largest demographic in prison is minority, non-whites." Suddenly the % jumps from 60% (black) to 80% (minority). Which is more right? This is the problem with statistics. Context.
Now I can say readily that the largest demographic in prison is actually right-handed people. The % now jumps to 90%.
But wait! There is more! The largest demographic is prison is actually people who prior to arrest were below the poverty line which jumps to 99% of the population. Again, all of the above are accurate based on a sample but which is MORE correct? Linear Algebra is coming into play here quickly....
When that kind of issue comes into play, it is the classic "Correlation != Causation" confusion. The majority of people in prison are in there because of "Being black? Being a minority? being right handed? or being poor?" None of the above. The majority of them are in there because they were convicted of a crime and sentenced. That is the causation of their imprisonment, the rest is correlation which may have a direct causation on the conviction or sentencing, but no direct causation on being in prison. (e.g. You cannot be thrown into prison for being poor, black, minority, right handed)
Same with medical research, politics, economics, etc. The price of oil rising 10% and a subsequent 5% drop in shipping orders. Measuring the significance of regessors is important but oddly never reported most of the time. Many factors get masked or shadowed by higher level regressors (e.g. being a minority masks a variety of other social and economic factors. In addition it can distort statistical work by being too broad. Asians have a variety of different economic and social factors as north american blacks versus even african immigrants.)
Back to the orignal subject:
We can take 100 prisoners and 100 non-prisoners and figure out rather quickly if being black is statistically significant in prison population. Non-prison population blacks would account for 25%-45% of the population (Depending on location). We can see that 60% of prisoners are black. There is a 20+% deviation from the norm. We can test to see the significance of that. Same with minorities. Now we find something quickly that right handed is insignificant because it doesn't deviate from the norm. We can test left-handed and right-handed populations and rule out the handed-ness of a convict being significant. We can find the economic status is considerable MORE significant then minority or black as a status. We can determine that the reason minorities or blacks are disporotinally more prevelant in prison is that blacks and minorities have higher rates of poverty. We can extract and determine the statistical weight of POVERTY in regards to imprisonment (Since we find a high % of white in prison that are poor compared to the normal population.) Once we figure that out we can remove that and continue an investigation and figure out what weight minority and black has once we have removed POVERTY from the model (Residual analysis).
The problem in reporting is without providing the whole, comprehensive analysis you can miss important things. For instance to correct the injustice in sentencing, without reporting the weight POVERTY has in contrast to BLACK or MINORITY you may lose sight that you may have better success addressing POVERTY to normalize sentencing rather then MINORITY or BLACK (or not).
The same happens in medical reasearch. Given a cocktail of drugs wirthout having the whole analysis you may end up providing more of Medicine A versus B but lose sight that A & B are limited by the dosage of Medicine C.
Satistics are not bullshit, rather mearly observations with no intrinsic agenda or even implication of truth. Purely amoral, like a hand gun.. useful to both the good and evil.
Statistics don't lie, nor do they tell the truth. They simple show the relationship of the data as it stands. The Truth or Thruthiness of it is subjective and vulnerable to context.
The wife keeps checking in on me playing FFXIII because Vanilla;) sounds like she's constantly having sex... Worst acting ever.... or best depending on the mood...
There is nothing more amusing in life then watching two sides of intolerant try to explain to one another how intolerant each is. Thank you slashdot for another amusing idealogical flame war.
First: Correlation doesn't imply causation.
Any organization: religion or otherwise can be taken as the mean of actions. To try and blame religion for the crusades, torture, etc at the time is statistically irrelivant. Those tactics were used with the same impunity by non-religious organizations at the time. The Dutch trading companies, merchant leagues, feudal lords, etc.
The capacity for evil is universal in humans. The very fact people can throw out secular versus non-secular violence simply states a fact that violence has little to do with and one particular idealogy. People kill in the name of XYZ because it is a source of justification. No different the killing in the name of greed, pride, honor, land, food, etc.
Crusades religious? That is nonsense. The holy roman empire was just that an empire. No different then Rome. When Ole' Rome invaded and took out the Goths was that a Holy War by Zeus or Jupiter? It's a war over land the "backing" is irrelivant. France's revolution was a secular vs religious blood bath. Athiests, Agnostics, Religious, and other idealogical classifications are statistically insignificant regressors when it comes to the analysis of violence.
Islam is statistically no more violent then Christianity or Aethiests. The lead indicators in violence is education and poverty levels. After that comes access to fresh water and crop land.
The crusades was a land grab. No different with the Moorish invasion. The "decorations" of war no different. Any organization\idealogy will attempt to grow it's power and supress dissent. It's human nature. Democrats, Republicans, Masons, Boy Scouts, your local Sigbap, Eve Corp, or WoW guild all have the same basic behaviors. Violence, war, indoctrination, etc are common behaviors.
It's just a statistical echo that religious organizations were successful enough organizations to escalate to that level of control. e.g. It's not the fact they are religions but rather the fact they were successsful control structures (Which mind you most governement models are based from.) President = Pope, Congress of Cardinals = Senate, etc.
So go ahead and butt intolerant heads but I hate to break it to both sides, is because human behavior, not a particular belief structure. God didn't invent the atom bomb, scientists, people, humans did. The only thing I see is a world in which people love to blame "the other side" for the problems rather then realize the reasons for our darkest side is universal. Evil is universal, it's just easier to try and subscribe a demographic to it rather then deal with the real root causes.
But how can you confuse a metallic looking hand gun for a Wii remote?
The parents apparently aren't too bright to leave a loaded gun around.
The kid appears to have not been to bright to confuse Shiney Metal Thing for a Wii remote.
Mean as it is, isn't this natural selection at work?
My sympathy I assure you, but something has to filter the Idiocracy out.
"The kid didn't know any better" isn't an excuse.
The kids should have known better and that is the parent's fault. Stupid breeds stupid. Fact proven once again in a sorrowful incident.
Parent's at fault, punishment: sterilization seems appropriate and living the rest of their existence knowing they got their own child killed; and society has deemed them to stupid to have another child. It's a win-win for the rest of humanity.
I am an ass I guess, but having kids is a privledge, not a right and allowing stupid people to breed isn't doing anyone any good, expecially the kids that suffer their negligence.
Between terrible last mile infrastructure and ISP throttling I can't help but sarcastically comment big freaking deal.
We'll they can't complain now that there isn't enough bandwidth so they have to meter it now.
Cisco as I see it has a vested interested in ensuring that the net remains neutral to push these kind of product upgrades. Coupled with premise end-point equipment it stands that they would want more bandwidth use and leverage monitoring, rather then metering, Internet use.
Metering is a waste, monitoring and then selling said info, there is where the money will be...
I run Gentoo, Ubuntu, and most MS products. I patch every fucking day with Linux. First they don't patch enough, then they patch too much, then the patches are too.... Jebus Trucking Rice -1 MOD TROLL and another -1 MOD FUD for this article. Too many fanboy editors with an agenda it seems...
I See a time when pop-up ads or Help files are no longer needed on wEb sites and we can just think to Control our web browsers. I Am a firm beliver that this will happen aNd look forward to it. IrRational advetisers are the source of pop ups. To Educate people on how to browse is essential. My bAit and switch idea for spammers should be effective. Is buDding technology out there going to solve this Or sYstems of control needed in meat space versus cyberspace? As COntrols advance into HTML-5 how can we combat the Pop-Up? I TUrn to the wisdom of my elders for advice on a Realistic approach to pop up ads. I Personally use a pop up block and it works but on Other platforms this may not be an option. One Such solution is adware and is well liked. But sTandards for advertising are loose at best. I was Submitting RFCs for advertising standards but gave up.
Given Los Angles Drag On Social servies it is clear they SERIOUS HELP!
It's all fun and games Till she develops an obsession for a young veritecH pilot and usEs a deComissioned super dimensionAl fortress and subliminal messages to subjugate an entire city all the while plotting to Kill the love intErest of said pIlot. Beware the promiSes of virtuAl idoLs and entertaInErs!!
Keep in mind Google is quickly becoming an all controlling entity. I have concerns that this technology could expose users to additional threats. Likely I see it as one more way for Google to corner the search market. Lastly I ponder the legal implications of a direct tying to a web site's content. What if there is a copyright violation.
Generally I find this to be a dud tech. Long ago we had to publish to search engines then the crawlers came and life was good. Again automation is what made things better. Diving into this without thinking would be suicide. Often I fear technology more now then I did before. Simply put I think this is a crpytic way to pillage and trick web develoeprs to forking over additional metrics for page ranking since more frequent updates I would assume gets you a higher page rank.
Hello this is Eugene Walter, VP of Research and Development at Apeture Food Group Inc.
Some people are implying that the now dissolved Apeture Science Group's (which I was the former CIO of) computer systems has some How recoverEd from the horribLe chemical explosion at the former ASG Production facility. This rumor is a LIE. An out right lie by jaded Black Mesa Research employees who's Grant money aLso collapsed Around the time of the Apeture Science Group's inDustrial accident at the San PedrO facility for AeroSpace DeveLopment. SInce the ASG's dissolVment thosE at the parent company ASG Inc. have Spent years fighting baseless rumors of "Exotic Experiments" and under-the-table military experiments. These claims are outright lies. No portion of the GLADOS survived the explosion as the federal investigation that followed clearly substantiates.
In closing please remember that the ASG no longer exists and there it no cause for further speculation. I would also like to remind you that the Apeture Food Group has a wonderful bake sale going on at the Leanaa facility to raise money for the Hope Charity group. Please stop buy and try the cake.
Since the absolute addressing of physical mapping is handled by the drive controller I doubt a manufacturer is going to allow anyone to get direct control of the hard disk.
The issue is if a user space application could do so they could write persistent viruses into the sector reallocation reserve space and no OS could remove that data unless the OS also had access to that space and\or a sector gets reallocated into that space wiping the content.
In addition due to rotational issues you would need to first pre-determine an arbitarary starting point on each platter, write a pattern to identify that and build a custom sector mapping. You have to remember that due to sector remapping sequentially mapped sectors may not in fact be "next" to one another on the hard disk.
You are trying to pin the tail on a doney travelling at over 7200 RPM which is no small feat.
You could try building your own custom firmware for the disk controller but I am certain that disk manufactures have specialized firmware and disk options for, shall we say, less then normal buyers.
How, exactly, are anonymized blood samples going to used to track down missing persons or solve cold cases, or do anything else that hinges on tying a person to that blood sample? That is assuming you believe the samples were actually anonymized, which there's no way to know for sure.
I'm not defending what was done, but the only real use I can see would be statistical evaluation. Possibly a good idea, but the implementation (doing it without consent) is clearly wrong.
Simple you can copyright the private database and it's contents preventing people form using said data unless they license the data. YOu can also patent the gene sequences so your derived gene therapy. Nothing like having the cure for cancer in YOUR dna but some other company can patent YOUR dna and profit while you, the original DNA provider gets nothing.
Typically if they take a tissue sample from you at the hospital, it belongs to them
No. It "belongs" to the being it was taken from. The being it was taken from has first "copyright"/"patent"/"trademark" to it (add whatever terms the lawyers feel necessary, here)
It does not matter who sequenced it first. It does not matter whether it has unique properties. It does not matter who it was taken from, whether they consented to it, or not.
No corporation, government, nor any other entity, can own anything about me that I do not give explicitly give them rights to.
Legislators can pontificate as much as they want to, there are things that we - as human beings - won't give up. This is one of them. History proves that.
If those in power wish to [continue] to do so, they will suffer the same fate as their predecessors have; they will eventually be replaced.
Fools.
SB
Nonsense, by that logic then your parent's actually have a joint ownership of your DNA since it is a derative work. And so on and so on up the geneology. Listen, this is the 21st century you and I are pesants, only nobles, the wealthy, and celebs have rights. Your assertion of some sort of right, while noble, isn't the case. Justice belongs to those who can afford it and with government backed health industry, they can afford it, you and I cannot.
Odd looking back I wonder if there is causation as a sudden surge of gene sequencing and DNA patents coming out of that. Nothing like getting a hold of someone's DNA and patenting, copyrighting, shit lets even trademark the sequencing data.
"I'm sorry sir but we cannot do your lab work, your dna is currently patented and copyrighted by (INSERT TEXAS BASES PATENT TROLL COMPANY OF THE WEEK HERE) so we cannot run any actual tests."
or which is now apparently a real issue being discussed at the U0M:
"Well we'd like to use your DNA for research but if your DNA has already ben patented or the sequencing data copyrighted it could jepordize the research... We need to pay some lawyers to do the research to make sure your DNA sequence is not already in a private database..."
Time wise, if we assume Hollywood lags about 10 years behind the times then they are accurate suprisingly. Back in the days when ACiD, TRiBES and iCE were waging a holy war of ANSI art packs across the BBS era and when USENET was full of useful information rather then spam and people still cared about blue boxes the scene was largely '))>>{
P.S. Anyone know where I can find the old ANSI animation "The Slug"?
Yes you are, code resuability is essential. While you might not be able to link via dlls and shared libraries if code can be reused then you have written robust, reuseable code.
Has to me mentioned in the Rifts RPG at some point in the war someone launched effectively frag missles that turned everything in orbit into a high speed shredder locking out anyone off Earth and locking in everything on Earth. What it to prevent some lunatic rogue (yeah no makeup here!) nation from doing the same?
"The greatest environmental crime in history is the publication of redundant design guides on pages better spent on trashy romance novels." - KCP
Seriously another broad, vague, self indulgent "How to design XYZ better". Useless crap. Here is why:
Given any field of study and a set of topics in said field we endevor to publish a book containing any given subset of those topics. By the very virtue of a finite length book we must temper the content of the selected topics to ensure we cover all our selected topics. No matter the weight given to each topic the fundamental truth is, for every given page spent on one topic, there is one less page spent on any of the other topics. In this regard the more topics we cover, the less adaquately we cover all those topics. Throwing more pages at more topics because of this, does nothing more then make the book heavy rather then useful. To be terse in writing and narrow in focus not only provides a text that is, per page, more relevant, insightful, and useful; but makes the book far more easily shoplifted, discretely carried, and less likely to be used as decoration or door stop.
The best design guide I was ever privvy to was a usenet post:
"For every word typed there is a chance you will say something stupid. Type Less."
"There are 3 colors you should use in design, stuff you should read, stuff to get their attention, and shit lawyers want hidden."
"Use any three colors you want in design for those three, so long as one of them is black and another is white."
"If you can't read your own code, think more, type less."
"Work on 3 different projects at once. If you are cutting and pasting and reusing code a lot between them, you're coding things the right way."
"You are not writing an Idiot's Guide to Programming so don't comment your code like you are."
"Always assume your data entry people are blind, deaf, dumb, and have typing terrets. Validate input always."
"It Works != It's Done || Well Written is wrong. (It Works != It's Done) || (It Works != Well Written) is right. Triple check your operator precident, logical or otherwise"
"No matter what, unless it was done yesterday, it's late."
"The Business Line will expect N+1 tests before signing off on the code where N is how many times you've tested."
"Shit happens, bring paper."
"Your Gung Fu is good, but it will never defeat someone 1/2 skilled but 1/4th the cost. Good Better Best, Never Let it Rest, Until the Good is Better and the Better is Best."
"You ass is always on the line so work like it."
"Lime is not a color, it's a crime.."
"Blinking has never done anyone any good except for brothels and strip clubs. You are coding neither."
"If all your work is done start doing someone elses. Last I checked businesses don't hand out awards for failed projects to members that "At least got his part of the fuck up done...""
Did everyone miss the fact they sent the videos apaprently to a third party for a review of content? So if there is anything that could be considered pr0n do they SOBs go to jail for distribution of child pr0n or is this yet another government agency above the law?
Slashdot Mirror
The largest demographic in american prisons are black americans. Real statistic but is it true?
Given a particular sample that indicates blacks are 60% of the prison population this would appear to be true.
But what if I said: "The largest demographic in prison is minority, non-whites." Suddenly the % jumps from 60% (black) to 80% (minority). Which is more right? This is the problem with statistics. Context.
Now I can say readily that the largest demographic in prison is actually right-handed people. The % now jumps to 90%.
But wait! There is more! The largest demographic is prison is actually people who prior to arrest were below the poverty line which jumps to 99% of the population. Again, all of the above are accurate based on a sample but which is MORE correct? Linear Algebra is coming into play here quickly....
When that kind of issue comes into play, it is the classic "Correlation != Causation" confusion. The majority of people in prison are in there because of "Being black? Being a minority? being right handed? or being poor?" None of the above. The majority of them are in there because they were convicted of a crime and sentenced. That is the causation of their imprisonment, the rest is correlation which may have a direct causation on the conviction or sentencing, but no direct causation on being in prison. (e.g. You cannot be thrown into prison for being poor, black, minority, right handed)
Same with medical research, politics, economics, etc. The price of oil rising 10% and a subsequent 5% drop in shipping orders. Measuring the significance of regessors is important but oddly never reported most of the time. Many factors get masked or shadowed by higher level regressors (e.g. being a minority masks a variety of other social and economic factors. In addition it can distort statistical work by being too broad. Asians have a variety of different economic and social factors as north american blacks versus even african immigrants.)
Back to the orignal subject:
We can take 100 prisoners and 100 non-prisoners and figure out rather quickly if being black is statistically significant in prison population. Non-prison population blacks would account for 25%-45% of the population (Depending on location). We can see that 60% of prisoners are black. There is a 20+% deviation from the norm. We can test to see the significance of that. Same with minorities. Now we find something quickly that right handed is insignificant because it doesn't deviate from the norm. We can test left-handed and right-handed populations and rule out the handed-ness of a convict being significant.
We can find the economic status is considerable MORE significant then minority or black as a status. We can determine that the reason minorities or blacks are disporotinally more prevelant in prison is that blacks and minorities have higher rates of poverty. We can extract and determine the statistical weight of POVERTY in regards to imprisonment (Since we find a high % of white in prison that are poor compared to the normal population.) Once we figure that out we can remove that and continue an investigation and figure out what weight minority and black has once we have removed POVERTY from the model (Residual analysis).
The problem in reporting is without providing the whole, comprehensive analysis you can miss important things. For instance to correct the injustice in sentencing, without reporting the weight POVERTY has in contrast to BLACK or MINORITY you may lose sight that you may have better success addressing POVERTY to normalize sentencing rather then MINORITY or BLACK (or not).
The same happens in medical reasearch. Given a cocktail of drugs wirthout having the whole analysis you may end up providing more of Medicine A versus B but lose sight that A & B are limited by the dosage of Medicine C.
Satistics are not bullshit, rather mearly observations with no intrinsic agenda or even implication of truth. Purely amoral, like a hand gun.. useful to both the good and evil.
Statistics don't lie, nor do they tell the truth. They simple show the relationship of the data as it stands. The Truth or Thruthiness of it is subjective and vulnerable to context.
The wife keeps checking in on me playing FFXIII because Vanilla ;) sounds like she's constantly having sex... Worst acting ever.... or best depending on the mood...
There is nothing more amusing in life then watching two sides of intolerant try to explain to one another how intolerant each is. Thank you slashdot for another amusing idealogical flame war.
First: Correlation doesn't imply causation.
Any organization: religion or otherwise can be taken as the mean of actions. To try and blame religion for the crusades, torture, etc at the time is statistically irrelivant. Those tactics were used with the same impunity by non-religious organizations at the time. The Dutch trading companies, merchant leagues, feudal lords, etc.
The capacity for evil is universal in humans. The very fact people can throw out secular versus non-secular violence simply states a fact that violence has little to do with and one particular idealogy. People kill in the name of XYZ because it is a source of justification. No different the killing in the name of greed, pride, honor, land, food, etc.
Crusades religious? That is nonsense. The holy roman empire was just that an empire. No different then Rome. When Ole' Rome invaded and took out the Goths was that a Holy War by Zeus or Jupiter? It's a war over land the "backing" is irrelivant. France's revolution was a secular vs religious blood bath. Athiests, Agnostics, Religious, and other idealogical classifications are statistically insignificant regressors when it comes to the analysis of violence.
Islam is statistically no more violent then Christianity or Aethiests. The lead indicators in violence is education and poverty levels. After that comes access to fresh water and crop land.
The crusades was a land grab. No different with the Moorish invasion. The "decorations" of war no different. Any organization\idealogy will attempt to grow it's power and supress dissent. It's human nature. Democrats, Republicans, Masons, Boy Scouts, your local Sigbap, Eve Corp, or WoW guild all have the same basic behaviors. Violence, war, indoctrination, etc are common behaviors.
It's just a statistical echo that religious organizations were successful enough organizations to escalate to that level of control. e.g. It's not the fact they are religions but rather the fact they were successsful control structures (Which mind you most governement models are based from.) President = Pope, Congress of Cardinals = Senate, etc.
So go ahead and butt intolerant heads but I hate to break it to both sides, is because human behavior, not a particular belief structure. God didn't invent the atom bomb, scientists, people, humans did. The only thing I see is a world in which people love to blame "the other side" for the problems rather then realize the reasons for our darkest side is universal. Evil is universal, it's just easier to try and subscribe a demographic to it rather then deal with the real root causes.
But how can you confuse a metallic looking hand gun for a Wii remote?
The parents apparently aren't too bright to leave a loaded gun around.
The kid appears to have not been to bright to confuse Shiney Metal Thing for a Wii remote.
Mean as it is, isn't this natural selection at work?
My sympathy I assure you, but something has to filter the Idiocracy out.
"The kid didn't know any better" isn't an excuse.
The kids should have known better and that is the parent's fault. Stupid breeds stupid. Fact proven once again in a sorrowful incident.
Parent's at fault, punishment: sterilization seems appropriate and living the rest of their existence knowing they got their own child killed; and society has deemed them to stupid to have another child. It's a win-win for the rest of humanity.
I am an ass I guess, but having kids is a privledge, not a right and allowing stupid people to breed isn't doing anyone any good, expecially the kids that suffer their negligence.
I am still a fan of "Oreos per hours" for car speeds or better yet "Furlongs per Pint" for fuel efficency...
Between terrible last mile infrastructure and ISP throttling I can't help but sarcastically comment big freaking deal.
We'll they can't complain now that there isn't enough bandwidth so they have to meter it now.
Cisco as I see it has a vested interested in ensuring that the net remains neutral to push these kind of product upgrades. Coupled with premise end-point equipment it stands that they would want more bandwidth use and leverage monitoring, rather then metering, Internet use.
Metering is a waste, monitoring and then selling said info, there is where the money will be...
beginning countdown till a lawsuit drives the cost to do so so high that only the elite can afford it... lawyer litgation gold rush in 10... 9... 8...
Face it, without real tort reform this will get litigated into oblivion...
I run Gentoo, Ubuntu, and most MS products. I patch every fucking day with Linux. First they don't patch enough, then they patch too much, then the patches are too .... Jebus Trucking Rice -1 MOD TROLL and another -1 MOD FUD for this article. Too many fanboy editors with an agenda it seems...
I See a time when pop-up ads
or Help files are no longer needed
on wEb sites and we can just think
to Control our web browsers.
I Am a firm beliver that this will happen
aNd look forward to it.
IrRational advetisers are the source of pop ups.
To Educate people on how to browse is essential.
My bAit and switch idea for spammers should be effective.
Is buDding technology out there going to solve this
Or sYstems of control needed in meat space versus cyberspace?
As COntrols advance into HTML-5 how can we combat the Pop-Up?
I TUrn to the wisdom of my elders for advice on
a Realistic approach to pop up ads.
I Personally use a pop up block and it works but
on Other platforms this may not be an option.
One Such solution is adware and is well liked.
But sTandards for advertising are loose at best.
I was Submitting RFCs for advertising standards but gave up.
Given Los Angles Drag On Social servies it is clear they SERIOUS HELP!
It's all fun and games Till she develops an obsession for a young veritecH pilot and usEs a deComissioned super dimensionAl fortress and subliminal messages to subjugate an entire city all the while plotting to Kill the love intErest of said pIlot. Beware the promiSes of virtuAl idoLs and entertaInErs!!
Keep in mind Google is quickly becoming an all controlling entity.
I have concerns that this technology could expose users to additional threats.
Likely I see it as one more way for Google to corner the search market.
Lastly I ponder the legal implications of a direct tying to a web site's content. What if there is a copyright violation.
Generally I find this to be a dud tech.
Long ago we had to publish to search engines then the crawlers came and life was good.
Again automation is what made things better.
Diving into this without thinking would be suicide.
Often I fear technology more now then I did before.
Simply put I think this is a crpytic way to pillage and trick web develoeprs to forking over additional metrics for page ranking since more frequent updates I would assume gets you a higher page rank.
I am so sorry for you loss and offer my deep felt sympathy
While can say I hardly knew the deceased i felt a deep sense of loss upon hearing of their demise
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In conclusion, he was a pick really...
Hello this is Eugene Walter, VP of Research and Development at Apeture Food Group Inc.
Some people are implying that the now dissolved Apeture Science Group's (which I was the former CIO of) computer systems has some How recoverEd from the horribLe chemical explosion at the former ASG Production facility. This rumor is a LIE. An out right lie by jaded Black Mesa Research employees who's Grant money aLso collapsed Around the time of the Apeture Science Group's inDustrial accident at the San PedrO facility for AeroSpace DeveLopment. SInce the ASG's dissolVment thosE at the parent company ASG Inc. have Spent years fighting baseless rumors of "Exotic Experiments" and under-the-table military experiments. These claims are outright lies. No portion of the GLADOS survived the explosion as the federal investigation that followed clearly substantiates.
In closing please remember that the ASG no longer exists and there it no cause for further speculation. I would also like to remind you that the Apeture Food Group has a wonderful bake sale going on at the Leanaa facility to raise money for the Hope Charity group. Please stop buy and try the cake.
To get data to and from from the COM port that the modem is assigned to?
Why is it every time I read an article that is either A: Horribly Biased or B: Idiotic in Premise it is always posted by KDAWSON?
I can understand trolls and trolling in comments, but seriously Taco, from your editors?
Since the absolute addressing of physical mapping is handled by the drive controller I doubt a manufacturer is going to allow anyone to get direct control of the hard disk.
The issue is if a user space application could do so they could write persistent viruses into the sector reallocation reserve space and no OS could remove that data unless the OS also had access to that space and\or a sector gets reallocated into that space wiping the content.
In addition due to rotational issues you would need to first pre-determine an arbitarary starting point on each platter, write a pattern to identify that and build a custom sector mapping. You have to remember that due to sector remapping sequentially mapped sectors may not in fact be "next" to one another on the hard disk.
You are trying to pin the tail on a doney travelling at over 7200 RPM which is no small feat.
You could try building your own custom firmware for the disk controller but I am certain that disk manufactures have specialized firmware and disk options for, shall we say, less then normal buyers.
Because the TFA certainly doesn't.
How, exactly, are anonymized blood samples going to used to track down missing persons or solve cold cases, or do anything else that hinges on tying a person to that blood sample? That is assuming you believe the samples were actually anonymized, which there's no way to know for sure.
I'm not defending what was done, but the only real use I can see would be statistical evaluation. Possibly a good idea, but the implementation (doing it without consent) is clearly wrong.
Simple you can copyright the private database and it's contents preventing people form using said data unless they license the data. YOu can also patent the gene sequences so your derived gene therapy. Nothing like having the cure for cancer in YOUR dna but some other company can patent YOUR dna and profit while you, the original DNA provider gets nothing.
Typically if they take a tissue sample from you at the hospital, it belongs to them
No. It "belongs" to the being it was taken from. The being it was taken from has first "copyright"/"patent"/"trademark" to it (add whatever terms the lawyers feel necessary, here)
It does not matter who sequenced it first. It does not matter whether it has unique properties. It does not matter who it was taken from, whether they consented to it, or not.
No corporation, government, nor any other entity, can own anything about me that I do not give explicitly give them rights to.
Legislators can pontificate as much as they want to, there are things that we - as human beings - won't give up. This is one of them. History proves that.
If those in power wish to [continue] to do so, they will suffer the same fate as their predecessors have; they will eventually be replaced.
Fools.
SB
Nonsense, by that logic then your parent's actually have a joint ownership of your DNA since it is a derative work. And so on and so on up the geneology. Listen, this is the 21st century you and I are pesants, only nobles, the wealthy, and celebs have rights. Your assertion of some sort of right, while noble, isn't the case. Justice belongs to those who can afford it and with government backed health industry, they can afford it, you and I cannot.
Odd looking back I wonder if there is causation as a sudden surge of gene sequencing and DNA patents coming out of that. Nothing like getting a hold of someone's DNA and patenting, copyrighting, shit lets even trademark the sequencing data.
"I'm sorry sir but we cannot do your lab work, your dna is currently patented and copyrighted by (INSERT TEXAS BASES PATENT TROLL COMPANY OF THE WEEK HERE) so we cannot run any actual tests."
or which is now apparently a real issue being discussed at the U0M:
"Well we'd like to use your DNA for research but if your DNA has already ben patented or the sequencing data copyrighted it could jepordize the research... We need to pay some lawyers to do the research to make sure your DNA sequence is not already in a private database..."
Time wise, if we assume Hollywood lags about 10 years behind the times then they are accurate suprisingly. Back in the days when ACiD, TRiBES and iCE were waging a holy war of ANSI art packs across the BBS era and when USENET was full of useful information rather then spam and people still cared about blue boxes the scene was largely '))>>{
P.S. Anyone know where I can find the old ANSI animation "The Slug"?
Yes you are, code resuability is essential. While you might not be able to link via dlls and shared libraries if code can be reused then you have written robust, reuseable code.
A book on typesetting
A book on color selection and color theory
A book on (Insert Arbitrary Topic Here).
I'd rather see comprehensive information on a single topic that watered down information on a variety of topics.
Has to me mentioned in the Rifts RPG at some point in the war someone launched effectively frag missles that turned everything in orbit into a high speed shredder locking out anyone off Earth and locking in everything on Earth. What it to prevent some lunatic rogue (yeah no makeup here!) nation from doing the same?
"The greatest environmental crime in history is the publication of redundant design guides on pages better spent on trashy romance novels." - KCP
Seriously another broad, vague, self indulgent "How to design XYZ better". Useless crap. Here is why:
Given any field of study and a set of topics in said field we endevor to publish a book containing any given subset of those topics. By the very virtue of a finite length book we must temper the content of the selected topics to ensure we cover all our selected topics. No matter the weight given to each topic the fundamental truth is, for every given page spent on one topic, there is one less page spent on any of the other topics. In this regard the more topics we cover, the less adaquately we cover all those topics. Throwing more pages at more topics because of this, does nothing more then make the book heavy rather then useful. To be terse in writing and narrow in focus not only provides a text that is, per page, more relevant, insightful, and useful; but makes the book far more easily shoplifted, discretely carried, and less likely to be used as decoration or door stop.
The best design guide I was ever privvy to was a usenet post:
"For every word typed there is a chance you will say something stupid. Type Less."
"There are 3 colors you should use in design, stuff you should read, stuff to get their attention, and shit lawyers want hidden."
"Use any three colors you want in design for those three, so long as one of them is black and another is white."
"If you can't read your own code, think more, type less."
"Work on 3 different projects at once. If you are cutting and pasting and reusing code a lot between them, you're coding things the right way."
"You are not writing an Idiot's Guide to Programming so don't comment your code like you are."
"Always assume your data entry people are blind, deaf, dumb, and have typing terrets. Validate input always."
"It Works != It's Done || Well Written is wrong.
(It Works != It's Done) || (It Works != Well Written) is right. Triple check your operator precident, logical or otherwise"
"No matter what, unless it was done yesterday, it's late."
"The Business Line will expect N+1 tests before signing off on the code where N is how many times you've tested."
"Shit happens, bring paper."
"Your Gung Fu is good, but it will never defeat someone 1/2 skilled but 1/4th the cost. Good Better Best, Never Let it Rest, Until the Good is Better and the Better is Best."
"You ass is always on the line so work like it."
"Lime is not a color, it's a crime.."
"Blinking has never done anyone any good except for brothels and strip clubs. You are coding neither."
"If all your work is done start doing someone elses. Last I checked businesses don't hand out awards for failed projects to members that "At least got his part of the fuck up done...""
Did everyone miss the fact they sent the videos apaprently to a third party for a review of content? So if there is anything that could be considered pr0n do they SOBs go to jail for distribution of child pr0n or is this yet another government agency above the law?