My issue is reciprocity: If it is legal for the government to "peer into" my private data they should not be allowed to take umberage if I peer into theirs. (note: this is a joke do not put me in jail)
If privacy is dead it should be dead for *everyone*.
If privacy is not dead then it should be enforced for everyone.
I do find it amazing that every body type in the world is healthy with the same BMI. It's remarkable. You'd think that with all the different body shapes, chemistries, and metabolisms that there would be a great number of definitions of "healthy"... yet, that isn't so. Everyone has the same range of ideal weights. Truly, we are living in a wonderful age of enlightenment.
In all honestly, I may be conflating the Rickets and Obesity thing. I do remember malnutrition and obesity are linked... or supposedly so by crackpots like me.
In America we have obese kids with rickets because they are starving for nutrients while gorging on cheap processed food. Some Americans have it easy. Some are dying from false-wisdom and false-plenty.
You know what I find funny? I got modded redundant and this was the only post in the Forum when I left it. Now that's funny! +1 funny to the moderator.
People are suffering from information and media overload...no down time for the brain. The whole GIGO business.
Suffering? Suffering? I'm enjoying it!
But seriously, I think humanity is going to have to find a new way to live. All our new technologies change the rules that our bodies and minds are adapted for. Either that or these technologies can't be sustained. We are fast approaching either total environmental burn-out or a new era of abundance... perhaps both at the same time. We are drowning in information, pollution, and choice. Most of human history has been a battle against starvation followed by a battle against ignorance followed by a battle for individual liberty.
It was easier to eliminate information scarcity. Water, food, power supply will be harder to fix. Abundance of each of these unleashes new problems. Abundance does not equate with quality.
... even with these valid gripes I can't imagine developing on any other platform available for the cell phone. The "Intent" is an odd term but the concept it powerful. Java is a pain but it is accessible. Most of the platform complaints deal with the novel programming style Android uses. It's an event based style with an MVC-esque pattern. Very unusual. Perhaps unusual in a good way.
No - don't poke fun of this, this is important. They are still fucking up open standards (svg) and have an even less likable guy in power now. What else would you want? Monsanto or AIG have nothing to do with computers so I guess we are stuck with MS.
Well, when they replaced "Evil Bill" with Eviler Bill... what's his name? Stephan Baller or something? Lame character. Nobody would really be like that in real life.
... no seriously. Slashdot needs to have a reboot with a younger cast. The cast of Slashdot had too little diversity. I'd like to see some more female leading characters... maybe a range of ages and some interesting quirky characters. The whole "Evil Bill" thing got old too. Perhaps we could make a new enemy?
Notice that this particular scientist also has experimental evidence ostensibly proving his theory. A theory must be falsifiable but other theories can fit the same observations. So it is attractive to remove the need for a complicated concept like "Dark Energy" and substitute an simpler and more orthogonal idea in its stead. This does not mean either theory is anymore correct. Once there is a prediction from one theory that cannot be observed then that theory can be discarded.
So far this work is very early on and is just trying to fit current observations. The observation you point to is one that the theory will have to fit or we can take this observation as falsification of the new theory.
What will be interesting is what other effects this "entropic conservation" would make, what experiments it suggests... and what would falsify the whole thing.
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My issue is reciprocity: If it is legal for the government to "peer into" my private data they should not be allowed to take umberage if I peer into theirs. (note: this is a joke do not put me in jail)
If privacy is dead it should be dead for *everyone*.
If privacy is not dead then it should be enforced for everyone.
First time I heard that line I thought he was complaining about the beans.
Clue: Subtle joke, deserves 'funny' moderation ;)
Subtle + Slashdot = FAIL
but it *looked* so real.
replicate the actor down to the pours
pores?
No, no, it really is "pours" ... see it's very hard to mimic the way an actor pours milk.
I also like this link ... but it's no way reputable and does not prove my point. In fact, you win. See... I can't define the terms of winning and you can. So I concede.
http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-caused-rickets-epidemic.html
I do find it amazing that every body type in the world is healthy with the same BMI. It's remarkable. You'd think that with all the different body shapes, chemistries, and metabolisms that there would be a great number of definitions of "healthy" ... yet, that isn't so. Everyone has the same range of ideal weights. Truly, we are living in a wonderful age of enlightenment.
In all honestly, I may be conflating the Rickets and Obesity thing. I do remember malnutrition and obesity are linked... or supposedly so by crackpots like me.
I was trying to be poetic. I fail. But, it is cheaper to eat junk food than it is to eat good food. I suppose this is just natural selection.
Links that are not reputable or factual but seem to support my case... (but I'm not a doctor so I can't tell)
http://archinte.highwire.org/cgi/content/summary/90/4/513 ...but in all truth I am not nearly as qualified as you are to talk about these things. I'm parroting things I've seen in biased documentaries. I bow before your might.
http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0442e/a0442e0m.htm
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/28630.php
http://www.alternet.org/story/274/
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/280264/obese_britons_also_at_risk_for_malnutrition.html?cat=51
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r718533228ph9g55/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8581766
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S155072890800600X
American youth today have it very easy.
In America we have obese kids with rickets because they are starving for nutrients while gorging on cheap processed food. Some Americans have it easy. Some are dying from false-wisdom and false-plenty.
You know what I find funny? I got modded redundant and this was the only post in the Forum when I left it. Now that's funny! +1 funny to the moderator.
People are suffering from information and media overload...no down time for the brain. The whole GIGO business.
Suffering? Suffering? I'm enjoying it!
But seriously, I think humanity is going to have to find a new way to live. All our new technologies change the rules that our bodies and minds are adapted for. Either that or these technologies can't be sustained. We are fast approaching either total environmental burn-out or a new era of abundance... perhaps both at the same time. We are drowning in information, pollution, and choice. Most of human history has been a battle against starvation followed by a battle against ignorance followed by a battle for individual liberty.
It was easier to eliminate information scarcity. Water, food, power supply will be harder to fix. Abundance of each of these unleashes new problems. Abundance does not equate with quality.
... even with these valid gripes I can't imagine developing on any other platform available for the cell phone. The "Intent" is an odd term but the concept it powerful. Java is a pain but it is accessible. Most of the platform complaints deal with the novel programming style Android uses. It's an event based style with an MVC-esque pattern. Very unusual. Perhaps unusual in a good way.
>The whole "Evil Bill" thing got old too.
No - don't poke fun of this, this is important. They are still fucking up open standards (svg) and have an even less likable guy in power now. What else would you want? Monsanto or AIG have nothing to do with computers so I guess we are stuck with MS.
Well, when they replaced "Evil Bill" with Eviler Bill ... what's his name? Stephan Baller or something? Lame character. Nobody would really be like that in real life.
You know, Slashdot already has just about everything you could use to build a tv show.
Although they might get in trouble trying to create the Natalie Portman episode...
Wait? What? This isn't a TV show?
Isn't this the premise for "Big Bang Theory"?
I've got it! This time around, the trolls look just like us!
Brilliant!
And turn CowboyNeal into a female character!
yah, I like that... Starbuck and all that. Very cool. Maybe Commander Taco could be played by a girl too?
... no seriously. Slashdot needs to have a reboot with a younger cast. The cast of Slashdot had too little diversity. I'd like to see some more female leading characters... maybe a range of ages and some interesting quirky characters. The whole "Evil Bill" thing got old too. Perhaps we could make a new enemy?
... most of the data center staff we tried to poll were too busy to answer the poll.
+1 insightful.
Notice that this particular scientist also has experimental evidence ostensibly proving his theory. A theory must be falsifiable but other theories can fit the same observations. So it is attractive to remove the need for a complicated concept like "Dark Energy" and substitute an simpler and more orthogonal idea in its stead. This does not mean either theory is anymore correct. Once there is a prediction from one theory that cannot be observed then that theory can be discarded.
So far this work is very early on and is just trying to fit current observations. The observation you point to is one that the theory will have to fit or we can take this observation as falsification of the new theory.
What will be interesting is what other effects this "entropic conservation" would make, what experiments it suggests... and what would falsify the whole thing.
We could reinterpret those results under the new construct. It isn't the observation I don't like...
I do like the idea of not needing an explanatory tool like "Dark Energy" ... that has always bothered me. Far more than "Dark Matter".