.. And good luck getting the funding to widen I-70 in mid-Missouri,
How about completing it? In the east it terminates ignominiously in Woodlawn MD. Western terminus peters out near Cove Fort, Utah. What an embarrassment.
Think they can modify one of those Boston Dynamics mules to hit a baseball coming in at 100mph?
Now that would be cool. And put a computer controlled pitching machine on the mound. It could do analysis on the batter and throw the most appropriate pitch. We can probably replace the hotdog and beer venders with drones driven by an app. Faster delivery. The frigging organ guy has gotta go. Pandora can do that shit.
Nah. That is too broad a maneuver. More likely, certain interests will call for flight simulator programs to be heavily restricted and only for use by certified instructors and flight schools.
Or they'll be treated like guns, and you'll have to fill out forms, have an instant background check, and be put on records for purchasing it.
It might could also put you automagically on a list of people to "watch"...
Game would have to prohibit autopilot, high-capacity fuel tanks, noise-reduction propellers. And the ability to rapidly click the mouse.
The bots are smart enough to correctly peer-review irrelevant papers and accumulate reputation points over time. When the bot-herder wants to publish a bogus paper, then there's the possibility that the majority of selected reviewers will be under their control. If they don't like the odds then they can withdraw the paper and resubmit it later with modified title until they get a favorable number of their reviewer-bots appointed as peer reviewers.
The "public community" is useless as that is even more easily overwhelmed with automation-driven artificial accounts.
The only way to assure the actual existence and uniqueness of every single reviewer is in-person, face-to-face with an ID check, fingerprints and blood test. That could be prohibitively expensive and dangerously intrusive. After you've done that you need to review and verify academic credentials, and those can be forged. Someone says they have a doctorate in chemical oncology from Trump University or Al Qasim School of Medicine in Iraq. Or they accumulate fake purchased credentials until they can get enough to overwhelm anyone trying to verify them. I'm not trying to be an asshole here. I wish there was an easy fix. It just seems to be a really difficult nut to crack.
What's the answer then? I don't know. Nobody does. BioXiv (and others like it) offer an interesting possibility but that isn't without pitfalls (not the least of which is that a paper there that gets rejected in a journal is somewhat more difficult to resubmit elsewhere).
There's an opportunity here to start something new and avoid all the pitfalls we keep hearing about.
A noble effort. How do you avoid the challenge of accepting, certifying or publishing inaccurate works when a majority of the reviewers are bots or paid button-clickers? By "majority" I mean enough "peers" to control what gets accepted as truth? When enough peers agree with a paper that says "2 + 2 = 5" then it becomes the accepted standard.
As a scientist I run in to this all the time. Everyone would love to get all their work into Nature, Science, and Cell; but they know the reality is that very little gets published in those journals. Then they look in to other journals with lower impact factors and they have to weigh a lot of factors - including costs to publish and the expected length of time to get a publishing decision. Some journals aren't forthcoming with either of those, either.
Then we see new open-access journals popping up with official sounding names all the time. They promise quick turn-around, low publication costs (sometimes even free), and their open-access setup is generally already compliant with NIH and NSF requirements. If all we want to do is get the manuscript out and move on, these can look very tempting.
What's the answer then? I don't know. Nobody does. BioXiv (and others like it) offer an interesting possibility but that isn't without pitfalls (not the least of which is that a paper there that gets rejected in a journal is somewhat more difficult to resubmit elsewhere).
Isn't "Publish or Perish" the mantra for tenureship? As noted in the article, the journals contain a mix of actual research papers and total fiction. It's a bit disquieting to know that a doctor recommending some combination of medications or perform surgery has been getting his information from those totally fictitious papers published in an inadequately-reviewed journal.
So why would a person or group knowingly publish incorrect information with the intent of deceiving others? Someone, some person or group, has an agenda; an interest in achieving a specific outcome. Even if the interest is to support one cause or repress another, under that there's still some human being with a personal interest. What's the motivation? Personally I think it all boils down to fear or greed. And dig into the greed and you'll discover fear. So fear is bad. Unfortunately, fear is necessary. It helps keep us alive. It keeps most of us from making it onto the Darwin award list. So that provides a proposed direction for genetic research -- dial back the "fear" chromosome. </rant >
Just curious; Why weren't the Group accts migrated?
My last exposure to Load Us Notes was 10 years ago. The databases were non-relational flat files and yes, there were hundreds of them. And hundreds. As an email system I think it was ok, but people started wanting to do more with it... "oh! Let's build a task tracking system! Oh! Let's build a version control system! Oh! Lets build an accounts payable system!". Anything more than a simple worksheet just pushed it beyond it's meager capabilities. Although, and my memory isn't totally error-free due to a recent Wild Turkey row hammer attack, but I seem to recall some useful linking ability.
Given that San Francisco is famous for the amount of human faces on the streets [sfgate.com] I'd say they should also ban restrooms in office buildings so people will have to go out and poop on the streets "with the rest of us"
I'd care more about your bitterness if you could spell 'feces' properly.
There are faces on the street? That's either some sort of artistic expression or you just don't know how to proof read
Nevermind. I guess the legislation for "DHS Cyber Incident Response Teams Act of 2018".could be interpreted as the name Congress wants on the group.
I don't think the non-profit "Cyber Threat Alliance" counts.
.. DHS will conduct a number of 90-day “sprints”...
There's the word "cyber" in the name of their unit, that means they're good!
I must be missing something... What part of "U.S. Department of of Homeland Security (DHS)" or "National Risk Management Center" has the "cyber" in the title?
The first rat to leave the sinking ship gets the primo spot on the adjacent ship.
In my experience, the CFO sees the water rising in the hold before most other folks. They may tell upper management; I'd never know. But a new CFO frequently foretells bad tidings.
Interesting. Will Bitcoin / Ethereum or it's ilk ever displace cash to become the incentive for job change? Are there any legal ramifications? Some cryptocurrencies are anonymous, so this could become a way to shuffle money "under-the-table" to facilitate employment shifts.
If this happens the violators will publicly moan and wail about their hardware or software and say they working on it but the internetworking tubes are complicated and infrastructure hasn't been updated because of repressive Obama policies. Of course they'll secretly explain to big mutual fund investors that they're now able to charge customers a premium for what they used to provide as a matter of course. Joe Plumber pays extra to get decent pornhub video speed and advertisers and content providers pay extra to get their competitor's packets moved to the back of the bus. That's what America wanted, what they voted for and what they got. See? The system works.
Why not just make 10 the top, and make it the bit about alien intimacy?
(thank God for the straight man....)
Well you see, because 11 is 1 higher. These scientists go from a damp squid up to 10. But what if you need more? Where can you go? Nowhere. Exactly. So if you need an extra bit to kick it into total annihilation, 11. Look. Even spelled out E-L-V-E-N has more letters than T-E-N. And your Roman numerals, XI has more than X. "I" more.
Actually I just want liberals to get over themselves and start being happy instead of harassing me for my convictions. Is that much to ask?
Too much? I don't think so. Up until recently, you might have had luck convincing liberals that being happy was good because it was the intelligent, socially-correct thing to do. Likewise, you might have convinced conservatives that being happy was good because it was the moral thing to do as demonstrated by Jesus. Times have changed and both parties have gone to the dogs.
(Apologies in advance for not sticking to trump-bashing/trump-worship topic)
How does the NFC thing work? Seems like marketing hype (well, duh):
During manufacturing, the NFC chip is placed inside the ball under that logo, which resembles the icon for a WiFi signal, according to the Adidas website. The chip allows fans to access player videos, competitions and other content by bringing their mobile devices close to the ball.
Let's say I'm watching the France/Croatia game at the World Cup and I want to see one of those player videos of Kylian Mbappe. All I have to do is run onto the field, grab the ball and hold my phone near it? Sounds like a lot of work. Well, compared to drinking too much beer and starting a fight with the other team's fans.
Seems reasonable. I think you mean SS7 as used on the PSTN.
I will point out that the Internet is changing from IPV4 to Ipv6, a huge change. Not rapidly, but it is changing. The point being that a widespread system can adopt new protocols. It makes the phone carriers seem a bit antediluvian, especially since the system is mostly digital.
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How about completing it? In the east it terminates ignominiously in Woodlawn MD. Western terminus peters out near Cove Fort, Utah. What an embarrassment.
Think they can modify one of those Boston Dynamics mules to hit a baseball coming in at 100mph?
Now that would be cool. And put a computer controlled pitching machine on the mound. It could do analysis on the batter and throw the most appropriate pitch. We can probably replace the hotdog and beer venders with drones driven by an app. Faster delivery. The frigging organ guy has gotta go. Pandora can do that shit.
Or they'll be treated like guns, and you'll have to fill out forms, have an instant background check, and be put on records for purchasing it.
It might could also put you automagically on a list of people to "watch" ...
Game would have to prohibit autopilot, high-capacity fuel tanks, noise-reduction propellers. And the ability to rapidly click the mouse.
The bots are smart enough to correctly peer-review irrelevant papers and accumulate reputation points over time. When the bot-herder wants to publish a bogus paper, then there's the possibility that the majority of selected reviewers will be under their control. If they don't like the odds then they can withdraw the paper and resubmit it later with modified title until they get a favorable number of their reviewer-bots appointed as peer reviewers.
The "public community" is useless as that is even more easily overwhelmed with automation-driven artificial accounts.
The only way to assure the actual existence and uniqueness of every single reviewer is in-person, face-to-face with an ID check, fingerprints and blood test. That could be prohibitively expensive and dangerously intrusive. After you've done that you need to review and verify academic credentials, and those can be forged. Someone says they have a doctorate in chemical oncology from Trump University or Al Qasim School of Medicine in Iraq. Or they accumulate fake purchased credentials until they can get enough to overwhelm anyone trying to verify them. I'm not trying to be an asshole here. I wish there was an easy fix. It just seems to be a really difficult nut to crack.
What's the answer then? I don't know. Nobody does. BioXiv (and others like it) offer an interesting possibility but that isn't without pitfalls (not the least of which is that a paper there that gets rejected in a journal is somewhat more difficult to resubmit elsewhere).
Hackaday has started its own journal
There's an opportunity here to start something new and avoid all the pitfalls we keep hearing about.
A noble effort. How do you avoid the challenge of accepting, certifying or publishing inaccurate works when a majority of the reviewers are bots or paid button-clickers? By "majority" I mean enough "peers" to control what gets accepted as truth? When enough peers agree with a paper that says "2 + 2 = 5" then it becomes the accepted standard.
As a scientist I run in to this all the time. Everyone would love to get all their work into Nature, Science, and Cell; but they know the reality is that very little gets published in those journals. Then they look in to other journals with lower impact factors and they have to weigh a lot of factors - including costs to publish and the expected length of time to get a publishing decision. Some journals aren't forthcoming with either of those, either. Then we see new open-access journals popping up with official sounding names all the time. They promise quick turn-around, low publication costs (sometimes even free), and their open-access setup is generally already compliant with NIH and NSF requirements. If all we want to do is get the manuscript out and move on, these can look very tempting. What's the answer then? I don't know. Nobody does. BioXiv (and others like it) offer an interesting possibility but that isn't without pitfalls (not the least of which is that a paper there that gets rejected in a journal is somewhat more difficult to resubmit elsewhere).
Isn't "Publish or Perish" the mantra for tenureship? As noted in the article, the journals contain a mix of actual research papers and total fiction. It's a bit disquieting to know that a doctor recommending some combination of medications or perform surgery has been getting his information from those totally fictitious papers published in an inadequately-reviewed journal.
/rant >
So why would a person or group knowingly publish incorrect information with the intent of deceiving others? Someone, some person or group, has an agenda; an interest in achieving a specific outcome. Even if the interest is to support one cause or repress another, under that there's still some human being with a personal interest. What's the motivation? Personally I think it all boils down to fear or greed. And dig into the greed and you'll discover fear. So fear is bad. Unfortunately, fear is necessary. It helps keep us alive. It keeps most of us from making it onto the Darwin award list. So that provides a proposed direction for genetic research -- dial back the "fear" chromosome. <
Just curious; Why weren't the Group accts migrated?
... "oh! Let's build a task tracking system! Oh! Let's build a version control system! Oh! Lets build an accounts payable system!". Anything more than a simple worksheet just pushed it beyond it's meager capabilities. Although, and my memory isn't totally error-free due to a recent Wild Turkey row hammer attack, but I seem to recall some useful linking ability.
My last exposure to Load Us Notes was 10 years ago. The databases were non-relational flat files and yes, there were hundreds of them. And hundreds. As an email system I think it was ok, but people started wanting to do more with it
In this case I think it means sh*t-faced.
Nevermind. I guess the legislation for "DHS Cyber Incident Response Teams Act of 2018".could be interpreted as the name Congress wants on the group. I don't think the non-profit "Cyber Threat Alliance" counts.
Hey! They're Agile too. Buzzworld City.
There's the word "cyber" in the name of their unit, that means they're good!
I must be missing something ... What part of "U.S. Department of of Homeland Security (DHS)" or "National Risk Management Center" has the "cyber" in the title?
(stands and applauds) I salute you.
The first rat to leave the sinking ship gets the primo spot on the adjacent ship.
In my experience, the CFO sees the water rising in the hold before most other folks. They may tell upper management; I'd never know. But a new CFO frequently foretells bad tidings.
Interesting. Will Bitcoin / Ethereum or it's ilk ever displace cash to become the incentive for job change? Are there any legal ramifications? Some cryptocurrencies are anonymous, so this could become a way to shuffle money "under-the-table" to facilitate employment shifts.
Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man -- General George S. Patton
Why do Qualcomm and Samsung use ARM for their mobile chips (Exynos and Snapdragon) instead of RISC-V? Superior performance? Price?
If this happens the violators will publicly moan and wail about their hardware or software and say they working on it but the internetworking tubes are complicated and infrastructure hasn't been updated because of repressive Obama policies. Of course they'll secretly explain to big mutual fund investors that they're now able to charge customers a premium for what they used to provide as a matter of course. Joe Plumber pays extra to get decent pornhub video speed and advertisers and content providers pay extra to get their competitor's packets moved to the back of the bus. That's what America wanted, what they voted for and what they got. See? The system works.
Why not just make 10 the top, and make it the bit about alien intimacy?
(thank God for the straight man ....)
Well you see, because 11 is 1 higher. These scientists go from a damp squid up to 10. But what if you need more? Where can you go? Nowhere. Exactly. So if you need an extra bit to kick it into total annihilation, 11. Look. Even spelled out E-L-V-E-N has more letters than T-E-N. And your Roman numerals, XI has more than X. "I" more.
Mine goes to 11. An alien eating your brain or probing your ..... tweet source.
Actually I just want liberals to get over themselves and start being happy instead of harassing me for my convictions. Is that much to ask?
Too much? I don't think so. Up until recently, you might have had luck convincing liberals that being happy was good because it was the intelligent, socially-correct thing to do. Likewise, you might have convinced conservatives that being happy was good because it was the moral thing to do as demonstrated by Jesus. Times have changed and both parties have gone to the dogs.
My apologies to dogs everywhere.
... Lets keep politics out of mathematics
The endless struggle to keep politics out of "X" rides the same rails as the struggle to keep religion out of "Y".
Everything is connected in ways we can't even comprehend.
How does the NFC thing work? Seems like marketing hype (well, duh):
During manufacturing, the NFC chip is placed inside the ball under that logo, which resembles the icon for a WiFi signal, according to the Adidas website. The chip allows fans to access player videos, competitions and other content by bringing their mobile devices close to the ball.
Let's say I'm watching the France/Croatia game at the World Cup and I want to see one of those player videos of Kylian Mbappe. All I have to do is run onto the field, grab the ball and hold my phone near it? Sounds like a lot of work. Well, compared to drinking too much beer and starting a fight with the other team's fans.
the problem is the protocols....
Seems reasonable. I think you mean SS7 as used on the PSTN.
I will point out that the Internet is changing from IPV4 to Ipv6, a huge change. Not rapidly, but it is changing. The point being that a widespread system can adopt new protocols. It makes the phone carriers seem a bit antediluvian, especially since the system is mostly digital.
No mod points now but if I had 'em you'ld get 'em all.
"The Insane Fruit Flys" would be a good name for a band except for the possibility of mispronunciation "Insane Fruit Fries" or "Insane Foot Fries".