It's not trivial to get write access to most projects so you wouldn't want to be switching developer accounts too much. And bug bounties require information on who to pay, so you wouldn't be able to just make up names for that either. And your turnaround between introducing a bug and finding it would have to be fairly quick to avoid other people nabbing them on you. Which all adds up to some pretty suspicious patterns.
Are you sure they were rats? The Canadian prairies don't have a lot of rats (Alberta has none). They DO have prairie dogs and Richardson's ground squirrels though, and there have been various bounties at various times on those. Apparently in Saskatchewan once the bounty only required turning in the tail so you'd catch the little guy, whirl him around by the tail until it tore off, and let him go.
I love the article. It starts with a snarky paragraph about outsiders who don't know anything about security drawing (presumably) flawed analogies to things in their own area of expertise, says Dubner is different, then goes on to credulously relate a flawed analogy Dubner made between computer security and rat farming (which is presumably in his area of expertise).
The irony is strong with this one. Unless he was serious....
Another example of an economist talking without a complete understanding of a subject and a journalist with an incomplete understanding of everything.
Apple strong armed the carriers. Do it our way or no iPhone for you, and they make the device so they can do whatever they want with it. Google doesn't make phones and individual android manufacturers aren't powerful enough to bully the carriers. Google probably wants everyone to be able to update but the carriers really, really want you to sign that contract extension if you want a new phone.
"The survival rate of a bone marrow transplant is around 40% even in the best hospitals in the world."
The survival rate for people dying of nasty forms of leukemia who get a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor when they're already on death's door might be about 40%, but the procedure itself isn't nearly that dangerous. Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant has a mortality rate around 5% on average, and groups who specialize in it are getting quite a bit better than that. Presumably that's what you'd do to treat - extract a patient's HSCs, genetically modify them, immunoablate, then inject the HSCs to reconstitute the immune system in HIV resistant form.
So? In more important news, most celebrities (including many that are famous for being stupid, mean, drug addicts etc.) are better paid and better known than most (all?) prominent scientists. Not to mention other worthwhile people.
Sure. I like Facebook, if not their constant schemes to expose people's information. Is it worth billions though? Put it this way, if Facebook were to start charging $100 for an account would you pay?
Parrots have been observed teaching other adult parrots to talk, so I'm not sure what's more amazing about Washoe. Unlike chimps, the wild parrots learned as well.
It's pretty tough to get natural life without evolution. It has to spring forth fully formed. And evolution (as in Darwinian) is not an inescapable consequence. You need to have reasonable levels of mutation, some means of crossing strains and reasonable robustness to both processes.
Flash is dying. The sooner it happens the faster we can stop seeing people complaining about niche uses of Flash that should never have been Flashed in the first place.
The average person seems to want to use Flash mostly for watching videos. It was a bit annoying last year when the iPad had first come out and a lot of sites used Flash for video, but now pretty much everyone has switched over to supporting the iPad so you don't even notice anymore.
IIRC correctly, those were gamma lasers. I don't know what your "technologist's" problem was. Footfall didn't have any particularly unbelievable physics. Not even faster than light travel.
Negative reinforcement is even less accurate. Negative reinforcement is a training strategy that involves withholding a reward or removing something pleasurable.
Presumably the water they do spray will increase the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere, which is bad, so you wouldn't want to build the working model using water. But for a test water droplets have the advantage of being well accepted as non-toxic.
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If I hold up my smart phone in front of my face while I'm facing someone's shop, with Amazon loaded on the browser, is that fair?
This is a stupid story about a silly publicity stunt.
Camouflaged tanks in a forest shouldn't be too hard. Telling the difference between a soldier and a civilian - now that's a challenge.
We have these big fresh water sources called rivers that run into these big salt water sources called oceans. Nobody's using either at that point.
It's not trivial to get write access to most projects so you wouldn't want to be switching developer accounts too much. And bug bounties require information on who to pay, so you wouldn't be able to just make up names for that either. And your turnaround between introducing a bug and finding it would have to be fairly quick to avoid other people nabbing them on you. Which all adds up to some pretty suspicious patterns.
Never used an Apple I or II? Not only a shell in ROM but Basic too.
Are you sure they were rats? The Canadian prairies don't have a lot of rats (Alberta has none). They DO have prairie dogs and Richardson's ground squirrels though, and there have been various bounties at various times on those. Apparently in Saskatchewan once the bounty only required turning in the tail so you'd catch the little guy, whirl him around by the tail until it tore off, and let him go.
Presumably nobody is dumb enough to pay bounties to contributors who find bugs in their own code.
Let me rephrase it in the context of Star Wars. This is Chewbacca. He's a Wookie....
I love the article. It starts with a snarky paragraph about outsiders who don't know anything about security drawing (presumably) flawed analogies to things in their own area of expertise, says Dubner is different, then goes on to credulously relate a flawed analogy Dubner made between computer security and rat farming (which is presumably in his area of expertise).
The irony is strong with this one. Unless he was serious....
Another example of an economist talking without a complete understanding of a subject and a journalist with an incomplete understanding of everything.
Apple strong armed the carriers. Do it our way or no iPhone for you, and they make the device so they can do whatever they want with it. Google doesn't make phones and individual android manufacturers aren't powerful enough to bully the carriers. Google probably wants everyone to be able to update but the carriers really, really want you to sign that contract extension if you want a new phone.
"The survival rate of a bone marrow transplant is around 40% even in the best hospitals in the world."
The survival rate for people dying of nasty forms of leukemia who get a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor when they're already on death's door might be about 40%, but the procedure itself isn't nearly that dangerous. Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant has a mortality rate around 5% on average, and groups who specialize in it are getting quite a bit better than that. Presumably that's what you'd do to treat - extract a patient's HSCs, genetically modify them, immunoablate, then inject the HSCs to reconstitute the immune system in HIV resistant form.
So? In more important news, most celebrities (including many that are famous for being stupid, mean, drug addicts etc.) are better paid and better known than most (all?) prominent scientists. Not to mention other worthwhile people.
Sounds pretty good compared to Videotron.
It's probably tougher to format and reinstall it too. And more annoying to reboot.
I don't think Apple and Google have much to worry about.
To make you buy more memory?
And Microsoft never has.
But even Apple hasn't tried to let you run x86 desktop apps on an ARM tablet. And with good reason.
It's amazing what you can do when you're faced with extinction. Also when you toss the safety regulations.
All in all a pretty small creative license and certainly nothing to take it out of the hard sci fi category and put it in fantasy.
Sure. I like Facebook, if not their constant schemes to expose people's information. Is it worth billions though? Put it this way, if Facebook were to start charging $100 for an account would you pay?
Parrots have been observed teaching other adult parrots to talk, so I'm not sure what's more amazing about Washoe. Unlike chimps, the wild parrots learned as well.
It's pretty tough to get natural life without evolution. It has to spring forth fully formed. And evolution (as in Darwinian) is not an inescapable consequence. You need to have reasonable levels of mutation, some means of crossing strains and reasonable robustness to both processes.
So they'll have to correct a stupid decision.
Flash is dying. The sooner it happens the faster we can stop seeing people complaining about niche uses of Flash that should never have been Flashed in the first place.
So the one that doesn't.
The average person seems to want to use Flash mostly for watching videos. It was a bit annoying last year when the iPad had first come out and a lot of sites used Flash for video, but now pretty much everyone has switched over to supporting the iPad so you don't even notice anymore.
IIRC correctly, those were gamma lasers. I don't know what your "technologist's" problem was. Footfall didn't have any particularly unbelievable physics. Not even faster than light travel.
Negative reinforcement is even less accurate. Negative reinforcement is a training strategy that involves withholding a reward or removing something pleasurable.
They're not spraying water vapour.
Presumably the water they do spray will increase the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere, which is bad, so you wouldn't want to build the working model using water. But for a test water droplets have the advantage of being well accepted as non-toxic.