Man, all this country needs is one more way to distance our conscience from our military actions. Having anything inhuman doing our killing would probably be one of the worst episodes in History. I'm not picking on America - that would happen to any nation with that kind of power, but we would be among the first to develop this new technology...
I'd imagine that those wires terminate in some sort of plug or connector, and that the hole in his skull is neatly sealed off by the receiving end that the plug connects to. I don't think anyone's about to leave this man with a gaping hole in his head.
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Doesn't matter how much space you give someone, they can fill it. I mean, think of all the things we don't store on hard drives. Once we could, I imagine we could fill something up pretty fast. I mean, now that DVDs have been cracked (a few stories back), you could store DVD images on your computer... If drives were cheap enough, you'd buy a few extra and just back up to nonremovable disks now and again... There's always ways to fill up space. I doubt this will help the end user as much as we'd like it to. I mean, if each person has 200 terabytes (to pick a random large number) the next Windows or Office release will probably be 150 of those...
Now, for other purposes than individual users, this has interesting implications in terms of computational capabilities, especially if this memory can become quite fast.
A lot of females are interested in programming (more than go into CS) or other technical fields, but they are put off by the fact that they will be mostly alone in a mostly-male group. This is supported because of the fact that CS undergrad females transfer out at FAR higher rates than males -- and, having talked to the Undergrad Advisor / Asst. Dean of UG affairs at CMU, I've been told that it is mostly due to social concerns, not academic. It's just weird for them to be among only [desperate] guys.
The encouragement process is there to show females that this is a school where they can go and, within a year or two, find themself in a more balanced environment where they have other females to be with and still get a good technical education. It's just a matter of showing them that this can be a good place to spend four years of their life -- and by telling them that, making it so.
Most guys out there don't realize it, but women in a mostly-male environment get mobbed, harrassed, and stalked by some of the weirder guys -- if there are 2 such guys to each girl, rather than 5 girls to each such guy, it starts to be a problem, you know.
Jeez. Maybe a 50/50 split isn't the natural equilibrium, but there is a serious deficit of female students, for instance, here at CMU Computer Science. And after they join up, they soon transfer out in many cases. Why? Not because they don't like CS. Not even because they can't handle the curriculum. But because of the all-male atmosphere. If we can get more females here, we can overcome this problem and hopefully let all of the females interested in this field get their educations in peace.
Also, in what way is it discriminatory and wrong? This is *advertisement* they're doing. They can target it however they want. Are you gonna call it discriminatory and wrong that they recruit at high schools, neglecting the adults in later life who may want to go back to school? Nothing is being targetted at females but information -- no biased monetary incentive, no looser admission requirements, just a campaign to put the CS department name on women's minds. Seems reasonable to me.
And, about time we got more females... Maybe now they're joining the CS school in force, we won't have the common problem of them transferring out after a year or two. With low percentages of them, I can certainly understand why.
"Good" pictures of [female celebrity here] naked. Male celebrities too, but they're less likely to find pictures of, I think. "Good" collections of illegal software ("Good" here would mean having lots of it, and easy to get). "Good" just means "Better than most" in many situations, and can refer to things we like as well as don't like. Certainly an Altavista search on "Good" will give results that have little to do with ethics -- just think about it.
Conclusions? None. Let's see... More "good" than "evil"? Like web sites with "good shots of naked women" or something? Hmm, more God than Devil... How about, "God d*** it!" I could go on forever. People may think there isn't as much bad stuff out there as is claimed, but this "study" is so totally uninformative as to be pointless. Keep in mind, even if 70% of the Internet is good, clean, wholesome fun, that last 30% is still millions and millions of questionable material. So even if a conclusive study gave the same numbers as above, we'd have learned nothing.
Umm, the point is, it WAS an editorial. It's here so that we know that this viewpoint is out there and so we can respond to it, not to force us to agree with it. It stimulates discussion on the issue. Other viewpoints can be presented in response to it, either as comments or as editorial submissions, but nowhere did I see any claim that this was also Slashdot's official position. Where did you get that assumption?
Yeah, like America. We were NEVER made up of colonies of some English-speaking country, we chose this language out of the clear blue to show how much we loved it. Get a clue. The language one speaks doesn't matter. Nobody chooses a language, they just happen. NONE of it counts in the end.
No mention of purpose was made in this article. Were these fingers grown purely to see if it could be done? As a replacement for fingers lost to injury? Something else? If it's to replace lost fingers, it sounds slightly unappealing to me -- I don't know if I'd like to have cow tissue grown in mice grafted onto me. Still, though, if they could someday do that with human tissue it would be quite a feat.
...we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi"--Darth Maul
(or something like that)
This seems to be the sentiment behind the Linux Demo. The Linux community is always striving for more publicity in a wider forum, so ready or not I think there's no holding back this time. This is as much a mark of achievement for those already involved with Linux as it is for the education of the uninitiated.
According to the previous post, you could have kept your website... Now, Yahoo just owns your protest. Any guesses as to how long before they try to force people to take down certain protest/"offensive" web sites?
I think the point the author was trying to make is that what we commonly call "Word Processing" is actually "Document Processing", and most "Word Processors" actually aid us in more than just the words.
Okay, I'll concede that point. I guess we can't legislate this away, nor would that be right given the nature of cellular broadcasting. Not that the yelling analogy is great -- I *can't* ignore someone yelling, while it's pretty easy not to scan for cell phones. Still, someone ought to give the people making these public broadcasts the message that that sort of thing isn't acceptable (not to me, anyway). It's not like they're provinding a "public service", or anything. If they can't be shut down forcibly, they ought to do it voluntarily. In my opinion, at least. I just can't see a good reason for listening to other people's phone calls...
Like I said, encryption is a good idea. I don't expect cellular conversations to be safe, at all, from anyone with dishonorable intentions. But, what is the use to anyone of publicly broadcasting my messages? Forget stolen information, that could just be downright embarrassing, plus it opens up my private information to people who might not have found a way to get it before. This broadcasting site is just ludicrous.
Legal or not, this sort of thing should not be happening. There should be some idea of reasonable expectations out there. Think about it -- if you're making a phone call, cellular or not, do you *expect* to be monitored? Wouldn't you be outraged to find your conversation broadcast? Well, to those who would broadcast others' conversations, think about the other guy for once. Besides, if someone on a cell phone calls someone on a normal phone, the other guy's privacy is threatened and he doesn't even know it. I hope whoever is doing this gets shut down, pronto...
I think broadcasts like this are a great argument for encryption, though, even if it should be unnecessary. I know it'll be a long time before I talk about my world-domination conspiracies over cellular telephone.
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Hello, the companies split years ago. AT&T gains no hold over anything due to this.
The page currently linked to refers (and links) to the database benchmarking article as "my July Article". Way to stay recent, Slashdot.
Man, all this country needs is one more way to distance our conscience from our military actions. Having anything inhuman doing our killing would probably be one of the worst episodes in History.
I'm not picking on America - that would happen to any nation with that kind of power, but we would be among the first to develop this new technology...
I'd imagine that those wires terminate in some sort of plug or connector, and that the hole in his skull is neatly sealed off by the receiving end that the plug connects to. I don't think anyone's about to leave this man with a gaping hole in his head.
You nerd.
Now, for other purposes than individual users, this has interesting implications in terms of computational capabilities, especially if this memory can become quite fast.
A lot of females are interested in programming (more than go into CS) or other technical fields, but they are put off by the fact that they will be mostly alone in a mostly-male group. This is supported because of the fact that CS undergrad females transfer out at FAR higher rates than males -- and, having talked to the Undergrad Advisor / Asst. Dean of UG affairs at CMU, I've been told that it is mostly due to social concerns, not academic. It's just weird for them to be among only [desperate] guys.
The encouragement process is there to show females that this is a school where they can go and, within a year or two, find themself in a more balanced environment where they have other females to be with and still get a good technical education. It's just a matter of showing them that this can be a good place to spend four years of their life -- and by telling them that, making it so.
Most guys out there don't realize it, but women in a mostly-male environment get mobbed, harrassed, and stalked by some of the weirder guys -- if there are 2 such guys to each girl, rather than 5 girls to each such guy, it starts to be a problem, you know.
Jeez. Maybe a 50/50 split isn't the natural equilibrium, but there is a serious deficit of female students, for instance, here at CMU Computer Science. And after they join up, they soon transfer out in many cases. Why? Not because they don't like CS. Not even because they can't handle the curriculum. But because of the all-male atmosphere. If we can get more females here, we can overcome this problem and hopefully let all of the females interested in this field get their educations in peace.
Also, in what way is it discriminatory and wrong? This is *advertisement* they're doing. They can target it however they want. Are you gonna call it discriminatory and wrong that they recruit at high schools, neglecting the adults in later life who may want to go back to school? Nothing is being targetted at females but information -- no biased monetary incentive, no looser admission requirements, just a campaign to put the CS department name on women's minds. Seems reasonable to me.
But enough about me. A more appropriate link than CMU's front page might be CMU's Computer Science Department.
And, about time we got more females... Maybe now they're joining the CS school in force, we won't have the common problem of them transferring out after a year or two. With low percentages of them, I can certainly understand why.
"Good" pictures of [female celebrity here] naked. Male celebrities too, but they're less likely to find pictures of, I think. "Good" collections of illegal software ("Good" here would mean having lots of it, and easy to get). "Good" just means "Better than most" in many situations, and can refer to things we like as well as don't like.
Certainly an Altavista search on "Good" will give results that have little to do with ethics -- just think about it.
Oh yeah, I forgot to say this post was pretty boring too. Let's keep to messages with a point on Slashdot, could we?
Conclusions? None. Let's see... More "good" than "evil"? Like web sites with "good shots of naked women" or something? Hmm, more God than Devil... How about, "God d*** it!" I could go on forever. People may think there isn't as much bad stuff out there as is claimed, but this "study" is so totally uninformative as to be pointless.
Keep in mind, even if 70% of the Internet is good, clean, wholesome fun, that last 30% is still millions and millions of questionable material. So even if a conclusive study gave the same numbers as above, we'd have learned nothing.
Umm, the point is, it WAS an editorial. It's here so that we know that this viewpoint is out there and so we can respond to it, not to force us to agree with it. It stimulates discussion on the issue. Other viewpoints can be presented in response to it, either as comments or as editorial submissions, but nowhere did I see any claim that this was also Slashdot's official position. Where did you get that assumption?
Yeah, like America. We were NEVER made up of colonies of some English-speaking country, we chose this language out of the clear blue to show how much we loved it.
Get a clue. The language one speaks doesn't matter. Nobody chooses a language, they just happen. NONE of it counts in the end.
No mention of purpose was made in this article. Were these fingers grown purely to see if it could be done? As a replacement for fingers lost to injury? Something else? If it's to replace lost fingers, it sounds slightly unappealing to me -- I don't know if I'd like to have cow tissue grown in mice grafted onto me. Still, though, if they could someday do that with human tissue it would be quite a feat.
...we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi"--Darth Maul
(or something like that)
This seems to be the sentiment behind the Linux Demo. The Linux community is always striving for more publicity in a wider forum, so ready or not I think there's no holding back this time. This is as much a mark of achievement for those already involved with Linux as it is for the education of the uninitiated.
The Linux Demo Day site says the date is going to be September 12-19, rather than July 23. What's correct? Where did July 23 come from?
According to the previous post, you could have kept your website... Now, Yahoo just owns your protest. Any guesses as to how long before they try to force people to take down certain protest/"offensive" web sites?
I think the point the author was trying to make is that what we commonly call "Word Processing" is actually "Document Processing", and most "Word Processors" actually aid us in more than just the words.
Okay, I'll concede that point. I guess we can't legislate this away, nor would that be right given the nature of cellular broadcasting. Not that the yelling analogy is great -- I *can't* ignore someone yelling, while it's pretty easy not to scan for cell phones. Still, someone ought to give the people making these public broadcasts the message that that sort of thing isn't acceptable (not to me, anyway). It's not like they're provinding a "public service", or anything. If they can't be shut down forcibly, they ought to do it voluntarily. In my opinion, at least. I just can't see a good reason for listening to other people's phone calls...
Like I said, encryption is a good idea. I don't expect cellular conversations to be safe, at all, from anyone with dishonorable intentions. But, what is the use to anyone of publicly broadcasting my messages? Forget stolen information, that could just be downright embarrassing, plus it opens up my private information to people who might not have found a way to get it before. This broadcasting site is just ludicrous.
Legal or not, this sort of thing should not be happening. There should be some idea of reasonable expectations out there. Think about it -- if you're making a phone call, cellular or not, do you *expect* to be monitored? Wouldn't you be outraged to find your conversation broadcast? Well, to those who would broadcast others' conversations, think about the other guy for once. Besides, if someone on a cell phone calls someone on a normal phone, the other guy's privacy is threatened and he doesn't even know it.
I hope whoever is doing this gets shut down, pronto...
I think broadcasts like this are a great argument for encryption, though, even if it should be unnecessary. I know it'll be a long time before I talk about my world-domination conspiracies over cellular telephone.