They are talking statistics. Every predictor has specificity and sensitivity. Specificity of Bentley ownership is indeed 100%, but it has very low sensitivity as only few own it in the upper 25% income population
George Church is undermining scientific integrity by legitimizing questionable start-ups just so they can attract billion or two of investments with no intent to deliver.
She is indeed unelectabe, but whatever republican might be running in 2012 will be very electable in comparison with Sarah Palin. She is playing her assigned political role here - to create contrast for future candidate. Political technologies, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm in Moscow, but my coordinates seem to be "latitude":34.0919483 "longitude":-118.3462152 "country":"United States" "country_code":"US" "region":"California" "county":"Los Angeles" "city":"Los Angeles" "street":"N Formosa Ave" "street_number":"1140" "postal_code":"90046" "accuracy":36.0
Could not get any preview pages of his books on Amazon, but googling revealed some truly crackpot things he had written. See: http://photontheory.com/Kemp/Kemp.html
Message exchange is a transaction between persons - sender and addressee, not between mailer daemon and anyone who got in cross fire. Confirmation of email delivery must be left up to the addressee of the email message. If a user got an email in his mailbox but haven't read it - it is still not delivered. And if user doesn't want to confirm - it is his business.
Just last week I received thousands of spam messages bounced to me from all over the world. And hundreds of them passed spam filters, because of my valid email address in TO field. In addition many messages from MAILER-DAEMON modify original spam message (attachments, truncation, etc) making it difficult for spam filters to discard the message. Here is one of thousands messages
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at phunkadelic.org.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. vpopmail (#5.1.1)
--- Below this line is a copy of the message.
Here is a interesting quote from the Princton racing team's page
http://pave.princeton.edu/main/ which leaves no doubts on wether it's news or marketing
New Sponsor
September 26th, 2007
PAVE is excited to announce that our friends from across the pond, Redgate Software are our latest sponsor. Redgate makes a variety of software tools for use with SQL and.NET, including the ANTS Profiler, which our team used back in 2005 to successfully fix the memory leak that prevented Prospect Eleven from traveling more than 9.5 miles in the Grand Challenge.
How long before bot nets start manipulating social sites? It would be quite easy to implement a bot-net crowd to promote spam in places like digg, reddit, etc. With time, this bot-nets can become opinion making tools that are more powerful than major TV networks. Will next presidential campaign be won by bot-net owners?:)
I've been in exactly same situation as you described. After getting Ph.D. in Physics in the U.S., post-doctorate in biotechnology and working for a year in a biotech company I got married to a girl from my home country (Russia). She hated not being able to work there. Process of getting the residentship would take years. So after half of a year living in the States together, we returned back to Russia. Not like US lost a lot with my departure:), but if it's a pattern, then it does loose.
Never thought I'd be defending Microsoft, but... There is NO "Microsoft's campaign against the poor, Russian school teacher". No company would commit such a suicidal move. Indeed, it is hard to come up with a better way to ruin company's reputation (or whatever there is to ruin in case of MS). This prosecution is most likely a result of revenge of a local hardware vendor, which got upset that it did not get the contract for the classroom computers. This "piracy" offense is considered in Russia a "public offense" and it doesn't require a victim to file a complaint. All it takes a written complaint from anyone, and the local authorities must react. And the wheel of Russian justice will crush everything on its way.
Also, we may not have the ability to actually observe Macro Evolution, but Micro Evolution has been evident for some time now. We have documented proof that Americans have gotten taller for instance. This is note due to genetic mutations or evolutionary pressure. People just eat better (or more, actually), have better childhood medical care, etc. The article discusses a genetic mutation that turned out to be advantageous. The evolution at work.
copy-number variants are "taking up some 12% of the human genome. That doesn't mean that your DNA is 12% different from mine (or 88% similar), because any two people's DNA will differ at only a handful of these spots" [nature]
The kid is of course great. But the device he produced is usually called "neutron generator". This things were available commercially for decades. Just google for "neutron generator".
To The United States Congress:
We are the customers and former customers of the member labels of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). We love music and will gladly pay a fair price for it, but we are outraged by the RIAA's tactics in suing ordinary Americans for filesharing....
"Competition between two standards we believe is a very good thing"
The Mars Climate Orbiter was lost at the Red Planet on Sept. 23,1999 because of a mistake by engineers who delivered navigation information in English rather than metric units, according to a mission failure investigation report released.
Slashdot Mirror
Also from people who found a job through LinkedId. I did.
Here comes the day when I read news from RT and Russian propaganda workforce on /.
They are talking statistics. Every predictor has specificity and sensitivity. Specificity of Bentley ownership is indeed 100%, but it has very low sensitivity as only few own it in the upper 25% income population
George Church is undermining scientific integrity by legitimizing questionable start-ups just so they can attract billion or two of investments with no intent to deliver.
there will be bears (with balalaikas).
He did not mention which government.
Russian business newspaper Vedomosti mentioned this http://www.vedomosti.ru/tech/news/1392351/sozdatel_yazyka_programmirovaniya_c_i_os_unix_dennis_ritchi
She is indeed unelectabe, but whatever republican might be running in 2012 will be very electable in comparison with Sarah Palin. She is playing her assigned political role here - to create contrast for future candidate. Political technologies, ladies and gentlemen.
Google voice is not available in Russia, Skype work anywhere where there is internet.
I'm in Moscow, but my coordinates seem to be
"latitude":34.0919483
"longitude":-118.3462152
"country":"United States"
"country_code":"US"
"region":"California"
"county":"Los Angeles"
"city":"Los Angeles"
"street":"N Formosa Ave"
"street_number":"1140"
"postal_code":"90046"
"accuracy":36.0
He also seems to have some Mod point, since you are downmodded for stating simple truth
Could not get any preview pages of his books on Amazon, but googling revealed some truly crackpot things he had written. See:
http://photontheory.com/Kemp/Kemp.html
I think you could have done some research after this post: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1243685&cid=28074421
Just last week I received thousands of spam messages bounced to me from all over the world. And hundreds of them passed spam filters, because of my valid email address in TO field. In addition many messages from MAILER-DAEMON modify original spam message (attachments, truncation, etc) making it difficult for spam filters to discard the message. Here is one of thousands messages
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at phunkadelic.org. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. : Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. vpopmail (#5.1.1) --- Below this line is a copy of the message.
How long before bot nets start manipulating social sites? It would be quite easy to implement a bot-net crowd to promote spam in places like digg, reddit, etc. With time, this bot-nets can become opinion making tools that are more powerful than major TV networks. Will next presidential campaign be won by bot-net owners? :)
What was so fucking insightful about the above comment?
I've been in exactly same situation as you described. After getting Ph.D. in Physics in the U.S., post-doctorate in biotechnology and working for a year in a biotech company I got married to a girl from my home country (Russia). She hated not being able to work there. Process of getting the residentship would take years. So after half of a year living in the States together, we returned back to Russia. Not like US lost a lot with my departure :), but if it's a pattern, then it does loose.
Never thought I'd be defending Microsoft, but... There is NO "Microsoft's campaign against the poor, Russian school teacher". No company would commit such a suicidal move. Indeed, it is hard to come up with a better way to ruin company's reputation (or whatever there is to ruin in case of MS). This prosecution is most likely a result of revenge of a local hardware vendor, which got upset that it did not get the contract for the classroom computers. This "piracy" offense is considered in Russia a "public offense" and it doesn't require a victim to file a complaint. All it takes a written complaint from anyone, and the local authorities must react. And the wheel of Russian justice will crush everything on its way.
that would be reddit.com perhaps :)
copy-number variants are "taking up some 12% of the human genome. That doesn't mean that your DNA is 12% different from mine (or 88% similar), because any two people's DNA will differ at only a handful of these spots" [nature]
The kid is of course great. But the device he produced is usually called "neutron generator". This things were available commercially for decades. Just google for "neutron generator".
To The United States Congress: We are the customers and former customers of the member labels of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). We love music and will gladly pay a fair price for it, but we are outraged by the RIAA's tactics in suing ordinary Americans for filesharing....
Let's slashdot the Senate and House Commerce!
The Mars Climate Orbiter was lost at the Red Planet on Sept. 23,1999 because of a mistake by engineers who delivered navigation information in English rather than metric units, according to a mission failure investigation report released.
http://www.space.com/news/mco_report-b_991110.htm