That setup solves the problem of you having to wade through tons if spam manually, but it creates the problem of legitimate mails inevitably being lost in spam filters. You don't see those, but they still exist. In my experience, quite a lot of them, especially in your case where you get mail from strangers visiting your site.
Since you can't get anywhere near reliable message delivery with email these days, I find the whole system ready for the trash.
The premise of this post seems to be that each company has to be an "X" company, where X is a single noun. If Google is an advertising company, it can therefore logically not be a search company.
Adherence to this view forces you to claim that the company dominating internet search worldwide is in fact not a search company!
If your premises forces you to believe in crazy things, it's time to check your premises. In my world Google is both a search and an advertising company, and several other things as well. It's a little more complex to think this way, but with some practice most people can manage quite well with such a complex world view!
As stated on http://www.google.com/corporate/, Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
It's hardly surprising then, or nefarious, that Google's product announcements tend to focus on information gathering and management rather than, say, toasters.
I think the weak point here is 2 - Ensure that the code used for this vision system is open to public scrutiny. I don't see how this can be done. You can certainly develop such a system and show off the source code for all to see. But I can't think of a way to ensure that that is the only software that is actually being used.
A whole other approach that could work is to outsource the whole system to some third party who is well trusted by everybody. There are companies that specialize in being trustworthy as a business model.
Does anyone expect Google to not release a new version?
Or to not test or translate it before it does?
Even assuming this Pig Latin based intelligence gathering has merit, the information gained is only barely more sensational than that the sun will rise tomorrow.
Isn't the moon believed to be spun off from the same blob of magma as the earth? If so, it should have the same ratio of Uranium as this mud ball, and zero environmental concerns.
I'd think a moon satellite could detect surface deposits from it's radiation?
The problem is that the spectrum is more valuable - to its owner - as a closed monopoly.
A very rough guess is that it's worth $50B that way and $30B in it's open form. Google would then have to spend $51B to get something worth $30B, thus losing $21B in order to better society.
I think Google's argument is that as an open spectrum, its value to society at large is way more than those $20B, but I don't think it wants to shoulder that entire bill itself, even if it would mean some added income as the internet become more accessible and ubiquitous.
Other than linking the results to a database of stolen vehicles, this is actually fairly simple to set up for a couple of hobbyists. It wouldn't surprise me if license plate scanners are already available in some open source project.
Regardless, the 4th amendment says that the Police can not get secret information through force, without first obtaining a warrant. This system does not, and can not, apply to getting already public information.
Every law, good or evil, will benefit some company. This does not in itself have any moral implication. Working for some law to be enacted is only evil if that law itself is evil.
Free market economies work best when prices are elastic; that is, where changes in price affect the demand for the product. This allows price to signal the level of available supply and prevent shortages of goods. The problem with healthcare is that it is not elastic. If I have cancer, a broken leg or some other ailment I have to get it fixed - regardless of the cost.
There is a valid point in this area, but it's not the one you think.
Note that you could say the same thing about food, among many other basic needs. If you're hungry, you have to get food, regardless of the cost. Yet, we can buy cheap food in a very competitive market.
The price signals for food works just like you describe, despite it being a even more desperately needed good than health care.
Price signals for food are loud and clear. Ads proclaiming the low prices of all kinds of suppliers are everywhere. For health care, there is almost complete silence. If you can figure out why that is, you have solved this puzzle.
This would be a better post if I had a complete answer to that, but I don't.
I believe one factor is that it's actually illegal for medical providers to advertise their prices. Another is that the insurance system hides many of the costs, while randomly passing through some. And there are similar but smaller problems in car repairs, for reasons I don't fully understand.
According to the article, it will take several years to write using this technology, even if you start right now. I'll stick with my current HD, thank you very much.
Still, some of the blue color has to come from sky reflection. I mean, the sky clearly is blue, and water clearly does reflect some light. Some percentage of the blueness you see in photos of earth from space has to come from either source. Sadly we can't check what it looks like under clouds in those photos.
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The impossibility of helping more than entity is one of the more tragic constraints facing us in our daily life.
We all need to be very careful to not help unless absolutely forced to, since a more worthy cause may appear later. Don't be caught helpless!
Thanks for the helpfull reminder!
That setup solves the problem of you having to wade through tons if spam manually, but it creates the problem of legitimate mails inevitably being lost in spam filters. You don't see those, but they still exist. In my experience, quite a lot of them, especially in your case where you get mail from strangers visiting your site.
Since you can't get anywhere near reliable message delivery with email these days, I find the whole system ready for the trash.
I was going to say the exact opposite. That is what you'd do if you live forever.
More realistically, assume you'll be dead at, say, 100 years old, and spend accordingly.
Criminal law is also very clear on burglary.
That doesn't make it a bad idea to close and lock your front door.
The premise of this post seems to be that each company has to be an "X" company, where X is a single noun. If Google is an advertising company, it can therefore logically not be a search company.
Adherence to this view forces you to claim that the company dominating internet search worldwide is in fact not a search company!
If your premises forces you to believe in crazy things, it's time to check your premises. In my world Google is both a search and an advertising company, and several other things as well. It's a little more complex to think this way, but with some practice most people can manage quite well with such a complex world view!
Who will protect these patients from spice loving cannibals after they leave the hospital?
On average, 548 people join Slashdot every day.
Coincidence?
If you have a good heat source, there is no need to drill through an ice layer.
As stated on http://www.google.com/corporate/, Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
It's hardly surprising then, or nefarious, that Google's product announcements tend to focus on information gathering and management rather than, say, toasters.
Well said. You convey a wisdom befitting of someone with such a low uid!
You'd think they'd want him to work less, not more.
Now there will be one more week when he can screw something up!
I think the weak point here is 2 - Ensure that the code used for this vision system is open to public scrutiny. I don't see how this can be done. You can certainly develop such a system and show off the source code for all to see. But I can't think of a way to ensure that that is the only software that is actually being used.
A whole other approach that could work is to outsource the whole system to some third party who is well trusted by everybody. There are companies that specialize in being trustworthy as a business model.
So they're renaming Centrino to Centrino? That's awesome!
I'm getting Smurf flashbacks.
Does anyone expect Google to not release a new version?
Or to not test or translate it before it does?
Even assuming this Pig Latin based intelligence gathering has merit, the information gained is only barely more sensational than that the sun will rise tomorrow.
Isn't the moon believed to be spun off from the same blob of magma as the earth? If so, it should have the same ratio of Uranium as this mud ball, and zero environmental concerns.
I'd think a moon satellite could detect surface deposits from it's radiation?
The problem is that the spectrum is more valuable - to its owner - as a closed monopoly.
A very rough guess is that it's worth $50B that way and $30B in it's open form. Google would then have to spend $51B to get something worth $30B, thus losing $21B in order to better society.
I think Google's argument is that as an open spectrum, its value to society at large is way more than those $20B, but I don't think it wants to shoulder that entire bill itself, even if it would mean some added income as the internet become more accessible and ubiquitous.
Other than linking the results to a database of stolen vehicles, this is actually fairly simple to set up for a couple of hobbyists. It wouldn't surprise me if license plate scanners are already available in some open source project.
Regardless, the 4th amendment says that the Police can not get secret information through force, without first obtaining a warrant. This system does not, and can not, apply to getting already public information.
It's actually "don't be evil".
Every law, good or evil, will benefit some company. This does not in itself have any moral implication. Working for some law to be enacted is only evil if that law itself is evil.
I guess Sprint executives read Urban Dictionary just like everybody else.
Typically, because they want it, and can afford the price.
Not every act of purchase is meant to express political support.
Free market economies work best when prices are elastic; that is, where changes in price affect the demand for the product. This allows price to signal the level of available supply and prevent shortages of goods. The problem with healthcare is that it is not elastic. If I have cancer, a broken leg or some other ailment I have to get it fixed - regardless of the cost.
There is a valid point in this area, but it's not the one you think.
Note that you could say the same thing about food, among many other basic needs. If you're hungry, you have to get food, regardless of the cost. Yet, we can buy cheap food in a very competitive market.
The price signals for food works just like you describe, despite it being a even more desperately needed good than health care.
Price signals for food are loud and clear. Ads proclaiming the low prices of all kinds of suppliers are everywhere. For health care, there is almost complete silence. If you can figure out why that is, you have solved this puzzle.
This would be a better post if I had a complete answer to that, but I don't.
I believe one factor is that it's actually illegal for medical providers to advertise their prices. Another is that the insurance system hides many of the costs, while randomly passing through some. And there are similar but smaller problems in car repairs, for reasons I don't fully understand.
According to the article, it will take several years to write using this technology, even if you start right now. I'll stick with my current HD, thank you very much.
OK, I learned something there. Thank you!
Still, some of the blue color has to come from sky reflection. I mean, the sky clearly is blue, and water clearly does reflect some light. Some percentage of the blueness you see in photos of earth from space has to come from either source. Sadly we can't check what it looks like under clouds in those photos.
Does anyone know how much is from each factor?
Lakes and oceans look blue on earth mostly because they reflect our blue sky. On Mars the sky is black and/or dusty.
I have a hard time imagining where the blueness on this picture comes from if it's not digitally added.
Good point! I forget sometimes there is a world outside the valley.