In this article researchers claim that "3D makes the brain 12% more attentive".... Depending on agenda this could be easily respun as "3D makes the brain work 12% harder".
Take a soil or a skin sample we don't know the correct conditions to grow >%90 of the organisms in that sample
you can lob them in jar of nutrient broth but some simply won't grow while others will out-compete everything.
Saying found sequences not yet seen in any cultured organism is a bit like saying
found paving slabs not seen under any streetlight.
Facebook does not encrypt the cookies so its vulnerable to session hijacking
This process has been automated with a firefox plugin (Firesheep) so any 12 year old could do it.
Oddly enough we can thank the Tunisian Government for rollout of https on the whole session.
I just always visit https://www.facebook.com. Seems to work. There is also a setting I noticed that says something like "use secure sessions wherever possible", which perhaps redirects you to the https site even if you click on an http link. I haven't tested it though, I'm happy using https all the time so that people can't steal my session cookie or whatever.
According to my (school age) son, https farks up some of the precious facebook games discouraging the kids from using it.
If this is true, its not good, kids are probably the ones who most need https, I'm not totally surrounded by people who think it would be hilarious to 'crack' my account with firesheep and post 'funny' stuff on my wall.
Not quite as good as it looks assuming they can sell all 2000Kg for $560 million gross
The craft carry s 2000Kg fuel but will masses 6000Kg I recall it costs $25000 to high orbit so were talking at least $150 million to get the fuel up there it will then have to perform at least 6 satellite rendezvous (Intelsat want 5x200Kg drops done, someone else may want one 1000Kg drop). Before that they have to design and build the thing and insure it against going Bang at an inopportune moment. They stand to make money but they will have earned it.
Are you serious? It is rare to find one person with good technical skills at an entire company. I worked at a nameless multinational software company for 4 years recently before I moved on to another company and I wouldn't trust most of my fellow engineers at that company to screw in a light bulb.
Who was responsible for employing and retaining these less than apt people?
OK, The balloon goes up civilization gets bombed back to the iron age (you can't bomb mankind back to the stone age, for a start there is lots of nicely refined iron sitting round waiting to be used). How long could you expect a well protected and environmentally controlled datacenter to survive in a usable condition.
Yes, the whole system is broken. I've been saying for years that we need to racially reform society as less and less work is available.
I'm old enough to remember the sci-fi promise that more and more automation would allow humans more leisure time without sacrificing the necessities and comforts they were accustomed to. But that hasn't really come to pass, even with machines taking over human jobs. Instead. fewer people have work, many who still have work feel compelled to work more (so it looks harder) to keep their jobs, more people don't have jobs, and the ownership class has more and more in relation to the rest of us.
IMHO the problem is that one of 'Conservation of Drudge'. Once some job is automated standards simply raise till the replacement job takes the same amount of time.
For example the hoover just meant women spent that same amount of time cleaning but ended up doing it to a higher standard. The before the word processor it was acceptable to have a bit of tipex and cruddy formatting was acceptable, now we spend the same amount of time working on a report but now struggle with the font diddling, spell checking and formatting.
Moore's Law is exactly what we should be measuring this against. CPU speed is proportional to the amount of data that can be processed, it looks like were headed for a era where there is more data than we can process!
In 1 picosecond light can travel about 0.3mm, you'd need a computer running faster than the speed of light (or a very very small optical chip) to actually do any processing,
Your updates might be throw away, but not everyone's. Some of mine are funny, and others tell me what I was doing in the past (I don't post trivial events), both are worth saving.
I didn't take all of the pictures I'm in, and I didn't upload them all from my computer.
Hmm it would be nice to have a Facebook diary option the ability to post without it getting distributed to everyone and their dog
I'd post much more often if that were the case...
Pictures: Anyone who does not keep a local copy is an idiot and probably deserves to lose em!
Yeah submitter, that's right, your 15-year old daughter who grew up in the internet age is an idiot who deserves to lose her memories. Thankfully, we have people like Carrot007 to help point this out.
Carrot007 is wrong on other levels as well, a photo that has been on facebook is a very different animal from one that has sat on a HDD.. Looking at the photos my son uploads the majority are ones of social events so these photos have
Been looked at and deemed interesting enough to bother uploading.
May have been commented on by friends
Probably been tagged with who is in it.
When (not if) Facebook has a disaster, subbys daughter could go back and find the photo(s) in her carefully preserved and meticulously organized archives but she will still have lost all metadata.
I'm not sure the facebook backup option covers photos your tagged in. I'm pretty sure my son would like those preserved as well...
P=NP is involved in the route-finding your GPS does. Calculating the shortest and/or fastest route between two locations is a hard problem, On a long journey there are a huge number of possible routes that could be taken and only one shortest route and one fastest route. Currently the GPS does approximations to find these, solving P=NP could result in faster and more accurate GPS routefinding.
What good is that? Well consider a 1% improvement in routing to a road haulage company, that 1% off wear and tear plus fuel. It costs at least ~$170000/year to run a truck, so say half that is insurance and pay, so thats $850/year per vehicle simply by using a better algorithm... now roll that out over the whole fleet.
This line is the nub of the matter.. Disk space is so cheap that the cost of storage
for any given file is pretty much negligible. The only time is a waste of money is if you can't find it easliy.
I actually do add tags to every single one of my digital photos. Its not (quite) as hard as it sounds.
The first thing todo is ensure all cameras are synchronised to the same time. That way when you sort the photos by creation time they organize into a single 'virtual filmstrip'. To a first approximation we are wandering round as a family so photos taken at about the same time are in the same place (if not of the same subject).
I've written a webapp to display photos and allows me to apply tags to ranges of the photos. so I take 2000 images can mark the first and last of the 1500 photos we took going on holiday to Scunthorpe, 'Scunthorpe 2010' (we go there Every year). I then call up all photos I've just tagged and mark the ranges for the various places we went (Scunthorpe Crazy Golf-o-rama, Scunthorpe Aquarium, Scunthorpe World of Fishing Theme Park, Our Hotel etc). I Then look through and tag the people in the photos. In all it may take 10-20 minutes. to process a whole holiday (some times it takes a bit longer if we split up). For really deep tagging (adding Golf, Aquarium, Theme Park, the names of the various rides urls to the theme park etc it may take a hour or so)
The reason I said its not quite as hard is that I've had to write my own software to manage the tag database..
and the reason I'm posting this is I'd dearly love to use something off the shelf to do this (I would not want anyone who inherits the system to have to maintain my software;).
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In this article researchers claim that "3D makes the brain 12% more attentive" .... Depending on agenda this could be easily respun as "3D makes the brain work 12% harder".
Take a soil or a skin sample we don't know the correct conditions to grow >%90 of the organisms in that sample you can lob them in jar of nutrient broth but some simply won't grow while others will out-compete everything. Saying found sequences not yet seen in any cultured organism is a bit like saying found paving slabs not seen under any streetlight.
Facebook does not encrypt the cookies so its vulnerable to session hijacking This process has been automated with a firefox plugin (Firesheep) so any 12 year old could do it.
Oddly enough we can thank the Tunisian Government for rollout of https on the whole session.
I just always visit https://www.facebook.com. Seems to work. There is also a setting I noticed that says something like "use secure sessions wherever possible", which perhaps redirects you to the https site even if you click on an http link. I haven't tested it though, I'm happy using https all the time so that people can't steal my session cookie or whatever.
According to my (school age) son, https farks up some of the precious facebook games discouraging the kids from using it. If this is true, its not good, kids are probably the ones who most need https, I'm not totally surrounded by people who think it would be hilarious to 'crack' my account with firesheep and post 'funny' stuff on my wall.
1998 called? Did you warn them about 9/11?
We Owe xkcd for this one it hopefully both catchphrase and putdown will destroy each other
For example, simply peeing in public, in some states, is enough to have you arrested and classified as a sexual predator.
The mod-up to +4, "Insightful" demands, I think, some minimal show of proof that what you say is true.
Is this minimal enough evidence
Not quite as good as it looks assuming they can sell all 2000Kg for $560 million gross
The craft carry s 2000Kg fuel but will masses 6000Kg I recall it costs $25000 to high orbit so were talking at least $150 million to get the fuel up there it will then have to perform at least 6 satellite rendezvous (Intelsat want 5x200Kg drops done, someone else may want one 1000Kg drop). Before that they have to design and build the thing and insure it against going Bang at an inopportune moment. They stand to make money but they will have earned it.
Over here is a rather dull 14/3/2011 FX: Google Google Google
Ah!! 143 = I love you Further proof there are No dull numbers
Are you serious? It is rare to find one person with good technical skills at an entire company. I worked at a nameless multinational software company for 4 years recently before I moved on to another company and I wouldn't trust most of my fellow engineers at that company to screw in a light bulb.
Who was responsible for employing and retaining these less than apt people?
OK, The balloon goes up civilization gets bombed back to the iron age (you can't bomb mankind back to the stone age, for a start there is lots of nicely refined iron sitting round waiting to be used). How long could you expect a well protected and environmentally controlled datacenter to survive in a usable condition.
I recall that Microsoft tried adding PCs to the XBox network, but canned it because a mediocre player on a PC could trash the best players on an XBox.
Yes, the whole system is broken. I've been saying for years that we need to racially reform society as less and less work is available.
I'm old enough to remember the sci-fi promise that more and more automation would allow humans more leisure time without sacrificing the necessities and comforts they were accustomed to. But that hasn't really come to pass, even with machines taking over human jobs. Instead. fewer people have work, many who still have work feel compelled to work more (so it looks harder) to keep their jobs, more people don't have jobs, and the ownership class has more and more in relation to the rest of us.
IMHO the problem is that one of 'Conservation of Drudge'. Once some job is automated standards simply raise till the replacement job takes the same amount of time.
For example the hoover just meant women spent that same amount of time cleaning but ended up doing it to a higher standard. The before the word processor it was acceptable to have a bit of tipex and cruddy formatting was acceptable, now we spend the same amount of time working on a report but now struggle with the font diddling, spell checking and formatting.
Moore's Law is exactly what we should be measuring this against. CPU speed is proportional to the amount of data that can be processed, it looks like were headed for a era where there is more data than we can process!
Great! Send them all Dialup modems, plus the phone number to that French BBS giving-away free access.
(And don't say it's too slow - I download books, music, and videos over my dialup.)
it does not need to be fast one photo and a 100 word report can be political dynamite.
yes and he'd make a half way decent joke out of it.
I drive a route that spells out "I know your watching" in letters 5 miles across
xkcd link in 3..2..1
In 1 picosecond light can travel about 0.3mm, you'd need a computer running faster than the speed of light (or a very very small optical chip) to actually do any processing,
Ob xkcd (bottom left)
Your updates might be throw away, but not everyone's. Some of mine are funny, and others tell me what I was doing in the past (I don't post trivial events), both are worth saving.
I didn't take all of the pictures I'm in, and I didn't upload them all from my computer.
Hmm it would be nice to have a Facebook diary option the ability to post without it getting distributed to everyone and their dog I'd post much more often if that were the case...
Pictures: Anyone who does not keep a local copy is an idiot and probably deserves to lose em!
Yeah submitter, that's right, your 15-year old daughter who grew up in the internet age is an idiot who deserves to lose her memories. Thankfully, we have people like Carrot007 to help point this out.
Carrot007 is wrong on other levels as well, a photo that has been on facebook is a very different animal from one that has sat on a HDD.. Looking at the photos my son uploads the majority are ones of social events so these photos have
When (not if) Facebook has a disaster, subbys daughter could go back and find the photo(s) in her carefully preserved and meticulously organized archives but she will still have lost all metadata.
I'm not sure the facebook backup option covers photos your tagged in. I'm pretty sure my son would like those preserved as well...
But who are small fuzzy things from Alpha Centauri?
Furries
make a few potholes and slow them by 57 ms an they will go another way :->
P=NP is involved in the route-finding your GPS does. Calculating the shortest and/or fastest route between two locations is a hard problem, On a long journey there are a huge number of possible routes that could be taken and only one shortest route and one fastest route. Currently the GPS does approximations to find these, solving P=NP could result in faster and more accurate GPS routefinding. What good is that? Well consider a 1% improvement in routing to a road haulage company, that 1% off wear and tear plus fuel. It costs at least ~$170000/year to run a truck, so say half that is insurance and pay, so thats $850/year per vehicle simply by using a better algorithm... now roll that out over the whole fleet.
This is a good point... there is going to be a lot of free/very cheap TiVo Boxes coming onto the market in 4 months time there is inevitably a hacking community ... I'm not sure how useful a hacked TiVo is though
http://www.keegan.org/jeff/tivo/hackingtivo.html
http://tivo.stevejenkins.com/
You never know which one you'll need to refer to.
This line is the nub of the matter.. Disk space is so cheap that the cost of storage for any given file is pretty much negligible. The only time is a waste of money is if you can't find it easliy.
I actually do add tags to every single one of my digital photos. Its not (quite) as hard as it sounds.
The first thing todo is ensure all cameras are synchronised to the same time. That way when you sort the photos by creation time they organize into a single 'virtual filmstrip'. To a first approximation we are wandering round as a family so photos taken at about the same time are in the same place (if not of the same subject).
I've written a webapp to display photos and allows me to apply tags to ranges of the photos. so I take 2000 images can mark the first and last of the 1500 photos we took going on holiday to Scunthorpe, 'Scunthorpe 2010' (we go there Every year). I then call up all photos I've just tagged and mark the ranges for the various places we went (Scunthorpe Crazy Golf-o-rama, Scunthorpe Aquarium, Scunthorpe World of Fishing Theme Park, Our Hotel etc). I Then look through and tag the people in the photos. In all it may take 10-20 minutes. to process a whole holiday (some times it takes a bit longer if we split up). For really deep tagging (adding Golf, Aquarium, Theme Park, the names of the various rides urls to the theme park etc it may take a hour or so)
The reason I said its not quite as hard is that I've had to write my own software to manage the tag database.. and the reason I'm posting this is I'd dearly love to use something off the shelf to do this (I would not want anyone who inherits the system to have to maintain my software;).
Anyone heard of something that does this?