Look at the statistics. Most the people in the ER are fall related injuries, and very few are bicycle falls or accidents. Standing up high on something being a huge one as well as slipping and falling in the bathroom.
I used to ride plenty, I've fallen a bit and I did it in the WINTER on the roads with the snow and ice. That is some risky shit to do, especially in the USA. I really have a hard time understanding how so many people fall and hit their head. Did we lose the genes we used to have where one instinctively used their arms and position in a fall to prevent head injury? Perhaps these helmet people should stop having children?
I've had minor injuries to my limbs, doing their job - protecting my head and my body.
Perhaps people should all try out running a bike at full speed into a boat launch at their local lake? That can be fun, probably educational.
I never did that much and now I don't at all... but I remember how miserable drivers can make things. I've almost been killed by cell phone people or mothers messing with the kids. The city and police...the culture is just not friendly. I've been threatened with tickets by cops for breaking the law because I go AGAINST traffic. I am alive because I was able to see the distracted moron headed my way - at least if I was hit and lived I could remember what the car looked like and the plate numbers. I seriously do not know why they think it is safer to make bikes go with traffic; it makes some things less convenient for the biker but in a hostile environment it is worth it.
If you want to murder somebody, find a way to get them on a bicycle.
Exit polling is highly effective as it was being done for decades and still is in many places to detect problems; some even call elections from it and just use the paper as a kind of verification process.
But in the USA, exit polling was smeared so bad and the public so ignorant it was outlawed in no time without much resistance. There is no reason they made such a huge and unjustified move other than current or future corruption plans. I think large enough fraud schemes were at risk of exposure and that is why it was killed.
Any new system that WORKED would threaten corruption and naturally the corrupt would strongly oppose it. Just like real news that keeps citizens properly informed gets whistle blower heroes persecuted and wikileaks...
You must be new to politics. Fixing non-existent problems they can't prove exist is a dead give away. duh!
The complex rules and regulations on voting coming from the proponents of Voter IDs are where the true motives become clear-- the devil is in the details. Never trust a politician's summarization. Do you trust marketing claims? Probably, they hire marketing firms to sell you both.
How about this: You have a great popular video game; everybody wants it, but it includes a Sony-like DRM rootkit backdoor into your computer. Some people will install the game and weaken their systems while others will find out about the details and oppose it.
The sole purpose as their moves show is to PREVENT LEGIT VOTERS. It won't outlaw minorities voting, that would be illegal and unpopular-- but it can make sure it is extra difficult and harass demographics that typically vote against them. This is easy for the GOP to do as there are so many minority groups who are against them they can single them out easily. The DFL would as well except they lack such easy to spot targets that do not overlap into their supporters.
Nothing new. You know when the culture is going down the tubes when pointing out the obvious is so controversial you get condemned and punished for it.
For generations we've used old technology based on FREE energy. We must start solving the problem and do a little suffering if we are going to ever transition without huge disasters.
ALSO, realistically FREE energy costs less than actual energy production (green or nuclear,) it only becomes "even" when collection, processing, distribution and most importantly, limited supplies demand higher prices.
What is FREE energy? Free energy is harvesting stored energy - such as millions of years of solar power stored chemically in the ground or the cosmic forces that created uranium. Horribly inefficient processes that have TIME on their side.
Either we go more direct and lose the benefits of TIME with solar at greater cost, go 1 level removed (wind, wave, bio) or find a better source and technique for cosmic power extraction (uranium peaked already.) Oh, I see little mention of tidal power which is gravity power. Geothermal is part cosmic and part solar. Given how we don't want to give up the free ride, I'd think we'd be investing a ton in finding the next "atomic battery." We've not put much money into fusion, other nuclear, or geothermal.
Make a real impact beyond your mortality, stop selfishly cranking out babies!
DNT is a starting point (an egg) it could grow into something useful or die. Failure is not "egg on your face" because you have to take the 1st step for the possibilities to open up.
One possible solution: Politicians pass a law saying how ad corps must respect DNT. It is far less likely to pass such a law without the technology in place; they have a hard time making industry implement any features.
It is easier to charge the public more or ban something wasteful like children's balloons than it is to get the military or industry to do anything. Remember, the military and industry have a history of KILLING PEOPLE rather than change their ways - and you want them to change over a small resource supply problem? The military complex can't even stop wasting money when we run out of money.
The majority of voting yanks are wankers. Those who do not vote do not matter. The half that vote has severely limited choices and are misinformed most are probably wankers. I'm a yank but I'm in the minority; the voting informed who are not wankers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5OWRRJh-PI
Your rights exist outside the constitution; it does not GIVE you your rights! The people must fight to exercise them and maintain them. The founders knew this, see "unalienable rights" (not in the constitution BTW.)
The ammendments restrict government powers from infringing on some of your rights; they never gave you rights. You have rights even if you are punished for exercising them. People drank what they wanted because that is their right and they defied government until prohibition was finally repealed; and all that did is prevent persecution of people exercising their right to drink what they wanted.
The constitution does not give you ANY privacy. People think they have a right to some privacy and as a result we have a small list of weak laws protecting that; none grant any rights, they only weakly defend them.
Any state with a law about identifying marks on the ballots which many states have because of a past history of paying for votes by looking for special identification marks should have a reasonable judge interpret (use their brain) that state identification marks make it far easier. The whole point of those past anti-corruption laws was not to ban people from drawing doodles on ballots but to prevent conspiracies that DID HAPPEN to undermine democracy! Having your government place unique doodles on your ballot for you may technically get around those old laws but for human brains who can THINK it is nothing but a childishly simple legal hack that should not be allowed. This is one of the reasons we have too many overly long, complex laws - a literal minded legal system is too stupid to function.
The judge is correct in saying Federal law has little to say about this; unfortunately, the states control elections so its a hard battle to repair and then defend democracy x 50.
Amusing idea but not how it works. You can migrate people to new hashes easily and that is what they did. Simply look up in a new table and if there is no hash you use the old hash and if it works then you hash the password into the new table. Eventually everybody who uses the service is migrated. Unless they used an idiotic system they couldn't possibly get user passwords but they always get them as input to generate the hash.
Mitt Romney is not so self made, you have your facts wrong. His father was a CEO of a car company then Governor of Michigan and not a migrant farmer. Rich politically connected parents go a LONG LONG way to helping somebody with some talent go really far. Won't go into ethics because they have no place in business; everything is fair game as long as you are not caught.
If you take an outside expert and place politicians by their words or actions using a uniform test and a placement system that is not childishly simplistic... you get this interesting chart from the best political website on earth:
Notice where McCain was and where Obama ended up (also remember in 2008 Obama was more talk because there wasn't much of a record to place him. Everybody shifts quite a bit from talk vs action. Sadly the site doesn't do charts on both, but does tend to use action over talk when possible.)
Most theories are wrong. So we shouldn't like theories because they are wrong most the time? Conspiracy theories are common, proven and every bit as legitimate as other theories - most of what the FBI does is investigate criminal conspiracies. Clearly they are not so poor as to devote a whole federal police task force to dealing with.
The problem is with people who cling onto a theory and make up new theories to keep the old one going -- more like creative writing or brainstorming. The conspiracy theory can be totally reasonable but like any theory it can be lumped together with a whole lot of unreasonable theories. This is when the theory becomes a belief and a religious like defensive behavior invokes imaginative thinking. In this society we have somehow decided that conspiracy theories are automatically a lower class of theory. They are not and there is no logical reason why they should be. you prove they are lesser theories as you believe they are.
Politically related theories always involve MULTIPLE PEOPLE and therefore they are almost all going to be conspiracy theories. Politics brings in a lot of emotions and religious defensiveness. Look at global warming and how a really strong non-political theory is attacked by politics. Luckily, being a scientific theory there are no experts willing to risk their reputation by making up crazy defenses (or feeling they need to do so) but instead the opposition is making up the crazy stories to attack it even going so far as to try strawman attacks by lumping made up claims onto the science - like how the head of GM claims incorrectly that scientists claimed we'd be under water by now. I don't know of any such claims; he must have wanted to misunderstand 100 years to be 10 years or something like that.
Some things are beyond normal people. Physics. yes. Programming? no. anybody can.
Better question is can anybody become a GREAT programmer? no.
Then there is the part about proper education and motivation. Even with motivation, not every kind of mind has an effective learning method towards the goal they want to reach. We don't know the mind well enough to provide the education some people need; we require people to adapt to generally a 1-size fits all approach where the educators themselves are almost always the types who succeed the BEST at the current method, so naturally, they have a bias for it and may even judge others by the metric which worked so well on themselves. It deflates your ego and undermines your accomplishments to think that you just lucked into a model that was better suited to you. It feels much nicer to believe you are just better than others and have tangible proof to back it up (even if it is actually unproven.)
You can now be shot in the head and they know how to teach you to relearn many things that wasn't possible years ago; the process has advanced. Your brain could be trained to do anything most likely because of all the extreme examples of what it is capable of doing. We just don't know how to do it and won't figure it out for a long long time. If we did, we'd have big problems with formalized brainwashing that make stuff like Fox News look pitiful.
Getting Classic ported and working on Rosetta was probably deemed to be not worth the cost involved.
Rosetta was bought from a 3rd party and Apple didn't own it. I figured the acquisition of that company by IBM (if I remember correctly) could be the reason they dropped renewing it; or the costs involved or maybe the new owners didn't want that tech being used to run PPC on Intel...
Who said some mega corp couldn't create a private closed network to hijack the internet AND CHARGE FOR IT? XBox Live is just that. It is the old AOL over DSL scheme but runs on 1 niche device.
The cell phones are only a step behind that... People will freak when Apple makes iCloud the only online network for the iPhone and charge a fee to access it.... oh wait, nobody would pay for that and the iPhone would die. So why did XBox pull it off?
Problem is reality is complex especially when you add politicians. An ID is not about the concept!! It is all about the IMPLEMENTATION, I'm surprised computer people are not immune from falling for these tricks...
You should have a password to secure your computer. Sounds simple, "sure I'm for that!" you say. But how does one store the password? in plain text? How does one enter it? on screen keyboard? showing the text you typed on screen? speaking the password? Should we let anything be a password, like 1 character? Say our design is perfect; but then we have BUGs in the software... IMPLEMENTATION all that really matters.
Politicians use concepts, ideals, smokescreens to HIDE the IMPLEMENTATION which shows their true motives. YOU ARE NAIVE if you think that every implementation problem is just incompetence because you drink that whole "government is incompetent" cool aid - that is their best defense!!! (notice how the ones that preach that the most usually generate more incompetence?? wake up.) Implement horrible policies blame disclosures on incompetence (either for the disclosure or to disavow/distance) and talk about how you are for ideals and a greater utopia etc.
The truth is the republicans are using the fact the democrats have easily identifiable demographic groups to DISCRIMINATE against them and subvert democracy. It is the definition of anti-democratic and should be considered treason in any democracy (it does more harm than leaking a secret or aiding the enemy.) Any lawyer might be fooled by their logic games but a reasonable and informed person can clearly see what they are doing.
There is not a huge number of illegals voting. That claim is unsubstantiated and they've failed in the past when they've tried. But naturally, after they kick out a bunch of legal voters they'll claim the lower numbers are a result of these illegals being stopped - again, without any proof. DEMAND EVIDENCE. don't make policy out of ignorance.
TFA is stupid; however, it does raise an interesting idea. QR codes used to store the serial number on the bills might be easier to scan than the numbers which already can be OCR'd. So that doesn't gain you anything.
How about Digital Signatures? PGP the money! QR codes then make a lot of sense so any smart phone could ID phoney money.
Yes, somebody could copy the signature; but if it is unique to each bill it would require somebody to copy MANY signatures.
As more devices automatically scanned the cash duplicates would be caught more. Currently, we have serial numbers which are just as useless since they can just randomly be made up but we still have them because they prove useful in many situations. Using encryption you make it harder to generate new ones and by using QR codes you make it faster and easier to spot duplicates.
Voter ID being a reasonable idea has nothing to do with it's SOLE PURPOSE of bringing back poll taxes, intimidation and intelligence tests. Naturally, plenty of lying is being done by the Republicans and those who want to believe the lies are fine with looking the other way. The problem is the Democrats have easily identifiable demographics like Blacks, youth, and minorities and the Republicans do not have any easily identifiable demographic. (white men? nope. both sides have them. wealthy? nope. there are only a few of them. but they could be stopped from buying elections... )
Voter ID LAWS are creating poll taxes or forcing a bureaucratic intelligence and patience test to get that free ID. They place locations strategically to make it difficult and a TON of other things you can find. Regulations involving the use of the ID make it extremely difficult for certain people. For example, closing the polls during SUNDAY except for the military because black people vote more on Sunday and the military lean Republican (I'm not making this up it is being attempted for THIS election.)
The excuse they use? Dead people voting. It is rather easy to look up the death numbers between election day and when the voter roles are made. It does not amount to that many possible votes; not to mention the paper trails which could have been investigated and turned into a scandal but never are because there is no scandal. Even if it was a minor case it would provide political cover for the GOP. Yes, anti-immigrant talk is always heavily used but that is a typical inflammatory rhetoric used all the time; it is not a big problem (perhaps in some backward states it might be but not in my state; however, that doesn't stop the hype despite it being idiotic to use it in many states.)
The group which rarely votes leans strongly to the Democrats and have for a century. I've heard many times over decades of GOP staff admitting low turn out helps them so they'll even publicly say they wish for RAIN on election day and strongly oppose more polling hours. Many also openly wish that "lower class" people shouldn't be allowed to vote; which is more likely economic prejudice than their anti-democracy strategies.
If you want real democracy you must have the courage to risk undermining your power. That especially goes to both parties who prevent real debates, intelligent voting systems, or big reforms like ideas from parliamentary systems.
Spam filters are not so bright but they are doing something SIMPLE compared with what the insurance companies WILL someday try to employ. The success rate can be quite low and still make it highly profitable to deploy.
Your profile can be impacted by things that make no sense; you might simply TALK about food or talk about failing to lose weight and even though you may be quoting somebody else the machine will adjust your rank. Also, just like the simplistic MIT student project, the info about your "friends" on facebook can be used to determine things with better than chance odds-- like if you are not openly gay the student project claimed to be able to guess that with high accuracy based on your friends. You have a lot of fat unhealthy friends??
Since insurance KNOWS YOUR HEALTH by your medical bills; your friends and family you spend time with may also have insurance plans with the same company and that can be used against you as well. (They can already use your family against you.) Outside the company there are privacy laws I'm sure they can circumvent using a credit-rating like health score or something that summarizes without technically disclosing private information. This is less important today because insurance companies are so good at legally screwing their customers out of the insurance coverage they paid for.... plug 1 hole and they'll find another.
Once monitored, who knows what else they may be doing with your IP address and it MAY NOT BE YOU. Go to somebody's yard use their open Wifi and touch just one of the Top monitored files and they'll get on the monitor list.
Hate your neighbor? use their Wifi to torrent a bunch of movies currently out in theaters. Six strikes...they probably won't even realize it is the Wifi before being banned by the local monopoly. (In my area both ISPs signed up with the content Mafia so you are probably banned from internet almost completely.)
Does anybody think it is time to start connecting their neighborhoods on their own?
I concur. You will likely need integration or migration so the unix skill set will be more important. Find a good unix person - you know unix you don't know windows.
Try to find somebody who is willing to learn it and simply give them time to get trained on it themselves (plus a budget for books or whatever.) Somebody who likes working around proprietary linux drivers and other black box trouble makers will be somewhat prepared. Besides, if you chuck the windows boxes someday you have a unix admin and not somebody to lay off, if you get more windows boxes then you have a unix person who can help others migrate.
SCIENCE lessons are for SCIENCE. You are not talking about science if you are talking about something that is NOT SCIENCE! 1) Mythology is not the teachers' expertise or job
2) Who say's they'd do that competently? So, we have to make teachers learn that too? Which theological mythology should they teach? Creation mythologies are part of nearly every religion. "both sides" doesn't cover it.
3) The debate is not a science "debate" and even the word debate itself is risky in being applied to how science works. Science is about building consensus of other scientists; eventually, by independent falsification tests - and yes, full consensus is not required to move forward but the "debate" process doesn't resemble what that word is used for today.
4) Science is NOT about debate nor is it about including ALL sides of an issue as if they deserve equal footing/presentation -- FLAT EARTH theory gets ZERO time in Earth Science and it should. You are confusing the USA "news" media with science. USA "news" puts ignorant morons on equal footing with Einsteins; before long they'll make the two wrestle it out (if they do not just go to 1 side before that. Fox "News" is almost there but I could see them adding wresting anyway.) Sponsored by Brawndo.
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Look at the statistics. Most the people in the ER are fall related injuries, and very few are bicycle falls or accidents. Standing up high on something being a huge one as well as slipping and falling in the bathroom.
I used to ride plenty, I've fallen a bit and I did it in the WINTER on the roads with the snow and ice. That is some risky shit to do, especially in the USA. I really have a hard time understanding how so many people fall and hit their head. Did we lose the genes we used to have where one instinctively used their arms and position in a fall to prevent head injury? Perhaps these helmet people should stop having children?
I've had minor injuries to my limbs, doing their job - protecting my head and my body.
Perhaps people should all try out running a bike at full speed into a boat launch at their local lake? That can be fun, probably educational.
I never did that much and now I don't at all... but I remember how miserable drivers can make things. I've almost been killed by cell phone people or mothers messing with the kids. The city and police ...the culture is just not friendly. I've been threatened with tickets by cops for breaking the law because I go AGAINST traffic. I am alive because I was able to see the distracted moron headed my way - at least if I was hit and lived I could remember what the car looked like and the plate numbers. I seriously do not know why they think it is safer to make bikes go with traffic; it makes some things less convenient for the biker but in a hostile environment it is worth it.
If you want to murder somebody, find a way to get them on a bicycle.
Exit polling is highly effective as it was being done for decades and still is in many places to detect problems; some even call elections from it and just use the paper as a kind of verification process.
But in the USA, exit polling was smeared so bad and the public so ignorant it was outlawed in no time without much resistance. There is no reason they made such a huge and unjustified move other than current or future corruption plans. I think large enough fraud schemes were at risk of exposure and that is why it was killed.
Any new system that WORKED would threaten corruption and naturally the corrupt would strongly oppose it. Just like real news that keeps citizens properly informed gets whistle blower heroes persecuted and wikileaks...
You must be new to politics. Fixing non-existent problems they can't prove exist is a dead give away. duh!
The complex rules and regulations on voting coming from the proponents of Voter IDs are where the true motives become clear-- the devil is in the details. Never trust a politician's summarization. Do you trust marketing claims? Probably, they hire marketing firms to sell you both.
How about this: You have a great popular video game; everybody wants it, but it includes a Sony-like DRM rootkit backdoor into your computer. Some people will install the game and weaken their systems while others will find out about the details and oppose it.
The sole purpose as their moves show is to PREVENT LEGIT VOTERS. It won't outlaw minorities voting, that would be illegal and unpopular-- but it can make sure it is extra difficult and harass demographics that typically vote against them. This is easy for the GOP to do as there are so many minority groups who are against them they can single them out easily. The DFL would as well except they lack such easy to spot targets that do not overlap into their supporters.
Nothing new. You know when the culture is going down the tubes when pointing out the obvious is so controversial you get condemned and punished for it.
The emperor has no magic underwear.
For generations we've used old technology based on FREE energy. We must start solving the problem and do a little suffering if we are going to ever transition without huge disasters.
ALSO, realistically FREE energy costs less than actual energy production (green or nuclear,) it only becomes "even" when collection, processing, distribution and most importantly, limited supplies demand higher prices.
What is FREE energy? Free energy is harvesting stored energy - such as millions of years of solar power stored chemically in the ground or the cosmic forces that created uranium. Horribly inefficient processes that have TIME on their side.
Either we go more direct and lose the benefits of TIME with solar at greater cost, go 1 level removed (wind, wave, bio) or find a better source and technique for cosmic power extraction (uranium peaked already.) Oh, I see little mention of tidal power which is gravity power. Geothermal is part cosmic and part solar. Given how we don't want to give up the free ride, I'd think we'd be investing a ton in finding the next "atomic battery." We've not put much money into fusion, other nuclear, or geothermal.
Make a real impact beyond your mortality, stop selfishly cranking out babies!
DNT is a starting point (an egg) it could grow into something useful or die. Failure is not "egg on your face" because you have to take the 1st step for the possibilities to open up.
One possible solution:
Politicians pass a law saying how ad corps must respect DNT. It is far less likely to pass such a law without the technology in place; they have a hard time making industry implement any features.
It is easier to charge the public more or ban something wasteful like children's balloons than it is to get the military or industry to do anything. Remember, the military and industry have a history of KILLING PEOPLE rather than change their ways - and you want them to change over a small resource supply problem? The military complex can't even stop wasting money when we run out of money.
The majority of voting yanks are wankers. Those who do not vote do not matter.
The half that vote has severely limited choices and are misinformed most are probably wankers.
I'm a yank but I'm in the minority; the voting informed who are not wankers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5OWRRJh-PI
Your rights exist outside the constitution; it does not GIVE you your rights! The people must fight to exercise them and maintain them. The founders knew this, see "unalienable rights" (not in the constitution BTW.)
The ammendments restrict government powers from infringing on some of your rights; they never gave you rights. You have rights even if you are punished for exercising them. People drank what they wanted because that is their right and they defied government until prohibition was finally repealed; and all that did is prevent persecution of people exercising their right to drink what they wanted.
The constitution does not give you ANY privacy. People think they have a right to some privacy and as a result we have a small list of weak laws protecting that; none grant any rights, they only weakly defend them.
Any state with a law about identifying marks on the ballots which many states have because of a past history of paying for votes by looking for special identification marks should have a reasonable judge interpret (use their brain) that state identification marks make it far easier. The whole point of those past anti-corruption laws was not to ban people from drawing doodles on ballots but to prevent conspiracies that DID HAPPEN to undermine democracy! Having your government place unique doodles on your ballot for you may technically get around those old laws but for human brains who can THINK it is nothing but a childishly simple legal hack that should not be allowed. This is one of the reasons we have too many overly long, complex laws - a literal minded legal system is too stupid to function.
The judge is correct in saying Federal law has little to say about this; unfortunately, the states control elections so its a hard battle to repair and then defend democracy x 50.
Amusing idea but not how it works. You can migrate people to new hashes easily and that is what they did. Simply look up in a new table and if there is no hash you use the old hash and if it works then you hash the password into the new table. Eventually everybody who uses the service is migrated. Unless they used an idiotic system they couldn't possibly get user passwords but they always get them as input to generate the hash.
Mitt Romney is not so self made, you have your facts wrong. His father was a CEO of a car company then Governor of Michigan and not a migrant farmer. Rich politically connected parents go a LONG LONG way to helping somebody with some talent go really far. Won't go into ethics because they have no place in business; everything is fair game as long as you are not caught.
If you take an outside expert and place politicians by their words or actions using a uniform test and a placement system that is not childishly simplistic... you get this interesting chart from the best political website on earth:
http://politicalcompass.org/uselection2008
http://politicalcompass.org/uselection2012
Notice where McCain was and where Obama ended up (also remember in 2008 Obama was more talk because there wasn't much of a record to place him. Everybody shifts quite a bit from talk vs action. Sadly the site doesn't do charts on both, but does tend to use action over talk when possible.)
Most theories are wrong. So we shouldn't like theories because they are wrong most the time? Conspiracy theories are common, proven and every bit as legitimate as other theories - most of what the FBI does is investigate criminal conspiracies. Clearly they are not so poor as to devote a whole federal police task force to dealing with.
The problem is with people who cling onto a theory and make up new theories to keep the old one going -- more like creative writing or brainstorming. The conspiracy theory can be totally reasonable but like any theory it can be lumped together with a whole lot of unreasonable theories. This is when the theory becomes a belief and a religious like defensive behavior invokes imaginative thinking. In this society we have somehow decided that conspiracy theories are automatically a lower class of theory. They are not and there is no logical reason why they should be. you prove they are lesser theories as you believe they are.
Politically related theories always involve MULTIPLE PEOPLE and therefore they are almost all going to be conspiracy theories. Politics brings in a lot of emotions and religious defensiveness. Look at global warming and how a really strong non-political theory is attacked by politics. Luckily, being a scientific theory there are no experts willing to risk their reputation by making up crazy defenses (or feeling they need to do so) but instead the opposition is making up the crazy stories to attack it even going so far as to try strawman attacks by lumping made up claims onto the science - like how the head of GM claims incorrectly that scientists claimed we'd be under water by now. I don't know of any such claims; he must have wanted to misunderstand 100 years to be 10 years or something like that.
Some things are beyond normal people. Physics. yes. Programming? no. anybody can.
Better question is can anybody become a GREAT programmer? no.
Then there is the part about proper education and motivation. Even with motivation, not every kind of mind has an effective learning method towards the goal they want to reach. We don't know the mind well enough to provide the education some people need; we require people to adapt to generally a 1-size fits all approach where the educators themselves are almost always the types who succeed the BEST at the current method, so naturally, they have a bias for it and may even judge others by the metric which worked so well on themselves. It deflates your ego and undermines your accomplishments to think that you just lucked into a model that was better suited to you. It feels much nicer to believe you are just better than others and have tangible proof to back it up (even if it is actually unproven.)
You can now be shot in the head and they know how to teach you to relearn many things that wasn't possible years ago; the process has advanced. Your brain could be trained to do anything most likely because of all the extreme examples of what it is capable of doing. We just don't know how to do it and won't figure it out for a long long time. If we did, we'd have big problems with formalized brainwashing that make stuff like Fox News look pitiful.
Getting Classic ported and working on Rosetta was probably deemed to be not worth the cost involved.
Rosetta was bought from a 3rd party and Apple didn't own it. I figured the acquisition of that company by IBM (if I remember correctly) could be the reason they dropped renewing it; or the costs involved or maybe the new owners didn't want that tech being used to run PPC on Intel...
Apple is still not nice about upgrades.
Who said some mega corp couldn't create a private closed network to hijack the internet AND CHARGE FOR IT? XBox Live is just that. It is the old AOL over DSL scheme but runs on 1 niche device.
The cell phones are only a step behind that... People will freak when Apple makes iCloud the only online network for the iPhone and charge a fee to access it.... oh wait, nobody would pay for that and the iPhone would die. So why did XBox pull it off?
Problem is reality is complex especially when you add politicians. An ID is not about the concept!! It is all about the IMPLEMENTATION, I'm surprised computer people are not immune from falling for these tricks...
You should have a password to secure your computer. Sounds simple, "sure I'm for that!" you say. But how does one store the password? in plain text? How does one enter it? on screen keyboard? showing the text you typed on screen? speaking the password? Should we let anything be a password, like 1 character? Say our design is perfect; but then we have BUGs in the software... IMPLEMENTATION all that really matters.
Politicians use concepts, ideals, smokescreens to HIDE the IMPLEMENTATION which shows their true motives. YOU ARE NAIVE if you think that every implementation problem is just incompetence because you drink that whole "government is incompetent" cool aid - that is their best defense!!! (notice how the ones that preach that the most usually generate more incompetence?? wake up.) Implement horrible policies blame disclosures on incompetence (either for the disclosure or to disavow/distance) and talk about how you are for ideals and a greater utopia etc.
The truth is the republicans are using the fact the democrats have easily identifiable demographic groups to DISCRIMINATE against them and subvert democracy. It is the definition of anti-democratic and should be considered treason in any democracy (it does more harm than leaking a secret or aiding the enemy.) Any lawyer might be fooled by their logic games but a reasonable and informed person can clearly see what they are doing.
There is not a huge number of illegals voting. That claim is unsubstantiated and they've failed in the past when they've tried. But naturally, after they kick out a bunch of legal voters they'll claim the lower numbers are a result of these illegals being stopped - again, without any proof. DEMAND EVIDENCE. don't make policy out of ignorance.
TFA is stupid; however, it does raise an interesting idea. QR codes used to store the serial number on the bills might be easier to scan than the numbers which already can be OCR'd. So that doesn't gain you anything.
How about Digital Signatures? PGP the money!
QR codes then make a lot of sense so any smart phone could ID phoney money.
Yes, somebody could copy the signature; but if it is unique to each bill it would require somebody to copy MANY signatures.
As more devices automatically scanned the cash duplicates would be caught more. Currently, we have serial numbers which are just as useless since they can just randomly be made up but we still have them because they prove useful in many situations. Using encryption you make it harder to generate new ones and by using QR codes you make it faster and easier to spot duplicates.
Voter ID being a reasonable idea has nothing to do with it's SOLE PURPOSE of bringing back poll taxes, intimidation and intelligence tests. Naturally, plenty of lying is being done by the Republicans and those who want to believe the lies are fine with looking the other way. The problem is the Democrats have easily identifiable demographics like Blacks, youth, and minorities and the Republicans do not have any easily identifiable demographic. (white men? nope. both sides have them. wealthy? nope. there are only a few of them. but they could be stopped from buying elections... )
Voter ID LAWS are creating poll taxes or forcing a bureaucratic intelligence and patience test to get that free ID. They place locations strategically to make it difficult and a TON of other things you can find. Regulations involving the use of the ID make it extremely difficult for certain people. For example, closing the polls during SUNDAY except for the military because black people vote more on Sunday and the military lean Republican (I'm not making this up it is being attempted for THIS election.)
The excuse they use? Dead people voting. It is rather easy to look up the death numbers between election day and when the voter roles are made. It does not amount to that many possible votes; not to mention the paper trails which could have been investigated and turned into a scandal but never are because there is no scandal. Even if it was a minor case it would provide political cover for the GOP. Yes, anti-immigrant talk is always heavily used but that is a typical inflammatory rhetoric used all the time; it is not a big problem (perhaps in some backward states it might be but not in my state; however, that doesn't stop the hype despite it being idiotic to use it in many states.)
The group which rarely votes leans strongly to the Democrats and have for a century. I've heard many times over decades of GOP staff admitting low turn out helps them so they'll even publicly say they wish for RAIN on election day and strongly oppose more polling hours. Many also openly wish that "lower class" people shouldn't be allowed to vote; which is more likely economic prejudice than their anti-democracy strategies.
If you want real democracy you must have the courage to risk undermining your power. That especially goes to both parties who prevent real debates, intelligent voting systems, or big reforms like ideas from parliamentary systems.
have a machine do it quicker!
Spam filters are not so bright but they are doing something SIMPLE compared with what the insurance companies WILL someday try to employ. The success rate can be quite low and still make it highly profitable to deploy.
Your profile can be impacted by things that make no sense; you might simply TALK about food or talk about failing to lose weight and even though you may be quoting somebody else the machine will adjust your rank. Also, just like the simplistic MIT student project, the info about your "friends" on facebook can be used to determine things with better than chance odds-- like if you are not openly gay the student project claimed to be able to guess that with high accuracy based on your friends. You have a lot of fat unhealthy friends??
Since insurance KNOWS YOUR HEALTH by your medical bills; your friends and family you spend time with may also have insurance plans with the same company and that can be used against you as well. (They can already use your family against you.) Outside the company there are privacy laws I'm sure they can circumvent using a credit-rating like health score or something that summarizes without technically disclosing private information. This is less important today because insurance companies are so good at legally screwing their customers out of the insurance coverage they paid for.... plug 1 hole and they'll find another.
Once monitored, who knows what else they may be doing with your IP address and it MAY NOT BE YOU. Go to somebody's yard use their open Wifi and touch just one of the Top monitored files and they'll get on the monitor list.
Hate your neighbor? use their Wifi to torrent a bunch of movies currently out in theaters. Six strikes...they probably won't even realize it is the Wifi before being banned by the local monopoly. (In my area both ISPs signed up with the content Mafia so you are probably banned from internet almost completely.)
Does anybody think it is time to start connecting their neighborhoods on their own?
I concur.
You will likely need integration or migration so the unix skill set will be more important. Find a good unix person - you know unix you don't know windows.
Try to find somebody who is willing to learn it and simply give them time to get trained on it themselves (plus a budget for books or whatever.) Somebody who likes working around proprietary linux drivers and other black box trouble makers will be somewhat prepared. Besides, if you chuck the windows boxes someday you have a unix admin and not somebody to lay off, if you get more windows boxes then you have a unix person who can help others migrate.
Agreed. However our society doesn't seem to value scientists much either and that label isn't being abused like engineer.
SCIENCE lessons are for SCIENCE. You are not talking about science if you are talking about something that is NOT SCIENCE!
1) Mythology is not the teachers' expertise or job
2) Who say's they'd do that competently? So, we have to make teachers learn that too? Which theological mythology should they teach? Creation mythologies are part of nearly every religion. "both sides" doesn't cover it.
3) The debate is not a science "debate" and even the word debate itself is risky in being applied to how science works. Science is about building consensus of other scientists; eventually, by independent falsification tests - and yes, full consensus is not required to move forward but the "debate" process doesn't resemble what that word is used for today.
4) Science is NOT about debate nor is it about including ALL sides of an issue as if they deserve equal footing/presentation -- FLAT EARTH theory gets ZERO time in Earth Science and it should. You are confusing the USA "news" media with science. USA "news" puts ignorant morons on equal footing with Einsteins; before long they'll make the two wrestle it out (if they do not just go to 1 side before that. Fox "News" is almost there but I could see them adding wresting anyway.)
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