I bet they build a huge DB of all this information and try and develop a neural net type system that's able to classify images. This way they populate the model with data for free. Machine processing of images to find pr0n for instance would be very big business and something that has been tried before with little success. It seems the 'how much pink is in the image' algorithm is not reliable - seriously I read that was tried once at some ISP.
I personally would feel better knowing that they are actually caring for the old film and not letting it just rot in some warehouse.
On a contentious note, does anybody else think it's odd that while they're cleaning up and lovingly restoring ST from the 60s the film of the Apollo missions from the same era has probably been lost? What does that say about what is more important?
Guessing the date would make for a good slashdot sweepstake game. Dollar in, pick a date and see who gets lucky. If I were playing I'd stear clear of January but then again I've never won anything in my life.
I can't wait for when you search "AOL" in Google and it pops up that new malware screen Google are doing to warn people before going to a dodgy site.
(And actually, while I'm on this topic, can anyone disable that new Google warning. On Safari/OSX I don't care about 'bad sites'. It's embarrassing when you're installing your clients software and need a serial heh heh)
well done for putting these links up. I've seen them all before but hopefully a few will learn something and not resort to kneejerk reactions. Personally I find the/. crowd pretty scary when it comes to info like this. As a psychologist I like to see it as cognitive dissonance at work and hope you understand that's where all the name-calling type stuff comes from.
I don't know what to say. Physical withdrawals from skunk are well known - at least by users - which contradict the MJ isn't physically addictive idea that has common currency. I am not repeating lies, I am recounting my experience. Tell you what: smoke 1/2oz of high THC skunk per week for six years and see how you feel about what you think is true then. I know it's not heroin (I have a couple of close friends that were on H who finally and heroically kicked it), I know it's not cocaine (my gf used to be a 4g a day girl back in the days when we met) and so on. This is not like having a bit of a toke with friends when you can.
So seriously, I come from a drug culture, and never peddle government bullshit. But I do know that myself, and dozens of other heavy users that I know thru an internet site for people with drug problems will tell you - THC causes physical withdrawals.
Unless you've used it at that level I don't see how you can know better.
According to the 1999 World Health Organization (WHO) report, the total number of actual diagnosed AIDS cases on the African continent is about equal to the total for AIDS in America even though Africa, with its 650 million people, has more than two times the population of the USA. (61) Africa is often cited as a worst case example of what could happen in America despite figures that demonstrate that 99.5% of Africans do not have AIDS, and among Africans who test HIV positive, 97% do not have AIDS. (62)
Unlike in the United States, AIDS in Africa may be diagnosed based on four clinical symptoms -- fever, involuntary loss of 10% of normal body weight, persistent cough, and diarrhea -- and HIV tests are not required. (63) The four clinical AIDS symptoms are identical to those associated with conditions that run rampant on the African continent such as malaria, tuberculosis, parasitic infections, the effects of malnutrition, and unsanitary drinking and bathing water. These symptoms are the result of poverty and other problems that have troubled Africa and other developing areas of the world for many decades.
The idea that AIDS originated in Africa remains popular although there has never been scientific or epidemiological evidence to substantiate this notion. News reports suggesting that HIV began in Africa as Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) are based on elaborate speculation about species-jumping viruses rather than reliable evidence.
SIV induces only flu like symptoms in some experimental laboratory monkeys and does not cause any of the 29 official AIDS-defining illnesses. Unlike HIV infection which is said to cause illness only years after exposure and despite the presence of protective antibodies, SIV will cause illness within days of infection or not at all, and wild monkeys retain SIV antibodies throughout their lives without ever becoming ill. Only monkeys in unnatural circumstances -- lab animals with undeveloped immune systems who are injected with large quantities of SIV -- become ill. (65)
How does a RV - essentially a bit of RNA (no cell walls) - attack a white cell? No one understands.
So one guy hijacked a whole branch of medical research, and everyone else just followed him. I don't buy it.
Science does make mistakes like this from time to time. But it's all out there - research him.
If that's true, then you're just flat out wrong about HIV not being present in AIDS patients.
HIV is found in most AIDS patients but not all. And then you have to think about the validity of the HIV test itself - is it valid? It doesn't appear to be. It works but detecting antibodies to the HIV RV itself but will always false positive if the blood sample is not diluted 400:1. And why the antibodies anyway? The inventor of the PCR test (used in HIV testing ) himself doesn't believe the link between HIV and AIDS. He's called Kary Mullis - check him out too.
because it would take a book to do it. I made a short offhand comment and then thought I should defend it as it is very important. Briefly, there are problems with HIV/AIDS hypothesis which are subtle but crucial. Do some research on Dr Robert Gallo and see how he hijacked the research in an unscientific way and how things developed from there.
First point: I think we're just quibbling about a word.
Second point: I know how these things work it's just the causality HIV-->AIDS that seems to have no supporting evidence. The whole thing is unexplained. 20 years of research has found no connecting mechanism between the two things. This is always overlooked in all of the hysteria. How does a tiny retrovirus do that damage? Nobody knows at all.
Examine the history of how HIV was labelled as the culprit by Dr Robert Gallo. If you understand science you should see that it is very unscientific (no peer review, stolen work, etc) and this sensationalism has caused AIDS research to go off on completely the wrong tangent.
Actually that's a common misperception about marajuana. It is physically addictive and heavy users experience shakes,sweats and all sorts in withdrawal. It's possibly due to larger quantites of THC present in modern weed - but it is definitely physically addictive. Trust me, I was there till last year and know many, many people who have suffered in the same way.
No it is. In a sample from a viral victims blood or cells there should be a significant amount of virus present that explains the breakdown of the system. If someone died of flu this would be the case. Why not HIV?
If you read the link and actually cared about this subject you'd see that malnutrition is also a big factor. Not to mention AIDS tests are not carried out on most African 'AIDS victims'. Have you heard of the word 'glib'?
Slashdot Mirror
Sure, that's why they're doing it isn't it?
I bet they build a huge DB of all this information and try and develop a neural net type system that's able to classify images. This way they populate the model with data for free. Machine processing of images to find pr0n for instance would be very big business and something that has been tried before with little success. It seems the 'how much pink is in the image' algorithm is not reliable - seriously I read that was tried once at some ISP.
Is it me or is the server getting a bit slashdotted?
Typical though, the slashdot crowd turn up and only half can get a partner.
yes, hate to say it, but it's true. An offsite IMAP server would have saved the day there.
and, if you lose a client because of phone fault for part of the day they were going to leave anyway.
I personally would feel better knowing that they are actually caring for the old film and not letting it just rot in some warehouse.
On a contentious note, does anybody else think it's odd that while they're cleaning up and lovingly restoring ST from the 60s the film of the Apollo missions from the same era has probably been lost? What does that say about what is more important?
Guessing the date would make for a good slashdot sweepstake game. Dollar in, pick a date and see who gets lucky. If I were playing I'd stear clear of January but then again I've never won anything in my life.
What gold and silver?
(Peak oilists and survivalists will laugh
Or what about when 'bad' used to equal 'good'.
Michael could have sung
"I'm mal, I'm mal, you know I'm really mal"
Or something...
I was joking really. But there are clients and there are 'clients'.
I can't wait for when you search "AOL" in Google and it pops up that new malware screen Google are doing to warn people before going to a dodgy site.
(And actually, while I'm on this topic, can anyone disable that new Google warning. On Safari/OSX I don't care about 'bad sites'. It's embarrassing when you're installing your clients software and need a serial heh heh)
well done for putting these links up. I've seen them all before but hopefully a few will learn something and not resort to kneejerk reactions. Personally I find the /. crowd pretty scary when it comes to info like this. As a psychologist I like to see it as cognitive dissonance at work and hope you understand that's where all the name-calling type stuff comes from.
I don't know what to say. Physical withdrawals from skunk are well known - at least by users - which contradict the MJ isn't physically addictive idea that has common currency. I am not repeating lies, I am recounting my experience. Tell you what: smoke 1/2oz of high THC skunk per week for six years and see how you feel about what you think is true then. I know it's not heroin (I have a couple of close friends that were on H who finally and heroically kicked it), I know it's not cocaine (my gf used to be a 4g a day girl back in the days when we met) and so on. This is not like having a bit of a toke with friends when you can.
So seriously, I come from a drug culture, and never peddle government bullshit. But I do know that myself, and dozens of other heavy users that I know thru an internet site for people with drug problems will tell you - THC causes physical withdrawals.
Unless you've used it at that level I don't see how you can know better.
I know this is an odd story. AIDS is a very odd story. I clipped this from this website:
http://aliveandwell.org/
According to the 1999 World Health Organization (WHO) report, the total number of actual diagnosed AIDS cases on the African continent is about equal to the total for AIDS in America even though Africa, with its 650 million people, has more than two times the population of the USA. (61) Africa is often cited as a worst case example of what could happen in America despite figures that demonstrate that 99.5% of Africans do not have AIDS, and among Africans who test HIV positive, 97% do not have AIDS. (62)
Unlike in the United States, AIDS in Africa may be diagnosed based on four clinical symptoms -- fever, involuntary loss of 10% of normal body weight, persistent cough, and diarrhea -- and HIV tests are not required. (63) The four clinical AIDS symptoms are identical to those associated with conditions that run rampant on the African continent such as malaria, tuberculosis, parasitic infections, the effects of malnutrition, and unsanitary drinking and bathing water. These symptoms are the result of poverty and other problems that have troubled Africa and other developing areas of the world for many decades.
The idea that AIDS originated in Africa remains popular although there has never been scientific or epidemiological evidence to substantiate this notion. News reports suggesting that HIV began in Africa as Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) are based on elaborate speculation about species-jumping viruses rather than reliable evidence.
SIV induces only flu like symptoms in some experimental laboratory monkeys and does not cause any of the 29 official AIDS-defining illnesses. Unlike HIV infection which is said to cause illness only years after exposure and despite the presence of protective antibodies, SIV will cause illness within days of infection or not at all, and wild monkeys retain SIV antibodies throughout their lives without ever becoming ill. Only monkeys in unnatural circumstances -- lab animals with undeveloped immune systems who are injected with large quantities of SIV -- become ill. (65)
http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/books.htm
Here are some books that explain the position. Complex arguments cannot always be explained in soundbite analysis.
That's just silly.
How does a RV - essentially a bit of RNA (no cell walls) - attack a white cell? No one understands.
e ates/1993/mullis-autobio.html
So one guy hijacked a whole branch of medical research, and everyone else just followed him. I don't buy it.
Science does make mistakes like this from time to time. But it's all out there - research him.
If that's true, then you're just flat out wrong about HIV not being present in AIDS patients.
HIV is found in most AIDS patients but not all. And then you have to think about the validity of the HIV test itself - is it valid? It doesn't appear to be. It works but detecting antibodies to the HIV RV itself but will always false positive if the blood sample is not diluted 400:1. And why the antibodies anyway? The inventor of the PCR test (used in HIV testing ) himself doesn't believe the link between HIV and AIDS. He's called Kary Mullis - check him out too.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laur
because it would take a book to do it. I made a short offhand comment and then thought I should defend it as it is very important. Briefly, there are problems with HIV/AIDS hypothesis which are subtle but crucial. Do some research on Dr Robert Gallo and see how he hijacked the research in an unscientific way and how things developed from there.
First point: I think we're just quibbling about a word.
Second point: I know how these things work it's just the causality HIV-->AIDS that seems to have no supporting evidence. The whole thing is unexplained. 20 years of research has found no connecting mechanism between the two things. This is always overlooked in all of the hysteria. How does a tiny retrovirus do that damage? Nobody knows at all.
Examine the history of how HIV was labelled as the culprit by Dr Robert Gallo. If you understand science you should see that it is very unscientific (no peer review, stolen work, etc) and this sensationalism has caused AIDS research to go off on completely the wrong tangent.
are you joking or being serious?
why is that a troll? It's all getting a bit medieval round here.
Actually that's a common misperception about marajuana. It is physically addictive and heavy users experience shakes,sweats and all sorts in withdrawal. It's possibly due to larger quantites of THC present in modern weed - but it is definitely physically addictive. Trust me, I was there till last year and know many, many people who have suffered in the same way.
No it is. In a sample from a viral victims blood or cells there should be a significant amount of virus present that explains the breakdown of the system. If someone died of flu this would be the case. Why not HIV?
go for it annakin - I like the way you think
Hey annikin - isn't it frustrating when you supply some good info and the debate stops. At least we're on the same page :-)
If you read the link and actually cared about this subject you'd see that malnutrition is also a big factor. Not to mention AIDS tests are not carried out on most African 'AIDS victims'. Have you heard of the word 'glib'?
Good questions. You could try reading this for more info:
http://www.virusmyth.net/aids/
It's a complex issue - good luck, and thanks for not being rude!