one of the best tools in fighting financial fraud is people's behavior patterns. I work for a big bank and have several applications which are used for pattern recognition both across a business unit, and across a single customer's account. If you buy something in Rome, than in Dallas Texas, then in Istambul, your account is going to be flagged... But what if someone had your card information plus your geographic habits? There are plenty of opportunities to make fraudulent credit card usage seem much more legitimate to an algorithm, all that is missing is social information... for now.
They should invent some like speech to text then text to speech interface, one fast enough to work in real time then people would be able "talk text" one another in real time as if they were having a conversation with spoken words instead of text characters. Man, if someone invented that, it would revolutionize communication. SOMEONE TEXT ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL STAT!
I buy computers on overstock.com very often...they have corporate small form factor desktops they are very stable and very cheap: ~ $150 for a P4 3.0 and come with a licensed copy of XP so it really is right for gifting PCs to kids and tech-illiterates in my life... I look at these PCs probably 4x a month to see if one is on deep clearance, but now I don't have to... since half the sites I go to, they conveniently show me the current price of the PCs I care about in the form of a personalized overstock banner.
I am a consumer whore, but man I really appreciate this kind of advertising: showing me relevant marketing information that I find useful, instead of randomized results based on content
Yes, there are lots of people who still can read Arabic, but not the general population, I cannot read notes behind photos of my grandparents, I cannot read registration papers of our ancestral family home... It was a political decision back then, justified by the ease of learning Latin alphabet, but more harm done than benefits.
Nonsense. If you really care about those things, you can hire a translator fairly cheaply to translate them for you. The fact that you haven't bothered means that those things have no real value to you. Losing information which you have some vague attachment to is a small price to pay for progress.
That is pretty ridiculous to say. Hire a translator every time you find an old photo, or an old graffiti or a love letter from great grand dad? I do agree that maybe "lose all written history" is a bit of an overstatement, but the truth is if our entire written language were replaced in a single generation, the fallout would be profound to the familial culture. I can look at a picture of my grandfather in uniform holding a newspaper that says "VE Day: IT'S ALL OVER" and it brings tears to my eyes. If when I found that picture it said IIIIJIJIJJIIIJJII I probably wouldn't think much of it, probably wouldn't even get it translated because I wouldn't have even known that it had an important meaning.
yeah, read the DSM diagnostic criteria. One of the Asperger critera is: "There is no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or in the development of age-appropriate self-help skills, adaptive behavior (other than in social interaction), and curiosity about the environment in childhood."
Please don't tell me what I do not understand about Autism. I understand the cultural impact, but I was speaking specifically about the literal diagnostic criteria, which you obviously have not read.
Can't help but point out that this wouldn't have happened if Sony hadn't decided to yank the Boot Other OS option.
why? Can somebody please explain? the linked site seems down so maybe that's what I'm missing.
because nobody uses mod-chips to pirate games, they only use them to boot linux and run homebrew, since computers are so expensive and PS3s are so cheap, this is the only option that some people have. There aren't many pieces of consumer electronics that can run linux, you know.
It has become fashionable among nerds to identify with Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of Rainman to the point anyone who is even remotely socially awkward or left brain oriented to be called autistic, followed by the implication that autism fills an important role in society. The reality is somewhat different. With a few famous exceptions, patients tend to have trouble taking care of themselves - many are profoundly disabled - while actual leaders in engineering, technology, and science tend to have normal mental health. (though many of them may be assholes, but that's another story)
Do you know anyone who is autistic? I think not. You are counteracting the bullshit of Rainman Autism with the bullshit of Gilbert Grape Autism. The truth is that like all people, most Autistics are somewhere in the middle. I am very involved in Adult Autistic skills classes (where we teach life skills and coping strategies), and my child is Autistic, most of his friends are Autistic (shocking I know, how can he have friends if he is a mouth foaming invalid).
I know it can be frustrating to people who don't identify as Autistic but who are most likely Autistic (Asperger) according to the DSM-IV criteria, which are plain text, very easy to read and apply. The truth is that Autism is a syndrome, in the literal definition of the word. A set of shared symptoms. As the traits that are part of the syndrome become more valued in our society, more people will identify with them, and see them as part of their core personality. The truth is, if you can't understand facial gestures, you don't make friends easily, you don't care what other people think, you grind on MMOs all day, and you have normal or above intellegence and language development, congratulations, you have the right to say that you have Asperger's... It is a voluntary club, and it is ok if you want to stay in the closet; but I find the people that are most annoyed by the Nerd Asperger boom, are the ones most likely to actually meet the criteria.
I am old school, diagnosed at age 4 because of severe language delays and self destructive repetitive behavior, draconian 1980s special ED, therapies, medication, all of that. As a grown-up I am not a "leader" of science and industry, but I have a what I consider to be a white collar, lucrative software development job, a wife, kids, the house in suburbia, the SUV with leather seats, the whole 9 yards.
No, the MRI images the brain, it does not test for imaginary poison, that is the most idiotic thing I have read today. The ONLY study that linked Autism to vaccines was debunked, it was an obvious greed grab by a criminal, who was in fact a greedy pharma wannabee... Andrew Wakefield, the criminal fake scientist started this bullshit because he had already started the patent process for his own "safer" version of the vaccine.
People were not diagnosed before because the classification is fairly new. Because there was no industry around it, because there was no Americans with Disability act to force schools to do something for students with learning disabilities, and because our society was a little bit different. The 1980s saw a culture where "being in therapy" no longer held a stigma, and was often held in pop-culture as a positive thing, so is it any wonder that people who grew up in this new culture with a positive attitude toward psychology had their kids evaluated, whereas the people of the 1950s who grew up in a culture where mental illness was considered shameful did not?
You are right, many people were not diagnosed, at least not publicly... instead they were labeled "retarded" and shipped into group homes, or for the less "severe" they just had to deal with their differences in private.
School is very different than it was when we were kids (even if you are in your 20s).
Kindergarten is 7-8 hours with ONE recess break, often times no P.E. at all, and lunch is in a hushed lunchroom under strict low noise policy. And it gets even more structured in first grade.
So in this wonderful environment of compulsory silence, sitting still in your desk for 8 hours a day is it really a wonder that tons of kids are emotionally incompatible with school. I couldn't sit still in silence for 8 hours a day.
That isn't even counting homework. My son's friends (he is a FIRST GRADER) have 2+ hours of homework some nights, and at least 30 minutes every night. So 10 hours of school, 11 hours of sleep... He has 3 hours a day to eat, brush his teeth change his clothes, and oh maybe if he gets around to it play. 1 hour of playtime a day? For a small child?
I believe there is a strong case to say that childhood obesity and ADHD over medication are very obviously a product of our society's systematic removal of all childhood leisure time.
I get it, it's about conspicuous conservation. But Faux Green is pretty played out.
I don't think intelligent, efficient consumption will ever get played out. But to each their own.
I agree, but that is not what 99.99% of all "green" products are all about... [Hint] if the mantra is "buy this so you can be more environmentally friendly" then it is conspicuous conservation, and not actual conservation.
At my office everyone was trying to out-hybrid each other, and talking about all the money they would save. At 5 dollars a gallon it really seemed worth it to them to buy brand new hybrids.
I showed that at 10 dollars a gallon the civic hybrid finally paid for itself in the typical 5 year ownership term over the non-hybrid, nothing else even came close until you modeled gas at 11 dollars a gallon.
For kicks I modeled a 1976 Chevy Monte Carlo - a Giant Gas-wasting monster of a 2-seater. And showed that assuming you needed 150/month for ongoing maintenance, You could buy another one each year, fill it with 5 dollar gas all year, then set it on fire, using 10 gallons of gasoline before buying a new one... and it would still be significantly cheaper to own than a prius.
I get it, it's about conspicuous conservation. But Faux Green is pretty played out.
sending someone to college?? Student loans are one of the cheapest forms of debt, although if you plan on bankruptcy or default, then it is best to avoid student loans because they are protected from bankruptcy, but that is a pretty unethical, but mostly legal way to go about stealing money if your plan is to default.
Starting a business, on the other hand, nobody has a "need" to do. And it is not for the faint of heart or wallet. If you can't afford to lose it, then you should not risk it.
To learn how many people actually play the campaigns. I have treated every *craft game as multiplayer (or me vs AI) only from the first time I played any of them, I have played one or two missions ever and that was on the original SC, but I have logged hundreds upon hundreds of hours on these games.
I disagree, they pick and choose. At least State Universities are a 50/50 balance of corporation and government. The worst of each. They focus on profit (tuition, donations, merchandising. etc) and business statistics, but they can't fire people who don't perform, and they can't promote people who do.
qualifications for statement: Worked in business intelligence/data modeling for a Texas State Uni for 3 years while they paid my tuition, under bosses who couldn't boot a computer, with co-workers who couldn't be fired.
I, like most Americans (66%) don't live in a big city, I live in the suburbs. And my keys are sitting in the ignition of my Suburban right now...(although the car is in the garage) Oh and my SSID is "FREEINTERNET", but my passwords aren't open, and wireless is in the DMZ and can't (easily) access my wired network, so have fun hacking my wife's iPod or my blackberry, or the Wii... But again, I am not "Joe Consumer".
PSA: You are a bigot, stop using the word "Retarded" as an insult when you are trying to look intelligent, it is a disservice to the disability community.
Consumers don't care because they are not responsible, and because it won't fucking happen to them.
I could leave my keys in my unlocked car, leave my router open and my passwords on a sticky note on my desk and nothing would ever happen... But even if it did, my credit cards are insured, my car is insured. A bit of paperwork and a couple of days of hassle isn't going to stop consumers from not caring, ever.
Geeks see the headline and think "holy shit", non-geeks see the headline and think "I wonder if Lindsay Lohan is out of rehab yet".
Even without this hack, millions of home routers would be hackable, because they are open and have default password. What if I ran my own DNS server, logged in to my neighbor's router and pointed it to my DNS server, which contains whatever records I want it to? No exploits necessary, all it requires is that their router have the default password (which the article's hack also requires). Sure geek measures like using a DNS server other than the one your router provides would defeat that easily, but you know what? Geeks aren't the target.
So basically this is a more complicated way to do something that has ALWAYS been possible and easy to do on an open/default router. Wow, consumers should DEMAND their FIOS router get patched, oh the humanity.
*eyeroll* cause soooo many consumers are credit card hacked at their physical location, please.
Trying to get consumers to care about the SUPER SUPER remote chance that someone will wardrive hack their router is pretty stupid, especially when you can't convince them to stop giving their credit card number to any`one who happens to email them a bank-esque email.
My wife's netbook broke a few weeks before iPad launched and she was looking at getting one then: Wait, what? Hulu doesn't work on iPad, then what the heck is it for? Never mind, I'll just get another netbook. Sure I know that they have Hulu plus now, but for my wife who is more technical than some, but by no means a Slashgeek... Flash was a dealbreaker.
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one of the best tools in fighting financial fraud is people's behavior patterns. I work for a big bank and have several applications which are used for pattern recognition both across a business unit, and across a single customer's account. If you buy something in Rome, than in Dallas Texas, then in Istambul, your account is going to be flagged... But what if someone had your card information plus your geographic habits? There are plenty of opportunities to make fraudulent credit card usage seem much more legitimate to an algorithm, all that is missing is social information... for now.
They should invent some like speech to text then text to speech interface, one fast enough to work in real time then people would be able "talk text" one another in real time as if they were having a conversation with spoken words instead of text characters. Man, if someone invented that, it would revolutionize communication. SOMEONE TEXT ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL STAT!
I buy computers on overstock.com very often...they have corporate small form factor desktops they are very stable and very cheap: ~ $150 for a P4 3.0 and come with a licensed copy of XP so it really is right for gifting PCs to kids and tech-illiterates in my life... I look at these PCs probably 4x a month to see if one is on deep clearance, but now I don't have to... since half the sites I go to, they conveniently show me the current price of the PCs I care about in the form of a personalized overstock banner.
I am a consumer whore, but man I really appreciate this kind of advertising: showing me relevant marketing information that I find useful, instead of randomized results based on content
Yes, there are lots of people who still can read Arabic, but not the general population, I cannot read notes behind photos of my grandparents, I cannot read registration papers of our ancestral family home... It was a political decision back then, justified by the ease of learning Latin alphabet, but more harm done than benefits.
Nonsense. If you really care about those things, you can hire a translator fairly cheaply to translate them for you. The fact that you haven't bothered means that those things have no real value to you. Losing information which you have some vague attachment to is a small price to pay for progress.
That is pretty ridiculous to say. Hire a translator every time you find an old photo, or an old graffiti or a love letter from great grand dad? I do agree that maybe "lose all written history" is a bit of an overstatement, but the truth is if our entire written language were replaced in a single generation, the fallout would be profound to the familial culture. I can look at a picture of my grandfather in uniform holding a newspaper that says "VE Day: IT'S ALL OVER" and it brings tears to my eyes. If when I found that picture it said IIIIJIJIJJIIIJJII I probably wouldn't think much of it, probably wouldn't even get it translated because I wouldn't have even known that it had an important meaning.
yeah, read the DSM diagnostic criteria. One of the Asperger critera is: "There is no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or in the development of age-appropriate self-help skills, adaptive behavior (other than in social interaction), and curiosity about the environment in childhood."
Please don't tell me what I do not understand about Autism. I understand the cultural impact, but I was speaking specifically about the literal diagnostic criteria, which you obviously have not read.
Can't help but point out that this wouldn't have happened if Sony hadn't decided to yank the Boot Other OS option.
why? Can somebody please explain? the linked site seems down so maybe that's what I'm missing.
because nobody uses mod-chips to pirate games, they only use them to boot linux and run homebrew, since computers are so expensive and PS3s are so cheap, this is the only option that some people have. There aren't many pieces of consumer electronics that can run linux, you know.
It has become fashionable among nerds to identify with Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of Rainman to the point anyone who is even remotely socially awkward or left brain oriented to be called autistic, followed by the implication that autism fills an important role in society. The reality is somewhat different. With a few famous exceptions, patients tend to have trouble taking care of themselves - many are profoundly disabled - while actual leaders in engineering, technology, and science tend to have normal mental health. (though many of them may be assholes, but that's another story)
Do you know anyone who is autistic? I think not. You are counteracting the bullshit of Rainman Autism with the bullshit of Gilbert Grape Autism. The truth is that like all people, most Autistics are somewhere in the middle. I am very involved in Adult Autistic skills classes (where we teach life skills and coping strategies), and my child is Autistic, most of his friends are Autistic (shocking I know, how can he have friends if he is a mouth foaming invalid).
I know it can be frustrating to people who don't identify as Autistic but who are most likely Autistic (Asperger) according to the DSM-IV criteria, which are plain text, very easy to read and apply. The truth is that Autism is a syndrome, in the literal definition of the word. A set of shared symptoms. As the traits that are part of the syndrome become more valued in our society, more people will identify with them, and see them as part of their core personality. The truth is, if you can't understand facial gestures, you don't make friends easily, you don't care what other people think, you grind on MMOs all day, and you have normal or above intellegence and language development, congratulations, you have the right to say that you have Asperger's... It is a voluntary club, and it is ok if you want to stay in the closet; but I find the people that are most annoyed by the Nerd Asperger boom, are the ones most likely to actually meet the criteria.
I am old school, diagnosed at age 4 because of severe language delays and self destructive repetitive behavior, draconian 1980s special ED, therapies, medication, all of that. As a grown-up I am not a "leader" of science and industry, but I have a what I consider to be a white collar, lucrative software development job, a wife, kids, the house in suburbia, the SUV with leather seats, the whole 9 yards.
No, the MRI images the brain, it does not test for imaginary poison, that is the most idiotic thing I have read today. The ONLY study that linked Autism to vaccines was debunked, it was an obvious greed grab by a criminal, who was in fact a greedy pharma wannabee... Andrew Wakefield, the criminal fake scientist started this bullshit because he had already started the patent process for his own "safer" version of the vaccine.
People were not diagnosed before because the classification is fairly new. Because there was no industry around it, because there was no Americans with Disability act to force schools to do something for students with learning disabilities, and because our society was a little bit different. The 1980s saw a culture where "being in therapy" no longer held a stigma, and was often held in pop-culture as a positive thing, so is it any wonder that people who grew up in this new culture with a positive attitude toward psychology had their kids evaluated, whereas the people of the 1950s who grew up in a culture where mental illness was considered shameful did not?
You are right, many people were not diagnosed, at least not publicly... instead they were labeled "retarded" and shipped into group homes, or for the less "severe" they just had to deal with their differences in private.
Unfortunately caffeine is not a cure.
that is actually not true.
Caffiene is used by many adults to treat ADD even if it is subconscious. The research is still not quite there, but it has a solid basis.
School is very different than it was when we were kids (even if you are in your 20s).
Kindergarten is 7-8 hours with ONE recess break, often times no P.E. at all, and lunch is in a hushed lunchroom under strict low noise policy. And it gets even more structured in first grade.
So in this wonderful environment of compulsory silence, sitting still in your desk for 8 hours a day is it really a wonder that tons of kids are emotionally incompatible with school. I couldn't sit still in silence for 8 hours a day.
That isn't even counting homework. My son's friends (he is a FIRST GRADER) have 2+ hours of homework some nights, and at least 30 minutes every night. So 10 hours of school, 11 hours of sleep... He has 3 hours a day to eat, brush his teeth change his clothes, and oh maybe if he gets around to it play. 1 hour of playtime a day? For a small child?
I believe there is a strong case to say that childhood obesity and ADHD over medication are very obviously a product of our society's systematic removal of all childhood leisure time.
I get it, it's about conspicuous conservation. But Faux Green is pretty played out.
I don't think intelligent, efficient consumption will ever get played out. But to each their own.
I agree, but that is not what 99.99% of all "green" products are all about... [Hint] if the mantra is "buy this so you can be more environmentally friendly" then it is conspicuous conservation, and not actual conservation.
I used Edmunds Cost of ownership list.
At my office everyone was trying to out-hybrid each other, and talking about all the money they would save. At 5 dollars a gallon it really seemed worth it to them to buy brand new hybrids.
I showed that at 10 dollars a gallon the civic hybrid finally paid for itself in the typical 5 year ownership term over the non-hybrid, nothing else even came close until you modeled gas at 11 dollars a gallon.
For kicks I modeled a 1976 Chevy Monte Carlo - a Giant Gas-wasting monster of a 2-seater. And showed that assuming you needed 150/month for ongoing maintenance, You could buy another one each year, fill it with 5 dollar gas all year, then set it on fire, using 10 gallons of gasoline before buying a new one... and it would still be significantly cheaper to own than a prius.
I get it, it's about conspicuous conservation. But Faux Green is pretty played out.
It is not a blimp it is a rigid airship!
Hello Airplanes? It's blimps... congratulations you win.
-If you have not watched Archer, you have missed out.
sending someone to college?? Student loans are one of the cheapest forms of debt, although if you plan on bankruptcy or default, then it is best to avoid student loans because they are protected from bankruptcy, but that is a pretty unethical, but mostly legal way to go about stealing money if your plan is to default.
Starting a business, on the other hand, nobody has a "need" to do. And it is not for the faint of heart or wallet. If you can't afford to lose it, then you should not risk it.
To learn how many people actually play the campaigns. I have treated every *craft game as multiplayer (or me vs AI) only from the first time I played any of them, I have played one or two missions ever and that was on the original SC, but I have logged hundreds upon hundreds of hours on these games.
I disagree, they pick and choose. At least State Universities are a 50/50 balance of corporation and government. The worst of each. They focus on profit (tuition, donations, merchandising. etc) and business statistics, but they can't fire people who don't perform, and they can't promote people who do.
qualifications for statement: Worked in business intelligence/data modeling for a Texas State Uni for 3 years while they paid my tuition, under bosses who couldn't boot a computer, with co-workers who couldn't be fired.
d'oh broked link
Sorry about that
in 1899!!!
Obviously they don't work.
The obvious solution is RED LIGHT SPIKE STRIPS.
Severe tire damage has 3 awesome consequences:
1) no court proceedings
2) no appeals
3) stimulates local economy
I, like most Americans (66%) don't live in a big city, I live in the suburbs. And my keys are sitting in the ignition of my Suburban right now...(although the car is in the garage) Oh and my SSID is "FREEINTERNET", but my passwords aren't open, and wireless is in the DMZ and can't (easily) access my wired network, so have fun hacking my wife's iPod or my blackberry, or the Wii... But again, I am not "Joe Consumer".
PSA: You are a bigot, stop using the word "Retarded" as an insult when you are trying to look intelligent, it is a disservice to the disability community.
Consumers don't care because they are not responsible, and because it won't fucking happen to them.
I could leave my keys in my unlocked car, leave my router open and my passwords on a sticky note on my desk and nothing would ever happen... But even if it did, my credit cards are insured, my car is insured. A bit of paperwork and a couple of days of hassle isn't going to stop consumers from not caring, ever.
Geeks see the headline and think "holy shit", non-geeks see the headline and think "I wonder if Lindsay Lohan is out of rehab yet".
Even without this hack, millions of home routers would be hackable, because they are open and have default password. What if I ran my own DNS server, logged in to my neighbor's router and pointed it to my DNS server, which contains whatever records I want it to? No exploits necessary, all it requires is that their router have the default password (which the article's hack also requires). Sure geek measures like using a DNS server other than the one your router provides would defeat that easily, but you know what? Geeks aren't the target.
So basically this is a more complicated way to do something that has ALWAYS been possible and easy to do on an open/default router. Wow, consumers should DEMAND their FIOS router get patched, oh the humanity.
*eyeroll* cause soooo many consumers are credit card hacked at their physical location, please.
Trying to get consumers to care about the SUPER SUPER remote chance that someone will wardrive hack their router is pretty stupid, especially when you can't convince them to stop giving their credit card number to any`one who happens to email them a bank-esque email.
for 2 days until their credit card company refunds the money.
This is only a problem when a geek looks at it, the average consumer doesn't really care, and they are right to not care.
My wife's netbook broke a few weeks before iPad launched and she was looking at getting one then: Wait, what? Hulu doesn't work on iPad, then what the heck is it for? Never mind, I'll just get another netbook. Sure I know that they have Hulu plus now, but for my wife who is more technical than some, but by no means a Slashgeek... Flash was a dealbreaker.