Statistical analysis tells us that if we take a small subset of data we can make some pretty strong predictions about the general population. Therefore you don't need billions of records to make strong predictions.
The data is also out of date almost immediately as people do change so it's better to take small samples and analyse them than to try to gather all the data possible.
Also no one is average in fact when they calculated what an average PHYSICAL frame should be they found that no one was close to being average on more than one axis.
The only good reason to collect so much data about people is to recreate them for addition to the singularity when it comes, which I suppose is a noble goal but I'd prefer if they tried to make things better now.
I had a business selling G1 (Still an excellent form factor I hope they bring it back.) and I would Root and Superuser them and install custom Roms.
They were really amazing, the early Android modding scene had a lot of potential. 25% better battery life. 40% better performance. More customization options. Excellent GUIs.
But I ramble.
Anyway nowadays it's hard to Root and get SuperUser and I don't understand why.
It's actually put a lifespan on Android which is sad.
Now Android is like Facebook, constantly getting worse and losing sight of what made it better than alternatives.
I don't want to be one of those old people who think things were better in the past, give me something to work with.
I support bitcoin because I think it's innovative. I think there'a a lot of potential for an internet money free from a large organization or government control.
It doesn't bother me too much that I didn't get in "On The Ground Floor" because I see the people who invested or innovated as believers in a cause and innovators who will use their wealth to improve the system.
I think Bitcoin will rise again.
I also think there is too much talk about manipulation. People would need to intentionally lose money for it to be considered manipulation and people tend not to do that.
Also shorting doesn't necessarily lower the price of a stock or commodity. It just encourages behaviors to lower value which is why it's so tightly regulated. Selling short is no different than selling held value except for the person doing the selling and the organization that invests in their speculation.
It's sad to see Slashdotters not investing in bitcoin. It could be the golden goose which funds a lot of technological innovation if creative believers would get behind it.
It's particularly disturbing to consider right-wing nutjobs not investing in bitcoin, it's pretty much a wet dream for all those who believe in free markets and avoiding government intervention yet they're so skeptical they're not supporting their dreams coming true.
I'm pretty left leaning so I see a lot of potential for harm in a deflationary currency but I see a lot of potential to overturn the petrodollar and I think that's worth supporting.
When Japan entered the global market they had a reputation of creating shoddy products.
Then they worked hard and got a reputation as making some of the best products.
If Sony and the other Zaibatsu's can keep up this level of commitment to products they will destroy the built to break conspiracy and Japan will get more respect than ever for making great products which are well supported.
Life gets boring. I'm mentally pretty old due to some silly mental exercises I did while I was young and I'm not dreading death the way I was because of it.
He won't be extradited since it sets a precedent that NZ doesn't protect it's citizens (and especially business leaders) from foreign law enforcement.
America is setting the precedent that rights are something that your own citizens get and everyone else should just hang.
Fortunately Europe is saying the opposite, that people have global citizenship and rights which they will protect. Therefore if you're locating data remotely you choose Europe, as you do for a number of other decisions involving protecting you from governments.
This alone is pushing Europe ahead of the U.S. these days and is something they should have seriously thought about before reacting to 9/11 and ISIS but they didn't. So the U,S, has become a laughingstock as well as less competitive.
He has money and he's standing up for piracy and pirates in general.
He's hiring good lawyers and fighting the good fight. He might set some precedents that will be useful later.
He's just lucky in that he was already successful before they came after him so he can do a reasonable job on his defense. Most piracy cases are targetting people who can't afford to defend themselves so their defense is weak and the precedents set are scary and horrible.
I don't think Kim really cares about the money he'd get from this, but he's interested in setting precedents that are good for piracy in general and we should applaud him.
We need to send bacteria to earth like planets. This is the next big project and I hope the world gets behind it.
It will take dozens of years to reach those planets centuries to take hold and billions of years to evolve into intelligent life but we should make the effort to spread life and teraforming now.
He's friggen rich, no commitees, no government oversight, little respect for the common idiot.
DO NUCLEAR RIGHT. Even if it's just pebble bed or another of the safe ones it's still miles ahead of renewables.
And it creates GOOD jobs. Not manufacturing installation maintenance crap jobs but real jobs for 2nd tier geniuses.
It's frikken cheap, it's clean, it doesn't use a whole lot of scarce resources. What's the hold up Bill? Why invest in something that's already popular and being done by private companies and government. INNOVATE with your stupid foundation. INNOVATE.
You OWE US MORE THAN THIS for the companies you crushed and the open source you held back. INNOVATE YOU STUPID DONKEY CODE WRITING BUSINESS MONKEY!
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These fuckers are the enemy, they take our money to make their networks then exploit and punish us all for money.
They use dirty tactics to hurt the honest carriers.
Please move to a smaller, honest carrier. Vote with your wallet it makes a huge difference.
Conservatives in the U.S. are so stupid, they don't consider the actual value of the proposal they just look at the marketing.
No wonder the Republicans get so many votes they are super slick.
Not much has changed since Watergate.
Statistical analysis tells us that if we take a small subset of data we can make some pretty strong predictions about the general population. Therefore you don't need billions of records to make strong predictions.
The data is also out of date almost immediately as people do change so it's better to take small samples and analyse them than to try to gather all the data possible.
Also no one is average in fact when they calculated what an average PHYSICAL frame should be they found that no one was close to being average on more than one axis.
The only good reason to collect so much data about people is to recreate them for addition to the singularity when it comes, which I suppose is a noble goal but I'd prefer if they tried to make things better now.
Just my 2c.
This is just a dumb article. I'm stupider for having read it.
Et Tu Slashdot.
I wish Google still "Don't be evil."
I had a business selling G1 (Still an excellent form factor I hope they bring it back.) and I would Root and Superuser them and install custom Roms.
They were really amazing, the early Android modding scene had a lot of potential.
25% better battery life.
40% better performance.
More customization options.
Excellent GUIs.
But I ramble.
Anyway nowadays it's hard to Root and get SuperUser and I don't understand why.
It's actually put a lifespan on Android which is sad.
Now Android is like Facebook, constantly getting worse and losing sight of what made it better than alternatives.
I don't want to be one of those old people who think things were better in the past, give me something to work with.
Sci-Fi doom prediction.
Unlikely though.
Anyway they're just wires why are they so bloody expensive?
I support bitcoin because I think it's innovative. I think there'a a lot of potential for an internet money free from a large organization or government control.
It doesn't bother me too much that I didn't get in "On The Ground Floor" because I see the people who invested or innovated as believers in a cause and innovators who will use their wealth to improve the system.
I think Bitcoin will rise again.
I also think there is too much talk about manipulation. People would need to intentionally lose money for it to be considered manipulation and people tend not to do that.
Also shorting doesn't necessarily lower the price of a stock or commodity. It just encourages behaviors to lower value which is why it's so tightly regulated. Selling short is no different than selling held value except for the person doing the selling and the organization that invests in their speculation.
It's sad to see Slashdotters not investing in bitcoin. It could be the golden goose which funds a lot of technological innovation if creative believers would get behind it.
It's particularly disturbing to consider right-wing nutjobs not investing in bitcoin, it's pretty much a wet dream for all those who believe in free markets and avoiding government intervention yet they're so skeptical they're not supporting their dreams coming true.
I'm pretty left leaning so I see a lot of potential for harm in a deflationary currency but I see a lot of potential to overturn the petrodollar and I think that's worth supporting.
The evil ones.
Admit they were hacked my ass, they're just drumming up conspiricy theories to attack the democrats.
When Japan entered the global market they had a reputation of creating shoddy products.
Then they worked hard and got a reputation as making some of the best products.
If Sony and the other Zaibatsu's can keep up this level of commitment to products they will destroy the built to break conspiracy and Japan will get more respect than ever for making great products which are well supported.
Child porn isn't only illegal because of the crimes already commited.
A study was conducted which indicated that if you viewed child porn you were more likely to molest children.
Child porn is therefore the cause of crime as well as evidence of a crime, that is why it is so illegal.
The study wasn't particularly well done but it was well received.
I wonder if this will affect the value of bitcoin much, it certainly makes it less savory.
Interesting, if we had the technology to reanimate mummies I suspect we would do it.
And fix their medical problems too! Maybe there is a chance these people will be revived.
Rapid deflation would make people rich.
It's not a very good thing for the world though.
If Cryptocurrencies were the dominant currency it would be like everyone was invested in a quickly rising investment when they were holding money.
The problem is the rich will wise up buy cryptocurrencies and become even richer.
"Bitcoin is easy!"
You mean the wars Bush started?
Why do the Dems get blamed for cleaning up the Repubs mess?
If you realize it takes times for policy's to actually have effects you realize the Republicans are the worst thing to happen to the U.S.
You're an idiot. It's not hard to do. It's just ethically problematic.
The government doesn't want to take responsibility for the successes because then it would be more responsible for the failures.
Also you're free because of the work lawmakers and law enforcers made before you were born, not because you have a gun. Reject.
What if it's per person. Why is everyone so excited by China. They're doing ok for their population but you have to keep it in mind.
Life gets boring. I'm mentally pretty old due to some silly mental exercises I did while I was young and I'm not dreading death the way I was because of it.
With multicasting we got about 4000 times more bandwidth than we had in 2000. We use less due to better compression.
We're not going to have a problem with overlapping data for a long time.
City density in Asia is many times that of Europe and North America and they don't have any problems.
There's really no reason to use anything but GSM anymore, it has more than enough bandwidth for everyone.
He won't be extradited since it sets a precedent that NZ doesn't protect it's citizens (and especially business leaders) from foreign law enforcement.
America is setting the precedent that rights are something that your own citizens get and everyone else should just hang.
Fortunately Europe is saying the opposite, that people have global citizenship and rights which they will protect. Therefore if you're locating data remotely you choose Europe, as you do for a number of other decisions involving protecting you from governments.
This alone is pushing Europe ahead of the U.S. these days and is something they should have seriously thought about before reacting to 9/11 and ISIS but they didn't. So the U,S, has become a laughingstock as well as less competitive.
He has money and he's standing up for piracy and pirates in general.
He's hiring good lawyers and fighting the good fight. He might set some precedents that will be useful later.
He's just lucky in that he was already successful before they came after him so he can do a reasonable job on his defense. Most piracy cases are targetting people who can't afford to defend themselves so their defense is weak and the precedents set are scary and horrible.
I don't think Kim really cares about the money he'd get from this, but he's interested in setting precedents that are good for piracy in general and we should applaud him.
Thousands of experiments were carried out in microgravity.
When you see those big white boxes in the walls of the ISS many are experiments churning away.
Miniaturization and automation means that the astronauts aren't as involved in the experiments anymore.
Many of those experiments were proposed and brought forward because of the international aspect of the results.
That said Terraforming other planets has got to be the next big project.
Anywhere there is water we should be sending oxygen producing bacteria for our later use.
We need to send bacteria to earth like planets. This is the next big project and I hope the world gets behind it.
It will take dozens of years to reach those planets centuries to take hold and billions of years to evolve into intelligent life but we should make the effort to spread life and teraforming now.
Ad Hominem. Fixed that for you.
20 years ago there would have been hearings and elections and all sorts of excitement about this.
Now we just shrug cry and accept.
By investing in Nuclear.
He's friggen rich, no commitees, no government oversight, little respect for the common idiot.
DO NUCLEAR RIGHT. Even if it's just pebble bed or another of the safe ones it's still miles ahead of renewables.
And it creates GOOD jobs. Not manufacturing installation maintenance crap jobs but real jobs for 2nd tier geniuses.
It's frikken cheap, it's clean, it doesn't use a whole lot of scarce resources. What's the hold up Bill? Why invest in something that's already popular and being done by private companies and government. INNOVATE with your stupid foundation. INNOVATE.
You OWE US MORE THAN THIS for the companies you crushed and the open source you held back. INNOVATE YOU STUPID DONKEY CODE WRITING BUSINESS MONKEY!