I'm open minded about restricting the search for child porn terminology. Will it make child pornography less readily accessible, and thereby reduce cultivation of users? Or will it trigger a slippery slope, where search engines are afraid NOT to block certain terms out of fear under this precedent?
The answer it seems is to test a placebo search term, such as "rutabaga salad" or "couch sniffing" and to monitor whether searches for the terms increase, decrease, or stay the same, and whether rutabaga sales flatten. Just the hypothesis that censorship of search terms will reduce crime related to those search terms should not be enough to trigger a censorship anti-delivery mechanism.
"Urine powered ___" has been popping up on Slashdot for years now. Once they covered the battery, ( http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=urine+power ), you can kind of keep running these posts on vibrators, flashlights, cell phones, etc. and get the same jokes ad nauseum.
/. seems to be falling behind in another important trend. Virtually all the posters here appear genuine, which must be holding back the site ranking somehow.
If the government really doesn't want people to read this guy's blog about passing lie detector tests, it should have ignored him. Or maybe it did, and in order to get us to pay attention, he is making the whole thing up? Is he willing to... um... nevermind.
iSupply continues to only give CRTs another 3 years until complete extinction, just as they predicted in 2006. No doubt it will be true someday. But the CRTs are built like battleships, and remanufactured for markets that have lots of heat (bad for OLED and Plasma, I'm told). http://www.isuppli.com/Display-Materials-and-Systems/MarketWatch/Pages/Global-Television-Shipments-to-Shrink-in-2012.aspx Samsung and LG are the remaining players in the Plasma (PDP) manufacturing market. Will they outlive Videocon/Thompson (CRT maker in India)?
It's a really good thing that every single one of them have been shutting off their phones during takeoff and landing every year. Otherwise, who knows what might have happened. The number worldwide is about 4.5 billion passenger flights per year. I feel safe knowing that every single person will always do what the flight crew says.
Funny, I just read this article last night. http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/the-myth-of-im-bad-at-math/280914/ It says there probably are some "math geniuses" out there, so doesn't totally contradict the Rotherberg/Tegmark research. But the thesis indicates we have plenty of computers for the genius level math, and that most of the problem (weakness in general population) derives directly from the myth that innate/genetic "math ability" exists at all.
From Big Bird: "One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others, By the time I finish my song?"
From the Abstract: "Pulvinar neurons responded faster and stronger to snake stimuli than to monkey faces, monkey hands, and geometric shapes, and were sensitive to unmodified and low-pass filtered images but not to high-pass filtered images."
They just choose one unfamiliar species, and based on reaction, attribute evolution to the out of four things. Had they put a monkey's tail, rather than hands, in the shape sample, it might have meant something more. Or an octopus. Or a banana. Or a cigar...
A responsible company that size should be releasing several thousand fake corporate client lists per day. If every company did its civil duty and released thousands of fake client lists, the identity thieves would never be able to find a needle in a haystack. Nature adapts camouflage, not invisibility.
In the desert in Tucson, there's a massive airplane graveyard, where you can always go to find a part. I collect these used books in my business, and it's very frustrating. You can't afford to keep them in a rent-paying, heated building. But they always eventually go up in value. The solution is "speculative accumulation". Find a place in the desert, where they won't mold (they will anywhere else, unfortunately). And dig them up in 100 years. Look at what Kaypros and IBM 85 series monitors are selling for on ebay.
Interesting. We do have to remind ourselves that security needs to be proportionate to risk. The first rule is value, or what the potential for loss is. I want a really really difficult password for my credit card account, I get angry when a newspaper login requests the same password algorithm (how much should I care if someone reads the news site using my login account?) The second factor is proximity. If you steal the president's laptop from off the president's desk, you should face unheard of security. If the president's digital needle lies anonymously at the bottom of a city haystack, the statistical risk shrinks. The fingerprint app, like Android's code generator, seems like an appropriate level of security for a lost or stolen cell phone.
I certainly noticed LinkedIn had access to my email sent-lists, but after logging into it a thousand times it's hard to know for sure I didn't check, or fail to check, a box that comes up asking my permission to do so. It just takes one time. Maybe this case will succeed, I'm afraid I've succumbed to thinking we have no more privacy or right to cover our tracks than we did walking past gossipy women in medieval villages. LinkedIn, Google, and Facebook have become the modern day cyber-Yentas, sometimes aggravatingly meddlesome, sometimes making a lifelong connection.
Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21, 2013 @09:55AM. Oh shoot...
You would like the right to resell your device for the highest price, right? Instead of caring about where tantalum comes from, try giving a shit that do-gooder environmentalists are making it illegal for you to sell your old cell phone to African geeks. You don't have to care about the resource curse, just selfishly act on behalf of your own interest, the Tinkerer Blessing. Repair, reuse and recycling is ultimately "conservative". You can hate me and still be on my side. http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/e-waste-recycling-exports-are-good
As a student of international relations and ardent environmentalist in the 80s, we saw then what would be labelled the curse of natural resources. But we have also grown to recognize what promotes positive social development in developing/emerging markets. Fixers, tinkerers, repairpeople, recyclers and geeks. The history of Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan - all resource poor nations - is a history of repairs, knock offs, reverse-engineering, and recycling, serving what Harvard Business Review article calls the "Good Enough Market".
The best jobs for Africans today is the collection and repair of used cell phones replaced by upgrades in wealthy countries. If you don't understand the connection between mining for new product and planned obsolescence, tinkering and repair, then you don't know how to do simple mass balance.
Except for a recent few decades, musicians have always struggled to make a living for precisely this reason. This "millionaire musician" has been a historical outlier, a quirk of physical media bottlenecks and copyright law. Music was not scaleable until the victrola came along, and then it became a business where 99% of the wealth was in the hands of 1% of the musicians, and now the pendulum is swinging back towards normal.
I saw a PBS documentary on this, and the beads and art were also more advanced among Neanderthals of the period than Homo Sapiens Sapiens digs. The initial Neanderthal skeleton, the documentary said, was stooped because of arthritis, but led to a caricature of stoop shouldered morons. It looked more like a Romans-taking-over-Greece than Neanderthals being outcompeted.
The trolls here should take a lesson, however, that almost everything in archeological history pertaining to inventions (like wheels and metals) stems from TRADE, and almost nothing stems from gene pools. There are plenty of geographies with Neanderthal DNA which don't have metals or wheels, the commonality of retarded invention adaptation is a major geographic barrier to exchanging with other humans (ocean, desert, mountain range), and ability to exchange and cross-reference and interact - not the DNA. The ability to exchange and trade (guns, germs, metals) predicted success in Europe, and melting pot economies tend to do pretty well economically. If trolls want to isolate themselves from interacting with "inferior" (different) people, be our guests by all means./. has evolved, with mod points, to distance itself from Arian Nazi propaganda.
We need redundant fake infrastructure to prepare for just this type of attack. A "New Deal" scale of fake spending, creating thousands of fake jobs, to build fake dams, bridges, highways and subways.
Apple is indirectly responsible, in my opinion. When they design a charging system so proprietary that the only alternatives are 1) outrageously priced Apple, or 2) small scale gray market, this doesn't allow consumers the choice of buying from say iGo or other large independent chargers sold in bulk at Best Buy and WalMart. For Apple to turn this into a warning not to use third parties only reminds us we aren't being electricuted by standard microUSB and other "mature" independent market devices.
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I'm open minded about restricting the search for child porn terminology. Will it make child pornography less readily accessible, and thereby reduce cultivation of users? Or will it trigger a slippery slope, where search engines are afraid NOT to block certain terms out of fear under this precedent?
The answer it seems is to test a placebo search term, such as "rutabaga salad" or "couch sniffing" and to monitor whether searches for the terms increase, decrease, or stay the same, and whether rutabaga sales flatten. Just the hypothesis that censorship of search terms will reduce crime related to those search terms should not be enough to trigger a censorship anti-delivery mechanism.
"Urine powered ___" has been popping up on Slashdot for years now. Once they covered the battery, ( http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=urine+power ), you can kind of keep running these posts on vibrators, flashlights, cell phones, etc. and get the same jokes ad nauseum.
/. seems to be falling behind in another important trend. Virtually all the posters here appear genuine, which must be holding back the site ranking somehow.
If the government really doesn't want people to read this guy's blog about passing lie detector tests, it should have ignored him. Or maybe it did, and in order to get us to pay attention, he is making the whole thing up? Is he willing to ... um... nevermind.
Freedom of Information Act, they have everything on backup
"Due to federal shutdown, the information on this government website is not being maintained and may be out of date"
..and now THIS ("Nuthin' up the sleeve..")
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PRESTO! It has disappeared!
iSupply continues to only give CRTs another 3 years until complete extinction, just as they predicted in 2006. No doubt it will be true someday. But the CRTs are built like battleships, and remanufactured for markets that have lots of heat (bad for OLED and Plasma, I'm told). http://www.isuppli.com/Display-Materials-and-Systems/MarketWatch/Pages/Global-Television-Shipments-to-Shrink-in-2012.aspx Samsung and LG are the remaining players in the Plasma (PDP) manufacturing market. Will they outlive Videocon/Thompson (CRT maker in India)?
It's a really good thing that every single one of them have been shutting off their phones during takeoff and landing every year. Otherwise, who knows what might have happened. The number worldwide is about 4.5 billion passenger flights per year. I feel safe knowing that every single person will always do what the flight crew says.
Funny, I just read this article last night. http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/the-myth-of-im-bad-at-math/280914/ It says there probably are some "math geniuses" out there, so doesn't totally contradict the Rotherberg/Tegmark research. But the thesis indicates we have plenty of computers for the genius level math, and that most of the problem (weakness in general population) derives directly from the myth that innate/genetic "math ability" exists at all.
And if the math ability is God-given, there are computer programs now to discover even that (computer proves God article in Der Spiegel). http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/computer-scientists-prove-god-exists/story?id=20678984
From Big Bird: "One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others, By the time I finish my song?"
From the Abstract: "Pulvinar neurons responded faster and stronger to snake stimuli than to monkey faces, monkey hands, and geometric shapes, and were sensitive to unmodified and low-pass filtered images but not to high-pass filtered images."
They just choose one unfamiliar species, and based on reaction, attribute evolution to the out of four things. Had they put a monkey's tail, rather than hands, in the shape sample, it might have meant something more. Or an octopus. Or a banana. Or a cigar...
A responsible company that size should be releasing several thousand fake corporate client lists per day. If every company did its civil duty and released thousands of fake client lists, the identity thieves would never be able to find a needle in a haystack. Nature adapts camouflage, not invisibility.
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In the desert in Tucson, there's a massive airplane graveyard, where you can always go to find a part. I collect these used books in my business, and it's very frustrating. You can't afford to keep them in a rent-paying, heated building. But they always eventually go up in value. The solution is "speculative accumulation". Find a place in the desert, where they won't mold (they will anywhere else, unfortunately). And dig them up in 100 years. Look at what Kaypros and IBM 85 series monitors are selling for on ebay.
Interesting. We do have to remind ourselves that security needs to be proportionate to risk. The first rule is value, or what the potential for loss is. I want a really really difficult password for my credit card account, I get angry when a newspaper login requests the same password algorithm (how much should I care if someone reads the news site using my login account?) The second factor is proximity. If you steal the president's laptop from off the president's desk, you should face unheard of security. If the president's digital needle lies anonymously at the bottom of a city haystack, the statistical risk shrinks. The fingerprint app, like Android's code generator, seems like an appropriate level of security for a lost or stolen cell phone.
I certainly noticed LinkedIn had access to my email sent-lists, but after logging into it a thousand times it's hard to know for sure I didn't check, or fail to check, a box that comes up asking my permission to do so. It just takes one time. Maybe this case will succeed, I'm afraid I've succumbed to thinking we have no more privacy or right to cover our tracks than we did walking past gossipy women in medieval villages. LinkedIn, Google, and Facebook have become the modern day cyber-Yentas, sometimes aggravatingly meddlesome, sometimes making a lifelong connection.
Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 21, 2013 @09:55AM. Oh shoot...
You would like the right to resell your device for the highest price, right? Instead of caring about where tantalum comes from, try giving a shit that do-gooder environmentalists are making it illegal for you to sell your old cell phone to African geeks. You don't have to care about the resource curse, just selfishly act on behalf of your own interest, the Tinkerer Blessing. Repair, reuse and recycling is ultimately "conservative". You can hate me and still be on my side. http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/e-waste-recycling-exports-are-good
As a student of international relations and ardent environmentalist in the 80s, we saw then what would be labelled the curse of natural resources. But we have also grown to recognize what promotes positive social development in developing/emerging markets. Fixers, tinkerers, repairpeople, recyclers and geeks. The history of Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan - all resource poor nations - is a history of repairs, knock offs, reverse-engineering, and recycling, serving what Harvard Business Review article calls the "Good Enough Market".
The best jobs for Africans today is the collection and repair of used cell phones replaced by upgrades in wealthy countries. If you don't understand the connection between mining for new product and planned obsolescence, tinkering and repair, then you don't know how to do simple mass balance.
So who did we choose to arrest? The tantalum mining industry? No. An Interpol E-Waste crackdown, which arrested about 40 Africans (like Joseph Benson of the UK) is behaving like the fire department in Birmingham Alabama in 1960s, firehosing the geeks in bullshit accusations of primitive wire burning In a bizarre, sick and ultimately twisted take on environmental reality, Interpol and Environmentalists are arresting the tinkerers, repairers, fixers and geeks of color. Visit Resolv.org or fairtraderecycling.org for project which are trying to redirect environmentalists friendly fire off of cell phone fixers and back onto mining. The worst, worst form of recycling is less toxic than the best form of metal mining and refining. The more cell phones are fixed, the less we have to choose between providing digital access and mining rainforests for tantalum.
How will you then patent troll or license peoples dreams?
I'll be golden, my spills won't go to waste.
Except for a recent few decades, musicians have always struggled to make a living for precisely this reason. This "millionaire musician" has been a historical outlier, a quirk of physical media bottlenecks and copyright law. Music was not scaleable until the victrola came along, and then it became a business where 99% of the wealth was in the hands of 1% of the musicians, and now the pendulum is swinging back towards normal.
Mod parent up. (Though Yucca Mountain stalemate goes back to at least Jimmy Carter, maybe earlier)
I saw a PBS documentary on this, and the beads and art were also more advanced among Neanderthals of the period than Homo Sapiens Sapiens digs. The initial Neanderthal skeleton, the documentary said, was stooped because of arthritis, but led to a caricature of stoop shouldered morons. It looked more like a Romans-taking-over-Greece than Neanderthals being outcompeted.
The trolls here should take a lesson, however, that almost everything in archeological history pertaining to inventions (like wheels and metals) stems from TRADE, and almost nothing stems from gene pools. There are plenty of geographies with Neanderthal DNA which don't have metals or wheels, the commonality of retarded invention adaptation is a major geographic barrier to exchanging with other humans (ocean, desert, mountain range), and ability to exchange and cross-reference and interact - not the DNA. The ability to exchange and trade (guns, germs, metals) predicted success in Europe, and melting pot economies tend to do pretty well economically. If trolls want to isolate themselves from interacting with "inferior" (different) people, be our guests by all means. /. has evolved, with mod points, to distance itself from Arian Nazi propaganda.
We need redundant fake infrastructure to prepare for just this type of attack. A "New Deal" scale of fake spending, creating thousands of fake jobs, to build fake dams, bridges, highways and subways.
Apple is indirectly responsible, in my opinion. When they design a charging system so proprietary that the only alternatives are 1) outrageously priced Apple, or 2) small scale gray market, this doesn't allow consumers the choice of buying from say iGo or other large independent chargers sold in bulk at Best Buy and WalMart. For Apple to turn this into a warning not to use third parties only reminds us we aren't being electricuted by standard microUSB and other "mature" independent market devices.