Technically, I disagree with statements such as Dimitris Avramopoulos: "It is feasible to reduce the time it takes to remove content to a few hours".
Socially, I disagree with this proposal because it is suppression of free speech.
But. I understand. Our society deserves better than paid griefers spewing propaganda to the lambs our human race. Paid propaganda means our least fortunate suffer. To advance, we need to ensure their protection. An informed democratic process where the benefit of society is valued over hand-picked corporate goals would be most welcome. This proposal (as far as I can understand from TFA) might suck, but we do need to address the problem of paid propaganda.
Thank you for the response and I am interested to hear your experience. Unfortunately I have no experience near farmland. I live in old new england (beverly, ma); the farms turned to trees as agriculture went westward and the forests are developed into human holders. Unfortunately, I am not an expert of gardening; this year was my first attempt. For my wooded grove (which I love to death) I use only pesticides allowed under organic farming guidelines.
But I will give my limited knowledge. The mainstays of pest control (horticultural oil and insecticidal soap) are safe for organic. The key reason they are considered safe is that they have no action on insects (honeybees) not directly sprayed. I used soap on the cabbage moths eating my mullein this year. But it is high labor, you have to go out often to spray, aim for everything you see.
My very limited understanding is that mildew is moisture related. Very difficult. Maybe too much shade in that location. I suggest choose a different crop.
For borers, I would want more details on which borer you are seeing. Some might be controlled.
Hi, I'm not often posting but I have an anecdote. About three years ago I bought a house. First two years, no honeybees. This year we had them. Wowsa, great!! When I was young (40 yrs ago) honeybees were all around but haven't seen them for 20+ years.
Can I say what is different? Not sure. We are completely organic, but use horticultural oil for hemlock woolly adelgids & hemlock scale, not currently using but did/might future use spinosad for winter moth and gypsy moth. The exotic (asian, european) insects are very aggressive on native (north american) trees. Often defoliation is complete, no leaves left uneaten. It is hard to judge whether mild pesticides (horticultural oil, spinosad) to save the trees are better or worse than refraint for their (small, but non-zero) effect on honeybees.
Neonicotinoids seem to be a problem and restricting those has a high level of support. Let's start with removing those, and see where we go.
The value of gold as a conductor is extremely useful. Despite its fall from glory, this is still slashdot, isn't it? Hit #1 on a major search engine yields this (ehem, sorry) nugget:
"Gold is the 2nd best conductor of electricity, it is the most malleable metal, it can be made into micron-thin leaf and it is highly resistant to tarnish. These characteristics made gold well suited for circuit boards. Gold is frequently used as connectors ("Fingers"), and sometimes used as the PBC traces and components pins (in high performance boards). "
Using public buses is a clever idea. It is already done in at least a few cities, though maybe only for a subset of students. However, consider that MBTA is subsidized by state and local governments. Would you be willing to factor this into your analysis? I hope it would still be attractive (and we might re-optimize the public buses to improve those too).
Of course the corp and government are all in for cashless
For them it is: - Easy to trace you, peasant, wherever you go
For us, peasants, we trade all the above with...
I agree about the non-quoted items but geezz... Why not "it'll never happen because irate geeks will prevent feasibility'? I see no shortage of opportunities of stopping this kind of nonsense.
On one hand, it is running standard and recommended software (like Windows). Software has went through the FDA approval process. However, on the flip side, the hospital is a sitting duck. These embedded devices are hopelessly insecure, and there is no way to secure them against modern network threats.
I work at a hospital. Yes, there are still problems. But things are better in the last 10 years. I disagree that there is no way to secure these devices. Your hypothetical blood pressure monitoring device, if it requires network access, would generally be firewalled at time of install (either by the vendor or the hospital). If the malware operates through the one or two open ports required for communication, a more sophisticated packet filtering rule can be applied.
Also, you may not be aware, but FDA will generally require a vendor to submit risk analysis. For example, you could use ISO 14971. I think Europe is even more strict. Medical devices still suffer from cowboy coding, but the vendor must mitigate risk, because the risk analysis submitted to FDA might be used to support product recall or lawsuits.
Radiation therapy physicist and image segmentation researcher here.
Generally speaking, there has been no revolutionary advance in segmentation algorithm design in the past 5-10 years. Most modern algorithms combine atlas-based segmentation (ABS), with either shape modeling and/or machine learning. By itself, machine learning alone is generally agreed to be less accurate than ABS alone. The data set described in the article (700 patients) is certainly adequate for ABS and shape modeling. It may not be adequate for a pure learning algorithm, but I reserve final judgement on that.
There are a few strange things in the article. (1) A standard head and neck case probably does not require four hours to create a manual segmentation. An hour is closer to correct. Therefore, they have already achieved their goal. (2) An important reason why a complex head and neck case takes longer is to define the therapy target. It is unlikely that simply adding processing power will make this easier. (3) I didn't see any description of what algorithm(s) they will evaluate, nor who will be in charge of algorithm development.
"The Chinese industry has formed a cartel that sets purchase and sale prices, and controls production and export volumes to target export markets." But then it added a 21st century twist: "The Chinese industry has used its government to steal U.S. Steel's closely guarded trade secrets and uses those trade secrets to produce advanced steel products it could not make on its own."
There is no slippery slope in product placement for youth education.
1. Entertainment is different from education. 2. Youth are different from adults.
Consider industry-sponsored medical education. Western society accepts this, because speakers must acknowledge their funding sources. This allows the (highly educated) audience to evaluate based on inherent biases of the speaker and the quality of the research.
For an educational program designed for youth, we cannot accept that acknowledgement of funding sources is sufficient. Youth have not developed the capacity to separate general principles from product placement advertisements. Product placement is not acceptable for a youth educational program.
I like my windows explorer to act rationally: Details view. Don't save settings per directory. Make settings like current.
Basically, I want explorer to look the same, no matter which directory I go to. Last weekend I found that Vista ignores my settings, and changes into icon mode when it finds directories which have different "Sharing" attributes. Huh???
I think my wife was surprised. She said, "Wow, even you swear at the computer!"
Slashdot Mirror
I want to upgrade my AMD Phenom(tm) 9750 Quad-Core Processor with a Ryzen threadripper. But doing so will create yet more e-garbage for the world.
Technically, I disagree with statements such as Dimitris Avramopoulos: "It is feasible to reduce the time it takes to remove content to a few hours".
Socially, I disagree with this proposal because it is suppression of free speech.
But. I understand. Our society deserves better than paid griefers spewing propaganda to the lambs our human race. Paid propaganda means our least fortunate suffer. To advance, we need to ensure their protection. An informed democratic process where the benefit of society is valued over hand-picked corporate goals would be most welcome. This proposal (as far as I can understand from TFA) might suck, but we do need to address the problem of paid propaganda.
Thank you for your consideration.
-eegeerg
Hi Gilgaron,
Thank you for the response and I am interested to hear your experience. Unfortunately I have no experience near farmland. I live in old new england (beverly, ma); the farms turned to trees as agriculture went westward and the forests are developed into human holders. Unfortunately, I am not an expert of gardening; this year was my first attempt. For my wooded grove (which I love to death) I use only pesticides allowed under organic farming guidelines.
But I will give my limited knowledge. The mainstays of pest control (horticultural oil and insecticidal soap) are safe for organic. The key reason they are considered safe is that they have no action on insects (honeybees) not directly sprayed. I used soap on the cabbage moths eating my mullein this year. But it is high labor, you have to go out often to spray, aim for everything you see.
My very limited understanding is that mildew is moisture related. Very difficult. Maybe too much shade in that location. I suggest choose a different crop.
For borers, I would want more details on which borer you are seeing. Some might be controlled.
Thanks again, and nice meeting you.
Greg
Hi, I'm not often posting but I have an anecdote. About three years ago I bought a house. First two years, no honeybees. This year we had them. Wowsa, great!! When I was young (40 yrs ago) honeybees were all around but haven't seen them for 20+ years.
Can I say what is different? Not sure. We are completely organic, but use horticultural oil for hemlock woolly adelgids & hemlock scale, not currently using but did/might future use spinosad for winter moth and gypsy moth. The exotic (asian, european) insects are very aggressive on native (north american) trees. Often defoliation is complete, no leaves left uneaten. It is hard to judge whether mild pesticides (horticultural oil, spinosad) to save the trees are better or worse than refraint for their (small, but non-zero) effect on honeybees.
Neonicotinoids seem to be a problem and restricting those has a high level of support. Let's start with removing those, and see where we go.
The value of gold as a conductor is extremely useful. Despite its fall from glory, this is still slashdot, isn't it? Hit #1 on a major search engine yields this (ehem, sorry) nugget:
"Gold is the 2nd best conductor of electricity, it is the most malleable metal, it can be made into micron-thin leaf and it is highly resistant to tarnish. These characteristics made gold well suited for circuit boards. Gold is frequently used as connectors ("Fingers"), and sometimes used as the PBC traces and components pins (in high performance boards). "
cite: http://therefiningcompany.com/...
Using public buses is a clever idea. It is already done in at least a few cities, though maybe only for a subset of students. However, consider that MBTA is subsidized by state and local governments. Would you be willing to factor this into your analysis? I hope it would still be attractive (and we might re-optimize the public buses to improve those too).
Of course the corp and government are all in for cashless
For them it is:
- Easy to trace you, peasant, wherever you go
For us, peasants, we trade all the above with...
I agree about the non-quoted items but geezz... Why not "it'll never happen because irate geeks will prevent feasibility'? I see no shortage of opportunities of stopping this kind of nonsense.
A little late, but ... epic post sir.
On one hand, it is running standard and recommended software (like Windows). Software has went through the FDA approval process. However, on the flip side, the hospital is a sitting duck. These embedded devices are hopelessly insecure, and there is no way to secure them against modern network threats.
I work at a hospital. Yes, there are still problems. But things are better in the last 10 years. I disagree that there is no way to secure these devices. Your hypothetical blood pressure monitoring device, if it requires network access, would generally be firewalled at time of install (either by the vendor or the hospital). If the malware operates through the one or two open ports required for communication, a more sophisticated packet filtering rule can be applied.
Also, you may not be aware, but FDA will generally require a vendor to submit risk analysis. For example, you could use ISO 14971. I think Europe is even more strict. Medical devices still suffer from cowboy coding, but the vendor must mitigate risk, because the risk analysis submitted to FDA might be used to support product recall or lawsuits.
Radiation therapy physicist and image segmentation researcher here.
Generally speaking, there has been no revolutionary advance in segmentation algorithm design in the past 5-10 years. Most modern algorithms combine atlas-based segmentation (ABS), with either shape modeling and/or machine learning. By itself, machine learning alone is generally agreed to be less accurate than ABS alone. The data set described in the article (700 patients) is certainly adequate for ABS and shape modeling. It may not be adequate for a pure learning algorithm, but I reserve final judgement on that.
There are a few strange things in the article. (1) A standard head and neck case probably does not require four hours to create a manual segmentation. An hour is closer to correct. Therefore, they have already achieved their goal. (2) An important reason why a complex head and neck case takes longer is to define the therapy target. It is unlikely that simply adding processing power will make this easier. (3) I didn't see any description of what algorithm(s) they will evaluate, nor who will be in charge of algorithm development.
From TFA:
"The Chinese industry has formed a cartel that sets purchase and sale prices, and controls production and export volumes to target export markets." But then it added a 21st century twist: "The Chinese industry has used its government to steal U.S. Steel's closely guarded trade secrets and uses those trade secrets to produce advanced steel products it could not make on its own."
Yes, I RTFA (again). Any independent confirmation outside of Symantec?
There is no slippery slope in product placement for youth education.
1. Entertainment is different from education.
2. Youth are different from adults.
Consider industry-sponsored medical education. Western society accepts this, because speakers must acknowledge their funding sources. This allows the (highly educated) audience to evaluate based on inherent biases of the speaker and the quality of the research.
For an educational program designed for youth, we cannot accept that acknowledgement of funding sources is sufficient. Youth have not developed the capacity to separate general principles from product placement advertisements. Product placement is not acceptable for a youth educational program.
Hadi Partovi should be ashamed.
Thank you AbRASiON. Great post.
I like my windows explorer to act rationally: Details view. Don't save settings per directory. Make settings like current.
Basically, I want explorer to look the same, no matter which directory I go to. Last weekend I found that Vista ignores my settings, and changes into icon mode when it finds directories which have different "Sharing" attributes. Huh???
I think my wife was surprised. She said, "Wow, even you swear at the computer!"
Can nmap (or midnight commander, etc.) really remove SCO support? What are they going to do, add some code which detects SCO and dump core?
Removing the default library paths from the Makefile just doesn't sound all that scary...