If you're not willing to stand by your beliefs openly, then you may want to reconsider them. And democracy runs best when people are willing to continually reconsider their beliefs, rather than when people get an idea and then cling to it, regardless of how shamed or secretive they may feel about it.
It's true that sometimes people do fear retribution for political actions, and justifiably so, but the only way to foster an open discourse, where social norms don't favor revenge or retribution, is to be open about one's beliefs and contribute to healthy debate.
The current patent system doesn't favor individuals. If you're going to this, your best bet is to apply for a provisional patent and then sell it to a company. Not that I endorse this move at all; I think publication is still the best way to ensure that this type of information can be shared, and the developer can still get credit in the form of a sort of academic currency.
However, you may be able to apply for funding from the conference itself. At big conferences, that can end up being an amount that actually covers a good portion of your hotel and airfare in addition to the conference registration. At smaller conferences, it's likely to cover only the registration.
I have met people who attended conferences as a vacation activity. You can typically attend a conference for less than $2000 if you carefully plan ahead, and that seems reasonable for a vacation to someplace that seems interesting, so even if you can't find a professor or funding, a conference still probably isn't out of reach.
The summary offers that as an "unsubstatiated guess". The headline made me believe that the summarizer doesn't think it should necessarily be accepted as a true explanation.
The point being that it probably isn't too difficult to tell the difference between a person trying to reach an appropriately sexual result and one who's interacting permissably with children.
Yes, but hopefully those parents don't say things like, "What are you wearing?" (followed, of course, by, "Go take that off immediately, young lady, you know you aren't allowed to dress like that while you're living under my roof!":D )
Well, remember, they're not tracking a feature, "Is a pedophile," they would be tracking a feature "is an adult" and a feature "is in a child's chat typing suggestive messages".
Well, mainstream reporting on science is generally sensationalistic. Even "well respected" news sources tend to say to the researcher, "How far can you possibly imagine taking this in the future?" and then publishing the answer, without any qualification, as what's being done.
Exactly, and add to that the variances in how quickly things move over the internet, and suddenly your error margin in almost certainly unacceptably large.
No, your chat room doesn't know I've typed until I've clicked "post". And even if it does, this probably requires more accuracy than you could remotely.
Now good luck getting this pedophiles to have those sensors hooked up and letting themselves be videoed and monitored. How about saving yourself the analysis and just looking on their screen for child porn??
If this is true, no one will ever laugh again when I shake my head sadly and reminisce over that old C64 I grew up with. They'll be like, "Yeah, and I have an iPhone. What's your point, Grandpa?"
Yeah, and it's even easier on a mac, shift-cmd-+ * 2. The files can be converted automatically to a pdf either upon incoming or in a batch. So the first person that looks at it can with two swift and decisive motions, turn it over. The only reason it would need to be automated is if the the initial processing steps are also automated, but I rather doubt that.
Sweet, because I noticed that vertical filing cabinets had been patented, so I just submitted a patent for filing cabinets that stand at a 179 degree angle to the horizontal. Now I'm waiting for orders from the government to roll in...at $50,000 per cabinet.
And then finally they'll get the bright idea to implement software that recognizes whether it's upside down and only print out the ones that are right-side up!
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It's true that sometimes people do fear retribution for political actions, and justifiably so, but the only way to foster an open discourse, where social norms don't favor revenge or retribution, is to be open about one's beliefs and contribute to healthy debate.
The current patent system doesn't favor individuals. If you're going to this, your best bet is to apply for a provisional patent and then sell it to a company. Not that I endorse this move at all; I think publication is still the best way to ensure that this type of information can be shared, and the developer can still get credit in the form of a sort of academic currency.
I have met people who attended conferences as a vacation activity. You can typically attend a conference for less than $2000 if you carefully plan ahead, and that seems reasonable for a vacation to someplace that seems interesting, so even if you can't find a professor or funding, a conference still probably isn't out of reach.
The summary offers that as an "unsubstatiated guess". The headline made me believe that the summarizer doesn't think it should necessarily be accepted as a true explanation.
Well, clearly not completely, since they're not of the same magnitude.
The point being that it probably isn't too difficult to tell the difference between a person trying to reach an appropriately sexual result and one who's interacting permissably with children.
Yes, but hopefully those parents don't say things like, "What are you wearing?" (followed, of course, by, "Go take that off immediately, young lady, you know you aren't allowed to dress like that while you're living under my roof!" :D )
Well, remember, they're not tracking a feature, "Is a pedophile," they would be tracking a feature "is an adult" and a feature "is in a child's chat typing suggestive messages".
Well, mainstream reporting on science is generally sensationalistic. Even "well respected" news sources tend to say to the researcher, "How far can you possibly imagine taking this in the future?" and then publishing the answer, without any qualification, as what's being done.
Exactly, and add to that the variances in how quickly things move over the internet, and suddenly your error margin in almost certainly unacceptably large.
Remember, when I press a key, the computer doesn't register it immediately, unless I'm using special software that prevents it from being buffered.
No, your chat room doesn't know I've typed until I've clicked "post". And even if it does, this probably requires more accuracy than you could remotely.
Now good luck getting this pedophiles to have those sensors hooked up and letting themselves be videoed and monitored. How about saving yourself the analysis and just looking on their screen for child porn??
If this is true, no one will ever laugh again when I shake my head sadly and reminisce over that old C64 I grew up with. They'll be like, "Yeah, and I have an iPhone. What's your point, Grandpa?"
arrrrrrr!
I don't value the thoughts of idiots.[..]
...who use well-accepted non-compositional speech units. Congratulations, I guess you value the thoughts of exactly zero people.
That obviously makes you far more detectable than if you were allowed to participate without any constraints.
Of course the house wants to win, like always.
I'll be out of the office for a month. Please ignore the anonymous person checking stuff into the svn repo, I swear it isn't me...
I find it hard to believe the NSA really has better computer experts than Google...the real question is, what is Google really getting out of this?
I know! That's why I'm so sure it hasn't already been patented!
Yeah, and it's even easier on a mac, shift-cmd-+ * 2. The files can be converted automatically to a pdf either upon incoming or in a batch. So the first person that looks at it can with two swift and decisive motions, turn it over. The only reason it would need to be automated is if the the initial processing steps are also automated, but I rather doubt that.
But wait, if you send it upside down, won't it arrive blank?
Sweet, because I noticed that vertical filing cabinets had been patented, so I just submitted a patent for filing cabinets that stand at a 179 degree angle to the horizontal. Now I'm waiting for orders from the government to roll in...at $50,000 per cabinet.
And then finally they'll get the bright idea to implement software that recognizes whether it's upside down and only print out the ones that are right-side up!