Nothing current fMRI technology can't handle... But the problem is not with technology, the problem is with the gray area between truth and lies. The really good lairs are the ones that convince themselves that their lies are the truth. In other words they can sort of brainwash themselves.
Something similar happens during long police interrogations, the person being interrogated first is subjected to stress (16 hours of interrogation), they are bullied and yelled at, that lowers their confidence level to a point where they cannot discern between their memories of what happened and the version suggested by the police ("you probably don't remember, you are so stressed, you could have easily killed them and then forgotten") and then an apparent easy way out is presented if the person chooses the 'alternative' version of events ("you can go home if you sign this paper and this will all be over..."). I bet at that point if the interrogated person is subjected to a lie detector, they will actually believe that the alternative sequence of events was actually the truth. If someone would ask the question "did you kill" they will say "yes" and because they will believe that to be the truth, the lie detector, no matter how sophisticated will detect no lies.
Yes, there are plenty of individual examples of great managers, great developers who became managers and so on. Pointing to individual examples doesn't work that well. Going by that every kid should drop out of college and start their business, because look at Bill Gates -- he did that and now has billions. That is why I always laugh when he is invited to speak at graduations. (So yeah, suckers, you spent all this time in school, good for you, but this shit wasn't for me. And now I have many billions of dollars..blah blah..).
I I was just talking about how I perceived the 'average' manger out there. When it comes to upper management, the dudes/dudettes that make major tech decisions -- most of them (at least in my opinion) are not very tech savvy, and as far as engineering and science is concerned are very limited.
The point, which most people missed here, is that certain majors are attractive for certain personality types. Someone greedy and materialistic, whose only goal in life is to make money in the fastest and easiest way, will most likely choose business over basket weaving when they reach college age. I would think that is kind of obvious....
Those cliches and stereotypes of stupid and partying business majors persist because they are true to a certain degree. It is very hard to create a stereotype like that and maintain it without absolutely no support from reality.
It all depends on how individuals see the world around them. I think managers, who are mostly business school educated, don't see the world the same way the rest of us (developers) do. They probably don't understand why someone would work for free or why someone would volunteer at a soup kitchen. Most of the managers would never think that work could be fun unless it payed lots of money. Manager-types chose business school just as a way to get more money, it was a pretty good shortcut -- you go to school, pick business as your major, party for 4 years with buds, and then one of their dads hires you as a manager -- the system works great. Developers became developers because they like to write software. Most found ways to get payed for it, but they didn't dream of reaches first, then thought that becoming a developer would get them there and chose 'computer science' as a major in college (those that did do that, probably ended up switching to 'communication', 'business administration' or 'comparative literature' before the 2nd year.)
So it will be an uphill battle to get managers to see this other 'work-for-fun' worldview. It is best to altogether bypass that explanation and go straight to stuff like 'saving money' or 'security'. The security aspect is good to mention when choosing an OS. The argument is that critical components of a system such as the 'operating system' should be open and not controlled by any single company. It is also useful to point out the deficiencies of open source such as many incomplete projects with lacking documentation, but it is good to mention this only when choosing an already established open source product that is complete, stable and has good documentation;-)
One has also to keep in mind that policemen are not policemen because they all have PhD's in Quantum Physics and refused tenure-track faculty positions at top universities to go and "serve and protect". To put it more bluntly, many of them are not very bright. And when people with guns who are not very bright lose control, it's not pretty (regardless on which side of the law they are). The trick is then not to only encrypt data but to encrypt it hide it altogether -- yes, steganography. Want to hide your data, then really "hide" it, don't just put it in super secure "safe" but leave the safe right in the middle of the living room. The not-so-bright people with guns have many ways of "persuasion" where they will make you give them the key eventually.
If OCR was used, then it is as simple as having a mathematical quiz captcha. For example, the answer to "34 + 2" or "first 3 digits of e" (well, ok maybe not this one, unless it's a math forum...). This will not stop the spammers as they would probably just try to parse the math expressions and post the result but it will slow them down a bit.
If a human is used to read the captcha then there is not much that can be done as that is what a captcha is for: to make sure a human only will be able to bypass it....
Vista's biggest enemy is not Linux -- it's Vista. Americans take their privacy too seriously to ignore this if this becomes public. Of course, one could argue that by now the 'war on terror' has taught us to just bend over when the government says so, but hopefully, the reaction will be a little bit more violent when Microsoft asks us to 'submit'....who knows.
Good point. The Bush critics should get their act together. Either Bush is stupid or he is a super intelligent evil genius mastermind. I am afraid that both are not compatible. Now, don't get me wrong, I am all about criticism as well, but we should at least try to be consistent. Otherwise the neo-cons will point fingers and laugh at us.
IBM doesn't handle the PC desktops and laptops. I am sure much of the school's purchase was exactly that. So what should IBM ask CA to buy? Oh, buy one of our mainframes and we'll 'forgive' the debt?
I see your point and I personally bemoan the public transportation problem in US as well (I grew up in Europe and had the luxury of using a well developed and reliable system of buses/trolleybuses/taxis/minibuses). The problem the way you formulate it is that of a chicken and egg. There will need to be a lot of carless people but that means having a lot of jobless people as well. With so many jobless people there won't be any taxes to be for the new transportation system. They politicians need to start diverting all the billions going into the military to building a better transportation for US citizens (as opposed to US army in Iraq).
You do realise(sic) that Americans don't have a very good public transportation system at all and a lot of them live in small towns that do not have any kind of public transportation. For most Americans no car = no job.
The physicists these days are not trained well enough. They should know that all it takes is to link the research grant proposal to some defense target (the nano-robots can be efficient killers of Iraqis) and bingo, you get a blank check to fill in with any sum you want for the next 10 years. If schools taught these people anything it should have taught them how to kiss ass and perform fellatio on politicians. (yes, I am being a 'little' sarcastic)
From now on, no nuclear research will be conducted, we will focus our attention on nucular research only. Anyone caught doing nuclear research will be considered a terrorist.
...that government funding has not kept up with the rising costs of research
Huh? What do they mean? There is plenty of money in research, one just has to find a way to make it sound like 'research' will eventually kill more Iraqis, then 'research' will get plenty of money. Let's look at some examples:
1. Nanotech : By building tiny small robots we can kill Iraqis and they wouldn't even see us coming! == Cha-ching $1bn of funding over the next 10 years.
2. Particle Physics: By finding the Higgs boson we could kill Iraqis over great distances. The Higgs boson will create a micro singularity in Iraq and suck in all the Iraqis and leave us all the oil we want. When we burn it all, the Higgs boson will be equally effective against Iranians! == Cha-ching $2bn for a new particle accelerator.
Gosh!... didn't academia teach these physicists anything...?
The point was that the guy could have bought a $9k Chevy Aveo as opposed to a $20k Toyota Corolla with all the options. In other words, the car is important but there is a wide range of choices. 10% of $9k is $900, while %10 of a luxury $60k car is $6k. Nobody forced the poor to buy an expensive Toyota (except peer pressure and stupidity).
It really gets me going when I see "poor" people who wear shoes that cost $250 and, and have $300 cell phones and then complain how they are poor and need more welfare money. I want to approach them and tell them that the reason they are poor is that they keep spending the money they have on non-essential crap instead of saving it or investing it somehow. But then again if half of the poor would be smarter and more educated they wouldn't be poor probably. I understand that a good number of them might not have a chance but the other part just chose to lead this lifestyle, and thus they shouldn't complain and not make everyone else pay for their stuff through welfare.
What if it is the gravitational field that changes. Say the sun disappeared or exploded, would we find out about it immediately or after so many minutes. In other words, do the gravitational field disturbances also propagate at the speed of light?
So what? The people will move out of the state because of it? Someone who has a good job, children in school and family members will decide to move because the state fined someone $2k for using unauthorized fuel? What else would happen, the state will be ranked last on 'environment friendly states' list? In other words, the state is not the same as a company, a state's bad image is harder to link to immediate loss of profits.
Imagine for a second that Time Warner was the "Internet" and immediately decided that access to the Internet was $200/month minimum and you had to rent your computer from them for $199.99/month and you couldn't buy any computer to use with their service except through them. If you were late paying your service would be shut off immediately and you would forfeit the "great privilege" of being their customer in the future unless you payed a reasonable $2000 re-connection fee.
Except that if when you sell me the car, you make me sign a contract that is 100 pages long in 6pt. font where at the end, after I have signed off to you all my property and first born child I also happen to agree to the fact that the seats in the car may or may not be there when I the car.
that we should weed out the "dumb shits", not all religious people can be blanketed under this category, nor athiests excluded.
You mean we shouldn't go and clobber our "beloved" Donald Knuth because he believes that God exists and Jesus was his son and all those other silly things?
(Yes, I am sarcastic and it was more of a response to the grandparent...)
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Something similar happens during long police interrogations, the person being interrogated first is subjected to stress (16 hours of interrogation), they are bullied and yelled at, that lowers their confidence level to a point where they cannot discern between their memories of what happened and the version suggested by the police ("you probably don't remember, you are so stressed, you could have easily killed them and then forgotten") and then an apparent easy way out is presented if the person chooses the 'alternative' version of events ("you can go home if you sign this paper and this will all be over..."). I bet at that point if the interrogated person is subjected to a lie detector, they will actually believe that the alternative sequence of events was actually the truth. If someone would ask the question "did you kill" they will say "yes" and because they will believe that to be the truth, the lie detector, no matter how sophisticated will detect no lies.
I I was just talking about how I perceived the 'average' manger out there. When it comes to upper management, the dudes/dudettes that make major tech decisions -- most of them (at least in my opinion) are not very tech savvy, and as far as engineering and science is concerned are very limited.
The point, which most people missed here, is that certain majors are attractive for certain personality types. Someone greedy and materialistic, whose only goal in life is to make money in the fastest and easiest way, will most likely choose business over basket weaving when they reach college age. I would think that is kind of obvious....
Those cliches and stereotypes of stupid and partying business majors persist because they are true to a certain degree. It is very hard to create a stereotype like that and maintain it without absolutely no support from reality.
So it will be an uphill battle to get managers to see this other 'work-for-fun' worldview. It is best to altogether bypass that explanation and go straight to stuff like 'saving money' or 'security'. The security aspect is good to mention when choosing an OS. The argument is that critical components of a system such as the 'operating system' should be open and not controlled by any single company. It is also useful to point out the deficiencies of open source such as many incomplete projects with lacking documentation, but it is good to mention this only when choosing an already established open source product that is complete, stable and has good documentation
One has also to keep in mind that policemen are not policemen because they all have PhD's in Quantum Physics and refused tenure-track faculty positions at top universities to go and "serve and protect". To put it more bluntly, many of them are not very bright. And when people with guns who are not very bright lose control, it's not pretty (regardless on which side of the law they are). The trick is then not to only encrypt data but to encrypt it hide it altogether -- yes, steganography. Want to hide your data, then really "hide" it, don't just put it in super secure "safe" but leave the safe right in the middle of the living room. The not-so-bright people with guns have many ways of "persuasion" where they will make you give them the key eventually.
If a human is used to read the captcha then there is not much that can be done as that is what a captcha is for: to make sure a human only will be able to bypass it....
Vista's biggest enemy is not Linux -- it's Vista. Americans take their privacy too seriously to ignore this if this becomes public. Of course, one could argue that by now the 'war on terror' has taught us to just bend over when the government says so, but hopefully, the reaction will be a little bit more violent when Microsoft asks us to 'submit'....who knows.
Sounds good, here it is then:
He only waited until after he died so no one could rebut his story.
Exactly, the government is a pussy, they can't do anyth
Good point. The Bush critics should get their act together. Either Bush is stupid or he is a super intelligent evil genius mastermind. I am afraid that both are not compatible. Now, don't get me wrong, I am all about criticism as well, but we should at least try to be consistent. Otherwise the neo-cons will point fingers and laugh at us.
IBM doesn't handle the PC desktops and laptops. I am sure much of the school's purchase was exactly that. So what should IBM ask CA to buy? Oh, buy one of our mainframes and we'll 'forgive' the debt?
You do realise(sic) that Americans don't have a very good public transportation system at all and a lot of them live in small towns that do not have any kind of public transportation. For most Americans no car = no job.
The physicists these days are not trained well enough. They should know that all it takes is to link the research grant proposal to some defense target (the nano-robots can be efficient killers of Iraqis) and bingo, you get a blank check to fill in with any sum you want for the next 10 years. If schools taught these people anything it should have taught them how to kiss ass and perform fellatio on politicians. (yes, I am being a 'little' sarcastic)
From now on, no nuclear research will be conducted, we will focus our attention on nucular research only. Anyone caught doing nuclear research will be considered a terrorist.
Huh? What do they mean? There is plenty of money in research, one just has to find a way to make it sound like 'research' will eventually kill more Iraqis, then 'research' will get plenty of money. Let's look at some examples:
1. Nanotech : By building tiny small robots we can kill Iraqis and they wouldn't even see us coming! == Cha-ching $1bn of funding over the next 10 years.
2. Particle Physics: By finding the Higgs boson we could kill Iraqis over great distances. The Higgs boson will create a micro singularity in Iraq and suck in all the Iraqis and leave us all the oil we want. When we burn it all, the Higgs boson will be equally effective against Iranians! == Cha-ching $2bn for a new particle accelerator.
Gosh!... didn't academia teach these physicists anything
And besides we all know that God uses the imperial system and only communists use metric...Hail Bush!
It really gets me going when I see "poor" people who wear shoes that cost $250 and, and have $300 cell phones and then complain how they are poor and need more welfare money. I want to approach them and tell them that the reason they are poor is that they keep spending the money they have on non-essential crap instead of saving it or investing it somehow. But then again if half of the poor would be smarter and more educated they wouldn't be poor probably. I understand that a good number of them might not have a chance but the other part just chose to lead this lifestyle, and thus they shouldn't complain and not make everyone else pay for their stuff through welfare.
What if it is the gravitational field that changes. Say the sun disappeared or exploded, would we find out about it immediately or after so many minutes. In other words, do the gravitational field disturbances also propagate at the speed of light?
So what? The people will move out of the state because of it? Someone who has a good job, children in school and family members will decide to move because the state fined someone $2k for using unauthorized fuel? What else would happen, the state will be ranked last on 'environment friendly states' list? In other words, the state is not the same as a company, a state's bad image is harder to link to immediate loss of profits.
Unfortunately $35k won't take him very far. He will probably need at least 10x that much.
Are you just trolling or are you serious?
Let's assume that you are serious....
There was a reason M.B. was broken up.
Imagine for a second that Time Warner was the "Internet" and immediately decided that access to the Internet was $200/month minimum and you had to rent your computer from them for $199.99/month and you couldn't buy any computer to use with their service except through them. If you were late paying your service would be shut off immediately and you would forfeit the "great privilege" of being their customer in the future unless you payed a reasonable $2000 re-connection fee.
Except that if when you sell me the car, you make me sign a contract that is 100 pages long in 6pt. font where at the end, after I have signed off to you all my property and first born child I also happen to agree to the fact that the seats in the car may or may not be there when I the car.
That's sounds familiar...
You kill one person it's a tragedy, you kill ten thousand people it a statistic -Joseph Stalin
Yes, you are right. It's over-generalization that gassed millions of Jews and starved tens of millions of Russians...sure...
You mean we shouldn't go and clobber our "beloved" Donald Knuth because he believes that God exists and Jesus was his son and all those other silly things?
(Yes, I am sarcastic and it was more of a response to the grandparent...)
It's hard to attract females when you have 2 beaks, 3 hooves and only 1 eye.