So the surgury was experimental. Probably highly so. Admittedly the botched results led to the development of an acceptable treatment for epilepsy, but does this make the inital experiment ethical?
It is a testament to the Linux Virtual Memory model that it is so efficient at masking the underlying memory allocation and access operations from the user that harldy anyone on Slashdot really cares enough to read this model.
The idea was to cure this persons dibilatating epilepsy, not investigate the function of the anterior hippocampus.
The original operation involved cutting out large sections of this persions temporal lobes. I'm reasonably sure that this procedure would fall under the "experimental" heading as I doubt it would become an accepted practice once the results had been observed.
The other thing that was odd, was the closer to the present it got, the slower it came back.
That's easily explained through general relitivity. As she travelled through time her "speed" in time increased, thus leading to a temporal dialation effect, slowing her down.
But this research is OK because it is completely distinct from "bad" human experiments right? I mean, the end justifies the means here right? We're getting valuable data and all it cost was the long term memory of one solitary man.
GPL3's anti-DRM features are required in a very real sense.
It's like this. Under GPLv2, your only real obligation was to supply the source code and the right to redistribute it.
But with DRM, what's to prevent you digitally securing the binaries and having a system on which only "trusted" binaries are allowed to run. The source is all but useless now, as anyone compiling it will need to get their binaries signed to run on Vista++ or OSXII.
You kill free software as the source alone is not enough to create a "working" binary.
These are the same people who are shutting down perfectly good and safe nuclear reactors in favor of importing electric power from dirty Danish and Polish coal plants and (oh the irony) old Soviet graphite reactors in the Baltics.
Well, they could hardly dump all their nuclear waste and France's, could they?
But can I make an anonymous read/write share without performing invasive surery on config files. And can I then easily mount that share?
Samba is great as a home network share, but it's not a single click system. Security on a home netowrk doesn't really interest me. I'd like to be able to "just share" the files without setting up users etc, etc.
Am I the only person left that likes to see a bit of dare devil in the people that try and push the boundaries.?
No. As a firm proponent of continuing human evolution, the strengthening of the whole human gene pool through the removal of the dare devil stupidity gene both entertains and reassures me.
1) State of Alaska Division of Elections != United States Department of Justice
They are both a branch of the many faced hydra that is a modern Government. The Grandparent post was insightful. The left hand of government appears to be ignorent of, or ignoring what the right hand is doing,
Computerised voting is the worst idea since the non secret ballot.
Imagine the old paper system where the government paid private companies to count the votes.
Imagine if this company took all the votes into a giant factory with the windows blacked out and the doors shut, and emerged several days later and declared the election results.
You cannot query this result. You cannot enter the building to see the votes being counted. You cannot force the company to show you how they count the votes. You cannot even see the votes anymore.
Would you be satisfied with this? Would it make you feel better if government agents were inside the building to oversee this process? Would you feel happier if you had a blueprint of the counting process design?
Yet computer voting proponents are essentially proposing this very situation. Government oversight is irrelevent. Open source code is irrelevent. transparency is irrelevent. At the end of the day, votes are going into this blacked out factory, a computer, and a result is simply thrown out and you have no idea if it is right or wrong.
Nothing will make computer voting acceptable. Nothing. Unless everyone can see the individual bit voltages flipping on and off, and the votes physically tallying, there's no difference between a result by electronic voting and an outright lie. No matter what any tech-evangelist has to say.
Personally, I feel pessimistic enough right now to say that China will never become a democracy, no matter what anyone does. New technology has the capacity to enable both mass industrialisation and mass oppression. The Chinese communist party is showing other governments the new way to roll back liberties across the globe.
I'd really like to be wrong, but so far, nothing has given me enough hope to be optimistic. It's been almost 17 years since Tiananmen and not a lot has really changed. Except that people have more money, and the government has new technologies at its disposal to keep people in check.
What the article probably meant to say is that standard security practices, combined with increasing personal storage, increases the risk of unknown data loss.
Does WinXX create a log file of USB insertion - damned if I know!
Even if it did, which I doubt, perhaps 0.0001% of Windows domain controllers would know where to look for it, and I very much doubt that it would have any kind of really useful data.
It's a moot point in any case. Most data on windows servers is on a shared network drive. Do those have log files?
...back in September. So in other words, just about forever ago.
This is all part of Taco's new system, whereby dupes are avoided by delaying the breaking of stories by several months. That way, ScuttleMonkey's short term memory loss won't be an issue!
We must have wasted hours of teaching time with our physics teacher trying to prove formulea such as decay rates for radioactive substances, which could have been done in three lines using elementary calculus.
Solution: Teach physics students calculus.
Most people will aspire to do a business, law or arts degreee in university, simply because these lead on to higher paying careers. They will never use calculus again once they leave second level education. Most of them will never even use trigonometry. They will however use caluclators and spreadsheets a lot, so why not teach them that in second level?
Second level education is being tailored to suit the needs of the majority, and the majority don't need calculus, or spelling, or arithmetic anymore. I nnot sure exactly what they need, but I'm sure they must be getting it. After all, there are more business, law and arts students than ever before!
GNU Chess is a great program, especially if you're like me and keep losing all your pieces.
I had this one back in the dawn of time, when we had OS2 on a dual boot with 3.11, before I even knew what dual boot was. Hours of fun. On the higher difficulty settings the computer simply cannot be defeated!
At least, I think it was GNU Chess. It looked exactly like it.
Is it really a problem that this student doesn't want to go into science?
It's a tradgedy. Reread the quote.
"because they all wear big glasses and white coats and I am female"."
...and I am female. This essentially means that one of the students main reasons for dismissing science as a career was because she felt that women either were not welcome to do science, or that it was somehow inappropriate for women to do science.
It's a reflection of the broader cultural sterotyping that people are subjected to. Children are unconsciously taught from a young age what it is "right" or "wrong" for them to do as adults. For whatever reason, ths girl believes that it is somehow "wrong" for women to become scientists. She'd not alone.
Views like this a probably still prevalent in modern society, for both sexes. It's the subconsious creation of a kind of caste system by culture. Certain people simply don't "do" certain things.
Micheal Farady, one of the greatest experimental scientists who ever lived, was born on the lower rung of the english caste system, and it was only by chance that he was able to rise up past it and advance science in the way that he did.
It's tragic that, despite the removal of so many barriers that people like Faraday had to face, culture and society can still create barriers string enough to deterr people from a rewarding career.
Who gives half a crap what teenagers think. Teenagers are powerless until they mature, and part of maturing is losing that teenage cluelessnes.
Except of course they are not completely powerless, as they have the power to choose their future career choices and hence influence the whole economy. What teenagers think about their careers is something everyone really should give a crap about.
I think a lot of this goes down to the rather brutal teenage subculture that actively demotes intellectual persuits and scientific ones in paticular.
No one wants to be that mythical "geeky" student who loves only science and has no friends. Even though such a creature rarely exists, a lot of students will shy away from science for fear of "becoming" such a wretch.
The article shows that lot of teenagers have a view that scientists, though it is awknowladged they do important work, are still are not respected by teenagers. They are unattrative, "not like them", a subculture. Almost another caste. This reflects the wide scale rejection of "geekery" by the mainstream teenage culture. So it's not too difficult to imagine that teenagers might thinl that scientists are a kind of alien caste in society.
It's like this. When you're 15 years old, and about to decide on your future career, having spent the last 3 years in a regressive subculture, you are much more likely to pick a career choice that would draw respect rather than derision from your peers.
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How would you feel if you woke up one morning and had tons of wrinkles on your face where none were before.
When faced with this, many people simply have a hair of the dog that bit them.
So the surgury was experimental. Probably highly so. Admittedly the botched results led to the development of an acceptable treatment for epilepsy, but does this make the inital experiment ethical?
It is a testament to the Linux Virtual Memory model that it is so efficient at masking the underlying memory allocation and access operations from the user that harldy anyone on Slashdot really cares enough to read this model.
Linux Memory Management. We Salute You!
The idea was to cure this persons dibilatating epilepsy, not investigate the function of the anterior hippocampus.
The original operation involved cutting out large sections of this persions temporal lobes. I'm reasonably sure that this procedure would fall under the "experimental" heading as I doubt it would become an accepted practice once the results had been observed.
The other thing that was odd, was the closer to the present it got, the slower it came back.
That's easily explained through general relitivity. As she travelled through time her "speed" in time increased, thus leading to a temporal dialation effect, slowing her down.
But this research is OK because it is completely distinct from "bad" human experiments right? I mean, the end justifies the means here right? We're getting valuable data and all it cost was the long term memory of one solitary man.
Hooray for progress!
GPL3's anti-DRM features are required in a very real sense.
It's like this. Under GPLv2, your only real obligation was to supply the source code and the right to redistribute it.
But with DRM, what's to prevent you digitally securing the binaries and having a system on which only "trusted" binaries are allowed to run. The source is all but useless now, as anyone compiling it will need to get their binaries signed to run on Vista++ or OSXII.
You kill free software as the source alone is not enough to create a "working" binary.
These are the same people who are shutting down perfectly good and safe nuclear reactors in favor of importing electric power from dirty Danish and Polish coal plants and (oh the irony) old Soviet graphite reactors in the Baltics.
Well, they could hardly dump all their nuclear waste and France's, could they?
Their words are back with nucle.... renewable energy weapons!
But can I make an anonymous read/write share without performing invasive surery on config files. And can I then easily mount that share?
Samba is great as a home network share, but it's not a single click system. Security on a home netowrk doesn't really interest me. I'd like to be able to "just share" the files without setting up users etc, etc.
Am I the only person left that likes to see a bit of dare devil in the people that try and push the boundaries.?
No. As a firm proponent of continuing human evolution, the strengthening of the whole human gene pool through the removal of the dare devil stupidity gene both entertains and reassures me.
Any suggestions at all?
Revolt or emigrate. Neither is likely to work.
You could also try, you know, campaigning or something.
1) State of Alaska Division of Elections != United States Department of Justice
They are both a branch of the many faced hydra that is a modern Government. The Grandparent post was insightful. The left hand of government appears to be ignorent of, or ignoring what the right hand is doing,
Computerised voting is the worst idea since the non secret ballot.
Imagine the old paper system where the government paid private companies to count the votes.
Imagine if this company took all the votes into a giant factory with the windows blacked out and the doors shut, and emerged several days later and declared the election results.
You cannot query this result. You cannot enter the building to see the votes being counted. You cannot force the company to show you how they count the votes. You cannot even see the votes anymore.
Would you be satisfied with this? Would it make you feel better if government agents were inside the building to oversee this process? Would you feel happier if you had a blueprint of the counting process design?
Yet computer voting proponents are essentially proposing this very situation. Government oversight is irrelevent. Open source code is irrelevent. transparency is irrelevent. At the end of the day, votes are going into this blacked out factory, a computer, and a result is simply thrown out and you have no idea if it is right or wrong.
Nothing will make computer voting acceptable. Nothing. Unless everyone can see the individual bit voltages flipping on and off, and the votes physically tallying, there's no difference between a result by electronic voting and an outright lie. No matter what any tech-evangelist has to say.
It is the Chinese people's job.
They already tried.
Personally, I feel pessimistic enough right now to say that China will never become a democracy, no matter what anyone does. New technology has the capacity to enable both mass industrialisation and mass oppression. The Chinese communist party is showing other governments the new way to roll back liberties across the globe.
I'd really like to be wrong, but so far, nothing has given me enough hope to be optimistic. It's been almost 17 years since Tiananmen and not a lot has really changed. Except that people have more money, and the government has new technologies at its disposal to keep people in check.
What the article probably meant to say is that standard security practices, combined with increasing personal storage, increases the risk of unknown data loss.
There was a small typo in your post. Fixed.
Does WinXX create a log file of USB insertion - damned if I know!
Even if it did, which I doubt, perhaps 0.0001% of Windows domain controllers would know where to look for it, and I very much doubt that it would have any kind of really useful data.
It's a moot point in any case. Most data on windows servers is on a shared network drive. Do those have log files?
This is all part of Taco's new system, whereby dupes are avoided by delaying the breaking of stories by several months. That way, ScuttleMonkey's short term memory loss won't be an issue!
We must have wasted hours of teaching time with our physics teacher trying to prove formulea such as decay rates for radioactive substances, which could have been done in three lines using elementary calculus.
Solution: Teach physics students calculus.
Most people will aspire to do a business, law or arts degreee in university, simply because these lead on to higher paying careers. They will never use calculus again once they leave second level education. Most of them will never even use trigonometry. They will however use caluclators and spreadsheets a lot, so why not teach them that in second level?
Second level education is being tailored to suit the needs of the majority, and the majority don't need calculus, or spelling, or arithmetic anymore. I nnot sure exactly what they need, but I'm sure they must be getting it. After all, there are more business, law and arts students than ever before!
I'm a research student in Number Theory - that's the most fun thing in the goddamned world.
He's finally cracked! Somebody take those magazine clippings off the walls of his office.
I'm not kidding, 25% of Americans age 15-39 have genital herpes.
OK firstly, citation please. And secondly, what makes you think the situation would be any different without the school system?
GNU Chess is a great program, especially if you're like me and keep losing all your pieces.
I had this one back in the dawn of time, when we had OS2 on a dual boot with 3.11, before I even knew what dual boot was. Hours of fun. On the higher difficulty settings the computer simply cannot be defeated!
At least, I think it was GNU Chess. It looked exactly like it.
It's a tradgedy. Reread the quote.
It's a reflection of the broader cultural sterotyping that people are subjected to. Children are unconsciously taught from a young age what it is "right" or "wrong" for them to do as adults. For whatever reason, ths girl believes that it is somehow "wrong" for women to become scientists. She'd not alone.
Views like this a probably still prevalent in modern society, for both sexes. It's the subconsious creation of a kind of caste system by culture. Certain people simply don't "do" certain things.
Micheal Farady, one of the greatest experimental scientists who ever lived, was born on the lower rung of the english caste system, and it was only by chance that he was able to rise up past it and advance science in the way that he did.
It's tragic that, despite the removal of so many barriers that people like Faraday had to face, culture and society can still create barriers string enough to deterr people from a rewarding career.
Who gives half a crap what teenagers think. Teenagers are powerless until they mature, and part of maturing is losing that teenage cluelessnes.
Except of course they are not completely powerless, as they have the power to choose their future career choices and hence influence the whole economy. What teenagers think about their careers is something everyone really should give a crap about.
I think a lot of this goes down to the rather brutal teenage subculture that actively demotes intellectual persuits and scientific ones in paticular.
No one wants to be that mythical "geeky" student who loves only science and has no friends. Even though such a creature rarely exists, a lot of students will shy away from science for fear of "becoming" such a wretch.
The article shows that lot of teenagers have a view that scientists, though it is awknowladged they do important work, are still are not respected by teenagers. They are unattrative, "not like them", a subculture. Almost another caste. This reflects the wide scale rejection of "geekery" by the mainstream teenage culture. So it's not too difficult to imagine that teenagers might thinl that scientists are a kind of alien caste in society.
It's like this. When you're 15 years old, and about to decide on your future career, having spent the last 3 years in a regressive subculture, you are much more likely to pick a career choice that would draw respect rather than derision from your peers.