Is it too late for the NSA to spin this as just a huge misunderstanding?
I mean PRISM was obviously intended to be a redundant backup of the entire Internet.
Exactly! http://archive.org/index.php is not personal (or social, or whatever, you know what I mean) at all. With only partial backup of public Internet, it does not provide services at personal level, and we need it, surely!
To clone a system we can't get rid of on so much new computers. What is benefit there?
To be free of token license fee Microsoft demands for basic OS, when Office & MSQL &... is what they really are leveraging for. And ReactOS is as good for leverage into M$ dominance as M$ OS is.
I would like to know why Google keeps this forward-to-criminals API in their SDK?? I hope they are responsible enough to pull this API and keep only forward-to-police one.
I don't feel well when my device can communicate with criminals in any way, and I believe Google will address this!
They are also CPU hogging. I shared few folders just for fun of it, and set automatic start on reboot and everything. Few days later, my laptops are idle for hours, and they are still guzzling power. Fast check, it's btsync, and I presumed idle means no CPU usage, at least no 35%.
So I killed all four instances I set up for my test. For my needs, one closed source (d***box) solution is more than enough. At least it is not grabbing CPU when presumably idle. What I really need to do, most probably, is to spend time on http://sparkleshare.org/ .
As to sell services to dictatorships?! Of course not!
But those Swedes (and Fines == Swedes in disguise... Or it's vice versa?) they are capable of anything. Just remember that Finish (his mother's tongue is Swedish, ha!) guy who invented Linux, and you will understand what they are capable of!
As other posters said: for one, algorithms involved can grow very big and very demanding, very fast. That is why they are enlisting external help - to devise new things to do with their sensor data.
Also, more complex algorithms possible will give more quality results, with less bandwidth (to transfer raw data to Earth for calculations) spent. There is no way all sensor data can be streamed downside, for any reasonable set of sensors installed.
But, this is European project (as per TFA). Plus half of EFTA (Switzerland and Norway). So, nothing of direct interest for 90+% of people on Earth/here.
Resulting from average temperature and humidity growth, 98% people are 72% less inclined to indulge in sexual activities. Scientists from UN IPCC's climatodemography subcommittee agreed on 82%-91% less babies will be born in next 20 years than expected. 20 years after that, figure is a bit more fuzzy and goes from 86%-100% drop in new births.
Dig deeper, sleep cooler,... and keep your genes in global pool:)
Antispam measures are effective only when methods are combined, with no single method being more important than everything else.
Also, graylisting in front of your mail server is one of most effective methods to defend. Legitimate mail infrastructure will rarely (if ever) use different IP address for every delivery tried.
Graylisting, combined with RBL, combined with spamassassin (with SPF and most other methods used through it)... And you have decent solution. What remains is to define your policies and your spam problems are terminated, for looong time.
All they need is median analaysis to clean outliers from their datasets. See john tukey median. This solves problems your DOS will cause to their data collecting effort.
Meaning: more robots, better electrical services (as some other poster mentioned), lower shipping costs... leads to better productivity at lower costs... leads to less money earned anywhere, leads to less customers being able to buy products being produced anywhere.
Only imaginable scenario where it is good to have have less jobs (and less customers) is where you in fact have (a lot) less people. Then you get "ideal situation" where rich class and enough population to support them is supported by machines (powered by clean energy so air and water are clean meaning less in supporting costs...).
And so on. It _is_ distopian, but not unreal - not remotely enough.
Of course their first steps are primitive, and their rockets too. But rocket engine is only a part of a space launch. Lots and lots of items of the space launch checklist are done for NK, and they will make non-perfect items better in future. It is great for them and great for lots of other countries as they have shown to everybody what is attainable with resolve and normal amounts of money. All of that under embargo of any kind imagineable.
Prices of space launch are most probably inflated beyond recognition because of small to nonexistent competition. With more space launch capable nations (even NK is a plus), and companies later on, more nations and companies will be able to exploit space and we will all profit from that. From cheaper communications to more data about our planet (more invasions of privacy as side effect, too), real development of space technologies is probably coming - at last. $200,000 per ticket space tourism is not a development, it is - just one more entertainment venue for super rich.
Simulation is a software fed with some input data, then said software performs calculations, iterations, and so on.
If political agenda is part of input data, then whole simulation becomes a lot trickier. It is tricky from start - as we assume software writer had good model, programmed without errors... When input data is biased towards particular political goal, then all bets are off. And anybody following whole climate "discussion" knows how objectivity is long dead.
Never cry wolf, it was said... I hope we will not pay gravely for past abuse of cry-wolf.
...I'll be happy to look at whatever they send to me.
And vice versa.
They probably can kill AdBlock Plus (legally). As they tried to kill libdvbcss, at least. When this happens, people will find other ways to block. And advertisers will find new ways to attack blockers, and to pass their ads through. And so on.
I am almost-buyer of Kindle and practically all I need from it is science and math... Thanks for tips, and I hope this is read widely. Maybe next year, or decade... But not before all devices are updated to normal-math, acceptable-tables and acceptable-pdf.
There is another problem I was already aware of - PDF display is, by default, _awful_. I understand why's but I think it is not acceptable at all.
Scientists have discovered small crystals embedded in the ants' palms that turn to a different color when the ant's maximum age has been reached. However, in one colony they observed two ants trying to escape this fate by running away from the colony and finding sanctuary. Other ants were tasks with hunting down the two runners and terminating them.
are they factoring in that the online students may have much, much, much... much more free time than a "brick and mortar" student?
Seriously consider the possibility that an in-person student may be taking many classes all at once, with attention diversified versus someone online who may only be taking one class.
As I said, I haven't read the article.
First and most important thing first: Thrun is one selling Udacity, Meaning - everything he says is biased. Bias by money, nothing unusual, but bias still.
High education without academy and without personal contact with peers and faculty staff... Looks like Thrun just invented high education without hassle called human factor, err.. professors. Car without driver, education without teachers... Pure genius!:)
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Is it too late for the NSA to spin this as just a huge misunderstanding?
I mean PRISM was obviously intended to be a redundant backup of the entire Internet.
Exactly! http://archive.org/index.php is not personal (or social, or whatever, you know what I mean) at all. With only partial backup of public Internet, it does not provide services at personal level, and we need it, surely!
ReactOS is.
To clone a system we can't get rid of on so much new computers. What is benefit there?
To be free of token license fee Microsoft demands for basic OS, when Office & MSQL & ... is what they really are leveraging for. And ReactOS is as good for leverage into M$ dominance as M$ OS is.
And so on.
Stupid. Waste. Of. OSS. Talent. ReactOS.
I would like to know why Google keeps this forward-to-criminals API in their SDK?? I hope they are responsible enough to pull this API and keep only forward-to-police one.
I don't feel well when my device can communicate with criminals in any way, and I believe Google will address this!
TIA Google!
They are also CPU hogging. I shared few folders just for fun of it, and set automatic start on reboot and everything. Few days later, my laptops are idle for hours, and they are still guzzling power. Fast check, it's btsync, and I presumed idle means no CPU usage, at least no 35%.
So I killed all four instances I set up for my test. For my needs, one closed source (d***box) solution is more than enough. At least it is not grabbing CPU when presumably idle. What I really need to do, most probably, is to spend time on http://sparkleshare.org/ .
As to sell services to dictatorships?! Of course not!
But those Swedes (and Fines == Swedes in disguise... Or it's vice versa?) they are capable of anything. Just remember that Finish (his mother's tongue is Swedish, ha!) guy who invented Linux, and you will understand what they are capable of!
Mozilla, please stop them!
Those are some great people. Good thing they built this think tank and thank God we have such great people to rely on!
I will trade longer life for longer remembrance every day :).
As other posters said: for one, algorithms involved can grow very big and very demanding, very fast. That is why they are enlisting external help - to devise new things to do with their sensor data.
Also, more complex algorithms possible will give more quality results, with less bandwidth (to transfer raw data to Earth for calculations) spent. There is no way all sensor data can be streamed downside, for any reasonable set of sensors installed.
But, this is European project (as per TFA). Plus half of EFTA (Switzerland and Norway). So, nothing of direct interest for 90+% of people on Earth/here.
In other news...
Resulting from average temperature and humidity growth, 98% people are 72% less inclined to indulge in sexual activities. Scientists from UN IPCC's climatodemography subcommittee agreed on 82%-91% less babies will be born in next 20 years than expected. 20 years after that, figure is a bit more fuzzy and goes from 86%-100% drop in new births.
Dig deeper, sleep cooler, ... and keep your genes in global pool :)
Antispam measures are effective only when methods are combined, with no single method being more important than everything else.
Also, graylisting in front of your mail server is one of most effective methods to defend. Legitimate mail infrastructure will rarely (if ever) use different IP address for every delivery tried.
Graylisting, combined with RBL, combined with spamassassin (with SPF and most other methods used through it)... And you have decent solution. What remains is to define your policies and your spam problems are terminated, for looong time.
All they need is median analaysis to clean outliers from their datasets. See john tukey median. This solves problems your DOS will cause to their data collecting effort.
Meaning: more robots, better electrical services (as some other poster mentioned), lower shipping costs... leads to better productivity at lower costs... leads to less money earned anywhere, leads to less customers being able to buy products being produced anywhere.
Only imaginable scenario where it is good to have have less jobs (and less customers) is where you in fact have (a lot) less people. Then you get "ideal situation" where rich class and enough population to support them is supported by machines (powered by clean energy so air and water are clean meaning less in supporting costs...).
And so on. It _is_ distopian, but not unreal - not remotely enough.
Of course their first steps are primitive, and their rockets too. But rocket
engine is only a part of a space launch. Lots and lots of items of the space
launch checklist are done for NK, and they will make non-perfect items
better in future. It is great for them and great for lots of other countries
as they have shown to everybody what is attainable with resolve and normal
amounts of money. All of that under embargo of any kind imagineable.
Prices of space launch are most probably inflated beyond recognition because
of small to nonexistent competition. With more space launch capable nations
(even NK is a plus), and companies later on, more nations and companies will
be able to exploit space and we will all profit from that. From cheaper
communications to more data about our planet (more invasions of privacy as
side effect, too), real development of space technologies is probably coming
- at last. $200,000 per ticket space tourism is not a development, it is
- just one more entertainment venue for super rich.
It is really very grave!!! OK... MAYBE!
Simulation is a software fed with some input data, then said software performs calculations, iterations, and so on.
If political agenda is part of input data, then whole simulation becomes a lot trickier. It is tricky from start - as we assume software writer had good model, programmed without errors... When input data is biased towards particular political goal, then all bets are off. And anybody following whole climate "discussion" knows how objectivity is long dead.
Never cry wolf, it was said... I hope we will not pay gravely for past abuse of cry-wolf.
Two words - better education.
If People are not educated, decisions are made by mainstream media propaganda.
While in fact espionage is what pays for it :).
We can only hope health care improvements will be at least a side-effect.
...I'll be happy to look at whatever they send to me.
And vice versa.
They probably can kill AdBlock Plus (legally). As they tried to kill libdvbcss, at least. When this happens, people will find other ways to block. And advertisers will find new ways to attack blockers, and to pass their ads through. And so on.
I am almost-buyer of Kindle and practically all I need from it is science and math... Thanks for tips, and I hope this is read widely. Maybe next year, or decade... But not before all devices are updated to normal-math, acceptable-tables and acceptable-pdf.
There is another problem I was already aware of - PDF display is, by default, _awful_. I understand why's but I think it is not acceptable at all.
It is obvious by now.
To provide "mission critical" and then share weaknesses around.
To insert single point of privacy/authorization failure...
And all that from a German company.
Still puzzled.
Scientists have discovered small crystals embedded in the ants' palms that turn to a different color when the ant's maximum age has been reached. However, in one colony they observed two ants trying to escape this fate by running away from the colony and finding sanctuary. Other ants were tasks with hunting down the two runners and terminating them.
I heard they termitted them, eventually.
are they factoring in that the online students may have much, much, much... much more free time than a "brick and mortar" student?
Seriously consider the possibility that an in-person student may be taking many classes all at once, with attention diversified versus someone online who may only be taking one class.
As I said, I haven't read the article.
First and most important thing first: Thrun is one selling Udacity, Meaning - everything he says is biased. Bias by money, nothing unusual, but bias still.
High education without academy and without personal contact with peers and faculty staff... Looks like Thrun just invented high education without hassle called human factor, err.. professors. Car without driver, education without teachers... Pure genius! :)
Yeah we need far more testing on radiation. Especially in the 400nm to 700nm range.
Sure they say its perfectly safe but how long have we been exposing ourselves to it? More data is required!
Together with dihydrogen monoxide.
World would be much better off without such radiation and substances.
And to manipulate such quantities of data - yet another thing.
And that another another thing is something to think about here. To calculate from raindrop up, or to take chaos theory shortcuts?
I really don't know much about meteorology and chaos theory, but I am sure people thinking about individual raindrop approach do not know, too!
It's only been a mere 58 years. Now is the time to look into this.
No brainer for Dr. Brennan. She solved JFK case, kind of warming up for Turing.
Given my downmods, no. :-)
But /. is a game with elaborate scoring - and Karma is not the sole scale for measuring this.
An interesting game -- the only winning move is not to register.
Is it not same for all MMO(RP)Gs?