However, the stress in the callers voice may not indicate the severity of the emergency.
Some people can be calm and collective in very high stress situations, whereas some people freak out when someone has a dizzy spell. Additionally an outside observer may be less stressed, for example someone calling in a 5 car pile up or reporting that someone in their store just collapsed. And then there are children making calls... which probably introduced a whole new level of random.
The article mentions an error rate, but doesn’t really seem to elaborate as to whether that error rate is stress to emergency, or the algorithm’s ability to identify stress. Before deploying something like this, I hope they do some kind of study to determine if stressed voices correlate to actual emergency severity in the majority of cases (which they may have already done, the article isn’t clear).
I tend to just use directories of symlinks on the odd occasion where I want a logical collection of something. Kind of the hacked file system equivalent of a playlist. I can even put additional detail in the symlink name that I would leave out of my “main tree”. Generally though, a simple hierarchical structure has worked fine for me and my 6+ TB of media. If I anticipate wanting to search for something down the road, I also sometimes put it in the file name (indexed by slocate every night).
You are probably looking for a tagging/metadata tool but I think the problem with those is you have to obsessively tag/provide that metadata and they aren’t going to integrate with all your favourite viewers and such. It just seems more trouble than it’s worth to me, but with different levels of motivation and borderline OCD, it could work very well (and probably does for many).
The problem is, domain information is sent over as part of the _decrypted_ http data (the host header). In other words, you don't know what domain name was used until after it is decrypted. As such, you can't use that information to decide which key to use in the decryption process. The only thing you have to key off on is the IP address, ergo why it has to be unique.
The exception to this is to send the host info in plaintext first so the server can identify which cert to use... but this is of course not supported by all browsers and no one would want to depend on it for their business.
I’m no HTML technician, however I would assume it requires significantly more processing power. Your personal blog or website with 10 hits a day sure, run it over https and you probably wouldn’t notice much difference (aside from the cost of your own unique IP address). A large scale site however would probably have more hardware and bandwidth requirements to implement https on everything.
And I don’t think it’s laziness. A lot of sites will do the login and purchasing bits over https, and have the rest of the site regular old http. It’s probably more effort to do this kind of mixed environment than just make the whole damn thing over https. The only reason for this that I can see is if there was a significant cost associated with encrypting everything un-necessarily.
Am I the only one, or do all the groupon advertisements put anyone else off?
I love the concept of groupon it’s really quite brilliant but for some reason all their ads and even their name totally puts me off. They feature food I like, but it doesn’t look appetising for some reason I can’t put my finger on. Also phrasing like “hot dang” appears to have a negative effect on me.
This isn’t meant to be a troll or anything, I’m legitimately curious. I know I'm not the coupon type, but it seems weird that they put me off so completely.
As a Canadian I wish we had things as good as they do in the US (phone plan wise that is).
Seriously.. rates and plans are insane over here. Unless you live in one of maybe 4 areas that have anything approaching competition, you pretty much get bent over the barrel.
I'd love a phone with GPS, and a data plan for the occasional quick search or map lookup.. but for $70 a month (which is really what you end up paying here) it's just not worth it for something I'd use a few times a week.
Shitty as banking looks down there (I'm Canadian).. I have to imagine US banks are a hell of a lot more regulated than paypal, which can pretty much do whatever the hell it wants and answer to no one.
I game fairly infrequently, but it seems lately that every time I turn my machine on to play a quick game of something simple (currently plants vs. zombies) I have to wait an hour while it pulls some update (which probably provides no new functionality and is purely to screw with modders) from their disturbingly slow servers.
My post wasn't meant as an argument, but more a thought on how information of that fidelity would even be dealt with.
Performing a detailed analysis on everything everyone does 24/7 isn't purely a technical problem. It has to be worth it (assuming money even exists when we have the technology for something like this) for someone to invest the time and energy to either analyse the data themselves or build a machine to analyse it for them.
Excluding all the other numerous technical issues here, we’d probably need some kind of artificial intelligence, or something close to it first before something like this could even potentially work.
A lot of these ideas involve making intelligent decisions about people based on large amounts of data. The kind of decisions and data sources that would be hard to algorithm-ize.
The current reality is that on an individual level, no one is going to spend 5 days reading reports about you so they can sell you a better toothbrush. Marketers work in the aggregate using a set of data points. Simply put, we’re for the most part not worth the individual trouble. Unless you can train a machine to do it, I don't see it happening at this level.
It was the publisher who decided to pull those books.. not some dystopian government bent on controlling the population.
Yes I agree DRM is a bad thing, but it's a tool of greed more than a tool of oppression. They don't want to control what you read.. they just want to make you pay more money for it.
Just about every technology can conceivably be used for evil. The cellphone thing is at least plausible (hense my initial point that this rant seems saner than most).
I was expecting something a little less sane for his yearly fanatical rant, like revealing that Larry Ellison seeks control of the fires of eternal damnation (using non-free software) or something. This is still a fanatical rant, but definitely not RMS fanatical.
I’d like to note that I do have a lot of respect for RMS and what he has done for "free software"; however the man can be a fanatical lunatic, and I think at this point this does the cause more harm than good.
It appears they also use your referer to determine which page you see (as mentioned by other people in this thread). So if you hit the site from google.com, you see the answers at the bottom.
As far as I know, that's a glitch. It doesn't happen for everyone.
As I understand it, they use your user agent to determine whether you are a search engine or not. If you are a search engine, they give you all the answers (this is probably how they get so high in search rankings).. otherwise.. you get the "pay here" page. Essentially your user agent is weird enough that it thinks you are a search engine and is giving you your answers.
There is an obvious way to exploit this behaviour, but I still prefer to find my information at a less "slime of the earth" site.
Robots, on the other hand, can NEVER be empathetic or kind
Neither can stuffed animals... but even adults can form tight emotional bonds with something they know is "fake".
It doesn't matter if robots can actually be empathetic.. or even whether someone believes they are empathetic.. people are perfectly capable of tricking themselves into personifying things they know are fake. Perception is more important than reality.
And I actually think for some situations.. having a sterile, uncaring machine vs a thinking person might be good. Weird hypothetical question... if you were at an airport and got singled out for a physical search.. would you rather it be done by a human or a machine (assuming both were just as capable for the task). Apply same question to many awkward situations... and I think this kind of stuff does have a future.
My point wasn't that those two games are exclusive to console, it was that as long as console is cable of playing them (and other similar games.. nothing special about those two.. they were just the two games I played last) the console meets my needs.
The reason I prefer console to PC is mainly that I use Linux. Doing PC gaming would either require dual boot (which is a hassle for quick 30 minute breaks) or wine (even more hassle) or a dedicated windows PC (effort, costs more). This was really the point of my post. Console is good for people who just want to play the occasional game.
Guess it depends on situation. Where I use Linux on all my boxes, I would either have to buy a second dedicated box, do the wine thing, or dual boot windows.
The dual boot option is a huge hassle because I'm a very casual gamer... I'll play something for maybe half an hour to take a break from whatever I'm doing. Having to stop everything and reboot is impractical for this purpose.
The wine option is an even bigger hassle for fairly obvious reasons.
So that leaves a seperate dedicated PC. I have to pick out parts and so forth (or even if I go to walmart and buy one.. I still have to think about it). I haven't used windows in a long time, but I'm guessing there is still some distance between "installed" and "in a usable state". My last windows experience was about a day of removing various included junk, and a day worth of windows live updates. Not to mention a PC is gonna cost more! Console hardware is still a lot of (specialized) hardware for pretty damn cheap.
This compared to my PS3.. which I essentially bought on an impulse one day after having lunch with someone. We were talking about a game (I think it was fallout) and I was kind of "yeah I haven't played a game in quite a long time... I should get a console or something".. went and bought a PS3 and a copy of the game and was playing that afternoon.
But I still prefer console. A PS3 at that. Sony may be evil.. and they may gradually strip out features people have already paid for and do all manner of slimey underhanded stuff.. but as long as I can play every day shooter and plants vs zombies and the occasional "real" game.. I'm happy.
Console is nice because it's consistent. My PS3 is probably for the most part identical to yours. I don't have to worry about how much ram I have or my video card to know I'm getting the full, intended experience.
The bleeding edge "every last FPS" stuff may end up moving to PC, but I think consoles will still have a place for people like me who want to just buy something and start playing.
The problem is, you need a lot less people for occasional verification than you did when they were actually doing the original work. Having someone check a document search to verify it's working correctly, vice having a team of people who do document searches all day, is a significant difference in number of employed persons.
I do agree that we will always have slog work. There's always going to be a need for someone to do thing manually, at least once. And there is always going to be stuff that's too specialized or too small to bother automating. Slog work isn't going to be eliminated... but the amount of it available is going to take a sharp nose dive.
So your HR people systematically screen out good people based on useless qualifications.
Sadly it's been my observation that large companies which don't are the exception.
In some cases it's not even the employers doing, but the customers. In big contracts, it's common for a customer to dictate the level of formal qualifications the people working on their project will have. This also drives a lot of the useless certification stuff.
The real fun starts when they need 5 years experience in a technology that has only existed for 3.
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However, the stress in the callers voice may not indicate the severity of the emergency.
Some people can be calm and collective in very high stress situations, whereas some people freak out when someone has a dizzy spell. Additionally an outside observer may be less stressed, for example someone calling in a 5 car pile up or reporting that someone in their store just collapsed. And then there are children making calls... which probably introduced a whole new level of random.
The article mentions an error rate, but doesn’t really seem to elaborate as to whether that error rate is stress to emergency, or the algorithm’s ability to identify stress. Before deploying something like this, I hope they do some kind of study to determine if stressed voices correlate to actual emergency severity in the majority of cases (which they may have already done, the article isn’t clear).
I tend to just use directories of symlinks on the odd occasion where I want a logical collection of something. Kind of the hacked file system equivalent of a playlist. I can even put additional detail in the symlink name that I would leave out of my “main tree”. Generally though, a simple hierarchical structure has worked fine for me and my 6+ TB of media. If I anticipate wanting to search for something down the road, I also sometimes put it in the file name (indexed by slocate every night).
You are probably looking for a tagging/metadata tool but I think the problem with those is you have to obsessively tag/provide that metadata and they aren’t going to integrate with all your favourite viewers and such. It just seems more trouble than it’s worth to me, but with different levels of motivation and borderline OCD, it could work very well (and probably does for many).
Not really and not really.
The problem is, domain information is sent over as part of the _decrypted_ http data (the host header). In other words, you don't know what domain name was used until after it is decrypted. As such, you can't use that information to decide which key to use in the decryption process. The only thing you have to key off on is the IP address, ergo why it has to be unique.
The exception to this is to send the host info in plaintext first so the server can identify which cert to use... but this is of course not supported by all browsers and no one would want to depend on it for their business.
I would assume in cases like this, they set the SSL bit in the cookie and do whatever web voodoo is necessary such that the cookie gets sent over ssl.
Then again, I've seen some pretty boneheaded stuff security wise on the web... maybe they don't!
I’m no HTML technician, however I would assume it requires significantly more processing power. Your personal blog or website with 10 hits a day sure, run it over https and you probably wouldn’t notice much difference (aside from the cost of your own unique IP address). A large scale site however would probably have more hardware and bandwidth requirements to implement https on everything.
And I don’t think it’s laziness. A lot of sites will do the login and purchasing bits over https, and have the rest of the site regular old http. It’s probably more effort to do this kind of mixed environment than just make the whole damn thing over https. The only reason for this that I can see is if there was a significant cost associated with encrypting everything un-necessarily.
Am I the only one, or do all the groupon advertisements put anyone else off?
I love the concept of groupon it’s really quite brilliant but for some reason all their ads and even their name totally puts me off. They feature food I like, but it doesn’t look appetising for some reason I can’t put my finger on. Also phrasing like “hot dang” appears to have a negative effect on me.
This isn’t meant to be a troll or anything, I’m legitimately curious. I know I'm not the coupon type, but it seems weird that they put me off so completely.
As a Canadian I wish we had things as good as they do in the US (phone plan wise that is).
Seriously.. rates and plans are insane over here. Unless you live in one of maybe 4 areas that have anything approaching competition, you pretty much get bent over the barrel.
I'd love a phone with GPS, and a data plan for the occasional quick search or map lookup.. but for $70 a month (which is really what you end up paying here) it's just not worth it for something I'd use a few times a week.
Probably too high up there on their tower of money.
Seriously.. it must get to a point where you make such obscene profit that it's not even worth your time to look into making more.
Shitty as banking looks down there (I'm Canadian) .. I have to imagine US banks are a hell of a lot more regulated than paypal, which can pretty much do whatever the hell it wants and answer to no one.
Amen.
I game fairly infrequently, but it seems lately that every time I turn my machine on to play a quick game of something simple (currently plants vs. zombies) I have to wait an hour while it pulls some update (which probably provides no new functionality and is purely to screw with modders) from their disturbingly slow servers.
My post wasn't meant as an argument, but more a thought on how information of that fidelity would even be dealt with.
Performing a detailed analysis on everything everyone does 24/7 isn't purely a technical problem. It has to be worth it (assuming money even exists when we have the technology for something like this) for someone to invest the time and energy to either analyse the data themselves or build a machine to analyse it for them.
Great.. now I have to watch that movie when I go home tonight.
I could have used that time for something productive!
Excluding all the other numerous technical issues here, we’d probably need some kind of artificial intelligence, or something close to it first before something like this could even potentially work.
A lot of these ideas involve making intelligent decisions about people based on large amounts of data. The kind of decisions and data sources that would be hard to algorithm-ize.
The current reality is that on an individual level, no one is going to spend 5 days reading reports about you so they can sell you a better toothbrush. Marketers work in the aggregate using a set of data points. Simply put, we’re for the most part not worth the individual trouble. Unless you can train a machine to do it, I don't see it happening at this level.
Oh good grief...
It was the publisher who decided to pull those books .. not some dystopian government bent on controlling the population.
Yes I agree DRM is a bad thing, but it's a tool of greed more than a tool of oppression. They don't want to control what you read.. they just want to make you pay more money for it.
Just about every technology can conceivably be used for evil. The cellphone thing is at least plausible (hense my initial point that this rant seems saner than most).
I was expecting something a little less sane for his yearly fanatical rant, like revealing that Larry Ellison seeks control of the fires of eternal damnation (using non-free software) or something. This is still a fanatical rant, but definitely not RMS fanatical.
I’d like to note that I do have a lot of respect for RMS and what he has done for "free software"; however the man can be a fanatical lunatic, and I think at this point this does the cause more harm than good.
Sure, but doesn't mean they don't do it!
It appears they also use your referer to determine which page you see (as mentioned by other people in this thread). So if you hit the site from google.com, you see the answers at the bottom.
Ah.. that makes sense. I use google.ca, and no answers for me, although I get them from google.com.
I also get them if I go direct to the site with a googlebot user agent.
Either way, it's all very sketchy.
As far as I know, that's a glitch. It doesn't happen for everyone.
As I understand it, they use your user agent to determine whether you are a search engine or not. If you are a search engine, they give you all the answers (this is probably how they get so high in search rankings).. otherwise.. you get the "pay here" page. Essentially your user agent is weird enough that it thinks you are a search engine and is giving you your answers.
There is an obvious way to exploit this behaviour, but I still prefer to find my information at a less "slime of the earth" site.
Robots, on the other hand, can NEVER be empathetic or kind
Neither can stuffed animals ... but even adults can form tight emotional bonds with something they know is "fake".
It doesn't matter if robots can actually be empathetic.. or even whether someone believes they are empathetic.. people are perfectly capable of tricking themselves into personifying things they know are fake. Perception is more important than reality.
And I actually think for some situations.. having a sterile, uncaring machine vs a thinking person might be good. Weird hypothetical question... if you were at an airport and got singled out for a physical search .. would you rather it be done by a human or a machine (assuming both were just as capable for the task). Apply same question to many awkward situations ... and I think this kind of stuff does have a future.
My point wasn't that those two games are exclusive to console, it was that as long as console is cable of playing them (and other similar games.. nothing special about those two.. they were just the two games I played last) the console meets my needs.
The reason I prefer console to PC is mainly that I use Linux. Doing PC gaming would either require dual boot (which is a hassle for quick 30 minute breaks) or wine (even more hassle) or a dedicated windows PC (effort, costs more). This was really the point of my post. Console is good for people who just want to play the occasional game.
Guess it depends on situation. Where I use Linux on all my boxes, I would either have to buy a second dedicated box, do the wine thing, or dual boot windows.
The dual boot option is a huge hassle because I'm a very casual gamer... I'll play something for maybe half an hour to take a break from whatever I'm doing. Having to stop everything and reboot is impractical for this purpose.
The wine option is an even bigger hassle for fairly obvious reasons.
So that leaves a seperate dedicated PC. I have to pick out parts and so forth (or even if I go to walmart and buy one.. I still have to think about it). I haven't used windows in a long time, but I'm guessing there is still some distance between "installed" and "in a usable state". My last windows experience was about a day of removing various included junk, and a day worth of windows live updates. Not to mention a PC is gonna cost more! Console hardware is still a lot of (specialized) hardware for pretty damn cheap.
This compared to my PS3.. which I essentially bought on an impulse one day after having lunch with someone. We were talking about a game (I think it was fallout) and I was kind of "yeah I haven't played a game in quite a long time... I should get a console or something" .. went and bought a PS3 and a copy of the game and was playing that afternoon.
But I still prefer console. A PS3 at that. Sony may be evil.. and they may gradually strip out features people have already paid for and do all manner of slimey underhanded stuff.. but as long as I can play every day shooter and plants vs zombies and the occasional "real" game.. I'm happy.
Console is nice because it's consistent. My PS3 is probably for the most part identical to yours. I don't have to worry about how much ram I have or my video card to know I'm getting the full, intended experience.
The bleeding edge "every last FPS" stuff may end up moving to PC, but I think consoles will still have a place for people like me who want to just buy something and start playing.
The problem is, you need a lot less people for occasional verification than you did when they were actually doing the original work. Having someone check a document search to verify it's working correctly, vice having a team of people who do document searches all day, is a significant difference in number of employed persons.
I do agree that we will always have slog work. There's always going to be a need for someone to do thing manually, at least once. And there is always going to be stuff that's too specialized or too small to bother automating. Slog work isn't going to be eliminated... but the amount of it available is going to take a sharp nose dive.
So your HR people systematically screen out good people based on useless qualifications.
Sadly it's been my observation that large companies which don't are the exception.
In some cases it's not even the employers doing, but the customers. In big contracts, it's common for a customer to dictate the level of formal qualifications the people working on their project will have. This also drives a lot of the useless certification stuff.
The real fun starts when they need 5 years experience in a technology that has only existed for 3.
That last bit really is the problem.
I would very happily work a 4 day week for less money.. but no one wants a part time programmer when they can get a full time programmer.