If they have to look these cases up in the news instead of getting notified by hospitals and clinics, then the system is in a really bad shape.
Very true - but might there be value in understanding the public's awareness of disease? One thing that this map might measure is a communitites awareness of transmissible disease and awareness *should* lead to protective behaviour. So if there's a mismatch between regular epidemiological stats and this map then perhaps public health bods should going in there telling people to wear condoms, wash their hands, etc.
This is neat - although how useful it is I don't know... It'll be pretty obvious that communitites not tied to the www 24/7 will be sorely under-represented. Also, the disease categories seem a bit narrow - it would be cool to have stuff like murder, violence and alcohol related-disease in there. Ok, not transmissible diseases in their own right but they still have some pretty profound health-related consequences.
I'm on Virgin and I can confirm that the service they offer, at least in our city, is ropey. No, it's beyond ropey. The connection regularly drops, the cable tv service they offer freezes, broadband speeds are about 25% of advertised. And so on. Customer Service's advice? Switch eveything off and on. Great. Anyhow - given their vague service I really don't think I could tell whether they are throttling my connection or whether it's service as usual - but if one of those letters lands on my mat I will switch ISP. Even if it means going back to a dial up service. And for the record, their trains are no better.
My question is: Are the tiny dots in the background a dirty fax or photocopier artifact or are they, in fact, the code. Good point - as Sherlock Holmes noted, the best place to hide something is often right in front of the person who is trying to find it... I often hide my car keys from myself in this way.
Einstein's letter raises another issue - do scientists, the great, good and so forth still write letters? My feelings are that people nowadays just type out emails or long journal articles. The letter writing industry seems to have disappeared - which would be a terrible shame. Letters written by big historical figures like Einstein provide important insights into their thinking that other forms of communication seem to lack.
Not only that - you'd need access to the site in order to practice free speech. I'd have been really impressed if tpb had made efforts to overcome technological inequality and state censoring.
If it was with the parties being prosecuted then, yes, that would be totally inappropriate. But Warner's and the police are surely on the same side here?
Unpopular tough this might be - I'd agree with this
If he did a good job finding or uncovering stuff, why wouldn't they want to hire him after its over? anyhow - in any case that involves the police surely its expected that they talk to the parties involved? In fact it would seem a bit daft if there was no dialogue...
don't, its not good for geeks. if ever in your lifetime a girl likes you, you'll fry her with your intense gaze. lol! Now I definitely want laser implants - but not for the ability to light candles on romantic evenings with a bat of an eyelid. It's too late for that. I want to fry the mother-in-law!
Personally, I think:
I mean, heck, if it was that easy, why wouldn't your own virus app say, "hey, although I can't find an infection, I did notice youre e-mail client wasn't open, but you sent 4500 messages today, and your machine was running a screen saver when it did it..."...and if it could detect that, it would know the CPU thread and thus the application responsible for it, and could report that centrally to the AV venor using a feedback program. unfortunately, even local software doesn't have access to that kind of packet sniffing power (and most PCs couldn't handle the load if it did, not without big packet latencies anyway). could be the seed of a good idea. Some public health chap once told be that if it wasn't for the effects on health of disease it wouldn't be a problem... point being, if you can get rid of the behaviour (i.e. 500 spam emails a day) then who cares if someone's pc is infected? So how hard would it be to allow packet sniffing? If the load would be too great then how about some probabilistic sampling to try and home in on potentially harmful behaviour?
I have to agree with your sentiment. There is nothing wrong with the medium of newspaper (ok, there might be a whole load wrong with some of the people who decide what gets printed). When Gutenberg invented the printing press he pushed literacy to a great many - no longer did people have to rely on spoken word and it's subjectivity to catch up on what was going on locally and nationally. The newspapers that flowed off the printing presses helped create professional journalism and this, and I realise this might not be popular, is something I feel is sorely lacking in the blogosphere. Internet news is, by and large, ephemeral (pages can disappear at the slightest hint of litigation), professional standards are lacking (there are exceptions though) and user generated content is awash with ranting and unsubstantiated gossip and innuendo. I like reading a well-written newspaper and having it around for a few days. And echoing the sentiment of the above poster, I find my local paper plays a very important role in my local community. I think it would be a terrible shame if we lost them all.
A nice idea but to stop the inevitable trolling you're going to need some decent moderation. But then you'll probably get risk averse moderators taking down potentially inflammatory comments who will then be criticized for stifling free speech. And then when the people who might want to join in hear that free speech is being stifled over at opengov.com they'll come to/., and similar sites, in their hoards to moan about how repressive their government has become. Flame wars will be inevitable./. will seize up, I'll have to go back to work. It's just another no-win situation.
Indeed - but with such a small sample size the researchers would not have been able to adjust for exposure, or age in this case. My guess is that beer consumption declines with age and science is generally cumulative (the longer you do science the more papers you produce and therefore the higher the probability of writing something of interest). In other words, age could easily explain this beer/science relationship - younger scientists drink more - as could a whole host of other variables.
I don't see why they shouldn't. But so long as clear unambiguous rules govern how ads are place in the pages and how they interact with content. Importantly, I'd get some accountant type to sort out a trust or something and have revenue classified as charitable donations. In other words, keep the revenue distinct from wikipedia and use the trust to support salaries, running costs, etc., as a form of donation. IMNA accountant, might be obvious, but some sort of separation, board of trustees, etc., would seem like a good idea, imho.
My impression, fwiw, is that it's more than just gaffes that prevent assent to the executive washroom. By it's very nature, good programming comes from accurate and honest people - there's just not a lot of room for fudging and half-arse attempts to make do. Executives, on the other hand, seem to need incredible motivation to acquire all the accoutrements of executive status and an almost pathological desire to fudge details and skip awkward counter factuals.
I think the most important message here is that search engines should be obliged under law to insure the integrity of their search algorithms and that any deviation is documented and transparent. It would be scary if one of the worlds biggest search engines overweighted Fox News in searches for factual information, downplaying Reuters, etc. I'm not saying Fox makes stuff up but they certainly have their own, shall we say, house style.
All products that come out of Google seem to have something to do with advertising and Android will be just such a vehicle for them And that is why I'll probably pass - Google has permeated through to many corners of my life but when it comes to such an intimate gadget (in that... nah, I'll let you work that out) I think I'd rather pay a premium and leave the advertising behind.
How many of you actually use two separate browsers as described here, I am just wondering... Me. I use IE as my 'promiscuous' browser and Firefox as my safe browser - makes sense to me. But of course, this is not the only means I have of protecting myself but it helps in one important way... It reminds me that I should be careful.
I don't think the jokes will stop at memory... I can almost hear my children stumbling upon my old tablet (HP4400) in ten years time and wetting themselves laughing at that monstrous "just so unportable, dude" paving slab of a machine.
Indeed, the numbers do not add up - $400,000 for 17,000 laptops works out at a cost to microsoft of about $24 per laptop. Which doesn't sound much if the new owners then bought office for each. If I were the Nigerian marketing company I'd have asked for more!
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Yes, thanks, I've called it the auto-patent-maximizer(c).
If they have to look these cases up in the news instead of getting notified by hospitals and clinics, then the system is in a really bad shape.
Very true - but might there be value in understanding the public's awareness of disease? One thing that this map might measure is a communitites awareness of transmissible disease and awareness *should* lead to protective behaviour. So if there's a mismatch between regular epidemiological stats and this map then perhaps public health bods should going in there telling people to wear condoms, wash their hands, etc.
This is neat - although how useful it is I don't know... It'll be pretty obvious that communitites not tied to the www 24/7 will be sorely under-represented. Also, the disease categories seem a bit narrow - it would be cool to have stuff like murder, violence and alcohol related-disease in there. Ok, not transmissible diseases in their own right but they still have some pretty profound health-related consequences.
I'm on Virgin and I can confirm that the service they offer, at least in our city, is ropey. No, it's beyond ropey. The connection regularly drops, the cable tv service they offer freezes, broadband speeds are about 25% of advertised. And so on. Customer Service's advice? Switch eveything off and on. Great. Anyhow - given their vague service I really don't think I could tell whether they are throttling my connection or whether it's service as usual - but if one of those letters lands on my mat I will switch ISP. Even if it means going back to a dial up service. And for the record, their trains are no better.
Though technically, the stereotype is unreproductive. (Is that even a word?)
Unreproductive©... it is now!Einstein's letter raises another issue - do scientists, the great, good and so forth still write letters? My feelings are that people nowadays just type out emails or long journal articles. The letter writing industry seems to have disappeared - which would be a terrible shame. Letters written by big historical figures like Einstein provide important insights into their thinking that other forms of communication seem to lack.
Not only that - you'd need access to the site in order to practice free speech. I'd have been really impressed if tpb had made efforts to overcome technological inequality and state censoring.
If it was with the parties being prosecuted then, yes, that would be totally inappropriate. But Warner's and the police are surely on the same side here?
I have to agree with your sentiment. There is nothing wrong with the medium of newspaper (ok, there might be a whole load wrong with some of the people who decide what gets printed). When Gutenberg invented the printing press he pushed literacy to a great many - no longer did people have to rely on spoken word and it's subjectivity to catch up on what was going on locally and nationally. The newspapers that flowed off the printing presses helped create professional journalism and this, and I realise this might not be popular, is something I feel is sorely lacking in the blogosphere. Internet news is, by and large, ephemeral (pages can disappear at the slightest hint of litigation), professional standards are lacking (there are exceptions though) and user generated content is awash with ranting and unsubstantiated gossip and innuendo. I like reading a well-written newspaper and having it around for a few days. And echoing the sentiment of the above poster, I find my local paper plays a very important role in my local community. I think it would be a terrible shame if we lost them all.
A nice idea but to stop the inevitable trolling you're going to need some decent moderation. But then you'll probably get risk averse moderators taking down potentially inflammatory comments who will then be criticized for stifling free speech. And then when the people who might want to join in hear that free speech is being stifled over at opengov.com they'll come to /., and similar sites, in their hoards to moan about how repressive their government has become. Flame wars will be inevitable. /. will seize up, I'll have to go back to work. It's just another no-win situation.
Just put a sticker on your laptop saying something like "This laptop runs MS Vista"... and there you go, no one will pinch it then.
Indeed - but with such a small sample size the researchers would not have been able to adjust for exposure, or age in this case. My guess is that beer consumption declines with age and science is generally cumulative (the longer you do science the more papers you produce and therefore the higher the probability of writing something of interest). In other words, age could easily explain this beer/science relationship - younger scientists drink more - as could a whole host of other variables.
I don't see why they shouldn't. But so long as clear unambiguous rules govern how ads are place in the pages and how they interact with content. Importantly, I'd get some accountant type to sort out a trust or something and have revenue classified as charitable donations. In other words, keep the revenue distinct from wikipedia and use the trust to support salaries, running costs, etc., as a form of donation. IMNA accountant, might be obvious, but some sort of separation, board of trustees, etc., would seem like a good idea, imho.
My impression, fwiw, is that it's more than just gaffes that prevent assent to the executive washroom. By it's very nature, good programming comes from accurate and honest people - there's just not a lot of room for fudging and half-arse attempts to make do. Executives, on the other hand, seem to need incredible motivation to acquire all the accoutrements of executive status and an almost pathological desire to fudge details and skip awkward counter factuals.
I think the most important message here is that search engines should be obliged under law to insure the integrity of their search algorithms and that any deviation is documented and transparent. It would be scary if one of the worlds biggest search engines overweighted Fox News in searches for factual information, downplaying Reuters, etc. I'm not saying Fox makes stuff up but they certainly have their own, shall we say, house style.
It is getting a bit like that isn't it? I worry that one day I'll look down and see a Herta ad staring back at me.
I don't think the jokes will stop at memory... I can almost hear my children stumbling upon my old tablet (HP4400) in ten years time and wetting themselves laughing at that monstrous "just so unportable, dude" paving slab of a machine.
Those are some nice photos!
Indeed, the numbers do not add up - $400,000 for 17,000 laptops works out at a cost to microsoft of about $24 per laptop. Which doesn't sound much if the new owners then bought office for each. If I were the Nigerian marketing company I'd have asked for more!