"The major languages that contribute concurrency errors from these classes are Go, C#, and Scala and their regression coefficient is also statistically significant. These results confirm, in general static languages produce more concurrency errors than others. Among the dynamic languages, only Erlang is more prone to concurrency errors. The regression analysis also shows that projects written in dynamic languages like CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Php have fewer concurrency errors"
Well, there isn't much concurrency to be had in TypeScript or CoffeeScript since they operate in single threaded environments, and it wouldn't surpise me if the same goes for the other ones. And saying that Erlan has problems with concurrency is... the cart before the horse.
They have bigger genetic diversity. According to Wikpiedia:
" The recent African origin theory for humans would predict that in Africa there exists a great deal more diversity than elsewhere, and that diversity should decrease the further from Africa a population is sampled. Long and Kittles show that indeed, African populations contain about 100% of human genetic diversity, whereas in populations outside of Africa diversity is much reduced"
Well, if you would send a letter to someone saying they will die, then that it is most obviously a threat.
If instead, you would send a drawing, showing them dying, it would still be a threat.
If you publicly or in a way that at least can bee seen by the persons depicted, post a video of them getting shot, that is still a threat.
Now, I am not familiar with this app, and it might be that it does such an unrealistic job as to it not being something that can be taken seriously, but if it does a good job, and somebody decides to post it or send it so that it gets the attention of the people in the film, well then it is a threat.
Think like this: If "three fingers Joe" of the mob posted the same video, I think it would be pretty clear to see that it is a threat.
Take a look at Bachata Linux, it is a slimmed down Debian weighing in at less than 128 MB, needs no Internet connection when installing: http://www.bachatalinux.net/
"A minimal Debian based Linux system with fully functional bash shell (with GNU coreutils, not BusyBox), TCP/IP networking with DHCP client and APT setup to be able to install any package from the Debian repositories."
It's good to see Slashdot use the metric system, in this case centimeters, to describe the size of the animal, but it gets a bit confusing when it is combined with giving the depth it is found at in miles.
There was a time when all cars were built with a frame and then an additional external skin or paneling, and similar for aircraft. One then realized that one could combine the load bearing and the skin in one material, and this is called monocoque.
Using the skin for storing energy (especially storing "weightless" electrical energy) seems to be just a logical extension of the monocoque concept. Maybe cars will be built in some synthetic double shell lined with massive-surfaced nanoscale carbon structures?
Rick Falkvinge, the chairman of the Swedish Pirate Party has made a statement in an internal newsletter. It can be found here.
An excerpt in a quick-and-dirty translation by me:
"I ask everyone to exercise extreme caution in this issue and keep two very important things in mind:
We cannot and should not second guess the results of a trial. We should not even hint whether he is guilty or not, not internally and not externally. If somebody asks, we reply that it is a serious crime he is being accused of, but that there is no basis for us to speculate about his culpability.
It is not Assange that we are helping. We don't know the guy. The organisation The Pirate Party helps the organisation WikiLeaks, and that on a sound ideological common ground. If the organisation Wikileaks has problems with their staff, they have to solve it, not us.Most contact between WL [Wikileaks] and PP [Pirate Party], has been between theirs and ours technicians, and not with Assange."
For us who do not own stock in whatever company footed the bill for this movie, it is from our perspective more interesting how many people saw the movie, dollars be damned. Why count in dollars, when we can estimate the number of people who saw it? Then you could say something like "750 000 people have seen this move", which is kind of more interesting.
Using face recognition like this is a substitute for human attention. Ideally in a school, teachers and other staff should recognize you and know your name, and notice if you are absent. It is about people actually communicating with and caring for each other. This system in the school sounds more like a prison surveillance system, used in an environment where trust cannot be built.
Obviously, something in our environment is making autism rates climb.
Not at all. It's a combination of 2 things:
1. the definition of autism has broadened with time so that things that weren't considered autism 50 years ago now count
2. better detection means people with autism are more likely to get counted.
The scientific consensus is that there is no reason to believe that autism is more common now than before
Wrong! It is pretty clear that autism is more common than before and it seems to be something in the environment, but we do not know what, from Scientific American:
The California researchers concluded that doctors are diagnosing autism at a younger age because of increased awareness. But that change is responsible for only about a 24 percent increase in children reported to be autistic by the age "A shift toward younger age at diagnosis was clear but not huge," the report says. Also, a shift in doctors diagnosing milder cases explains another 56 percent increase. And changes in state reporting of the disorder could account for around a 120 percent increase. Combined, Hertz-Picciotto said those factors "don't get us close" to the 600 to 700 percent increase in diagnosed cases.
Actually, there is a car manufacturer that tailors its cars so they should sustain an impact with a moose. It is SAAB, and they do this because one of their top execs was killed in a head on collision with a moose.
HyperCard had a really cool syntax. For example to make a button that you could drag around, you would just double click it in edit mode and enter the following script:
on mouseDown
repeat while the mouse is down
set the location of me to the mouseloc end mouseDown
I had a Lenovo X60 for a while, but had to resell it. The contrast ratio of the screen is just awful, 156:1 (See my short review here). An the brightness is also really bad. Compare that to Sony's TZ series' contrast of 576:1 and brightness of 308.
LED backlighting ought to fix the brightness problem, but if they put the same bad screen in front of it, contrast will still be a deal-breaker.
At least where I live, many women demand more lighting during the night, for reasons of safety. And I think them feeling safer is worth more than more visible stars in the sky. Same goes for streetlights for road safety.
Many people crank up the volume. In music with low or no compression, the peaks are very much higher than the average sound, i.e. the perceived loudness. The brain does not "get" loud peaks the same way as the ear. The brain "smears out" (integrates) a loud sound over 100ms, but the hear does it at 10ms. So the brain does not appreciate just how loud a short sound really is (e.g a gunshot). The ear takes the full pain though.
With strong compression, there will be no extra loud sounds to damage your hearing. The music will appear loud to you, which is often what you want, though.
I should be able to hit nyc.gov and view any camera at any time, including past recordings. Give me that and the police can install as many cameras as they want.
But in that case the organization with the best algorithms and hardware will win over you. Google?
So, raise the price of (fossil fuel) energy. Let individuals make their own decisions. Besides, hard disks last longer if in continuous operation, it is the spinning up below working temperature that kills them. You have to account for the energy needed to make a new hard disk (and other environmental load from making it and dispensing with the old one).
It uses up your machine's useful lifespan much more quickly at no significant gain to you.
No keeping it on prolongs the life span of the machine, see above. Capacitors may wear out quicker though.
It's a poor solution to the problem of long boot times. A better solution would be to man up and learn some fucking patience.
Are you trolling? What else should we man up about? Car queues, malaria? Boot times kills productivity. It is a nuisance and as long as we believe most people actually do something useful at work, it hinders them from doing it efficiently.
In addition, The Pirate Party reports "...the servers where located in a protected area, to which the police had no legal right to enter..."
Now what the fuck was that "protected area"? A diplomatic zone???
I believe they mean the Swedish term "skyddsområde" or something similar, a term that I believe means that something is protected as critical infrastructure. Often used for military installations.
It is used so that police cannot barge in to an e.g. nuclear power station and shout "OK, everybody stop what you're doing! We are looking for a shoplifter!"
I can understand Google's point of view. If somebody manufactured chairs, and a third party showed that you can hit the CEO over the head with one of the chairs, would that have to be expected and accepted by the company? No. Just because you can do something does not mean you have to do it.
On the other hand, the Google CEO is a public person, and as such he is supposed to be able to tolerate publicity. And who better to use in order to show the consequences of the new Information Society?
Slashdot Mirror
Absolutely! They write:
"The major languages that contribute concurrency errors
from these classes are Go, C#, and Scala and their regression
coefficient is also statistically significant. These results confirm,
in general static languages produce more concurrency errors than
others. Among the dynamic languages, only Erlang is more
prone to concurrency errors. The regression analysis also shows
that projects written in dynamic languages like CoffeeScript,
TypeScript, Ruby, and Php have fewer concurrency errors"
Well, there isn't much concurrency to be had in TypeScript or CoffeeScript since they operate in single threaded environments, and it wouldn't surpise me if the same goes for the other ones. And saying that Erlan has problems with concurrency is... the cart before the horse.
They have bigger genetic diversity. According to Wikpiedia:
" The recent African origin theory for humans would predict that in Africa there exists a great deal more diversity than elsewhere, and that diversity should decrease the further from Africa a population is sampled. Long and Kittles show that indeed, African populations contain about 100% of human genetic diversity, whereas in populations outside of Africa diversity is much reduced"
Distribution of variation
Well, if you would send a letter to someone saying they will die, then that it is most obviously a threat. If instead, you would send a drawing, showing them dying, it would still be a threat. If you publicly or in a way that at least can bee seen by the persons depicted, post a video of them getting shot, that is still a threat. Now, I am not familiar with this app, and it might be that it does such an unrealistic job as to it not being something that can be taken seriously, but if it does a good job, and somebody decides to post it or send it so that it gets the attention of the people in the film, well then it is a threat. Think like this: If "three fingers Joe" of the mob posted the same video, I think it would be pretty clear to see that it is a threat.
timothy has taken a quote from Schneier's blog post, and then put a link to that blog post on a random sentence inside that quote.
That is incredibly confusing.
Take a look at Bachata Linux, it is a slimmed down Debian weighing in at less than 128 MB, needs no Internet connection when installing:
http://www.bachatalinux.net/
"A minimal Debian based Linux system with fully functional bash shell (with GNU coreutils, not BusyBox), TCP/IP networking with DHCP client and APT setup to be able to install any package from the Debian repositories."
It's good to see Slashdot use the metric system, in this case centimeters, to describe the size of the animal, but it gets a bit confusing when it is combined with giving the depth it is found at in miles.
There was a time when all cars were built with a frame and then an additional external skin or paneling, and similar for aircraft. One then realized that one could combine the load bearing and the skin in one material, and this is called monocoque.
Using the skin for storing energy (especially storing "weightless" electrical energy) seems to be just a logical extension of the monocoque concept. Maybe cars will be built in some synthetic double shell lined with massive-surfaced nanoscale carbon structures?
An excerpt in a quick-and-dirty translation by me:
For us who do not own stock in whatever company footed the bill for this movie, it is from our perspective more interesting how many people saw the movie, dollars be damned. Why count in dollars, when we can estimate the number of people who saw it? Then you could say something like "750 000 people have seen this move", which is kind of more interesting.
Discover talked to Kevin Warwick
(puts on sunglasses)
Or did they?
Using face recognition like this is a substitute for human attention. Ideally in a school, teachers and other staff should recognize you and know your name, and notice if you are absent. It is about people actually communicating with and caring for each other. This system in the school sounds more like a prison surveillance system, used in an environment where trust cannot be built.
Wrong! It is pretty clear that autism is more common than before and it seems to be something in the environment, but we do not know what, from Scientific American:
Read more here: New Study:>Autism Linked to Environment: Scientific American
Actually, there is a car manufacturer that tailors its cars so they should sustain an impact with a moose. It is SAAB, and they do this because one of their top execs was killed in a head on collision with a moose.
SAAB tests each car model with a simulated moose coming in through the windshield. If you think about it SAAB cars' windshields are more curved. There is a reason for that.
HyperCard had a really cool syntax. For example to make a button that you could drag around, you would just double click it in edit mode and enter the following script:
on mouseDown
repeat while the mouse is down
set the location of me to the mouseloc
end mouseDown
(not case sensitive)
LED backlighting ought to fix the brightness problem, but if they put the same bad screen in front of it, contrast will still be a deal-breaker.
They maintain charge very well in cold, but the chemical activity is very low due to the low temperature.
Oh, there is such a law against jaywalking, it's just that the penalty is set to zero.
At least where I live, many women demand more lighting during the night, for reasons of safety. And I think them feeling safer is worth more than more visible stars in the sky. Same goes for streetlights for road safety.
With strong compression, there will be no extra loud sounds to damage your hearing. The music will appear loud to you, which is often what you want, though.
But in that case the organization with the best algorithms and hardware will win over you. Google?
I believe they mean the Swedish term "skyddsområde" or something similar, a term that I believe means that something is protected as critical infrastructure. Often used for military installations.
It is used so that police cannot barge in to an e.g. nuclear power station and shout "OK, everybody stop what you're doing! We are looking for a shoplifter!"
Americans (meaning USians) don't even live that far north (with the exception of Alaskians).
Up here at the 59th parallel (Stockholm) we're used to darkness!
Now I got depressed.
Here in Stockholm, Sweden the subway has had "wireless" for ages. I though that was the norm? Is the news that BART is last to have it?
On the other hand, the Google CEO is a public person, and as such he is supposed to be able to tolerate publicity. And who better to use in order to show the consequences of the new Information Society?