Suppose I went to a public library, logged into my Twitter account and forgot to sign out before leaving. Someone uses the terminal immediately after my departure, notices my Twitter account, tweets Ryan's name, then signs me out.
What if a thief ran off with my phone while I was tweeting, tweets Ryan's name, and then the police recover my phone, but not the crook.
1. You can screen your doctor for trustworthiness. 2. You can choose to visit a doctor of a gender you prefer. 3. Doctors are bound by the Hippocratic Oath: I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. 4. Doctors rarely take, much less retain, nude photographs of your body.
Collection and use of personal information, including digital photographs, paves a road for government with inscrutable purposes: using information about people while denying them the ability to choose how that information is used. This is a severe tilt in balance between the power of the people and the power of the state. A tilt, to emphasize, that is unfavourable to the people.
In Smith v. City of Artesia, 1989, the court said, "Privacy is inherently personal. The right to privacy recognises the sovereignty of the individual." What is more private than our private parts? What can the general public be subjected to, en masse, that is more personally invasive than a pat-down or nude photo?
More blunt? Can do.
The choice: allow an anonymous agent to take nude photographs of your child, or let strangers grope your child until their hands meet "resistance": a euphemistic way to say, "touch their testicles, penis, or vulva."
Any job that forces someone to feel a child's crotch so as to encourage parents to usher their children through a machine that takes nude photographs--without probable cause of having committed a crime--is a job that aught not to exist.
Systematic violations of our private areas must be countered with outrage and utmost resistance (!) against corporations and governments alike. The TSA are not police and North America has no Police States, yet.
Add to this the uncertain health risks. Terahertz waves have resonant effects that can unzip double-stranded DNA, which, ultimately, could significantly interfere with gene expression and DNA replication. Think children, pregnant women, or sperm. And guess what wave frequency x-ray backscatter machines use? Hint: THz. http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5294
My emotions surge at the thought of people speaking or acting out against tyranny. People must express themselves vehemently and eloquently against the infractions that governments permit to be made on our freedoms. Sometimes one voice, or one courageous action, is enough to inspire a nation. http://i.imgur.com/cfifB.jpg
Martin Niemöller foretells of what happens when people--even those who prefer to drive than fly--keep quiet: They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.
John Dewey stated, "We cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and of their good." When we protect the rights of individuals by forcing Corporations and Governments to sit at the same table as Respect, Dignity, and Decency, we protect all of our society.
The problem is that scientists need food; climatologists and meteorologists must earn a living. There are over 19,000 weather stations across the United States alone. Modern Stevenson's screens are not free. Ensuring data quality takes time and effort -- not free. Weather monitoring machines need electricity, and not all weather stations are solar-powered. Climate and weather study is expensive. Consider databases, data storage facilities, backup systems, data analysis tools, and time taken to explore the data.
If you want to know what the data says, download it and analyse it yourself. Environment Canada, for example, allows you to download all daily weather measurements taken at over 7,000 weather stations across the nation. The data goes back to before the 1900s. That's over 230 million data points encompassing snow depth, minimum & maximum temperatures, rain fall, and general precipitation. They charge $100 for the data.
To develop a public-facing website that allows the general public to analyse the data using a simple user interface requires over 500 hours of work for design, implementation, integration, and data transcoding. If you have not the time, money, nor incentive to create such an application yourself, you can use one for free at:
All weather measurements taken in Canada during the last century are available to you. You can download them from Environment Canada (for $100) and leaf through the millions of daily weather measurements made since the early 1900s. Or click the following link to visit a website that allows you to quickly plot what the Canadian climate has been doing for the last 100 years (per city) using that data:
The article itself discusses restricting flood data, which can be used to see how the climate has changed since the last ice age, but does not equate to a lock-down on all climate data.
There is no cover-up: you can now see the trends for yourself. There is no question that parts of Canada are heating up and other parts are cooling down (i.e., the climate is rapidly changing).
The questions we should be -- and have been -- asking are: (1) how much have we influenced the change; (2) what is the likelihood that the trends will continue; (3) what are the repercussions if the trend continues; and (4) what can we do to reverse the trends?
Publishing raw data attracts little public attention as numbers are boring. Most web-based user interfaces (that I have found) for examining climate data cater to climate scientists and researchers. The results (typically streams of numbers) are great for further analysis, but not so great for the general public.
Exacerbating the problem is that influences on the data are complex, and rarely explained in detail for the layperson.
Such problems make it difficult to explore the data and understand the results. The following web site is my entry for a government-sponsored contest where I have attempted to address both those issues:
What do tree hugging Luddites have against solar power? I can see (although not necessarily agree with) the following points:
Coal - Dirty
Petrol - Dirty
Nuclear - Dangerous
Hydro - Ecologically invasive
Wind - Loud turbines
I am installing a solar-powered evacuated tubing system for heating water. I do not see the problem. If everyone did the same, we'd collectively save about 30% of our housing energy costs.
The Logitech Marble Mouse trackball has four buttons, sturdy, and won't cause your neck to get strained from the fine motor control required to move a regular mouse. Mine has a USB cable; I do not know if a wireless version is available.
For hardware programming, use C. For speedy software, use C. For math, try FORTRAN. For portable network applications, use Java. For web applications, use J2EE, Ruby, Python, or whatever fits the project best. For text parsing, use Perl. For games, use the native language of a suitable library (Crystal Space, Ogre 3D, SDL, etc.). For manipulating files and piping program execution, use BASH. For AI, try Prolog. For database queries, learn SQL. For solving the 8-queens problem, use LISP. For enhancing your OO mindset, write in Smalltalk.
FYI, a one dan pro is called a Shodan. Amateur dan players are fond of calling themselves Shodan.
That receiving a 9-stone handicap is immense cannot be overstated. In Go, the fuseki (the beginning; an empty board) is the most abstract part of the game. People say moves just "feel" right, professionals talk of moves that are equivalent, ladder relationships can be critical, high-level strategies come into play.
Computers will eventually conquer the fuseki; but at 9 stones, the opening is bypassed. With 9 stones, all ladders are initially won by black, which effaces a tactical lever for white.
And that's just ladders. Direction of play, thickness, joseki selection (and variations), balancing power with territory, and so forth are practically eliminated from the decision tree.
Black dominates at high handicaps. Any direction of play will be correct. Any thickness black develops will be useful. Most joseki (a common, equitable exchange of moves) will favour black.
In a greater than 5-stone handi game, black wins naturally by connecting the handicap stones.
I wonder, though, if Monte Carlo can best a multi-layered strategy devised by a human.
L.A., Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Melbourne, Sydney, Stockholm, Seoul, Tokyo, and scores of other cities around the world have dance nights that are swarming with engineers.
Lindy Hop challenges both mind and body. As a Lead, you have to be aware of where all the other people around you are dancing; you have to choreograph an interesting sequence of moves in real-time (sometimes to songs you don't know); you have to know how to lead a variety of moves; you have to make the movement fit the music; you need to be creative; you must be responsive to the Follow (usually female).
Lindy Hop is simple on the surface, yet you can spend years learning its nuances and depth. When two great dancers find each other on the floor, a piece of art, three-minutes long, is created.
YouTube it. Find your local Swing Dance scene. Do it.
One issue I have heard is "comments clutter source code". Why not split them? An example editor is shown in the following clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3QqjhzhnAw
"That people do not understand is not their fault. Rather, fault lies with the scientific community. Modern scientific use of 'theory' has hardly changed since 1638. Scientists have not successfully educated the public, after nearly 400 years, on the difference between Theory and theory."
Slashdot Mirror
Suppose I went to a public library, logged into my Twitter account and forgot to sign out before leaving. Someone uses the terminal immediately after my departure, notices my Twitter account, tweets Ryan's name, then signs me out.
What if a thief ran off with my phone while I was tweeting, tweets Ryan's name, and then the police recover my phone, but not the crook.
Am I liable? How could they prove it was me?
Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party. ;-)
Respectfully, I disagree.
1. You can screen your doctor for trustworthiness.
2. You can choose to visit a doctor of a gender you prefer.
3. Doctors are bound by the Hippocratic Oath: I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know.
4. Doctors rarely take, much less retain, nude photographs of your body.
Collection and use of personal information, including digital photographs, paves a road for government with inscrutable purposes: using information about people while denying them the ability to choose how that information is used. This is a severe tilt in balance between the power of the people and the power of the state. A tilt, to emphasize, that is unfavourable to the people.
In Smith v. City of Artesia, 1989, the court said, "Privacy is inherently personal. The right to privacy recognises the sovereignty of the individual." What is more private than our private parts? What can the general public be subjected to, en masse, that is more personally invasive than a pat-down or nude photo?
More blunt? Can do.
The choice: allow an anonymous agent to take nude photographs of your child, or let strangers grope your child until their hands meet "resistance": a euphemistic way to say, "touch their testicles, penis, or vulva."
Any job that forces someone to feel a child's crotch so as to encourage parents to usher their children through a machine that takes nude photographs--without probable cause of having committed a crime--is a job that aught not to exist.
Systematic violations of our private areas must be countered with outrage and utmost resistance (!) against corporations and governments alike. The TSA are not police and North America has no Police States, yet.
Add to this the uncertain health risks. Terahertz waves have resonant effects that can unzip double-stranded DNA, which, ultimately, could significantly interfere with gene expression and DNA replication. Think children, pregnant women, or sperm. And guess what wave frequency x-ray backscatter machines use? Hint: THz. http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5294
My emotions surge at the thought of people speaking or acting out against tyranny. People must express themselves vehemently and eloquently against the infractions that governments permit to be made on our freedoms. Sometimes one voice, or one courageous action, is enough to inspire a nation. http://i.imgur.com/cfifB.jpg
Martin Niemöller foretells of what happens when people--even those who prefer to drive than fly--keep quiet: They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.
John Dewey stated, "We cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and of their good." When we protect the rights of individuals by forcing Corporations and Governments to sit at the same table as Respect, Dignity, and Decency, we protect all of our society.
I implore you to read: http://davidjarvis.ca/dave/letters/nothing-to-hide.pdf
http://www.samsung.com/sg/consumer/pc-peripherals-printer/monitor/lcd-monitor/LS30HUXCB/XSA/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail
See also: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=2560x1600+LCD
No.
The problem is that scientists need food; climatologists and meteorologists must earn a living. There are over 19,000 weather stations across the United States alone. Modern Stevenson's screens are not free. Ensuring data quality takes time and effort -- not free. Weather monitoring machines need electricity, and not all weather stations are solar-powered. Climate and weather study is expensive. Consider databases, data storage facilities, backup systems, data analysis tools, and time taken to explore the data.
If you want to know what the data says, download it and analyse it yourself. Environment Canada, for example, allows you to download all daily weather measurements taken at over 7,000 weather stations across the nation. The data goes back to before the 1900s. That's over 230 million data points encompassing snow depth, minimum & maximum temperatures, rain fall, and general precipitation. They charge $100 for the data.
To develop a public-facing website that allows the general public to analyse the data using a simple user interface requires over 500 hours of work for design, implementation, integration, and data transcoding. If you have not the time, money, nor incentive to create such an application yourself, you can use one for free at:
http://whitemagicsoftware.com/software/climate/
All weather measurements taken in Canada during the last century are available to you. You can download them from Environment Canada (for $100) and leaf through the millions of daily weather measurements made since the early 1900s. Or click the following link to visit a website that allows you to quickly plot what the Canadian climate has been doing for the last 100 years (per city) using that data:
http://whitemagicsoftware.com/software/climate/
The article itself discusses restricting flood data, which can be used to see how the climate has changed since the last ice age, but does not equate to a lock-down on all climate data.
There is no cover-up: you can now see the trends for yourself. There is no question that parts of Canada are heating up and other parts are cooling down (i.e., the climate is rapidly changing).
The questions we should be -- and have been -- asking are: (1) how much have we influenced the change; (2) what is the likelihood that the trends will continue; (3) what are the repercussions if the trend continues; and (4) what can we do to reverse the trends?
Publishing raw data attracts little public attention as numbers are boring. Most web-based user interfaces (that I have found) for examining climate data cater to climate scientists and researchers. The results (typically streams of numbers) are great for further analysis, but not so great for the general public.
Exacerbating the problem is that influences on the data are complex, and rarely explained in detail for the layperson.
Such problems make it difficult to explore the data and understand the results. The following web site is my entry for a government-sponsored contest where I have attempted to address both those issues:
http://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/software/climate/
I would greatly appreciate your feedback.
What do tree hugging Luddites have against solar power? I can see (although not necessarily agree with) the following points:
I am installing a solar-powered evacuated tubing system for heating water. I do not see the problem. If everyone did the same, we'd collectively save about 30% of our housing energy costs.
My first guess was 2074; looks like these lenses will happen much sooner.
http://www.davidjarvis.ca/dave/essays/daycorder.shtml
The Logitech Marble Mouse trackball has four buttons, sturdy, and won't cause your neck to get strained from the fine motor control required to move a regular mouse. Mine has a USB cable; I do not know if a wireless version is available.
Watching your high school administrator type in the password at a blistering 30 wpm also greatly eases password guessing.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=12121417
Or even with mufflers.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090227/stem_cells_090228/20090302?hub=Health
http://davidjarvis.ca/warfare.pdf
Although I snail mailed it, I doubt he actually read it.
http://www.davidjarvis.ca/dave/entanglement - Introduction to Q.E. without math.
Bicycles are poor tools for hammering nails.
For hardware programming, use C.
For speedy software, use C.
For math, try FORTRAN.
For portable network applications, use Java.
For web applications, use J2EE, Ruby, Python, or whatever fits the project best.
For text parsing, use Perl.
For games, use the native language of a suitable library (Crystal Space, Ogre 3D, SDL, etc.).
For manipulating files and piping program execution, use BASH.
For AI, try Prolog.
For database queries, learn SQL.
For solving the 8-queens problem, use LISP.
For enhancing your OO mindset, write in Smalltalk.
Get it? Got it? Good.
When did we discover the exact speed of gravity?
FYI, a one dan pro is called a Shodan. Amateur dan players are fond of calling themselves Shodan.
That receiving a 9-stone handicap is immense cannot be overstated. In Go, the fuseki (the beginning; an empty board) is the most abstract part of the game. People say moves just "feel" right, professionals talk of moves that are equivalent, ladder relationships can be critical, high-level strategies come into play.
Computers will eventually conquer the fuseki; but at 9 stones, the opening is bypassed. With 9 stones, all ladders are initially won by black, which effaces a tactical lever for white.
And that's just ladders. Direction of play, thickness, joseki selection (and variations), balancing power with territory, and so forth are practically eliminated from the decision tree.
Black dominates at high handicaps. Any direction of play will be correct. Any thickness black develops will be useful. Most joseki (a common, equitable exchange of moves) will favour black.
In a greater than 5-stone handi game, black wins naturally by connecting the handicap stones.
I wonder, though, if Monte Carlo can best a multi-layered strategy devised by a human.
Lindy Hop.
L.A., Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Melbourne, Sydney, Stockholm, Seoul, Tokyo, and scores of other cities around the world have dance nights that are swarming with engineers.
Lindy Hop challenges both mind and body. As a Lead, you have to be aware of where all the other people around you are dancing; you have to choreograph an interesting sequence of moves in real-time (sometimes to songs you don't know); you have to know how to lead a variety of moves; you have to make the movement fit the music; you need to be creative; you must be responsive to the Follow (usually female).
Lindy Hop is simple on the surface, yet you can spend years learning its nuances and depth. When two great dancers find each other on the floor, a piece of art, three-minutes long, is created.
YouTube it. Find your local Swing Dance scene. Do it.
Video games, they claim, spark "positive social traits, such as creativity."
How would this compare to dancing with another person?
For socially adept, happy, creative people, dance with another human, not a video game. Like these people here, here, here, and here.
Yes, it would mean you'd have to stop playing with your Wii ... for at least a little while.
Learning Blender can be slow; so I took notes along the way and wrote them up here:
http://www.davidjarvis.ca/blender/
An animated short using Blender:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvQbYXPmqiA
One issue I have heard is "comments clutter source code". Why not split them? An example editor is shown in the following clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3QqjhzhnAw
KublaiKhan, you are absolutely correct; more thoughts on this:
http://www.davidjarvis.ca/dave/essays/scientific-rule.shtml
"That people do not understand is not their fault. Rather, fault lies with the scientific community. Modern scientific use of 'theory' has hardly changed since 1638. Scientists have not successfully educated the public, after nearly 400 years, on the difference between Theory and theory."
http://www.davidjarvis.ca/essays/daycorder.shtml
The future is coming much, much faster than I envisioned in late 2007.
A site that explains quantum entanglement in terms even your grandparents could (almost) understand:
http://www.davidjarvis.ca/entanglement/