It is still a valid question, even though anecdotes are not a good source for quantitative measurement. The question is, who uses FB and to what extend? Many small shops, little labels, projects have FB accounts to promote themselves. However, I do not know how many of these 1.3 billion users fall in that category. xxxJonBoyxxx assumes that a large group of people in there are soccer mums. While this is a terrible US centric view of the world and does not apply to many other parts of the world with Internet, it could be true that they are a large group of users in the US. Anyway, I could not find good data on the topic so for now nothing more to do.
Great idea. Remote crash the plane switch. We do not want those. It would be actually a total overreaction on that particular topic. One incident and we want to fix the issue with more technology which will result in new possible scenarios to destroy a plane. It would be much better to find out how pilots can be supported in a way that such incidents can be prevented. However, we do not know why the pilot did it. They will try to find that out now. Give the police time so they can do their job.
what are we left with? keep the door open and we have murderous hijacking? keep the door locked and we have murderous pilots? yeah both are extremely rare outliers, but it's fucking scary either way
It might be scary in the moment you think about it, but after some consideration and with a cool head you will realize that life is not safe. There are numerous thing which can happen to you all day. You could be overrun by one of those car drivers who hit people out of stupidity, heart attack, emotional distress etc. you may eat the wrong sushi (or other food), you might slip on a banana. On the basis of personal risk, any of those causes are more likely to happen than crazy pilot or terrorist attack.
BTW: I am not following this accident on TV. I found in interesting and disturbing that, as you describe, they showed such parts of the recording in TV. It does not help the families and it will not help to perform a calm analysis of the incident.
One thing that I can't stand is those whiners, especially those who call themselves Scientists but still prefer to non-stop whining rather than DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
They sat already at the table with the defense guys. That law is the best they could haggle out. In democracy, you only can fix such things if you are able to alert the public to the topic. Scientist tried, but failed on that. So what they are now stating it the obvious. People who do not like that law will leave.
So they threaten that the law will drive researchers offshore... but to where? To New Zealand? To Samoa? To Indonesia?
What about the EU? Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, France, Italy? There are a couple of countries who look for talented scientist.
Instead of making their homework politicians try to control knowledge. Beside the fact that this ever backfired in history, it is also stupid in terms of the economy. Europe will rather sooner then later reduce its demand on coal and China is also doing it. Other natural resources are also limited and will not support the country for ever. You could see what happens to a country which has a ideological closed view of the world if you look at Venezuela. While it is important to give the poor schools and food, they messed it up, as they are totally oil dependent. In Australia this could go the same way, if the scientific community is frightened and leaves the country. By the way what do they think they can do about those Chinese studying in Australia, are their no longer allowed to take their heads with them?
I've heard those people in charge in AUS are Christians. Well recently, a British cleric stated that it is immoral to reject the gift of knowledge http://www.theguardian.com/env... and that is exactly that what they are doing.
In Europe we have great social security and we do not fight science (that much). Beside the Torys in the UK, we will not hunt you for your research. We have all kinds of weather and our food is much better. Ah yes, the content of your doctoral thesis belongs to you. Do you really need another reason to leave?
There are different levels of stupidity. And it stretches out in different directions. For example, in Germany it is complicated to have public wi-fi and they had create a law similar to the UK as a web black list to stop child porn. However, the latter was never applied, as the public outraged and they dropped it with a new law. Presently, they try to do fix the first issue too. However, media industry is very much in it, so it might take some time until it gets away.
Desktop applications, like games and office tools, and enterprise applications used in businesses are not the only applications. Many more are developed for embedded systems in cars, trains, planes, machinery, houses, control systems of all sorts. In German economy the relationship between enterprise and embedded systems 8 to 20 mrd. Euro. Normally, you do not hear anything about those software systems. Anyway, this new law may cause severe damage to the scientific community in Australia. Looks like a really stupid idea. Well, you may want to visit Europe if this too much already.
You could come to Europe, we ware far less fucked up (excluding the UK). We have decent health care, some market regulation, limited corruption, and demonstration going on for every this and that. We even have unions. However, we use other languages every few kilometers. So it can be also interesting to learn something new.
Even our government sucks big time, we are not limited by similar rule in Germany. For example, the content of my thesis belong to me. This applies to your bachelor, masters or doctoral thesis (if you do some industrial cooperation there might be strings attached). Anyway, this might be different on this isle in the west who will reelect Cameron any day now.
What would you say, when they hold a "gun" to your head? They have been in a bipartisan board where one side are military guys and the government and on the other side are scientists entangled with universities and the government spending in that area. The alternative would have been total containment. That's how such things run. On one side human rights and on the other side "security" and power. In the end you have to compromise. And human rights are restricted.
You cannot rely on TV directly controlled by the government and even less on private news corporations. The first say what the leading party says and latter indoctrinate you in the ideas of the owners. Anyway, I am sorry for you and your country to be governed by such mean people.
The law is even stupid. What happens when the person leaves the country? Will they arrest scientists for leaving the country? This would mean that everyone in science working on security issues will now make plans for departing Australia. Especially, foreigners will think twice to stay there. And it sucks, if you cannot publish. If you cannot publish you cease to exist.
if your live is in jeopardy in Australia, you might consider coming to western Europe. We do not have wild animals with bags running through the outback. However, we have a real diverse set of climates and the best of it, we are not already that rotten that we have such laws. (Please note: It might be different in the UK).
You should always check information from any source before using as fact. Especially, if it is about business or law schools. What is new about that? Wikipedia is a good source in areas which are not entangled with business, like math, biology, computer science. However, you still should check primary sources.
The problem you described is a software problem and not a hardware problem. Changing the hardware will not enable people start reflecting their thinking and doing.
Therefore, ethic standards are defined externally and applied to all research. In any research proposal template you will find special sections for animal, environment and human treatment. However, scientists can also discuss ethic issues.
a) Direct and indirect genetic modification of human genes with the goal to change a person or embryo is forbidden if not allowed explicitly in the following sections. b) All allowed procedures must be available to all humans regardless their income. No extras for rich people. c) Modification which cure a specific illness or degeneration listed below are allowed.
List of allowed treatments: - Detection and correction of chromosome errors, like trisomy 21. - Mucoviscidosis - Dysfunctional organs
On a side node: Small boobs, hair and eye color, knobbly noses, cognitive functions, etc. are no sickness at all. It would be stupid to reduce through genetic engineering the general genetic diversity.
As in CS every invention gets reinvented every 10-20 years it is important that the old stuff cannot be found anymore. Beside that for key ideas I start with any publication I can find and start to find from there the most recent publications in the field and then try to find the original contributions again backward in time. However, this is a time consuming process and if it is only to document a minor argument, I will stop much earlier for instance with a survey on that topic.
When publish or perish would be about communication, we could just post all our preliminary results in our personal blog or in a forum and discuss it there. Instead we write papers which represent a minimal increment of knowledge. We then evaluate that minimal increment with often non standardized case studies and get through with it. For every topic I have to enter there are tons of publications, but most are rubbish. Some rubbish gets even published on ICSE, ASE or Models. The metric is ruining the scientific process. I read papers from another researcher in the past who is a great master of recycling. At first you do not recognize that, but after some papers out of the same office you see that large parts are duplicated and that not only in foundations (where this is understandable), but in the core part as well.
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Most media corporations are already useless sources of information. I cannot see any change in going into FB.
It is still a valid question, even though anecdotes are not a good source for quantitative measurement. The question is, who uses FB and to what extend? Many small shops, little labels, projects have FB accounts to promote themselves. However, I do not know how many of these 1.3 billion users fall in that category. xxxJonBoyxxx assumes that a large group of people in there are soccer mums. While this is a terrible US centric view of the world and does not apply to many other parts of the world with Internet, it could be true that they are a large group of users in the US. Anyway, I could not find good data on the topic so for now nothing more to do.
Great idea. Remote crash the plane switch. We do not want those. It would be actually a total overreaction on that particular topic. One incident and we want to fix the issue with more technology which will result in new possible scenarios to destroy a plane. It would be much better to find out how pilots can be supported in a way that such incidents can be prevented. However, we do not know why the pilot did it. They will try to find that out now. Give the police time so they can do their job.
what are we left with? keep the door open and we have murderous hijacking? keep the door locked and we have murderous pilots? yeah both are extremely rare outliers, but it's fucking scary either way
It might be scary in the moment you think about it, but after some consideration and with a cool head you will realize that life is not safe. There are numerous thing which can happen to you all day. You could be overrun by one of those car drivers who hit people out of stupidity, heart attack, emotional distress etc. you may eat the wrong sushi (or other food), you might slip on a banana. On the basis of personal risk, any of those causes are more likely to happen than crazy pilot or terrorist attack.
BTW: I am not following this accident on TV. I found in interesting and disturbing that, as you describe, they showed such parts of the recording in TV. It does not help the families and it will not help to perform a calm analysis of the incident.
One thing that I can't stand is those whiners, especially those who call themselves Scientists but still prefer to non-stop whining rather than DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
They sat already at the table with the defense guys. That law is the best they could haggle out. In democracy, you only can fix such things if you are able to alert the public to the topic. Scientist tried, but failed on that. So what they are now stating it the obvious. People who do not like that law will leave.
So they threaten that the law will drive researchers offshore ... but to where? To New Zealand? To Samoa? To Indonesia?
What about the EU? Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, France, Italy? There are a couple of countries who look for talented scientist.
Instead of making their homework politicians try to control knowledge. Beside the fact that this ever backfired in history, it is also stupid in terms of the economy. Europe will rather sooner then later reduce its demand on coal and China is also doing it. Other natural resources are also limited and will not support the country for ever. You could see what happens to a country which has a ideological closed view of the world if you look at Venezuela. While it is important to give the poor schools and food, they messed it up, as they are totally oil dependent. In Australia this could go the same way, if the scientific community is frightened and leaves the country. By the way what do they think they can do about those Chinese studying in Australia, are their no longer allowed to take their heads with them?
I've heard those people in charge in AUS are Christians. Well recently, a British cleric stated that it is immoral to reject the gift of knowledge http://www.theguardian.com/env... and that is exactly that what they are doing.
Lets go to Europe.
In Europe we have great social security and we do not fight science (that much). Beside the Torys in the UK, we will not hunt you for your research. We have all kinds of weather and our food is much better. Ah yes, the content of your doctoral thesis belongs to you. Do you really need another reason to leave?
Someone should show time MacGyver. They will limit access to toilet paper, knifes etc.
There are different levels of stupidity. And it stretches out in different directions. For example, in Germany it is complicated to have public wi-fi and they had create a law similar to the UK as a web black list to stop child porn. However, the latter was never applied, as the public outraged and they dropped it with a new law. Presently, they try to do fix the first issue too. However, media industry is very much in it, so it might take some time until it gets away.
Desktop applications, like games and office tools, and enterprise applications used in businesses are not the only applications. Many more are developed for embedded systems in cars, trains, planes, machinery, houses, control systems of all sorts. In German economy the relationship between enterprise and embedded systems 8 to 20 mrd. Euro. Normally, you do not hear anything about those software systems. Anyway, this new law may cause severe damage to the scientific community in Australia. Looks like a really stupid idea. Well, you may want to visit Europe if this too much already.
They could move to Europe.
You could come to Europe, we ware far less fucked up (excluding the UK). We have decent health care, some market regulation, limited corruption, and demonstration going on for every this and that. We even have unions. However, we use other languages every few kilometers. So it can be also interesting to learn something new.
Even our government sucks big time, we are not limited by similar rule in Germany. For example, the content of my thesis belong to me. This applies to your bachelor, masters or doctoral thesis (if you do some industrial cooperation there might be strings attached). Anyway, this might be different on this isle in the west who will reelect Cameron any day now.
What would you say, when they hold a "gun" to your head? They have been in a bipartisan board where one side are military guys and the government and on the other side are scientists entangled with universities and the government spending in that area. The alternative would have been total containment. That's how such things run. On one side human rights and on the other side "security" and power. In the end you have to compromise. And human rights are restricted.
You cannot rely on TV directly controlled by the government and even less on private news corporations. The first say what the leading party says and latter indoctrinate you in the ideas of the owners. Anyway, I am sorry for you and your country to be governed by such mean people.
The law is even stupid. What happens when the person leaves the country? Will they arrest scientists for leaving the country? This would mean that everyone in science working on security issues will now make plans for departing Australia. Especially, foreigners will think twice to stay there. And it sucks, if you cannot publish. If you cannot publish you cease to exist.
if your live is in jeopardy in Australia, you might consider coming to western Europe. We do not have wild animals with bags running through the outback. However, we have a real diverse set of climates and the best of it, we are not already that rotten that we have such laws. (Please note: It might be different in the UK).
Education shouldn't be a market at all. Education is a human right.
You should always check information from any source before using as fact. Especially, if it is about business or law schools. What is new about that? Wikipedia is a good source in areas which are not entangled with business, like math, biology, computer science. However, you still should check primary sources.
The problem you described is a software problem and not a hardware problem. Changing the hardware will not enable people start reflecting their thinking and doing.
Therefore, ethic standards are defined externally and applied to all research. In any research proposal template you will find special sections for animal, environment and human treatment. However, scientists can also discuss ethic issues.
a) Direct and indirect genetic modification of human genes with the goal to change a person or embryo is forbidden if not allowed explicitly in the following sections.
b) All allowed procedures must be available to all humans regardless their income. No extras for rich people.
c) Modification which cure a specific illness or degeneration listed below are allowed.
List of allowed treatments:
- Detection and correction of chromosome errors, like trisomy 21.
- Mucoviscidosis
- Dysfunctional organs
On a side node: Small boobs, hair and eye color, knobbly noses, cognitive functions, etc. are no sickness at all. It would be stupid to reduce through genetic engineering the general genetic diversity.
As in CS every invention gets reinvented every 10-20 years it is important that the old stuff cannot be found anymore. Beside that for key ideas I start with any publication I can find and start to find from there the most recent publications in the field and then try to find the original contributions again backward in time. However, this is a time consuming process and if it is only to document a minor argument, I will stop much earlier for instance with a survey on that topic.
When publish or perish would be about communication, we could just post all our preliminary results in our personal blog or in a forum and discuss it there. Instead we write papers which represent a minimal increment of knowledge. We then evaluate that minimal increment with often non standardized case studies and get through with it. For every topic I have to enter there are tons of publications, but most are rubbish. Some rubbish gets even published on ICSE, ASE or Models. The metric is ruining the scientific process. I read papers from another researcher in the past who is a great master of recycling. At first you do not recognize that, but after some papers out of the same office you see that large parts are duplicated and that not only in foundations (where this is understandable), but in the core part as well.