big tech corps are interested in creating appearance of secure and private communication to all, that it also usable without effort on our part. but this is impossible to achieve. if we want to be secure and private, we have to do it ourselves and spend some time and effort to get a solution that will suit us. for most email we probably don't need that, but when we need it, we have to spend resources to achieve it. don't expect, or trust, big tech corps to provide it.
only a small portion of most currencies are in physical cash. vast portion of most currencies are balances in banks and other financial institutions. these days those are maintained digitally. even in old days most accounts and currency transactions (in terms of amounts of currency involved, not actual number of transactions)were entries in account books carried out through other instruments than physical cash. these days even most of small transactions are entirely digital.
so "digital currencies would no longer be subject to Goods and Services Tax" needs some definition and explanation beyond political press release level.
in other news, feminist groups protested decease of autism for being sexist and affecting far more men than women. more women needed to be encouraged to be autistic to reduce this imbalance they said. they also wanted all research and statistics pointing out gender imbalance in victims of autism suppressed and researchers fired.
while a free market economy is much better at allocating scarce resources than any other method(especially government controlled or regulated economy), for a truly free market to work , there should be full information and perfect competition, impossible conditions.
it doesn't help that in real world people who are most vocal for free capitalism tend to be the same who are against full information disclosure. i am willing to bet that those who voted against this labeling were such 'supporters' of 'free market capitalism'.
all the models predict that such extreme heat events will result due to anthropomorphic climate change. al gore said so. in his oscar winning movie. furthermore this is san francisco, where belief in consensus based settled science is at high levels, and thus causality of two things like this can be easily and credibly linked. only uneducated red neck trump supporting idiots will question this. they are no better than holocaust deniers
curious thing, this selective sympathy of humans for some animals, and total indifference to fate of others.
must be a wonderful feeling to protest against alleged 'improper' treatment of orcas, while munching on a battery cage eggs. or condemn japanese whaling while supporting activities that end up eliminating nasty looking insects and reptiles.
(of course there are a small percentage of humans who prefer to be consistent on treatment of animals, on one side or other side. but being rational is perhaps not quite human, or as they say 'humane' )
in the 1st place are these tweets from people who were really drunk? seems there was no real verification. without verification of data used, how can one judge the accuracy of the "algorithm"?
even if there was verification, algorithm would only predict a probability, (eg. "algorithm indicate there is 80% probability that this tweeter is drunk") rather than a certainty.
given all that, it is rather premature to expect this "model could reveal important real-time information for public health research". let alone "improving a community's health, and using social media as a resource to spread positive health behavior."
more real science, more honesty about limits of what can be known, and less exaggeration of claims, would be better.
btw who decides what is "positive health behavior" and the "community's" need to "spread" them? sounds rather orwellian to me.
obscure establishment institution, "international national(sic) academies of science, engineering, and medicine", releases a report, which is not a peer reviewed results of any study, based on some alleged modeling data in controllable climate models, and that is proof that "enables" "researchers to confidently say that the increased intensity and frequency of some, but not all, of these extreme weather events is influenced by human-induced climate change"
oh how science has "advanced"! we are no longer in dark stone age where we had to use scientific method, real world experiments/data, and our results have to pass rigorous scrutiny of our skeptical peers.
just wanted to point out that when wikileaks and other documents about western government activities were leaked, western media organizations given full access to them( like guardian etc) went through them blanking out names etc of people who may be endangered( like intelligence agents) by the leaks, before publishing them. wikileaks itself published them after such vetting by selected journalists. there was no doubt about the authenticity of those documents btw. now not so authenticated lists of alleged isis members are published with "family contacts", but no such safeguards are taken.
as i said, i am just pointing out this is a double standard.
well as they say, all is fair in war huh? and western private media seem to be fighting the war on one side just as much as soldiers. question is are they then entitled to protection?
further to what i said above about access bias during emergency, i see another problem if twitter is used to channel public resources.
recently twitter established orwellian sounding "trust & safety council" to monitor, censor, and even ban, users who engage in hate speech and other such activities. it has already controversially banned some. now twitter's actions/censorships/banning within its property can be justified because it is a private company . but public institutions selecting and channeling public resources based on interactions in a private gated community which is censoring speech(which is legal in public spaces outside of it however hateful) cannot be justified.
"Where should they send their limited emergency supplies and services?... Just listen to Twitter" but if during emergency, twitter is inaccessible to certain locations and accessible to others, such a selection of response based on twitter will skew the response to those who have access. furthermore if certain community/neighborhood have more social media usage and another less, it will also skew the response.
time gaps and averaged time gap are two things. usefulness of the second depend on the nature of data distribution. i pointed out why in this case too general data should make averaging meaningless and useless.
generalized/averaged time gap between misinformation and correction is practically useless, given the variety of, types of information, news sources, content of news and false news, and methods of correction, ( not to mention differences in languages, culture, internet penetration and habits, co-relation with offline media, etc). given all that, time gap for each correction event , plotted on a graph, will spread thinly all along the time axis. averaging such data is absurd and meaningless.
to be useful the variety mentioned above needs to be narrowed to specific categories. for instance, financial misinformation and correction about companies ina industry listed in a particular stock market reported in a specific group of news sources.
comments here say this would be good counter to russian anti aircraft weapons, but real beneficiaries of drone swarm technologies, which are relatively cheap and easy to deploy(and will be ever more so as times goes on), and not that secret, will be smaller nations defending against bigger costlier high tech aircraft, missiles, and drones( and big ships at sea). this would be another form of asymmetric warfare, like guerrilla and terrorist warfare. in fact, biggest losers will be usa and nato.
"That last bit is tongue in anonymous cheek." inability to get sarcasm and irony, or even just humor, (without tags, cues cards, laugh tracks, etc etc) seem to be widespread and growing here in slashdot and in usa in particular, and west in general.
one faces all sort of nastiness if attempted; moded down, branded for "hate speech",etc etc. no wonder several comedians are boycotting universities.
this seem to be linked to regrowth of political correctness and sheepish acceptance of so called 'liberal', elitist, ideology by the western young . bankrupt irrational ideas can't tolerate humor that show their absurdity.
are you sure it was not leftover from the images used to 'prove' existence of wmd in saddam's iraq? based on such fakes almost everyone in usa supported war (including clintons, though not obama or trump) which ended up killing millions, creating iran friendly iraq and isis, and finally with americans running as fast as possible from the mess they created.
what are people in charge of mozilla thinking ? or can they even think ? they are ultra concerned with everything other than their core project, which has suffered and is losing. it is not just related peripherals, but what amounts completely different things which should be handled as completely separate projects with groups and resources set up for them, if there is a need. nor is that all, mozilla is way too much concerned with pandering to market hype (hype not market reality as represented by numbers) and spout out the latest buzz words and social ideology of the western 'liberal' elite.
so a badly coded app estimated blood pressure by superficial analysis of inaccurate measurements based on pseudo science. and blood pressure in everyday conditions( as opposed to condition of a patient in controlled situation (eg hooked up in a bed) with certain other symptoms), even when measured correctly, tells us almost nothing by itself.
there has been several of these kind of stories here about chinese devices secretly phoning home to an ip addresses (easily found to be chinese) . but doesn't lot of other devices do that, regardless of origin of company that makes, designs, or markets, them ( esp device that are much hyped and costs lot more than this)? so why select obscure presentations targeting chinese ones? btw what are the past accomplishments of michael raggo and mobileIron in this field?
"U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian astronaut Mikhail Kornienko" should be "U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko". btw this is not just me being pedantic.
children in western countries are over protected and coddled, and as result, even as adults they have a warped sense of the world; they see moral landscape of the world simplistically, preach 'tolerance' of everything, but feel entitled to a lot, ignore the costs of that entitlement(be it blood or money), etc etc when those who are paying the costs ( be it victims/instruments of their governments) refuse to pay(voting for 'outsiders' or perhaps resist violently or otherwise), they are branded racists, reactionaries, or terrorists,
of course in the long run those who pay will end up with the upper hand. its a ugly future for the coddled masses in west .
it would really be interesting if private companies from japan , korea, china, taiwan, etc, etc, enter space.
if there is real money to be made in space, they would leave much hyped private 'space' companies in usa in the dust, same way they left most western industries in the dust.
but i don't think they wont, because there isn't any real money in it, just government subsidies.
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big tech corps are interested in creating appearance of secure and private communication to all, that it also usable without effort on our part. but this is impossible to achieve.
if we want to be secure and private, we have to do it ourselves and spend some time and effort to get a solution that will suit us. for most email we probably don't need that, but when we need it, we have to spend resources to achieve it.
don't expect, or trust, big tech corps to provide it.
only a small portion of most currencies are in physical cash. vast portion of most currencies are balances in banks and other financial institutions. these days those are maintained digitally.
even in old days most accounts and currency transactions (in terms of amounts of currency involved, not actual number of transactions)were entries in account books carried out through other instruments than physical cash. these days even most of small transactions are entirely digital.
so "digital currencies would no longer be subject to Goods and Services Tax" needs some definition and explanation beyond political press release level.
and chagos marine protected area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... was created to protect marine life. ha!
in other news, feminist groups protested decease of autism for being sexist and affecting far more men than women.
more women needed to be encouraged to be autistic to reduce this imbalance they said.
they also wanted all research and statistics pointing out gender imbalance in victims of autism suppressed and researchers fired.
while a free market economy is much better at allocating scarce resources than any other method(especially government controlled or regulated economy), for a truly free market to work , there should be full information and perfect competition, impossible conditions.
it doesn't help that in real world people who are most vocal for free capitalism tend to be the same who are against full information disclosure. i am willing to bet that those who voted against this labeling were such 'supporters' of 'free market capitalism'.
all the models predict that such extreme heat events will result due to anthropomorphic climate change. al gore said so. in his oscar winning movie.
furthermore this is san francisco, where belief in consensus based settled science is at high levels, and thus causality of two things like this can be easily and credibly linked.
only uneducated red neck trump supporting idiots will question this. they are no better than holocaust deniers
curious thing, this selective sympathy of humans for some animals, and total indifference to fate of others.
must be a wonderful feeling to protest against alleged 'improper' treatment of orcas, while munching on a battery cage eggs. or condemn japanese whaling while supporting activities that end up eliminating nasty looking insects and reptiles.
(of course there are a small percentage of humans who prefer to be consistent on treatment of animals, on one side or other side. but being rational is perhaps not quite human, or as they say 'humane' )
this does not sound very scientific.
in the 1st place are these tweets from people who were really drunk? seems there was no real verification.
without verification of data used, how can one judge the accuracy of the "algorithm"?
even if there was verification, algorithm would only predict a probability, (eg. "algorithm indicate there is 80% probability that this tweeter is drunk") rather than a certainty.
given all that, it is rather premature to expect this "model could reveal important real-time information for public health research".
let alone "improving a community's health, and using social media as a resource to spread positive health behavior."
more real science, more honesty about limits of what can be known, and less exaggeration of claims, would be better.
btw who decides what is "positive health behavior" and the "community's" need to "spread" them? sounds rather orwellian to me.
obscure establishment institution, "international national(sic) academies of science, engineering, and medicine", releases a report, which is not a peer reviewed results of any study, based on some alleged modeling data in controllable climate models, and that is proof that "enables" "researchers to confidently say that the increased intensity and frequency of some, but not all, of these extreme weather events is influenced by human-induced climate change"
oh how science has "advanced"!
we are no longer in dark stone age where we had to use scientific method, real world experiments/data, and our results have to pass rigorous scrutiny of our skeptical peers.
just wanted to point out that when wikileaks and other documents about western government activities were leaked, western media organizations given full access to them( like guardian etc) went through them blanking out names etc of people who may be endangered( like intelligence agents) by the leaks, before publishing them. wikileaks itself published them after such vetting by selected journalists. there was no doubt about the authenticity of those documents btw.
now not so authenticated lists of alleged isis members are published with "family contacts", but no such safeguards are taken.
as i said, i am just pointing out this is a double standard.
well as they say, all is fair in war huh? and western private media seem to be fighting the war on one side just as much as soldiers. question is are they then entitled to protection?
further to what i said above about access bias during emergency, i see another problem if twitter is used to channel public resources.
recently twitter established orwellian sounding "trust & safety council" to monitor, censor, and even ban, users who engage in hate speech and other such activities. it has already controversially banned some.
now twitter's actions/censorships/banning within its property can be justified because it is a private company . but public institutions selecting and channeling public resources based on interactions in a private gated community which is censoring speech(which is legal in public spaces outside of it however hateful) cannot be justified.
"Where should they send their limited emergency supplies and services?... Just listen to Twitter"
but if during emergency, twitter is inaccessible to certain locations and accessible to others, such a selection of response based on twitter will skew the response to those who have access.
furthermore if certain community/neighborhood have more social media usage and another less, it will also skew the response.
time gaps and averaged time gap are two things. usefulness of the second depend on the nature of data distribution. i pointed out why in this case too general data should make averaging meaningless and useless.
generalized/averaged time gap between misinformation and correction is practically useless, given the variety of, types of information, news sources, content of news and false news, and methods of correction, ( not to mention differences in languages, culture, internet penetration and habits, co-relation with offline media, etc).
given all that, time gap for each correction event , plotted on a graph, will spread thinly all along the time axis. averaging such data is absurd and meaningless.
to be useful the variety mentioned above needs to be narrowed to specific categories. for instance, financial misinformation and correction about companies ina industry listed in a particular stock market reported in a specific group of news sources.
comments here say this would be good counter to russian anti aircraft weapons, but real beneficiaries of drone swarm technologies, which are relatively cheap and easy to deploy(and will be ever more so as times goes on), and not that secret, will be smaller nations defending against bigger costlier high tech aircraft, missiles, and drones( and big ships at sea).
this would be another form of asymmetric warfare, like guerrilla and terrorist warfare.
in fact, biggest losers will be usa and nato.
"That last bit is tongue in anonymous cheek."
inability to get sarcasm and irony, or even just humor, (without tags, cues cards, laugh tracks, etc etc) seem to be widespread and growing here in slashdot and in usa in particular, and west in general.
one faces all sort of nastiness if attempted; moded down, branded for "hate speech",etc etc. no wonder several comedians are boycotting universities.
this seem to be linked to regrowth of political correctness and sheepish acceptance of so called 'liberal', elitist, ideology by the western young .
bankrupt irrational ideas can't tolerate humor that show their absurdity.
sorry i missed the comma, 'creating iran friendly iraq,and isis ' creating two separate things
are you sure it was not leftover from the images used to 'prove' existence of wmd in saddam's iraq? based on such fakes almost everyone in usa supported war (including clintons, though not obama or trump) which ended up killing millions, creating iran friendly iraq and isis, and finally with americans running as fast as possible from the mess they created.
what are people in charge of mozilla thinking ? or can they even think ?
they are ultra concerned with everything other than their core project, which has suffered and is losing.
it is not just related peripherals, but what amounts completely different things which should be handled as completely separate projects with groups and resources set up for them, if there is a need.
nor is that all, mozilla is way too much concerned with pandering to market hype (hype not market reality as represented by numbers) and spout out the latest buzz words and social ideology of the western 'liberal' elite.
shame!
so a badly coded app estimated blood pressure by superficial analysis of inaccurate measurements based on pseudo science.
and blood pressure in everyday conditions( as opposed to condition of a patient in controlled situation (eg hooked up in a bed) with certain other symptoms), even when measured correctly, tells us almost nothing by itself.
what a fake world!
there has been several of these kind of stories here about chinese devices secretly phoning home to an ip addresses (easily found to be chinese) .
but doesn't lot of other devices do that, regardless of origin of company that makes, designs, or markets, them ( esp device that are much hyped and costs lot more than this)?
so why select obscure presentations targeting chinese ones?
btw what are the past accomplishments of michael raggo and mobileIron in this field?
"U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian astronaut Mikhail Kornienko" should be "U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko".
btw this is not just me being pedantic.
'abuse' ?!
children in western countries are over protected and coddled, and as result, even as adults they have a warped sense of the world; they see moral landscape of the world simplistically, preach 'tolerance' of everything, but feel entitled to a lot, ignore the costs of that entitlement(be it blood or money), etc etc
when those who are paying the costs ( be it victims/instruments of their governments) refuse to pay(voting for 'outsiders' or perhaps resist violently or otherwise), they are branded racists, reactionaries, or terrorists,
of course in the long run those who pay will end up with the upper hand. its a ugly future for the coddled masses in west .
it would really be interesting if private companies from japan , korea, china, taiwan, etc, etc, enter space.
if there is real money to be made in space, they would leave much hyped private 'space' companies in usa in the dust, same way they left most western industries in the dust.
but i don't think they wont, because there isn't any real money in it, just government subsidies.