Last week it was about an imaginary bust of a Bitcoiner "miner" who may be using too much electricity, making law enforcement potentially believe that it was a grow-op.
Today is a story about virtual currency that is barely used anywhere to be used on online drug trading. Not Bitcoin specifically. Paypal most likely...
Honestly. Having a video "story" is bad enough. Having the story linked to Bitcoin on a vague premise is pretty bad.
Let's create a Bitcoin/. filter, so I can exlude these stories from my profile. Not sure how this relates to "Privacy". I'm thinking that there is a group of Bitcoin proponents working hard to get any publicity.
http://silkroadmarket.org/ There is indeed an illicit drug market run through tor, and bitcoin not pay-pal is its currency. TFA may not refer to silkroad, but it does exist.
please, please, please someone tell me the chinese have some of those tissue samples in liquid nitrogen. given some technological progress then, we might be able to bring the baiji back to life in a century or so This is a common sentiment, and it's basically what I believed would save most of our endangered wildlife till recently. Then I read concilience by E. O. Wilson, and it reminded me that we have never successfully (re)created an ecosystem, we don't understand the natural balance of them well enough on our own. Once the food chain starts going, we won't be able to put it all back together again, without it there to study, we don't really know how it works.
Sure, a new ecosystem equilibrium will come about in the creatures absence, generally one less stable because of the absence, either leaving its food source unchecked(to a degree), or leaving a predator without a meal(once again, to a degree). Once the ecosystem equilibruim lost, it's lost to us forever - especially if you're trying to count on future tech once the ecosystem as it will have drastically changed in the intervening time.
This is a serious threat to human survival, and we need to take it seriously soon or we'll pay for it as a species, even as a planet as a whole. The baiji may not be the straw that breaks the camel's back and makes the system start to truly unravel, but it is another destabilizing element, another straw on the back of a weighed down ecosystem.
All this will do is put in some additional language requiring you to enter an email address you will check on a regular basis where they can mail contract changes. They inform you of the changes as per their legal obligations and if you don't check the email then it's contractually your problem. Makes changes a tad more publically visable, but otherwise basically the status quo.
You know this doesnt actually have to be in the major artery/vein, simply next to it. The pulsating movement should be enough to get the amount of energy you need. It seems the mechanical/hydraulic argment goes out the window if it's not in the artery/vein, I think the clotting risk goes down, and I'm not sure what happens with infection rates, but I'm no expert on this, I just saw a flaw in your underlying assumptions.
The next point mitigating these concerns is you're generally putting in a power supply because you needed to put something in to supply power to... which means infection/clotting risks are already present to the degree this type of device external to the artery/vein would expose you to.
Your signals are your responsibility. Relying on the government to "protect" you against passive technological interception (to avoid another ludicrous, fallacious assassination comparison) of your unprotected and/or unintentional broadcasts is not only inefficient, it just won't ever work. Laws will not protect you against science.
You always have to take care to avoid sketchy situations where you're likely to be maliciously targeted, whether you're guarding against being snooped on, conned, robbed, or murdered -- despite the legality of the activity you're avoiding. But making it illegal decreases the number of people willing to risk doing it, and offers some legal recourse if despite your best efforts it's done anyway.
You do not get to abdocate responsability simply because it's illegal, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't also be illegal.
BS that this is near the AI threshold. It's not just compression, connections between peices of information & speed of retrieval are crucial to be able to make AI workable. The shift toward modling AI attempts after our understanding of human cognition is the best hope visable for AI, and non-connectionist previous attempts (the stuff that came from the functionalists) has come up pretty short - and will continue to do so even if scaled up massively.
"I guess by "man-made" they mean artificial and that it will REVOLUTIONIZE(tm) computing since these artificial brains are going to be built in to every PC. Where did I hear that before? I think at the time they grossly overstated the capacity of computers such as the original IBM PC. So perhaps Moore's law applies to hardware, it surely doesn't apply to exaggeration."
You do realize they're talking here about a supercomputer which models brains neuron and synapse for neruon and synapse of real brains, starting with that of a mouse brain, for this project. This is not something you're going to be dealing with at home at least during the 1st 1/2 of this century.
This is not like any previous AI attmpts because those have been trying to make largely software which acted like human 'software' whereas this is an attempt to replicate much more of the 'hardware' end of real brains, albiet as software simulations. This is a completely different approach which reflects the shift from functionalism to connectionism in our understanding of the brain. Sure it's not perfect, and my guess is the shift to connectionalism will be difficulat given the way the hardware we use works, but it's an approach to AI which is sure to aid technology and our understanding of human cognition within the coming century
(my guess this isn't something where they get a working AI the 1st time thru, it's more they're still working out technical details a decade from now on probably even a decent mouse brain simulation, but that their work combined with cognative work on humans will shed a lot of light on how we want to go about trying to tackle AI problems in the future, or where smallscale systems based off parts of this might give functionality normal styles of processing don't give easily.
the real solution to hosintg all of your files online or sharing files is something I dont know how to code and keep waiting for. It connects to multiple free storage servers, probably multiple accounts per aervice It chunks data, creates a header keeping track of where chunks are, and can upload or download basically as fast as your connection can handle by increasing the number of connections & hosts you're connecting to, decreasing the load per service - and probably still getting more than any other user of the service by connecting multiple times.
If you wanted to get careful about this you could impliment some sort of passive checker of accounts & something similar to raid style redundancy to keep your files up even if a site goes down or an account gets banned. If you did this you'd probably want to include some sort of bandwith monitor to assess where of the available locations of a chunk to download from.
It would be a bit annoying to keep a seperate list of accounts for personal and per group - and creating accounts often needs to be done by hand, more annoying still -- but we're talking about unlimited online storage at up and down speeds as fast as your connection can handle, and in the fancier version it's resilient to services cracking down on a program like this without wiping your data or even losing access.
They may be able to identify a picture more accurately, but can they read a face like a human? Much of the facial recognition ability in humans is related to what the meanings behind the facial expressions are, not merely identification.
Cue cats could be cool though. My friend used one of those & a library card with a barcode as his login to linux. So this had a security by obscurity level to it as I was the only other person to know at his normal password prompt the way to log in was scanning his normal library card into the cue cat... and even if you knew how he logged in getting that card from him could be quite difficult as it never left his person.
From his site, it looks like he's entering data by hand, and hence it's time consuming so he's got very little of the census data up. Seems like it shouldn't be too much of a problem to have something spider the census site, rip the pdfs off the site, & parse the data out of those pdfs then enter it into whatever format he's using. Almost certainly less time consuming to code something to do that than actually manually entering everything by hand.
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He's also short on space... once again google could come to the rescue, with open source apps you can mount gmail accounts as drives because their api's pretty open. Simply make some public accounts on gmail, store the user/pass within an app used to mount these as drives, and ditrubute that app to grab any data needed.
Random note on overclocking and using water cooling: there's a way in some cases to simpilfy & amplify the power of water cooling. In areas where you pump water up from the watertable, and can drain it directly back down, you can use the watertable effectively as the cooling component in your water cooling system. This can allow for significant overclocking with pretty minimal effort, as your ability to warm up the water is basically removed as a concern.
Misread the . in the following as a , and caused quite a doubletake. "BBC is reporting that Iran has launched its first space rocket carrying a payload. Britain's former ambassador to Iran..."
Ohio University leads U.S. colleges in complaints of file sharing by the RIAA.
This is not a measurement of who's actually file shareing most, as an activity people don't like to advertise, it's very difficult to say who's engaging in it most.
I've been interested in a version of this for a while. Imo an audio/video stream really isnt what I'm interested in. It's an audio stream run thru a speach-to-text app stored as text for searching. Course, this relies on better speach-to-text than we've got at the moment, and really doesnt work well with others due to limitations on the mic especially in a crouded area... tho this could be worked around if both people had a similar device & could share time segments for colation.
You might be able to run a version of this now, run the audio thru a speach-to-text app, but keep them for a few years while apps like that improve. This may allow for an early adoption but end with a better result once better software's there to interpret it.
Now, ontop of this, encryption & the ability to securely delete files would need to be built in, I agree with many privacy concerns echoed here(tho an audio stream would be less damaging than audio/visual, and a text log less damaging yet). Ontop of that, if you went to a multi-device version of this, priavcy concerns would be even larger because somehow there's sharing going on here, and assuming you don't want very tedious manual swapping, there's going to be some communication between devices going on here which opens them up for attacks to a degree.
Still, I think the concept is very intriguing & worth considering. I can't count how many times I've wanted to be able to remeber the exact wording used in some situation, whether it was an assignment in school, or a point in an argument. Seems like a text log like this would be a lot more useful though simply because it's searchable, you dont have to know the timestamp of a particular incident to be able to pull it up quickly.
You know, drug companies don't suddenly stop making profit once the patent expires and competition begins. Look at how many companies sell plain old acetyl-salicilate (aka aspirin). They're obviously making money. So that's the first hole in your argument right there.
The issue with this is it's any company getting this money, not a government enforced monopoly. To the company who paid for R&D, this is looks like a bad deal. What needs to happen is something like the government buying these patents off the companies who did the R&D, at a profit of some reasonable level, and then opening up the production of the drug to anyone who wants to make it. Something like this would both allow the free market to work & still give benifits to those who persue R&D.
Capitalism should be about the best product for the price due to compitition. Due to marketing though, it's the best advertised product that actually gets to the most people. Additionally we have products for which there is no real need, but due to marketing, a market has been created(this is not healthy, yes, it increases the GDP, but the reason we're interested in the GDP is because it's supposed to represent the need for goods and services in the economy which are being met, it's not something we want to increase simply for the sake of it going up). Both of these are marketing seriously distorting capitalist free markets. This distortion is one of the major problems we need to find a solution to if we intend to keep using capitalism(which I think we should, when there's real competition, & actual need for a product, it's incredibly efficient).
A bit more about why this is a distortion of markets: One of things assumed in capitalism is equity of knowledge, and linked to this, one of the causes of market failure is a lack thereof. This is why we have things like laws against insider trading, lemon laws(for used cars & homes) etc. It is the reason we have a right to get angry at big tobacco... it's not that they simply didn't know it was bad, it's that they did know and kept it from us to keep making money. Marketing is a major source of mis-framed information, or even sometimes misinformation(though there are laws against outright lies in marketing) both of which cause us to make choices which are not actually in our best interest. This type of problem is further exasterbated by the increasing trend of being able to buy & make shills of news companies, and viral marketing(especially without disclosure).
You know holding shift while loading acrobat reader skips the loading of plugins & speeds up load time significantly on at least some versions. So depending on the version you're using, this may cut the loadtime enormously.
http://www.microsystems.com/tipstricksdisplay.php? tipNo=007/
By only using a 2.5" drive rather than 3.5 of course the average seek time is lower, because the read head doesn't have the extra 1" to cover. This is at the expense of all that extra storage area.
You could get just about as high an average seek if you partitioned up a 3.5" 15K drive and only kept data on the inner partition.
Actually, you'd want to keep it only on the outside partition. The edges of the platter have the most data and still make rotations at the same speed, hence more data per rotation. This is why you should make your swap partition the last last on the dive.
The argument I've heard for years against any kind of exoskeleton is in any type of modern warfare, mobilty is key. This seems like it would detract from your mobility pretty significantly(40 some lbs before anything else you need to carry) while not offering much significant in terms of protection - the joins are exposed, there's no way that faceplate has the armor levels of the actual armor plates in there, and the armor can only stop 'high powered' guns like an elephant gun, which as another poster already mentioned isnt very high powered compared to say, the common AK47 because it's a larger bullet traveling at a lower speed, something easier for armor to stop. Just doesnt cover the problems they've been having with armored exoskeletons for combat use for quite some time now.
I've blocked http://.yimg.com/*/jscodes/* in adblock as well as blocking the specific ad sites they use, which has stopped it from displaying ads without giving any delay on loadtime. Thing is, they've got to run a script to see if ads are loading, if you stop that from loading, you can also stop the ads without giving the scripts delay.
ATM, the script I'm blocking on the main page is called ct_lrec_031016.js tho that of course would be suject to renaming.
Least I think this is what's going on & I'm blocking the correct thing, if someone else could confirm this it would be nice.
I dont know if eyedea qualifies as nerdcore, and he may take offence to the term, but anyone interested in the genre should take a look at Eyedea. 'First Born' which is I beleive officially released by Eyedea, and 'The Many Face of Oliver Hart' which is released under a pseudonym. Both of these albums lean heavily toward philosophy & poetry as opposed to any traditional hip-hop themes. Unfortunately imo since Eyedea won the MTV blaze battle in 2001(I think it was 2001) he went a bit more battle-rap in his style(i.e. freestyle about why my crew's so much better at hip-hop than yours not gansta rap which is i'm gonna put a cap in yo ***) which I feel is a big step down from his 1st 2 albums.
Imo Eyedea is far better than anything else I've seen discussed as nerdcore, managing to combine intelligent lyrics with actual significant ability for both pre-written and freestyle hip-hop.
Want something to really worry about in terms of broadcast hyjinks? MTV is using the tried and true subliminal 'power of suggestion' in various spots in their broadcasts in Asia. I happened to be capturing TV via a DVR one evening, and when I played back my sample via the jog wheel, I was able to clearly see a text message inside a faint white rectangular box, overlaid into a short commercial for an upcoming show. It came and went quickly...'progress is now - Fridays on MTV'...not long enough to spot unless you were paying close attention at that moment, but long enough to be captured by the brain for subliminal decoding...ouch. MTVs' idea or broadcast on the behest of some agency, perhaps?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_messaging# Effectiveness
"Certain types of subliminal perception (hypnosis, for example) are known to affect the perceiver without any conscious knowledge of the effect on his part. However, there is no strong evidence that the types of messages discussed in this article (ones embedded into normal objects such as posters or movies) are at all effective."
That's only the wiki quote on the subject. IANAP (but my mom is, so I hear no end of the stuff 2nd hand) but this is way beyond no strong evidence of it being effective. It's -no- evidence of any statistically significant effect in any serious study i.e. as close as you can get to proving it's not effective in any way we we've tried to do it.
Now, to the topic of the article on the other hand, while many people can recognise stories like these as corporately funded, studies do show stories like these at minimum confuse the issue in statistically significant amounts. i.e. it's worth the companies to spend their money doing things like this rather than directly address the root issues they're trying to spread propaganda about.
Ontop of this, despite some of this being found out, it doesnt cause enough public backlash on average to harm the company more than it helps. Some don't get found at all, some create a very minor stir, I dont know of any companies getting a major backlash against tactics like this, but if there have been any they're a minority to the point of it still being a sensible buisiness policy to take the risk.
Until this changes, companies will continue to make business decisions like this because it's simply cheaper, including possible damages from backlash, to effect change in the population & the laws, than to actually fix their problems.
Slashdot Mirror
http://silkroadmarket.org/
There is indeed an illicit drug market run through tor, and bitcoin not pay-pal is its currency.
TFA may not refer to silkroad, but it does exist.
Sure, a new ecosystem equilibrium will come about in the creatures absence, generally one less stable because of the absence, either leaving its food source unchecked(to a degree), or leaving a predator without a meal(once again, to a degree). Once the ecosystem equilibruim lost, it's lost to us forever - especially if you're trying to count on future tech once the ecosystem as it will have drastically changed in the intervening time.
This is a serious threat to human survival, and we need to take it seriously soon or we'll pay for it as a species, even as a planet as a whole. The baiji may not be the straw that breaks the camel's back and makes the system start to truly unravel, but it is another destabilizing element, another straw on the back of a weighed down ecosystem.
All this will do is put in some additional language requiring you to enter an email address you will check on a regular basis where they can mail contract changes. They inform you of the changes as per their legal obligations and if you don't check the email then it's contractually your problem. Makes changes a tad more publically visable, but otherwise basically the status quo.
You know this doesnt actually have to be in the major artery/vein, simply next to it. The pulsating movement should be enough to get the amount of energy you need.
It seems the mechanical/hydraulic argment goes out the window if it's not in the artery/vein, I think the clotting risk goes down, and I'm not sure what happens with infection rates, but I'm no expert on this, I just saw a flaw in your underlying assumptions.
The next point mitigating these concerns is you're generally putting in a power supply because you needed to put something in to supply power to... which means infection/clotting risks are already present to the degree this type of device external to the artery/vein would expose you to.
The case could be made Hamilton was a lucky bastard... least till Washington's death and then that unpleasantness with burr.
You always have to take care to avoid sketchy situations where you're likely to be maliciously targeted, whether you're guarding against being snooped on, conned, robbed, or murdered -- despite the legality of the activity you're avoiding. But making it illegal decreases the number of people willing to risk doing it, and offers some legal recourse if despite your best efforts it's done anyway.
You do not get to abdocate responsability simply because it's illegal, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't also be illegal.
BS that this is near the AI threshold. It's not just compression, connections between peices of information & speed of retrieval are crucial to be able to make AI workable.
The shift toward modling AI attempts after our understanding of human cognition is the best hope visable for AI, and non-connectionist previous attempts (the stuff that came from the functionalists) has come up pretty short - and will continue to do so even if scaled up massively.
You do realize they're talking here about a supercomputer which models brains neuron and synapse for neruon and synapse of real brains, starting with that of a mouse brain, for this project. This is not something you're going to be dealing with at home at least during the 1st 1/2 of this century.
This is not like any previous AI attmpts because those have been trying to make largely software which acted like human 'software' whereas this is an attempt to replicate much more of the 'hardware' end of real brains, albiet as software simulations. This is a completely different approach which reflects the shift from functionalism to connectionism in our understanding of the brain. Sure it's not perfect, and my guess is the shift to connectionalism will be difficulat given the way the hardware we use works, but it's an approach to AI which is sure to aid technology and our understanding of human cognition within the coming century
(my guess this isn't something where they get a working AI the 1st time thru, it's more they're still working out technical details a decade from now on probably even a decent mouse brain simulation, but that their work combined with cognative work on humans will shed a lot of light on how we want to go about trying to tackle AI problems in the future, or where smallscale systems based off parts of this might give functionality normal styles of processing don't give easily.
the real solution to hosintg all of your files online or sharing files is something I dont know how to code and keep waiting for.
It connects to multiple free storage servers, probably multiple accounts per aervice
It chunks data, creates a header keeping track of where chunks are, and can upload or download basically as fast as your connection can handle by increasing the number of connections & hosts you're connecting to, decreasing the load per service - and probably still getting more than any other user of the service by connecting multiple times.
If you wanted to get careful about this you could impliment some sort of passive checker of accounts & something similar to raid style redundancy to keep your files up even if a site goes down or an account gets banned. If you did this you'd probably want to include some sort of bandwith monitor to assess where of the available locations of a chunk to download from.
It would be a bit annoying to keep a seperate list of accounts for personal and per group - and creating accounts often needs to be done by hand, more annoying still -- but we're talking about unlimited online storage at up and down speeds as fast as your connection can handle, and in the fancier version it's resilient to services cracking down on a program like this without wiping your data or even losing access.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_and_blades_busi ness_model
Shorten the life of the product, increase the cost per use - but do it descretely so the customer doesn't realize they've got an increased cost per use.
Underhanded, but there's no cost to doing it, and there's plenty of motivation, so people will continue to do it.
They may be able to identify a picture more accurately, but can they read a face like a human? Much of the facial recognition ability in humans is related to what the meanings behind the facial expressions are, not merely identification.
Cue cats could be cool though.
My friend used one of those & a library card with a barcode as his login to linux. So this had a security by obscurity level to it as I was the only other person to know at his normal password prompt the way to log in was scanning his normal library card into the cue cat... and even if you knew how he logged in getting that card from him could be quite difficult as it never left his person.
From his site, it looks like he's entering data by hand, and hence it's time consuming so he's got very little of the census data up.
Seems like it shouldn't be too much of a problem to have something spider the census site, rip the pdfs off the site, & parse the data out of those pdfs then enter it into whatever format he's using.
Almost certainly less time consuming to code something to do that than actually manually entering everything by hand.
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He's also short on space... once again google could come to the rescue, with open source apps you can mount gmail accounts as drives because their api's pretty open. Simply make some public accounts on gmail, store the user/pass within an app used to mount these as drives, and ditrubute that app to grab any data needed.
Random note on overclocking and using water cooling: there's a way in some cases to simpilfy & amplify the power of water cooling. In areas where you pump water up from the watertable, and can drain it directly back down, you can use the watertable effectively as the cooling component in your water cooling system.
This can allow for significant overclocking with pretty minimal effort, as your ability to warm up the water is basically removed as a concern.
Misread the . in the following as a , and caused quite a doubletake.
"BBC is reporting that Iran has launched its first space rocket carrying a payload. Britain's former ambassador to Iran..."
Ohio University leads U.S. colleges in complaints of file sharing by the RIAA.
This is not a measurement of who's actually file shareing most, as an activity people don't like to advertise, it's very difficult to say who's engaging in it most.
I've been interested in a version of this for a while. Imo an audio/video stream really isnt what I'm interested in. It's an audio stream run thru a speach-to-text app stored as text for searching. Course, this relies on better speach-to-text than we've got at the moment, and really doesnt work well with others due to limitations on the mic especially in a crouded area... tho this could be worked around if both people had a similar device & could share time segments for colation.
You might be able to run a version of this now, run the audio thru a speach-to-text app, but keep them for a few years while apps like that improve. This may allow for an early adoption but end with a better result once better software's there to interpret it.
Now, ontop of this, encryption & the ability to securely delete files would need to be built in, I agree with many privacy concerns echoed here(tho an audio stream would be less damaging than audio/visual, and a text log less damaging yet). Ontop of that, if you went to a multi-device version of this, priavcy concerns would be even larger because somehow there's sharing going on here, and assuming you don't want very tedious manual swapping, there's going to be some communication between devices going on here which opens them up for attacks to a degree.
Still, I think the concept is very intriguing & worth considering. I can't count how many times I've wanted to be able to remeber the exact wording used in some situation, whether it was an assignment in school, or a point in an argument. Seems like a text log like this would be a lot more useful though simply because it's searchable, you dont have to know the timestamp of a particular incident to be able to pull it up quickly.
You know, drug companies don't suddenly stop making profit once the patent expires and competition begins. Look at how many companies sell plain old acetyl-salicilate (aka aspirin). They're obviously making money. So that's the first hole in your argument right there.
The issue with this is it's any company getting this money, not a government enforced monopoly. To the company who paid for R&D, this is looks like a bad deal. What needs to happen is something like the government buying these patents off the companies who did the R&D, at a profit of some reasonable level, and then opening up the production of the drug to anyone who wants to make it. Something like this would both allow the free market to work & still give benifits to those who persue R&D.
Capitalism should be about the best product for the price due to compitition. Due to marketing though, it's the best advertised product that actually gets to the most people. Additionally we have products for which there is no real need, but due to marketing, a market has been created(this is not healthy, yes, it increases the GDP, but the reason we're interested in the GDP is because it's supposed to represent the need for goods and services in the economy which are being met, it's not something we want to increase simply for the sake of it going up). Both of these are marketing seriously distorting capitalist free markets. This distortion is one of the major problems we need to find a solution to if we intend to keep using capitalism(which I think we should, when there's real competition, & actual need for a product, it's incredibly efficient).
A bit more about why this is a distortion of markets:
One of things assumed in capitalism is equity of knowledge, and linked to this, one of the causes of market failure is a lack thereof. This is why we have things like laws against insider trading, lemon laws(for used cars & homes) etc. It is the reason we have a right to get angry at big tobacco... it's not that they simply didn't know it was bad, it's that they did know and kept it from us to keep making money. Marketing is a major source of mis-framed information, or even sometimes misinformation(though there are laws against outright lies in marketing) both of which cause us to make choices which are not actually in our best interest. This type of problem is further exasterbated by the increasing trend of being able to buy & make shills of news companies, and viral marketing(especially without disclosure).
You know holding shift while loading acrobat reader skips the loading of plugins & speeds up load time significantly on at least some versions. So depending on the version you're using, this may cut the loadtime enormously.? tipNo=007/
http://www.microsystems.com/tipstricksdisplay.php
By only using a 2.5" drive rather than 3.5 of course the average seek time is lower, because the read head doesn't have the extra 1" to cover. This is at the expense of all that extra storage area.
You could get just about as high an average seek if you partitioned up a 3.5" 15K drive and only kept data on the inner partition.
Actually, you'd want to keep it only on the outside partition. The edges of the platter have the most data and still make rotations at the same speed, hence more data per rotation. This is why you should make your swap partition the last last on the dive.
The argument I've heard for years against any kind of exoskeleton is in any type of modern warfare, mobilty is key. This seems like it would detract from your mobility pretty significantly(40 some lbs before anything else you need to carry) while not offering much significant in terms of protection - the joins are exposed, there's no way that faceplate has the armor levels of the actual armor plates in there, and the armor can only stop 'high powered' guns like an elephant gun, which as another poster already mentioned isnt very high powered compared to say, the common AK47 because it's a larger bullet traveling at a lower speed, something easier for armor to stop.
Just doesnt cover the problems they've been having with armored exoskeletons for combat use for quite some time now.
I've blocked http://.yimg.com/*/jscodes/* in adblock as well as blocking the specific ad sites they use, which has stopped it from displaying ads without giving any delay on loadtime.
Thing is, they've got to run a script to see if ads are loading, if you stop that from loading, you can also stop the ads without giving the scripts delay.
ATM, the script I'm blocking on the main page is called ct_lrec_031016.js tho that of course would be suject to renaming.
Least I think this is what's going on & I'm blocking the correct thing, if someone else could confirm this it would be nice.
I dont know if eyedea qualifies as nerdcore, and he may take offence to the term, but anyone interested in the genre should take a look at Eyedea. 'First Born' which is I beleive officially released by Eyedea, and 'The Many Face of Oliver Hart' which is released under a pseudonym. Both of these albums lean heavily toward philosophy & poetry as opposed to any traditional hip-hop themes. Unfortunately imo since Eyedea won the MTV blaze battle in 2001(I think it was 2001) he went a bit more battle-rap in his style(i.e. freestyle about why my crew's so much better at hip-hop than yours not gansta rap which is i'm gonna put a cap in yo ***) which I feel is a big step down from his 1st 2 albums.
Imo Eyedea is far better than anything else I've seen discussed as nerdcore, managing to combine intelligent lyrics with actual significant ability for both pre-written and freestyle hip-hop.
"Certain types of subliminal perception (hypnosis, for example) are known to affect the perceiver without any conscious knowledge of the effect on his part. However, there is no strong evidence that the types of messages discussed in this article (ones embedded into normal objects such as posters or movies) are at all effective."
That's only the wiki quote on the subject. IANAP (but my mom is, so I hear no end of the stuff 2nd hand) but this is way beyond no strong evidence of it being effective. It's -no- evidence of any statistically significant effect in any serious study i.e. as close as you can get to proving it's not effective in any way we we've tried to do it.
Now, to the topic of the article on the other hand, while many people can recognise stories like these as corporately funded, studies do show stories like these at minimum confuse the issue in statistically significant amounts. i.e. it's worth the companies to spend their money doing things like this rather than directly address the root issues they're trying to spread propaganda about.
Ontop of this, despite some of this being found out, it doesnt cause enough public backlash on average to harm the company more than it helps. Some don't get found at all, some create a very minor stir, I dont know of any companies getting a major backlash against tactics like this, but if there have been any they're a minority to the point of it still being a sensible buisiness policy to take the risk.
Until this changes, companies will continue to make business decisions like this because it's simply cheaper, including possible damages from backlash, to effect change in the population & the laws, than to actually fix their problems.