How ironic, I just so happen to find this site today! Why go for this when Lasik is an easy to do at home project? Check it out here. I guess after you sear your eyeball as in step 3, you can replace it with one of those cameras.
I wish Orwell's 1984 was required to be taught and discussed to death in citizenship classes in high school. What most people don't seem to understand is that 1984 is not really about "big brother" but instead it foretells what Orwell deeply distrusted: a global information system and the abuse of it. In a way Orwell was a pessimist - he knew that no matter how well intentioned any system would be abused. UAV's are a symptom of Orwell's fears, they are just more information inputs into a global database. By themselves it's almost silly to complain about them but in aggregate with other databases the whole becomes dangerous to liberty. Everyone has broken some law somewhere and if that information is easily looked up it makes everyone susceptible to blackmail - who did you have an affair with last year? There was an old soviet joke about having laws against everything so if the KGB wanted you they would simply selectively enforce any law they wanted to against you. What citizens should demand to combat Orwell's dystopia is transparency in the process' and records of their government. Yes some things do need to be classified but they are usually the exception and not the rule. And no matter how classified everything should eventually become known.
Anyway, I'm too drunk to continue so please correct and extend what I've said. Goodnight.;):)
wow, am interested to see what you have to say when you are sober.:)
saw V for Vendetta yesternite, its made by the Wachowski brothers, and shows a terrorist's retaliation on a totalitarian government. i am glad hollywood releases such flicks, inspite of the extra meat, extra cheese they add to each of their dishes.
TA talks about the relation about computers and science: why is it that all slashdotters translate science to technology, and start yapping about open source and closed source and javascript and windows vista and xboxes?
what happened to the P vs NP question, making A.L.I.C.E. talk more sense and so on? that, now, would be science..
So basically this proves what my mom said Lying makes you go blind. It also proves that the moon missions were fake.
i am inclined to think the blindness was caused by other activities, namely of the kind that slashdotters indulge in front of their monitors all night..
Sorry, but this isn't true. Genetics does play a major role in mental abilities. Take depression for example. It's a true medical condition that involves a serotonin imbalance. Depression DOES affect ones mental abilities. Thankfully however, the right medication can put your mental status and abilities in the "normal" range if treated. This is just only one example, and there are many more. Point is, everyone has slight differences in brain chemistry that is just enough to affect neural activity.
your example, which depicts chemistry affecting mental ability, does not support your claim, which tries to relate genetics to mental ability. the genome is more like the.ini file of a computer program than a petri-dish of chemicals, so do not confuse these two.
I would be far happier in my cube if the walls went floor to ceiling, and there were real sound dampening materials in the walls. I can hold a conversation with the guy on the other side of the wall while speaking in a low voice. And I'm sick and tired of impromptu speaker-phone conference calls in the cube next to me.
I feel exactly the same way about bathroom stalls.
but that would hinder the possible sharing/reuse of TP squares.
However - and this is big - how can Microsoft change the habits and behavior of many millions of users? Google has almost become synonymous with "web search" in the hearts and minds of millions. Particularly among the folks under 20 (lots and lots of people in my life), the phrase "Google it" is used maybe more than once a day. I like to use much of Google as it is - familiar, reliable (as much as I need it to be), and always extremely quick.
it's about time we decided upon a verb avatar of the MSN search engine.
alice: i wonder what a WMD is.
bob: hmm maybe you should try messin' it,
3. Because there are lots of little things we do every day that break the rules. These include: j-walking, downloading MP3's, subletting without telling your landlord, recording sporting events without express written concent, undocumented domestic help, recreational drug use, stealing cable, logging on to other people's wireless networks, "leaking" company information to your girlfriend, anything besides the missionary position (in many states), cheating on your wife (in many states), rolling stops on empty streets, u-turns in the middle of empty streets, locking your bicycle to the handrailing, lying about your age to get into movies, lying about your age to get senior citizens discounts, lying about your age to avoid getting senior citizens discounts, telling your company that you're "sick" when you really mean you're "sick and tired of this crappy job," not reporting e-bay sales as taxable income, grabbing an extra newspaper when someone else buys one from the machine, putting chairs in the street to save your parking spot, stealing office supplies, stealing the towels, littering, loitering, the office NCAA pool, etc etc. All of these are necessary for the functioning of our society in some way or another, but are illegal. Yet we would go batshit insane without a few personal pet vices.
thanks - was looking for fun stuff to do on a sunday afternoon!
Nope, it's way past time to roll it back and JUST SAY NO to ALL of it. They crossed the line years ago, any defence of them is illogical and unwarranted, it's a pure slow speed fascist takeover, perfectly clear, nothing different from any third world fascist takeover except these boys are a little slicker how they are doing it, and having you on candid camera 24/7 and RFID tagged and working for their pig corporations as a second world serf slave is EXACTLY their goal. Look back 20 years. Now look at right now. Now turn around and look forward 20 years. Watcha see? How are things doing? Really, is it going to get magically better somehow unless there's a firm line that they have to go back and stand behind? They sure as hell aren't going to do it voluntarily!
You have to look at the big picture to get the full grasp of this.
NOW is the time to get scared, concerned then angry and change this stuff. We still have 10% of a chance, your kids won't have any.
Stand up and speak? Doesnt suit an anonymous coward too well.
I recount a similar experience. I failed to yield in an accident on my college campus. The cop wrote me a ticket just so that the other party would not be at risk incase my insurance company started acting cheap. On the day I was summoned to court, the cop (who understandably works with the college police department) showed up in court before me and squashed the ticket. He was wise in noting that a poor student like me had his hands full of insurance worries, and didnt need extra tickets and fines.
1. its not like online media cant make the mistake of getting it wrong. 2. viewing it on your monitor (that consumes electricity) using a possibly inefficient communication network (that consumes electricity) does encourage electricity companies to burn coal to generate it. i'm not saying that this is more polluting than snail paper, but you dont have the figures either.
not to mention the possibly harmful effect of high-intensity light beamed onto your eyeballs.
And now, if somebody put me through any 'truth' machine, and asked me about drug use, I'd have to say that I have, in fact, smoked crack. A device like this combined with specifically directed questions could easily paint me as a real junky, even though I'm not and I have some pretty strong feelings about the harder, more dangerous drugs like cocaine or heroin, and even though I haven't smoked (nor have desired to smoke) marijuana in over two years.
I would hope, though suspect that it won't come to pass, that certain measures would be put in place that would look at intent or degree before reaching a conclusion. If I was asked 'have you ever stolen anything', the answer would be yes. 26 years ago, when I was 5 years old, I took a matchbox car from a local supermarket without paying for it. I still feel guilty about it, and haven't stolen anything since. If absolutes were used and I was obliged to be completely honest, I'd end up being thief in addition to being a junky.
No man or woman is compleatly without sin, and without looking at intent a machine like this could be used to make anyone look like a monster.
i have heard that "they" are more objective in these matters before they deny you security clearance: they actually ask you the number of times and nature of the unlawful acts to make a final decision. so you're not that bad off, and hey you did steal, accept it!:)
does the subject retain memory, cognitive skills and motor skills after this induced hypothermia? maybe someone with access to the new scientist article could respond. people would fear this mode of treatment as much as chemical anaesthesia if these are not analyzed in their entirety.
An understanding of the genetics behind cleft palate in mice may one day be used to help prevent this common birth defect in humans.
how do scientists expect to modify the genetic material of every living human being so as to prevent this defect? is there some parallel technology that promises a mass-producable mutating vaccine or something equal in function?
... is to spell GILLETTE in your own mother-tongue.
A major Dutch retail chain recently had to recall a whole lot of Gilette Mach 3 razorblades. It turned out they were fakes. The packaging looked real enough, but the razors were nowhere near the quality Gilette makes.
But if an artist can paint as well as one of the Masters, shouldn't we be excited to find a 'fake' because it means that there is another great painter out there who we know nothing about.
The conceptualisation of a piece of art is worth far more credit than the talent involved in putting it on canvas. Its exactly the same principle that renders, say, Lynyrd Skynyrd more universally recognized than the dozens of cover bands who reproduce their compositions across the South.
Once you've either collected them yourself or downloaded them, you need to use a process called eigenanalysis which is basically fancy talk for analyzing a large dataset with multiple classes (emotions) using matrix decomposition.
while i can appreciate the several informative links in your post, just a minor rant: why do you think eigenanalysis is fancy talk?
a scientific subject of study as technical as "analyzing a large dataset with multiple classes (emotions) using matrix decomposition" certainly deserves a short epithet, and eigenanalysis is as apt as any.
Why did they choose eight 'bits' for their quantum 'byte'? For historical reasons, or is there a logical reason to choose eight? Why not seven, or 42?
I'm not being entirely frivolous - I understand quantum computing is radically different from today's architectures and so don't understand why they are choosing a byte size based on what seems to me to be historical factors.
systems comprised of 7 entangled quantum bits had been physically demonstrated five years ago.
since a system consisting of two basis states |0> and |1> have been colloquially called bits, jargon extends to call 8 such entangled systems a byte. i think it bears little relevance to the subject of quantum computer architecture which likely hinges on an entirely different set of principles.
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or maybe he is hacking together his own version of Photoshop..
saw V for Vendetta yesternite, its made by the Wachowski brothers, and shows a terrorist's retaliation on a totalitarian government. i am glad hollywood releases such flicks, inspite of the extra meat, extra cheese they add to each of their dishes.
what happened to the P vs NP question, making A.L.I.C.E. talk more sense and so on? that, now, would be science..
tried adding bumchum@yahoo.com to the waitlist, and it thanked me for my interest! yay!
i am inclined to think the blindness was caused by other activities, namely of the kind that slashdotters indulge in front of their monitors all night..
problems that are not of a computational nature..
sorry i forget writing in last letter. hope you will not misunderstand.
i need your bank account number and alongside password to move the money.
yours
mr wamo
your example, which depicts chemistry affecting mental ability, does not support your claim, which tries to relate genetics to mental ability. the genome is more like the .ini file of a computer program than a petri-dish of chemicals, so do not confuse these two.
you need a new example.
alice: i wonder what a WMD is.
bob: hmm maybe you should try messin' it,
sadly, metal does not shield human fingers from java heat the same way ceramic does.
Stand up and speak? Doesnt suit an anonymous coward too well.
I recount a similar experience. I failed to yield in an accident on my college campus. The cop wrote me a ticket just so that the other party would not be at risk incase my insurance company started acting cheap. On the day I was summoned to court, the cop (who understandably works with the college police department) showed up in court before me and squashed the ticket. He was wise in noting that a poor student like me had his hands full of insurance worries, and didnt need extra tickets and fines.
probably not, for it was only yesterday when their troubles seemed so far away..
1. its not like online media cant make the mistake of getting it wrong.
2. viewing it on your monitor (that consumes electricity) using a possibly inefficient communication network (that consumes electricity) does encourage electricity companies to burn coal to generate it. i'm not saying that this is more polluting than snail paper, but you dont have the figures either.
not to mention the possibly harmful effect of high-intensity light beamed onto your eyeballs.
I would hope, though suspect that it won't come to pass, that certain measures would be put in place that would look at intent or degree before reaching a conclusion. If I was asked 'have you ever stolen anything', the answer would be yes. 26 years ago, when I was 5 years old, I took a matchbox car from a local supermarket without paying for it. I still feel guilty about it, and haven't stolen anything since. If absolutes were used and I was obliged to be completely honest, I'd end up being thief in addition to being a junky.
No man or woman is compleatly without sin, and without looking at intent a machine like this could be used to make anyone look like a monster.
i have heard that "they" are more objective in these matters before they deny you security clearance: they actually ask you the number of times and nature of the unlawful acts to make a final decision. so you're not that bad off, and hey you did steal, accept it! :)
does the subject retain memory, cognitive skills and motor skills after this induced hypothermia? maybe someone with access to the new scientist article could respond. people would fear this mode of treatment as much as chemical anaesthesia if these are not analyzed in their entirety.
how do scientists expect to modify the genetic material of every living human being so as to prevent this defect? is there some parallel technology that promises a mass-producable mutating vaccine or something equal in function?
A major Dutch retail chain recently had to recall a whole lot of Gilette Mach 3 razorblades. It turned out they were fakes. The packaging looked real enough, but the razors were nowhere near the quality Gilette makes.
The conceptualisation of a piece of art is worth far more credit than the talent involved in putting it on canvas. Its exactly the same principle that renders, say, Lynyrd Skynyrd more universally recognized than the dozens of cover bands who reproduce their compositions across the South.
while i can appreciate the several informative links in your post, just a minor rant: why do you think eigenanalysis is fancy talk?
a scientific subject of study as technical as "analyzing a large dataset with multiple classes (emotions) using matrix decomposition" certainly deserves a short epithet, and eigenanalysis is as apt as any.
also, how many clicks to delete the current mail in gmail, and how many to delete in yahoo mail?
I'm not being entirely frivolous - I understand quantum computing is radically different from today's architectures and so don't understand why they are choosing a byte size based on what seems to me to be historical factors.
systems comprised of 7 entangled quantum bits had been physically demonstrated five years ago.
since a system consisting of two basis states |0> and |1> have been colloquially called bits, jargon extends to call 8 such entangled systems a byte. i think it bears little relevance to the subject of quantum computer architecture which likely hinges on an entirely different set of principles.