Oh, well, I'm not sure that qualifies as an achievement;-). Disclaimer : this is coming from someone who fled France as soon as possible for Ireland, without any prior knowledge of the country or any job there. That's how cool France is.
Don't you dare compare us to France, it's insulting
Yeah it's insulting to be compared to a country with a lasting cultural influence and relevance who doesn't have to spell stop 'ARRET' rather than 'STOP' (as in France) on stop signs to ensure the survival of its dialect among its very population. Half of your cultural impact on the rest of the world was in the movie Titanic's title song.
Tabarnac, you just got pwné!
(Retroactive disclaimer : I'm French, could you tell?)
What is considered malware in the US may be commonly accepted in China or Japan [...] These anti-cheating rootkits would hook into the kernel space in a very invasive way, and have the behavioral characteristics of malware such as hooking into the keyboard driver
Indeed. And if you look back in history, you will find documented examples in medieval Japan of samurais making alliances with kernel-space rootkit developers to repel Mongol invasions. But it actually goes back to the roots of Zen Buddhism which de-emphasized the attachment to privacy and instead favoured experimental realisation, including with various sorts of early meditation-space thought-loggers.
Noooo, don't you understand?! Big corporations aren't just out there to offer products and services for the sake of profit and growth! Of course you think Google's services are great, that's what they *want* you to think! In fact all these nifty services are a honey pot so that you go there and give them your IP address and let them store which video you've watched to hand it all over to the evil government! Capitalism is evil, and corporations and this government are capitalistic!! OMG Karl Marx to the rescuse!!11
A chance I regularly read Slashdot so that I remember at all times why I should be scared to do anything online and to keep my eyes wide open on the undeniable fact that big companies and the evil government are all out to find a reason to sue me and throw me in jail! Now excuse me, I have to go watch TV so that I can remember why I should be scared of going out of my house! OMG drugs, guns, gangs and psychopaths!!!11
Oh, cause a DVD backup is maybe? If you properly store your magazines, in 200 years they'll still be usable. That's coming from someone whose favourite childhood books were printed in 1869. What sort of modern digital media could be said the same about?
1. Gather a bunch of recordings of good and bad vibatos 2. Analyse their characteristics with a spectrograph to find what makes the good ones. 3. Make a simple program that analyses such characteristics using fairly basic techniques such as FM demodulation. 4. Wait for Roland to praise your work in his blog and cross your fingers that Slashdot will relay the 'news'. 5. 6. Profit?
No really, someone explain to me what's the big deal, that's something simple that could probably be done in analog electronics. Or is the 'OMG AWSM' part the fact that 'OMG it replaces human beings!!1'?
Desperately trying hard to find the slightest evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence while astronauts, pilots and radar operators witness UFO events that can hardly be explained by anything but what we're looking for so hard in the sky.
But I guess that the term UFO inspires such a lack of credibility that we have to look hard to the sky where we won't see anything while ignoring what takes place in our atmosphere.
Messenger may not even have a visible spectrum camera.
Hey how about you open your cake hole only when you've made sure you know what the fuck you're talking about. Obviously if I said there were red, green and filters on this probe that means that it has a "visible spectrum camera". Here's the list of filters on the probe by the way.
It is a form of art to make many of those pictures look good.
Complete and utter bullshit. It boggles my mind that someone could be clueless enough to mod you up. Making such pictures is as simple as combining the channels together and making sure these are aligned. That exactly what it takes to make sure that what you look at is just like how it would look if you could take a picture of Mercury with your favourite camera. Period. Anyone can do that with Photoshop in 5 minutes, and you can try you hand at it with the raw images from Cassini-Huygens.
As for the rest of your comment, what kind of drivel is that?
I hate to break it all down for you, but that N-party ideal so many Americans drool over isn't that great once it really happens. Well I have to agree that it's a shame that in the USA any sort of discussion not coming from the two big parties is suppressed, and as a French citizen who regularly sees people from way over a dozen political parties get air time for all sorts of political issues I think that political variety contributes a great deal to the quality of the discussion, but when it comes to voting, it all comes down to mathematics.
And by this I mean, remember how Ralph Nader was accused of taking votes from the left and hardly any from the right, thus making the Republican party stronger in 2000? Well basically in a French election it's the same thing except with over a dozen different Ralph Naders. So in the end it doesn't come down to who of the two big parties is favoured by the people but which side of the political playground is the most united. Well fortunately we vote a second time between the two front-runners of the first election, which has always been, except in 2002, the equivalent of the Republican and Democrat parties.
And I've gotta add this : greens, libertarians, communists, they all bring a most valuable contribution to the debate by coming up with a sharp analysis and criticism of whatever's going on, but they systematically turn out to fail at suggesting feasible solutions to issues they're so good at point out, and also despite talking bad all the time about the two parties who alternatively assume responsibility and power, they systematically try their best to avoid being in charge. They sound like they try hard to gain access to the presidency, but that's only because they know well they'll never get there. There are exceptions, such as François Bayrou, the centrist leader, but he has no back up, that is, anyone behind him is only waiting for either side to win and brown-nose their way into the government.
So yes, that sucks that no one will give Ron Paul any air time to the point we forget about him, but make no mistake about it, he can only contribute to the debate and bring chaos to the election by favouring the one side he's the less taking votes from. A true N-party system really isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Duh, cut the hippie crap, it's not our fucking job to do what the people we elected to represent our interests are supposed to do. People have other stuff to do than to get familiar with any arcane piece of legislation that comes up, mainly considered how little they can directly do anything about it.
The worst thing that can happen to the world right now, is that a republican or a democrat wins the US elections.
Mmmh.. are you making the point that no matter what or how the winner of this election will be just a plain old Republican or Democrat and that it won't make anything any worse anyways or are you trying to say that the worst that could happen would be that there would be a winner to this upcoming election as opposed to no winner at all and that the world would be better off if the USA didn't have a president?
All this time after the flyby, and still no real-colour picture of the planet, as they're literally sitting on it. They have entire mosaics of the planet taken in all the probes 11 filters, including red, green and blue filters, and yet they can't be arsed to put those together to finally let use see Mercury in its truest colours!
Also, where are the updated maps of Mercury? You know, ones that would cover more than the 45% of the surface covered by Mariner 10? God I just wish they would release all their raw images just like they did with Cassini-Huygens so that we could do all the cool stuff they can't be bothered to do. And I feel entitled to this as it's all financed with tax payer money, right? (Well, let's ignore the fact that I'm not even American)
Oh, true, I missed the fact that it was results from two independent and unrelated sites. Therefore we indeed do have to take TFA's conclusions with a pinch of salt. However the conclusion is intuitive enough to be assumed to be correct, if not rigorously proven.
As ever, I'd like to know the scope of the survey cause if the sample where something like 1000 students for one survey and 1000 for the other then maybe the fist 1000 copied far less than the latter.
Statistics is just about distribution and probability not about well known facts and extrapolating conclusions from an insufficiently wide sample can lead to terribly wrong conclusions.
The mean absolute deviation for a sample size of 1000 on a boolean question is roughly 2.5%. I don't know how many samples it would take for the mean absolute deviation to be in the vicinity of 25% but it's safe to assume that it would be such a ridiculously small sample size that it's safe to assume that this poll would be based on more than that (TFA doesn't say how many). So your point is quite moot.
If it is detectable in any way, it's not "dark" anymore!
Hey I didn't know "dark" now meant "invisible", thanks for the update! And while you may argue that something dark is invisible on a black background you have to remember that there's hardly any sort of truly black background in the sky.
North Korean people are really green, they shut their cities lights at night!
And they don't turn them on during daytime because well.. the sun provides enough light! Wow, these North Koreans are really living in harmony with nature! Let's take them as role models. Maybe after all dictatorship isn't that bad, at least for the environment!
Yeah.. you know that would help a bunch if you'd mentioned what your variables represent. I can't even find the same equation on wikipedia so I have no idea what your equation is supposed to do.
It's become clear that meta moderation does not work. Moderation does not become better over time scales of months, or even years, at it, in theory, should, if unfair moderations tossed morons out of the pool.
There's a solution to it, give more points to more people more often with a much much decreased weight. It's simple as statistics, the more people you make moderate a comment the closer the moderation will be to the comment's true value. More people -> reduced distribution -> increased significance. The notion of "wisdom of the crowds" is often misused but it's a very appropriate solution in that sort of case. Much simpler than weeding out the noise-increasing elements out there, as the noise decreases as you throw more people into the mix.
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It might have something to do with the latitude and the gulf stream...
lol.. that too
Quebec is way cooler than France
Oh, well, I'm not sure that qualifies as an achievement ;-). Disclaimer : this is coming from someone who fled France as soon as possible for Ireland, without any prior knowledge of the country or any job there. That's how cool France is.
Don't you dare compare us to France, it's insulting
Yeah it's insulting to be compared to a country with a lasting cultural influence and relevance who doesn't have to spell stop 'ARRET' rather than 'STOP' (as in France) on stop signs to ensure the survival of its dialect among its very population. Half of your cultural impact on the rest of the world was in the movie Titanic's title song.
Tabarnac, you just got pwné!
(Retroactive disclaimer : I'm French, could you tell?)
What is considered malware in the US may be commonly accepted in China or Japan [...] These anti-cheating rootkits would hook into the kernel space in a very invasive way, and have the behavioral characteristics of malware such as hooking into the keyboard driver
Indeed. And if you look back in history, you will find documented examples in medieval Japan of samurais making alliances with kernel-space rootkit developers to repel Mongol invasions. But it actually goes back to the roots of Zen Buddhism which de-emphasized the attachment to privacy and instead favoured experimental realisation, including with various sorts of early meditation-space thought-loggers.
The fact that every video you watched on YouTube is now in the hands of a crooked bunch of corporate lawyers should occurr to you.
OMG! They know you've watched Never Gonna Give You Up!! You're screwed pal!!! Run and hide!!!!
all research, all class work, etc is off-line
Wise choice sir! Cause if they find out you googled for anything vaguely related to electronics or chemicals, you're good for Gitmo, buddy!
Noooo, don't you understand?! Big corporations aren't just out there to offer products and services for the sake of profit and growth! Of course you think Google's services are great, that's what they *want* you to think! In fact all these nifty services are a honey pot so that you go there and give them your IP address and let them store which video you've watched to hand it all over to the evil government! Capitalism is evil, and corporations and this government are capitalistic!! OMG Karl Marx to the rescuse!!11
A chance I regularly read Slashdot so that I remember at all times why I should be scared to do anything online and to keep my eyes wide open on the undeniable fact that big companies and the evil government are all out to find a reason to sue me and throw me in jail! Now excuse me, I have to go watch TV so that I can remember why I should be scared of going out of my house! OMG drugs, guns, gangs and psychopaths!!!11
But paper is not made to last
Oh, cause a DVD backup is maybe? If you properly store your magazines, in 200 years they'll still be usable. That's coming from someone whose favourite childhood books were printed in 1869. What sort of modern digital media could be said the same about?
1. Gather a bunch of recordings of good and bad vibatos
2. Analyse their characteristics with a spectrograph to find what makes the good ones.
3. Make a simple program that analyses such characteristics using fairly basic techniques such as FM demodulation.
4. Wait for Roland to praise your work in his blog and cross your fingers that Slashdot will relay the 'news'.
5.
6. Profit?
No really, someone explain to me what's the big deal, that's something simple that could probably be done in analog electronics. Or is the 'OMG AWSM' part the fact that 'OMG it replaces human beings!!1'?
Desperately trying hard to find the slightest evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence while astronauts, pilots and radar operators witness UFO events that can hardly be explained by anything but what we're looking for so hard in the sky.
But I guess that the term UFO inspires such a lack of credibility that we have to look hard to the sky where we won't see anything while ignoring what takes place in our atmosphere.
They probably use the same server app as Slashdot which IIRC is open source.
Messenger may not even have a visible spectrum camera.
Hey how about you open your cake hole only when you've made sure you know what the fuck you're talking about. Obviously if I said there were red, green and filters on this probe that means that it has a "visible spectrum camera". Here's the list of filters on the probe by the way.
It is a form of art to make many of those pictures look good.
Complete and utter bullshit. It boggles my mind that someone could be clueless enough to mod you up. Making such pictures is as simple as combining the channels together and making sure these are aligned. That exactly what it takes to make sure that what you look at is just like how it would look if you could take a picture of Mercury with your favourite camera. Period. Anyone can do that with Photoshop in 5 minutes, and you can try you hand at it with the raw images from Cassini-Huygens.
As for the rest of your comment, what kind of drivel is that?
I hate to break it all down for you, but that N-party ideal so many Americans drool over isn't that great once it really happens. Well I have to agree that it's a shame that in the USA any sort of discussion not coming from the two big parties is suppressed, and as a French citizen who regularly sees people from way over a dozen political parties get air time for all sorts of political issues I think that political variety contributes a great deal to the quality of the discussion, but when it comes to voting, it all comes down to mathematics.
And by this I mean, remember how Ralph Nader was accused of taking votes from the left and hardly any from the right, thus making the Republican party stronger in 2000? Well basically in a French election it's the same thing except with over a dozen different Ralph Naders. So in the end it doesn't come down to who of the two big parties is favoured by the people but which side of the political playground is the most united. Well fortunately we vote a second time between the two front-runners of the first election, which has always been, except in 2002, the equivalent of the Republican and Democrat parties.
And I've gotta add this : greens, libertarians, communists, they all bring a most valuable contribution to the debate by coming up with a sharp analysis and criticism of whatever's going on, but they systematically turn out to fail at suggesting feasible solutions to issues they're so good at point out, and also despite talking bad all the time about the two parties who alternatively assume responsibility and power, they systematically try their best to avoid being in charge. They sound like they try hard to gain access to the presidency, but that's only because they know well they'll never get there. There are exceptions, such as François Bayrou, the centrist leader, but he has no back up, that is, anyone behind him is only waiting for either side to win and brown-nose their way into the government.
So yes, that sucks that no one will give Ron Paul any air time to the point we forget about him, but make no mistake about it, he can only contribute to the debate and bring chaos to the election by favouring the one side he's the less taking votes from. A true N-party system really isn't all it's cracked up to be.
We are a lazy and selfish people, my friend.
Duh, cut the hippie crap, it's not our fucking job to do what the people we elected to represent our interests are supposed to do. People have other stuff to do than to get familiar with any arcane piece of legislation that comes up, mainly considered how little they can directly do anything about it.
Does it really matter?
The worst thing that can happen to the world right now, is that a republican or a democrat wins the US elections.
Mmmh.. are you making the point that no matter what or how the winner of this election will be just a plain old Republican or Democrat and that it won't make anything any worse anyways or are you trying to say that the worst that could happen would be that there would be a winner to this upcoming election as opposed to no winner at all and that the world would be better off if the USA didn't have a president?
It's your vote. You should be able to do whatever you want to do with your vote. It should be a crime if you did not use your vote at all.
..and it should be a crime if you did not cast your vote to The Party. Welcome back home, comrade!
No, really. He's right.
Translation : dark means invisible. Quite what I said.
A certain amount of shrinkage is normal with age.
WTF, is there really such a thing as penises shrinking with age? :-S
All this time after the flyby, and still no real-colour picture of the planet, as they're literally sitting on it. They have entire mosaics of the planet taken in all the probes 11 filters, including red, green and blue filters, and yet they can't be arsed to put those together to finally let use see Mercury in its truest colours!
Also, where are the updated maps of Mercury? You know, ones that would cover more than the 45% of the surface covered by Mariner 10? God I just wish they would release all their raw images just like they did with Cassini-Huygens so that we could do all the cool stuff they can't be bothered to do. And I feel entitled to this as it's all financed with tax payer money, right? (Well, let's ignore the fact that I'm not even American)
Oh, true, I missed the fact that it was results from two independent and unrelated sites. Therefore we indeed do have to take TFA's conclusions with a pinch of salt. However the conclusion is intuitive enough to be assumed to be correct, if not rigorously proven.
As ever, I'd like to know the scope of the survey cause if the sample where something like 1000 students for one survey and 1000 for the other then maybe the fist 1000 copied far less than the latter.
Statistics is just about distribution and probability not about well known facts and extrapolating conclusions from an insufficiently wide sample can lead to terribly wrong conclusions.
The mean absolute deviation for a sample size of 1000 on a boolean question is roughly 2.5%. I don't know how many samples it would take for the mean absolute deviation to be in the vicinity of 25% but it's safe to assume that it would be such a ridiculously small sample size that it's safe to assume that this poll would be based on more than that (TFA doesn't say how many). So your point is quite moot.
If it is detectable in any way, it's not "dark" anymore!
Hey I didn't know "dark" now meant "invisible", thanks for the update! And while you may argue that something dark is invisible on a black background you have to remember that there's hardly any sort of truly black background in the sky.
North Korean people are really green, they shut their cities lights at night!
And they don't turn them on during daytime because well.. the sun provides enough light! Wow, these North Koreans are really living in harmony with nature! Let's take them as role models. Maybe after all dictatorship isn't that bad, at least for the environment!
Put in the numbers and get your answer
Yeah.. you know that would help a bunch if you'd mentioned what your variables represent. I can't even find the same equation on wikipedia so I have no idea what your equation is supposed to do.
It's become clear that meta moderation does not work. Moderation does not become better over time scales of months, or even years, at it, in theory, should, if unfair moderations tossed morons out of the pool.
There's a solution to it, give more points to more people more often with a much much decreased weight. It's simple as statistics, the more people you make moderate a comment the closer the moderation will be to the comment's true value. More people -> reduced distribution -> increased significance. The notion of "wisdom of the crowds" is often misused but it's a very appropriate solution in that sort of case. Much simpler than weeding out the noise-increasing elements out there, as the noise decreases as you throw more people into the mix.