If we're going to use nuclear power, why use small nuclear power plants to drill for oil, instead of using it directly? Isn't this the worst of both worlds?
Of course they can, if the uploader IP is Italian. They simply look through the logs, find the IPs inside their jurisdiction, and crank out settlement offers by the dozen - profit!
This is a fascinating concept, come to think of it. Individually, we have been using an adaptive immune system for millions of years.
Now we can isolate the virus in a lab, create a vaccine for it, and spread it all around the world. Civilization itself is an organism with its own immune system.
I wouldn't dismiss this progress out of hand. Both the problems faced by censors and the problems faced by those routing around them are very significant issues in the science of networks. The solutions, even the ones used by the "enemy" (the censors) will have wider applications: For example, the packet filtering algorithms could be useful against botnets.
When I see the word "miraculous" used to describe any kind of progress in an experimental science, I get suspicious.
Experimental data has been fudged before. That was in South Korea, not China, but the point stands: If the results are too good to be true, they probably are.
If you need to be constantly bathing the material with UV light just to keep it dark, there is not much storage going on,
I'm not calling the concept feasible, mind you, but do remember that our dynamic memory is currently based on removing and re-applying an electric charge to billions of capacitors hundreds of times per second. DRAM, according to Wikipedia, is guaranteed to hold its state for 64ms. If this one has 30ms, it's not that bad.
(Or wouldn't be if it could *write* as fast as DRAM does. Of course the write operation must be far faster than the loss rate.)
Yay! Now in order to impersonate someone, you only need to break into one single account and immediately have access to his 120 social networking services. The wonders of progress!
If people were paying their own money for drugs instead of an employer's insurance or tax-funded nets, they'd make a remarkably larger effort to stay healthy and spend less on treatments.
While some aspects of industrial disease are caused by overindulgence in luxury, it doesn't follow that healthy living is always cheaper than unhealthy living. You will not be able to pressure the poor into living healthier by making them pay for their own healthcare. All you would do is kill them.
The user's local behavior before form submission is detectable only via a client-side script. There are therefore two ways this can go.
1.) You maintain accessibility standards and make the client-side script optional. The effectiveness of this approach is comparable to xkcd's "When Littlefoot's mother died in/Land before Time/, did you feel sad? (Bots: NO LYING!)
2.) You require client-side script execution in order to submit the form. The effect is a lot of pissed-off users with NoScript or non-compatible Javascript interpreters (IE or the rest, depending on which one you support).
This idea is basically like visual captchas, but instead of the visually impaired, you're screwing everyone without Javascript.
There is one aspect of user behavior that can be detected, however, and that is the time passed between the user requesting the form and submitting it. From an AI perspective, humans spend an eternity typing, so setting a minimum delay between request and submission will slow the bot right down - especially with a flood control that requires a delay before submitting the next form. Slashdot does both of these things already, by the way.
I'd love a package that could look at a picture and tag it "Nicholas and Andrea" or "Glen and Helene"
Upload your pictures to Picasa Web and be amazed. It can't quite tag the pictures itself yet, but it can recognize all faces in the pictures, then group faces of the same person, then ask you to identify the person.
It makes vast amounts of sense, especially if you're miffed at Colbert using his popularity leverage to push his own name through the vote. Go on his show, name it something else, just to mess with him.:P
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Don't rely on it. Google has much more information than that, and they don't seem to have drowned in it.
Computers are remarkably good at analyzing large amounts of data.
Well, turns out she had something to hide. :P
If we're going to use nuclear power, why use small nuclear power plants to drill for oil, instead of using it directly? Isn't this the worst of both worlds?
Of course they can, if the uploader IP is Italian. They simply look through the logs, find the IPs inside their jurisdiction, and crank out settlement offers by the dozen - profit!
This is a fascinating concept, come to think of it. Individually, we have been using an adaptive immune system for millions of years.
Now we can isolate the virus in a lab, create a vaccine for it, and spread it all around the world. Civilization itself is an organism with its own immune system.
It's so lucky that we're the good guys.
I wouldn't dismiss this progress out of hand. Both the problems faced by censors and the problems faced by those routing around them are very significant issues in the science of networks. The solutions, even the ones used by the "enemy" (the censors) will have wider applications: For example, the packet filtering algorithms could be useful against botnets.
It's like spammers advancing OCR technology.
When I see the word "miraculous" used to describe any kind of progress in an experimental science, I get suspicious.
Experimental data has been fudged before. That was in South Korea, not China, but the point stands: If the results are too good to be true, they probably are.
The development branch of Firefox was on 93 half a year ago.
Do you know what happens when a programmer is paid by line of code?
I'm not calling the concept feasible, mind you, but do remember that our dynamic memory is currently based on removing and re-applying an electric charge to billions of capacitors hundreds of times per second. DRAM, according to Wikipedia, is guaranteed to hold its state for 64ms. If this one has 30ms, it's not that bad.
(Or wouldn't be if it could *write* as fast as DRAM does. Of course the write operation must be far faster than the loss rate.)
Yay! Now in order to impersonate someone, you only need to break into one single account and immediately have access to his 120 social networking services. The wonders of progress!
... and I'm not feeling too good either!
While some aspects of industrial disease are caused by overindulgence in luxury, it doesn't follow that healthy living is always cheaper than unhealthy living. You will not be able to pressure the poor into living healthier by making them pay for their own healthcare. All you would do is kill them.
Anaphylactic shocks are by definition exceedingly dangerous and unpredictable, so if they can occur, they can also lead to death.
I haven't heard of anyone killed this way either, but then I haven't even entered "marijhuana anaphylactic shock" into Google.
I'm going to wait for Windows 9, thanks all the same.
The user's local behavior before form submission is detectable only via a client-side script. There are therefore two ways this can go.
1.) You maintain accessibility standards and make the client-side script optional. The effectiveness of this approach is comparable to xkcd's "When Littlefoot's mother died in /Land before Time/, did you feel sad? (Bots: NO LYING!)
2.) You require client-side script execution in order to submit the form. The effect is a lot of pissed-off users with NoScript or non-compatible Javascript interpreters (IE or the rest, depending on which one you support).
This idea is basically like visual captchas, but instead of the visually impaired, you're screwing everyone without Javascript.
There is one aspect of user behavior that can be detected, however, and that is the time passed between the user requesting the form and submitting it. From an AI perspective, humans spend an eternity typing, so setting a minimum delay between request and submission will slow the bot right down - especially with a flood control that requires a delay before submitting the next form. Slashdot does both of these things already, by the way.
The analogy is flawed.
Taking over the country with a weapon requires a violent coup, drawing the opposition of the government and other branches of the military.
Spying on the country without authorization is, by definition, covert, and can be denied or declared a matter of national security.
I read the Pirate party has received three thousand new members since the verdict was announced. That's a /lot/ of Spartacus.
Most urns around here get a stone on the grave as well.
Upload your pictures to Picasa Web and be amazed. It can't quite tag the pictures itself yet, but it can recognize all faces in the pictures, then group faces of the same person, then ask you to identify the person.
"Hey! No fair suing Google and not us. We want to be sued to! SUE US DAMMIT!"
But behind you there is a lot of jam made out of former traffic.
It makes vast amounts of sense, especially if you're miffed at Colbert using his popularity leverage to push his own name through the vote. Go on his show, name it something else, just to mess with him. :P