Out of those 300, if you decide to retest them, even with a better test which is 99% accurate, you'll still end up with three false positives on average. This is where it gets really dangerous. This is where we get to the stage of "He tested positive twice for cancer, better start him on chemo", or "OK, this guy threw up two red flags, put him on the no-fly list".
Vote with your wallets. *Do not buy kindles*. If you own one and are sickened by this, sell it second-hand for 4/5 of the price. This, more than anything, will hurt Amazon. Let them know why you're reselling/refusing to buy, too.
in truth, we're just playing a statistics game, albeit with potentially fatal results for those who fall more than 3 sigma outside the norm.
True, but unfortunately a lot of things in society are set up to kill off those who fall more than 3 sigma outside the norm. We just keep looking for excuses to make ourselves feel good about the fact that we are doing it.
Yes, that's why we tend to keep doorways under seven feet high. The less giants in our society, the better. There, I said it.
But why do we need to make seperate laws for hate speech? Surely it's the "violence" part of incitement to violence which is the crime, rather than the racial or cultural motivation behind the attack.
Under hate speech laws, I could be imprisoned for complaining that Asian people drive badly. Yes, it's a silly thing to say, and perhaps even a bit racist, but is it really the same as rounding up the locals to go beat up some immigrants?
The holocaust is not a crime to you? Most would call that a hate crime but obviously you disagree.
That's a strawman argument if I ever saw one. We're discussing whether it should be legal to publicly denigrate Jews, not mass murder them.
Hate crimes exist in europe because in europe we have seen far to closely what happens if hatred is left unchecked.
And the US has never seen what happens when hatred is left unchecked? How exactly does legislating against hatred "check" it anyway? Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it will go away.
Mind you, the americans think the KKK has a right to exist. In europe it is forbidden to be a member of a nazi group. Neither method seems to work in keeping people from being killed because of what race/sex/orientation they are.
Nice. Generalise about Americans in a tirade against racism. Anyone see the irony?
But this is the UK and if the UK people want a system where racists can be locked up for spreading hatred then you that is their freedom.
The brits and most of europe choose different.
And you can THINK what you want. it is spreading what you think that is restricted.
Isn't this a better definition of a society that is not free? As Voltaire said, "while I may not agree with what you say, I'll defend to the death your right to say it".
It'd be nice if there was a "-1, half-baked knee-jerk reaction" moderation option.
I wake up in the darkness, totally lost. I fumble for my smartphone, knowing it's the only was I'll manage to reach home before dawn. What I see is not comforting.
"It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
I disagree. Seems like you're claiming that (1-p/2)^n is asymptotically equal to (1-p)^n.
I haven't disproven this, though it seems dubious to me. At any rate, the probability of infection is very small. Wikipedia puts it at 1/2000 for straight men. So, plugging 1/2000 and 1/4000 into that calculation and raising to large values of n, say, n=1000 (a five-year relationship, maybe), wolfram alpha says the probability of being disease-free is.606 for an uncircumsised man, and.779 for a circumcised man.
I can't speak for other disciplines, but Mathematics is quite open. While most journals do not publish their papers, most decent academics have PDFs of their publications on their website, or on ArXiV. It's rarely a problem to find what you're looking for, even without a university subscription to a selection of journals.
Amateur research is extremely difficult to conduct productively these days, since all the low-hanging fruit has been picked. Most experiments need teams of people and highly expensive labs to run. The peer review process would also need to change considerably if we moved to a truly open system. While I agree thet you may have a point, I don't think it's quite as cut-and-dried as you make it out to be.
Hooke was a bit of a bastard himself. He claimed to have reviewed Newton's theory of colour, which was perfectly correct. In fact, Hooke just trashed it in favour of his own theory. This rejection made Newton extremely reluctant to publish any of his other ideas, which may have set science back thirty years.
With this in mind, perhaps the jab wasn't all that unjustified.
Come on, it's a little misleading to claim that this disk is five dimensional. What they mean is that the data storage mechanism has five degrees of freedom.
I might as well claim my fingers are five dimensional, since they have five degrees of freedom too.
The hope is to do this by effectively making their blood poisonous to mosquitoes, either killing them or at least preventing them from feeding on other individuals.
Sounds like this is a vaccine *against* a zombie horde.
It's the same in Mathematics. You'll usually find a selection of "preprints" of a lecturer's most recent work, along with copies of his or her best-known papers.
Typically, in order to lay claim to anything they're working on, an academic will upload a paper to ArXiv.org as soon as they possibly can. ArXiv is a site which allows access to preprints in maths, computer science, physics, dynamical systems etc...
It isn't peer-reviewed though, so it's still necessary to publish in a journal.
What many slashdotters seem to be missing is that this is in part just a cheap marketing trick.
Go to a shop for a bottle of wine. There's one for ten quid, and one for thirty. Which do you pick? I'd almost always buy the cheaper.
Now suppose they had a £200 bottle of wine beside the ten and the thirty. The thirty looks cheaper in comparison and people will be more likely to buy it, seeing it as a compromise between quality and expense.
Virtualbox is very nice, but it really needs to improve the "snapshot" backup functionality. It's a bit unintuitive: I've read numerous posts by people who lost backups by irreversibly deleting snapshots by accident. The GUI gives no warning when you choose to perform some irreversible action like discarding a snapshot.
Backups really need to improve in VB before it becomes competetive with VMware.
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Out of those 300, if you decide to retest them, even with a better test which is 99% accurate, you'll still end up with three false positives on average. This is where it gets really dangerous. This is where we get to the stage of "He tested positive twice for cancer, better start him on chemo", or "OK, this guy threw up two red flags, put him on the no-fly list".
Vote with your wallets. *Do not buy kindles*.
If you own one and are sickened by this, sell it second-hand for 4/5 of the price. This, more than anything, will hurt Amazon. Let them know why you're reselling/refusing to buy, too.
True, but unfortunately a lot of things in society are set up to kill off those who fall more than 3 sigma outside the norm. We just keep looking for excuses to make ourselves feel good about the fact that we are doing it.
Yes, that's why we tend to keep doorways under seven feet high. The less giants in our society, the better. There, I said it.
What exactly was wrong with this statement exactly?
I'll tell you exactly what's wrong.
The phrasing implies tolerance, or even approval by the Americans. The whole tone of the GP is anti-American, and this was just a cheap shot.
He could just as easily have said "The KKK is not illegal in the US", but he had to go putting words in the Americans' mouths.
I wasn't using the quotation to prove anything, I was using it to summarise my position on the matter.
But why do we need to make seperate laws for hate speech? Surely it's the "violence" part of incitement to violence which is the crime, rather than the racial or cultural motivation behind the attack.
Under hate speech laws, I could be imprisoned for complaining that Asian people drive badly. Yes, it's a silly thing to say, and perhaps even a bit racist, but is it really the same as rounding up the locals to go beat up some immigrants?
The holocaust is not a crime to you? Most would call that a hate crime but obviously you disagree.
That's a strawman argument if I ever saw one. We're discussing whether it should be legal to publicly denigrate Jews, not mass murder them.
Hate crimes exist in europe because in europe we have seen far to closely what happens if hatred is left unchecked.
And the US has never seen what happens when hatred is left unchecked? How exactly does legislating against hatred "check" it anyway? Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it will go away.
Mind you, the americans think the KKK has a right to exist. In europe it is forbidden to be a member of a nazi group. Neither method seems to work in keeping people from being killed because of what race/sex/orientation they are.
Nice. Generalise about Americans in a tirade against racism. Anyone see the irony?
But this is the UK and if the UK people want a system where racists can be locked up for spreading hatred then you that is their freedom.
The brits and most of europe choose different.
And you can THINK what you want. it is spreading what you think that is restricted.
Isn't this a better definition of a society that is not free? As Voltaire said, "while I may not agree with what you say, I'll defend to the death your right to say it".
It'd be nice if there was a "-1, half-baked knee-jerk reaction" moderation option.
only outlaws will have umbrellas.
Surely you could just prerecord and upload it as a torrent.
"The human head weighs eight pounds"
</cute readhead kid>
"Please make your smile wider"...
Well, it's the expected length of time you'd need to spend tossing a coin before you got 119 heads in a row. A very long time.
I wake up in the darkness, totally lost. I fumble for my smartphone, knowing it's the only was I'll manage to reach home before dawn.
What I see is not comforting.
"It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
I disagree. Seems like you're claiming that (1-p/2)^n is asymptotically equal to (1-p)^n.
I haven't disproven this, though it seems dubious to me. At any rate, the probability of infection is very small. Wikipedia puts it at 1/2000 for straight men. So, plugging 1/2000 and 1/4000 into that calculation and raising to large values of n, say, n=1000 (a five-year relationship, maybe), wolfram alpha says the probability of being disease-free is .606 for an uncircumsised man, and .779 for a circumcised man.
The USA is $11,399,999,999,999.9 (recurring) in debt.
HA!
I can't speak for other disciplines, but Mathematics is quite open. While most journals do not publish their papers, most decent academics have PDFs of their publications on their website, or on ArXiV. It's rarely a problem to find what you're looking for, even without a university subscription to a selection of journals.
Amateur research is extremely difficult to conduct productively these days, since all the low-hanging fruit has been picked. Most experiments need teams of people and highly expensive labs to run. The peer review process would also need to change considerably if we moved to a truly open system. While I agree thet you may have a point, I don't think it's quite as cut-and-dried as you make it out to be.
Hooke was a bit of a bastard himself. He claimed to have reviewed Newton's theory of colour, which was perfectly correct. In fact, Hooke just trashed it in favour of his own theory. This rejection made Newton extremely reluctant to publish any of his other ideas, which may have set science back thirty years.
With this in mind, perhaps the jab wasn't all that unjustified.
The Light...
The light is taking me to pieces.
The HBO show "The Wire" summed up the war on drugs nicely:
Det. Ellis Carver: You can't even call this shit a war.
Det. Thomas Hauk: Why not?
Det. Ellis Carver: Wars end.
Come on, it's a little misleading to claim that this disk is five dimensional. What they mean is that the data storage mechanism has five degrees of freedom.
I might as well claim my fingers are five dimensional, since they have five degrees of freedom too.
The hope is to do this by effectively making their blood poisonous to mosquitoes, either killing them or at least preventing them from feeding on other individuals.
Sounds like this is a vaccine *against* a zombie horde.
Surely "Wolf" would be better. Wou could even spell it with a "ph" to emphasise the "alpha" part.
Instead of a googlewhack, you'd get a Lone Wolf. Basically, everything you did on the internet would sound about eight times cooler.
It's the same in Mathematics. You'll usually find a selection of "preprints" of a lecturer's most recent work, along with copies of his or her best-known papers.
Typically, in order to lay claim to anything they're working on, an academic will upload a paper to ArXiv.org as soon as they possibly can. ArXiv is a site which allows access to preprints in maths, computer science, physics, dynamical systems etc...
It isn't peer-reviewed though, so it's still necessary to publish in a journal.
What many slashdotters seem to be missing is that this is in part just a cheap marketing trick.
Go to a shop for a bottle of wine. There's one for ten quid, and one for thirty. Which do you pick? I'd almost always buy the cheaper.
Now suppose they had a £200 bottle of wine beside the ten and the thirty. The thirty looks cheaper in comparison and people will be more likely to buy it, seeing it as a compromise between quality and expense.
Same thing applies with the headphones.
Virtualbox is very nice, but it really needs to improve the "snapshot" backup functionality. It's a bit unintuitive: I've read numerous posts by people who lost backups by irreversibly deleting snapshots by accident. The GUI gives no warning when you choose to perform some irreversible action like discarding a snapshot.
Backups really need to improve in VB before it becomes competetive with VMware.