I assume that as they figure out new uses they will also figure out methods that dont require cord blood and can work with adult stem cells or improved cloning.
There is also the issue that many of the things which stem cells could assist with are genetic issues and therefore your own stem cells arent much of a solution.
You have things to hide. You may think you don't and that's the problem.
You don't determine what another person may care about. For all you know you could be the literal median Amerian, but it's the person snooping on you who decides if thatsl is a 'good or bad' thing.
Autowipe is useless in most instances, so is much of the talk about 8-10 digit codes.
Even if you have to run it on Iphone hw, here is how you dodge that:
1. Grab the image from the phone. Make 11 copies. 2. Load the image onto ten virtual phones. 3. Cycle through the codes each virtual phone assigned to do 1/10th of the total set. 4. If an autowipe is triggered, reload from image 11 and continue where you left off.
Hell, if you can snag the image from the phone without breaking it, you wouldnt even need it to do the cracking.
One primary drive will run you $80. You can get slower 2tb drives for $100.
$280 bucks and you greatly improve your data safety.
I did this method because it requires three simultaneous failures for me to lose data. Both data drives in the array and Carbonite.
I also did it because I was in a similar situation. I had a lot of spare drives, but many were small and most were mismatched. 'Just' buying a large drive and dumping to it is what results in situations like this. Unless you are always buying yet another larger HDD, you have to confront the issue that perpetually carrying data over isn't as cheap as it appears at first glance.
Any true solution should establish a good foundation so you don't end up with a botched repair on top of a still existing underlying problem.
First, let's look at your problem: You are gathering too much data. Either the data is 100% needed and irreplaceable, or it isn't. If it isn't, your first step is to treat your data just like you would physical junk that accumulates in your house.
Create Three folders. 1. Critical Keep 2. Unsure 3. Toss
Go through your data and MOVE it to one of those three folders. If it isn't critically important data that you would be upset that you lost and can't be recreated (wedding videos, etc) It goes in the Critical Keep folder. If you aren't sure about it right now, but you can't declare it for folder 1, put it in 2. Anything else "old install files, backup data from a windows 98 machine, etc" That stuff can be deleted. Be harsh with yourself. Think of it like moving from house to house, if you haven't opened that box by your third move, just toss it in folder 3.
Repeat the process until you either have everything in your Critical Keep folder, or your delete folder.
Now, hopefully you have reduced the size of the data you are using to something marginally manageable. I'm a data hoarder, and I've managed to keep the rate of growth of my data to lag behind the general rate of growth of HDD capacity. Now for the fun stuff:
Two things you want to avoid.
1. Loss due to a dying disk 2. Loss due to a destroyed home (fire, theft, etc)
Here was my budget solution that resulted in a fire and forget backup system that is suitable for a home user and is about as minimal as you can get for cost.
3 Disk Drives.
A primary drive to run the operating system and hold installed programs and two LARGE data drives in a RAID1 configuration.
Static data files (Video, pictures, etc) get stored on the RAID1
A scheduled process (once per month for me) backs up the OS drive to a virtual HD file on the RAID1. The files on the RAID1 are then backed up to a cloud storage service (Carbonite in my case).
So, what is the result of this?
My operating environment is backed up monthly. The only thing I lose here is configuration changes or programs installed since the last backup (less than 30 days for me)
The RAID1 ensures that my personal/static data is protected from a single disk failure, and helps a bit with read performance for the static (and large) files.
Should a cataclysmic failure occur and my entire computer is lost to something like a fire, remember that I've been sending what is on the RAID0 out to the cloud (carbonite), so when I can rebuild a computer I can just download the (very large) offsite backup from the cloud to my new machine.
The downsides I have right now: 1. I maintain the windows backup as a VHD file because it allows me to ensure that the backup data is 'packaged'. I don't know the exact details about windows backup, but given that Carbonite sometimes excludes system files I didn't want to risk an important hidden/system file being missed in the backup. In addition I didn't like how it could only backup to the root folder of a drive. The downside is that the resulting 100GB file is a pain to backup, which is why I restrict the backup histerisis to 30days (previously I had it backup every 3 days) This keeps it from continually uploading the VHD file to carbonite.
2. The HDDs for the raid1 lose half their total capacity in that configuration. I used it because it let me only have to use 2 drives and the performance boost. If you can afford 3 drives, go for a RAID5.
3. Most Motherboards support RAID natively now. However, I understand that you can run into issues with hardware RAID if you have to switch to a different hardware solution. I haven't tested this, but it could potentially be an issue if you use a RAID5 from hardware and your motherboard fails and you can't replace it with an exact model. The good news here though, is if you have been backing up to the cloud, typically it's done on a per file basis, and thus you don't have to worry about this. Just download your stuff ba
Maybe its just me, but your logic of using an illegal situation to justify why a digital economy shouldn't exist seems like a bad argument.
What illegal situation? He bought a couch, and a kitchen table set.
But that doesn't matter. The government says it was for drugs, and here is the record that says he gave this known drug dealer $200. Like we are going to believe you were just buying 'furniture'.
It will lead to a warrant, so your house gets turned inside out. Or it just stays as some entry in a database, and you are forever associated as buying something from a known drug dealer for all eternity.
I don't deal with the spying aspect of spying. I'm more on the application of force side of the military industry, and I think one of the major issues I come across is a 'I don't care' attitude from a lot of the workers who are ex-military.
Not that they 'don't care' in a lazy manner, but that they don't care because they are used to being in the military, subject to military life, and charged with fighting an enemy. To a lot of them, they don't care about the 'technicalities' or subtlety of our diplomatic face, they care about getting the job done.
So when it comes to issues like the drone strikes, they don't care if we are launching attacks against targets which are constitutionally tricky. They care that the target was hit, and since he was part of the 'enemy' all that mattered was that the enemy was eliminated. The fact that the method was unsavory/illegal/unconstitutional/badPR etc, didn't matter to them.
It's an interesting observation since I come from a background of having left the military due to philosophical differences. (The not forced, but highly 'encouraged' Christianity I experienced at the USAFA and later USAF brought me borderline to becoming a conscientious objector, in addition to my disillusionment at being hit with the extreme evangelism at a military institution. I understand it's since been corrected, but when I was there it was pretty heavy handed) It makes a LOT of sense that our military industry is staffed by ex-military because they have a lot of the experience of how these systems will be used, but our military has become exceedingly adept at adjusting the viewpoints of the people in the military (intentionally and unintentionally).
Now, that's not exactly bad (I haven't run across 'bad' people, just a lot of very 'military' minded people)... I just worry that we tend to encourage a culture in the industry that lacks concern for the application of technology, or even goes so far to encourage technology that runs counter to our declared values. In the end, if I have a requirement to get a rocket to carry payload X and accuracy Y, I will design it, but that doesn't mean I don't also have an interest in seeing that when that rocket is launched, it is launched when there is no other choice but to launch that rocket.
We don't pass laws because they make police work convenient, or give us the verdict we want in a specific case, we pass them because we believe they serve justice overall.
Slightly off from your original point, but I wish people would take time to consider items like this when authorizing new roles and powers for police.
Until everyone is imprisoned by default, and released after demonstrating a need, there is always something that can be done to make the job of the police/gov easier.
Constitutional redux: Congress passes law. President executes law.
Legislative redux: Congress passes law says that the executive branch (or office under the executive's control) has the authority to do XYZ.
President creates executive order telling the agency to do or behave in a way in order to achieve XYZ.
Congress gave authority to the president by passing the law, the president has the authority to do that in addition to what the constitution explicitly authorizes in addition to what congress gives him.
Next time you see a commercial on TV that says: "Use our product", I guess you can just go in and grab a copy from the shelf and forget about paying for it. I mean, they told you to go use it.
If they indulge in shady actions contrary to what they promise to do in the EULA, then they would have broken the contract.
Wouldn't that relieve you of any bindings within it?
What they 'promise to do' in an EULA? They promise to do nothing most of the time. An EULA is basically just a big statement of "We very marginally grant you the right not to be murdered for looking at our software. For everything else, YOU GET NOTHING, GOOD DAY!"
Ultimately, if they're genetically compatible do you really want to reintroduce their genetic lineage back into the modern human race? Relationships happen. That might be a step backwards for us even if the impact is negligible
Backwards? That assumes that there is a forwards to evolution.
If someone aimed a flashlight at you, and you had a mirror, how hard of a time do you think you would have reflecting the beam of light back at the person?
I don't care for the online method. It forces a per student and likely per year license model. But it WOULD solve the problem you mention. It's just my own personal reservation.
However, for HS level mathematics, the teacher should be able to switch the numbers and variables around in a minute or so to update the problem sets.
Or for that matter, does it matter that much at a HS level? (it might, but I really do wonder how rigorous we need to be.)
It's not about learning the bases, it's about learning that there ARE different bases.
Feynman made a statement that converting bases was effectively a parlor trick. He wasn't saying that base 7 or base 5 were specifically not useful, he was saying that being able to convert to another base was utterly useless.
The point is, we now know that it is not utterly useless. I wasn't commenting that we should use base 5 or base 7, but that it probably is an important concept for the students to learn.
I'd probably argue that base 16 would be a good example to learn to convert to or from, because it would teach the 'basics' better than base2, AND it would allow students to easily transition to binary.
Sure, not everyone will need it later in life, but the same can be said of 99% of everything taught in schools. Not everyone will need it, but it's probably good to be exposed to.
But what is with all the vitriol? He's a "cheap bastard". He has horrid working habits. His life is hollow and he should read a book? How any of that was deduced from one post on/. is beyond me.
His solution is mindbogglingly obvious - use a personal laptop. The size of netbooks today means that all uses except gaming can be done via that without any real inconvenience. If he has one, then why the hell is he asking, if he doesn't then he is being a cheap bastard for trying to do something that really sounds unethical, or at best, very stupid.
His life sounds hollow because there is something that he mentions how he is one of those people who just can't NOT do something. Clearly he has some issue there and should work to address that. If what he couldn't NOT do was read a book, go for a walk, exercise, sight see, etc. this wouldn't be a problem.
His entire question reeks of ignorance, entitlement, compulsive behavior, and other unsavory qualities so deducing that he probably isn't 'all there' with being a respectable person.
From Feynman, "I'll give you an example: They would talk about different bases of numbers -- five, six, and so on -- to show the possibilities. That would be interesting for a kid who could understand base ten -- something to entertain his mind. But what they turned it into, in these books, was that every child had to learn another base! And then the usual horror would come: "Translate these numbers, which are written in base seven, to base five." Translating from one base to another is an utterly useless thing. If you can do it, maybe it's entertaining; if you can't do it, forget it. There's no point to it."
Perhaps in 1964 he was correct. I can tell you that as recently as last night I was refreshing myself on subnetting and had to convert between base 2 and base 10. Kind of interesting when you really look at it from his perspective in 64 and our perspective in 2012. It also illustrates the pitfalls in appeals to authority even if that authority was really smart.
You mean that version 8 of my calculus book didnt fundamentally alter the foundations of calculus?
Math textbooks are probably one of the few subjects, for all students before Jr year engineering/physics/etc, that would probably benefit from stability and fewer revisions.
I cant see how for HS the same texts from 1990 wouldnt be sufficient.
Slashdot Mirror
Using Z instead of s allows the name to be a trademark.
Pursuing on foot indicates that the person you are persuing is attempting to escape from you.
I assume that as they figure out new uses they will also figure out methods that dont require cord blood and can work with adult stem cells or improved cloning.
There is also the issue that many of the things which stem cells could assist with are genetic issues and therefore your own stem cells arent much of a solution.
Silly rabbit, everything is interstate commerce. By the simple act of regulating something, it enters congressional jurisdiction.
Now for those of us with a functional brain, the premise is insane. But that argument has been used at the Supreme Court and actually accepted.
You have things to hide. You may think you don't and that's the problem.
You don't determine what another person may care about. For all you know you could be the literal median Amerian, but it's the person snooping on you who decides if thatsl is a 'good or bad' thing.
Autowipe is useless in most instances, so is much of the talk about 8-10 digit codes.
Even if you have to run it on Iphone hw, here is how you dodge that:
1. Grab the image from the phone. Make 11 copies.
2. Load the image onto ten virtual phones.
3. Cycle through the codes each virtual phone assigned to do 1/10th of the total set.
4. If an autowipe is triggered, reload from image 11 and continue where you left off.
Hell, if you can snag the image from the phone without breaking it, you wouldnt even need it to do the cracking.
One primary drive will run you $80. You can get slower 2tb drives for $100.
$280 bucks and you greatly improve your data safety.
I did this method because it requires three simultaneous failures for me to lose data. Both data drives in the array and Carbonite.
I also did it because I was in a similar situation. I had a lot of spare drives, but many were small and most were mismatched. 'Just' buying a large drive and dumping to it is what results in situations like this. Unless you are always buying yet another larger HDD, you have to confront the issue that perpetually carrying data over isn't as cheap as it appears at first glance.
Any true solution should establish a good foundation so you don't end up with a botched repair on top of a still existing underlying problem.
What makes you think the services you pay for aren't collecting and selling your info too?
First, let's look at your problem: You are gathering too much data. Either the data is 100% needed and irreplaceable, or it isn't. If it isn't, your first step is to treat your data just like you would physical junk that accumulates in your house.
Create Three folders.
1. Critical Keep
2. Unsure
3. Toss
Go through your data and MOVE it to one of those three folders. If it isn't critically important data that you would be upset that you lost and can't be recreated (wedding videos, etc) It goes in the Critical Keep folder. If you aren't sure about it right now, but you can't declare it for folder 1, put it in 2. Anything else "old install files, backup data from a windows 98 machine, etc" That stuff can be deleted. Be harsh with yourself. Think of it like moving from house to house, if you haven't opened that box by your third move, just toss it in folder 3.
Repeat the process until you either have everything in your Critical Keep folder, or your delete folder.
Now, hopefully you have reduced the size of the data you are using to something marginally manageable. I'm a data hoarder, and I've managed to keep the rate of growth of my data to lag behind the general rate of growth of HDD capacity. Now for the fun stuff:
Two things you want to avoid.
1. Loss due to a dying disk
2. Loss due to a destroyed home (fire, theft, etc)
Here was my budget solution that resulted in a fire and forget backup system that is suitable for a home user and is about as minimal as you can get for cost.
3 Disk Drives.
A primary drive to run the operating system and hold installed programs and two LARGE data drives in a RAID1 configuration.
Static data files (Video, pictures, etc) get stored on the RAID1
A scheduled process (once per month for me) backs up the OS drive to a virtual HD file on the RAID1. The files on the RAID1 are then backed up to a cloud storage service (Carbonite in my case).
So, what is the result of this?
My operating environment is backed up monthly. The only thing I lose here is configuration changes or programs installed since the last backup (less than 30 days for me)
The RAID1 ensures that my personal/static data is protected from a single disk failure, and helps a bit with read performance for the static (and large) files.
Should a cataclysmic failure occur and my entire computer is lost to something like a fire, remember that I've been sending what is on the RAID0 out to the cloud (carbonite), so when I can rebuild a computer I can just download the (very large) offsite backup from the cloud to my new machine.
The downsides I have right now:
1. I maintain the windows backup as a VHD file because it allows me to ensure that the backup data is 'packaged'. I don't know the exact details about windows backup, but given that Carbonite sometimes excludes system files I didn't want to risk an important hidden/system file being missed in the backup. In addition I didn't like how it could only backup to the root folder of a drive. The downside is that the resulting 100GB file is a pain to backup, which is why I restrict the backup histerisis to 30days (previously I had it backup every 3 days) This keeps it from continually uploading the VHD file to carbonite.
2. The HDDs for the raid1 lose half their total capacity in that configuration. I used it because it let me only have to use 2 drives and the performance boost. If you can afford 3 drives, go for a RAID5.
3. Most Motherboards support RAID natively now. However, I understand that you can run into issues with hardware RAID if you have to switch to a different hardware solution. I haven't tested this, but it could potentially be an issue if you use a RAID5 from hardware and your motherboard fails and you can't replace it with an exact model. The good news here though, is if you have been backing up to the cloud, typically it's done on a per file basis, and thus you don't have to worry about this. Just download your stuff ba
Maybe its just me, but your logic of using an illegal situation to justify why a digital economy shouldn't exist seems like a bad argument.
What illegal situation? He bought a couch, and a kitchen table set.
But that doesn't matter. The government says it was for drugs, and here is the record that says he gave this known drug dealer $200. Like we are going to believe you were just buying 'furniture'.
It will lead to a warrant, so your house gets turned inside out. Or it just stays as some entry in a database, and you are forever associated as buying something from a known drug dealer for all eternity.
I don't deal with the spying aspect of spying. I'm more on the application of force side of the military industry, and I think one of the major issues I come across is a 'I don't care' attitude from a lot of the workers who are ex-military.
Not that they 'don't care' in a lazy manner, but that they don't care because they are used to being in the military, subject to military life, and charged with fighting an enemy. To a lot of them, they don't care about the 'technicalities' or subtlety of our diplomatic face, they care about getting the job done.
So when it comes to issues like the drone strikes, they don't care if we are launching attacks against targets which are constitutionally tricky. They care that the target was hit, and since he was part of the 'enemy' all that mattered was that the enemy was eliminated. The fact that the method was unsavory/illegal/unconstitutional/badPR etc, didn't matter to them.
It's an interesting observation since I come from a background of having left the military due to philosophical differences. (The not forced, but highly 'encouraged' Christianity I experienced at the USAFA and later USAF brought me borderline to becoming a conscientious objector, in addition to my disillusionment at being hit with the extreme evangelism at a military institution. I understand it's since been corrected, but when I was there it was pretty heavy handed) It makes a LOT of sense that our military industry is staffed by ex-military because they have a lot of the experience of how these systems will be used, but our military has become exceedingly adept at adjusting the viewpoints of the people in the military (intentionally and unintentionally).
Now, that's not exactly bad (I haven't run across 'bad' people, just a lot of very 'military' minded people)... I just worry that we tend to encourage a culture in the industry that lacks concern for the application of technology, or even goes so far to encourage technology that runs counter to our declared values. In the end, if I have a requirement to get a rocket to carry payload X and accuracy Y, I will design it, but that doesn't mean I don't also have an interest in seeing that when that rocket is launched, it is launched when there is no other choice but to launch that rocket.
We don't pass laws because they make police work convenient, or give us the verdict we want in a specific case, we pass them because we believe they serve justice overall.
Slightly off from your original point, but I wish people would take time to consider items like this when authorizing new roles and powers for police.
Until everyone is imprisoned by default, and released after demonstrating a need, there is always something that can be done to make the job of the police/gov easier.
Constitutional redux: Congress passes law. President executes law.
Legislative redux: Congress passes law says that the executive branch (or office under the executive's control) has the authority to do XYZ.
President creates executive order telling the agency to do or behave in a way in order to achieve XYZ.
Congress gave authority to the president by passing the law, the president has the authority to do that in addition to what the constitution explicitly authorizes in addition to what congress gives him.
Next time you see a commercial on TV that says: "Use our product", I guess you can just go in and grab a copy from the shelf and forget about paying for it. I mean, they told you to go use it.
A contract goes both ways.
If they indulge in shady actions contrary to what they promise to do in the EULA, then they would have broken the contract.
Wouldn't that relieve you of any bindings within it?
What they 'promise to do' in an EULA? They promise to do nothing most of the time. An EULA is basically just a big statement of "We very marginally grant you the right not to be murdered for looking at our software. For everything else, YOU GET NOTHING, GOOD DAY!"
Ultimately, if they're genetically compatible do you really want to reintroduce their genetic lineage back into the modern human race? Relationships happen. That might be a step backwards for us even if the impact is negligible
Backwards? That assumes that there is a forwards to evolution.
If someone aimed a flashlight at you, and you had a mirror, how hard of a time do you think you would have reflecting the beam of light back at the person?
He did. I sued him and won his business.
My understanding is that this was used (the concept, not the camera) to film some of the 'bullet time' like scenes we see in movies now.
It might be one of those technologies that is just now coming into prosumer and consumer levels of affordability.
I don't care for the online method. It forces a per student and likely per year license model. But it WOULD solve the problem you mention. It's just my own personal reservation.
However, for HS level mathematics, the teacher should be able to switch the numbers and variables around in a minute or so to update the problem sets.
Or for that matter, does it matter that much at a HS level? (it might, but I really do wonder how rigorous we need to be.)
It's not about learning the bases, it's about learning that there ARE different bases.
Feynman made a statement that converting bases was effectively a parlor trick. He wasn't saying that base 7 or base 5 were specifically not useful, he was saying that being able to convert to another base was utterly useless.
The point is, we now know that it is not utterly useless. I wasn't commenting that we should use base 5 or base 7, but that it probably is an important concept for the students to learn.
I'd probably argue that base 16 would be a good example to learn to convert to or from, because it would teach the 'basics' better than base2, AND it would allow students to easily transition to binary.
Sure, not everyone will need it later in life, but the same can be said of 99% of everything taught in schools. Not everyone will need it, but it's probably good to be exposed to.
And you have no friends with any of those accounts?
But what is with all the vitriol? He's a "cheap bastard". He has horrid working habits. His life is hollow and he should read a book? How any of that was deduced from one post on /. is beyond me.
His solution is mindbogglingly obvious - use a personal laptop. The size of netbooks today means that all uses except gaming can be done via that without any real inconvenience. If he has one, then why the hell is he asking, if he doesn't then he is being a cheap bastard for trying to do something that really sounds unethical, or at best, very stupid.
His life sounds hollow because there is something that he mentions how he is one of those people who just can't NOT do something. Clearly he has some issue there and should work to address that. If what he couldn't NOT do was read a book, go for a walk, exercise, sight see, etc. this wouldn't be a problem.
His entire question reeks of ignorance, entitlement, compulsive behavior, and other unsavory qualities so deducing that he probably isn't 'all there' with being a respectable person.
But maybe they do...
From Feynman, "I'll give you an example: They would talk about different bases of numbers -- five, six, and so on -- to show the possibilities. That would be interesting for a kid who could understand base ten -- something to entertain his mind. But what they turned it into, in these books, was that every child had to learn another base! And then the usual horror would come: "Translate these numbers, which are written in base seven, to base five." Translating from one base to another is an utterly useless thing. If you can do it, maybe it's entertaining; if you can't do it, forget it. There's no point to it."
Perhaps in 1964 he was correct. I can tell you that as recently as last night I was refreshing myself on subnetting and had to convert between base 2 and base 10. Kind of interesting when you really look at it from his perspective in 64 and our perspective in 2012. It also illustrates the pitfalls in appeals to authority even if that authority was really smart.
You mean that version 8 of my calculus book didnt fundamentally alter the foundations of calculus?
Math textbooks are probably one of the few subjects, for all students before Jr year engineering/physics/etc, that would probably benefit from stability and fewer revisions.
I cant see how for HS the same texts from 1990 wouldnt be sufficient.