How people here have taken a "General Education" course or a "Western Civilization" course and ended up learning the same thing you learned in High School? How many have taken Math courses that could be transplanted to 11th grade with no changes?
The whole point is that you could have, but didn't learn it in high school.
That's why there are 101 level courses - so that people who have no background in an area can broaden their horizons at an introductory level. Duh.
I second that. I was a total geek in university.
Now I wish I had spent less time studying and coding, and more time Networking and developing "people skills".
It's obvious in hindsight - there's nothing more valuable than other people.
No, but it has created massive distrust of the system of policing, especially by minorities. This is the same thing that will happen with the airports.
Doesn't it make more sense to single out someone because he bears a striking resemblance to a known terrorist than to single out someone because he looks vaguely Middle Eastern ( which is what is happening today)?
I pointed out in another post that airports already use computer profiling systems. A face recognition system (assuming that it is even fairly accurate) can be used judiciously as part of a package of indicators. The operator doesn't have to know exactly *why* the profiling system was triggered. e.g. A light can come on that says "take a closer look at this passenger".
In the same way, the airport security people would stop responding as diligently after months of false alarms. Then the system wouldn't work.
Well the airports haven't got tired of pulling out Middle Eastern looking men, nor (after so many years) have the police got tired of pulling over Blacks motorists to search for drugs, have they?
To reply to everybody all at once,airports *already* have profiling systems in place. A face recognition system with an error rate of 1 in 1000 and used judiciously as part of a package of indicators can serve a practical purpose.
I'm working on the (admittedly unrealistic)assumption that the false positive rate is 1 in a 1000,which is what Schneier uses in his example.If the error rate were really this low,it would be an immensely useful system.
If the system were 99.99% accurate and it indicated a match, wouldn't you want to pull the person out for closer inspection? (this is not to say that you treat him like a terrorist)
After all, airports already arbitrarily subject people to random inspection of their luggage.
The Northern Alliance represents a different ethnic group (Tajiks) from the Taliban (Pashtuns). If the US intervenes and allows the Northern Alliance to take over the country, it's likely that we'll see even more abuse of the Pashtuns by the Tajiks.
Can Jimmy stop Bobby while permitting them to talk about nice safe legal things? Answer: No.
Suppose the penalty for passing bad information is execution. Catch someone and make an example of him. Then the Bobbys will be too scared to pass any bad information around. The Chinese call this "Killing one to scare a hundred."
Now that Nupedia and Wikipedia have been advertised on Slashdot and Kuro5hin, we'll soon have the many Slashdotters and K5ers contributing scholarly, erudite articles. This will really make the quality of the articles go up. Hooray for Nupedia and Wikipedia! Hooray!
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essentially, they're trying to masquerade the paid links as normal, objective search data, to make it seem like the paid links are somehow more "relevant" to a search.
Unfortunately for your argument, there's no such thing as an "objective" search. Search engines use a variety of fuzzy, human constructed metrics to return their results: e.g. page rank, the number of times the search phrase appears, etc. It's not difficult to argue that a site which can afford to pay is likely to be more important than a site which can't.
If search engines want to use payment as a criteria, more power to them. It's ultimately up to the consumer to decide whether to use the search engine based on his perception of whether the search engine gives him the relevant search results.
The Taliban really needs to get its priorities straight. I mean, there could be much more productive things the Taliban could be doing, like:
1. Ensuring widespread deprivation, poverty, starvation.
2. Smashing a few more statues.
3. Playing host to more terrorist organisations.
4. Finding imaginative ways of abusing women.
etc.
Banning the Internet should be waa-aay down its list of priorities.
This reminds me of the "Farleyfile", as described in Robert A. Heinlein's novel Double Star. A politician kept a database on all the people he met with, and before each appointment he would look up the person and refresh his memory. When the main character expressed outrage, another character said it was no different than writing down a phone number and address for a friend, except in scale.
Er... this is exactly how it works. Except that politicians and other oh-so-important people in government usually have a team of staffers to prepare what is called a "brief" for them, which will contain whatever background information they have on whoever The Man happens to be meeting today.
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How people here have taken a "General Education" course or a "Western Civilization" course and ended up learning the same thing you learned in High School? How many have taken Math courses that could be transplanted to 11th grade with no changes?
The whole point is that you could have, but didn't learn it in high school.
That's why there are 101 level courses - so that people who have no background in an area can broaden their horizons at an introductory level. Duh.
I second that. I was a total geek in university.
Now I wish I had spent less time studying and coding, and more time Networking and developing "people skills".
It's obvious in hindsight - there's nothing more valuable than other people.
Imagine this: natural gas feeds into your basement fuel cell, where you generate electricity for your entire house,
Even better, imagine this: an electric cable feeds into your house, instantly supplying your house with electricity.
No, but it has created massive distrust of the system of policing, especially by minorities. This is the same thing that will happen with the airports.
Doesn't it make more sense to single out someone because he bears a striking resemblance to a known terrorist than to single out someone because he looks vaguely Middle Eastern ( which is what is happening today)?
I pointed out in another post that airports already use computer profiling systems. A face recognition system (assuming that it is even fairly accurate) can be used judiciously as part of a package of indicators. The operator doesn't have to know exactly *why* the profiling system was triggered. e.g. A light can come on that says "take a closer look at this passenger".
In the same way, the airport security people would stop responding as diligently after months of false alarms. Then the system wouldn't work.
Well the airports haven't got tired of pulling out Middle Eastern looking men, nor (after so many years) have the police got tired of pulling over Blacks motorists to search for drugs, have they?
To reply to everybody all at once,airports *already* have profiling systems in place. A face recognition system with an error rate of 1 in 1000 and used judiciously as part of a package of indicators can serve a practical purpose.
Airports *already* have profiling systems in place. And I'm sure the false positive rate is much higher than the 1 in 1000 example that Schneier uses.
I'm working on the (admittedly unrealistic)assumption that the false positive rate is 1 in a 1000,which is what Schneier uses in his example.If the error rate were really this low,it would be an immensely useful system.
If the system were 99.99% accurate and it indicated a match, wouldn't you want to pull the person out for closer inspection? (this is not to say that you treat him like a terrorist)
After all, airports already arbitrarily subject people to random inspection of their luggage.
The Northern Alliance represents a different ethnic group (Tajiks) from the Taliban (Pashtuns). If the US intervenes and allows the Northern Alliance to take over the country, it's likely that we'll see even more abuse of the Pashtuns by the Tajiks.
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
I am large, I contain multitudes.
- Walt Whitman, Song Of Myself
I guess this shows that what America really needs to keep Americans safe is a missile defense shield.
Can Jimmy stop Bobby while permitting them to talk about nice safe legal things? Answer: No.
Suppose the penalty for passing bad information is execution. Catch someone and make an example of him. Then the Bobbys will be too scared to pass any bad information around. The Chinese call this "Killing one to scare a hundred."
Koza has a (controversial) patent on genetic programming.
To my surprised, he hadn't flubbed! But upon closer inspection, I noticed he got her name backwards.
Katz got it right. It *is* Zhang Ziyi.
Wonderful review, but can Timothy please spare us the irrelevant bullshit the next time around?
Your comparison is totally daft.
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1 Office 97: ~$500
1 Office 2k upgrade: ~$250
1 Office XP upgrade: ~$250
The problem with Linux is that you can't buy a decent Office package for Linux for any price.
1 Visual studio 6 (incl. NT4): ~$1600
Did you get a rock solid, visual development environment on Linux for free? Sheesh
Now that Nupedia and Wikipedia have been advertised on Slashdot and Kuro5hin, we'll soon have the many Slashdotters and K5ers contributing scholarly, erudite articles. This will really make the quality of the articles go up. Hooray for Nupedia and Wikipedia! Hooray!
essentially, they're trying to masquerade the paid links as normal, objective search data, to make it seem like the paid links are somehow more "relevant" to a search.
Unfortunately for your argument, there's no such thing as an "objective" search. Search engines use a variety of fuzzy, human constructed metrics to return their results: e.g. page rank, the number of times the search phrase appears, etc. It's not difficult to argue that a site which can afford to pay is likely to be more important than a site which can't.
If search engines want to use payment as a criteria, more power to them. It's ultimately up to the consumer to decide whether to use the search engine based on his perception of whether the search engine gives him the relevant search results.
The Taliban really needs to get its priorities straight. I mean, there could be much more productive things the Taliban could be doing, like:
1. Ensuring widespread deprivation, poverty, starvation.
2. Smashing a few more statues.
3. Playing host to more terrorist organisations.
4. Finding imaginative ways of abusing women.
etc.
Banning the Internet should be waa-aay down its list of priorities.
It's obviously a fake! They slapped Aki's head onto someone else's body. Aki would *never* pose nude!
You mean the name change from Silicon Graphics Inc. to SGI didn't fix all their problems???
This reminds me of the "Farleyfile", as described in Robert A. Heinlein's novel Double Star. A politician kept a database on all the people he met with, and before each appointment he would look up the person and refresh his memory. When the main character expressed outrage, another character said it was no different than writing down a phone number and address for a friend, except in scale.
... this is exactly how it works. Except that politicians and other oh-so-important people in government usually have a team of staffers to prepare what is called a "brief" for them, which will contain whatever background information they have on whoever The Man happens to be meeting today.
Er
I can still read tablets inscribed 10 000 years ago. Try and do that with *any* paper.
I quote the article:
"The Top 200 corporations' combined sales are bigger than the combined economies of all countries minus the biggest 10"
It's safe to assume that when the original poster said "government", he was referring the GDP of a country.