"Data can either be useful or perfectly anonymous but never both."
needs a bit of background about the qualification of the person making that claim. Why? Simply because it sounds like a rather technical remark. If some computer science researcher made this claim, I would tend to take it more on the face value, otherwise I would take it with a grain of salt.
Paul Ohm has degrees in CS and EE. Quoting his rather impressive CV[pdf]:
Paul is also a hobbyist Perl hacker. IMHO, this paper is a great example of people in the law community understanding what is going on. We need more people in law who understand tech.
Some critics regard the space programme as a waste of resources in a country where millions still lack basic services.
Seriously BBC... wtf is up with that? India is a trillion dollar economy and this was 75 million usd project. Can I say chump change? For some context, India recently announced a really stupid 30 billion usd national id scheme. While reporting that, you did not care to mention India's millions that lack basic services. Why do you hate India and real scientific progress so much?
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There are too many problems with putting nukes in LEO... Most importantly, it is very difficult to keep things hidden once you put it in orbit. There are spotters who do it as a hobby. And then there are countries like India who know how to spot something in orbit. They easily evaded all the US spy satellites when they did their nuke tests.
Also something in orbit can come down on very few geographical positions at any given time. So, you would have to wait for the next fly by above India before letting it drop. Not very useful.
I have spent the past month developing a similar monitoring backend to the enterprise cluster I am building here (though not in java). This looks very interesting and I will definitely give this a shot.
Look at the screenshots! My architecture was somewhat similar but my interface feels like dark age compared to this!
Orbitz Worldwide, a leading global online travel company, has open sourced two monitoring tools Extremely Reusable Monitoring API (ERMA) and Graphite, a persistence and visualization component. ERMA is a home grown Java API and library that has been used in several web applications at Orbitz to capture monitoring statistics in the applications at run-time. It is the source of streams of events that are processed in order to raise alerts when a service is down or running slower than defined response time thresholds.
4[a]. There are a number of other factors such as the above that you can't/don't give an explaination for (solar activity being one) The sun isn't providing enough additional power to the Earth to explain the observed increase in temperature. Yes, we are watching the sun.. Stratosphere temperatures are decreasing and lower atmosphere temperatures are rising. That indicates increased absorption and feedback and not increased heating due to solar activity.
WTF? +5, insightful... here on nerd central? Of course the websites out there must be biased.
What's wrong with you people? Would you listen to a moron painting all the cancers of the world with a single size 200 paintbrush and asking all cancer victims to not pass off their dna? Then why single out the depressions? Depression is not anymore a disease than cancer is... it is a class of diseases. And while it may kill you, it certainly does not kill your drive to pass off your dna. What the parent is saying is just ugly and elitist.
Quoting from the American Psychiatric Association's response to Szasz,
There is much that is 'physical' in mental disorders and much 'mental' in 'physical' disorders.
What the parent has is just a false dichotomy.
While we might understand very little about the brain and depressions, our knowledge is nowhere as shallow as the parent implies.
Almost all forms of depression now have a provably strong physical component. Some forms of depression are more disabling than others. Some people are genetically predisposed to some. Some are treatable. Some depressions are like cancers and some are like untreated common colds. It is not for fun or glorification that some mental problems are considered medical disorders.
The real problem with singularity is that it implicitly assumes that the intelligence of various entities forms a totally ordered set and that we will soon discover or create some superior intelligence. That kind of a claim needs evidence and we have none. And on top of that we display a significant cognitive bias while looking at intelligence. An octopus's intelligence might be better than ours at the ocean's floor. As a species, our intelligence might be lower than that of chimpanzees (they didn't cause global warming). Can we compare human intelligence to that of HIV? To that of T-Rex? What does intelligence mean? Whatever it is, we don't seem to have objective criteria for defining it. We just seem to be content with some circular definitions that use human intelligence itself as the prototype and then claim that our intelligence is superior. That and the evidence-less concept of a total order in intelligence lies at the heart of "singularity".
Singularity is likely going to remain in the realm of "coming soon" forever.
I was stuck with this too. For years I avoided getting into the industry for fear of having to do just one task. And then I discovered start-ups. If you are good at all this, chances are you will be able to research, learn and pick up the business side of things fast enough too. Once you do that, find a good start-up in it's early stage, join it. Learn from their success and failures and they move on and do your own. You can have your cake and eat it too! I am right now in a start up, working part time and waiting to finish my course. My boss can't wait for me to join full time.
If jack of many trades is your thing and you can pull it off, you owe it to yourself to give entrepreneurship a shot. You can wear all your hats, add value to the world and become rich while doing it. What could be better? Of course, this will be as unstable as it gets, but are you sure stability is what you want?
This kind of statistics that I can actually link to while making a point... That's about as innovative in my book as wikipedia was. This will forever change how geeks discuss things.
It already is a daily occurrence. It's just that the internet is only in it's feudal age so far. And what we have is a few warring feudal armies at work - storm and their ilk.
I am an Indian and what the US does have non-trivial effects on my day to day life. US military publicly and actively declaring meddling with the internet to be a part of their job can amongst other things motivate my political overlords into some kind of action.
Like everything else this has both good and bad effects for me. I don't think our establishments here have a very good idea of what freedom of speech means and they could easily do some wrong here. On the other hand it opens up business opportunities for people like me which is the part I would be interested in.
So, here are my questions. What kind of stuff does your division do? Do you outsource any of it to the private sector? Do you outsource any of it to India or other countries?:P
I suppose data mining the internet would be a key part of your operations. What kind of tools and cyber-technologies would you consider? Which are you already investing in? What kind of tools/techs could I work on that could benefit operations such as the ones you plan to undertake?
The military entering new domains has historically benefited the research and development in these sectors and I look forward to the new cool civilian tech this could bring along with it.
For most all of my 'internet life'...starting back about '93-'94 or so, I pretty much always used pseudonyms, and rarely if ever gave out personal information.
Same here but since blogs became popular and I got mentioned once or twice here and there I decided that if it's gonna be the first result with my name on google it might as well be something better. So, now I do post a lot of stuff with my own name in it.
Disclaimer: My company has asked me to research the ORM market. I might be biased.
In fact, I am beginning to think that this stuff is a much better response than litigation a lot of time and given the nature of the web, litigation is a lot of times impossible. (Say someone halfway down the globe is running a smear campaign against you.) And the first page results for your name can affect your life in a very real way.
I was sharing articles with my other gmail account and effectively using shared items as a tag... I am in trouble... If what the summary says is true this is bad form from Google...
Crap! I gotta check what my contacts might have seen...:(
What does "threading between tab sessions and within tabs" mean, exactly? What operations do you want to see performed in separate threads?
Perhaps the parent wants different tabs to be loaded via parallel threads... I am a heavy user of extensions and frequently visit some heavy sites on slow connections... A lot of times firefox just locks up while loading a particular tab (like slashdot or gmail). It would be great if I could use another tab while firefox does it's thing on the busy tab.
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A quote like:
"Data can either be useful or perfectly anonymous but never both."
needs a bit of background about the qualification of the person making that claim. Why? Simply because it sounds like a rather technical remark. If some computer science researcher made this claim, I would tend to take it more on the face value, otherwise I would take it with a grain of salt.
Paul Ohm has degrees in CS and EE. Quoting his rather impressive CV[pdf]:
Paul is also a hobbyist Perl hacker. IMHO, this paper is a great example of people in the law community understanding what is going on. We need more people in law who understand tech.
Seriously BBC... wtf is up with that? India is a trillion dollar economy and this was 75 million usd project. Can I say chump change? For some context, India recently announced a really stupid 30 billion usd national id scheme. While reporting that, you did not care to mention India's millions that lack basic services. Why do you hate India and real scientific progress so much?
I believe, Joe DeRisi: Hunting the next killer virus, is the talk mentioned above. Definitely worth watching!
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Way to go!
There are too many problems with putting nukes in LEO... Most importantly, it is very difficult to keep things hidden once you put it in orbit. There are spotters who do it as a hobby. And then there are countries like India who know how to spot something in orbit. They easily evaded all the US spy satellites when they did their nuke tests.
Also something in orbit can come down on very few geographical positions at any given time. So, you would have to wait for the next fly by above India before letting it drop. Not very useful.
I have spent the past month developing a similar monitoring backend to the enterprise cluster I am building here (though not in java). This looks very interesting and I will definitely give this a shot.
Look at the screenshots! My architecture was somewhat similar but my interface feels like dark age compared to this!
This is much more informative than the summary...
ERMA
From there:
Another useful link
From TFA
A 10 PB storage system could be built for about $4700 with an annual operational cost (power for running and cooling the system) of about $50.Wtf? That is 0.044 cents/GB. That's impossible! No one can do it that cheap. Sloppy reporting again I guess... Perhaps they meant 10 TB.
And here is another TED... Sherwin Nuland: My history of electroshock therapy. Here is what an extreme case of depression looks and feels like. I hope it gives you some perspective.
WTF? +5, insightful... here on nerd central? Of course the websites out there must be biased.
What's wrong with you people? Would you listen to a moron painting all the cancers of the world with a single size 200 paintbrush and asking all cancer victims to not pass off their dna? Then why single out the depressions? Depression is not anymore a disease than cancer is... it is a class of diseases. And while it may kill you, it certainly does not kill your drive to pass off your dna. What the parent is saying is just ugly and elitist.
Quoting from the American Psychiatric Association's response to Szasz,
There is much that is 'physical' in mental disorders and much 'mental' in 'physical' disorders.What the parent has is just a false dichotomy.
While we might understand very little about the brain and depressions, our knowledge is nowhere as shallow as the parent implies.
Almost all forms of depression now have a provably strong physical component. Some forms of depression are more disabling than others. Some people are genetically predisposed to some. Some are treatable. Some depressions are like cancers and some are like untreated common colds. It is not for fun or glorification that some mental problems are considered medical disorders.
K... Totally missed that. Thanks.
What is this a reference to? Whatever it is, it doesn't appear to be that popular. If this is a sci-fi movie quote... I wanna see the movie it's in...
The real problem with singularity is that it implicitly assumes that the intelligence of various entities forms a totally ordered set and that we will soon discover or create some superior intelligence. That kind of a claim needs evidence and we have none. And on top of that we display a significant cognitive bias while looking at intelligence. An octopus's intelligence might be better than ours at the ocean's floor. As a species, our intelligence might be lower than that of chimpanzees (they didn't cause global warming). Can we compare human intelligence to that of HIV? To that of T-Rex? What does intelligence mean? Whatever it is, we don't seem to have objective criteria for defining it. We just seem to be content with some circular definitions that use human intelligence itself as the prototype and then claim that our intelligence is superior. That and the evidence-less concept of a total order in intelligence lies at the heart of "singularity".
Singularity is likely going to remain in the realm of "coming soon" forever.
Interesting! Some of these tables have a "select pivot column" while others don't. Luckily the ones I first looked for turned out to be pivot-enabled!
Anyway, if there is a select pivot column above your chosen table, you can make the data of that column be used as a field.
I can't seem to find any pattern so far that tells us whether a particular table will be pivot-enabled or not. Anyone got that one figured out?
I was stuck with this too. For years I avoided getting into the industry for fear of having to do just one task. And then I discovered start-ups. If you are good at all this, chances are you will be able to research, learn and pick up the business side of things fast enough too. Once you do that, find a good start-up in it's early stage, join it. Learn from their success and failures and they move on and do your own. You can have your cake and eat it too! I am right now in a start up, working part time and waiting to finish my course. My boss can't wait for me to join full time.
If jack of many trades is your thing and you can pull it off, you owe it to yourself to give entrepreneurship a shot. You can wear all your hats, add value to the world and become rich while doing it. What could be better? Of course, this will be as unstable as it gets, but are you sure stability is what you want?
Like this?
Gapminder is the tool. I hope they incorporate these fresh stats soon!
He asked for this and it's finally here!
This kind of statistics that I can actually link to while making a point... That's about as innovative in my book as wikipedia was. This will forever change how geeks discuss things.
It already is a daily occurrence. It's just that the internet is only in it's feudal age so far. And what we have is a few warring feudal armies at work - storm and their ilk.
I am an Indian and what the US does have non-trivial effects on my day to day life. US military publicly and actively declaring meddling with the internet to be a part of their job can amongst other things motivate my political overlords into some kind of action.
:P
Like everything else this has both good and bad effects for me. I don't think our establishments here have a very good idea of what freedom of speech means and they could easily do some wrong here. On the other hand it opens up business opportunities for people like me which is the part I would be interested in.
So, here are my questions. What kind of stuff does your division do? Do you outsource any of it to the private sector? Do you outsource any of it to India or other countries?
I suppose data mining the internet would be a key part of your operations. What kind of tools and cyber-technologies would you consider? Which are you already investing in? What kind of tools/techs could I work on that could benefit operations such as the ones you plan to undertake?
The military entering new domains has historically benefited the research and development in these sectors and I look forward to the new cool civilian tech this could bring along with it.
Same here but since blogs became popular and I got mentioned once or twice here and there I decided that if it's gonna be the first result with my name on google it might as well be something better. So, now I do post a lot of stuff with my own name in it.
Disclaimer: My company has asked me to research the ORM market. I might be biased.
In fact, I am beginning to think that this stuff is a much better response than litigation a lot of time and given the nature of the web, litigation is a lot of times impossible. (Say someone halfway down the globe is running a smear campaign against you.) And the first page results for your name can affect your life in a very real way.
Right! And don't ever be friends with people who have tequila and blog!
Full Disclosure: My company is considering the ORM market and I have been asked to look into it.
I was sharing articles with my other gmail account and effectively using shared items as a tag... I am in trouble... If what the summary says is true this is bad form from Google...
:(
Crap! I gotta check what my contacts might have seen...
Perhaps the parent wants different tabs to be loaded via parallel threads... I am a heavy user of extensions and frequently visit some heavy sites on slow connections... A lot of times firefox just locks up while loading a particular tab (like slashdot or gmail). It would be great if I could use another tab while firefox does it's thing on the busy tab.