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Bringing people back from the dead(bbc.co.uk)
95 points by quasque 13y ago|35 comments
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by quasque 13y ago
Glass is a sousveillance technology according to Steve Mann's definition. But also a surveillance technology due to its link with Google. Edit: found an article where he discusses Glass in this regard, interesting read http://techland.time
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by quasque 13y ago
Sousveillance only really counts when it inverts the usual power imbalance inherent in authority-led surveillance systems. The problem is that if wearable systems like Glass or EyeTap become widespread, this will create a new power imbalanc
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by quasque 13y ago
I very much doubt it. Microsoft have their own interests in such augmented reality devices[1] and such a move would hurt future business in that area. [1] e.g. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20120293548.pdf
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by quasque 13y ago
There is an expectation of the bar to not use that footage for anything other than crime prevention and suchlike. Bars do not typically upload all their CCTV data to a wider internet audience - or even to a central, powerful authority such
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by quasque 13y ago
It's not just two proxies chained together - there is always at least one middle node between entry and exit.
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by quasque 14y ago
Anonymous ftp still works, it's just hitting the maximum connected user limit. Better to use an FTP client than the browser as it will persist the connection.
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by quasque 14y ago
This seems unnecessarily discriminatory. It also means that taller people get a worse deal - already having to deal with cramped seating, now there is a premium on the extra body weight due to height.
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by quasque 14y ago
Not really. They still must rely on the Bitcoin peer to peer network, the code behind the Bitcoin clients, and the stability of the Internet. There is still a third party, it's just distributed more widely.
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by quasque 14y ago
Very nicely done. Feature suggestion: importing playlists from other services, e.g. Spotify.
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by quasque 14y ago
Bitcoin is vulnerable too. A dedicated effort by collaborating governments could destroy or severely damage Bitcoin, by e.g. blocking the protocol, seizing powerful hashing equipment, downing exchange websites, performing a 51% attack, and
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by quasque 14y ago
"And many of them are going to spend their BTC over time to avoid interaction with banking system as much as possible." What is the purpose of avoiding the banking system?
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by quasque 14y ago
Yes. As someone from the UK, I find the brutish eagerness Americans tend to have about their guns to be pretty fucked up anyway, so this is just another level on top of that. No doubt someone will trot out the old discredited "protecting ou
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by quasque 14y ago
The added security benefit of server-side hashing is the same as if plain text passwords are sent, to prevent knowledge of the authentication secret if the database contents are disclosed to malicious third parties. The client side hash of
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by quasque 14y ago
It's a good idea, but downloading something from the same URL (or filename fragment from an URL) does not necessarily imply that it's a duplicate. Would be interesting to see something similar to this extension that uses attributes sent at
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by quasque 14y ago
The animals were bred specifically for such experiments. For example, the mice in these experiments were blind, immunosuppressed mice that would not survive in the wild anyway. Such research is not done with cruelty in mind; the animals are
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by quasque 14y ago
The greater good argument should not be dismissed so readily. All of modern biomedicine is laid upon the foundations of animal experimentation - the vast majority of medicines we take for granted today, and the knowledge base they are deriv
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by quasque 14y ago
Every species favours its own - humans are not special in that regard.
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by quasque 14y ago
None of the tests they used were food-related. If you're curious, pages 13 to 17 of the supplementary data (from "Auditory fear conditioning" onwards) describe the methods they used to test learning and memory: http://download.cell.com/cel
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by quasque 14y ago
Perhaps of more interest is Frege, which is basically Haskell for the JVM. Seems to be coming along nicely: https://github.com/Frege/frege
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by quasque 14y ago
I agree. The whole post made for some rather uncomfortable reading, with an undertones of desperation and bitterness all the way through. I feel that the path he's gone down is quite an eccentric and possibly misguided way to deal with the
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by quasque 14y ago
I find it rather an epiphany to realise that our distant ancestors must have seen the sky like this all the time , rather than the vague haze most of us experience. No wonder then that the movement of the stars and planets played such a cu
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by quasque 14y ago
I don't really understand the Bitcoin hype. Yes it's interesting application of cryptography, but it's not really that useful as a currency. It's online only, and not really accepted anywhere very much, especially because there's too much o
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by quasque 14y ago
The author is severely underestimating the utility of metaphor. Space doesn't have to be physical, it can be abstract and related more to the imagination than a direct experience of our immediate physical world. Cyberspace is an excellent t
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by quasque 14y ago
This is mostly a problem of being paid per hour (or being expected to be present a set number of hours) rather than per project or task - leading to very inflexible terms of employment or contract. It's also a problem of management culture
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by quasque 14y ago
I've done it before with Office 2010, but I must admit I've not tried the latest 2013.
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by quasque 14y ago
I suppose its a vaguely interesting technical point regarding terms and conditions, but in reality people will just go ahead and reinstall it anyway - with no penalty. I don't really see how this EULA change actually changes anything in pra
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by quasque 14y ago
No, and I'm not going to. I can't see how it would help anyone involved, especially several years on. Anyway I don't even know who she is, or if they're even married any more.
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by quasque 14y ago
Thanks for the links. The speaker in that video makes an excellent point about science communication which I think applies to all education and not just primary/seconday school. For example, even scientific journals having "commentary" or "
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by quasque 14y ago
That would only work if the learner is so motivated that they spend months poring over medical and biology textbooks to understand enough background, and then learn how to read scientific papers and interpret studies for statistical signifi

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