Comment: in Brazil. (Score 1) 213
Already did it in a city called Canoas, in Brazil.
Original source (portuguese): http://www.diariodecanoas.com.br/policia/301981/canoas-sistema-deteccao-de-tiros-passara-por-calibragem.html
Comment: Re:Good luck with that... (Score 1) 265
Accountability is a main issue itself. It's not to achieve efficiency, but to achieve fairness.
Comment: Re:Is Iran really such a threat? (Score 1) 532
AFAIK, the brutal supression of oposition are made both by Iran and Israel.
After all, 'democracy' is not democracy when you chose who can and who can't vote.
Comment: Re:Too many protective measures (Score 2, Informative) 328
A good source: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120204003191.htm
Ow, I posted it before but i forgot to login:
I know I will be modded down (for some reason slashdot readers are nuclear-fan-boys), but someone need to tell you guys:
A tsunami + earthquake on a ultra-populated archipelago killing 19,300 is really low.
But a single failure (4 core but still one system) killing 573 (plus long-term deaths) is a lot.
Ow, yes, and one more thing: there is a lot of land that will be not usable for decades. Even the salt of the water from the tsunami don't do such thing.
Comment: Re:Ron Paul! (Score 1) 792
To be member of the Mises Institute means something between "member of the hipster golf club in the country' and 'member of the weirdest religion in California'.
Sorry to tell you.
Comment: Re:Banninate it. (Score 1) 206
Look, I'm tired of speeding being the most enforced rule on the road. From what I experienced, speeders are focused on their driving, and less likely to put others around them to sleep. Yet, I never seen cops pull over people for failure to use turn signals or any other offense.
That's true. Speeders are, usually, drivers who pay lots of attention to what they are doing. However, IF they do something wrong, it will be WAY worst. Anyway, speed tickets are a lazy and inefficient way of making roads safer.
NYPD cancels freedom of speech and assembly->
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CloudFlare Makes IPv6 Websites Easy->
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Firefox 7 Is Faster And Uses Less Memory->
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The Isolation of Academia and the Private Sector
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recent posting "Ask Slashdot: Successful software from academia" asked a good question but I think also missed a larger issue.
The programming I have seen in Academia has been poor, probably worse than the private sector. OOP seems to be unheard of and is often taught by those who only heard of it a few weeks before they were required to teach the class. Ditto with Design Patterns, UML, unit testing, Agile Development, and the hard lessons from private sector death marches. The Application Developers in Academia are often poorly taught and undisciplines, more so than what I have seen in the private sector.
In addition outside of a few areas such as games, databases, and graphics; learning from Academia often doesn't make it into the mainstream. E.g. algorithm analysis should be a basic given for any working programmer, I know I did it when working as a programmer. But when I tried to explain why a bubble sort was a bad idea I was often met with blank stares. Or why using a DOM XML parser on large data sets instead of a SAX based parser was a bad idea. Or how to hack a SAX parser when needed, which involves tree searches and push-down stacks. Both push-down stacks and tree searches should be Sophomore level programming and in every programmers toolbox, even if only to assess whether a library based on these principles is a reasonable solution. Or self-referential programming, which is often skirting on the edges of AI (and in fact what some Design Patterns may be approaching). Another cool thing coming from Academia but yet seemingly unheard of is time-oriented databases (see Snodgrass who works at the University of Arizona if you are interested, there are some bizarre things that can happen if time is mishandled in databases).
The upshot is that Academia and the rest of the world seem to be isolated from each other. There is a wealth of experience in the private sector that doesn't seem to make it into Academia and vice versa. If I am wrong please correct me. And if you have ideas how to fix the problem please share them."
recent posting "Ask Slashdot: Successful software from academia" asked a good question but I think also missed a larger issue.
The programming I have seen in Academia has been poor, probably worse than the private sector. OOP seems to be unheard of and is often taught by those who only heard of it a few weeks before they were required to teach the class. Ditto with Design Patterns, UML, unit testing, Agile Development, and the hard lessons from private sector death marches. The Application Developers in Academia are often poorly taught and undisciplines, more so than what I have seen in the private sector.
In addition outside of a few areas such as games, databases, and graphics; learning from Academia often doesn't make it into the mainstream. E.g. algorithm analysis should be a basic given for any working programmer, I know I did it when working as a programmer. But when I tried to explain why a bubble sort was a bad idea I was often met with blank stares. Or why using a DOM XML parser on large data sets instead of a SAX based parser was a bad idea. Or how to hack a SAX parser when needed, which involves tree searches and push-down stacks. Both push-down stacks and tree searches should be Sophomore level programming and in every programmers toolbox, even if only to assess whether a library based on these principles is a reasonable solution. Or self-referential programming, which is often skirting on the edges of AI (and in fact what some Design Patterns may be approaching). Another cool thing coming from Academia but yet seemingly unheard of is time-oriented databases (see Snodgrass who works at the University of Arizona if you are interested, there are some bizarre things that can happen if time is mishandled in databases).
The upshot is that Academia and the rest of the world seem to be isolated from each other. There is a wealth of experience in the private sector that doesn't seem to make it into Academia and vice versa. If I am wrong please correct me. And if you have ideas how to fix the problem please share them."