This is survivor's fallacy. Think about all the other thousands, millions maybe, predictions that did not come true. Clarke also had a bizarre prediction about bio-engineered "super chimpanzees". I don't know about you, but my helper monkey is worthless most of the time.

-Matt

Nobody can predict the future, especially for technologies not invented yet.. What was Kai-Fu Lee doing in 2007 (ten years ago)? He was working for Google China. We all know how that went.

-Matt

You mean like Bill Gates who is trying to wipe out Polio. Yeah, fuck that guy.

-Matt

Their argument citing that case is pretty weak. In that case, Publisher's International published a book about the TV show Twin Peaks, after the show came out. A very in-depth book citing plots, actors, dialogue, etc. Although Publisher's International didn't have copies of the script, they did copy basically the TV show after it came out. In this case it would be very hard to prove that the website had any such access, especially since the Walking Dead show has not come out yet. They probably haven't even registered their copyright. Plus it is obviously commentary on the show. However these days the one with the deepest pocket wins in court, sadly.

-Matt

MIT is already doing this. For Supply Chain Logistics MIT has already added on two more classes and with a final exam you can get a Micro Masters in Supply Chain and with one more semester on campus you can get a full Masters degree in Logistics.

Eventually, you will be able to do this completely online.

-Matt

This sort of story smacks of "Nutritionism" as explained in Michael Pollan's book 'In Defense Of Food'. Generally people do not need to know how many calories, carbs, nutrients, vitamins, etc. are in a piece of food unless you are a nutritionist, and most people aren't. How to eat healthy comes down to one simple rule:

Eat food(1) mostly plants(2) not too much(3).

(1) Food defined by things your great-grandmother would recognize as being food. Nothing overly processed. Food should spoil. If what you eat will not spoil you should not eat it. Things that are not food, but edible food-type substances: refined sugar (includes soda, twinkies, etc), refined flour (white bread, etc), refined oils of all kinds (peanut oil, sunflower oil, and *gasp* olive oil).

(2) Plants, meaning whole fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes. And a variety. Different shapes, textures, colors, whole and fresh if you can get it. This should make up 90% of your diet. Less than 10% of your diet should come from animal products. This includes dairy and meat.

(3) Don't eat too much of one thing. Don't overeat.

If you do this, you don't need to count calories or take vitamins or worry about your riboflavin intake. Just eat and be healthy.

-Matt

This would be great, but it is likely not true. According to more recent research kid's learning styles is not true. This theory has been reported as fact, but is not backed up by science. In fact it is better to get a kid out of their comfort zone for them to learn more.

https://thinkneuroscience.word...

-Matt

I am sorry, but if you have a 371 million dollar IPO and then are bankrupt three years later, that is horrible mismanagement. Smart employees are going to leave a company like that.

-Matt

Seems like there are two options for Minecraft at this point.

1 - Minecraft is the online version of Lego which will delight kids and adults for generations to come.

2 - It is more akin to Farmville and unlike Zynga, Mojang sold out at the peak.

Seems to me Minecraft is more like 2 than 1.

-Matt

The problem is that there is no penalty in the law for a mistaken copyright take-down. What we need is for every mistaken take-down, an automatic $1000 fine.

-Matt

"The course of human history is strongly influenced by the growth of human knowledge. [But it is impossible to] predict by rational or scientific methods, the future growth of our scientific knowledge [because doing so would require us to know that future knowledge, and, if we did, it would be present knowledge, not future knowledge.] We cannot therefore predict the future course of human history." - Karl Popper paraphrased from the book Future Babble by Dan Gardner

This is why Cryonics is currently a waste of money and resources.

-Matt

If you read the response from the record industry, Richard Altman is not an innocent bystander. According to the RIAA he has reinstalled Windows on his mom's computer several times and he was the one who delivered his mom's computer's hard drive to the RIAA. It is not like he has not been involved

The RIAA says that the hard drive they have is not the hard drive that was attached to the computer they are looking for, so they are looking at Richard Altman's computer equipment to see if he has the information they want.

Do they have probable cause to do this? I don't think so, but that is their argument.

-Matt