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Watch How the Internet Took Over The World in this Timelapse Map. Does Twitch Plays Pokemon Give You Hope for Humanity? Gigantic Space Battle Breaks Out in EVE Online, Thanks to Unpaid Bill. According to an email EVE Online sent out today, more than eight Titans—these are the real bad mofos of the EVE fleet, capable of equipping a superlaser—have already been destroyed in the Battle of System B-R5RB. Holy hell, they really want this station.In the last battle, wasn't it said that no Titans were destroyed? Skimming the after-action reports it sounds like some titans were lost at HED-GP, but I don't have total numbers. Between 70 and 100 were involved overall. And these things are worth more than a grand, right? "Yes. " I really have no idea what the 1:1 comparison is between ISK and Earth Buxx. They take a lot of time/capital to acquire, is all I know. They're worth around 70 billion ISK each, which, at ~550 million ISK per single "PLEX", gives an amount of about 128 PLEX, which, times 20 USD, gives a total of 2.5k USD.

Also, actually *selling* a titan is pretty tricky. Stream is now reporting over 20 Titan losses, which brings the total over $50,000 in Titans alone. Is Bitcoin evil or just dumb? The Robots Are Here - POLITICO Magazine. Isaac Asimov, the astonishingly prolific science fiction writer, died in 1992, but he foresaw much about American politics today. One of his most profound works is the neglected short story “Franchise,” written in 1955, in the days when computers were bulky, room-sized machines powered by vacuum tubes and operated by a high priesthood of punch card-wielding technicians. For a work of fiction, it is stunningly prescient. In Asimov’s tale, set in November 2008, democratic elections have become nearly obsolete. A mysterious supercomputer said to be “half a mile long and three stories high,” named Multivac, absorbs most of the current information about economic and political conditions and estimates which candidate is going to win.

The machine, however, can’t quite do the job on its own, as there are some ineffable social influences it cannot measure and evaluate. You see, Linda, till about forty years ago, everybody always voted.”… “How did all the people know who to vote for? Viral Journalism and the Valley of Ambiguity. How much does search engine optimization play into how effectively a story is picked up virally? If a story contains rhetoric that is more likely to get passed on, even if it's "important" — famous names, scandal — does that play a role? Take recaps, here and elsewhere: I'm slowly drifting away from them because they seem to be increasingly simple plot recounts that go over the sexy sexiness of sexy sex and the fabulous fabulousness of fabulous fabulousness.

Based on reads and short, quipy comments, I'd assume those are more popular than deep-dives that try to answer "so what? " questions. (Maybe that was always the case and I'm just becoming jaded, but especially in the past year recaps seem to leave me knowing less about a show than more.) Although recaps of the former type might be pop culture cotton candy, I can see how they'd be more likley to be shared than a close reading of a shot sequence.

In general, nobody shares recaps. It's possible that this is generational. The Ninth Circuit Library. "Citations are the cornerstone upon which judicial opinions and law review articles stand....The ability to check citations and verify that citations to the original sources are accurate is integral to ensuring accurate characterizations of sources and determining where a researcher found information.

However, accurate citations do not always mean that a future researcher will be able to find the exact same information as the original researcher. Citations to disappearing websites cause problems for legal researchers. " Raizel Liebler & June Liebert, Something Rotten in the State of Legal Citation: The Life Span of a United States Supreme Court Citation Containing an Internet Link (1996-2010), 15 YALE J.L. & TECH. 273, 275 (2013), available at The following table lists Ninth Circuit opinions issued from 2008 to the present that cite to Internet addresses (URLs).

Click here to submit corrections. In Supreme Court Opinions, Web Links to Nowhere. The libraries that governments will burn in the future. Well he better move the thing away from the coast or global warming will make his argument mute. I get where he's coming from,make it politically and socially costly to censor or control the contents.That might work if today's political climate and what is or is not socially acceptable and worthy of protection and preservation remain reasonably constant.

But who can say what will be worthy,acceptable or even cared about a century from now.That said if you look at this as a concept where the contents vary with the times we should hope it holds true even a century or more from now.If it doesn't then that means the government,the country,and what is or is not acceptable or resistible will have changed dramatically and probably for the worse. When it not longer becomes politically and/or socially costly to censor or destroy cultural material it become dystopia,it becomes analgious to Nazi Germany,Communist USSR or even today's China or North Korea.

War, space, and the evolution of Old World complex societies. Author Affiliations Edited* by Charles S. Spencer, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, and approved August 27, 2013 (received for review May 9, 2013) Significance How did human societies evolve from small groups, integrated by face-to-face cooperation, to huge anonymous societies of today? Why is there so much variation in the ability of different human populations to construct viable states? Abstract How did human societies evolve from small groups, integrated by face-to-face cooperation, to huge anonymous societies of today, typically organized as states? Footnotes Author contributions: P.T., T.E.C., and S.G. designed research; P.T., T.E.C., E.A.L.T., and S.G. performed research; P.T. and T.E.C. analyzed data; and P.T., T.E.C., and S.G. wrote the paper.

Freely available online through the PNAS open access option. Why It's So Hard to Make Friends After College (And What to Do About It) Dunbar's number. Watch 10 seconds of high-frequency stock trading in super slow motion. Presumably, it will take them a bit of time to actually read out the resolution.

How do you know there weren't computers executing the trade before the news reached Chicago? Maybe they were measuring the probability that the decision would be made. In addition, a spike in trading could be bets placed both ways. There could be short options bought or long. Likely they were. If you are conspiratorial minded, you would say that people in Chicago had been leaked the news but waited until it was officially released to execute. If you are less conspiratorial, you could say that everybody knew that some piece of news was going to be released and the bots were programmed to pounce. Or, you can believe in the laws of Science Fiction as written by Douglas Addams and say that this is proof that nothing travels faster than bad news. Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments. <img class="full-width" style="" typeof="foaf:Image" width="1000" height="653" alt="" data-smsrc="<a pearltreesdevid="PTD502" rel="nofollow" href=" class="vglnk">http://www.

popsci. com/sites/popsci. Enlarge Comments can be bad for science. It wasn't a decision we made lightly. That is not to suggest that we are the only website in the world that attracts vexing commenters. Suzanne LaBarre is the online content director of Popular Science. The line between fiction and fic has never been blurrier. When the Silo series first started, the book was free on Amazon. Since I live in Mexico, when I went to Amazon to download tge free book, I was going to be charged full price.

I saw that Hugh had a website, and contact email, and I wrote him telling him both my wife and I would like to read the story, but felt that we were unfairly discriminated against, because of our location. He wrote me back, the NEXT DAY and made me a gift of the first 5 books of the series. Since my wife and I both are on the same Kindle account, we both read the series, enjoyed them immensely , and bought every book thereafter, including, Dust. In my opinion, Howie's not only a pretty good writer/businessman, he's a pretty good human being too. TIL EVE Online is the only MMO that features an officially recognised player-elected council that is flown twice a year to Reykjavik to meet with the game developers to discuss the ideas and concerns of the player base. : todayilearned. How the Battle of Asakai Became One of the Largest Space Battles in Video Game History. I was there. I was there and it was horrible. The game's developers have taken this unholy, all consuming black nightmare and turned it into a PR triumph, but let me tell you my perspective on Asakai.

By the time my fleet, a Goonswarm subcapital reinforcement fleet, arrived, maximum time dilation was already occurring; time was technically being made to pass in this solar system at one tenth the speed of normal time outside the system. Except all that was doing was alleviating the effect of the soul crushing lag enough to let us experience it fully in all its hellish detail instead of, for example, dumping people out of game or bringing everything to a halt. Time was actually passing hundreds of times slower. Actions that would normally take 5 seconds were taking ten minutes. Responses to control input that should be instant were taking 5 minutes. Over the span of 5 hours, the actual fighting that took place would under normal circumstances have happened in about 10 minutes. How Upvote/Downvote Sites like Reddit Breed Irrational Herd Behavior. What I want are different kinds of up votes and down votes that explain my reasoning more clearly as to why I'm giving said vote.

Slashdot kind of had something like this. You could vote something as "insightful" or "relevant" and you could vote something as "funny. " You could then filter comment threads in favor of funny or insight and ignore the rest. Sometimes people just reply to your serious stuff with the needlessly twee and, honestly, you don't give a fuck about their Internet comedy show, right? So rate them "plus one funny," to reward the Internet version of street busking, and move on. Then you can filter out all the bandwidth wasting gifs, image macros, puns and cats and get right to the meat of good discourse. Now, how much you wanna bet some IO9 wiseacre comes after me with a gruff looking Sam the Eagle image macro after such stuffy seriousness? Science Shows How Reddit Users Are Like Sheep | Surprising Science. The world as you've never seen it before.

How virtual reality will reshape your life, according to Google. Yes! I had completely forgotten this book was coming out soon, can't wait to pick it up. I work in IT and have been a "techie" since I was a kid (I'm 27 currently) and all this is beyond interesting. As I point out to my friends, "We went from Zack Morris cell phones when we were kids to phones that fit in your back pocket with room to spare. We went from "oh my god this is the greatest thing ever" (NES) to the soon to be released Occulus Rift. Tech is just going insane right now and if it doesn't excite you with the possibilities then there's something wrong with you. " But, as a techie and IT guy in general, I'd like to add my opinion on one other thing.

I seriously think we need to consider implementing a "computer/internet license". Can't wait to get my hands on Google Glass (when the consumer version becomes available, which is something I see changing things remarkably and perhaps causing a revised edition of this book to eventually be released). The Cloud Will Expand Human Brain Capacity: Kurzweil. Futurist and author Ray Kurzweil predicts the cloud will eventually do more than store our emails or feed us streaming movies on demand: it’s going to help expand our brain capacity beyond its current limits. In a question-and-answer session following a speech to the DEMO technology conference in Santa Clara, California last week, Kurzweil described the human brain as impressive but limited in its capacity to hold information.

“By the time we’re even 20, we’ve filled it up,” he said, adding that the only way to add information after that point is to “repurpose our neocortex to learn something new.” (Computerworld has posted up the full video of the talk.) The solution to overcoming the brain’s limitations, he added, involves “basically expanding our brains into the cloud.” Kurzweil is one of the more prominent advocates of the technological Singularity, or the idea that computers will become super-intelligent and self-replicating, essentially reducing human progress to a sideshow. Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market. You -- Yes, You -- Are TIME's Person of the Year. The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men.

" He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year. To be sure, there are individuals we could blame for the many painful and disturbing things that happened in 2006. The conflict in Iraq only got bloodier and more entrenched. But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men.

The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. And we are so ready for it. And we didn't just watch, we also worked. America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Who are these people? The answer is, you do. But that's what makes all this interesting. Khan Academy. I am Anant Agarwal, President of edX and former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Ask Me Anything! : science. Google Joins Top Universities in Quest to Fulfill Potential of Online Education. With online education, you don’t have to go to MIT to learn from one of MIT’s top professors. You don’t have to spend six figures or four years to get knowledge applicable to the career of your choosing. Education can continue all your life, if you like.

The idea is full of potential. But today, it’s still an experiment, and as anyone who’s taken a course will tell you, the experience is far from perfect. One challenge is getting people to fully commit to classes. 90% of enrolled students never finish. To tackle problem two, Google is joining forces with edX, a collaboration of 29 top universities offering 72 online courses, to build an open source online education platform. The new platform will be rolled out on a site called MOOC.org in early 2014, and anyone interested in creating their own course can get instructions and tools developed by Open edX. While edX has the resources and education experience of the likes of MIT and Harvard, Google is Google. MOOC Brigade: Will Massive, Open Online Courses Revolutionize Higher Education? Sugata Mitra's new experiments in self-teaching. Digital Aristotle: Thoughts on the Future of Education.

About Knewton | Executive Team | Knewton Investors. "Is This You?" - lifelogging, privacy and scandal by Tom Scott at Electromagnetic Field 2012. A Flash Mob Gone Wrong – Ignite Talk by Tom Scott. How the Boston Marathon tragedy revealed the best side of social media. Memoto Lifelogging Camera by Memoto. Real-Time Language Translation With UK Developer’s Own Google-esque Augmented Reality Glasses. Microsoft's Real-Time Translation Software Converts English to Chinese—and Preserves the Sound of Your Voice.