Here is a mystery that is affecting Europeans in a very serious way. Click through to see the graph which is very helpful. Source: Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1311.3799 : Declining Trends Of Healthy Life Years Expectancy (HLYE) In Europe
There is a pathology prevalent in the Theocratic Right, a distrust of women. A need to subjugate and control them that is irrational yet strongly held. When I read this I found it hard to believe it could be true, but I checked and this report is correct. I actually found four stories along these lines and just chose this one. It is a very big trend in parts of the U.S., and it is amazing that it g! ets so little coverage.
Things which are based on paranoia, fear, and hate are inherently unbalanced and always produce unintended consequences that sabotage the perpetrator. Here is a classic example of the principle.
America's attitude towards children is a disgrace. I confess I don't understand the attitude, no one I know shares it, but it has become a defining characteristic of the U.S.
You'd be forgiven for not wanting to give businesses a recording of your voice. They get your email address and your inbox is flooded; the same goes for physical address. But, if a business asks for voiceprint in the near future, it might actually be for your own benefit.
One way hackers go about breaking into your accounts is through the phone. They obtain a few pieces of information and pretend to be you to try and dupe workers at a call center into giving up your “forgotten password.” But now businesses are increasingly looking to collect voiceprints to verify your identity when you call saying you forgot your credentials. As BBC reports:
Digital voiceprints contain over 100 identifiable elements. And, by using complex mathematical algorithms and the latest high-definition audio equipment, voice biometric companies believe they can now identify people accurately more than 97% of the time.
Even identical twins, who share the same DNA, can be told apart from their voiceprints, making the technology reliable enough to be used as evidence in courts of law.
Like any biometric security, it's not a perfect system. Depending on how strict the system is, someone could use a recording of your voice. Still, it's working better than the alternative, so far. According to BBC, before Barclays Wealth started using voiceprints, 25 percent of fraud phone calls got past the bank's security system. That percentage has since dropped to zero.
Here is an alarming and little considered, until now, effect of global warming. The study referenced in this report is published in the journal of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
I would not have picked Obamacare as the way to go because it is still a profit based system. It is essentially a program written by Republicans for Republicans. I support a single payer system, essentially Medicare for all. But the ACA is still an improvement on the madness of the current Illness Profit System. Paul Krugman makes this case clearly.
Here in the U.S. 17 million children have food access issues, and the Republicans in the Congress just cut the SNAP program, to their everlasting shame. As we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving I hope all my readers will buy some extra food and donate it to the poor. This is how desperate it is getting.
One of the lies the corporate media and the Theocratic Right chant with the passion of medieval penitents is that it is the government's safety net for the poor that is the problem with our economy. It is a perfidious lie and here are some facts explaining why I say this.
The more I read about this Pope the more I like him. It is going to be interesting to watch how the Theocratic Rightist Bishops and Cardinals appointed by his recent predecessors, who seem more at home with Anyn Rand's teachings than those of Jesus, are going to react. Pope Francis is quite correct in his assessment of the vampire capitalism! that is shaping many of the societies of the world, particularly the U.S, to the detriment of those who live here.
With Google becoming more difficult to use, many professionals need a way to locate, filter, and obtain high value information that works. Silobreaker is an online service and system that delivers actionable information.
The co-founder of Silobreaker said in an exclusive interview for Search Wizards Speaks says:
I learned that in most of the organizations, information was locked in separate silos. The information in those silos was usually kept under close control by the silo manager. My insight was that if software could make available to employees the information in different silos, the organization would reap an enormous gain in productivity. So the idea was to “break” down the the information and knowledge silos that exists within companies, organizations and mindsets.
And knock down barriers the system has. Silobreaker’s popularity is surging. The most enthusiastic supporters of the system come from the intelligence community, law enforcement, analysts, and business intelligence professionals. A user’s query retrieves up-to-the-minute information from Web sources, commercial services, and open source content. The results are available as a series of summaries, full text documents, relationship maps among entities, and other report formats. The user does not have to figure out which item is an advertisement. The Silobreaker system delivers muscle, not fatty tissue.
Mr. Bjore, a former intelligence officer, adds:
Silobreaker is an Internet and a technology company that offers products and services which aggregate, analyze, contextualize and bring meaning to the ever-increasing amount of digital information.
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What sets us apart is not only the Silobreaker technology and our commitment to constant innovation. Silobreaker embodies the long term and active experience of having a team of users and developers who can understand the end user environment and challenges. Also, I want to emphasize that our technology is one integrated technology that combines access, content, and actionable outputs.
The ArnoldIT team uses Silobreaker in our intelligence-related work. We include a profile of the system in our lectures about next-generation information gathering and processing systems.
You can get more information about Silobreaker at www.silobreaker.com. A 2008 interview with Mr. Bjore is located at on the Search Wizards Speak site at http://goo.gl/f7niAH.
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Here is a mystery that is affecting Europeans in a very serious way. Click through to see the graph which is very helpful. Source: Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1311.3799 : Declining Trends Of Healthy Life Years Expectancy (HLYE) In Europe
