Interesting Links for 29-07-2016

[andrewducker]

This new book about the microbes that live inside us looks fascinating (tags: books review microbiome bacteria ) Cockroach...milk? (tags: food insects wtf viaSwampers ) Police in Britain fired their guns just seven times in the last year (tags: police guns uk ) Apple’s negotiating tactics sunk its long-rumored TV service (tags: apple tv )

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[bart_calendar]

People who report crimes are people who find crime unusual and at the same time trust police to deal with the situation.

The type of people who both trust the police and find crime unusual are people who have enough money to live in and hang out in low crime areas. Therefore them being crime victims at all is a statistical anomaly.

People who don't report crimes don't report them because crime is so common where they live that they have no reason to believe the police will have time to deal with it, crime itself doesn't seem very unusual and the police have probably arrested friends and family members of theirs so they have no innate trust of the police.

[andrewducker]

Yup, that was exactly my thought. And I cannot tell from the writeup if the original researchers even considered that possibility!

I know that "Correlation is not causation" is now so over-used that it's a cliche, but whenever I bumpt into this kind of thing I want to get a stamp and go stick it on people's foreheads.

[danieldwilliam]

Archaelogists of the future will wonder at the prevalance of skulls that show a common pattern of frontal damage at about the same period in history that a radical improvement in the public understanding of science and statistics occured leading to the development of the first wired artificial brain enhancement devices.. They will postulate that the improvement in scienctific understanding lead to the development of brain enhancing devices and these primative brain enhancements were being jacked in through the forehead.

[andrewducker]

I _do_ metaphorically smack my forehead a lot, it's surprising I don't have metaphorical concussion.

Windows 10

[spacelem]

Not entirely convinced that those are the greatest arguments for upgrading, but I suppose they're something.

If you upgrade to Win10, and you later need to reinstall, is there a handy install image to save to a USB drive, or will you need reinstall your old OS and pay money to upgrade?

RE: Windows 10

[khoth]

My reason for upgrading was "DirectX 12 isn't going to be backported to Windows 7 and games are going to start wanting it".

I gather that once you've upgraded to Windows 10, Microsoft remember that you did so and you'll be able to do so again for free on the same computer.

RE: Windows 10

[spacelem]

Okay, that sounds like a more compelling reason.

RE: Windows 10

[andrewducker]

Yup, there's an ISO:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

And the reasons for upgrading are largely "It's not Windows 8", "It will have support for new things", and "Security patches past 2020".

[steer]

Hmm... I was upgrading from windows 7 in all cases so already have the stylus. I turned off Cortana, don't have a touchscreen to use the stylus. I don't use edge or face recognition login. Damn it, that's zero good reasons to upgrade and I did it already. :-)

[andrewducker]

Direct X 12?

[steer]

Faster running on old hardware, access to security updates after 2020 and likely we will soon see software that doesn't run on Windows 7. It just tickled me that of the five reasons to upgrade given absolutely none of them applied to the four upgrades I've done so far.

[mlknchz]

I was REALLY reluctant to upgrade to 10 since my LAST upgrade, from 8 to 8.1, was such a nightmare.But the upgrade to 10 was seamless.

[channelpenguin]

well, since I forgot all about it (thought it was last day of July), I guess I'm not downloading a free Windows 10 for this machine.

Oh well..