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Worship Shiva to defeat Gaussian Face.One of the most prominent features of Lord Shiva, is His third eye. Paint a third eye on the forehead to completely discombobulate Gaussian face.
The other stunning form of Lord Shiva is His half-female version . If you could manage this form, you would discombobulate not just Gaussian Face but also fellow humans too.
Extending the theory, painting random noses, lips, eyes and other features on cheeks, foreheads etc would defeat these automatic face recognition systems.
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Why is this even an issue?
If the game design document says "All doors should be openable, provided the door is unlocked, the player has the key or the player is willing to take a reputation hit by breaking and entering", then your job as a game developer is to implement doors as specified in the game design document.
If the game design document says "Doors are graphic inserts for effect only", then your job as a game developer is to implement the doors as specified in the game design document.
If the game design document doesn't say how to handle doors before people start building the game, then the game design document is incomplete.
Incomplete game design documents, like incomplete architect blueprints, lead to stupid things like what you get by googling "architecture fails".
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Cop Out
This is the same cop out used by those who have complied rather than challenged wrongdoings of the past. It is only by this complicity that those with abhorent ideas can gain/keep power.
This discussion has been going for some time on the G+ Computing and Morality Community BTW: https://plus.google.com/communities/108602408537353548493 -
Re:what happens when the batters wears out?
https://www.google.com/search?...
Average age of a car on the road is 11.4 years that means MOST people own a car longer than 10 years.
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Re:Hardware backdoors in the actual CPUs ?
You are either ignorant or a liar. (Maybe a paid-for liar?). Just read this: https://plus.google.com/+Theod...
That is a few more people than "nobody". The flaw is that the whole design does not allow verification that it is non-compromised. The claim that including its bits in JTAG would be a security risk is completely bogus, as an attacker with access to the JTAG pins can do whatever they like already. With those bits in JTAG, it would be relatively easy to verify the analog-side is actually analog and is actually what feeds the whitener. That possibility was intentionally sabotaged, and the _only_ good reason for that is that they want to be able to compromise the CPRNG in select batches and make detection of that very hard. And no, there is no software access to those JTAG pins and yes, the hardware to query the internal CPRNG state and analog bit stream must be in place to test the CPU. That means they are switching this access explicitly off after they have verified the hardware works. So not only is this a compromised architecture and design, it is also more effort than doing it right. IT does not get more obvious than this.
Your link, BTW, is worthless. It does not go into the needed level of detail. The contrast with what you get for the VIA C3 generator (e.g.), is quite telling: http://www.cryptography.com/pu.... And VIA has a non-compromised design as they do not desperately try to hide what the analog random source spits out.
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Re:Hardware backdoors in the actual CPUs ?
These are not generally doable. The CPU just does not have enough independence to run special code or the like to any meaningful extent. It may be able to jump to a specific place on specific triggers, but there would still need to be attack-code somewhere in FLASH or the OS and always at the same place.
But, for example, Google RDRAND for a back-doored (or rather: prepared to be backdoored) specific function in Intel CPUs. The thing done here is to make it exceedingly hard to identify a compromised hardware random number generator. (I.e. this is a compromised architecture and design, rather than a sabotaged implementation, because the design was done in a way that makes analysis very, very hard. Then they lied about the reasons and did it badly.) Intel then pushed to have RDRAND used as the only randomness source in the Linux kernel, which makes it even more clear what was going on: https://plus.google.com/+Theod...
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Re:Lovely Concept, but the true answer
Also, when it comes to handling all simple 404, there could be a browser extension that would redirect you to archive.org.....
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wrtbwmon
If you want to know how much each device uses by hour, day, month, then you need wrtbwmon.
It is a simple shell script that uses iptables, and runs on OpenWRT just fine.
wrtbwmon shows a graph for each device by MAC address. if you configure OpenWRT to use a fixed IP address per MAC address, then you see the device name that you assign on all graphs.
The original is here. There is also this fork.
I have modified it to run off of a USB memory stick, and store its data there as well. It does not use much storage, barely 85 to 100 kilobytes per day. So even an old 512MB USB stick should last for many years.
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Not too surprising
This is almost certainly because they applied to Google's Adwords grants program:
http://www.google.com/grants/e...
There seem to be no ideological criteria (imagine the shitshow if there were?)
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what is the legal basis for the harassment?
> A self-declared crypto-anarchist, the 26-year-old Wilson is fighting the situation in court—and relishing every minute of his battle with the government.
Why is he in court? What law was broken? Was he manufacturing arms and distributing them without a license? If not, I fail to see any basis to charge him with any crime or for the government to harass him in any way. Otherwise the Feds need to harass everybody distributing this information:
https://www.google.com/search?...
It's ridiculous at best.
Now, why don't they (government) stick to protecting the country by securing the border and using the info they're using from the blanket wiretapping to, oh, I dunno, prevent marathon bombings?
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Re:Credible Source?A commenter on the linked blog sums up how, even if this is true, it's not news in the way the headline makes it seem.
FOTF2012 says
April 18, 2014 at 11:26 amThe Boris letter is misleading. Makes it sound like CCHR applied for and got a grant from Google in the sense of a monetary gift.
Pretty much anyone can set up a Google ad words account (https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1704354?hl=en) and then learn how to manage the details (https://www.google.com/grants/details.html). Here are the basic qualifications: https://www.google.com/grants/....
One requirement is to be a 501(c)3, which CCHR is. You can search for them on GuideStar (http://www.guidestar.org/?gclid=CKDF0e2q6r0CFVKFfgodPrMAHA) and you get 38 results. Apparently CCHR sets up separate entities in each state — maybe they have to as a charity.
One of the Google Ads program restrictions is that you can only link to one legitimate website. So I imagine they will link to http://www.cchr.org/.
Anyway, this “grant” is something that any “non-profit” can use. It is nothing significant Google has given CCHR specifically. It is part of a program that no doubt profits Google while they can say they are helping non-profits. Further, given the eligibility criteria (which CCHR meet), if Google were to deny CCHR use of the program, they would be in a lawsuit and would probably lose.
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Ug...
Keystone is at best a waste for America and at worst a natural disaster waiting to happen. It's a pipeline down to Mexican refineries so Canada can sell cheap tar sands oil to China. The problem is it's a _long_ pipe line, and they have a history of breaking and nobody noticing (since it costs lots of $$$ to monitor them) until after a community's ground water is heavily contaminated. If it happens in a mid sized town or city where it's too expensive to buy everyone out those people are just screwed.
The problem is these sorts of things are only a matter of time. With current tech maintenance costs more than allowing the disaster to happen. If the companies were severely punished for the spills that wouldn't be an issue. But if BP had to clean up their last mess they wouldn't exist as a company, and the owners would be broke. Those guys just buy off politicians until their in the clear. Heck, the CEO of TEP cried a little on Camera and got away with giving thousands of people cancer because he wouldn't pay to upgrade the safety on his factory. It was called a "Once in a 100 year event", but there were records showing it had been 100 years since the last one. That's some Mighty fine work there, Lou.
So to summarize my rant: You're asking me, as an American, to take a big risk that sooner or later is practically guaranteed to end in an etiological disaster in exchange for at best a few thousand jobs and a bit of cheap oil for China? I think This just about sums up my feelings. -
Re:I guess you don't know about explosive hog poop
Exploding poop? I thought you were pulling my leg!
Sure happy I googled for this before hitting the button.
I would have never believed it. But it is plausible given the methane and hydrogen sulfides coming from decomposition.
Put Simethicone in the pig food?
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The clods are so annoyed right now
I already am on Windows you insensitive clod!
Searching... About 1,250,000 results.
The best option would obviously be a beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans eating some hot grits, you insensitive clod! I only use trackpads, you insensitive clod! I'm self-employed, you insensitive clod! It is summer here, you insensitive clod! I don't have a car, you insensitive clod! I'm Amish, you insensitive clod! I'm self-unemployed, you insensitive clod! I have no SuperDrive, you insensitive clod! I live on zero dimensions, you insensitive clod! I'm a nudist, you insensitive clod! It's Heineken, you insensitive clod! I don't use local storage, you insensitive clod!
:I am on my Windows machine you insensitive clod! I'm English you insensitive clod! I don't need more job competition, you insensitive clod! I am a phd candidate working in an university lab, you insensitive clod! I live in Australia, you insensitive clod! People are continuous, you insensitive clod! A pre-emptive 'you insensitive clod' comment. :I use Dvorak, you insensitive clod! one way to look at a thing, and it's "MY" way you insensitive clod! Bots need to catch up on their favorite shows too, you insensitive clod! I' m a third grader, you insensitive clod! I have never said 'you insensitive clod!' in a post that I remember... I'm in marketing, you insensitive clod! Brine is delicious, you insensitive clod! hey, I still work as a government contractor, you insensitive clod! I don't watch TV you, insensitive clod! Neither I have a TV, you insensitive clod! Neither I use english grammar you, insensitive clod! Engrish is not my language, you, insensitive, clod! That's Japan you insensitive CLOD! I don't think the Mongolians would appreciate you calling them 'aliens', you insensitive clod! I USE IE, YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!! listens to Zulu chants on a purple Zune all day long and snorts without a whistle when I 'laugh', you insensitive clod! I'm still on 28.8kbps dial-up you insensitive clod! bla bla bla 300bps you insensitive clod! I can't afford to go on vacation, you insensitive clod! In Soviet Sicily, the story confirms YOU, you insensitive CLOD! I can do that without cocaine, you insensitive clod! Hey, I love feta you insensitive clod! I'm from Poland, you insensitive clod! Senior citizens can date too you insensitive clod! I dont eat corn you insensitive clod! I don't have a "you insensitive clod!" button, you insensitive clod! I'm a bald physicist, you insensitive clod! I eat two donuts at a time, you insensitive clod! I am cloud-intensive, you insensitive clod! I'm a homophobic straight male, you insensitive clod! :I use a Mac you insensitive clod! No car, you insensitive clod! Some users will also refer to seemingly innocent remarks by correcting them and adding "you insensitive clod!" to the statement... But I take my shit in the mornings, you insensitive clod! -
Cubo alarm clock from 1973
Cubo... a rounded cube about 3" on a side, 7-segment red LEDs. Mostek clock chip. It "broke" sometime in the 80s but I later discovered it was just a bad power cord... spliced it... works like a champ. Over the years, LEDs have dimmed some but still readable. Orange in color... my own personal "Clockwork Orange."
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Re:So what?
Yes, right here.
The Republican governor of Hawaii certified that his birth certificate was valid a long time ago, like in 2004, but I dont really feel like digging through google just to prove you're an idiot, so search for yourself.
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Magna Carta is 800y old
People are gearing up for next year's Magna Carta 800th Anniversary.
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Re:do they have a progressive view?
[citation] [citation] [citation] [citation] Why do the Canadians want to build a $7 billion pipeline instead of refining tar sand in Canada? Because refining tar sand is one of the filthiest processes on the planet. There are no regulations in Texas so spending $7 billion on a pipeline is the most profitable method of dealing with the fallout.
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Re:Rewarding the bullies...
Gotta love those torch welding mobs...
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Re:Waste?
Really? You actually prefer this: http://www.google.com/images?q=coal+ash
Over this? http://www.google.com/images?q=dry+cask
All of the spent fuel ever generated by a nuclear plant for 30+ years, inertly stored in an area smaller than the parking lot.
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Re:Waste?
Really? You actually prefer this: http://www.google.com/images?q=coal+ash
Over this? http://www.google.com/images?q=dry+cask
All of the spent fuel ever generated by a nuclear plant for 30+ years, inertly stored in an area smaller than the parking lot.
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1 year now and it's been greatI got a standing desk about a year ago and it has been great. I have a pretty small office and manage to fit in a standing desk and a small, "sitting" desk. Coding/writing when standing is actually pretty good, but you do get tired at which point you sit down for awhile. I have a simple setup with a laptop so if I sit I can still work. While standing you just naturally move around, shifting your weight etc. so you get some constant movement in. Some tips:
- get a good, solid standup desk, one you could lean on. There's a lot of cheap crap out there. Mine is a 4'x3' wood top, lots of space. Something like this but not this
- get one that's adjustable. There are all kinds of weird things out there (motorized for example), but mine has a simple crank to set the height. It isn't clear for awhile what the height should be and you should be able to adjust it.
- get a standing mat. I just picked one up a Sears like this but you can get one anywhere. This made standing a lot easier. In the beginning, my feet hurt much more than anything else
By the way, I'm 57 and have had operations on both knees. Not a problem.
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1 year now and it's been greatI got a standing desk about a year ago and it has been great. I have a pretty small office and manage to fit in a standing desk and a small, "sitting" desk. Coding/writing when standing is actually pretty good, but you do get tired at which point you sit down for awhile. I have a simple setup with a laptop so if I sit I can still work. While standing you just naturally move around, shifting your weight etc. so you get some constant movement in. Some tips:
- get a good, solid standup desk, one you could lean on. There's a lot of cheap crap out there. Mine is a 4'x3' wood top, lots of space. Something like this but not this
- get one that's adjustable. There are all kinds of weird things out there (motorized for example), but mine has a simple crank to set the height. It isn't clear for awhile what the height should be and you should be able to adjust it.
- get a standing mat. I just picked one up a Sears like this but you can get one anywhere. This made standing a lot easier. In the beginning, my feet hurt much more than anything else
By the way, I'm 57 and have had operations on both knees. Not a problem.
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Camera 360 cho mobile
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Re:WIRED
+1 for WIRED in paper format. The layout is beautiful and ever-changing.
Infoporn anyone?
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E = (T2-T1) / T1
E = (T2-T1) / T1
Everyone with an engineering degree knows this. Trying to extract much energy from low-grade heat at the output end of an engine is inefficient. This was figured out a long time ago. Here it is in The Manual of the Steam Engine. It's possible to increase steam engine efficiency by compounding, where the exhaust from each cylinder feeds a larger, lower pressure cylinder. This is cost-effective up to about 3 cylinders ("triple expansion"). Engines up to quintuple-expansion have been built, but the additional power from the last two cylinders in the chain isn't worth the trouble.
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Quite interestingThe explanation is interesting. The moon is half the diameter of our moon, which means 8 times smaller in volume, and possibly mass. Tidally locked to a much bigger planet Saturn, compared to earth. The only thing against "mountain range fell from the sky scenario" is that, we normally do not see 1300 km long objects in space that are just 10 to 15 km in diameter. One possibility is that a loosely accreted comet was pulled into a long string by the gravity of Saturn, (Remember? the Schoemaker - Levy comet colliding with Jupiter was pulled in to a string of rocks. ). And this moon got in the way and got whacked in the process. May be the accretion of matter into a spherical moon did not quite achieve completion.
Till we see 1300km long and 10 to 10 km diameter asteroids in space, we just have to file it under, "it is the best we could do, under these circumstances".
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Re:The difference...
It's a little more than that, though... remember the story with the Glasshole in the bar from last month who got attacked?
I seem to remember that the problem was some patron was aggressively annoyed that the glass-user might be filming them so the glass-users response was to start filming them. The problem was bery much idiots in that case.
The video starts with the patrons already attacking the Glasshole, so no, she started filming them after she was attacked. And frankly, filming people committing a crime is quite a reasonable response.
That bar - along with most bars - have security cameras. Cameras that are casually pointed at people the whole time.
No, they are qualatatively different. The cameras go on a loop, old data is discarded...
Unless you own the bar, you don't know that for sure.
... and no one looks at it unless something happens. Most of it is forgotten, not uploaded to a company which rather creepily claimed to want go right up to the border of being creepy (Schmidt's words, not mine), or be plasteres on the persons blog in perpetuity.
That's also true for most people's blogs - no one looks at them unless something happens like, say, some idiot attacks the person with the camera and blog.
Taking a photo (with the flash off) can look exactly like the person is texting.
If you're taking a picture of the floor, or a selfie from a very strange angle, then sure. To take a photograph of anything interesting, you need to hold the phone up and that's obvious.
Here is literally the first result for a Google Image Search for "people texting". The three on the left are indistinguishable from people taking pictures. Flip through that search and I'd say about half of the photos have people holding their phone up in front of their faces. Point being that while some people text while holding their phone down at their waist, apparently just as many do it while holding the phone up to their eyes.
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Re:Rewarding the bullies...
Appropriately, the page with TFA has an ad encouraging me to "Win an AR-15 from Sebastian Ammo". Google is getting scary...
Must not have been a Google ad, Google doesn't allow gun ads. Personally, I think that's stupid, but in the interest of accuracy, your ad couldn't have been from Google.
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Higher population - more demand for housing
Another cause of housing pressure is the increase in the US population. Here is a chart showing the growth of our population.
Wikipedia says, "Compared to other Western countries, in 2011, U.S. fertility rate was lower than that of France (2.02) and the United Kingdom (1.97).[9] However, U.S. population growth is among the highest in industrialized countries,[10] because the differences in fertility rates are less than the differences in immigration levels, which are higher in the U.S."
And a lot of immigrants (entire families, not just the workers) move to the Silicon Valley, because they get jobs there.
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Re:Why Ubuntu?!
It's possible with at least some ethernet BASE-T Phys to operate without transformers. Most ethernet transformers are 1:1 ratio anyway.
http://www.google.com/search?q...
There is also the question of how do you know for sure that the socket is BASE-T ethernet (and not ethernet with a propietary physical layer or something else entirely) until you connect to that.
Having said that I suspect that the chances of finding a socket in a car carrying an interface so fragile that base-t ethernet could blow it up are pretty low.
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Re:Criticizing behavior takes time
Video games are trivial to get published.
It really depends on the genre because the more locked-down platforms handle some genres better than PCs. Party games, fighting games, and cooperative platformers really need two to four players holding gamepads and looking at one screen. A PC can technically do those, but in practice, desktop or laptop PC's monitor isn't big enough for more than one person, and I'm told few people are aware that they can use virtually any HDTV as a PC monitor. The touch screen that ships with a mobile device makes certain genres hard to control as well, as I discovered when I repeatedly failed to make a certain jump in the demo of Pixeline and the Jungle Treasure on my first-generation Nexus 7 tablet.
ObMicrosoft: Look at the drama surrounding updates to Fez .
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Re:What about a re-implementation...
That changes everything. All the crazy memory and resource management code that is inherent to C programs can be replaced by a clean lifetime management. RAII is the magic word. And yes I have programmed in both and have come to the conclusion: Correctly written C++ is way way less error prone. The OpenSSL error would have never happened in an idiosyncratic C++ program (as opposed to a program written by people with C habits). Unfortunately learning C++ is very hard for C programmers - it takes years to pick up the correct habits.
"idiosyncratic"--I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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Re:What about a re-implementation...
That changes everything. All the crazy memory and resource management code that is inherent to C programs can be replaced by a clean lifetime management. RAII is the magic word. And yes I have programmed in both and have come to the conclusion: Correctly written C++ is way way less error prone. The OpenSSL error would have never happened in an idiosyncratic C++ program (as opposed to a program written by people with C habits). Unfortunately learning C++ is very hard for C programmers - it takes years to pick up the correct habits.
"idiosyncratic"--I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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Re:QWERTY Keyboard
I particularly like the one built around a generic 2x20 text LCD.
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Social Security Stopped This Today
This is not IRS directly. Only the Social Security Administration is doing this, through the Treasury, whose collection arm is the IRS.
It turns out this practice is illegal. I'm surprised it took so long for this to come out - my bet is that most of the people the SSA targeted were quite poor to begin with (hence they were getting SS benefits), and they couldn't really fight back.
This was put into the 2008 Farm Bill, but a relic from the 2005 Farm Bill, which was tabled for three years. The guy who wrote it in was congressman Todd Platts: http://books.google.com/books?...
Going after 6 Mill the first year, and 11 Mill subsequent years. At that rate, they'd sure piss off a lot of people before they paid off the Iraq war...
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Re:It's not enough
Wrong! Wholly fuck! Absolutely wrong!
Flamebait is not about "saying things to get people pissed off"! Flamebait is about intentionally trolling to insight a response.
Reading a damn dictionary is not that hard, so stop making up your own definitions for words. Further: I realize that people inventing their own definitions tend to be slow so I'll attempt to clarify. An opinion presented may piss you off by nature, because you have a different opinion. I.E. "There is a God" vs. "There is no God". If a person provides their opinion with intentionally inflammatory material, like "You are all burning in hell for not believing." or "Darwin dumbass!" (as is often done) that is trolling and possibly flamebait. A person simply expressing their opinion is not a troll or flame bait. These differences happen often with emotionally topics, such as politics and morality.
See the definition for Flamebait here, and Troll here, and Flame here(2.).
When an opinion is well articulated and not written to be intentionally offensive, such as GP is, it's a different opinion not a Troll. If you don't like their opinion, present your counter points instead of whining and trying to censor by moderation. If you can't write well articulated retort to back your opinion, don't try do moderate people out of discussions. Improve your writing skills and opinion until you can retort.
Even if the opinion is not the "Popular" opinion the goal of moderation is to encourage dialogue, not censor opinions you don't like. If the post is on topic and generates responses (while not being a flame or troll) then the post should be moderated higher.
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Re:Vice and Frodo 64
I use Vice on my desktop computer and Frodo C64 on my Android phone. Accordingly, I don't need an extra gadget to play with my Commodore 64.
I was about to say something nice about the Android port of Frodo and how great it was that the developer must have finally figured out how to swap disks without entering 'LOAD"*",8,1' and had a keyboard that looked even vaguely like the original but...
No. Never mind. It's still nice to have but bordering on unusable for anything complex.
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Re:So wait, shotguns are more accurate than the bi
i didn't realize the impact of one significant digit. honestly i didn't believe 10 would be between 6~14 until converting to sci notation. (1e1 could be
.5e1 rounded up or 1.4e1 rounded down). thank you for that insight.however there are still trivial ways to account for this error.
1. Rounding error: d=9.6, c=30.16
2. Not a perfect circle. Any deviation from perfectly circular will reduce ratio of longest axis to circumference. (of course they would measure across the widest point!)
google calculator" makes this easy.
primary axis (diameter)=10; secondary axis=9.4; circumfrence=30.483. Lies! (this is to be expected in the bible): axis=9, 9.6; c=29.22. people would "round"(exaggerate) this slightly flat circle to "10 across; 30 around"
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Vice and Frodo 64
I use Vice on my desktop computer and Frodo C64 on my Android phone. Accordingly, I don't need an extra gadget to play with my Commodore 64.
Gamebase64 has everything you never needed to know about C64 games, Girls of '64 for everything in 8-bit nudity, and AppsnToolsBase64 for everything in utilities, business and productivity applications.
All c64 programs are tiny in modern terms; an uncompressed 1541 floppy disk image is only 170k. So you can carry every significant Commodore 64 program that was every released on a single flash drive or on your phone, and have plenty of room to spare.
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Re:Fine..
I'm not sure I believed his explaination . . . but try reading:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=...
I took it to say . . . "breaking orbit" so it wouldn't fall back into the earth, would just mean it follows (or leads) the earth, in roughly the same orbit. That to get it headed into the sun . . . took a much greater effort on top of "leaving orbit".
And with chemical rockets (current technology) . . . its not cost effective. Even with something like a "space elevator" . . . I think the article was saying . . . "you can't just "fling it off" at the top . . . and have it travel on into the sun."
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Re:Private sector and efficiency.Actually it is a lot more funny than this. You are only looking at crony capitalism of railroads. Expand your horizons to include transportation in general.
In the 1700s canals were the big thing. A nearly bankrupt Brit baron built a canal to deliver his coal to a harbor and became fantastically rich. Then there was this canal building boom. Eminent domain to take land and give to canal companies, tax incentives, tax abatements. Lots of speeches about how canals are going to create jobs and development would pass the city by, unless the poor, the unwashed and the indigent chip in to pay taxes. Canals were built. Early canals really created prosperity. But almost all the late canal extensions were boondoggles.
Then the railroads came in. The canal companies hated the railroad companies. Canal towns created stumbling block for the railroads. Local ordnances, zoning rules, misinformation campaigns. Rail roads passed the canal towns by. You can still see quaint little abandoned villages and hamlets all along the Erie canal untouched by progress. Rail road barons, who were canal barons earlier, ran the same damned schemes all over again. They got so egregious their exploits are more remembered than their fore runners in the canal era.
What is history if it does not repeat itself. When Eisenhower kicked off the interstate highway construction boom, the railroad towns fought the highways tooth and nail. But high ways also had powerful cronies based on the illegal cartel of Firestone, Ford Motor Company and Standard Oil. So railroads towns did not win completely. But there are hundreds of railroad towns like Altoona PA that made sure no high ways come close to them. Altoona with its location on strategic location in the Appalachia is still holding on to rail roads because almost all the East-West rail road traffic must go through that town. But it made sure I-76 came nowhere near it. Till data all auto traffic between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh curve sixty miles south to avoid Altoona. https://www.google.com/maps/@4... (The mountains in between are not the issue. All the railroads go through Altoona. The passage has been graded ages ago, with bridges too. Would have been cheaper to build the new highway through Altoona. But the resurrected the old turn pike)
America has always been afflicted by this crony capitalism. But our Democracy was bringing sanity and regression to the mean, till about 1980s. Then Reagan came, and they perfected the art, nay science, of persuading folks like our friend roman_mir to vote against their own self interest. No wonder we are going down the drain now.
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Re:Just use headlights
Those of us who don't live in cities have been driving fine at night without streetlights forever.
Of course, y'all have significantly more accidents than us mollycoddled city slickers, so you may want to reconsider the use of "fine" in this context.
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Re:power honeypot
"I don't want to "weaken government", I want to weaken the federal government."
In theory, I agree with you. The feds have gotten far to fat and powerful, in all aspects. Transportation, communication, education, commerce, intelligence, first amendment and second amendment rights, every thing.
Got any ideas, though? Let's set aside any utopian views. Let's pretty much ignore how things "should have been". Right now, today, in the real world, how do we go about limiting any aspect of government control in our lives? Can it be done? What will it take to effect any change, how can governmental control be weakened?
A lot of people are beginning to believe that it will take a revolution of some sort. Witness events near Las Vegas in recent weeks. https://www.google.com/search?...
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Re:Is it: "Don't Be More Than 49% Evil" Now?
"Don't Be Evil" motto
... But how large a portion of "evil" is Google now comfortable with?You know the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock? Let's do something similar with Google.
Let's have Google change their homepage so that the more evil they get, the more UPPER CASE LETTERS appear on their search page.
And the best thing is: it's hosted by GOOGLE so we KNOW that it's accurate! (...or was that too subtle?) -
Re:Is it: "Don't Be More Than 49% Evil" Now?
"Don't Be Evil" motto
... But how large a portion of "evil" is Google now comfortable with?You know the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock? Let's do something similar with Google.
Let's have Google change their homepage so that the more evil they get, the more UPPER CASE LETTERS appear on their search page.
And the best thing is: it's hosted by GOOGLE so we KNOW that it's accurate! (...or was that too subtle?) -
Re:Oh, man, what a mess
I believe the key point you made there is that anyone running IIS was never vulnerable except for all the times they were
Here, FTFY.
PS: Mister Ballmer, we know you've got plenty of time on your hands now, but be subtler, please.
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Re:Not the first time this has happened
Torez and Kim trade holodeck time. I don't have the DVDs available, but it's stuff that's casually mentioned in downtime while they're doing engineering type tasks. It's not anything that is plot critical, so it rarely shows up in synopses (which I'm guessing is the only way you've "watched" Voyager if you aren't aware of the the fact that there are two crews on a starship with only two holodecks (unless you count sickbay, which I don't).
As for citing:
HOLODECK SCARCITY:
http://www.chakoteya.net/voyag...
"KIM: Doc, how about a trade? I'm willing to throw in some holodeck time. Come on! It would mean a lot to my mother."
http://www.chakoteya.net/voyag...
NEELIX: Now watch carefully. I place the tera nut under the cup. Then I shuffle them. Round and round they go. Keep your eye on the nut, but be careful, the hand is faster than the eye. Now, for three hours of Holodeck time, can you tell me where is the tera nut?
REPLICATOR RATIONING:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wik...
https://www.google.com/search?...
The Voyager Transcripts - Meld
http://www.chakoteya.net/voyag...
PARIS: Why don't we make it interesting this time. Let's add some table stakes. KIM: What kind of stakes? PARIS: I don't know. Hmm. Couple of replicator rations, ...
The Voyager Transcripts - Parturition
http://www.chakoteya.net/voyag... ... So I ate Neelix's food for a week and used my replicator rations. PARIS: Play something for me. KIM: Well, I've only had ...
The Voyager Transcripts - Warhead
http://www.chakoteya.net/voyag... ... PARIS: I'll pay you back double with next month's replicator rations. NEELIX: That's what you said when I let you ...
The Voyager Transcripts - Twisted
http://www.chakoteya.net/voyag... ... It must have cost you a week's worth of replicator rations. PARIS: Two weeks actually, but who's counting? I'm just glad ...
The Voyager Transcripts - Equinox
http://www.chakoteya.net/voyag... ... NAOMI: If you need anything, replicator rations, a tour of the lower decks, I'm your man. GILMORE: Thank you, Miss ...
The Voyager Transcripts - Real Life
http://www.chakoteya.net/voyag...
Apr 23, 1997 - ... CHAKOTAY: If we could harness some of that energy, we could go off replicator rations for a while.
The Voyager Transcripts - Scorpion
http://www.chakoteya.net/voyag... ... I'm working on a plan to extend our food and replicator rations. JANEWAY: We have to act fast. The Borg have captured ...
The Voyager Transcripts - The Chute
http://www.chakoteya.net/voyag...
Sep 18, 1996 - ... So, what do you say we blow a week's worth of replicator rations? KIM: So what's for dessert?
The Voyager Transcripts - The Cloud
http://www.chakoteya.net/voyag...
Feb 13, 1995 - ... I'll use one of my replicator rations for coffee. NEELIX: That would not be appropriate, Captain.
The Voyager Transcripts - Before And After
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Re:To be expected
Please donate to mod_wsgi. mod_wsgi is like mod_php except it uses Python and is much faster than the existing mod_python. Donate here
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$1b corps
They all need to be contributing to OpenSSL or a fork.
In a typical year the OpenSSL project receives about US$2000 in donations.
This week we have received roughly 200 donations totaling nearly
US$3000. Amounts have ranged between $0.02 and $300, and I notice that
some individuals have made multiple contributions.https://groups.google.com/foru...
Security theater is sometimes more like security exhaustion.