Nope; in fact, the verb "input" got nouned. The first known use of "input" as a verb in the context of computers was in 1946; the first known use of "input" as a noun in the same context was in 1948.
Outside of the specific case of computers, the difference is even more distinct, with the verb "ynputt" pre-dating the noun "input" by almost four hundred years.
Our road signs (like US ones) are all in Miles, and I don't see that changing any time soon.
Ever noticed that road signs tend to be placed 1/3 or 2/3 of a mile before an exit?
This isn't just because they like confusing people; 1/3 of a mile is about 1/2 of a kilometer, so this will allow them to switch over to metric without having to move any signs.
This means that you can not use WLAN, cellphones and terrestrial TV/Radio. Is this really what you want?
Quoth the article: The company has produced panels using the technology to produce a screen that will prevent outsiders from listening in on companies' Wi-Fi traffic but let other radio and mobile phone traffic get through.
No. Almost all mathematicians have assumed for years that GRH is true anyway; proving it would mean that all those footnotes ([1] Under the assumption of the Riemann Hypothesis) could be removed, but that's the only practical effect it would have.
Since the moderators obviously didn't understand the joke: A doctorate from Oxford is a D.Phil (short for "Doctor of Philosophy"), in contrast to most other universities, which use the term PhD (Philosophiae Doctor, which is exactly the same thing in Latin).
From a biological stand point when you get something like diabetes, it's time for you to check out and no longer contribute to the gene pool
Not necessarily. It has been suggested that the genes responsible for autoimmunity also serve to protect the body against some forms of cancer, in that they make the immune system more likely to attack cells which look slightly abnormal.
If this hypothesis is correct -- to my knowledge there hasn't been any direct evidence in either direction -- then autoimmunity might be a positive genetic trait, since it's much easier to replace a few hormones (insulin, thyroxine, etc.) than it is to detect and eliminate cancer.
You weren't getting the newest release. You were getting the release plus a couple months of development.
Releases get significant amounts of testing (and last minute bug fixing) after they are branched and before they are released. Meanwhile, development continues mostly as normal in the main branch.
The 5.x branch is mostly ready (indeed, I know many people running 5.2.1 without any problems); when 5.3 is released in a few months, it will be the recommended option.
The continued maintainance of the 4.x branch is largely for the benefit of those users who -- for good reasons -- are incredibly paranoid about moving to anything new. Users like large banks, for example.:-)
No, that gives you a single point of failure -- if the signals get past the lead bucket, you're in trouble. What you want to do is have defense in depth -- eat the lead and spread is throughout your body.
But regardless of if you loose weight or not, any activity causing your pulse to rise will make you more fit.
That's an interesting, and widely-held, claim, but I have yet to see any scientific evidence for it.
There is lots of evidence that weight loss is correlated with decreased mortality. There is lots of evidence that taking people who are overweight and encouraging them to exercise will reduce in decreased mortality. And it's clear that exercise will increase muscle (and, to a lesser extent, bone) mass.
But I have not seen any evidence that taking healthy, BMI 20-25 adults and encouraging them to exercise more results in decreased mortality.
My first thought when I see an interesting plant isn't, "oh, lookie here...this is neat...must be some kind of patented genes in there..."
Yes, but you're not a farmer growing a crop where 40% of national production contains a patented gene with that particular property.
Him failing to realize that a roundup-resistant seed is probably a Monsanto seed is about as likely as a slashdot reader failing to realize that Linux contains GPLed code.
Besides, you forget the fact that during this ruling, they decided he didn't use their resistance to his competitive advantage (hence the $0 damages), so why would he have knowingly planted them if he wasn't going to take advantage of the thing that makes them worth planting?
He planted Monsanto seed because he thought he could get away with it. He didn't use roundup because, at the time he would have used it, he had already been caught with Monsanto seed, and he didn't want to dig his grave any deeper.
In other words, at least one hundred people were perfectly willing to shell out money -- cash, presumably -- to some random guy in front of a store, then take this guy's CD home and blindly install whatever the hell he'd given them!
In other news, over 4000 people have blindly downloaded and installed binary security patches for FreeBSD. Looking at my access logs, I see a number of.gov.uk systems, a few.af.mil systems, dozens and dozens of web hosting companies... all of whom should know better than to install arbitrary binaries signed by someone they don't know.
Now, there is one difference here: Very few people have paid me anything for FreeBSD Update. But as far as security goes... we've got our fair share of insufficiently paranoid system administrators.
instead, they'll just detonate the bomb when there's an excessive amount interference
As far as these people are concerned, that's fine. The radius of interference exceeds the radius of destruction of the expected explosives; if Shrub's anti-mobile-phone field triggers an explosion while he's driving around, he's still a safe distance away.
Remember, this isn't about making sure that people can't detonate explosives -- if someone simply wants to detonate some explosives, they don't need a cell phone to trigger it. This is about making sure that explosives can't be triggered to explode when a specific target comes too close.
By definition, jamming requires more power than communication, and it has to be spread over wider frequency range.
Not necessarily. Some mobile phone systems have call setup done in a different frequency band from the actual call transmission; blocking the call setup band will ensure that the call transmission band doesn't get used.
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The noun "input" got verbed
Nope; in fact, the verb "input" got nouned. The first known use of "input" as a verb in the context of computers was in 1946; the first known use of "input" as a noun in the same context was in 1948.
Outside of the specific case of computers, the difference is even more distinct, with the verb "ynputt" pre-dating the noun "input" by almost four hundred years.
The use of "architect" as a verb isn't even recently invented: Keats wrote "This was architected thus By the great Oceanus" in 1818.
If you look at the context of my post, you'll see that I was referring to road signs in the UK.
Signs in and between CA and FL are not relevant to this discussion.
Like the cost of moving a road sign's going to be a huge burdon compaired to the rest of metrification.
No, but moving a sign is much more expensive than repainting it.
Our road signs (like US ones) are all in Miles, and I don't see that changing any time soon.
Ever noticed that road signs tend to be placed 1/3 or 2/3 of a mile before an exit?
This isn't just because they like confusing people; 1/3 of a mile is about 1/2 of a kilometer, so this will allow them to switch over to metric without having to move any signs.
This means that you can not use WLAN, cellphones and terrestrial TV/Radio. Is this really what you want?
Quoth the article:
The company has produced panels using the technology to produce a screen that will prevent outsiders from listening in on companies' Wi-Fi traffic but let other radio and mobile phone traffic get through.
does it's proof have any impact on crypto?
No. Almost all mathematicians have assumed for years that GRH is true anyway; proving it would mean that all those footnotes ([1] Under the assumption of the Riemann Hypothesis) could be removed, but that's the only practical effect it would have.
One of the fallout corollaries from a proof of the Riemann hypothesis is that there exists a simple algorithm for factorization (read: p-time).
No. GRH implies that isprime() is in P (by bounding the cost of a strong pseudoprime test); but we already knew that, thanks to AKS.
However, a recently printed copy of the same novel can also be reproduced without the printing company having any recourse to your doing so.
That is not true. The processes of editing (if any was done) and typesetting (which was certainly done, for a printed work) both create copyright.
Liar. Oxford doesn't give out PhDs.
Since the moderators obviously didn't understand the joke: A doctorate from Oxford is a D.Phil (short for "Doctor of Philosophy"), in contrast to most other universities, which use the term PhD (Philosophiae Doctor, which is exactly the same thing in Latin).
So Dad's PhD is a prestige degree - from Oxford, no less.
Liar. Oxford doesn't give out PhDs.
RAND is poison to free software. Authors of free software cannot afford ANY fee, "reasonable" or not.
Costco is poison to free lunches. People who want to give away free lunches cannot afford to pay ANYTHING for the raw ingredients, "low cost" or not.
From a biological stand point when you get something like diabetes, it's time for you to check out and no longer contribute to the gene pool
Not necessarily. It has been suggested that the genes responsible for autoimmunity also serve to protect the body against some forms of cancer, in that they make the immune system more likely to attack cells which look slightly abnormal.
If this hypothesis is correct -- to my knowledge there hasn't been any direct evidence in either direction -- then autoimmunity might be a positive genetic trait, since it's much easier to replace a few hormones (insulin, thyroxine, etc.) than it is to detect and eliminate cancer.
You weren't getting the newest release. You were getting the release plus a couple months of development.
Releases get significant amounts of testing (and last minute bug fixing) after they are branched and before they are released. Meanwhile, development continues mostly as normal in the main branch.
The 5.x branch is mostly ready (indeed, I know many people running 5.2.1 without any problems); when 5.3 is released in a few months, it will be the recommended option.
:-)
The continued maintainance of the 4.x branch is largely for the benefit of those users who -- for good reasons -- are incredibly paranoid about moving to anything new. Users like large banks, for example.
No, that gives you a single point of failure -- if the signals get past the lead bucket, you're in trouble. What you want to do is have defense in depth -- eat the lead and spread is throughout your body.
But regardless of if you loose weight or not, any activity causing your pulse to rise will make you more fit.
That's an interesting, and widely-held, claim, but I have yet to see any scientific evidence for it.
There is lots of evidence that weight loss is correlated with decreased mortality. There is lots of evidence that taking people who are overweight and encouraging them to exercise will reduce in decreased mortality. And it's clear that exercise will increase muscle (and, to a lesser extent, bone) mass.
But I have not seen any evidence that taking healthy, BMI 20-25 adults and encouraging them to exercise more results in decreased mortality.
My first thought when I see an interesting plant isn't, "oh, lookie here...this is neat...must be some kind of patented genes in there..."
Yes, but you're not a farmer growing a crop where 40% of national production contains a patented gene with that particular property.
Him failing to realize that a roundup-resistant seed is probably a Monsanto seed is about as likely as a slashdot reader failing to realize that Linux contains GPLed code.
Besides, you forget the fact that during this ruling, they decided he didn't use their resistance to his competitive advantage (hence the $0 damages), so why would he have knowingly planted them if he wasn't going to take advantage of the thing that makes them worth planting?
He planted Monsanto seed because he thought he could get away with it. He didn't use roundup because, at the time he would have used it, he had already been caught with Monsanto seed, and he didn't want to dig his grave any deeper.
Schmeiser claims that Roundup Ready canola seeds infected his own crops
The courts, on the other hand, found that the appellants knew or ought to have known that they saved and planted seed containing the patented gene.
This "they contaminated my crops" claim is purely for the benefit of the media; he knew that he was planting Monsanto canola.
You mean like sourceforge?
I'm quite happy with saying that SourceForge should reassess their security.
Anonymous CVS access is a pretty import thing to alot of projects.
There are much better options; CVSup and rsyncing tarballs are probably the best.
Note that this problem only exists in pserver code. Anyone using pserver on critical systems needs to reassess their security anyway.
Just release thousands of rats into a field and let them blow up. Once you detonate the mines they're no longer a problem.
Rats are too light to detonate the mines.
In other words, at least one hundred people were perfectly willing to shell out money -- cash, presumably -- to some random guy in front of a store, then take this guy's CD home and blindly install whatever the hell he'd given them!
.gov.uk systems, a few .af.mil systems, dozens and dozens of web hosting companies... all of whom should know better than to install arbitrary binaries signed by someone they don't know.
In other news, over 4000 people have blindly downloaded and installed binary security patches for FreeBSD. Looking at my access logs, I see a number of
Now, there is one difference here: Very few people have paid me anything for FreeBSD Update. But as far as security goes... we've got our fair share of insufficiently paranoid system administrators.
instead, they'll just detonate the bomb when there's an excessive amount interference
As far as these people are concerned, that's fine. The radius of interference exceeds the radius of destruction of the expected explosives; if Shrub's anti-mobile-phone field triggers an explosion while he's driving around, he's still a safe distance away.
Remember, this isn't about making sure that people can't detonate explosives -- if someone simply wants to detonate some explosives, they don't need a cell phone to trigger it. This is about making sure that explosives can't be triggered to explode when a specific target comes too close.
By definition, jamming requires more power than communication, and it has to be spread over wider frequency range.
Not necessarily. Some mobile phone systems have call setup done in a different frequency band from the actual call transmission; blocking the call setup band will ensure that the call transmission band doesn't get used.