Facebook also looks a bit like Second Life, which was really hot for a while as a social interaction platform. It was all over the news feeds and real-world companies and government agencies even paid to set up shop in it. Apparently, Second Life continues to exist and has customers, but they only hang out in the sleazy "adult" sections; the rest of it is essentially empty, and the companies have abandoned it. This does not bode well for the future of Facebook, even if they add a few Facefuck "adult" areas...
I'm sure that if anyone were falsely accused of being a leaker, they would no doubt have swift access to just recourse.
Just as a person who has the same name as someone on the Do-Not-Fly list can immediately get the problem corrected and from then on the fly without being hassled?
Are you, by any chance, on a "do not whoosh" list?
Better yet, use the $1000 to make 40 loans to people all around the world at www.kiva.org. Make sure the loans are short term, so they'll be done within the 6 month time frame. You won't make any money...and there is the risk of loosing some of what you've loaned, but the Karma (and good feelings) of helping 40+ people around the world should far out weigh the $3.50 or more you might make in interest.
Slashdot says I've got loads of Karma, and he's welcome to the lot in return for the thousand bucks.
"Peak-gate"
The outrageous scandal of uh, something vague maybe, or nothing much really, we're not actually sure about it, and might have made it up completely... but it's coming to your TV screen tonight!
Furthermore, the paradigm of "peak $thing" is not necessarily applicable to every fashionable $thing.
Travel is constrained by the carrying capacity of roads and junctions. If investment in these does not keep pace with demand for capacity, then the demand is throttled by the negative effects of congestion. As population density increases in some region, it becomes harder (disproportionately more expensive) to increase the carrying capacity of roads in proportion - the number of choke points increases and congestion increases. The low density exurbs have no such problem, except when it comes to commuting to a high density downtown...
My first XT-clone had a 30MB RLL drive. My friends were impressed, as they had only 20MB MFM drives. The XT was replacing a PC-clone which had TWO 360kB floppy drives - the standard was to have only one. I recall being teased by colleagues some years later for buying a "mainframe" 486 with two 400MB drives (cheaper than getting one 600MB drive). Our home server now has 7TB of disk space...
Damn, I'm not even on Geritol yet...
Neither the app nor the methodology is public, and it will NOT be released
Until / unless sufficient cash has been offered to the developer...
Apparently, this weakness was pointed out months ago (according to comments in TFA). The black hats probably all have it if they want it, so the associated monetary value for such an exploit is probably low and falling.
the way chicom preaches, sex is for reproduction purposes, and any sexual act not related to reproduction is a bourgeois extravagance. it's further infused with elements of chinese tradition (from confucian/buddhist roots), where sex is considered dirty and degrading, and only to be practiced to maintain the blood lineage.
Sex is dirty, and only approved for reproduction? They're Catholics!!!
No wonder the Chinese Communist party is appointing Catholic bishops etc in China nowadays. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11937807
Really? One tip-off (potentially anonymous or vindictive or malevolent) gets you on a watch list, and you're unconcerned. The management of the no-fly list does not inspire much confidence in how this watch list will be maintained.
Just have a name which is sort-of similar to a suspected baddie, and you can be stuck on the no-fly list. The late Senator Edward Kennedy and Congressman John Lewis were stuck on it for years: the bureaucracy could not remove even them in a timely way. News reporters have been placed on the list suspiciously soon after publicizing shortcomings at TSA. http://articles.cnn.com/2008-07-17/us/watchlist.chertoff_1_air-marshals-chertoff-federal-no-fly-list?_s=PM:US
A sewer takes shit away for processing, and performs a valuable function.
4chan produces useless shit non-stop - it is more analogous to a bunch of assholes with diarrhea. When 4chan is working, the sewers of the internet are likelier to be overloaded than when it is down. I agree that curing the diarrhea would be preferable to plugging the assholes, but either way, the rest of the world would simply see and applaud the reduction in shit.
Actually, you should thank the civil engineers and municipal planners whose work eliminated the majority of diseases from our cities - through provision of water treatment, distribution of the resulting potable water, and provision of sewerage and sewage treatment plants. Medicine has added surprisingly little to our life spans in comparison to the availability of drinking water and removal of fecal matter.
A typical warmblood horse is about 550-600kg (over half a ton), but gets drunk on a surprisingly small amount of alcohol. They can get boisterous and disorderly on eating partly fermented apples http://guyism.com/uncategorized/drunk-horse-falls-in-uk-familys-pool.html. A pint or two of beer would probably get a horse utterly staggering drunk. Don't try it, however, as a disorderly horse is almost as bad as a disorderly elephant.
If your heart rate is elevated or you're palms are sweating, and you're close to an airport/school/gov office building/whatever, you might be planning an attack, why not just be on the safe side and have you come down with the nice men in black down to the local station for questioning?
Turn yourself in, before your own personal (not private) polygraph does!
animals do not perform anything that requires abstract thought
Clearly, you have never observed an octopus. They appear to study a problem before tackling it, and can solve unnatural challenges such as figuring out how to open a screw-top jar which contains a morsel of food. They don't just attack the jar with random moves, but study it while turning it around. Accomplishments such as these are suggestive of abstract thought, not mere instinctive behavior.
Despite living only about two years, and receiving no training from its parents (who die around the time their offspring hatch out), an octopus is a surprisingly intelligent mollusc.
BTW, you might try to define what you mean by "abstract thought" some time. You'll find it hard to include your own mental processes while excluding the perceived mental processes of tool-making animals (e.g. crows) or even of mammals which are considered less intelligent than the octopus (e.g. a horse).
I'll take a wait-and-see approach before praising or condemning it so soon after its rebirth. A journal has to find its place and its readership, and the new BYTE will likely morph to some extent before it settles down ("consumer tech products in a business envronment" is a bit nebulous).
What I have not missed about the old BYTE is hanging on my wall. Framed prints of Robert Tinney's excellent art, signed and numbered. I just wish I had bought a few more of them when they were available.
Kodak also invented the digital camera (1975), introduced the Bayer mask for color imaging (1976), and was a leader in digital imaging technology in many other ways (first megapixel detector, etc.). Their handicap was that they had a huge existing business which would be horribly cannibalized by digital technology. As a result, they were unable to take the business decisions which would have commercially exploited these digital imaging innovations.
They are still a leader in CCD sensors.
Divide by zero error! After this point, every conclusion is invalid since the results are undefined.
Depressingly, some people (adults as well as kids) would not spot that.
I'd be more likely to step out in front of such cars so I wouldn't ever have to hear that again.
There may be more of a future in that than you suppose. I expect that we'll regress to having a person walk in front of such vehicles, waving a red flag to warn bystanders of its approach.
Noises from rattling of loose metalwork or unbalanced rotating elements would also be welcome. Backfiring interspersed at irregular intervals, along with the odd component dragging the ground or falling off. The brakes should cause squealing and skidding noises.
A car should sound like a real car!
If you screw a woman in some countries without their father's approval beforehand it is rape. Under Islamic law if your brother rapes and beats your wife, you have to kill the wife for tempting him and forgive the brother. Why is the fact that different countries have different standards so hard for people to understand? the UK rape laws don't apply in sweden, Islamic law doesn't apply in the USA, chinese law doesn't apply in Russia.
Indeed. An act considered criminal in one country could be legitimate elsewhere. But extradition may require balancing the laws of both lands when considering the act for which extradition is requested.
Suppose a woman fled to the West after being raped by her husband's brother in a country which applied the Islamic law to which you referred. Do you suggest that she should be extradited to be executed for being a victim? Should she volunteer to return to her death out of a respect for that law?
You are at work and you decide to login to your home router's web server to look at statistics or make a change or whatnot.
Administering a home router from outside the firewall was already known to be foolhardy. How many people allow remote administration of their router? If a home server is also hosted on the router, or is protected from remote administration only by the router, then it is also placed at risk by allowing remote administration of the router.
Our router only accepts administration from behind its firewall. Our web server only accepts administration from a subset of IP addresses behind the firewall (and not including the router). Hell, even the printer is set up that way.
For sufficiently small values of "sort of", I suppose. We treated it as a poison in chemistry lab work. Tiny amounts exist in many vegetables, and are excreted via the kidneys. Rhubarb leaves are considered poisonous primarily because they contain significant amounts of oxalic acid (far more than rhubarb stalks).
A lethal dose might require a good big spoonful of oxalic acid, but you'll suffer on ingesting much smaller quantities. Acute symptoms include burning eyes/throat/mouth, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, progressing to convulsions, respiratory failure and cardiovascular failure if the dose is large enough.
Chronic effects of moderate doses can also cause considerable discomforts. It's not particularly soluble, and easily precipitates in the presence of many common cations, so it tends to accumulate as stones in the kidneys and bladder.
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Facebook also looks a bit like Second Life, which was really hot for a while as a social interaction platform. It was all over the news feeds and real-world companies and government agencies even paid to set up shop in it. Apparently, Second Life continues to exist and has customers, but they only hang out in the sleazy "adult" sections; the rest of it is essentially empty, and the companies have abandoned it. This does not bode well for the future of Facebook, even if they add a few Facefuck "adult" areas...
I'm sure that if anyone were falsely accused of being a leaker, they would no doubt have swift access to just recourse.
Just as a person who has the same name as someone on the Do-Not-Fly list can immediately get the problem corrected and from then on the fly without being hassled?
Are you, by any chance, on a "do not whoosh" list?
This does make me a little nervous... Time to change a few passwords methinks.
If TFA is correct, it's your home address and credit card numbers that might need to be changed...
Your passwords are probably OK.
Better yet, use the $1000 to make 40 loans to people all around the world at www.kiva.org. Make sure the loans are short term, so they'll be done within the 6 month time frame. You won't make any money...and there is the risk of loosing some of what you've loaned, but the Karma (and good feelings) of helping 40+ people around the world should far out weigh the $3.50 or more you might make in interest.
Slashdot says I've got loads of Karma, and he's welcome to the lot in return for the thousand bucks.
"Peak-gate"
The outrageous scandal of uh, something vague maybe, or nothing much really, we're not actually sure about it, and might have made it up completely... but it's coming to your TV screen tonight!
Furthermore, the paradigm of "peak $thing" is not necessarily applicable to every fashionable $thing.
Travel is constrained by the carrying capacity of roads and junctions. If investment in these does not keep pace with demand for capacity, then the demand is throttled by the negative effects of congestion. As population density increases in some region, it becomes harder (disproportionately more expensive) to increase the carrying capacity of roads in proportion - the number of choke points increases and congestion increases. The low density exurbs have no such problem, except when it comes to commuting to a high density downtown...
when just a few megabytes was considered large.
My first XT-clone had a 30MB RLL drive. My friends were impressed, as they had only 20MB MFM drives. The XT was replacing a PC-clone which had TWO 360kB floppy drives - the standard was to have only one. I recall being teased by colleagues some years later for buying a "mainframe" 486 with two 400MB drives (cheaper than getting one 600MB drive). Our home server now has 7TB of disk space...
Damn, I'm not even on Geritol yet...
Neither the app nor the methodology is public, and it will NOT be released
Until / unless sufficient cash has been offered to the developer...
Apparently, this weakness was pointed out months ago (according to comments in TFA). The black hats probably all have it if they want it, so the associated monetary value for such an exploit is probably low and falling.
the way chicom preaches, sex is for reproduction purposes, and any sexual act not related to reproduction is a bourgeois extravagance. it's further infused with elements of chinese tradition (from confucian/buddhist roots), where sex is considered dirty and degrading, and only to be practiced to maintain the blood lineage.
Sex is dirty, and only approved for reproduction? They're Catholics!!!
No wonder the Chinese Communist party is appointing Catholic bishops etc in China nowadays. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11937807
I really doubt our civil liberties are at stake.
Really? One tip-off (potentially anonymous or vindictive or malevolent) gets you on a watch list, and you're unconcerned. The management of the no-fly list does not inspire much confidence in how this watch list will be maintained.
Just have a name which is sort-of similar to a suspected baddie, and you can be stuck on the no-fly list. The late Senator Edward Kennedy and Congressman John Lewis were stuck on it for years: the bureaucracy could not remove even them in a timely way. News reporters have been placed on the list suspiciously soon after publicizing shortcomings at TSA. http://articles.cnn.com/2008-07-17/us/watchlist.chertoff_1_air-marshals-chertoff-federal-no-fly-list?_s=PM:US
AFAIK, Google does not approve of Android use on tablets, and tries to limit "official" access to the Android marketplace to smartphones. Of course, even if a vendor cannot link directly to the Android marketplace, there is often an app available which does give such access. For example, most of the Archos tablets can use the Android marketplace if you sideload the gApps4Archos.apk application (google for it). The app was tested and approved by various reputable review sites http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/12/new-archos-tablets-get-android-marketplace-hack-works-as-promis http://liliputing.com/2010/10/google-marketplace-hack-for-the-new-archos-tablets.html http://androidcommunity.com/archos-tablets-get-android-market-thanks-to-new-apk-20101012/
BTW, the Archos tablets are all GPL-compliant. http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/12/31/0116250/Most-Android-Tablets-Fail-At-GPL-Compliance
And nothing of value was lost...
Nobody values sewers until they stop working.
A sewer takes shit away for processing, and performs a valuable function.
4chan produces useless shit non-stop - it is more analogous to a bunch of assholes with diarrhea. When 4chan is working, the sewers of the internet are likelier to be overloaded than when it is down. I agree that curing the diarrhea would be preferable to plugging the assholes, but either way, the rest of the world would simply see and applaud the reduction in shit.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Actually, you should thank the civil engineers and municipal planners whose work eliminated the majority of diseases from our cities - through provision of water treatment, distribution of the resulting potable water, and provision of sewerage and sewage treatment plants. Medicine has added surprisingly little to our life spans in comparison to the availability of drinking water and removal of fecal matter.
A typical warmblood horse is about 550-600kg (over half a ton), but gets drunk on a surprisingly small amount of alcohol. They can get boisterous and disorderly on eating partly fermented apples http://guyism.com/uncategorized/drunk-horse-falls-in-uk-familys-pool.html. A pint or two of beer would probably get a horse utterly staggering drunk. Don't try it, however, as a disorderly horse is almost as bad as a disorderly elephant.
If your heart rate is elevated or you're palms are sweating, and you're close to an airport/school/gov office building/whatever, you might be planning an attack, why not just be on the safe side and have you come down with the nice men in black down to the local station for questioning?
Turn yourself in, before your own personal (not private) polygraph does!
animals do not perform anything that requires abstract thought
Clearly, you have never observed an octopus. They appear to study a problem before tackling it, and can solve unnatural challenges such as figuring out how to open a screw-top jar which contains a morsel of food. They don't just attack the jar with random moves, but study it while turning it around. Accomplishments such as these are suggestive of abstract thought, not mere instinctive behavior.
Despite living only about two years, and receiving no training from its parents (who die around the time their offspring hatch out), an octopus is a surprisingly intelligent mollusc.
BTW, you might try to define what you mean by "abstract thought" some time. You'll find it hard to include your own mental processes while excluding the perceived mental processes of tool-making animals (e.g. crows) or even of mammals which are considered less intelligent than the octopus (e.g. a horse).
I'll take a wait-and-see approach before praising or condemning it so soon after its rebirth. A journal has to find its place and its readership, and the new BYTE will likely morph to some extent before it settles down ("consumer tech products in a business envronment" is a bit nebulous).
What I have not missed about the old BYTE is hanging on my wall. Framed prints of Robert Tinney's excellent art, signed and numbered. I just wish I had bought a few more of them when they were available.
You've missed the second derived acceleration formula. a = (v^2 - u^2)/2s
Makes me sad for physics education in schools these days.
No, he didn't. He expressed it in a trivially rearranged form:
easy to calculate the acceleration by means of the formula v_f^2 = v_i^2 + 2a delta x
Makes me sad for the state of reading comprehension.
Kodak also invented the digital camera (1975), introduced the Bayer mask for color imaging (1976), and was a leader in digital imaging technology in many other ways (first megapixel detector, etc.). Their handicap was that they had a huge existing business which would be horribly cannibalized by digital technology. As a result, they were unable to take the business decisions which would have commercially exploited these digital imaging innovations.
They are still a leader in CCD sensors.
(A+B)(A-B)=A(A-B) , divide like terms
Divide by zero error! After this point, every conclusion is invalid since the results are undefined.
Depressingly, some people (adults as well as kids) would not spot that.
I'd be more likely to step out in front of such cars so I wouldn't ever have to hear that again.
There may be more of a future in that than you suppose. I expect that we'll regress to having a person walk in front of such vehicles, waving a red flag to warn bystanders of its approach.
Noises from rattling of loose metalwork or unbalanced rotating elements would also be welcome. Backfiring interspersed at irregular intervals, along with the odd component dragging the ground or falling off. The brakes should cause squealing and skidding noises.
A car should sound like a real car!
If you screw a woman in some countries without their father's approval beforehand it is rape. Under Islamic law if your brother rapes and beats your wife, you have to kill the wife for tempting him and forgive the brother. Why is the fact that different countries have different standards so hard for people to understand? the UK rape laws don't apply in sweden, Islamic law doesn't apply in the USA, chinese law doesn't apply in Russia.
Indeed. An act considered criminal in one country could be legitimate elsewhere. But extradition may require balancing the laws of both lands when considering the act for which extradition is requested.
Suppose a woman fled to the West after being raped by her husband's brother in a country which applied the Islamic law to which you referred. Do you suggest that she should be extradited to be executed for being a victim? Should she volunteer to return to her death out of a respect for that law?
You are at work and you decide to login to your home router's web server to look at statistics or make a change or whatnot.
Administering a home router from outside the firewall was already known to be foolhardy. How many people allow remote administration of their router? If a home server is also hosted on the router, or is protected from remote administration only by the router, then it is also placed at risk by allowing remote administration of the router.
Our router only accepts administration from behind its firewall. Our web server only accepts administration from a subset of IP addresses behind the firewall (and not including the router). Hell, even the printer is set up that way.
Oxalic acid should be "sort of" OK.
For sufficiently small values of "sort of", I suppose. We treated it as a poison in chemistry lab work. Tiny amounts exist in many vegetables, and are excreted via the kidneys. Rhubarb leaves are considered poisonous primarily because they contain significant amounts of oxalic acid (far more than rhubarb stalks).
A lethal dose might require a good big spoonful of oxalic acid, but you'll suffer on ingesting much smaller quantities. Acute symptoms include burning eyes/throat/mouth, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, progressing to convulsions, respiratory failure and cardiovascular failure if the dose is large enough.
Chronic effects of moderate doses can also cause considerable discomforts. It's not particularly soluble, and easily precipitates in the presence of many common cations, so it tends to accumulate as stones in the kidneys and bladder.