You did that yourself. If it's outrageous and in the Daily Mail then it's pretty close to case proven that it's bogus. Especially since it's all gone very quiet since 2006. Either the school is still investigating or the newspapers decided that there was no story in the outcome of the investigation. Do you really expect people to provide links to reports that nothing happened?
On the other hand, defense and preserving law and order are the only two things they state as legitimate government spending, and the rest of their policies don't look to me to be libertarian so much as neocon, so I don't see much hope there for an end to the police state.
Large parts of the UK fought and bled for the right to not be part of England.
Hey, we bought you fair and square. You're ours now. That's how capitalism works. It wasn't even a hostile acquisition, it was an economic rescue plan.
Sometimes things going the way of the dodo is capitalism as well.
Absolutely. How is the Pure Collector's business model nowadays? Although I can't think what it is about journalism that brought that particular defunct business to mind...
So he's automatically guilty by virtue of being a Guatamalan politician? That may be good enough for/. but I doubt it's good enough for a court of law anywhere that bothers with such things.
No, I was right -- read what I wrote. The original posting related to course ("direction of travel"), so I was concerned with velocity, not speed. And velocity is derived by comparing consecutive 4-d positions.
Except that you seem to have missed the fact that FTD is not suing the RIAA, that the RIAA has no power in the Netherlands, and that the DMCA doesn't apply there.
Yes, they're all linked via the net and the global market of the record companies, but I suggest that the revenue available to the RIAA clones and the revenue available to those fighting them will go up and down pretty puch together according to jurisdiction. Adding another country to the ones fighting this adds the funding available from that country for fighting the IP people, but it also adds another country's worth of perceived lost revenue to make it worth the IP people's effort defending their position.
I play real guitar and Guitar Hero. They're both fun, but in very different ways, so it's a false comparison. At parties, a particular strength of Guitar Hero over a real guitar is that you can bring in those people who didn't spend years rehearsing for your party.
Don't be silly, she lived in West London. Any cyclist would get mown down by the traffic long before a gunman could get to them.
Point is, if he was working on exposing a drugs gang, he only had to be right about one gang member to find himself on the wrong end of a bullet; he wouldn't have to be right about all of them. Even if he were right about all of it (which I agree would be bad for the president), it doesn't mean that the president approved or even knew of the killing in advance. That could be the sort of routine operation that doesn't have to go to the top -- even assuming the president really is at the top, and not just a puppet for the real boss. So sure, there's enough to cause suspicion, to merit an investigation. But there's not enough yet to prove guilt.
Sorry buddy, Colom is not a dictator. He was elected. I'm also pretty sure UN watchgroups monitored the election.
Sorry buddy, once you authorize the murder of an innocent person opposing you, you aren't elected anymore. You're a dictator... even worse you're a murderer. Pretty sure the UN would back me on that.
Wow, Colom has already been arrested, tried and convicted for this? Justice sure moves fast in Guatamala! Or/, is even further behind the news than usual. Or you think because you heard about it on the internet it must be true. I wonder which one?
A friend's mother in her last days was convinced that the CIA, the Archbishop of Canterbury and her son's pet gerbils were conspiring to kill her in an undetectable way. And sure enough, not long afterwards she did die! And yet the authorities did nothing about those evil gerbils!
Sorry, but an accusation doesn't make it so. It may yet turn out to be so, but an accusation doesn't make it so.
However, what would be a good policy for small business (sole proprietorships or only a few people) or individuals?
Encode the data using steganography in a whole pile of text rants about Obama, the Jews, homosexuals, and how music piracy put your record store out of business, and post them as trolls to/.
It's not just accounts received that matters. At a company I used to work for we once got a letter from a supplier saying that they'd lost all accounts in a crash and could we please tell them how much we owed them. It's one thing not knowing whether an invoice has been paid: not knowing who to invoice or for how much is more serious. In that case it did turn out to be a death sentence.
Yes, I know about yaw. Which is why I said direction of travel is determined by comparing successive positions, and heading is determined by comparing positions of receivers on different parts of the vessel. I don't know of any vessels that use the latter system, but I've seen it presented at GPS conferences.
Direction of travel is determined in both systems by taking the difference in position over a known time interval.
Sorry, I should have said velocity is determined in both systems by taking the difference in position over a known time interval. For direction of travel the time interval doesn't matter of course.
Except that's now how surveyors survey. Yes, DGPS has errors in absolute position, but surveyors use triangulation from fixed points. Surveyors are routinely using relative positions of a pair or network of receivers using phase tracking to get centimeter accuracy. This isn't fancy military stuff, it's off-the-shelf civilian kit you could buy today. It's differential, but not as you know it.
Yes. There have already been dual GPS/GLONASS systems for many years, so a triple GPS/GLONAS/Galileo system should be no problem. You could even throw EGNOS in. Of course, it will cost more, which is why few people have bothered with the dual GPS/GLONASS kit since GPS is good enough for most purposes.
A friends mom escaped the wreck of a 90ft Fish Packer as it hit the rocks at night in a passage with strong currents due to a problem caused by relying on GPS. It was due to something like how it derived the heading vs the direction of travel or some-such.
Something wrong there. Both LORAN and GPS only give position (GPS gives time too, but that doesn't help here). Direction of travel is determined in both systems by taking the difference in position over a known time interval. GPS can give heading by using the phase difference between receivers on different parts of the vessel, whereas the wavelength of LORAN was probably too long for that to work. Upshot is, a problem involving headings and direction of travel isn't the fault of GPS, and using LORAN would have been no defence. It may have been a problem with the GPS receiver software, but LORAN calculations could go wrong too. Most likely it was a navigator not understanding the systems they had.
My quick read of the averaging method implies that the average is one half the last reading plus one half the previous average. Just a simple way to do a running average.
A weighted running average. Great for monitoring the performance of a process, where you're more interested in what the process is doing now than in what it was doing a while ago (although you'd probably want to put a bit more thought into the actual weightings used). Complete nonsense when you're supposed to be doing a uniform aveage. The use of this type of average in some process monitoring is probably how they made the blunder. Sometimes you do want to discount old data. Alternatively, maybe they were trying to avoid the total exceeding the number of bits available -- in which case they should have done better to divide each number by four before they added it in. There's a loss of accuracy that way, but they don't seem to have cared much about that.
Someone mentioned earlier that the weighting of samples under repeat tests give weight to the first blow, which is a big red flag. The initial blow is probably the sample most likely to be contaminated by liquid from the mouth which will skew the reading dramatically, leading to higher BAC's than actuality.
Except, as others have pointed out, that was a mistake and the algorithm actually gives higher weighting to later readings. Which on your argument is pretty much the behaviour it needs, except that the behaviour is clearly not planned and weighted to the actual way the readings would decrease.
In the UK it would be an offence under, IIRC, the computer misuse act. One quirk of that act is that if you've been convicted once under it one's employer can in some circumstances be jointly liable. That can be seriously career-limiting. Oh look, there's a whole load of publicity at the moment about the Kindle being launched in the UK...
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You did that yourself. If it's outrageous and in the Daily Mail then it's pretty close to case proven that it's bogus. Especially since it's all gone very quiet since 2006. Either the school is still investigating or the newspapers decided that there was no story in the outcome of the investigation. Do you really expect people to provide links to reports that nothing happened?
On the other hand, defense and preserving law and order are the only two things they state as legitimate government spending, and the rest of their policies don't look to me to be libertarian so much as neocon, so I don't see much hope there for an end to the police state.
Large parts of the UK fought and bled for the right to not be part of England.
Hey, we bought you fair and square. You're ours now. That's how capitalism works. It wasn't even a hostile acquisition, it was an economic rescue plan.
every child gets a birth certificate (unless you do a DIY home birth maybe)
You go to jail if you dont register the birth within 30 days and the authorities find out.
Fixed that for ya.
They wouldn't have gotten this far
Yes I did, you insensitive clod!
Sometimes things going the way of the dodo is capitalism as well.
Absolutely. How is the Pure Collector's business model nowadays? Although I can't think what it is about journalism that brought that particular defunct business to mind...
So he's automatically guilty by virtue of being a Guatamalan politician? That may be good enough for /. but I doubt it's good enough for a court of law anywhere that bothers with such things.
No, I was right -- read what I wrote. The original posting related to course ("direction of travel"), so I was concerned with velocity, not speed. And velocity is derived by comparing consecutive 4-d positions.
Except that you seem to have missed the fact that FTD is not suing the RIAA, that the RIAA has no power in the Netherlands, and that the DMCA doesn't apply there.
Yes, they're all linked via the net and the global market of the record companies, but I suggest that the revenue available to the RIAA clones and the revenue available to those fighting them will go up and down pretty puch together according to jurisdiction. Adding another country to the ones fighting this adds the funding available from that country for fighting the IP people, but it also adds another country's worth of perceived lost revenue to make it worth the IP people's effort defending their position.
I would love to see these songs in there, not going to happen though.
- John Cage: 4'33"
- Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music #3
- Napalm Death: You Suffer
- Billie Holiday: Gloomy Sunday.
I play real guitar and Guitar Hero. They're both fun, but in very different ways, so it's a false comparison. At parties, a particular strength of Guitar Hero over a real guitar is that you can bring in those people who didn't spend years rehearsing for your party.
Don't be silly, she lived in West London. Any cyclist would get mown down by the traffic long before a gunman could get to them.
Point is, if he was working on exposing a drugs gang, he only had to be right about one gang member to find himself on the wrong end of a bullet; he wouldn't have to be right about all of them. Even if he were right about all of it (which I agree would be bad for the president), it doesn't mean that the president approved or even knew of the killing in advance. That could be the sort of routine operation that doesn't have to go to the top -- even assuming the president really is at the top, and not just a puppet for the real boss. So sure, there's enough to cause suspicion, to merit an investigation. But there's not enough yet to prove guilt.
Assuming there actually was any corruption. You don't know if any of this video is true.
Sorry buddy, Colom is not a dictator. He was elected. I'm also pretty sure UN watchgroups monitored the election.
Sorry buddy, once you authorize the murder of an innocent person opposing you, you aren't elected anymore. You're a dictator ... even worse you're a murderer. Pretty sure the UN would back me on that.
Wow, Colom has already been arrested, tried and convicted for this? Justice sure moves fast in Guatamala! Or /, is even further behind the news than usual. Or you think because you heard about it on the internet it must be true. I wonder which one?
A friend's mother in her last days was convinced that the CIA, the Archbishop of Canterbury and her son's pet gerbils were conspiring to kill her in an undetectable way. And sure enough, not long afterwards she did die! And yet the authorities did nothing about those evil gerbils!
Sorry, but an accusation doesn't make it so. It may yet turn out to be so, but an accusation doesn't make it so.
However, what would be a good policy for small business (sole proprietorships or only a few people) or individuals?
Encode the data using steganography in a whole pile of text rants about Obama, the Jews, homosexuals, and how music piracy put your record store out of business, and post them as trolls to /.
Well, it's one explanation.
It's not just accounts received that matters. At a company I used to work for we once got a letter from a supplier saying that they'd lost all accounts in a crash and could we please tell them how much we owed them. It's one thing not knowing whether an invoice has been paid: not knowing who to invoice or for how much is more serious. In that case it did turn out to be a death sentence.
Yes, I know about yaw. Which is why I said direction of travel is determined by comparing successive positions, and heading is determined by comparing positions of receivers on different parts of the vessel. I don't know of any vessels that use the latter system, but I've seen it presented at GPS conferences.
Direction of travel is determined in both systems by taking the difference in position over a known time interval.
Sorry, I should have said velocity is determined in both systems by taking the difference in position over a known time interval. For direction of travel the time interval doesn't matter of course.
I think you'll find that the first European GPS-like system -- GLONASS -- was done with very little help from the USA.
Except that's now how surveyors survey. Yes, DGPS has errors in absolute position, but surveyors use triangulation from fixed points. Surveyors are routinely using relative positions of a pair or network of receivers using phase tracking to get centimeter accuracy. This isn't fancy military stuff, it's off-the-shelf civilian kit you could buy today. It's differential, but not as you know it.
Yes. There have already been dual GPS/GLONASS systems for many years, so a triple GPS/GLONAS/Galileo system should be no problem. You could even throw EGNOS in. Of course, it will cost more, which is why few people have bothered with the dual GPS/GLONASS kit since GPS is good enough for most purposes.
A friends mom escaped the wreck of a 90ft Fish Packer as it hit the rocks at night in a passage with strong currents due to a problem caused by relying on GPS. It was due to something like how it derived the heading vs the direction of travel or some-such.
Something wrong there. Both LORAN and GPS only give position (GPS gives time too, but that doesn't help here). Direction of travel is determined in both systems by taking the difference in position over a known time interval. GPS can give heading by using the phase difference between receivers on different parts of the vessel, whereas the wavelength of LORAN was probably too long for that to work. Upshot is, a problem involving headings and direction of travel isn't the fault of GPS, and using LORAN would have been no defence. It may have been a problem with the GPS receiver software, but LORAN calculations could go wrong too. Most likely it was a navigator not understanding the systems they had.
My quick read of the averaging method implies that the average is one half the last reading plus one half the previous average. Just a simple way to do a running average.
A weighted running average. Great for monitoring the performance of a process, where you're more interested in what the process is doing now than in what it was doing a while ago (although you'd probably want to put a bit more thought into the actual weightings used). Complete nonsense when you're supposed to be doing a uniform aveage. The use of this type of average in some process monitoring is probably how they made the blunder. Sometimes you do want to discount old data. Alternatively, maybe they were trying to avoid the total exceeding the number of bits available -- in which case they should have done better to divide each number by four before they added it in. There's a loss of accuracy that way, but they don't seem to have cared much about that.
Someone mentioned earlier that the weighting of samples under repeat tests give weight to the first blow, which is a big red flag. The initial blow is probably the sample most likely to be contaminated by liquid from the mouth which will skew the reading dramatically, leading to higher BAC's than actuality.
Except, as others have pointed out, that was a mistake and the algorithm actually gives higher weighting to later readings. Which on your argument is pretty much the behaviour it needs, except that the behaviour is clearly not planned and weighted to the actual way the readings would decrease.
In the UK it would be an offence under, IIRC, the computer misuse act. One quirk of that act is that if you've been convicted once under it one's employer can in some circumstances be jointly liable. That can be seriously career-limiting. Oh look, there's a whole load of publicity at the moment about the Kindle being launched in the UK...