It's impossible to fully all possible games of chess. The game tree complexity is about 10^123, whereas the number of atoms in the universe is thought to be somewhere between 10^79 and 10^81. Thus, it's impossible to brute force the game since you can't store all the possible states.
If, however, we ignore this, then the answer to your question would be "it depends on how fast it could calculate the results." Some hypothetical computer with sufficient memory and a sufficiently fast processor would be unbeatable using a brute force algorithm by the definition of brute forcing. However, as already explained the "sufficient memory" part is pretty much impossible
That's only because most US ISP's offer "unlimited" bandwidth plans. If you view their services on a mobile phone, from a country that doesn't have such plans (Australia), or with many business-class ISP plans, you do pay extra to consume the advertisements.
A student shoots another student across the street from the school. That's attempted murder, it's a criminal matter. But, the school has NO jurisdiction, right? We don't want it turning into fascism where the principal of a highschool is the absolute ruler of the country, right? So, then, they have NO right to suspend this student? While he's out on bail, he HAS TO BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND?
Yes, for two reasons.
The student is innocent until proven guilty. Under your argument, the school would have the ability to suspend anyone who is accused of a crime with no proof.
By definition, if a person is out on bail it means that a determination was made by the legal system that they do not pose a threat to the community (under the Bail Reform Act of 1966). The whole point of the bail system is to allow someone to continue with their normal life until the trial. The school suspending the student would violate that. Were the student considered to be a threat, he would not have received bail.
Did you read the next sentence which said "There are plenty of solutions on the market that already offer this capability." The Falcon9 doesn't "open up" space because it's ALREADY OPEN TO THE COMMERCIAL MARKET (just expensive).
As cool as it is, the Falcon9 doesn't really "open up" space beyond LEO for commerce and industry. There are plenty of solutions on the market that already offer this capability. However, the Falcon9 is much cheaper, so it makes space much more available.
Yes, but my point was that your assertion of a 5-3 decision either required an unargued belief that a specific justice would sustain or a misunderstanding of the court's composition.
Actually, in this case, her first amendment rights have more applicability than in your cases, since as a city employee, her firing was a government action rather than a private one.
Given that she's a government employee, they're most likely going to get hit and hit hard with an improper termination suit.
Yes, but perhaps you made up for it by spending less time on/. or digg or browsing the web. Most workers who are on computers all day don't sit there working for every second of it - a 60 second break doesn't really affect my productivity, and I take many of them throughout the day. It's time to let the brain process stuff in the background so I can look at my task with renewed focus when I'm done.
Since the standard tethering only allows sharing the cell connection anyway, wouldn't it just be easier to spoof an iphone mac address and get free wifi directly to your laptop?
I can't speak to gp, but my solution was to upgrade to iPhoneOS 3.0.0 and then never upgrade any further. 3.0.0 didn't require signed mobile config files, so you could simply load a mobile config from the web (like from help.benm.at) and it would enable tethering. I haven't upgraded any further to avoid losing this functionality.
There's a huge difference between one company spying on another and a government spying on foreign companies then passing the information to domestic ones. The latter case is the one being discussed.
Compare it to a Help Desk worker -- how many callers, per centum, do you think that Help Desk worker gets who would call up, have a correct or nearly so idea about what is wrong, and be calling only to get instructions on how to fix it?
It depends on what kind of Help Desk. If you're talking about a large ISP or Microsoft, sure, I'll agree with you. However, a helpdesk for an engineering firm, especially one supporting software engineers typically have much more educated users who often can diagnose the problem to a certain point (or even all the way) but don't have the time/inclination/permissions to address it. I would assume that doctors are in the same boat: some have patients like this, a lot don't.
I actually prefer the new behavior. My spelling can be poor sometimes, especially in cases where I'm trying to spell something I'm not very familiar with (which is why I'm using google in the first place). This new system saves me an extra click compared to the old one, but I can still override it easily.
I'd even go so far as to guess that they switched the behavior after doing an analysis on the percentage of people who clicked the spelling suggestion they offered. Hell, it wouldn't suprise me if they make the auto-correct term specific based on this...
pdf2ps ships with ghostscript which is on pretty much any Linux distro with printing support installed. It's acutally how most pdfs are printed in linux.
Yes, it's absolutely your fault, and there is an excuse. There's this thing called the Linux Standard Base (LSB) which was put together by all the major distros and is an agreement on how a variety of things should work in Linux to maintain a consistent platform. It's mediated by the Linux foundation. It includes by reference the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FSH) which is a map of how the filesystem should be laid out and how it should behave. The FSH recommends that/tmp be wiped on boot. They comment that it's only not a requirement because system administration decisions are outside the scope of the document.
Gentoo is just following the appropriate standards. I know that almost all Debian-derived distros delete/tmp on boot and I believe Red Hat derived ones do as well but I'm not sure about that. Regardless, it is the proper behavior as recommended by the appropriate standards.
My point is that Adam and Bob will each just download $MOVIE and $OTHER_MOVIE without paying for either because it's faster to torrent the movie than to drive to the store. This is made possible because CSS was so easy to crack.
-CSS on DVD's has been cracked and anyone who knows to look for any number of apps employing DeCSS can bypass it, but it's enough that commercial apps like Roxio and Nero won't do it, and a search for copying DVDs will yield 1,001 apps that either don't live up to their promises or install malware, so while it's possible, I'll give it half-credit because Joe Sixpack will have to do a decent amount of research to figure out how to do it properly.
I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. CSS was cracked forever ago and I've there have been t-shirts with the DeCSS code for 10 years. CSS was designed to prevent high-quality rips of movies being created from DVDs and then spread onto the internet. I think a quick search for "dvd rip" on the torrent index of your choice will show you how futile it was.
The exact issue is that it doesn't comply with Israel's regulations on transmission power in the 2.4 GHz spectrum.
To expand a little: every country has similar-but-not-identical standards regarding the use of radio spectrum. This is a very limited resource, and there are all kinds of laws and standards to ensure that I can't use a really powerful wifi radio in my laptop that would prevent any other wifi radio in the surrounding mile from working. The standards in the US allow for higher power usage than those in Israel or Europe.
These regulations apply not only to manufacturing of devices, but to possession and use of them. Thus, it's illegal for me to modify my laptop to exceed these standards or for someone to use such a laptop. It would also be illegal for me to import such a laptop...or iPad. This is what's happening in Israel.
It's not hard to put it on, but extremely annoying on very long drives (such as the 12-14h ones I periodically take). Headsets are generally not very comfortable for such long-term wear. Even more importantly, wearing the headset when not on a call moderately impairs your ability to hear traffic and other such noises. If you're not expecting to be using the phone for the majority of the time, it makes no sense to wear a headset continually.
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Google drives by my house and sees a WPA2-protected wifi router. I guess they could get the MAC of the router if they want (right?). But that's all they can see.
They can also get the SSID and they know the exact location. This is more than enough to allow a wireless device to figure out its position when it sees your router.
When I go to a google.com from my wifi laptop at home, google sees the MAC of the laptop, but NOT the router.
Actually, they see neither. The MAC address is exposed on the physical layer, as your packets are routed through the internet, they take on the MAC addresses of the devices they pass through.
So how would they associate a physical location with a google user? They can see my external IP online, but they cannot see that by just wardriving. (Unless there's a way to also sniff the MAC of my laptop at the time of wardriving...now I'm paranoid.)
I don't get how they could associate the two things, unless I'm ignorant on the details here.
No one is claiming that they're associating the two. Parent poster merely said they're recording the GPS location of every wifi access point they see as they take pictures for street view.
Now, the two COULD be associated on the android platform which integrates heavily into your google account, but I'm not aware of that happening.
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It's impossible to fully all possible games of chess. The game tree complexity is about 10^123, whereas the number of atoms in the universe is thought to be somewhere between 10^79 and 10^81. Thus, it's impossible to brute force the game since you can't store all the possible states.
If, however, we ignore this, then the answer to your question would be "it depends on how fast it could calculate the results." Some hypothetical computer with sufficient memory and a sufficiently fast processor would be unbeatable using a brute force algorithm by the definition of brute forcing. However, as already explained the "sufficient memory" part is pretty much impossible
That's only because most US ISP's offer "unlimited" bandwidth plans. If you view their services on a mobile phone, from a country that doesn't have such plans (Australia), or with many business-class ISP plans, you do pay extra to consume the advertisements.
A student shoots another student across the street from the school. That's attempted murder, it's a criminal matter. But, the school has NO jurisdiction, right? We don't want it turning into fascism where the principal of a highschool is the absolute ruler of the country, right? So, then, they have NO right to suspend this student? While he's out on bail, he HAS TO BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND?
Yes, for two reasons.
Did you read the next sentence which said "There are plenty of solutions on the market that already offer this capability." The Falcon9 doesn't "open up" space because it's ALREADY OPEN TO THE COMMERCIAL MARKET (just expensive).
As cool as it is, the Falcon9 doesn't really "open up" space beyond LEO for commerce and industry. There are plenty of solutions on the market that already offer this capability. However, the Falcon9 is much cheaper, so it makes space much more available.
Yes, but my point was that your assertion of a 5-3 decision either required an unargued belief that a specific justice would sustain or a misunderstanding of the court's composition.
There are 9 justices on the bench...
Actually, in this case, her first amendment rights have more applicability than in your cases, since as a city employee, her firing was a government action rather than a private one.
Given that she's a government employee, they're most likely going to get hit and hit hard with an improper termination suit.
Yes, but perhaps you made up for it by spending less time on /. or digg or browsing the web. Most workers who are on computers all day don't sit there working for every second of it - a 60 second break doesn't really affect my productivity, and I take many of them throughout the day. It's time to let the brain process stuff in the background so I can look at my task with renewed focus when I'm done.
Since the standard tethering only allows sharing the cell connection anyway, wouldn't it just be easier to spoof an iphone mac address and get free wifi directly to your laptop?
I can't speak to gp, but my solution was to upgrade to iPhoneOS 3.0.0 and then never upgrade any further. 3.0.0 didn't require signed mobile config files, so you could simply load a mobile config from the web (like from help.benm.at) and it would enable tethering. I haven't upgraded any further to avoid losing this functionality.
There's a huge difference between one company spying on another and a government spying on foreign companies then passing the information to domestic ones. The latter case is the one being discussed.
Compare it to a Help Desk worker -- how many callers, per centum, do you think that Help Desk worker gets who would call up, have a correct or nearly so idea about what is wrong, and be calling only to get instructions on how to fix it?
It depends on what kind of Help Desk. If you're talking about a large ISP or Microsoft, sure, I'll agree with you. However, a helpdesk for an engineering firm, especially one supporting software engineers typically have much more educated users who often can diagnose the problem to a certain point (or even all the way) but don't have the time/inclination/permissions to address it. I would assume that doctors are in the same boat: some have patients like this, a lot don't.
No, legally, their liability is limited to $75M USD by federal statute. However, they have publically pledged to cover the entire cost.
I actually prefer the new behavior. My spelling can be poor sometimes, especially in cases where I'm trying to spell something I'm not very familiar with (which is why I'm using google in the first place). This new system saves me an extra click compared to the old one, but I can still override it easily.
I'd even go so far as to guess that they switched the behavior after doing an analysis on the percentage of people who clicked the spelling suggestion they offered. Hell, it wouldn't suprise me if they make the auto-correct term specific based on this...
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pdf2ps ships with ghostscript which is on pretty much any Linux distro with printing support installed. It's acutally how most pdfs are printed in linux.
Yes, it's absolutely your fault, and there is an excuse. There's this thing called the Linux Standard Base (LSB) which was put together by all the major distros and is an agreement on how a variety of things should work in Linux to maintain a consistent platform. It's mediated by the Linux foundation. It includes by reference the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FSH) which is a map of how the filesystem should be laid out and how it should behave. The FSH recommends that /tmp be wiped on boot. They comment that it's only not a requirement because system administration decisions are outside the scope of the document.
/tmp on boot and I believe Red Hat derived ones do as well but I'm not sure about that. Regardless, it is the proper behavior as recommended by the appropriate standards.
Gentoo is just following the appropriate standards. I know that almost all Debian-derived distros delete
My point is that Adam and Bob will each just download $MOVIE and $OTHER_MOVIE without paying for either because it's faster to torrent the movie than to drive to the store. This is made possible because CSS was so easy to crack.
-CSS on DVD's has been cracked and anyone who knows to look for any number of apps employing DeCSS can bypass it, but it's enough that commercial apps like Roxio and Nero won't do it, and a search for copying DVDs will yield 1,001 apps that either don't live up to their promises or install malware, so while it's possible, I'll give it half-credit because Joe Sixpack will have to do a decent amount of research to figure out how to do it properly.
I'm sorry, but that's ridiculous. CSS was cracked forever ago and I've there have been t-shirts with the DeCSS code for 10 years. CSS was designed to prevent high-quality rips of movies being created from DVDs and then spread onto the internet. I think a quick search for "dvd rip" on the torrent index of your choice will show you how futile it was.
The exact issue is that it doesn't comply with Israel's regulations on transmission power in the 2.4 GHz spectrum.
To expand a little: every country has similar-but-not-identical standards regarding the use of radio spectrum. This is a very limited resource, and there are all kinds of laws and standards to ensure that I can't use a really powerful wifi radio in my laptop that would prevent any other wifi radio in the surrounding mile from working. The standards in the US allow for higher power usage than those in Israel or Europe.
These regulations apply not only to manufacturing of devices, but to possession and use of them. Thus, it's illegal for me to modify my laptop to exceed these standards or for someone to use such a laptop. It would also be illegal for me to import such a laptop...or iPad. This is what's happening in Israel.
I usually just use my GPS (integrated bluetooth speakerphone) for calls I'm not expecting and put the headset in for those I am (or make).
It's not hard to put it on, but extremely annoying on very long drives (such as the 12-14h ones I periodically take). Headsets are generally not very comfortable for such long-term wear. Even more importantly, wearing the headset when not on a call moderately impairs your ability to hear traffic and other such noises. If you're not expecting to be using the phone for the majority of the time, it makes no sense to wear a headset continually.
Google drives by my house and sees a WPA2-protected wifi router. I guess they could get the MAC of the router if they want (right?). But that's all they can see.
They can also get the SSID and they know the exact location. This is more than enough to allow a wireless device to figure out its position when it sees your router.
When I go to a google.com from my wifi laptop at home, google sees the MAC of the laptop, but NOT the router.
Actually, they see neither. The MAC address is exposed on the physical layer, as your packets are routed through the internet, they take on the MAC addresses of the devices they pass through.
So how would they associate a physical location with a google user? They can see my external IP online, but they cannot see that by just wardriving. (Unless there's a way to also sniff the MAC of my laptop at the time of wardriving...now I'm paranoid.) I don't get how they could associate the two things, unless I'm ignorant on the details here.
No one is claiming that they're associating the two. Parent poster merely said they're recording the GPS location of every wifi access point they see as they take pictures for street view.
Now, the two COULD be associated on the android platform which integrates heavily into your google account, but I'm not aware of that happening.