From TFA:
"The company is asking web site authors to add microformats or RDFa standards, both of which are geared to allow information, like contact data, to be automatically processed by software."
Is this the Semantic Web? After being 'right around the corner' for 20 frickin' years, it's finally lurching into being?? Huzzah!
Realtors and buyers and auditors were not actually determining the real value of the houses they were trading, but were merely checking to see what everyone else thought the value was. So the result was a spiral of home prices that rose far beyond the true value.
The value of anything is always what everyone else thinks the value is - everything from stocks to houses to cheeseburgers. That's the magic of the economy. If everyone thinks a chicken is worth two loaves of bread, then that's the value of a chicken, by definition. If everyone then decides a chicken is worth three loaves of bread, that becomes the new value. There's no such thing as "true" value, in an objective sense. It's all just make-believe.
If it's an RSA-style encryption, it would be the product of two primes. However, since it's divisible by 16 as you noted, that's probably not the case. It's either a symmetric-type encryption, or something beyond my (very limited) knowledge. Does anyone know anything about that elliptic curve stuff?
I'm not sure what the FBI would do with all of my private e-mail, but if being reminded to pick up milk on the way home from work is a crime, I should be on death row by now.
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This country would work a lot better if the central government were limited to only those powers enumerated in its constitution.
We tried that. Then we had a civil war, and Mr. Lincoln decided that a too-strong federal government was better than none at all.
From TFA: "The company is asking web site authors to add microformats or RDFa standards, both of which are geared to allow information, like contact data, to be automatically processed by software." Is this the Semantic Web? After being 'right around the corner' for 20 frickin' years, it's finally lurching into being?? Huzzah!
Realtors and buyers and auditors were not actually determining the real value of the houses they were trading, but were merely checking to see what everyone else thought the value was. So the result was a spiral of home prices that rose far beyond the true value.
The value of anything is always what everyone else thinks the value is - everything from stocks to houses to cheeseburgers. That's the magic of the economy. If everyone thinks a chicken is worth two loaves of bread, then that's the value of a chicken, by definition. If everyone then decides a chicken is worth three loaves of bread, that becomes the new value. There's no such thing as "true" value, in an objective sense. It's all just make-believe.
After a grueling 15 seconds of Googling, I can't find out what 'ob' means. Is it 'obscure'?
If it's an RSA-style encryption, it would be the product of two primes. However, since it's divisible by 16 as you noted, that's probably not the case. It's either a symmetric-type encryption, or something beyond my (very limited) knowledge. Does anyone know anything about that elliptic curve stuff?
I'm not sure what the FBI would do with all of my private e-mail, but if being reminded to pick up milk on the way home from work is a crime, I should be on death row by now.