According to my Steam store window, Far Cry 2 is $49.99. Maybe you should try lying about things that aren't so easily proven to be false?
The grandparent is probably someplace outside the US. If memory serves, Australia, in particular, suffers through particularly high prices for video games.
Probably not. The [0,1,4,6] ruler is only order 4; we've previously known optimal rulers up to order 23. If larger configurations can be practically used, I would expect to see order 5 and higher already in use.
So I assume (withot RTFA of course) that the source to this DRM is published, but it isn't GPL 3? Is it GPL 2 or some pseudo "open source"?
You need to sign an agreement and pay an annual fee to get access to the source code. Here is their form. I see no mention of the license, although the agreement they ask applicants to sign might be informative.
The [public transit] I've seen of Atlanta, while a pretty limited sample around the airport and convention centers and hotels, look very good too.
You can be excused for thinking that, because those are the only parts of the system that are particularly effective. I used to live there. The light train system is very limited over most of the city, and the bus system operates with a painfully long interval between buses.
A better system would involve a huge database of wildlife photographs, each tagged by name. There would be numerous photos of each animal. The user would then need to name the animal in question. Have a spellchecking feature, but don't restrict it to the list of animals. Potential problems: once spammers determine the animals on the list, they can potentially cut the possibilities dramatically by guessing just from the colors of the picture, if certain animals typically appear in the same environment. This is also unusable by the blind, as is the parent's.
I remember doing what I referred to as "Math for the sake of Math". Show how it's useful - the easiest way is through teaching Science.
I won't argue that this isn't a good strategy for teaching most students, but I don't think I would like this. "Math for the sake of Math" tends to reach deeper concepts, which ultimately gives me a better grasp of the subject. Physics, in contrast, makes it too tempting to memorize a half-dozen formulas per test. While there's certainly deeper material there, teaching math through science seems as if it would focus on the formulaic aspects of the topic, and so be lacking. Just my $0.02.
The author makes two additional points that the summary doesn't mention. Firstly, children born in the west are dramatically more likely to survive. They experience significantly less natural selection. Secondly, our large populations make any genetic fluke less likely to survive. Think of inbreeding here; with a small population, otherwise rare genes can become common. We're experiencing the reverse trend.
This sounds familiar... "You are trying to send an email, Allow/Deny" But when you "geekify" it (add some maths), it makes it acceptable. Maybe if this is popular enough, we'll see it in the next version of Windows? Can't wait!
By "geekifying" it, you stop people from clicking "OK" reflexively. Isn't that where UAC fails?
There's no situation where a teenager needs to drive over 80, probably; that only occurs on the highway, and most parents probably aren't going to let their teenagers drive on the interstate.
Depends on where you live. I grew up in Atlanta, and with its size, the interstates are, quite often, the best way to drive to any given part of the city. Additionally, most of the miles I put on my car were spent on the way to Math tournaments an hour or more away. I'd be really surprised if most parents keep their teens off the highways. Any data on this would be appreciated.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but it always seemed to me that the interstates were much safer than city driving. In an accident, you're much more likely to die, of course, but with most vehicles moving in a straight line at a near-constant speed, there's less chance for someone to run a stop sign, turn in front of you, or pop out from a blind driveway.
You can read the board's report on their site [pdf].
Highlights include the following:
Sequoia was the manufacturer of the machines.
They don't know why the error happened. It could have been static, or many other things. The board "accepts Sequoia's determination,reflected in its response to the board's queries, that multiple possibilities regarding the cause of the tabulation error exist, including: the speed which the Memory Packs were processed leading to some type of transient malfunction in the MPR unit; the Memory Pack not making full contact inside the MPR socket; or some type of electrical or static discharge taking place while inserting,reading or ejecting the cartridges at a rapid speed."
"Random numbers" were added to vote totals. They say nothing about write-in votes, except that their procedure calls for auditing vote tallies by looking for "large write-in vote numbers, more recorded votes than registered voters".
The errors were confined to precinct 141 in ward 2.
They recorded 4759 votes, while their audit found that only 326 were cast.
It's like a car. The first mechanically propelled vehicles were military ones, made by governments. Troop trains, steam ships, and so forth. There were very few of them and they were very expensive.
Not really. Trains were first used for industry, automobiles for commerce, and the first steamships were used for rapid trans-Atlantic voyages for private passengers. Most of the early development of airplanes was done by individuals, and even once they were adopted for military use, were still mostly developed by privately owned companies. Spaceflight is really an exception to this trend.
Superstition might provide some further advantage by randomizing the behavior of humans. Suppose, for example, that some group wishes to pass undetected through a hostile tribe's territory. By acting on some superstition, they would deviate from their normal routine in an apparently random way, perhaps providing them with some safety. Likewise, if a tribe chooses hunting grounds on the basis of superstition, the location is more likely to appear random, and thus less likely to be avoided by prey.
Size has nothing to do with it. If you put an air-to-air missile up the exhaust pipe of any passenger airliner, that plane is coming out of the sky in pieces. Probably some fairly large pieces, to be certain, but no airplane that currently exists is going to be able to keep flying after a large explosion removes one engine, the support structure, and a good chunk of the wing or tail spar (depending on where the engine was that you blew up).
KAL007 flew for at least 12 minutes after being struck by a R-98 medium air-to-air missile, then crashed into the sea, killing all onboard.
KAL902 made a successful emergency landing on a frozen lake after being struck by a R-60 lightweight air-to-air missile.
Accusations have been made that Itavia 870 was shot down by NATO or Libyan forces, but still nothing is known definitively.
I know, I know, anecdotes and all that; however, these are the only three incidents I can locate in which civilian airliners have been or may have been struck by air-to-air missiles. I would be quite interested if there are others. However, it seems clear to me that an air-to-air missile is not a guaranteed single-shot kill against a civilian airliner, although controlling the plane may then require a skilled pilot. Surface-to-air missiles have a similar record, although they have seen more use. The DHL flight survived a man-portable air defense system (MANPADS) strike, and RH825 managed a controlled crash from a MANPADS strike as well. There are at least three other incidents for which I cannot determine the degree of control possessed by the pilots; two others shot down with no survivors by heavier SAMs, and two others shot down with no survivors by SAMs of unidentified size.
May I ask what owning and operating a GPS navigation device has to do with the government being able to track your movements secretly?
Because it is a device which, while in use, knows where it is. From that, it is entirely plausible that a malicious government might request, bully, or bribe nav-system vendors to transmit and collect that location data, quite possibly without revealing to the public that it does so.
Because it is a ridiculous point, not a good one. Do you refuse to buy a GPS navigation device for fear of the government using it to track you? That is essentially the same technology a robocar would use to decide (on a high level) where to go.
Actually, I do. I'm not delusional - I don't claim to have any special knowledge of government secrets. All I know is that a malicious government could abuse knowledge of the movements of its citizens. Maybe they'll do that someday, but I'd at least like to prevent them from using already installed systems to do so secretly.
Please, show me an non-lethal howitzer. Show me how you can effectively propel 20lbs of unguided metal at a speed that doesn't kill somebody. Not to mention the fact that howitzers are typically used to fire high-explosive shells, because large rounds aren't particularly better than small rounds at actually hitting things. Marketers, please, speak with your engineers someday.
That said, I'd also like to point out that this uses distinct lethal and non-lethal rounds, so nothing terribly radical (Here is a more interesting patent, for a system which does include a switch on the gun itself. What's most interesting about Lund's system is the (apparently) rocket propulsion. It's been used before, in the Gyrojet, and it will be interesting to see if they manage to fix its problems (My bet: no, and it's even less likely to offer such an improvement over existing weapons that it actually gets adopted.)
Why Premier Election Solutions chooses not to open their code is pretty obvious. There's nothing in it for them, except at best grudging approval from a few geeks who care about OSS. We're not usually the sort of people who make purchasing decisions for voting machines, unfortunately. The real question is why we, as voters, permit closed-source voting machines. And I don't really know.
I'd be curious to hear what the justification is for searching laptops. It's far, far too easy to get covert information across the borders through the internet to even bother searching random laptops for information. Unless public key encryption is broken.
Make them openly viewable, but lock them for editing via password and put the name and address, and account email on the title page. That will let people use the ebooks as they want, but strongly deter people from uploading them or freely sharing them with people who haven't bought the book. And how do you propose to lock them? In what proprietary format must these books come, and how long until someone releases a program to ignore the read-only bit?
Everywhere has AC power? You really don't get out much, do you? I honestly wonder if you've ever left the house. A few places I use my laptop that do not have AC power: Trains, aeroplanes, buses. Cafes, pubs, restaurants. The park, my garden, in fact outside in general. My bathroom. Some of those places do in fact have AC power, but do not have it in a convenient place. If the socket is on the wall of the cafe and the only free table is in the middle of the room you're screwed. Your point being?
The individual user's needs are the only thing important here. My old R31 remained my primary computer for years after the battery died completely - I never had any pressing need to use it anyplace without AC power. If this is sufficient, there is no need to throw $50-$100 at it.
To build a machine that is intelligent, we need to understand how our own intelligence works. If our intelligence was simple enough to understand and decipher, we humans would be too simple to understand it or decipher it. But what do you mean by understanding? Isn't it perfectly plausible that hundreds of researchers collect a sufficient amount of data on our brains and work from it, without necessarily understanding the whole?
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According to my Steam store window, Far Cry 2 is $49.99. Maybe you should try lying about things that aren't so easily proven to be false?
The grandparent is probably someplace outside the US. If memory serves, Australia, in particular, suffers through particularly high prices for video games.
Probably not. The [0,1,4,6] ruler is only order 4; we've previously known optimal rulers up to order 23. If larger configurations can be practically used, I would expect to see order 5 and higher already in use.
So I assume (withot RTFA of course) that the source to this DRM is published, but it isn't GPL 3? Is it GPL 2 or some pseudo "open source"?
You need to sign an agreement and pay an annual fee to get access to the source code. Here is their form. I see no mention of the license, although the agreement they ask applicants to sign might be informative.
FYI, their site is here.
The [public transit] I've seen of Atlanta, while a pretty limited sample around the airport and convention centers and hotels, look very good too.
You can be excused for thinking that, because those are the only parts of the system that are particularly effective. I used to live there. The light train system is very limited over most of the city, and the bus system operates with a painfully long interval between buses.
A better system would involve a huge database of wildlife photographs, each tagged by name. There would be numerous photos of each animal. The user would then need to name the animal in question. Have a spellchecking feature, but don't restrict it to the list of animals. Potential problems: once spammers determine the animals on the list, they can potentially cut the possibilities dramatically by guessing just from the colors of the picture, if certain animals typically appear in the same environment. This is also unusable by the blind, as is the parent's.
I remember doing what I referred to as "Math for the sake of Math". Show how it's useful - the easiest way is through teaching Science.
I won't argue that this isn't a good strategy for teaching most students, but I don't think I would like this. "Math for the sake of Math" tends to reach deeper concepts, which ultimately gives me a better grasp of the subject. Physics, in contrast, makes it too tempting to memorize a half-dozen formulas per test. While there's certainly deeper material there, teaching math through science seems as if it would focus on the formulaic aspects of the topic, and so be lacking. Just my $0.02.
The author makes two additional points that the summary doesn't mention. Firstly, children born in the west are dramatically more likely to survive. They experience significantly less natural selection. Secondly, our large populations make any genetic fluke less likely to survive. Think of inbreeding here; with a small population, otherwise rare genes can become common. We're experiencing the reverse trend.
This sounds familiar... "You are trying to send an email, Allow/Deny" But when you "geekify" it (add some maths), it makes it acceptable. Maybe if this is popular enough, we'll see it in the next version of Windows? Can't wait!
By "geekifying" it, you stop people from clicking "OK" reflexively. Isn't that where UAC fails?
The difficulty is sort of disappointing. Even on the hardest setting, it asked, for example, 9x10 and 9x4.
There's no situation where a teenager needs to drive over 80, probably; that only occurs on the highway, and most parents probably aren't going to let their teenagers drive on the interstate.
Depends on where you live. I grew up in Atlanta, and with its size, the interstates are, quite often, the best way to drive to any given part of the city. Additionally, most of the miles I put on my car were spent on the way to Math tournaments an hour or more away. I'd be really surprised if most parents keep their teens off the highways. Any data on this would be appreciated.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but it always seemed to me that the interstates were much safer than city driving. In an accident, you're much more likely to die, of course, but with most vehicles moving in a straight line at a near-constant speed, there's less chance for someone to run a stop sign, turn in front of you, or pop out from a blind driveway.
You can read the board's report on their site [pdf].
Highlights include the following:
Sequoia was the manufacturer of the machines.
They don't know why the error happened. It could have been static, or many other things. The board "accepts Sequoia's determination,reflected in its response to the board's queries, that multiple possibilities regarding the cause of the tabulation error exist, including: the speed which the Memory Packs were processed leading to some type of transient malfunction in the MPR unit; the Memory Pack not making full contact inside the MPR socket; or some type of electrical or static discharge taking place while inserting,reading or ejecting the cartridges at a rapid speed."
"Random numbers" were added to vote totals. They say nothing about write-in votes, except that their procedure calls for auditing vote tallies by looking for "large write-in vote numbers, more recorded votes than registered voters".
The errors were confined to precinct 141 in ward 2.
They recorded 4759 votes, while their audit found that only 326 were cast.
It's like a car. The first mechanically propelled vehicles were military ones, made by governments. Troop trains, steam ships, and so forth. There were very few of them and they were very expensive.
Not really. Trains were first used for industry, automobiles for commerce, and the first steamships were used for rapid trans-Atlantic voyages for private passengers. Most of the early development of airplanes was done by individuals, and even once they were adopted for military use, were still mostly developed by privately owned companies. Spaceflight is really an exception to this trend.
Superstition might provide some further advantage by randomizing the behavior of humans. Suppose, for example, that some group wishes to pass undetected through a hostile tribe's territory. By acting on some superstition, they would deviate from their normal routine in an apparently random way, perhaps providing them with some safety. Likewise, if a tribe chooses hunting grounds on the basis of superstition, the location is more likely to appear random, and thus less likely to be avoided by prey.
Try that with 10x more people. Electronic voting with a paper receipt is the best solution I have heard so far.
Easy... 10x as many poling places and ballot counters!
Size has nothing to do with it. If you put an air-to-air missile up the exhaust pipe of any passenger airliner, that plane is coming out of the sky in pieces. Probably some fairly large pieces, to be certain, but no airplane that currently exists is going to be able to keep flying after a large explosion removes one engine, the support structure, and a good chunk of the wing or tail spar (depending on where the engine was that you blew up).
KAL007 flew for at least 12 minutes after being struck by a R-98 medium air-to-air missile, then crashed into the sea, killing all onboard.
KAL902 made a successful emergency landing on a frozen lake after being struck by a R-60 lightweight air-to-air missile.
Accusations have been made that Itavia 870 was shot down by NATO or Libyan forces, but still nothing is known definitively.
I know, I know, anecdotes and all that; however, these are the only three incidents I can locate in which civilian airliners have been or may have been struck by air-to-air missiles. I would be quite interested if there are others. However, it seems clear to me that an air-to-air missile is not a guaranteed single-shot kill against a civilian airliner, although controlling the plane may then require a skilled pilot. Surface-to-air missiles have a similar record, although they have seen more use. The DHL flight survived a man-portable air defense system (MANPADS) strike, and RH825 managed a controlled crash from a MANPADS strike as well. There are at least three other incidents for which I cannot determine the degree of control possessed by the pilots; two others shot down with no survivors by heavier SAMs, and two others shot down with no survivors by SAMs of unidentified size.
May I ask what owning and operating a GPS navigation device has to do with the government being able to track your movements secretly?
Because it is a device which, while in use, knows where it is. From that, it is entirely plausible that a malicious government might request, bully, or bribe nav-system vendors to transmit and collect that location data, quite possibly without revealing to the public that it does so.
Because it is a ridiculous point, not a good one. Do you refuse to buy a GPS navigation device for fear of the government using it to track you? That is essentially the same technology a robocar would use to decide (on a high level) where to go.
Actually, I do. I'm not delusional - I don't claim to have any special knowledge of government secrets. All I know is that a malicious government could abuse knowledge of the movements of its citizens. Maybe they'll do that someday, but I'd at least like to prevent them from using already installed systems to do so secretly.
Please, show me an non-lethal howitzer. Show me how you can effectively propel 20lbs of unguided metal at a speed that doesn't kill somebody. Not to mention the fact that howitzers are typically used to fire high-explosive shells, because large rounds aren't particularly better than small rounds at actually hitting things. Marketers, please, speak with your engineers someday.
That said, I'd also like to point out that this uses distinct lethal and non-lethal rounds, so nothing terribly radical (Here is a more interesting patent, for a system which does include a switch on the gun itself. What's most interesting about Lund's system is the (apparently) rocket propulsion. It's been used before, in the Gyrojet, and it will be interesting to see if they manage to fix its problems (My bet: no, and it's even less likely to offer such an improvement over existing weapons that it actually gets adopted.)
It might not be treason, but it ought to be worth a trip to Gitmo.
Our nation is governed by its laws. Nothing justifies indefinite imprisonment without charges. Please, try to keep a level head.
Why Premier Election Solutions chooses not to open their code is pretty obvious. There's nothing in it for them, except at best grudging approval from a few geeks who care about OSS. We're not usually the sort of people who make purchasing decisions for voting machines, unfortunately. The real question is why we, as voters, permit closed-source voting machines. And I don't really know.
Why do I have the feeling that all this will do is block many websites and services that have nothing to do with child pornography
Maybe because it's already happening in Finland?
The individual user's needs are the only thing important here. My old R31 remained my primary computer for years after the battery died completely - I never had any pressing need to use it anyplace without AC power. If this is sufficient, there is no need to throw $50-$100 at it.