You offer scoffing and snark, not insight. Or is it just a failure of imagination?
It's correct to scoff at folks who are scared of Terrorists. You're insinuating that terrorists are nothing to sneeze at, but The Flu Kills Six Times more people EVERY YEAR than a 9/11 attack. Cars and Cheeseburgers kill FOUR HUNDRED TIMES more people than a 9/11 scale attack. You're OK with pissing away taxes to have government agents protect us from WOW playing terrorists? Come the fuck on, man. You sound fucking hysterical and moronic to boot. Do you want to ask permission from a TSA agent before you're allowed to dial the phone? Do you want a DHS employee riding with you in your car, and tossing out your French fries to "protect" you? No. It's been over a decade since 9/11... The cost of our freedom and privacy spent by the NSA is far too much just to "protect" us from something that's one 4000th of the threat encountered on a trip to McDonalds.
So fucking what if in-game currency is used to to channel funds. The threat is fucking pathetic compared to even the greater threat of falling down in the bathtub.
If these people are as good as all the stories say they are, and I'm not saying they aren't, you have to wonder, and worry a little, where they will end up.
Most of the folk at the NSA are not intelligent. They are worse than script kiddies: The NSA "Cyber Warriors" are tech savvy desk jockeys following a fucking flow chart. They purchase exploits from the black market, like any other thugs. They use an automated deployment system that along with the flow chart assess risk and dictates what exploit to deploy and when to stop for fear of being discovered.
If they all got fired, they'll wind up in middle management somewhere. That's the NSA: A "Cyber Army" of Moronic Middle Men. The few that helped design the equivalent of a web interface for Metasploit and ESCHELON / Carnivore will wind up developing websites and database backends. Ooo, I'm so scared.
Freedom isn't free. It costs lives and money. For a country to succeed it must be tolerant of new ideas, thus America has embraced both capitalistic and socialist methodologies and leveraged them to their benefit. When Americans consider the costs of the NSA relative to the lives they supposedly save, it is hard to agree to continue the program considering the threat. Falling down in the bathtub is a far greater threat than the "Terrorist Threat". More lives can be saved by giving away bathtub traction mats than by sponsoring a nation wide spying initiative. As a capitalist I would have to be a fool to spend so much taxes and give up so much privacy for such a little benefit.
Security researchers have a name for things like the NSA: Single Point of Failure. If a contract employee like Snowden can get such data, then state sponsored enemy spies have likely infiltrated too. Thus, the NSA is actually a threat to national security -- They are helping our enemies far more than they help us. The NSA is now deserved of the term used for other invasive, expensive and yet ineffective "protection" schemes: Security Theater. See also: DHS.
Terrorists are a pathetic threat; It takes more bravery to bathe than to stand in solidarity against such attackers as the Boston Marathon Bombers -- An event whereby the NSA failed our nation and proved how worthless they are. Should we outlaw pressure cookers? No: Six times more people die every year from the Flu than a 9/11 scale attack. Every year Cars and Cheesburgers kill Four Hundred times more people than a 9/11 scale attack. Yet, if anyone tried to take away our freedom to drive fast cars or cook and eat fast food we will fight them off, not embrace the "protections"! On 9/11 the terrorists were reminded by the honorable passengers of Flight 93: Attack Americans and Americans fight back. The NSA would do well to remember this: We do not need or want their expensive and invasive erosion of privacy in the name of protection.
To the NSA agents who read statements such as mine as a part of their jobs, and decide whether they will use our porn preferences to discredit the "radicals" who speak out against you: It's no wonder your morale is so low. Your official stance is to lie to Congress. No one can now believe anything you say. No evidence you have ever collected can now be trusted. Your secrecy has become dishonesty and made your job worthless and without honor. How can you even look at yourself in the mirror? Don't like the low morale? Quit your un-American and unconstitutional job. Spineless treasonous traitors deserve far worse than just having low morale.
Just like most mutations are unsuccessful, most creative ideas are not "welfare increasing", after all, the status quo came about for a reason and your idea has to be pretty clever to beat it in all, or even most, metrics.
Consider Da Vinci's Flying Machine. It was a "mutation" that was unsuccessful, and yet was inspirational to nearly all subsequent humans who attempted flight -- The idea that human flight was indeed possible if assisted by winged machines.
A quick analysis of the numbers and mechanisms shows it is not doable today. And it may remain massively uneconomic for the foreseeable future. It is a pipe-dream of people that desperately want to be modern, but have no clue about realities.
Your numbers fail when your logistics are dumb.
Picture this: UPS or other delivery truck driving around, Delivering packages. Any that don't have special delivery options or require anything more than photographic proof of delivery are kept in the back section of the truck, stacked according to route, and accessible by a drone or two. The delivery guy drives slow and stops every so often to give the drones a chance to pick up the next package, perhaps he helps them secure packages while not servicing the ones that require a signature of receipt. Oh no! It's too windy! Well, I guess it'll just be a slow day today using the ordinary EXPENSIVE DELIVERY HUMANS.
Consider the fact that you're using humans to do the work of robots, and now consider all the past labor markets where robots and humans have been in competition -- Like continuous process production, assembly lines, esp. automobile manufacturing. I bet you're one of those fools who would watch sci-fi movies about robots and then smugly declare: "Robotic employees are not doable today, and may remain massively uneconomic for the forseeable future. Robotic workers are a pipe-dream of people that desperately want to join the modern industrial age, but have no clue about realities." Consider that the drones needn't be aerial. Now what moron?
Protip: It's better to keep your mouth shut and have folks think you an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Wouldn't it be better to let individuals decide whether or not the plan is a good idea for themselves? Get real moron, choice is a good thing, less choice is bad.
1) The NSA can get the statistical wisdom from huge PW leaks posted by skiddies who dumped an SQL DB -- Or from those DBs themselves by deploying a single zero day vulnerability against the service.
2) Salted hashes are impervious to rainbow tables.
I would argue that Blackhole was perhaps the most important driving force behind an explosion of cyber fraud over the past three years.
I would disagree and cite NSA's PRISM and FOXACID as a far more important driving force. Even if you disagree about the classification of their action as criminal violations of the US Constitution, consider that they purchase a large volume of zero-day exploits to fuel their "cyber" weapons. This makes selling zero-day exploits on the black market very profitable even if you ended all civilian perpetrated "cyber" assaults.
And when you hack a man, you're a criminal, Hack many, and you're a terrorist, Hack 'em all, you're a Government!
It's definitely not for everyone, and the last thing we need right now is more dis-interested programmers who write crummy code because they're just there for the cash.
While I agree that just being in it for the cash is the wrong approach, I also vehemently disagree that programming is the last thing kids need. Kids need programming with their mathematics. Consider a Sigma symbol -- That's a fucking for loop you twit. Now, if we had just taught the kids how to do mathematics on computers instead of shitty little calculators then they could control the primary IO they have with the digital world: HTML and JavaScript.
Once you realize that programming is essentially applied algebra, then you must ask yourself why it the hell would you even consider depriving the kids of a meaningful way to utilize the mathematics you're trying to teach them? Don't you WANT to extinct that question, "Meh, When will I ever use this in the real world?" and the associated boredom?
Human. You are a damned tool using creature. Your younglings will naturally find intriguing useless concepts that they have no way of directly leveraging. I have trained children who are flunking out of mathematics to be A+ students by simply teaching them a bit of JavaScript and game design. It is the teachers that are FAILING like fools to hand out the tools. Someone must break the cycle. Every human with a computer that doesn't know how to tell it what they want it to do is hindering your progress as a species. In the Age of Information this is like not teaching them how to read and write.
Are you a scientist? I don't think you are. If you were you would realize you can't just say shit like "the last thing we need is ___" without testing the damned hypothesis first. Go suck a tailpipe, you are hindering your herd.
Hmm, that's odd. Seems fine to me. On second evaluation, it seems my ocular preprocessor automatically inserts paragraph breaks when encountering an ellipse...
"The Washington Post has an interesting story about how the FBI can investigate and collect details from computers over the net, without knowing anything about the computer location. Here's an example of the FBI's network investigative techniques: 'The man who called himself "Mo" had dark hair, a foreign accent and — if the pictures he e-mailed to federal investigators could be believed — an Iranian military uniform. When he made a series of threats to detonate bombs at universities and airports across a wide swath of the United States last year, police had to scramble every time. Mo remained elusive for months, communicating via e-mail, video chat and an Internet-based phone service without revealing his true identity or location, court documents show.
The FBI’s elite hacker team designed a piece of malicious software that was to be delivered secretly when Mo signed on to his Yahoo e-mail account, from any computer anywhere in the world, according to the documents. The goal of the software was to gather a range of information — Web sites he had visited and indicators of the location of the computer — that would allow investigators to find Mo and tie him to the bomb threats.
Even though investigators suspected that Mo was in Iran, the uncertainty around his identity and location complicated the case. Had he turned out to be a U.S. citizen or a foreigner living within the country, a search conducted without a warrant could have jeopardized his prosecution.
But, [a court document] said, Mo’s computer did send a request for information to the FBI computer, revealing two new IP addresses in the process. Both suggested that, as of last December, Mo was still in Tehran."
Say what you will about the build quality, gotta love the extra features they pack into cheap Chinese hardware. Now if I can just figure out how private pics of my GF keep ending up online...
Get into mining? Nah. Accept bitcoins for, say, some server side coding or configuration management or game asset creation, etc. Yeah, why not. Oh crap, my friendly tip is now worth hundreds of dollars? Hmm. Well, now. That wasn't so hard. Crashes? Who cares, I'd have done the work for free anyway. Wise man say: The first step is the smallest, simplest, and hardest.
For a quick money transfer between two disparate real-world currencies it could be quite useful. As it becomes less volatile it'll be better to store goods in. The worth of a bitcoin IMO is in its distributed nature and ease of transfer between peers -- a intrinsic property of the currency itself. The speculative exchange rate of the bitcoins is irrelevant to me. It has value as a transfer medium at present. At least it's not owned and controlled by the World Bank.
So GP is claiming there were other plausible implementations of the same diabolically clever idea. So what.
IMO, testing the null hypothesis shows that it is the idea of combining the religious text with the technical text that is the primary source of interest. To me, the Markov Chains seem to produce more lexically valid outputs, but does not seem to be the prime influence of the humor or revelation in unexpected aptness distribution. One use of the null hypothesis is to show the degree to which the researcher's methods are responsible for the results by providing different methods or explanations for the same or similar results.
The problem is that low quality publications actually represent negative productivity.
There is no such thing as negative effort, only effort. Anti-productivity can be beneficial if properly harnessed. When anti-products collide with normal outputs of productivity the energy released is explosive! --even enough to bring entire businesses to their knees. Re-engineering of entire product lines can create jobs at a geometric rate when analysed in the single dimensional domain. Massive numbers of researchers have dedicated time to advances in product particle research; Especially in the field of advert entangled anti-productivity. This very post and Slashdot itself would not be possible were it not for discovery of the charged anti-product-ion. Indeed, this is why the energetic event resulting from a productive business interacting with an equal or greater anti-production has been dubbed, "The Slashdot Effect".
Unfortunately, due to the nature of quantum entanglement there is no known way to predict an increase or decrease in overall productions due to a business's slashdotting. There is much debate over the degree to which the anti-productivity particles can be deliberately harnessed due to quantum uncertainty: Observation of A.C. currents provide evidence that one can either know when and where the slashdotting will occur (deemed a slashvertizment), or the rate and direction of products, but not both at once.
The patent system ought to be changed so that any patent should be revoked once it is no longer useful for its intended purpose.
If you open source your code, you have fulfilled the intended purpose of the patent system to benefit society, without requiring patents. FLOSS should be immune to patent suits. Furthermore, there is zero evidence that patents themselves fulfill their intended purpose. Indeed, the automotive and fashion industries both innovate in design and sell heavily on design and are very profitable, and yet they are not allowed copyright or design patents. So, there is no evidence that patents are beneficial for society; In fact, I would say we need to prove they are not harmful to society before running the world's economy based on the economically untenable practice of selling ice to Eskimos: Selling ideas to thinking humans; Selling information to folks with computers. You can charge for an igloo to be built, but not the snow. You can charge for a program to be created, but not the bits. You can charge for research to be done, but not the discoveries.
That which is in infinite supply has zero price regardless of cost to create. Leverage your infinite monopoly over your ability to do work, afterwards you have no monopoly on the number of people who can benefit from the work. This is how mechanics, home builders, and every other labor market works: Agree on payment for work (bid), do the work, get paid once for the work. Mechanics don't change each person who drives a car for their benefit. You want more money? Do more work.
Artificial scarcity of information and ideas is counter to the progress of better information and ideas. Think. If you want more information and ideas then would not requiring people to create new works in order to get paid? All speculation such as, "Well if we didn't have patents then companies would X" are evidenced hypothetical bullshit. Those fearing sequestration of ideas are fools: Do not underestimate today's reverse engineers; They have scanning electron microscopes. Access to hardware is game over from a security perspective because the secrets can not be kept from us. Do the damn experiment otherwise we have no evidence to support the current hypothesis.
If you are an engineer or scientist and you are for patents and copyright, then you have rejected the tenets of your craft. There is no evidence to back the belief that patents or copyrights are beneficial. In fact, we know they can be unnecessary, and can be harmful: Engineers do not look for solutions in the patent database because they risk treble damages of foreknowledge of infringement, and risk of a competitor preventing their profit. If it costs less to re-invent the wheel than use established ideas, your patent system is not beneficial to society.
Yeah, and in client side systems they're known as call-backs or event driven, etc. etc.
I don't know about you, but if it's old let's call it new!
Nice, but is it better than a pseudo random?
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As a scientist I always test the null hypothesis to quantify usefulness of my research. They did a bunch of work, but is it any better than a simple randomized selection of text?
As a quick test of the null hypothesis, below I have selected a random bible verse and inserted into the middle a random statement from SICP after the nearest to center semicolon, comma, period, and or or:
God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, this takes two arguments, a symbol and a list, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
And we have seen and, evaluating this combination involves three subproblems, testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, However, if we allow mutators on list structure, sharing becomes significant, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me the machine repeatedly executes a controller loop, changing the contents of the registers, until some termination condition is satisfied, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”
Verses from: Random Bible Verse. I scrolled around the TOC with my eyes closed, clicked a link, then repeated the process waggling my mouse erratically to select sentences from SICP. YMMV.
I'm so glad that the fate of software patents in the US is being left up to a bunch of old geezers who probably can't figure out how to publish their legal opinions online without the help of their IT department.
Indeed. I could agree to leave such important things to old troglodytes as long as they were also scientists: "Let us apply the law in this manner provisionally, and re-examine to test the hypothesis of its benefit after N years; We must test a decision to see, and also consider the null hypothesis, for laws that provide no benefit only tax our legal system. Let us rely not on case-law, but on observational evidence of intent to do malice or good."
Sadly no such individuals exist in this reality. The quantum waveform has collapsed into the worst possible configuration: Scientists beg for funds while stodgy old farts rule the world. Note that there is ZERO evidence that patents and copyrights are actually "beneficial for society", we have only evidence that such protections are not required for innovation and profit in the markets that have no copyright or design patents: The automotive and fashion industries. Software Patents? HA! Prove Patents themselves aren't harmful first. It seems we need a medicine that not even The Doctor can prescribe.
You are wasting a shit ton of money on Terrorism protections, meanwhile falling down in the bathtub is a greater risk to American lives.
Every year: Heart disease and accidents cause Four Hundred Times more deaths than a 9/11 scale attack. We will fight you to the death for the freedom to drive fast cars to fast food restaurants. We do not need protection from the pathetic "terrorist threat". Stand terrorism next to ANY other threat and you will see why our HUGE budget to fight it is ridiculous and proponents of spending such should be fired on sight. They say Terrorism is nothing to sneeze at, but EVERY YEAR the Flu kills SIX TIMES more people than a 9/11 scale attack. They pay for submarines to tap into under sea cables to prevent terrorism? Body scanners and gropers at transportation hubs? No longer.
The public needs proportional protection from proportional risk. The budget for terrorist protection should be less than that of the Flu prevention, and less than what we spend to preventing you from braining yourself on the bathtub faucet by accident. It has become clear that our protection is not the government's agenda. It seems that the agenda is to funnel as much money possible into the pockets of those who benefit by increasing the size and reach of the Military Industrial Complex.
If you had a structural defect, like a broken arm, and I prescribed yoghurt... You'd be pretty pissed off that I didn't tell you it was just calcium you needed and that I didn't mend your arm. You should be equally upset if you had a mental structural defect and I told you to go eat shit.
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You offer scoffing and snark, not insight. Or is it just a failure of imagination?
It's correct to scoff at folks who are scared of Terrorists. You're insinuating that terrorists are nothing to sneeze at, but The Flu Kills Six Times more people EVERY YEAR than a 9/11 attack. Cars and Cheeseburgers kill FOUR HUNDRED TIMES more people than a 9/11 scale attack. You're OK with pissing away taxes to have government agents protect us from WOW playing terrorists? Come the fuck on, man. You sound fucking hysterical and moronic to boot. Do you want to ask permission from a TSA agent before you're allowed to dial the phone? Do you want a DHS employee riding with you in your car, and tossing out your French fries to "protect" you? No. It's been over a decade since 9/11... The cost of our freedom and privacy spent by the NSA is far too much just to "protect" us from something that's one 4000th of the threat encountered on a trip to McDonalds.
So fucking what if in-game currency is used to to channel funds. The threat is fucking pathetic compared to even the greater threat of falling down in the bathtub.
If these people are as good as all the stories say they are, and I'm not saying they aren't, you have to wonder, and worry a little, where they will end up.
Most of the folk at the NSA are not intelligent. They are worse than script kiddies: The NSA "Cyber Warriors" are tech savvy desk jockeys following a fucking flow chart. They purchase exploits from the black market, like any other thugs. They use an automated deployment system that along with the flow chart assess risk and dictates what exploit to deploy and when to stop for fear of being discovered.
If they all got fired, they'll wind up in middle management somewhere. That's the NSA: A "Cyber Army" of Moronic Middle Men. The few that helped design the equivalent of a web interface for Metasploit and ESCHELON / Carnivore will wind up developing websites and database backends. Ooo, I'm so scared.
Freedom isn't free. It costs lives and money. For a country to succeed it must be tolerant of new ideas, thus America has embraced both capitalistic and socialist methodologies and leveraged them to their benefit. When Americans consider the costs of the NSA relative to the lives they supposedly save, it is hard to agree to continue the program considering the threat. Falling down in the bathtub is a far greater threat than the "Terrorist Threat". More lives can be saved by giving away bathtub traction mats than by sponsoring a nation wide spying initiative. As a capitalist I would have to be a fool to spend so much taxes and give up so much privacy for such a little benefit.
Security researchers have a name for things like the NSA: Single Point of Failure. If a contract employee like Snowden can get such data, then state sponsored enemy spies have likely infiltrated too. Thus, the NSA is actually a threat to national security -- They are helping our enemies far more than they help us. The NSA is now deserved of the term used for other invasive, expensive and yet ineffective "protection" schemes: Security Theater. See also: DHS.
Terrorists are a pathetic threat; It takes more bravery to bathe than to stand in solidarity against such attackers as the Boston Marathon Bombers -- An event whereby the NSA failed our nation and proved how worthless they are. Should we outlaw pressure cookers? No: Six times more people die every year from the Flu than a 9/11 scale attack. Every year Cars and Cheesburgers kill Four Hundred times more people than a 9/11 scale attack. Yet, if anyone tried to take away our freedom to drive fast cars or cook and eat fast food we will fight them off, not embrace the "protections"! On 9/11 the terrorists were reminded by the honorable passengers of Flight 93: Attack Americans and Americans fight back. The NSA would do well to remember this: We do not need or want their expensive and invasive erosion of privacy in the name of protection.
To the NSA agents who read statements such as mine as a part of their jobs, and decide whether they will use our porn preferences to discredit the "radicals" who speak out against you: It's no wonder your morale is so low. Your official stance is to lie to Congress. No one can now believe anything you say. No evidence you have ever collected can now be trusted. Your secrecy has become dishonesty and made your job worthless and without honor. How can you even look at yourself in the mirror? Don't like the low morale? Quit your un-American and unconstitutional job. Spineless treasonous traitors deserve far worse than just having low morale.
Just like most mutations are unsuccessful, most creative ideas are not "welfare increasing", after all, the status quo came about for a reason and your idea has to be pretty clever to beat it in all, or even most, metrics.
Consider Da Vinci's Flying Machine. It was a "mutation" that was unsuccessful, and yet was inspirational to nearly all subsequent humans who attempted flight -- The idea that human flight was indeed possible if assisted by winged machines.
Typical short sighted capitalist fool.
A quick analysis of the numbers and mechanisms shows it is not doable today. And it may remain massively uneconomic for the foreseeable future. It is a pipe-dream of people that desperately want to be modern, but have no clue about realities.
Your numbers fail when your logistics are dumb.
Picture this: UPS or other delivery truck driving around, Delivering packages. Any that don't have special delivery options or require anything more than photographic proof of delivery are kept in the back section of the truck, stacked according to route, and accessible by a drone or two. The delivery guy drives slow and stops every so often to give the drones a chance to pick up the next package, perhaps he helps them secure packages while not servicing the ones that require a signature of receipt. Oh no! It's too windy! Well, I guess it'll just be a slow day today using the ordinary EXPENSIVE DELIVERY HUMANS.
Consider the fact that you're using humans to do the work of robots, and now consider all the past labor markets where robots and humans have been in competition -- Like continuous process production, assembly lines, esp. automobile manufacturing. I bet you're one of those fools who would watch sci-fi movies about robots and then smugly declare: "Robotic employees are not doable today, and may remain massively uneconomic for the forseeable future. Robotic workers are a pipe-dream of people that desperately want to join the modern industrial age, but have no clue about realities." Consider that the drones needn't be aerial. Now what moron?
Protip: It's better to keep your mouth shut and have folks think you an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Well, actually, the article would be more ironic if it were made of iron.
Wouldn't it be better to let individuals decide whether or not the plan is a good idea for themselves? Get real moron, choice is a good thing, less choice is bad.
1) The NSA can get the statistical wisdom from huge PW leaks posted by skiddies who dumped an SQL DB -- Or from those DBs themselves by deploying a single zero day vulnerability against the service.
2) Salted hashes are impervious to rainbow tables.
I would argue that Blackhole was perhaps the most important driving force behind an explosion of cyber fraud over the past three years.
I would disagree and cite NSA's PRISM and FOXACID as a far more important driving force. Even if you disagree about the classification of their action as criminal violations of the US Constitution, consider that they purchase a large volume of zero-day exploits to fuel their "cyber" weapons. This makes selling zero-day exploits on the black market very profitable even if you ended all civilian perpetrated "cyber" assaults.
And when you hack a man, you're a criminal,
Hack many, and you're a terrorist,
Hack 'em all, you're a Government!
My apologizes to Megadeth.
It's definitely not for everyone, and the last thing we need right now is more dis-interested programmers who write crummy code because they're just there for the cash.
While I agree that just being in it for the cash is the wrong approach, I also vehemently disagree that programming is the last thing kids need. Kids need programming with their mathematics. Consider a Sigma symbol -- That's a fucking for loop you twit. Now, if we had just taught the kids how to do mathematics on computers instead of shitty little calculators then they could control the primary IO they have with the digital world: HTML and JavaScript.
Once you realize that programming is essentially applied algebra, then you must ask yourself why it the hell would you even consider depriving the kids of a meaningful way to utilize the mathematics you're trying to teach them? Don't you WANT to extinct that question, "Meh, When will I ever use this in the real world?" and the associated boredom?
Human. You are a damned tool using creature. Your younglings will naturally find intriguing useless concepts that they have no way of directly leveraging. I have trained children who are flunking out of mathematics to be A+ students by simply teaching them a bit of JavaScript and game design. It is the teachers that are FAILING like fools to hand out the tools. Someone must break the cycle. Every human with a computer that doesn't know how to tell it what they want it to do is hindering your progress as a species. In the Age of Information this is like not teaching them how to read and write.
Are you a scientist? I don't think you are. If you were you would realize you can't just say shit like "the last thing we need is ___" without testing the damned hypothesis first. Go suck a tailpipe, you are hindering your herd.
#!/bin/bash
echo "127.0.0.1 mail.yahoo.com" >>
Hmm, that's odd. Seems fine to me. On second evaluation, it seems my ocular preprocessor automatically inserts paragraph breaks when encountering an ellipse...
"The Washington Post has an interesting story about how the FBI can investigate and collect details from computers over the net, without knowing anything about the computer location. Here's an example of the FBI's network investigative techniques: 'The man who called himself "Mo" had dark hair, a foreign accent and — if the pictures he e-mailed to federal investigators could be believed — an Iranian military uniform. When he made a series of threats to detonate bombs at universities and airports across a wide swath of the United States last year, police had to scramble every time. Mo remained elusive for months, communicating via e-mail, video chat and an Internet-based phone service without revealing his true identity or location, court documents show.
The FBI’s elite hacker team designed a piece of malicious software that was to be delivered secretly when Mo signed on to his Yahoo e-mail account, from any computer anywhere in the world, according to the documents. The goal of the software was to gather a range of information — Web sites he had visited and indicators of the location of the computer — that would allow investigators to find Mo and tie him to the bomb threats.
Even though investigators suspected that Mo was in Iran, the uncertainty around his identity and location complicated the case. Had he turned out to be a U.S. citizen or a foreigner living within the country, a search conducted without a warrant could have jeopardized his prosecution.
But, [a court document] said, Mo’s computer did send a request for information to the FBI computer, revealing two new IP addresses in the process. Both suggested that, as of last December, Mo was still in Tehran."
Say what you will about the build quality, gotta love the extra features they pack into cheap Chinese hardware. Now if I can just figure out how private pics of my GF keep ending up online...
Get into mining? Nah. Accept bitcoins for, say, some server side coding or configuration management or game asset creation, etc. Yeah, why not. Oh crap, my friendly tip is now worth hundreds of dollars? Hmm. Well, now. That wasn't so hard. Crashes? Who cares, I'd have done the work for free anyway. Wise man say: The first step is the smallest, simplest, and hardest.
For a quick money transfer between two disparate real-world currencies it could be quite useful. As it becomes less volatile it'll be better to store goods in. The worth of a bitcoin IMO is in its distributed nature and ease of transfer between peers -- a intrinsic property of the currency itself. The speculative exchange rate of the bitcoins is irrelevant to me. It has value as a transfer medium at present. At least it's not owned and controlled by the World Bank.
So GP is claiming there were other plausible implementations of the same diabolically clever idea. So what.
IMO, testing the null hypothesis shows that it is the idea of combining the religious text with the technical text that is the primary source of interest. To me, the Markov Chains seem to produce more lexically valid outputs, but does not seem to be the prime influence of the humor or revelation in unexpected aptness distribution. One use of the null hypothesis is to show the degree to which the researcher's methods are responsible for the results by providing different methods or explanations for the same or similar results.
The problem is that low quality publications actually represent negative productivity.
There is no such thing as negative effort, only effort. Anti-productivity can be beneficial if properly harnessed. When anti-products collide with normal outputs of productivity the energy released is explosive! --even enough to bring entire businesses to their knees. Re-engineering of entire product lines can create jobs at a geometric rate when analysed in the single dimensional domain. Massive numbers of researchers have dedicated time to advances in product particle research; Especially in the field of advert entangled anti-productivity. This very post and Slashdot itself would not be possible were it not for discovery of the charged anti-product-ion. Indeed, this is why the energetic event resulting from a productive business interacting with an equal or greater anti-production has been dubbed, "The Slashdot Effect".
Unfortunately, due to the nature of quantum entanglement there is no known way to predict an increase or decrease in overall productions due to a business's slashdotting. There is much debate over the degree to which the anti-productivity particles can be deliberately harnessed due to quantum uncertainty: Observation of A.C. currents provide evidence that one can either know when and where the slashdotting will occur (deemed a slashvertizment), or the rate and direction of products, but not both at once.
The patent system ought to be changed so that any patent should be revoked once it is no longer useful for its intended purpose.
If you open source your code, you have fulfilled the intended purpose of the patent system to benefit society, without requiring patents. FLOSS should be immune to patent suits. Furthermore, there is zero evidence that patents themselves fulfill their intended purpose. Indeed, the automotive and fashion industries both innovate in design and sell heavily on design and are very profitable, and yet they are not allowed copyright or design patents. So, there is no evidence that patents are beneficial for society; In fact, I would say we need to prove they are not harmful to society before running the world's economy based on the economically untenable practice of selling ice to Eskimos: Selling ideas to thinking humans; Selling information to folks with computers. You can charge for an igloo to be built, but not the snow. You can charge for a program to be created, but not the bits. You can charge for research to be done, but not the discoveries.
That which is in infinite supply has zero price regardless of cost to create. Leverage your infinite monopoly over your ability to do work, afterwards you have no monopoly on the number of people who can benefit from the work. This is how mechanics, home builders, and every other labor market works: Agree on payment for work (bid), do the work, get paid once for the work. Mechanics don't change each person who drives a car for their benefit. You want more money? Do more work.
Artificial scarcity of information and ideas is counter to the progress of better information and ideas. Think. If you want more information and ideas then would not requiring people to create new works in order to get paid? All speculation such as, "Well if we didn't have patents then companies would X" are evidenced hypothetical bullshit. Those fearing sequestration of ideas are fools: Do not underestimate today's reverse engineers; They have scanning electron microscopes. Access to hardware is game over from a security perspective because the secrets can not be kept from us. Do the damn experiment otherwise we have no evidence to support the current hypothesis.
If you are an engineer or scientist and you are for patents and copyright, then you have rejected the tenets of your craft. There is no evidence to back the belief that patents or copyrights are beneficial. In fact, we know they can be unnecessary, and can be harmful: Engineers do not look for solutions in the patent database because they risk treble damages of foreknowledge of infringement, and risk of a competitor preventing their profit. If it costs less to re-invent the wheel than use established ideas, your patent system is not beneficial to society.
Did this guy just reinvent spreadsheets?
When I saw spreadsheets for the first time I said the same thing:
Did they just reinvent state machines?
Von Neumann would be proud.
Yeah, and in client side systems they're known as call-backs or event driven, etc. etc.
I don't know about you, but if it's old let's call it new!
As a scientist I always test the null hypothesis to quantify usefulness of my research. They did a bunch of work, but is it any better than a simple randomized selection of text?
As a quick test of the null hypothesis, below I have selected a random bible verse and inserted into the middle a random statement from SICP after the nearest to center semicolon, comma, period, and or or:
God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, this takes two arguments, a symbol and a list, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
And we have seen and, evaluating this combination involves three subproblems, testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, However, if we allow mutators on list structure, sharing becomes significant, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.”
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me the machine repeatedly executes a controller loop, changing the contents of the registers, until some termination condition is satisfied, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”
Verses from: Random Bible Verse. I scrolled around the TOC with my eyes closed, clicked a link, then repeated the process waggling my mouse erratically to select sentences from SICP. YMMV.
I just measure things by comparing them to a few trusty old plancks.
...to say the .gif is mesmerizing, and I have no clue what I'm looking at.
If you later said, "Lol, that's a false color prostate exam camera," I wouldn't be shocked.
Really? I'd be shocked. This is Saturn not Uranus.
I'm so glad that the fate of software patents in the US is being left up to a bunch of old geezers who probably can't figure out how to publish their legal opinions online without the help of their IT department.
Indeed. I could agree to leave such important things to old troglodytes as long as they were also scientists: "Let us apply the law in this manner provisionally, and re-examine to test the hypothesis of its benefit after N years; We must test a decision to see, and also consider the null hypothesis, for laws that provide no benefit only tax our legal system. Let us rely not on case-law, but on observational evidence of intent to do malice or good."
Sadly no such individuals exist in this reality. The quantum waveform has collapsed into the worst possible configuration: Scientists beg for funds while stodgy old farts rule the world. Note that there is ZERO evidence that patents and copyrights are actually "beneficial for society", we have only evidence that such protections are not required for innovation and profit in the markets that have no copyright or design patents: The automotive and fashion industries. Software Patents? HA! Prove Patents themselves aren't harmful first. It seems we need a medicine that not even The Doctor can prescribe.
You are wasting a shit ton of money on Terrorism protections, meanwhile falling down in the bathtub is a greater risk to American lives.
Every year: Heart disease and accidents cause Four Hundred Times more deaths than a 9/11 scale attack. We will fight you to the death for the freedom to drive fast cars to fast food restaurants. We do not need protection from the pathetic "terrorist threat". Stand terrorism next to ANY other threat and you will see why our HUGE budget to fight it is ridiculous and proponents of spending such should be fired on sight. They say Terrorism is nothing to sneeze at, but EVERY YEAR the Flu kills SIX TIMES more people than a 9/11 scale attack. They pay for submarines to tap into under sea cables to prevent terrorism? Body scanners and gropers at transportation hubs? No longer.
The public needs proportional protection from proportional risk. The budget for terrorist protection should be less than that of the Flu prevention, and less than what we spend to preventing you from braining yourself on the bathtub faucet by accident. It has become clear that our protection is not the government's agenda. It seems that the agenda is to funnel as much money possible into the pockets of those who benefit by increasing the size and reach of the Military Industrial Complex.
You have made Eisenhower's Nightmare come true.
If you had a structural defect, like a broken arm, and I prescribed yoghurt... You'd be pretty pissed off that I didn't tell you it was just calcium you needed and that I didn't mend your arm. You should be equally upset if you had a mental structural defect and I told you to go eat shit.
relevant link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-NMfp13Uug