Then you just do the analysis twice, once calculating the upper estimate and once calculating a lower estimate. You increase the variance but don't really prevent the attack from working. To prevent the mathletes from doing the analysis at all you need to either encrypt it (in which case the crypto-letes move in) or use randomly generated serial numbers, which might get interesting using WWII technology with production spread out over a war torn continent.
Trademark or no there's nothing they can do to stop you saying "Just like DoTA" or "DoTA-like map". You're allowed to use the trademark for comparison and descriptive purposes, as long as it is clear that you are not pretending to be the trademarked item.
Actually, I suspect you don't care if someone reimplements the office suite again, but if someone were to actually reinvent the office suite, the way that Mozilla helped reinvent the browser (along with many others) that could be something to get excited about. After all, 10 years ago most people thought IE6 was all they would ever need, no one thought about high speed JS, extensions, tabbed browsing, etc. (not giving Mozilla credit for all those, just saying the browser market has changed). There's no telling if there are similar innovations possible in the office suite market, and while I, like you, am hardly a frequent user of those programs, it would still be interesting to see what they would come up with.
And all that being said, I'd still rather see what else they have in store for FF4+. I think they're eventually catch up with the efforts of the competition in most areas and surpass them in a few, a community driven project generally will simply because you've got so many more people thinking of ideas than a corporate driven project does.
Which makes the problem more difficult, not less. The way it is usually presented in CS the distance between the nodes is the minimum cost path, the bees would also have to 'calculate' that in addition to solving for the correct order. Think about it this way, imagine trying to solve the traveling salesman path between 100 cities, but you can take any route you want between cities. You could take all the back roads, the freeway, you could hop on a train or an airplane, you could kayak down the river between two cities. It doesn't make the problem any easier, in fact it adds a ton more variables to the mix, effectively increasing the number of routes that would need to be checked using a brute force solution.
First and foremost, how many nodes are we talking about here? I highly doubt that the bees are keeping track of hundreds of feeding spots from one trip out to the next but the article doesn't say.
The second problem is this "Computers solve it by comparing the length of all possible routes and choosing the shortest." Who on earth would try to solve the traveling salesman this way? Yeah, a brute force solution will get you the guaranteed best path, but the performance is horrible. There's lots and lots of shortcuts that can save a huge amount of time, things as simple as eliminating crossed paths can make a big difference. You can even use techniques like genetic engineering successfully on such a problem (though you might not reach the absolute best path that way).
That depends on how far away the display is from the eye. If you want something that is held at arms length the iPhone's display is probably already to that point, though there may be a subjective difference by going higher it isn't likely to matter much. If you want something that could be mounted on a pair of glasses however, you've still got a ways to go. I wonder what the minimum comfortable focus length is a single eye...
Think what a different place the world would be if you could convince everyone to follow 'kindergarten etiquette', why is it stated so dismissively in the summary? As if getting everyone to show basic respect to everyone else is an easy thing to do.
If you manage a company for stockholders, you have a fiduciary duty to maximize profit.
Not true at all, you have a duty to reflect on your stockholders desires maybe, but in this case especially I doubt that many of the stockholders' first priority is to make money. Lets pretend that the majority of people bought stock in Google because of their 'Do No Evil' mantra, and that those people made that position clear at stockholders' meetings. Google would then have a responsibility to the stockholders to stay true to that mantra, even at the expense of profits. The default position is that the number one priority is profits, but as stockholders you have the right to make your voice heard on other priorities and if there was ever a company that is likely to place something above profit I'd say it's pretty that the owners of bible.com would be one of them.
They're more in line with human nature than Star Trek.
To be fair, Star Trek takes place in a universe where a single starship has literally more power capacity than the sun (if you believe their numbers), replicators that can create almost anything instantly, holodecks that can allow you to experience pretty much anything you could want. And they've had these technologies for generations, there's really no telling how much human society would change. So much negative human behavior is driven by scarcity which unlimited energy and material goods does away with. Another large part of negative behavior is based on insecurity which being able to do anything you want in a holodeck would probably eliminate, if nothing else the holodeck is a therapist's wet dream when it comes to diagnosing and treating issues.
Every president supplies (maybe supplied?) sealed orders for the nuclear submarines under the north pole ice as far as what to do if the US is nuked into oblivion. Allegedly, at least a few presidents' orders were to stand down in such a situation, and a lot more were to seek out any surviving allies. So at least a few people in positions of power probably agreed with your assessment.
And this kind of thing is why I've made the argument in the past that having children leads to a significant degradation in morals. You'd rather let some innocent person (someone else's child, parent, and/or spouse BTW) get T-boned at a busy intersection than put your kids at even mild risk (and if you have any confidence in your driving skills at all, mild risk is all we're talking about in this case). It is, to be fair, evolved into our brains to be this way, but it still sickens me a little bit.
Why should we have to expend money and energy to climb this cliff, to get stuff that we can easier get down here?
Quantity mostly. I'm not saying gold from the moon, but the amount of metals in even a smallish asteroid dwarfs our annual production rates on the surface. A single 1 mile diameter asteroid has an estimated worth of $20 trillion dollars in metals. Of course, you've got to find ways to get the equipment up there and get the resources back down, but a carefully chosen asteroid could also be used as an orbital water and refueling point, using water and fuel created from resources gathered on the asteroid itself.
It should also be noted that the official position of the government and the IRS is that tax avoidance, which this is, if done legally, which this is, is perfectly fine. It is not Google's fault that the tax code is so screwed up that they can avoid paying 90% of what, on the surface, appears to be their tax liability. Now, if Google had an army of lobbyists in Washington pushing to extend those loopholes or create more of them, that would be evil.
The key idea of the holographic principle is that the physics of a volume can be expressed on the surface area of a sphere containing that volume. Hawking was the first one to find that result, specifically he found that the entropy of a black hole was in proportion to the surface area of the event horizon, rather than the volume it enclosed.
I don't know... obviously Hawking's work doesn't exist in a vacuum. Obviously there are lots and lots of important discoveries and insights that lots and lots of other scientists have come up with. But it doesn't seem unreasonable to me to say that Hawking was the one to come up with the core ideas of the holographic principle, 't Hooft expanded that into a way to describe the whole universe.
Once the rendezvous the fleet travels together at the slower speed. It is no more wasteful in terms of fuel than stopping at the destination. Though obviously it would be faster to stop at the destination, the point would be that the improved infrastructure and multiple redundancy of a multiple ship fleet outweighs the advantages of sprinting to the finish. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't; I doubt there's been any real research into all the questions involved.
I guess it's finally time (if it wasn't a long time ago) to move to encrypting everything you do online. And moving to encrypted VOIP obviously, though I don't know if they can still track who you are calling in that case. Still a problem if you send something to someone and they don't encrypt it on their end, but better than nothing.
There's always the idea of planning for your current ship being overtaken by the next wave of the fleet. That way, each ship would only have to be completely self sufficient for 20 years, and the first ships wouldn't have to be inhabited at all, they could just be loaded up with a huge amount of some important resource (water, nuclear fuel, whatever you're going to need). And if propulsion really improves as fast as you seem to think it will, the ships could easily request what resources they will need; only problem is that it assumes your base on Earth will still have the power and influence to continue launching ships. You'd arrive at the destination at the speed of your slowest ship, but by then you'd have a fleet with many different capabilities, a larger population, and with more resources than you ever could with a single ship.
The guy was also cheating in multiplayer (which the summary somehow manages to leave out). Going up against an opponent who is cheating absolutely, 100% ruins the fun for me. I suspect it ruins the fun for everyone except the cheater in fact. The only thing I see wrong with Blizzard's actions here are the way they are going about it, claiming copyright infringement is very dishonest, I would think there would be a better way to take the guy to court than that (or better yet, detect the hacks and ban him in every way possible).
I know DARPA and NASA are just fulfilling their primary missions here (i.e., dazzling the press with PR)
NASA maybe but DARPA? For every gee wiz DARPA project that you hear about there's 5 boring ones that no one cares about, the media doesn't exactly care about things like a smaller form factor for a military radio or a system for improved telemetry during test flights, regardless of how much they advance the state of the art.
Haha! Did you really just call an attractive 20-something woman blowing bubble's an "ugly mob"? That's... just... I salute you my friend, your logic is astounding. I mean, wow, that mob was so ugly that the other officer at the scene was talking with one of the 'rioters' in question with a smile on her face. That. is. terrifying.
His 'crowd control' tactics are what cause the riots 50% of the time. Take a look at La Cross WI Halloween riots, for years there would be a violent riot every Halloween, until the police finally realized that the rioters were responding to their presence in full riot gear blocking streets. So they changed tactics, got the bars to serve out of plastic bottles, pulled the riot cops, and reassigned them to be fast responders to break up bar fights and whatnot. The result? No riots at all, not even an 'ugly mob' to be found.
Since their last album they operate their own label (Kiss Records), the same is true of a lot of the big name, super successful, anti-piracy bands. Considering that is only one of their many albums though, it's probably true that they make more money touring, but if they self publish another couple of albums that might not be the case.
I don't see that as trolling, the only reason my recent Java delivered infection wasn't orders of magnitude worse is because Avira contained the problem before it got out of hand. Yes, I suppose I should be angry that Avira let it get as far as it did (the initial infection was running and Avira couldn't stop or remove it), but I'm grateful that the 20+ infections that the first one tried to spawn weren't able to run. Even still it was a night's work.
Reboot to a live CD, run a scan and remove/repair infected files, search the registry for the infected file names and remove if appropriate, reboot to Windows safe mode and scan again (trying to find anything running), reboot to regular mode, then back to the live CD for another scan (in case something came back when Windows rebooted).
Incidentally, what are some of my fellow Slashdotters' checklists when they experience an infection? I haven't had any problems for years, so I haven't put much thought into it until last week when I got infected.
For reasons I have never been able to figure out, Java has significant issues auto updating on all my home Windows computers (XP, Vista, and 7). Sure enough, just last week I had to spend a night sanitizing one of the systems, for now I've uninstalled Java until I have the chance to figure out just what the problem is but honestly not having it hasn't been a problem so I'll probably just leave it off until I find something that actually requires it.
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Then you just do the analysis twice, once calculating the upper estimate and once calculating a lower estimate. You increase the variance but don't really prevent the attack from working. To prevent the mathletes from doing the analysis at all you need to either encrypt it (in which case the crypto-letes move in) or use randomly generated serial numbers, which might get interesting using WWII technology with production spread out over a war torn continent.
Yep, they only sold 2.4 million copies. Total fail. Why, that's only $100 million, pathetic.
Trademark or no there's nothing they can do to stop you saying "Just like DoTA" or "DoTA-like map". You're allowed to use the trademark for comparison and descriptive purposes, as long as it is clear that you are not pretending to be the trademarked item.
Actually, I suspect you don't care if someone reimplements the office suite again, but if someone were to actually reinvent the office suite, the way that Mozilla helped reinvent the browser (along with many others) that could be something to get excited about. After all, 10 years ago most people thought IE6 was all they would ever need, no one thought about high speed JS, extensions, tabbed browsing, etc. (not giving Mozilla credit for all those, just saying the browser market has changed). There's no telling if there are similar innovations possible in the office suite market, and while I, like you, am hardly a frequent user of those programs, it would still be interesting to see what they would come up with.
And all that being said, I'd still rather see what else they have in store for FF4+. I think they're eventually catch up with the efforts of the competition in most areas and surpass them in a few, a community driven project generally will simply because you've got so many more people thinking of ideas than a corporate driven project does.
Which makes the problem more difficult, not less. The way it is usually presented in CS the distance between the nodes is the minimum cost path, the bees would also have to 'calculate' that in addition to solving for the correct order. Think about it this way, imagine trying to solve the traveling salesman path between 100 cities, but you can take any route you want between cities. You could take all the back roads, the freeway, you could hop on a train or an airplane, you could kayak down the river between two cities. It doesn't make the problem any easier, in fact it adds a ton more variables to the mix, effectively increasing the number of routes that would need to be checked using a brute force solution.
First and foremost, how many nodes are we talking about here? I highly doubt that the bees are keeping track of hundreds of feeding spots from one trip out to the next but the article doesn't say.
The second problem is this "Computers solve it by comparing the length of all possible routes and choosing the shortest." Who on earth would try to solve the traveling salesman this way? Yeah, a brute force solution will get you the guaranteed best path, but the performance is horrible. There's lots and lots of shortcuts that can save a huge amount of time, things as simple as eliminating crossed paths can make a big difference. You can even use techniques like genetic engineering successfully on such a problem (though you might not reach the absolute best path that way).
That depends on how far away the display is from the eye. If you want something that is held at arms length the iPhone's display is probably already to that point, though there may be a subjective difference by going higher it isn't likely to matter much. If you want something that could be mounted on a pair of glasses however, you've still got a ways to go. I wonder what the minimum comfortable focus length is a single eye...
Think what a different place the world would be if you could convince everyone to follow 'kindergarten etiquette', why is it stated so dismissively in the summary? As if getting everyone to show basic respect to everyone else is an easy thing to do.
If you manage a company for stockholders, you have a fiduciary duty to maximize profit.
Not true at all, you have a duty to reflect on your stockholders desires maybe, but in this case especially I doubt that many of the stockholders' first priority is to make money. Lets pretend that the majority of people bought stock in Google because of their 'Do No Evil' mantra, and that those people made that position clear at stockholders' meetings. Google would then have a responsibility to the stockholders to stay true to that mantra, even at the expense of profits. The default position is that the number one priority is profits, but as stockholders you have the right to make your voice heard on other priorities and if there was ever a company that is likely to place something above profit I'd say it's pretty that the owners of bible.com would be one of them.
They're more in line with human nature than Star Trek.
To be fair, Star Trek takes place in a universe where a single starship has literally more power capacity than the sun (if you believe their numbers), replicators that can create almost anything instantly, holodecks that can allow you to experience pretty much anything you could want. And they've had these technologies for generations, there's really no telling how much human society would change. So much negative human behavior is driven by scarcity which unlimited energy and material goods does away with. Another large part of negative behavior is based on insecurity which being able to do anything you want in a holodeck would probably eliminate, if nothing else the holodeck is a therapist's wet dream when it comes to diagnosing and treating issues.
Every president supplies (maybe supplied?) sealed orders for the nuclear submarines under the north pole ice as far as what to do if the US is nuked into oblivion. Allegedly, at least a few presidents' orders were to stand down in such a situation, and a lot more were to seek out any surviving allies. So at least a few people in positions of power probably agreed with your assessment.
And this kind of thing is why I've made the argument in the past that having children leads to a significant degradation in morals. You'd rather let some innocent person (someone else's child, parent, and/or spouse BTW) get T-boned at a busy intersection than put your kids at even mild risk (and if you have any confidence in your driving skills at all, mild risk is all we're talking about in this case). It is, to be fair, evolved into our brains to be this way, but it still sickens me a little bit.
Why should we have to expend money and energy to climb this cliff, to get stuff that we can easier get down here?
Quantity mostly. I'm not saying gold from the moon, but the amount of metals in even a smallish asteroid dwarfs our annual production rates on the surface. A single 1 mile diameter asteroid has an estimated worth of $20 trillion dollars in metals. Of course, you've got to find ways to get the equipment up there and get the resources back down, but a carefully chosen asteroid could also be used as an orbital water and refueling point, using water and fuel created from resources gathered on the asteroid itself.
It should also be noted that the official position of the government and the IRS is that tax avoidance, which this is, if done legally, which this is, is perfectly fine. It is not Google's fault that the tax code is so screwed up that they can avoid paying 90% of what, on the surface, appears to be their tax liability. Now, if Google had an army of lobbyists in Washington pushing to extend those loopholes or create more of them, that would be evil.
The key idea of the holographic principle is that the physics of a volume can be expressed on the surface area of a sphere containing that volume. Hawking was the first one to find that result, specifically he found that the entropy of a black hole was in proportion to the surface area of the event horizon, rather than the volume it enclosed.
I don't know... obviously Hawking's work doesn't exist in a vacuum. Obviously there are lots and lots of important discoveries and insights that lots and lots of other scientists have come up with. But it doesn't seem unreasonable to me to say that Hawking was the one to come up with the core ideas of the holographic principle, 't Hooft expanded that into a way to describe the whole universe.
Once the rendezvous the fleet travels together at the slower speed. It is no more wasteful in terms of fuel than stopping at the destination. Though obviously it would be faster to stop at the destination, the point would be that the improved infrastructure and multiple redundancy of a multiple ship fleet outweighs the advantages of sprinting to the finish. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't; I doubt there's been any real research into all the questions involved.
I guess it's finally time (if it wasn't a long time ago) to move to encrypting everything you do online. And moving to encrypted VOIP obviously, though I don't know if they can still track who you are calling in that case. Still a problem if you send something to someone and they don't encrypt it on their end, but better than nothing.
There's always the idea of planning for your current ship being overtaken by the next wave of the fleet. That way, each ship would only have to be completely self sufficient for 20 years, and the first ships wouldn't have to be inhabited at all, they could just be loaded up with a huge amount of some important resource (water, nuclear fuel, whatever you're going to need). And if propulsion really improves as fast as you seem to think it will, the ships could easily request what resources they will need; only problem is that it assumes your base on Earth will still have the power and influence to continue launching ships. You'd arrive at the destination at the speed of your slowest ship, but by then you'd have a fleet with many different capabilities, a larger population, and with more resources than you ever could with a single ship.
The guy was also cheating in multiplayer (which the summary somehow manages to leave out). Going up against an opponent who is cheating absolutely, 100% ruins the fun for me. I suspect it ruins the fun for everyone except the cheater in fact. The only thing I see wrong with Blizzard's actions here are the way they are going about it, claiming copyright infringement is very dishonest, I would think there would be a better way to take the guy to court than that (or better yet, detect the hacks and ban him in every way possible).
I know DARPA and NASA are just fulfilling their primary missions here (i.e., dazzling the press with PR)
NASA maybe but DARPA? For every gee wiz DARPA project that you hear about there's 5 boring ones that no one cares about, the media doesn't exactly care about things like a smaller form factor for a military radio or a system for improved telemetry during test flights, regardless of how much they advance the state of the art.
Oil is a global, fungible commodity. Calling peak production within the US 'peak oil' is at the very least dishonest.
Haha! Did you really just call an attractive 20-something woman blowing bubble's an "ugly mob"? That's... just... I salute you my friend, your logic is astounding. I mean, wow, that mob was so ugly that the other officer at the scene was talking with one of the 'rioters' in question with a smile on her face. That. is. terrifying.
His 'crowd control' tactics are what cause the riots 50% of the time. Take a look at La Cross WI Halloween riots, for years there would be a violent riot every Halloween, until the police finally realized that the rioters were responding to their presence in full riot gear blocking streets. So they changed tactics, got the bars to serve out of plastic bottles, pulled the riot cops, and reassigned them to be fast responders to break up bar fights and whatnot. The result? No riots at all, not even an 'ugly mob' to be found.
Since their last album they operate their own label (Kiss Records), the same is true of a lot of the big name, super successful, anti-piracy bands. Considering that is only one of their many albums though, it's probably true that they make more money touring, but if they self publish another couple of albums that might not be the case.
I don't see that as trolling, the only reason my recent Java delivered infection wasn't orders of magnitude worse is because Avira contained the problem before it got out of hand. Yes, I suppose I should be angry that Avira let it get as far as it did (the initial infection was running and Avira couldn't stop or remove it), but I'm grateful that the 20+ infections that the first one tried to spawn weren't able to run. Even still it was a night's work.
Reboot to a live CD, run a scan and remove/repair infected files, search the registry for the infected file names and remove if appropriate, reboot to Windows safe mode and scan again (trying to find anything running), reboot to regular mode, then back to the live CD for another scan (in case something came back when Windows rebooted).
Incidentally, what are some of my fellow Slashdotters' checklists when they experience an infection? I haven't had any problems for years, so I haven't put much thought into it until last week when I got infected.
For reasons I have never been able to figure out, Java has significant issues auto updating on all my home Windows computers (XP, Vista, and 7). Sure enough, just last week I had to spend a night sanitizing one of the systems, for now I've uninstalled Java until I have the chance to figure out just what the problem is but honestly not having it hasn't been a problem so I'll probably just leave it off until I find something that actually requires it.