Well, the.xxx domain is probably pointless. The vast majority of adult sites aren't going to be moving so you still won't be able to easily filter based on that criteria. The doc you linked does mention a different idea that I could get behind though, establish a.kids which would be a semi-walled garden of child appropriate material. That allows the creating of a relatively safe space for children which would be relatively enforceable by knowledgeable parents without creating the privacy and legal concerns that everyone seems to have with a.xxx domain.
He made at least two faulty assumptions when he started this little experiment:
1) That he would be arrested as soon as security was aware of his activities. This is not necessarily the case, especially if they suspected he was acting in concert with others. It's more likely that they would watch him from a distance and try to gather as much information as possible, as long as he didn't do anything immediately threatening. Once arrested, he would have no way of knowing at what point he was detected.
2) That this explanation would get him out of all the trouble he had put himself in. Don't get me wrong, it is in interesting experiment, and if it weren't for assumptions #1 I would be very interested in the results; but that doesn't mean he's not going to be charged for all the things he was 'pretending' to do.
Wow, I know this is asking a lot, especially given the length and depth of the article, but seriously, go read it. They've clearly put a lot of effort into analyzing the situation immediately before and during the crash and that is not what the evidence says. For one thing, only a single affected stock was in 'Slow trade mode' at the beginning of the crash, and only 3 were by the time the crash was at its worst. Furthermore, the stocks in slow trade mode trailed behind the stocks that actually caused the problem.
Basically, the first thing that went wrong is that the NYSE received too many quotes too fast, faster than they could process them. So their systems put them into a queue and processed them as quickly as possible. The next step where things went wrong was that these quotes were timestamped when they left the queue, instead of when they entered. This means that the apparent price on the NYSE was lagging a little bit behind reality. Problem number three occurred when the high frequency trading systems detected this apparent price difference and attempted to capitalize on it, driving the cost for the affected stocks even low and generating more quotes on those stocks as well, causing a feedback loop that bottomed out the market.
Now the question is, why were there so many quotes for these stocks, up to 5000 a second from a single source in some cases. I'm hardly an expert, so I'll just quote the conclusion the report comes to:
What benefit could there be to whomever is generating these extremely high quote rates? After thoughtful analysis, we can only think of one. Competition between HFT systems today has reached the point where microseconds matter. Any edge one has to process information faster than a competitor makes all the difference in this game. If you could generate a large number of quotes that your competitors have to process, but you can ignore since you generated them, you gain valuable processing time. This is an extremely disturbing development, because as more HFT systems start doing this, it is only a matter of time before quote-stuffing shuts down the entire market from congestion. We think it played an active role in the final drop on 5/6/2010, and urge everyone involved to take a look at what is going on. Our recommendation for a simple 50ms quote expiration rule would eliminate quote-stuffing and level the playing field without impacting legitimate trading.
Or better yet, stop trying to sue your potential customers and instead offer a cheap, high quality, DRM free, and above all legal download option and actually make money off of it instead of losing money in litigation costs. Personally, I very rarely download things that I can legally acquire some other way, but if there was an option for unlimited downloads of the things I watch for a fair (think ~$5 per month) cost I'd jump all over that and kiss my cable subscription goodbye.
Yeah, but you might as well add a few of programs that will almost definitely fail, but it would be so freakin sweet if the succeeded. I'll testify before congress if I screw up and accidentally fund a successful nuclear fusion or artificial intelligence project; I think I could talk my way out of that one.
Most people don't realize it but DARPA can best be described as a few dozen scientists and engineers with large checkbooks and a big travel budget. They go around the country and around the world looking for technologies that are beyond what we can do today but might be possible with the right funding in the right places. Most importantly, they're aware that a large percentage of the projects that they fund will end in failure (or rather, will not meet all their goals), but the benefits of the ones that don't outweigh the costs.
Maybe I'm the only one who really didn't like Sunshine? The premise was ludicrous, the science was laughable, and it devolved into a fantasy slasher film half way through. I prefer my science fiction to have a bit more basis in science personally.
Only with your consent. I know my company has a PAC that I don't contribute a dime to, and there are absolutely zero negative repercussions from that decision.
Yes, I'm sure temporarily closing less than 1% of the active wells in the region will be absolutely devastating to the local economy. Clearly, the oil engineers need to take the time to reinspect their installations and re-think containment and capping procedures; current procedures have show themselves to be extremely ineffective. Taking 6 months to review policy and technology involved after a disaster of this magnitude seems pretty logical to me. Besides, how exactly is it this judge's job to weigh the harm and benefit of a presidential order?
Those are all issues that can and (assuming demand is high enough) will be fixed. If there's a reason that flash won't work on phones its because of battery usage and performance problems. Steve Jobs was still wrong, let the users and developers decide what they want, if flash really can't be made to work then so be it. But there's no valid reason why developers and users can't be allowed to try it out.
By the way, I searched for the string "when" in an in-box that had 142,211 emails and I received 11,317 emails back!
You can hardly expect Google to make up for your lack of search skills or memory. I'm not saying you don't have other valid points, but searching for such basic terms as 'when' and 'details' instead of something that is unique to the message is bound to return tons of results. It's not Google's fault that you have 11,317 emails with the word 'when' in it.
It's something that's been thrown around a lot but I have to wonder if targeting those kinds of traits with a disease is really possible. The easiest way to target a cell is to target the binding receptors on the outside of that cell, unless the genes that code for the trait you want to eliminate are also expressed in the binding receptors I think that creating such a disease is way beyond our current technology.
But maybe I'm wrong, any experts out there want to weigh in?
It doesn't bother me that you're wrong (at least according to the article), honest mistake and all, but it does bother me that you're modded up for it.
They remain when the current browser session is closed, they remain after you clear the browser history, and they remain after a full factory reset. The JPEG files are saved to a folder named.bookmark_thumb1 which is located within the emmc folder of the phones internal storage (so you would expect a full factory reset to delete them).
They remain even after a factory reset, which is a little concerning. TFA mentions they found screenshots of everything from their Facebook page to the bank website and everything in between, probably not enough to steal your money or your accounts but still enough to track your activity on the web. If you're doing anything on your HTC phone that you'd rather not have other people (informed, ambitious, and already suspicious people at least) find out about then yes it should concern you a bit.
And if you could increase the warning from 15 minutes to 30 I'm sure no one would live that would otherwise die. More importantly, if you could cut the false positive warnings in half maybe people would actually respect the warnings that they do get. Most people I know hear the sirens go off and run to the windows, and I can't even argue with them for doing it. I've heard the sirens go off at least 20 times in my life (including 6 times last year alone), and have never had a tornado within 10 miles of me; reduce the false positives to the point where the siren is actually unusual and maybe people will head for the basement instead of the porch.
Part of the problem is that it just isn't that easy, if you're being honest with yourself, to tell what is and what isn't a lie, even after the fact. The president doesn't control the world, he doesn't control the country, and he doesn't control congress; lots of things can happen that aren't easily forseen which can lead to promises being broken despite the best of intentions. Now, doubtless there are times that things are said, promises made that can't possibly be upheld, but I bet if you're being honest with yourself, the vaste majority of broken promises could be put down to over-ambition, changing circumstances, and increased knowledge.
because the many-to-many relationship between a supplier's costs and the items on a contract make it difficult or impossible to assign proportional increases.
This is the part I don't follow. Using your example the overrun was 4.9%, why not just multiply every line item by 1.049 and be done with it. The dining facility would have a line item cost of $104,900, the toilet seat $10.49, a ballpoint pen $1.05. Prices look sane and the numbers come out fine (+/- a few pennies due to rounding).
Similar problem when I go to visit the folks up in rural Wisconsin, the solution I've found is to put the phone into airplane mode (both of my most recent phones have had it so I assume it's becoming standard). That allows you to use the phone as a PDA (pull contact information, view/edit saved data, play games, etc) without it running down your battery in a matter of hours.
I wonder how the medical imaging radiation an average person receives compares to the daily, hourly, sometime nigh-continuous exposure to the lower levels of radiation from a cell phone.
It doesn't. Trying to compare the two would be like trying to compare getting hit with a ping pong ball once a minute all day every day to getting shot with a 9mm pistol once a year. Look up the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation if this isn't making sense to you.
There are populations that have been using cell phones for almost 30 years, and before them there were groups that used hand held radios of similar power levels for another few decades. Granted, the levels of use are probably going up, but in many cases the power output is also going down so you're talking about minimum 30 and up to 60 years of use, it shouldn't be too hard to get a group of long term radio and cell phone users together and have them take a health survey. In fact, you probably wouldn't even have to, all you'd really have to do is look at the rate of brain cancers compaired to the rate of cell phone adoption and if there's a strong correlation you can investigate further (here's a hint, there isn't one).
Why mention stem cells specifically in the prize description? I'd rather see something like "Create replacement organs in the lab with MTBF of X years" but I guess that doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Different organs lend themselves to different replacement strategies better than others. The first long term implantable artificial hearts are just coming to the market, at the same time stem cells are being used to build the first replacement bladders, also at the same time some basic nanotech is looking at replacing the pancreas. So... why call out stem cells specifically when the future is probably some fusion of many different approaches depending on need, cost, and ease?
Besides, there will be quite a mess with extrasolar systems too; what is a giant planet and what is a sub-brown dwarf? Or what about moons of gas giants that will turn out to be larger than Earth?
A sub-brown giant is a body with less than 13 Jupiter masses that doesn't orbit a start or stellar remnant. If it goes around the star and is below that size limit it is a planet. A moon the size of the earth is still a moon by definition, size alone doesn't determine what is or isn't a planet; if it orbits a planet it is a moon. An as yet unanswered question would be "What about two planet sized bodies that orbit around a common center of gravity?"
Seriously, how did that get rated up? Do the mods just say "oh that sounds interesting" and mod it up without even looking at the links or think about what the person is saying? Yes, I'm sure some random guy on the internet has come up with a convenient, easy, reproducible way to produce an anti-gravity device and it somehow slipped our attention. Thanks for filling us in GP!
If it shines it's a star. Else if the mass is greater than the theoretical minimum for fusion (13 Jupiter masses), it is a brown dwarf. Else if the mass orbits a star or stellar remnant it is a planet Else it is a 'sub-brown dwarf'
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Well, the .xxx domain is probably pointless. The vast majority of adult sites aren't going to be moving so you still won't be able to easily filter based on that criteria. The doc you linked does mention a different idea that I could get behind though, establish a .kids which would be a semi-walled garden of child appropriate material. That allows the creating of a relatively safe space for children which would be relatively enforceable by knowledgeable parents without creating the privacy and legal concerns that everyone seems to have with a .xxx domain.
He made at least two faulty assumptions when he started this little experiment:
1) That he would be arrested as soon as security was aware of his activities. This is not necessarily the case, especially if they suspected he was acting in concert with others. It's more likely that they would watch him from a distance and try to gather as much information as possible, as long as he didn't do anything immediately threatening. Once arrested, he would have no way of knowing at what point he was detected.
2) That this explanation would get him out of all the trouble he had put himself in. Don't get me wrong, it is in interesting experiment, and if it weren't for assumptions #1 I would be very interested in the results; but that doesn't mean he's not going to be charged for all the things he was 'pretending' to do.
Wow, I know this is asking a lot, especially given the length and depth of the article, but seriously, go read it. They've clearly put a lot of effort into analyzing the situation immediately before and during the crash and that is not what the evidence says. For one thing, only a single affected stock was in 'Slow trade mode' at the beginning of the crash, and only 3 were by the time the crash was at its worst. Furthermore, the stocks in slow trade mode trailed behind the stocks that actually caused the problem.
Basically, the first thing that went wrong is that the NYSE received too many quotes too fast, faster than they could process them. So their systems put them into a queue and processed them as quickly as possible. The next step where things went wrong was that these quotes were timestamped when they left the queue, instead of when they entered. This means that the apparent price on the NYSE was lagging a little bit behind reality. Problem number three occurred when the high frequency trading systems detected this apparent price difference and attempted to capitalize on it, driving the cost for the affected stocks even low and generating more quotes on those stocks as well, causing a feedback loop that bottomed out the market.
Now the question is, why were there so many quotes for these stocks, up to 5000 a second from a single source in some cases. I'm hardly an expert, so I'll just quote the conclusion the report comes to:
What benefit could there be to whomever is generating these extremely high quote rates? After thoughtful analysis, we can only think of one. Competition between HFT systems today has reached the point where microseconds matter. Any edge one has to process information faster than a competitor makes all the difference in this game. If you could generate a large number of quotes that your competitors have to process, but you can ignore since you generated them, you gain valuable processing time. This is an extremely disturbing development, because as more HFT systems start doing this, it is only a matter of time before quote-stuffing shuts down the entire market from congestion. We think it played an active role in the final drop on 5/6/2010, and urge everyone involved to take a look at what is going on. Our recommendation for a simple 50ms quote expiration rule would eliminate quote-stuffing and level the playing field without impacting legitimate trading.
Or better yet, stop trying to sue your potential customers and instead offer a cheap, high quality, DRM free, and above all legal download option and actually make money off of it instead of losing money in litigation costs. Personally, I very rarely download things that I can legally acquire some other way, but if there was an option for unlimited downloads of the things I watch for a fair (think ~$5 per month) cost I'd jump all over that and kiss my cable subscription goodbye.
Yeah, but you might as well add a few of programs that will almost definitely fail, but it would be so freakin sweet if the succeeded. I'll testify before congress if I screw up and accidentally fund a successful nuclear fusion or artificial intelligence project; I think I could talk my way out of that one.
Most people don't realize it but DARPA can best be described as a few dozen scientists and engineers with large checkbooks and a big travel budget. They go around the country and around the world looking for technologies that are beyond what we can do today but might be possible with the right funding in the right places. Most importantly, they're aware that a large percentage of the projects that they fund will end in failure (or rather, will not meet all their goals), but the benefits of the ones that don't outweigh the costs.
Maybe I'm the only one who really didn't like Sunshine? The premise was ludicrous, the science was laughable, and it devolved into a fantasy slasher film half way through. I prefer my science fiction to have a bit more basis in science personally.
Only with your consent. I know my company has a PAC that I don't contribute a dime to, and there are absolutely zero negative repercussions from that decision.
Yes, I'm sure temporarily closing less than 1% of the active wells in the region will be absolutely devastating to the local economy. Clearly, the oil engineers need to take the time to reinspect their installations and re-think containment and capping procedures; current procedures have show themselves to be extremely ineffective. Taking 6 months to review policy and technology involved after a disaster of this magnitude seems pretty logical to me. Besides, how exactly is it this judge's job to weigh the harm and benefit of a presidential order?
Those are all issues that can and (assuming demand is high enough) will be fixed. If there's a reason that flash won't work on phones its because of battery usage and performance problems. Steve Jobs was still wrong, let the users and developers decide what they want, if flash really can't be made to work then so be it. But there's no valid reason why developers and users can't be allowed to try it out.
By the way, I searched for the string "when" in an in-box that had 142,211 emails and I received 11,317 emails back!
You can hardly expect Google to make up for your lack of search skills or memory. I'm not saying you don't have other valid points, but searching for such basic terms as 'when' and 'details' instead of something that is unique to the message is bound to return tons of results. It's not Google's fault that you have 11,317 emails with the word 'when' in it.
It's something that's been thrown around a lot but I have to wonder if targeting those kinds of traits with a disease is really possible. The easiest way to target a cell is to target the binding receptors on the outside of that cell, unless the genes that code for the trait you want to eliminate are also expressed in the binding receptors I think that creating such a disease is way beyond our current technology.
But maybe I'm wrong, any experts out there want to weigh in?
It doesn't bother me that you're wrong (at least according to the article), honest mistake and all, but it does bother me that you're modded up for it.
They remain when the current browser session is closed, they remain after you clear the browser history, and they remain after a full factory reset. The JPEG files are saved to a folder named .bookmark_thumb1 which is located within the emmc folder of the phones internal storage (so you would expect a full factory reset to delete them).
Is there any particular reason I should care?
They remain even after a factory reset, which is a little concerning. TFA mentions they found screenshots of everything from their Facebook page to the bank website and everything in between, probably not enough to steal your money or your accounts but still enough to track your activity on the web. If you're doing anything on your HTC phone that you'd rather not have other people (informed, ambitious, and already suspicious people at least) find out about then yes it should concern you a bit.
And if you could increase the warning from 15 minutes to 30 I'm sure no one would live that would otherwise die. More importantly, if you could cut the false positive warnings in half maybe people would actually respect the warnings that they do get. Most people I know hear the sirens go off and run to the windows, and I can't even argue with them for doing it. I've heard the sirens go off at least 20 times in my life (including 6 times last year alone), and have never had a tornado within 10 miles of me; reduce the false positives to the point where the siren is actually unusual and maybe people will head for the basement instead of the porch.
Part of the problem is that it just isn't that easy, if you're being honest with yourself, to tell what is and what isn't a lie, even after the fact. The president doesn't control the world, he doesn't control the country, and he doesn't control congress; lots of things can happen that aren't easily forseen which can lead to promises being broken despite the best of intentions. Now, doubtless there are times that things are said, promises made that can't possibly be upheld, but I bet if you're being honest with yourself, the vaste majority of broken promises could be put down to over-ambition, changing circumstances, and increased knowledge.
because the many-to-many relationship between a supplier's costs and the items on a contract make it difficult or impossible to assign proportional increases.
This is the part I don't follow. Using your example the overrun was 4.9%, why not just multiply every line item by 1.049 and be done with it. The dining facility would have a line item cost of $104,900, the toilet seat $10.49, a ballpoint pen $1.05. Prices look sane and the numbers come out fine (+/- a few pennies due to rounding).
Similar problem when I go to visit the folks up in rural Wisconsin, the solution I've found is to put the phone into airplane mode (both of my most recent phones have had it so I assume it's becoming standard). That allows you to use the phone as a PDA (pull contact information, view/edit saved data, play games, etc) without it running down your battery in a matter of hours.
I wonder how the medical imaging radiation an average person receives compares to the daily, hourly, sometime nigh-continuous exposure to the lower levels of radiation from a cell phone.
It doesn't. Trying to compare the two would be like trying to compare getting hit with a ping pong ball once a minute all day every day to getting shot with a 9mm pistol once a year. Look up the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation if this isn't making sense to you.
There are populations that have been using cell phones for almost 30 years, and before them there were groups that used hand held radios of similar power levels for another few decades. Granted, the levels of use are probably going up, but in many cases the power output is also going down so you're talking about minimum 30 and up to 60 years of use, it shouldn't be too hard to get a group of long term radio and cell phone users together and have them take a health survey. In fact, you probably wouldn't even have to, all you'd really have to do is look at the rate of brain cancers compaired to the rate of cell phone adoption and if there's a strong correlation you can investigate further (here's a hint, there isn't one).
Why mention stem cells specifically in the prize description? I'd rather see something like "Create replacement organs in the lab with MTBF of X years" but I guess that doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Different organs lend themselves to different replacement strategies better than others. The first long term implantable artificial hearts are just coming to the market, at the same time stem cells are being used to build the first replacement bladders, also at the same time some basic nanotech is looking at replacing the pancreas. So... why call out stem cells specifically when the future is probably some fusion of many different approaches depending on need, cost, and ease?
Besides, there will be quite a mess with extrasolar systems too; what is a giant planet and what is a sub-brown dwarf? Or what about moons of gas giants that will turn out to be larger than Earth?
A sub-brown giant is a body with less than 13 Jupiter masses that doesn't orbit a start or stellar remnant. If it goes around the star and is below that size limit it is a planet. A moon the size of the earth is still a moon by definition, size alone doesn't determine what is or isn't a planet; if it orbits a planet it is a moon. An as yet unanswered question would be "What about two planet sized bodies that orbit around a common center of gravity?"
Seriously, how did that get rated up? Do the mods just say "oh that sounds interesting" and mod it up without even looking at the links or think about what the person is saying? Yes, I'm sure some random guy on the internet has come up with a convenient, easy, reproducible way to produce an anti-gravity device and it somehow slipped our attention. Thanks for filling us in GP!
This is 200 times more powerful than what can legally be sold as a laser pointer in the US, so apparently not.
So to summarize:
If it shines it's a star.
Else if the mass is greater than the theoretical minimum for fusion (13 Jupiter masses), it is a brown dwarf.
Else if the mass orbits a star or stellar remnant it is a planet
Else it is a 'sub-brown dwarf'