I wonder if the music executives pick the music that made superhits some 30 or 40 years ago, dress it up using modern arrangements, and disguise it well
The genius of Reagan "the madman" wasn't in its effects in the U.S.S.R, but instead its effects on the allies of the U.S.S.R and the U.S's quasi-friends such as France.
When bombing Libya and killing the leaders family in 1986, we also "accidentally" bombed the French embassy when our laser guided bombs went "off target." It was completely a coincidence that France refused to let us use their airspace for the bombing mission, adding thousands of kilometers to the trip. Completely a coincidence I tell ya!
It was at that point that it became clear to the rest of the worlds governments that you simply do not fuck with America, and when asked to do something you just fucking did it. The effects of this lasted into the 90's, as could be observed when the U.S. was allowed to invade Panama, dissolve its military, and capture its leader putting him on trial in American courts.... not a single fucking country protested.
What he calls "forward thinking" is actually code for "big city liberalism", which isnt like regular liberalism. We are talking about the people that want to outlaw large sodas, outlaw salt in food, outlaw guns, outlaw lack of health insurance, and so on.. notice the common theme of "outlaw"
..then when his small town neighbors dont "accept" him, he rationalizes it as him being an atheist or whatever, rather than for him being the complete authoritarian prick that he really is.
Certainly there are cryptographic methods that can survive a quantum attack, but are any of them public key?
The world runs on public key encryption, allowing two machines to set up a hard to break encryption without the need for priori private channels of communication to pass otherwise vulnerable keys.
Whats the asymptotic time of a classical computer simulated annealing algorithm?
For the record, for simulated annealing to guarantee an optimal result the asymptotic worst case time is O(infinity).. worse than an exhaustive search of any finite space.
Worst case O(infinity) complexity simply isnt interesting in the realm of stochastic algorithms, average case cannot be easily deduced, and best case O(1) is also not interesting.
Sometimes experiment is the only way to ascertain how something scales in the average case for some fuzzy difficult-to-specify metric of completeness. This is why nobody can tell you the optimal parameters for nearly all stochastic optimization algorithms, with the main two competitor fields to Simulated Annealing (SA) being the variants of genetic algorithms (GA's) and the variants of estimation of distribution algorithms* (EDA's.)
Currently it is widely believed that the EDA's are the best optimizers for most problems, where best is defined as requiring the fewest number of evaluations in the average case for a specific solution quality.
None of these algorithms are any good for needle-in-haystack problems, which is what prime factorization is.
(*) Some EDA's are "incorrectly" named Genetic Algorithms, such as the Compact Genetic Algorithm and its variants. They were given their name not for how they work, but instead for the way the search propagates through the solution space: the CGA is exactly equal in runtime to a simple GA with a crossover rate of 0.5
IT's not racist by any reasonable stretch of the imagination.
The U.S. government runs a lottery that gives out an additional 50,000 VISA's per year beyond the level playing field of normal immigration, but people from Mexico arent allowed to win any of them, and you are there claiming its not racist by any stretch of the imagination?
Did the Senate pass another bill that would discriminate against specific countries where many people desperately want to come from, particularly Mexico and China?
The "Diversity Visa Program" passed in 1990 does exactly that, as it forbids people from particular countries from qualifying for 50000 Visa's annually.
Notice how nobody turned around and called the Democrats racist for supporting the obviously racist program.. but hey.. its got "diversity" in the name.. and diversity is good, even if you have to discriminate based on shit like skin color.
...its all fun and games until you buy some fireworks and then get arrested and charged with possession of weapons of mass destruction.
Do you really think they threw that charge in to be cute?
They are trying to set a precedent, and by the looks of it they will because as you see from the comments here, this guy is automatically guilty of anything they charge him with in the publics eye.
Its simple to match compiler version, static library versions, and the static libraries linker version, and each library modules compiler version and options.....?
Also your calculation makes no sense. It assumes that this whole volume must stay micrometeorite free
No it doesn't. Thats your assumption, and its illogical. You dont seem to realize that not making the assumption you are doesnt negate the point.
Hint: It doesnt matter what velocity the craft is going relative to any arbitrary reference frame, be it 0.001mm/s or 299792458km/s.. its still going to on average collide with the same amount of shit.
And you realize that Voyager 1 and 2 are frigging miracles that they are still alive after making it through the Oort Cloud and the trashbin that is our interplanetary space.
..or they were built to survive and operate while being turned into swiss cheese...
Calculate the area of the 2D projection of a ship onto a plane perpendicular to its line of motion, multiply by the length of space traversed to get swept volume...
Once you realize that this volume is always going to be enormous for any inter-planetary travel, even for a really really tiny craft, then you stop wondering why sometimes a probe that we send out suddenly stops responding for no obvious reason.
The book Unix-haters Handbook devotes an entire chapter to the notorious sendmail. A link the the book is found at the end of the wikipedia article, in unfortunately PDF format.
Historical CERT advisories. Notice the transition from predominantly windows-platform vulnerabilities to predominantly unix-platform vulnerabilities as one goes back in time, to a period where few windows machines were on the internet.
Being open source didnt prevent souce packages like sendmail from being exploited again and again, repeatedly, throughout its history. BSD witnessed vulnerability after vulnerability also.
Translation: You clearly dont know what you are actually talking about, but rather you just think that you do because in your world things really are as simple as you think rather than the real world where things are not.
Thats not exactly true. In lots of cases when the going gets tough the CEO is replaced with another that has a proven track record of digging companies out of the particular tough spot the company finds itself in (at least if the owners/board members know whats good for them.)
For instance, the largest casino in the United States (Foxwoods) ended up with a serious credit problem several years ago. The presiding CEO (Michael Speller) was forced to resign, giving up his golden parachute, and then they brought back in a former CEO (Bill Sherlock) that had left on very good terms (the employees loved him, and the casino grew to be the biggest in the country under his watch) to serve as a temporary intrim until they landed the current CEO (Scott Butera) who is a specialist in digging corporations out of credit problems (his previous position was saving the Tropicana in Atlantic City from its own credit problems.)
Note also that Scott Butera is also renowned as a union-friendly CEO, whereas Speller the CEO they forced out had brought moral down so low that the employees unionized under the mismanagement. So the owners saw the problem and picked up the perfect guy for the situation that they found themselves in, a new CEO that fairly quickly made peace with the union and then fairly quickly got the approximately $2 billion in debt restructured so that the casino could at least make the interest payments rather than continue to default on the loans.
Today the casino has breathing room again, seeking to establish a new property in Massachusetts.
So you know that there's a policy difference between TV and Movies on Prime, but you're trying to blame the playback software implementation? Do you have any evidence that this is based on a licensing deal that hinged on the player?
No such policy difference exists on Netflix, that uses Silverlight's stronger DRM.
Netflix streams HD movies to my PC, but uses Silverlight.
Amazon Prime only streams SD movies to my PC with HD being restricted to "approved devices", but uses Flash.
So quite frankly, Flash is not working for everyone else. Take your blinders off.
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I wonder if the music executives pick the music that made superhits some 30 or 40 years ago, dress it up using modern arrangements, and disguise it well
Its all the same 4 chords.
The genius of Reagan "the madman" wasn't in its effects in the U.S.S.R, but instead its effects on the allies of the U.S.S.R and the U.S's quasi-friends such as France.
When bombing Libya and killing the leaders family in 1986, we also "accidentally" bombed the French embassy when our laser guided bombs went "off target." It was completely a coincidence that France refused to let us use their airspace for the bombing mission, adding thousands of kilometers to the trip. Completely a coincidence I tell ya!
It was at that point that it became clear to the rest of the worlds governments that you simply do not fuck with America, and when asked to do something you just fucking did it. The effects of this lasted into the 90's, as could be observed when the U.S. was allowed to invade Panama, dissolve its military, and capture its leader putting him on trial in American courts.... not a single fucking country protested.
because many countries don't want to deal with the political and moral problems of assassinating people
yeah, its not like you guys kicked off any major wars by assassinating high rankers members of foreign governments...
..its just nice peaceful nationalism and socialism, right?
here is the thing in a nutshell:
..then when his small town neighbors dont "accept" him, he rationalizes it as him being an atheist or whatever, rather than for him being the complete authoritarian prick that he really is.
What he calls "forward thinking" is actually code for "big city liberalism", which isnt like regular liberalism. We are talking about the people that want to outlaw large sodas, outlaw salt in food, outlaw guns, outlaw lack of health insurance, and so on.. notice the common theme of "outlaw"
This is XP that we are talking about, where people nearly universally run it as administrator.
Using a display driver exploit on XP is like using C4 explosive to open a screen door.
Certainly there are cryptographic methods that can survive a quantum attack, but are any of them public key?
The world runs on public key encryption, allowing two machines to set up a hard to break encryption without the need for priori private channels of communication to pass otherwise vulnerable keys.
Whats the asymptotic time of a classical computer simulated annealing algorithm?
.. worse than an exhaustive search of any finite space.
For the record, for simulated annealing to guarantee an optimal result the asymptotic worst case time is O(infinity)
Worst case O(infinity) complexity simply isnt interesting in the realm of stochastic algorithms, average case cannot be easily deduced, and best case O(1) is also not interesting.
Sometimes experiment is the only way to ascertain how something scales in the average case for some fuzzy difficult-to-specify metric of completeness. This is why nobody can tell you the optimal parameters for nearly all stochastic optimization algorithms, with the main two competitor fields to Simulated Annealing (SA) being the variants of genetic algorithms (GA's) and the variants of estimation of distribution algorithms* (EDA's.)
Currently it is widely believed that the EDA's are the best optimizers for most problems, where best is defined as requiring the fewest number of evaluations in the average case for a specific solution quality.
None of these algorithms are any good for needle-in-haystack problems, which is what prime factorization is.
(*) Some EDA's are "incorrectly" named Genetic Algorithms, such as the Compact Genetic Algorithm and its variants. They were given their name not for how they work, but instead for the way the search propagates through the solution space: the CGA is exactly equal in runtime to a simple GA with a crossover rate of 0.5
Mexico and China aren't being discriminated against in the slightest, if anything they are getting preferential treatment.
What preferential treatment is that?
Surely you dont mean how these same people are also limited by the 7% cap?
When did treating each personal equally start being called preferential treatment?
IT's not racist by any reasonable stretch of the imagination.
The U.S. government runs a lottery that gives out an additional 50,000 VISA's per year beyond the level playing field of normal immigration, but people from Mexico arent allowed to win any of them, and you are there claiming its not racist by any stretch of the imagination?
Really?
What fucking distortion field do you live in?
Did the Senate pass another bill that would discriminate against specific countries where many people desperately want to come from, particularly Mexico and China?
..of course when the GOP tried to end this program, the Democrats called the Republicans trying to end it racists.
The "Diversity Visa Program" passed in 1990 does exactly that, as it forbids people from particular countries from qualifying for 50000 Visa's annually.
Notice how nobody turned around and called the Democrats racist for supporting the obviously racist program.. but hey.. its got "diversity" in the name.. and diversity is good, even if you have to discriminate based on shit like skin color.
...its all fun and games until you buy some fireworks and then get arrested and charged with possession of weapons of mass destruction.
Do you really think they threw that charge in to be cute?
They are trying to set a precedent, and by the looks of it they will because as you see from the comments here, this guy is automatically guilty of anything they charge him with in the publics eye.
Its simple to match compiler version, static library versions, and the static libraries linker version, and each library modules compiler version and options.....?
Really?
Also your calculation makes no sense. It assumes that this whole volume must stay micrometeorite free
No it doesn't. Thats your assumption, and its illogical. You dont seem to realize that not making the assumption you are doesnt negate the point.
Hint: It doesnt matter what velocity the craft is going relative to any arbitrary reference frame, be it 0.001mm/s or 299792458km/s.. its still going to on average collide with the same amount of shit.
Now get off my lawn.
And you realize that Voyager 1 and 2 are frigging miracles that they are still alive after making it through the Oort Cloud and the trashbin that is our interplanetary space.
Calculate the area of the 2D projection of a ship onto a plane perpendicular to its line of motion, multiply by the length of space traversed to get swept volume...
Once you realize that this volume is always going to be enormous for any inter-planetary travel, even for a really really tiny craft, then you stop wondering why sometimes a probe that we send out suddenly stops responding for no obvious reason.
The book Unix-haters Handbook devotes an entire chapter to the notorious sendmail. A link the the book is found at the end of the wikipedia article, in unfortunately PDF format.
Perhaps its time for an Adobe-Haters Handbook.
Historical CERT advisories. Notice the transition from predominantly windows-platform vulnerabilities to predominantly unix-platform vulnerabilities as one goes back in time, to a period where few windows machines were on the internet.
Being open source didnt prevent souce packages like sendmail from being exploited again and again, repeatedly, throughout its history. BSD witnessed vulnerability after vulnerability also.
Wow, you really are out of the loop.
Slashdot, June 20th 2013 - "Are you sure this is the source code?"
Translation: You clearly dont know what you are actually talking about, but rather you just think that you do because in your world things really are as simple as you think rather than the real world where things are not.
Thats not exactly true. In lots of cases when the going gets tough the CEO is replaced with another that has a proven track record of digging companies out of the particular tough spot the company finds itself in (at least if the owners/board members know whats good for them.)
For instance, the largest casino in the United States (Foxwoods) ended up with a serious credit problem several years ago. The presiding CEO (Michael Speller) was forced to resign, giving up his golden parachute, and then they brought back in a former CEO (Bill Sherlock) that had left on very good terms (the employees loved him, and the casino grew to be the biggest in the country under his watch) to serve as a temporary intrim until they landed the current CEO (Scott Butera) who is a specialist in digging corporations out of credit problems (his previous position was saving the Tropicana in Atlantic City from its own credit problems.)
Note also that Scott Butera is also renowned as a union-friendly CEO, whereas Speller the CEO they forced out had brought moral down so low that the employees unionized under the mismanagement. So the owners saw the problem and picked up the perfect guy for the situation that they found themselves in, a new CEO that fairly quickly made peace with the union and then fairly quickly got the approximately $2 billion in debt restructured so that the casino could at least make the interest payments rather than continue to default on the loans.
Today the casino has breathing room again, seeking to establish a new property in Massachusetts.
It wasnt to protect the middle men...
..but it protected the middle men.
This was about preventing new players from cheaply entering the market.
..yet elegant is not always simple, at least to the standard observer.
Just because you never heard the term is irrelevant. You know that, right?
Its amazing that the first paragraph on wikipedia article for workstation specifies "multi-user operating system."
Were you in the business in the 1980's? I was. You are wrong. Get off my lawn.
So you know that there's a policy difference between TV and Movies on Prime, but you're trying to blame the playback software implementation? Do you have any evidence that this is based on a licensing deal that hinged on the player?
No such policy difference exists on Netflix, that uses Silverlight's stronger DRM.
So yes, I have evidence.
Good Eats is not a movie, its television series.
Try to match a movie on Prime in HD on your PC. You already know that you cannot, so why are you being a dishonest fuck right now?
Flash seems to work fine for everyone else.
Does it?
Netflix streams HD movies to my PC, but uses Silverlight.
Amazon Prime only streams SD movies to my PC with HD being restricted to "approved devices", but uses Flash.
So quite frankly, Flash is not working for everyone else. Take your blinders off.