So that's why SETI never found anything... they were trying to decompress with ZIP, and the aliens used RAR which has better compression and error correction. *Facepalm*.
But, on a more serious and related note, Marcus Hutter (of the Hutter Prize) contends that the closer we come to the "perfect" compression of human knowledge, the closer we come to finding AI.
Personally I disagree, as the compressors / decompressors have still been designed / tweaked by man to get the optimal result... the day a general purpose automaton is given the instruction "find the best compression algorithm with no human assistance or oversight", and achieves it, THEN we'll be talking about real AI.
Ironically, as "perfect" compression implies zero redundancy, it would be absolutely indistinguishable from white noise, and hence be the most difficult to recognize if it was ever found / used.
So perhaps those aliens are just too damn clever for us to communicate with anyway. We might eventually recognize a message, and a bit later, we might even work out how to decompress it. But could we ever work out the system that compressed it in the first place, to be able to send a coherent reply ?
Still it calls into question at what point should the road just be closed
I'm pretty sure those people are there because they have to be, not because the actually *like* driving 3260km.
So how would closing this mahor highway (thus diverting all that traffic through tiny villages and dirt tracks presumably) enable them to get home any faster ?
So? What's your point? I'm sure you can point out all the other countries in the world who are run by selfless martyrs concerned primarily with the well being of not only their own people but those of everyone else in the world.
No, but the likes of Iran and North Korea don't bullshit the issue... they've made it very clear that they're batshit crazy.
US on the other hand would like to pretend they're the worlds' benefactor and saviour... when in fact their policies are not that dissimilar from any other country... greed, self interest, control over their citizens.
Look up 'sanctimonious' sometime... I can't think of a more accurate description of the US.
The anti-Americanism around here truly gets tiresome after a while.
Then perhaps you should learn to mind your own fucking business, and stop interfering in the worlds affairs ? US is only 1/20th of the world's population, and sometimes the other 19/20ths have an opinion too... maybe some of them post here ? If you don't like it, perhaps you can go to a solely US news site, where you can "whoop whoop, hotdog, fuckin-A, kickass" to your hearts content, amongst like-minded warmongers^Wpeople.
And if the odds were more than 50.00%, doubling them would make a number over 100.00%... as you didn't actually STATE any beginning odds, you can't blame me for pulling a number out of my ass... it's exactly the same procedure as the Israelis / US do anyway.
And perhaps you should retake History... Iran IS Persia !!!
While speed might not be the CAUSE of most accidents, it sure makes a hell of a difference to the impact... hence my tongue in cheek comment above.
Hit someone at 20 or 30 and both drivers will probably have stiff necks and sore chests from the seatbelts (assuming they were wearing one), and some minor damage to the vehicles. Hit someone at 50 or 60, and they'll be extracting what remains of your corpse from a Prius compacted down to the size of a microwave.
Having said that, I always drive at the prevailing speed of the other traffic. That way I don't get tailgated by boy racers, nor do I end up running into the back of some old dear who can't see over the dashboard and insists on going 50 in a 70 zone (and in the overtaking lane).
He's so addicted to posting comments, he doesn't have any time to read existing ones. I think he should sue for making posting so damn addictive.
HA, I just realized why we have that stupid 1 minute limit between posts... it's NOT as we all suspected, to avoid people focusing on the crappy underlying perl scripts and database, it's to STOP PEOPLE GETTING ADDICTED !!!
And of course, we get to take regular breaks every time kdawson posts another piece of drivel disguised as a story.
The important part is if NCsoft knowingly let somebody play for 11 hours a day over five years without ever getting into direct contact with him to talk about that issue. If they didn't, I'd call that negligence.
WHY THE FUCK SHOULD THEY ? HE'S A GROWN ADULT !!!
You might as well blame the ISP because they also knew he was using the internet for long periods of time. Or how about the electric company, because they knew his average consumption every month. Or why not just blame the PC manufacturer, for not having an automatic shutdown on the PC after it's been on for 3 hours.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE THESE DAYS ?
It's funny but I've been smoking and drinking since I was 14, so that's about 28 years now... strangely enough I've not received ANY calls from Marlboro or San Miguel Corporation about MY "addiction".
Is it the duty of the Cable company to warn me against watching too much TV ?
WTF is wrong with the world ? Do we have to nanny grown adults ? he made his choices, now he has to live with them. Not only should this be thrown out, he should be charged all the court expenses for time wasted.
All this does is send a message to every drug addict, alcholic, smoker, fat bastard, and obsessive compulsive that "it's okay to keep abusing your own mind/body, because after 5 years you can sue and get a massive payout".
FYI - I just quit smoking 6 days ago, so I'm a little edgy;-)
I think he was trying to make the point that it doesn't matter if you are going 50 or 100, it's the sudden change in velocity to 0 that does most of the damage.
Something like falling out of an aeroplane, it's not the height that kills you, it's the bloody ground.
At least the homepages are looking better (now with Flash)... unfortunately clicking "Terms & Conditions" gives you a blank page, the blog seems to be entries from cheapcigarettes.co.uk... oh and did I mention despite the apparent European feel to the site, it's still knockoff sweatshop crap made and shipped from China.
Twitter is loved by people who has something to say, in short and hates the idea of "blogging" or facebook.
You mean the kind of people who can't form a coherent sentence, who cannot concentrate on one conversation at a time so they follow 20 or 30, just chipping in with useless non-contributions like "I know" and "Oooo, that happened to me too".
Twitter is the digital equivalent of old ladies standing on their doorsteps exchanging "he said, she said" gossip with their doorstep dwelling neighbours.
Then why announce it to the general public at all ?
If the manufacturers are fixing it, then what's the problem ?
This is just a case of the l33t h4x0r shouting "look how big my balls are, I can tell vendor X,Y,Z what to do", with the hidden undercurrent of "if they don't then I'll fuck them up good by releasing the data to the world".
According to the US Treasury, $1 million in $100 dollar bills weights 10kg.
So we're talking 77 metric tonnes for 7.7 billion... sorry, my Imperial skills are limited to feet and inches, once we get onto mass I have to revert to the system that has been in place since 1971.
Umm, TWIRL and TWINKLE are essentially flashing lights in cardboard tubes, and an awful lot of handwaving by the "inventor".
I know one instance of RSA-768 that was broken using NFS, but hadn't heard anything more recent than that, certainly nothing using a glorified kaleidoscope.
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So that's why SETI never found anything ... they were trying to decompress with ZIP, and the aliens used RAR which has better compression and error correction. *Facepalm*.
But, on a more serious and related note, Marcus Hutter (of the Hutter Prize) contends that the closer we come to the "perfect" compression of human knowledge, the closer we come to finding AI.
Personally I disagree, as the compressors / decompressors have still been designed / tweaked by man to get the optimal result ... the day a general purpose automaton is given the instruction "find the best compression algorithm with no human assistance or oversight", and achieves it, THEN we'll be talking about real AI.
Ironically, as "perfect" compression implies zero redundancy, it would be absolutely indistinguishable from white noise, and hence be the most difficult to recognize if it was ever found / used.
So perhaps those aliens are just too damn clever for us to communicate with anyway. We might eventually recognize a message, and a bit later, we might even work out how to decompress it. But could we ever work out the system that compressed it in the first place, to be able to send a coherent reply ?
Ah, so it was KMDs in Iraq then ?
Flied lice ? It is fried rice, you plick !
It's been 1 minute since you last successfully posted a comment ... yes, and it's also been about 10ms since my last neuron fired. Your point was ???
Still it calls into question at what point should the road just be closed
I'm pretty sure those people are there because they have to be, not because the actually *like* driving 3260km.
So how would closing this mahor highway (thus diverting all that traffic through tiny villages and dirt tracks presumably) enable them to get home any faster ?
So? What's your point? I'm sure you can point out all the other countries in the world who are run by selfless martyrs concerned primarily with the well being of not only their own people but those of everyone else in the world.
No, but the likes of Iran and North Korea don't bullshit the issue ... they've made it very clear that they're batshit crazy.
US on the other hand would like to pretend they're the worlds' benefactor and saviour ... when in fact their policies are not that dissimilar from any other country ... greed, self interest, control over their citizens.
Look up 'sanctimonious' sometime ... I can't think of a more accurate description of the US.
The anti-Americanism around here truly gets tiresome after a while.
Then perhaps you should learn to mind your own fucking business, and stop interfering in the worlds affairs ? US is only 1/20th of the world's population, and sometimes the other 19/20ths have an opinion too ... maybe some of them post here ? If you don't like it, perhaps you can go to a solely US news site, where you can "whoop whoop, hotdog, fuckin-A, kickass" to your hearts content, amongst like-minded warmongers^Wpeople.
And if the odds were more than 50.00%, doubling them would make a number over 100.00% ... as you didn't actually STATE any beginning odds, you can't blame me for pulling a number out of my ass ... it's exactly the same procedure as the Israelis / US do anyway.
And perhaps you should retake History ... Iran IS Persia !!!
1 kilogram, 1 Iranian Blouse=Earthquake Believer, 100 dollars. (Permute as desired).
OMG, it's 100% certain we're gonna get nuked by the crazy Persians !
Proof or disproof either way would have to wait 5 years, editing not really necessary as nothing would make your formula any more realistic.
It is EXACTLY a question of numbers.
You didn't like accidental stats, so try some deliberate premeditated ones courtesy of the Land of the Free & Home of the Brave (sic).
45 murders per day in US = 16425 per year
110600 Iraqis killed since 2003 = 13825 per year (approx.)
1.4 to 2.2 million Vietnamese killed by US backed Pol Pot 1973 - 1978 = 360,000 per year (approx.)
The US has NEVER cared about people, only about oil, power and control at the expense of every other poor bastard on earth.
Is it just my observation, or is eldavojohn an idiot?
Possibly, but at least he knows the difference between Minority Report and Lord of the Rings.
Congrats, Smidge207, you win the Fuckwit of the Day award.
I'm 50:50 on this one ...
While speed might not be the CAUSE of most accidents, it sure makes a hell of a difference to the impact ... hence my tongue in cheek comment above.
Hit someone at 20 or 30 and both drivers will probably have stiff necks and sore chests from the seatbelts (assuming they were wearing one), and some minor damage to the vehicles. Hit someone at 50 or 60, and they'll be extracting what remains of your corpse from a Prius compacted down to the size of a microwave.
Having said that, I always drive at the prevailing speed of the other traffic. That way I don't get tailgated by boy racers, nor do I end up running into the back of some old dear who can't see over the dashboard and insists on going 50 in a 70 zone (and in the overtaking lane).
He's so addicted to posting comments, he doesn't have any time to read existing ones. I think he should sue for making posting so damn addictive.
HA, I just realized why we have that stupid 1 minute limit between posts ... it's NOT as we all suspected, to avoid people focusing on the crappy underlying perl scripts and database, it's to STOP PEOPLE GETTING ADDICTED !!!
And of course, we get to take regular breaks every time kdawson posts another piece of drivel disguised as a story.
The important part is if NCsoft knowingly let somebody play for 11 hours a day over five years without ever getting into direct contact with him to talk about that issue. If they didn't, I'd call that negligence.
WHY THE FUCK SHOULD THEY ? HE'S A GROWN ADULT !!!
You might as well blame the ISP because they also knew he was using the internet for long periods of time. Or how about the electric company, because they knew his average consumption every month. Or why not just blame the PC manufacturer, for not having an automatic shutdown on the PC after it's been on for 3 hours.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE THESE DAYS ?
It's funny but I've been smoking and drinking since I was 14, so that's about 28 years now ... strangely enough I've not received ANY calls from Marlboro or San Miguel Corporation about MY "addiction".
A method for being both insensitive and a clod, using a computer.
There you go ... the USPTO will pass it because it has the magic words at the end.
(And then Apple will buy the patent and claim it was their innovation all along, then start remotely disabling Slashdot accounts).
There go my mod points ...
Two words ... personal responsibility.
Is it the duty of the Cable company to warn me against watching too much TV ?
WTF is wrong with the world ? Do we have to nanny grown adults ? he made his choices, now he has to live with them. Not only should this be thrown out, he should be charged all the court expenses for time wasted.
All this does is send a message to every drug addict, alcholic, smoker, fat bastard, and obsessive compulsive that "it's okay to keep abusing your own mind/body, because after 5 years you can sue and get a massive payout".
FYI - I just quit smoking 6 days ago, so I'm a little edgy ;-)
I think he was trying to make the point that it doesn't matter if you are going 50 or 100, it's the sudden change in velocity to 0 that does most of the damage.
Something like falling out of an aeroplane, it's not the height that kills you, it's the bloody ground.
The size of a 100 dollar bill is 2.61" wide, by 6.14" long, and 0.0043" in thickness. That gives 0.06890922 cubic inches.
At least the homepages are looking better (now with Flash) ... unfortunately clicking "Terms & Conditions" gives you a blank page, the blog seems to be entries from cheapcigarettes.co.uk ... oh and did I mention despite the apparent European feel to the site, it's still knockoff sweatshop crap made and shipped from China.
Twitter is loved by people who has something to say, in short and hates the idea of "blogging" or facebook.
You mean the kind of people who can't form a coherent sentence, who cannot concentrate on one conversation at a time so they follow 20 or 30, just chipping in with useless non-contributions like "I know" and "Oooo, that happened to me too".
Twitter is the digital equivalent of old ladies standing on their doorsteps exchanging "he said, she said" gossip with their doorstep dwelling neighbours.
Then why announce it to the general public at all ?
If the manufacturers are fixing it, then what's the problem ?
This is just a case of the l33t h4x0r shouting "look how big my balls are, I can tell vendor X,Y,Z what to do", with the hidden undercurrent of "if they don't then I'll fuck them up good by releasing the data to the world".
According to the US Treasury, $1 million in $100 dollar bills weights 10kg.
So we're talking 77 metric tonnes for 7.7 billion ... sorry, my Imperial skills are limited to feet and inches, once we get onto mass I have to revert to the system that has been in place since 1971.
Units off by at least 1 Library of Congress ...
0.068 Cubic Inches x 77000000 pieces = 5236000 Cubic Inches = 3030 cubic feet.
McAfee "works only with Intel Core i9 processors"
FTFY
At least McAfee can be bundled with something ... Symantec you couldn't GIVE away.
There was an app named iGnore, which was rumoured to hide Apple stories from the Slashdot website.
Unfortunately, anyone who used it only saw a blank screen and assumed it was broken.
Umm, TWIRL and TWINKLE are essentially flashing lights in cardboard tubes, and an awful lot of handwaving by the "inventor".
I know one instance of RSA-768 that was broken using NFS, but hadn't heard anything more recent than that, certainly nothing using a glorified kaleidoscope.