90% of our entire lives is composed of crap, and has been since long before Twitter and Facebook.
People spend hours and hours every day, gossiping about who said what, who did what, blah, blah, blah. The content of most conversations consist of talking about oneself, or talking about some third party, what you did yesterday, what you will do tomorrow.
It's ALL noise... the only difference is its now digital noise, whereas before it was analogue noise.
If I'd invested all my money into various online "marketing" / get-rich-quick schemes, and was constantly worried I was never going to see it again, I don't think I could sleep either.
Please take some time to read about Quadratic Sieves and Number Field Sieves... these are both polynomial time algorithms used to perform integer factorization, and are no way related to "brute forcing".
Except for the fact that they can also be bought with the in-game currency ISK.
No one has made it clear if he was the first owner who paid real cash for them, or just some buy and sell merchant looking to make a quick profit on reselling.
So perhaps the only thing he has lost is time, and a big chunk of his in-game currency... I seriously doubt anyone would buy 74 x 1 month subscriptions using real money, especially when the big savings are on buying 1 year at a time.
So, no, nothing of value (i.e. real cash) was lost... only a whole lot of his time and in-game currency.
The biggest bug is extreme lag in systems where many of the older players in big alliances play
Yes, it's annoying, but please point me to any other MMORPG where 2000 people could even log in at the same time, never mind all be in the same place fighting each other.
Jesus, the battle scene CGI for Lord of the Rings took them months yet you expect CCP to do it real time in EVE ?
For Athiests, life here on Earth is of the ultimate importance and should be preserved as long as possible, precisely because there is nothing to come afterwards.
You'll note that every time you hear about a war on TV, it's the Catholics vs. Protestants, Jews vs. Muslims, Shia vs. Sunni etc etc... never Athiests vs Anyone.
I foresee a distant future where one man has ALL the money, and everyone else is dead. I mean, isn't that the goal of capitalism ? To own more than anyone else ?
Dan: Well, our object collision budget's a million dollars. That allows us to track about 3% of the sky, and beg'n your pardon sir, but it's a big-ass sky.
RSA, at least up until 768 bits if memory serves, is already solveable. At least one instance of it.
But until we have definitive proof about P = NP, or not, all we can do is remove RSA from this class of problems, i.e. it is no longer as "hard" as it once was.
but my point being, very very few people are qualified to write or debunk this paper, but everybody should be trying to.
s/paper/AGW and you would have been modded into oblivion for heresy against the academe. We have a peer review process, how dare mere serfs challenge our great wisdom.
As long as your growth gains outstrip your debt payments, you should be fine
Problem is, that growth is based on imaginary assets (shares, IP, etc) that one day are worth billions, and the next day on the whim of the stock market or the patent office, are worth zero.
If you looked at real growth, i.e. manufacturing and production of materials and foodstuffs, I'd say you're all deeply in the red, and have been for a long time.
This post, like everything else, probably has "Made in China" stamped on the bottom.
You can't take the average temperature increase of the whole fucking globe, and assume that because of that, an ice shelf breaking off in Greenland has been caused by it.
You might as well argue that a snowball melting in Norway is caused by all those cunts in Australia using their barbecues.
The A in AGW does NOT stand for AVERAGE, you dumb fuck.
Yes, well played... you pay more because your risk is higher than other members of your group... and you are MORE likely to make a claim i.e. more likely to ask the other members of the group to all chip in to solve your problem.
You betray your lack of understanding of simple economics
I DO ??? I think you have it backwards.
The insurance company takes the total amount of all expected claims (plus their markup) and divides it by the number of subscribers in the policy.
This is how they can afford to pay out $50,000 bucks when your house gets cleaned out, even though you only paid a $500 policy fee. Or did you think they have a secret money tree ?
It works only because they expect 1 in 100 people to actually claim. If everyone claimed, they'd be bankrupted.
Ergo, YOU are being subsidized by 99 other people who WON'T claim, probably because they have a dog which is a great deterrent to the casual burglar.
Like I said... by not taking precautions to minimize the risk of being burgled because of your financial situation, you are pushing the load onto 99 other people who DO behave in a more responsible manner.
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90% of our entire lives is composed of crap, and has been since long before Twitter and Facebook.
People spend hours and hours every day, gossiping about who said what, who did what, blah, blah, blah. The content of most conversations consist of talking about oneself, or talking about some third party, what you did yesterday, what you will do tomorrow.
It's ALL noise ... the only difference is its now digital noise, whereas before it was analogue noise.
In Soviet Russia, this one post reads you !
Have a nice day.
Nope, 18 months online ... you might want to try zooming in once in a while.
The rendering of all those ships, missiles, explosions etc in real time is no mean feat.
And after carefully reading the instructions, and inflating to the correct PSI, they lived happily ever after. The End.
If I'd invested all my money into various online "marketing" / get-rich-quick schemes, and was constantly worried I was never going to see it again, I don't think I could sleep either.
Please take some time to read about Quadratic Sieves and Number Field Sieves ... these are both polynomial time algorithms used to perform integer factorization, and are no way related to "brute forcing".
Except for the fact that they can also be bought with the in-game currency ISK.
No one has made it clear if he was the first owner who paid real cash for them, or just some buy and sell merchant looking to make a quick profit on reselling.
So perhaps the only thing he has lost is time, and a big chunk of his in-game currency ... I seriously doubt anyone would buy 74 x 1 month subscriptions using real money, especially when the big savings are on buying 1 year at a time.
So, no, nothing of value (i.e. real cash) was lost ... only a whole lot of his time and in-game currency.
The biggest bug is extreme lag in systems where many of the older players in big alliances play
Yes, it's annoying, but please point me to any other MMORPG where 2000 people could even log in at the same time, never mind all be in the same place fighting each other.
Jesus, the battle scene CGI for Lord of the Rings took them months yet you expect CCP to do it real time in EVE ?
Congratulations on upgrading your voice synthesizer to version 1.1
Fixed in this version :-
I will not buy this tobacconist, it is scratched.
Ass about face but never mind ...
For Athiests, life here on Earth is of the ultimate importance and should be preserved as long as possible, precisely because there is nothing to come afterwards.
You'll note that every time you hear about a war on TV, it's the Catholics vs. Protestants, Jews vs. Muslims, Shia vs. Sunni etc etc ... never Athiests vs Anyone.
I foresee a distant future where one man has ALL the money, and everyone else is dead. I mean, isn't that the goal of capitalism ? To own more than anyone else ?
President: We didn't see this thing coming?
Dan: Well, our object collision budget's a million dollars. That allows us to track about 3% of the sky, and beg'n your pardon sir, but it's a big-ass sky.
RSA, at least up until 768 bits if memory serves, is already solveable. At least one instance of it.
But until we have definitive proof about P = NP, or not, all we can do is remove RSA from this class of problems, i.e. it is no longer as "hard" as it once was.
but my point being, very very few people are qualified to write or debunk this paper, but everybody should be trying to.
s/paper/AGW and you would have been modded into oblivion for heresy against the academe. We have a peer review process, how dare mere serfs challenge our great wisdom.
I thought that WAS Godwin's Law ?
Poland != Nazi (occupied) Poland.
As long as your growth gains outstrip your debt payments, you should be fine
Problem is, that growth is based on imaginary assets (shares, IP, etc) that one day are worth billions, and the next day on the whim of the stock market or the patent office, are worth zero.
If you looked at real growth, i.e. manufacturing and production of materials and foodstuffs, I'd say you're all deeply in the red, and have been for a long time.
This post, like everything else, probably has "Made in China" stamped on the bottom.
When the potatoes sprout 8 legs and walk across my dinner plate, call me. Until then, I know where you can buy some heavy duty tin-foil for your hat.
You can't take the average temperature increase of the whole fucking globe, and assume that because of that, an ice shelf breaking off in Greenland has been caused by it.
You might as well argue that a snowball melting in Norway is caused by all those cunts in Australia using their barbecues.
The A in AGW does NOT stand for AVERAGE, you dumb fuck.
It is statistically unlikely when you only base your statistics on temperature records since 1950 ...
Yes, well played ... you pay more because your risk is higher than other members of your group ... and you are MORE likely to make a claim i.e. more likely to ask the other members of the group to all chip in to solve your problem.
I suspect most people climbing Everest use ropes too. Does that mean homo sapiens is not autonomous, or just sensible enough not to take undue risks.
You betray your lack of understanding of simple economics
I DO ??? I think you have it backwards.
The insurance company takes the total amount of all expected claims (plus their markup) and divides it by the number of subscribers in the policy.
This is how they can afford to pay out $50,000 bucks when your house gets cleaned out, even though you only paid a $500 policy fee. Or did you think they have a secret money tree ?
It works only because they expect 1 in 100 people to actually claim. If everyone claimed, they'd be bankrupted.
Ergo, YOU are being subsidized by 99 other people who WON'T claim, probably because they have a dog which is a great deterrent to the casual burglar.
Like I said ... by not taking precautions to minimize the risk of being burgled because of your financial situation, you are pushing the load onto 99 other people who DO behave in a more responsible manner.
Or a pointed stick.
An awl could be almost as effective in the right hands, but it requires you to get much closer to the intruder and therefore increases risk
Not of you shoot a bundle of them from a siege mounted crossbow.
(Apologies to Sir Terry for stealing Detritus' weapon of choice).
You're out of pocket for quite a bit more than the typical homeowner's insurance policy
So rather than pay for your own security, you prefer to let everyone else pay for it after your house has been robbed. How very philanthropic of you.