And, if you damage your physical copy, you have to repurchase it, no replacements for you. It's not a license, it's a physical product. I had hoped you included that one as well.
*Gasp* Something that apparently only humans can do is complicated? Although animals can associate symbols with concepts in a similar way, they can't actually read. Certainly they haven't been shown to be able to make sense out of written information the same way the primates can work with sign language.
This is the first real evidence of an alternate theory. One camp has evidence, the other camp has evidence, eventually the next generation of researchers will find it's more complicated than that.
Just like we had DNA, then Nature/Nuture, then epigenetics, epigenetic inheritance, and more to come. As always, nothing in science is absolute. In fact, a good scientist assumes everything is wrong, or at least not complete, until everything about it is completely understood and explained. Tomorrow we may learn the sun does not exist, but is instead hawking radiation from a tiny black hole, due to new measurements from some newly built observatory.
And while you're at it, club me over the head with a bat. I can make the argument that the jumbled mess of a sentence you posted is a collection of very simple word puzzles, or "jumbles", which people can solve quickly, and then sound out in their head.
Arranged in a higher difficulty ordering, the sentence would become difficult to un-jumble, and sounding out would be impossible. That is entirely plausible, and supported by the available research, especially the number of newspapers in circulation which feature a Jumble puzzle in or near the comics section. Ta-da, it's science!
The research was there, but it was never solid enough to explain everything, so it was an accepted theory while they looked for something better.
Sounding out is, I believe, more of a teaching method, and one of those theories where if it works to teach it that way, that must be the way it works to learn. Kinda the same way the sun revolves around the earth, because that's the simplest explanation given what we knew.
Science is a gold digging slut, giving you what you want or need until something better comes along. Especially given the anecdotes here - some people do apparently sound words out, and they may do it because they were taught that way and never developed fluidity (fluency?) in reading to take it to the symbolic step. Maybe pictograph learning will be the "new math" of language teaching.
I think we were hoping for 3D based on the summary, and unless I missed something those, while impressive, are still only 2D.
It should be capable of 3D output with enough hardware, but I'm assuming the advance in this MiG simulator is optimizing the output. For example, things that are really far away don't need to be 3D, or even separated in the 3rd dimension.
So you can set a limit, like modern open-air 3D games do these days. Everything over X feet away, whatever the limit of human vision is, gets a standard spacing and the "stereoscopic" image is just a copy of the original render. Everything inside the sphere gets a dual render and distance-shifted spacing like normal 3D. Making the jump between the two has to be seemless, or it will induce nausea. Tackling these is the tough part.
Just because it doesn't work for you means it works for no one? Or do you just base all of your real world input on theory and assumptions?
As a result, pilots face problems in assessing the distance to the key virtual objects being monitored, as well as size of those objects, making it difficult to perform precisely when flying the virtual fighter in close proximity to other aircraft, in air refueling, or on the approach to a landing strip or aircraft carrier.
That sounds like doing things that are not classifiable as "far enough away to be indistinguishable from infinity."
Having been in a plane, and with good vision, and enjoying 3D movies, I can tell you there's a huge difference between landing on a 2D flight sim and landing in reality, and that's just through those little windows they give you on a plane. I can't imagine the difference actually landing the plane. Especially with all of the very close visual cues you get one subtlety becomes important. You might get a nice "ooh look at the tre *splat* if you're crashing, but landing takes a bit longer than that.
Windows key, and all the related key commands. I can do everything by keyboard in Windows (with some exceptions in Vista and 7). And it's a GUI, so if it's easier to drag and drop or use the mouse, I can switch to that. I have tried many different Linux distros, and always come back to Windows because it doesn't "feel" right.
And even with endless customization, Linux can be slick and easy but the apps are inconsistent. I can't use it keyboard style. You can't use a commandline keyboard style? Well, silly person who doesn't exist, I want a GUI that is usable without a mouse.
Consider this - when I have to use a keyboard where the 6-spot (home, end, pg down, pg up, insert, delete) is rearranged, or even differently sized, my productivity plummets. I love UltraEdit, because I can do piles of stuff in very short time. And, instead of using its own macro commands, it respects the Windows conventions that my muscles have memorized. It's subconscious at this point. I don't just touch type, I touch edit, touch minimize, touch move, touch resize (ALT+SPACE M is my favorite) - all without looking at the keyboard
When I can do what I do as fluidly on another OS, I'll consider switching. But I probably still won't until Windows, which is gradually giving up on keyboard utility, finally loses its advantage.
Of course, I aso know the Windows API and Windows scripting, and am more familiar with Windows dev tools. I do a lot of code at home to organize files, data, calendars, whatever. I know the tools are out there for linux, but the workflow isn't. Yes I know bash and csh, and piles of other stuff. Until Linux apps are consistent, I'm not switching.
The withholding tax was meant to reduce tax cheats among contractors by allowing the government to get a slice of the taxes owed by contractors up front.
Another double standard. I don't care which one we go with, but if corporations are people they should be treated as such.
Your post is a good example of a bad argument, or a good question. At some point he says something like "A piano happens to have 88 keys", as if it were an afterthought.
The point here was to find something that was completely pattern free, but can also be represented by some sort of musical instrument. Mathematically proven pattern free, not just apparently pattern free. So you would have to use primes mod 88. No one has proven that primes mod 88 is pattern free to my knowledge. Primes mod 1 might seem to have a pattern, mod 2 might, there's no reason to say mod 88 or 89 won't.
The research here, from my understanding while half listening during a conference call, uses modulo as a basis for generating randomness, so it is a much better fit for the problem than anything else that anyone involved could think up.
Even more likely, someone noticed that the prime number 89 would fit on an 88-key keyboard, and generated this TED talk as a result. So, to answer your question:
1) Mathematically proven algorithm was needed 2) The discussed result was probably a side effect, not the intended goal 3) Mod 89 actually gives 89 results, 0 through 88. There is no 0 key on the keyboard, or if there is there is no key 89, so this is kinda shoehorned in somehow. 4) If you started with the idea of coming up with completely pattern free music, you probably would not have read about sonar pings, and would most likely not come up with anything that is mathematically proven pattern free. That's why the poster didn't think of it.
Also, my PI link was a good example of a terrible reply, since someone intentionally imposed order by restricting it to the 8 keys of a tonal scale.
Others noted they will just roll it into other fees you won't notice as much. And instead of leaving this at 3, it gets up to +5.
This is why most of my moderation points are spent on '-1 overrated' these days. You're not wrong, you're just not adding anything past existing comments. I would allow +3 for those people who read at +3, and not mod you down for +4 if someone thought you deserved it, but +5 is, well, overrated.
And only if you actually have the binary, or the product with the binary with it, according to my understanding.
If no one uses the GPL version binary, updating to the more recent alternate version because it has better features, it becomes irrelevant. And they have no obligation to continue hosting either the binary or the source code. You don't have to offer a download, just provide it on request.
best-selling video-game system of its generation in the United States, where more people plug it into their TVs than either Sony's PlayStation 3 or Nintendo's Wii
Emphasis mine. You listed worldwide numbers. It doesn't change your argument, based on wikipedia's source, but I thought it was important to look at the actual claim.
That's your probelm, right there "attaching to a local domain". Windows does piles of things when attached to a domain it otherwise doesn't do. It seems slow, but most likely it is a bunch of network timeouts waiting for something that will never happen.
Quite simply proven really. Put in the wrong password on a non-domain computer, and it comes back instantly. Same on a domain computer, and time it. It first has to check to see if the domain controller is there, if there is a new password, and then fall back on the locally cached hash.
It is also constantly sending out device discovery information, publishing and receiving info about who has printers and such, and on startup this information has to be collated from scratch (or so the OS thinks).
You can look into administration a little and optimize your startup to stop doing some of these things, which I would recommend even if you don't care abount speed.
I spent 6 years looking for the perfect phone + plan. I have been looking for the perfect TV product (satellite or cable or whatever and haven't bought one in...ever). I bought DSL out of necessity, because cable doesn't run here. And yet...
I got Sprint unlimited everything, with an HTC device, because everyone else was clamping down. And the device was free with rebates, which I already got credited (next month was free, no bill last month).
Make no mistake, I bought sprint unlimited everything because everyone else was clamping down, and if they *ever* change the conditions, I have enough income *in the bank* to fight them, and I will. For now, I am happy with my service.
tl;dr
Sprint happened to sell an HTC device when I was ready to buy. If they change their TOS, I will subtract myself from Sprint, HTC, and anyone else involved in the deal (BlueFish).
They quote some research which compared two sounds, found them similar, and concluded one was the cause of the other.
I used to like this idea, but after reading this again it's bunk. They have a hypothesis but nothing to back it up. I like the ear canal idea better, and that leads us the other way around.
In conclusion, monkey shrieks evolved to match our ear canal design because those who were able to warn others were part of a successful coping strategy. And chalkboards just by chance happen to be similar sounding and unrelated.
While your point is valid, that a reader should not write, you misunderstand vulnerabilities. Yes it could be sandboxed, but it isn't.
If a program loads Win32 API libraries, which it pretty much has to to run under Windows, the code to write and modify is already loaded and available. A small vulnerability can allow malicious code to call the write functions, and it doesn't take much code to do that.
This is why simply having the Explorer interface show icons of the app lead to a critical vulnerability. Load an icon, fail to handle buffer overflow, and arbitrary code is now running on your computer.
I still don't get it. Securities backed by the US Government means that the interest is paid by taxpayers, and if the government runs out of money the principal is too.
To put it another way, the arguments I've been reading over the last few days essentially say the US taxpayers should foot the bill for private companies. Directly or indirectly, whether for monetary policy or direct investments.
Banks buy them for low risk assets - so the taxpayer should pay the bank interest, when the alternative is to either loan it or hold on to the money.
Mortgage interest rates - Does no one think that we could find another way to figure out the risk of a loan, and attach a high enough rate of return (aka interest rate) to make the investment worthwhile?
Social security - we invest taxpayer money in accounts with interest paid by the taxpayers. While Social Security is widely known as "Robbing Peter to pay Paul", putting that money in T-bills is robbing Peter to pay Peter later.
None of these arguments make any sense to me. The response to every answer I've seen has been "but where does that money come from?" and then the argument unravels.
You misunderstand his position. He does not want to be the guy who goes around rehashing all of his ideas and convincing people of the same things over and over. He would prefer other people do that, and leave him time to think about and respond to new situations.
He is a trailblazer, and wants to dedicate his time towards new trails, not old ones. Have the same argument with different people over 20 years, and you'll tire of it too.
In what alternate universe is Python a typo for something that does support ++? And somehow, you reading your own post after typing it all out, would have realized duh, Python doesn't support ++, I meant a completely different language?
I convert guitar tab to PDF using tuxguitar output to lilypond, and it looks great. Usually I start with stuff I found online, and fix it as I learn the song.
I can't think of a better, easier way to put piles of music in a single place. Between things like Mutopia and the PDF export of most music programs, any musician would be silly not to get one.
Warning: Dont rely on one during an audition - I've seen more than 1 piano player not able to reach the 'next page' button in time!
But I generally agree, e-ink is useful for portable books and the updating newspapers we were promised when it came out. I see no advantage because LED is more suitable in just about every other case.
This is a transformative work, and a creative work. They had to make decisions about which data to include every time a discrepancy was found between multiple data sources.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule StJohns 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00 1:00 D Rule StJohns 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S # Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
The raw data was carefully selected, and merged with other data, and put into this format. It was used as a reference and properly cited just as with any scholarly work. On the other hand, it does say most data before 1991 comes from this single source, and that's a lot of data. This is not a clear case at all, and will likely require a lot of defending.
Someone else linked to this article with the above snippet.
One single memory allocator has been rounding up to the nearest factor of two, with bugs that make it request double the amount of space. This was resolved Aug 2011. Example, I allocate a string for 1024 bytes but didn't consider the additional null-term, so it comes back using 2048 bytes.
Several other bugs have been known for 3-5 years, the whole time that Mozilla has blamed anything but the code for memory problems, and are just now getting fixed.
Look, I'm sorry I brought up the debt collection. I understand you don't like getting calls from them, I don't either. Is there anything specific IN THIS BILL that changes how this works?
You can't have your robo-dialer start dialing random numbers and have them hit cell numbers, that's still in here. You can't telemarket to cell phones, that's still in here.
This part of the summary, according to my reading of the bill, is completely made up. While many hoaxes have circulated in the past about cell phone numbers being opened up to telemarketers, it now may actually happen. And there is nothing supporting that assertion other than the text of the bill.
I'm not saying this is a good bill, I just need some actual information if I'm going to talk to my Congress people about it. Right now I have a bad summary.
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And, if you damage your physical copy, you have to repurchase it, no replacements for you. It's not a license, it's a physical product. I had hoped you included that one as well.
*Gasp* Something that apparently only humans can do is complicated? Although animals can associate symbols with concepts in a similar way, they can't actually read. Certainly they haven't been shown to be able to make sense out of written information the same way the primates can work with sign language.
This is the first real evidence of an alternate theory. One camp has evidence, the other camp has evidence, eventually the next generation of researchers will find it's more complicated than that.
Just like we had DNA, then Nature/Nuture, then epigenetics, epigenetic inheritance, and more to come. As always, nothing in science is absolute. In fact, a good scientist assumes everything is wrong, or at least not complete, until everything about it is completely understood and explained. Tomorrow we may learn the sun does not exist, but is instead hawking radiation from a tiny black hole, due to new measurements from some newly built observatory.
And while you're at it, club me over the head with a bat. I can make the argument that the jumbled mess of a sentence you posted is a collection of very simple word puzzles, or "jumbles", which people can solve quickly, and then sound out in their head.
Arranged in a higher difficulty ordering, the sentence would become difficult to un-jumble, and sounding out would be impossible. That is entirely plausible, and supported by the available research, especially the number of newspapers in circulation which feature a Jumble puzzle in or near the comics section. Ta-da, it's science!
The research was there, but it was never solid enough to explain everything, so it was an accepted theory while they looked for something better.
Sounding out is, I believe, more of a teaching method, and one of those theories where if it works to teach it that way, that must be the way it works to learn. Kinda the same way the sun revolves around the earth, because that's the simplest explanation given what we knew.
Science is a gold digging slut, giving you what you want or need until something better comes along. Especially given the anecdotes here - some people do apparently sound words out, and they may do it because they were taught that way and never developed fluidity (fluency?) in reading to take it to the symbolic step. Maybe pictograph learning will be the "new math" of language teaching.
That's why I reserve my moderation to "-1 overrated" these days.
I think we were hoping for 3D based on the summary, and unless I missed something those, while impressive, are still only 2D.
It should be capable of 3D output with enough hardware, but I'm assuming the advance in this MiG simulator is optimizing the output. For example, things that are really far away don't need to be 3D, or even separated in the 3rd dimension.
So you can set a limit, like modern open-air 3D games do these days. Everything over X feet away, whatever the limit of human vision is, gets a standard spacing and the "stereoscopic" image is just a copy of the original render. Everything inside the sphere gets a dual render and distance-shifted spacing like normal 3D. Making the jump between the two has to be seemless, or it will induce nausea. Tackling these is the tough part.
Just because it doesn't work for you means it works for no one? Or do you just base all of your real world input on theory and assumptions?
As a result, pilots face problems in assessing the distance to the key virtual objects being monitored, as well as size of those objects, making it difficult to perform precisely when flying the virtual fighter in close proximity to other aircraft, in air refueling, or on the approach to a landing strip or aircraft carrier.
That sounds like doing things that are not classifiable as "far enough away to be indistinguishable from infinity."
Having been in a plane, and with good vision, and enjoying 3D movies, I can tell you there's a huge difference between landing on a 2D flight sim and landing in reality, and that's just through those little windows they give you on a plane. I can't imagine the difference actually landing the plane. Especially with all of the very close visual cues you get one subtlety becomes important. You might get a nice "ooh look at the tre *splat* if you're crashing, but landing takes a bit longer than that.
Is see FOUR fingers!
Windows key, and all the related key commands. I can do everything by keyboard in Windows (with some exceptions in Vista and 7). And it's a GUI, so if it's easier to drag and drop or use the mouse, I can switch to that. I have tried many different Linux distros, and always come back to Windows because it doesn't "feel" right.
And even with endless customization, Linux can be slick and easy but the apps are inconsistent. I can't use it keyboard style. You can't use a commandline keyboard style? Well, silly person who doesn't exist, I want a GUI that is usable without a mouse.
Consider this - when I have to use a keyboard where the 6-spot (home, end, pg down, pg up, insert, delete) is rearranged, or even differently sized, my productivity plummets. I love UltraEdit, because I can do piles of stuff in very short time. And, instead of using its own macro commands, it respects the Windows conventions that my muscles have memorized. It's subconscious at this point. I don't just touch type, I touch edit, touch minimize, touch move, touch resize (ALT+SPACE M is my favorite) - all without looking at the keyboard
When I can do what I do as fluidly on another OS, I'll consider switching. But I probably still won't until Windows, which is gradually giving up on keyboard utility, finally loses its advantage.
Of course, I aso know the Windows API and Windows scripting, and am more familiar with Windows dev tools. I do a lot of code at home to organize files, data, calendars, whatever. I know the tools are out there for linux, but the workflow isn't. Yes I know bash and csh, and piles of other stuff. Until Linux apps are consistent, I'm not switching.
So citizens have to pre-pay the tax, and businesses go back to the honor system
The withholding tax was meant to reduce tax cheats among contractors by allowing the government to get a slice of the taxes owed by contractors up front.
Another double standard. I don't care which one we go with, but if corporations are people they should be treated as such.
PI also has no pattern, why didn't they choose it?
Your post is a good example of a bad argument, or a good question. At some point he says something like "A piano happens to have 88 keys", as if it were an afterthought.
The point here was to find something that was completely pattern free, but can also be represented by some sort of musical instrument. Mathematically proven pattern free, not just apparently pattern free. So you would have to use primes mod 88. No one has proven that primes mod 88 is pattern free to my knowledge. Primes mod 1 might seem to have a pattern, mod 2 might, there's no reason to say mod 88 or 89 won't.
The research here, from my understanding while half listening during a conference call, uses modulo as a basis for generating randomness, so it is a much better fit for the problem than anything else that anyone involved could think up.
Even more likely, someone noticed that the prime number 89 would fit on an 88-key keyboard, and generated this TED talk as a result. So, to answer your question:
1) Mathematically proven algorithm was needed
2) The discussed result was probably a side effect, not the intended goal
3) Mod 89 actually gives 89 results, 0 through 88. There is no 0 key on the keyboard, or if there is there is no key 89, so this is kinda shoehorned in somehow.
4) If you started with the idea of coming up with completely pattern free music, you probably would not have read about sonar pings, and would most likely not come up with anything that is mathematically proven pattern free. That's why the poster didn't think of it.
Also, my PI link was a good example of a terrible reply, since someone intentionally imposed order by restricting it to the 8 keys of a tonal scale.
Others noted they will just roll it into other fees you won't notice as much. And instead of leaving this at 3, it gets up to +5.
This is why most of my moderation points are spent on '-1 overrated' these days. You're not wrong, you're just not adding anything past existing comments. I would allow +3 for those people who read at +3, and not mod you down for +4 if someone thought you deserved it, but +5 is, well, overrated.
And only if you actually have the binary, or the product with the binary with it, according to my understanding.
If no one uses the GPL version binary, updating to the more recent alternate version because it has better features, it becomes irrelevant. And they have no obligation to continue hosting either the binary or the source code. You don't have to offer a download, just provide it on request.
best-selling video-game system of its generation in the United States, where more people plug it into their TVs than either Sony's PlayStation 3 or Nintendo's Wii
Emphasis mine. You listed worldwide numbers. It doesn't change your argument, based on wikipedia's source, but I thought it was important to look at the actual claim.
wiki
That's your probelm, right there "attaching to a local domain". Windows does piles of things when attached to a domain it otherwise doesn't do. It seems slow, but most likely it is a bunch of network timeouts waiting for something that will never happen.
Quite simply proven really. Put in the wrong password on a non-domain computer, and it comes back instantly. Same on a domain computer, and time it. It first has to check to see if the domain controller is there, if there is a new password, and then fall back on the locally cached hash.
It is also constantly sending out device discovery information, publishing and receiving info about who has printers and such, and on startup this information has to be collated from scratch (or so the OS thinks).
You can look into administration a little and optimize your startup to stop doing some of these things, which I would recommend even if you don't care abount speed.
And yet, i own one.
I spent 6 years looking for the perfect phone + plan. I have been looking for the perfect TV product (satellite or cable or whatever and haven't bought one in ...ever). I bought DSL out of necessity, because cable doesn't run here. And yet...
I got Sprint unlimited everything, with an HTC device, because everyone else was clamping down. And the device was free with rebates, which I already got credited (next month was free, no bill last month).
Make no mistake, I bought sprint unlimited everything because everyone else was clamping down, and if they *ever* change the conditions, I have enough income *in the bank* to fight them, and I will. For now, I am happy with my service.
tl;dr
Sprint happened to sell an HTC device when I was ready to buy. If they change their TOS, I will subtract myself from Sprint, HTC, and anyone else involved in the deal (BlueFish).
They quote some research which compared two sounds, found them similar, and concluded one was the cause of the other.
I used to like this idea, but after reading this again it's bunk. They have a hypothesis but nothing to back it up. I like the ear canal idea better, and that leads us the other way around.
In conclusion, monkey shrieks evolved to match our ear canal design because those who were able to warn others were part of a successful coping strategy. And chalkboards just by chance happen to be similar sounding and unrelated.
While your point is valid, that a reader should not write, you misunderstand vulnerabilities. Yes it could be sandboxed, but it isn't.
If a program loads Win32 API libraries, which it pretty much has to to run under Windows, the code to write and modify is already loaded and available. A small vulnerability can allow malicious code to call the write functions, and it doesn't take much code to do that.
This is why simply having the Explorer interface show icons of the app lead to a critical vulnerability. Load an icon, fail to handle buffer overflow, and arbitrary code is now running on your computer.
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1049
I still don't get it. Securities backed by the US Government means that the interest is paid by taxpayers, and if the government runs out of money the principal is too.
To put it another way, the arguments I've been reading over the last few days essentially say the US taxpayers should foot the bill for private companies. Directly or indirectly, whether for monetary policy or direct investments.
Banks buy them for low risk assets - so the taxpayer should pay the bank interest, when the alternative is to either loan it or hold on to the money.
Mortgage interest rates - Does no one think that we could find another way to figure out the risk of a loan, and attach a high enough rate of return (aka interest rate) to make the investment worthwhile?
Social security - we invest taxpayer money in accounts with interest paid by the taxpayers. While Social Security is widely known as "Robbing Peter to pay Paul", putting that money in T-bills is robbing Peter to pay Peter later.
None of these arguments make any sense to me. The response to every answer I've seen has been "but where does that money come from?" and then the argument unravels.
It's already in beta, project code name "chat roulette"
You misunderstand his position. He does not want to be the guy who goes around rehashing all of his ideas and convincing people of the same things over and over. He would prefer other people do that, and leave him time to think about and respond to new situations.
He is a trailblazer, and wants to dedicate his time towards new trails, not old ones. Have the same argument with different people over 20 years, and you'll tire of it too.
In what alternate universe is Python a typo for something that does support ++? And somehow, you reading your own post after typing it all out, would have realized duh, Python doesn't support ++, I meant a completely different language?
Seriously just curious.
I convert guitar tab to PDF using tuxguitar output to lilypond, and it looks great. Usually I start with stuff I found online, and fix it as I learn the song.
I can't think of a better, easier way to put piles of music in a single place. Between things like Mutopia and the PDF export of most music programs, any musician would be silly not to get one.
Warning: Dont rely on one during an audition - I've seen more than 1 piano player not able to reach the 'next page' button in time!
But I generally agree, e-ink is useful for portable books and the updating newspapers we were promised when it came out. I see no advantage because LED is more suitable in just about every other case.
This is a transformative work, and a creative work. They had to make decisions about which data to include every time a discrepancy was found between multiple data sources.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule StJohns 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00 1:00 D
Rule StJohns 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S
# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
The raw data was carefully selected, and merged with other data, and put into this format. It was used as a reference and properly cited just as with any scholarly work. On the other hand, it does say most data before 1991 comes from this single source, and that's a lot of data. This is not a clear case at all, and will likely require a lot of defending.
Someone else linked to this article with the above snippet.
One single memory allocator has been rounding up to the nearest factor of two, with bugs that make it request double the amount of space. This was resolved Aug 2011. Example, I allocate a string for 1024 bytes but didn't consider the additional null-term, so it comes back using 2048 bytes.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676457
Several other bugs have been known for 3-5 years, the whole time that Mozilla has blamed anything but the code for memory problems, and are just now getting fixed.
http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/08/05/clownshoes-available-in-sizes-2101-and-up/
Look, I'm sorry I brought up the debt collection. I understand you don't like getting calls from them, I don't either. Is there anything specific IN THIS BILL that changes how this works?
You can't have your robo-dialer start dialing random numbers and have them hit cell numbers, that's still in here. You can't telemarket to cell phones, that's still in here.
This part of the summary, according to my reading of the bill, is completely made up. While many hoaxes have circulated in the past about cell phone numbers being opened up to telemarketers, it now may actually happen. And there is nothing supporting that assertion other than the text of the bill.
I'm not saying this is a good bill, I just need some actual information if I'm going to talk to my Congress people about it. Right now I have a bad summary.