"Witnesses described violent clashes between monks and police on the outskirts of Lhasa on Monday afternoon and reported hearing as many as 60 gunshots as troops forced the monks to return to their quarters early yesterday."
"They said that about 60 monks from Drepung monastery were detained".
I wonder if "detained" means, "never heard from again."
“It’s really nothing. Everything is great,” said the Tibetan Governor.
Sometimes, you're glad you live in America. Since we're talking about censorship, I think this is on-topic. Quoted from your first link.
In case anyone wondered about the math. I was 1/51946 when I refreshed. I'm over 60,000 now. Are my plugins really that unique?
It would be really great to see a larger dataset. Like, a million records. Does anyone have a large-traffic website and would be willing to make a dataset accessible?
Yeah, log_2(46001) = 15.49. So, they didn't bother to combine metrics. They don't have to, since I'm unique in at least 2 of the metrics. You can get the probability of each of your metrics by taking 1/y where y is "one in x browsers have this value". So my "HTTP_ACCEPT Headers" have a value of about 3. Which means that 1 in 3 people have the same headers. You can calculate the probability of your unique fingerprint by multiplying the independent metrics together. "User Agent", and "HTTP_ACCEPT Headers" are probably not independent since they are probably the same for a default install of firefox.
But, if I take just User Agent, Plugins, Timezone, and Screen, I get a probability of: 1/451/519461/7011/14 = 4.35E^-11. Which is 1 in 22,940,911,980.
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 46,001 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 15.49 bits of identifying information.
My list of plugins and my list of fonts are both unique in 46001. Interestingly, only 61 people ran the test in my timezone. But, I'm curious about the "bits of identifying information". Both fonts and plugins give 15.49 bits of info. Wouldn't their results combined give more "bits"?
And the Athlon II X4 630 2.8Ghz 4-core processor is getting great reviews at newegg with good potential for overclocking, even with the stock cooler. br>
There's a few great motherboard/CPU combo deals going on right now at newegg. QuadCore for $170 and dual-core for $90.
"If they grab onto you with the octopus-death-grip, duck under the water and they will let go quickly."
Now I know that if the lifeguard trying to save me starts to drown/sink... they're just faking. Better to hang on tight, knowing they will soon surface for air.
I don't know if anyone cares, but you made some contradictory statements:
"Slander generally requires proof of special harm. If the defamatory statement amounts to slander per se, however, the plaintiff is not required to prove special harm; damage is presumed. Slander per se includes statements that the plaintiff engaged in criminal behavior or sexual misconduct or that the plaintiff has a communicable disease. Statements that adversely affect the plaintiff's trade or profession are also slander per se."
The first two sentences are the equivalent of: X -> Y, X !-> Y. It doesn't make any sense to me. Slander requires special harm. Slander doesn't require special harm. WTF?
What other types of slander exist that don't accuse you of being morally outcast? Is there a type of slander that doesn't affect your trade or profession, yet it is still slander? Since "special harm" means monetary losses, how can you prove monetary losses if it doesn't affect your trade or profession?
FTA, "to see whether they can effectively report on the news by using Twitter and Facebook, and nothing else."
Does this mean that they can't click links to other websites? If so, that's stupid.
What good is news if it can't cite any sources? Is your bibliography filled with 1000 entries pointing to Twitter?
But if they could access other websites, then they would pretty much have access to the whole Internet. So, I doubt that's what they are doing. Nope, they are doing it the stupid way.
FTA, "Our aim is to show that there are different sources of information and to look at the legitimacy of each of these sources,"
So, they are trying to determine the validity of Facebook and Twitter as news sources while removing one of the things that makes them great news sources. That is, their ability to link to actual news sites.
Ok then, maybe they are trying to figure out if Facebook and Twitter (with its 140 character limit) are legitimate new sources. Well, whether or not they are capable of reporting the news, they are not a "great news source". You could cut n' paste anything into Twitter. So this whole thing is mute. Twitter could report the news just fine. But so could email, or SMS messaging, or packet radio. But these are not "great news sources". They are just another way to get data.
But social networking websites have value not only because of the large userbase, but also because of their ability to link to the Internet. Therefore, by cutting out "The Internet" from this experiment, they will not be able to answer the question, "Are Facebook and Twitter useful news sources?" They are part of the Internet. You can't separate them from it.
One thing to consider is that if you want to stream a class from a regular webcam you will not be able to see what is written on the board due to the low resolution.
Also, the teacher will walk out of view of the camera as they write on the board.
My school had motion tracking cameras. It looked like a normal video camera on a tripod, with a motor attached. The teacher would wear some kind of tracking device on their belt, and the camera would automatically follow them.
You would also want to consider a "smart board". Something that digitally records what the teacher writes on the whiteboard.
Pretty much, unless you script and edit a filming session while splicing in closeups of the board, your result will not be as useful as it could be.
"I know I'm nitpicking here, but Doom didn't have online play at all (only modem and serial), and Quake wasn't really playable on the dialup connections of the time until QuakeWorld."
It's not correct to say that Doom didn't have "any online play at all". Doom had multiplayer local network play. And back in 1995 or so, there were several online services that you could dial up to and then run DOS games like Doom and Quake with at least 4 players.
Don't lump 911 conspiracy in there with the rest of that quack stuff. Lump 911 conspiracy deniers like yourself in with the quacks, unless you can explain how fuel oil can cause a giant pool of molten steel to remain red hot for months. Or how some burning filing cabinets can cause a 47 story building to uniformly collapse. Or why they got rid of all the evidence with no investigation. Why don't you go into the demolitions business, now that you're an expert on demolishing steel buildings with fire? You don't have to spend all those months wiring the place up with explosives like the other guys... you'll make a killing.
The rocket booster weighs two tons where? On Earth, the moon, space? I wonder how much the Earth weighs. Oh yeah, it's weightless, because it's in space.
Submitter gets an 'F' for failing to understand basic physics.
The whole rebate system on purchases is the type of scam that our politicians should be working on. Have you ever bought something on newegg and either didn't send in the rebate within 30 days, or you sent in the rebate and never got the money back?
It seems like rebates would constitute an unused balance.
Woah woah woah! Frozen sushi! Not in Hawaii grocery stores. They sell frozen raw fish, and unfrozen "fresh" raw fish which is 2-3 times the price.
It's called poke. And I never buy it frozen.
Does NX have a "OneClick" type feature?
For those who don't know about NX, it uses some amazing compression routines. I remember hearing that firefox load times can be faster when viewing a remote computer then they can be rendered in firefox on the local computer.
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Wouldn't a fingerprint scanner on the grip be more reliable and safer in case you were disarmed?
"Witnesses described violent clashes between monks and police on the outskirts of Lhasa on Monday afternoon and reported hearing as many as 60 gunshots as troops forced the monks to return to their quarters early yesterday."
"They said that about 60 monks from Drepung monastery were detained".
I wonder if "detained" means, "never heard from again."
“It’s really nothing. Everything is great,” said the Tibetan Governor.
Sometimes, you're glad you live in America. Since we're talking about censorship, I think this is on-topic. Quoted from your first link.
1/45 * 1/51946 * 1/701 * 1/14
In case anyone wondered about the math. I was 1/51946 when I refreshed. I'm over 60,000 now. Are my plugins really that unique?
It would be really great to see a larger dataset. Like, a million records. Does anyone have a large-traffic website and would be willing to make a dataset accessible?
Yeah, log_2(46001) = 15.49. So, they didn't bother to combine metrics. They don't have to, since I'm unique in at least 2 of the metrics. You can get the probability of each of your metrics by taking 1/y where y is "one in x browsers have this value". So my "HTTP_ACCEPT Headers" have a value of about 3. Which means that 1 in 3 people have the same headers. You can calculate the probability of your unique fingerprint by multiplying the independent metrics together. "User Agent", and "HTTP_ACCEPT Headers" are probably not independent since they are probably the same for a default install of firefox.
But, if I take just User Agent, Plugins, Timezone, and Screen, I get a probability of: 1/451/519461/7011/14 = 4.35E^-11. Which is 1 in 22,940,911,980.
Add in fonts and I'm 1 in 1,191,688,613,713,080.
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 46,001 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 15.49 bits of identifying information.
My list of plugins and my list of fonts are both unique in 46001. Interestingly, only 61 people ran the test in my timezone. But, I'm curious about the "bits of identifying information". Both fonts and plugins give 15.49 bits of info. Wouldn't their results combined give more "bits"?
Their benchmarks seem decent. The Athlon II X4 620 is a solid performer.
And the Athlon II X4 630 2.8Ghz 4-core processor is getting great reviews at newegg with good potential for overclocking, even with the stock cooler.
br> There's a few great motherboard/CPU combo deals going on right now at newegg. QuadCore for $170 and dual-core for $90.
So 300p/hr = 12000p/hr?
"If they grab onto you with the octopus-death-grip, duck under the water and they will let go quickly."
Now I know that if the lifeguard trying to save me starts to drown/sink... they're just faking. Better to hang on tight, knowing they will soon surface for air.
Really? Can you cite this US law? I would like to know. Because in some states they routinely hold people for 48 hours without charging them.
"If the police make an arrest, the suspect must be either released or charged with an offense and brought before a judge within 48 hours." (6th paragraph down)
%s/mute/moot/g
I don't know if anyone cares, but you made some contradictory statements:
"Slander generally requires proof of special harm. If the defamatory statement amounts to slander per se, however, the plaintiff is not required to prove special harm; damage is presumed. Slander per se includes statements that the plaintiff engaged in criminal behavior or sexual misconduct or that the plaintiff has a communicable disease. Statements that adversely affect the plaintiff's trade or profession are also slander per se."
The first two sentences are the equivalent of: X -> Y, X !-> Y. It doesn't make any sense to me. Slander requires special harm. Slander doesn't require special harm. WTF?
What other types of slander exist that don't accuse you of being morally outcast? Is there a type of slander that doesn't affect your trade or profession, yet it is still slander? Since "special harm" means monetary losses, how can you prove monetary losses if it doesn't affect your trade or profession?
FTA, "to see whether they can effectively report on the news by using Twitter and Facebook, and nothing else."
Does this mean that they can't click links to other websites? If so, that's stupid.
What good is news if it can't cite any sources? Is your bibliography filled with 1000 entries pointing to Twitter?
But if they could access other websites, then they would pretty much have access to the whole Internet. So, I doubt that's what they are doing. Nope, they are doing it the stupid way.
FTA, "Our aim is to show that there are different sources of information and to look at the legitimacy of each of these sources,"
So, they are trying to determine the validity of Facebook and Twitter as news sources while removing one of the things that makes them great news sources. That is, their ability to link to actual news sites.
Ok then, maybe they are trying to figure out if Facebook and Twitter (with its 140 character limit) are legitimate new sources. Well, whether or not they are capable of reporting the news, they are not a "great news source". You could cut n' paste anything into Twitter. So this whole thing is mute. Twitter could report the news just fine. But so could email, or SMS messaging, or packet radio. But these are not "great news sources". They are just another way to get data.
But social networking websites have value not only because of the large userbase, but also because of their ability to link to the Internet. Therefore, by cutting out "The Internet" from this experiment, they will not be able to answer the question, "Are Facebook and Twitter useful news sources?" They are part of the Internet. You can't separate them from it.
One thing to consider is that if you want to stream a class from a regular webcam you will not be able to see what is written on the board due to the low resolution.
Also, the teacher will walk out of view of the camera as they write on the board.
My school had motion tracking cameras. It looked like a normal video camera on a tripod, with a motor attached. The teacher would wear some kind of tracking device on their belt, and the camera would automatically follow them.
You would also want to consider a "smart board". Something that digitally records what the teacher writes on the whiteboard.
Pretty much, unless you script and edit a filming session while splicing in closeups of the board, your result will not be as useful as it could be.
Otherwise it's just not complete, IMHO.
A succinct, original and informative post, undeserved of your zero score.
"I know I'm nitpicking here, but Doom didn't have online play at all (only modem and serial), and Quake wasn't really playable on the dialup connections of the time until QuakeWorld." It's not correct to say that Doom didn't have "any online play at all". Doom had multiplayer local network play. And back in 1995 or so, there were several online services that you could dial up to and then run DOS games like Doom and Quake with at least 4 players.
Sugar is $75 per kilogram in the US? Better tell my local grocery store because I can buy over 2 kilograms (5 pound bag) for about seven dollars.
@girlintraining
Don't lump 911 conspiracy in there with the rest of that quack stuff. Lump 911 conspiracy deniers like yourself in with the quacks, unless you can explain how fuel oil can cause a giant pool of molten steel to remain red hot for months. Or how some burning filing cabinets can cause a 47 story building to uniformly collapse. Or why they got rid of all the evidence with no investigation. Why don't you go into the demolitions business, now that you're an expert on demolishing steel buildings with fire? You don't have to spend all those months wiring the place up with explosives like the other guys... you'll make a killing.
The rocket booster weighs two tons where? On Earth, the moon, space? I wonder how much the Earth weighs. Oh yeah, it's weightless, because it's in space.
Submitter gets an 'F' for failing to understand basic physics.
The whole rebate system on purchases is the type of scam that our politicians should be working on. Have you ever bought something on newegg and either didn't send in the rebate within 30 days, or you sent in the rebate and never got the money back?
It seems like rebates would constitute an unused balance.
Infinity minus 1 second is still infinity. So is infinity minus n where n is any natural number. (BTW, natural numbers are infinite)
When will you stop sucking?
Yes, but yelling "One comma two one jiggawatts!" just doesn't pack the same punch.
Woah woah woah! Frozen sushi! Not in Hawaii grocery stores. They sell frozen raw fish, and unfrozen "fresh" raw fish which is 2-3 times the price. It's called poke. And I never buy it frozen.
Does NX have a "OneClick" type feature? For those who don't know about NX, it uses some amazing compression routines. I remember hearing that firefox load times can be faster when viewing a remote computer then they can be rendered in firefox on the local computer.