My point is using the AC's logic, one might even answer "They're both Von Neumann architectures" to your question too. Which isn't a very useful IMO.
As for an alien, it may depend a lot on the alien:). Who knows, maybe with some aliens it might be like us comparing a small snowflake with a bigger one, before the snowflakes both vaporize in a furnace - esp if their timescales are much longer than ours...
And an alien will find there's little difference between you and a rat. Come back to planet earth sometime.
Heck both are not even made of dark matter- that would be the most interesting point if the alien is made of dark matter (which apparently makes up >90% of the matter in the known universe, according to many scientists).
Firefox 3.5.2 (with noscript and adblock plus) on Windows XP Pro.
I have to admit that it was my first firefox crash for a long while, so I submitted the bug report (I normally don't bother with such stuff). Firefox is much better nowadays than the bad old days of 1.x and 2.x (and back then it used to use tons of memory - more than a Windows XP virtual machine with IE:) ).
As for XP, I haven't had a bluescreen on my desktop for years. XP SP3 + all updates is so much better than the original XP that they're almost different OSes:).
Regarding availability, when it comes to browsers I see it more as browser/window launch times, and the ability to use one browser window/tab even if another one has hung or is busy doing who knows what.
Stability is often related to security. Many crash bugs can be security issues. So a crash prone browser is likely to be vastly more insecure than browsers that rarely crash.
Dvorak? Isn't he famous for trolling[1] people to get more ad hits?
He makes insinuations that Vivek might not have the degree he claimed to have. But he doesn't do a thorough investigation, and just shoots his mouth first.
Maybe the UMD newsdesk is wrong (they could be after all), but they did say that:
"Vivek Kundra moved from chief technology officer of D.C. to being the first federal chief information officer, working in the White House. Kundra holds an undergraduate degree from UM in psychology and a master's of science in information technology. "
I'm more concerned with availability, stability, security and the ability to fail gracefully.
When firefox crashes - everything goes poof. Worse, firefox does NOT let me launch separate firefox processes to workaround that stupidity. It is ironic that I can run separate instances of IE but I can't do that with firefox - an application that should be more "unixy" than IE.
When I tried Google Chrome on Win XP, it did not allow me to launch it as a different user. I prefer to run my browsers using different users - e.g. login as User A, but launch the browser as User B. That way it's a lot harder for the browser as User B to touch my User A stuff. The OS has to be exploited too.
> well you obviously don't, because I don't see how you can play with other musicians that are 10 feet away. that would equal 20 ms of latency.
Think about it a lot harder before saying that people are full of shit.
There's a huge difference between hearing yourself in order to play and hearing others in order to play along with them.
People can easily play along with other musicians even if the sound from them took 20 decades to arrive (e.g. 20 decades of latency). They put on a CD, then play along with it.
But it's harder if your instrument takes 20 decades to make a sound after you do something to it. And in fact it's still easier than if your instrument takes just a second longer to make a sound - since it's a greater distraction than not hearing any sound and assuming you are playing "deaf" or without sound.
If you still can't understand the difference, too bad for you.
For short trips e.g. New York to London it's not worth it whether it's Mach 6 or Mach 12 - the gains you have would be overshadowed by the hours you spend getting to/fro the airport and getting through the airport to/fro the plane. For longer trips yes - e.g. New York to Singapore, or London to Auckland. On the bright side maybe if your luggage ends up on the wrong flight (to Hawaii?) it won't take as long for them to get it back to you.
Seriously though, when you talk about economical - you have to ask how much fuel it uses. Whether scramjet or rocket, if both use way too much fuel, there won't be an "Economy Class" ticket;).
1) It wasn't stolen property 1.1) If a shopping mall finds out that a shop (in the mall) is selling stolen property even if it has the physical ability (mall guards etc) to go to buyer's houses, take the stuff and return it to the original owners, it does not have the legal right to do it. The mall should report it to the relevant authorities so that appropriate action can be taken. The mall could tell the shop they cannot operate in the mall, and they might be sued by the mall too for breach of contract (doing illegal stuff) etc.
2) If a shopping mall finds out that a shop is illegally copying software/music for customers, even if it has the technical ability to delete the material from the buyer's computers it does not have the legal right to do it.
Who does the Kindle belong to? Amazon or the user? If it's the user's then what Amazon might be illegal in many countries - it would breach computer misuse acts or antihacking laws.
And even if it belongs to Amazon and is just rented to the user, the Courts might not agree that Amazon has complete and utter control over the kindle. There are limits to what landlords can do to their tenants and the rented property. Same goes for rented cars. Or even repossessing cars.
If people are fine with Corporations doing what Amazon did, then they are frogs being slowly boiled. Eventually the Corporations may extend their powers to more domains and the precious constitutions and laws of various countries would effectively be irrelevant. They may not succeed at first but they will keep on trying (after all the end result is very profitable for them).
What good is a constitutional right to freedom of speech if EVERY place (even the house you rent) is owned by a Corporation that only allows you to stay if you don't say or do certain things, and everyone believes that since the Corporations own it the Corporations can do whatever they want to it.
Sure you might not be able to afford all that equipment to actually do everything. But at least you have a better idea of what you might like and what's worth it before forking out lots of money (or going in debt) in fees.
Article 3 Blinding as an incidental or collateral effect of the legitimate military employment of laser systems, including laser systems used against optical equipment, is not covered by the prohibition of this Protocol.
So if one of those common laser targeters or this super laser can blind you, they still comply since they weren't designed specifically to blind people, they come under "incidental or collateral effect".
You're just not supposed to:
"employ laser weapons specifically designed, as their sole combat function or as one of their combat functions, to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision"
But your imaginary "ball" scenario doesn't help show why it should work at all.
You experience weightlessness/zero G when you fall without any resistance. If you are in a giant plastic ball full of water and that ball falls, you will definitely still feel like you are falling. Your inner ears will still tell you that you are falling.
If you are in a giant plastic ball full of water and that ball rotates, you may feel like puking after a few spins.
So there will be a noticeable difference for your given scenario.
They should just put some mice up in space and have them breed etc, or some other creature with a short gestation period.
> Or to have an immune system that can detect and flush out badly replicating cells, really.
After a while the immune system may have to kill nearly every cell to do that, including many of its own cells. It'll be a bit like removing all the rust from an old car that's already mostly rust:).
My guess is after a while of aging it's hard for the body to figure out what is a good cell - since the cells would have drifted "apart" from each other and the "ideal" - one skill cell would be not quite the same as another skin cell (just look at old skin and a baby's skin), and the immune system can't go around killing all the inferior clones since the body has stopped being able to make "perfect" clones.
That's probably a reason why you have reproduction - out of very many cells you start all over again with two cells that are hopefully good enough.
Genetic drift for bacteria and other unicellular stuff is nothing since they aren't as dependent on the rest of their clones behaving "properly".
If you have tech to kill all bad cell clones, you probably can't use it on Chimeras, and people that have transplants from other people/creatures. The bacteria in your body might also have "issues" with that tech;).
We may still be able to do better than 140ish years, since other animals apparently can manage that.
Actually many Amish communities do use electricity. But their electrical devices tend to be using batteries or generators and not connected to the national grid.
If you start improving cochlear implants significantly (better fidelity etc) and attaching computers to them, I'm sure the RIAA and gang will have a word with you, and "convince" you to include DRM.
So will it be a penny for your ("their") thoughts? I'm thinking they might charge more.
But what if I want to provide free AND secure wireless in a user friendly way? What about the people who want to provide free wifi that doesn't allow users to eavesdrop on each other's traffic?
WiFi security is pretty dismal.
There's nothing at the level of https - where users can have confidential connections without messing about too much - no need even for "username and password".
With WiFi, either users have zero security, or they have to enter a username and password (and possibly jump through other hoops).
I'd love to know if there's an existing way and I'm missing something. Forcing users to use IPSEC does not count as "not jumping through hoops".
Yes I know, https users still have to beware of MITM attacks, but at least fix WiFi to the https level.
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I agree that it's a valid question.
:). Who knows, maybe with some aliens it might be like us comparing a small snowflake with a bigger one, before the snowflakes both vaporize in a furnace - esp if their timescales are much longer than ours...
My point is using the AC's logic, one might even answer "They're both Von Neumann architectures" to your question too. Which isn't a very useful IMO.
As for an alien, it may depend a lot on the alien
> They're both Von Neumann architectures.
And an alien will find there's little difference between you and a rat. Come back to planet earth sometime.
Heck both are not even made of dark matter- that would be the most interesting point if the alien is made of dark matter (which apparently makes up >90% of the matter in the known universe, according to many scientists).
And sometimes you can't even use your own name for a while...
Go ask the artist formerly known as "the artist formerly known as Prince".
Firefox 3.5.2 (with noscript and adblock plus) on Windows XP Pro.
:) ).
:).
I have to admit that it was my first firefox crash for a long while, so I submitted the bug report (I normally don't bother with such stuff). Firefox is much better nowadays than the bad old days of 1.x and 2.x (and back then it used to use tons of memory - more than a Windows XP virtual machine with IE
As for XP, I haven't had a bluescreen on my desktop for years. XP SP3 + all updates is so much better than the original XP that they're almost different OSes
Regarding availability, when it comes to browsers I see it more as browser/window launch times, and the ability to use one browser window/tab even if another one has hung or is busy doing who knows what.
Stability is often related to security. Many crash bugs can be security issues. So a crash prone browser is likely to be vastly more insecure than browsers that rarely crash.
Dvorak? Isn't he famous for trolling[1] people to get more ad hits?
He makes insinuations that Vivek might not have the degree he claimed to have. But he doesn't do a thorough investigation, and just shoots his mouth first.
Maybe the UMD newsdesk is wrong (they could be after all), but they did say that:
"Vivek Kundra moved from chief technology officer of D.C. to being the first federal chief information officer, working in the White House. Kundra holds an undergraduate degree from UM in psychology and a master's of science in information technology. "
See: http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/facts/mm/08-09/mar.cfm
Perhaps the UMD newsdesk was sloppy, but given the other stuff I see, it just looks like Dvorak is trolling again.
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMQv0j29WHA
I'm more concerned with availability, stability, security and the ability to fail gracefully.
When firefox crashes - everything goes poof. Worse, firefox does NOT let me launch separate firefox processes to workaround that stupidity. It is ironic that I can run separate instances of IE but I can't do that with firefox - an application that should be more "unixy" than IE.
When I tried Google Chrome on Win XP, it did not allow me to launch it as a different user. I prefer to run my browsers using different users - e.g. login as User A, but launch the browser as User B. That way it's a lot harder for the browser as User B to touch my User A stuff. The OS has to be exploited too.
> well you obviously don't, because I don't see how you can play with other musicians that are 10 feet away. that would equal 20 ms of latency.
Think about it a lot harder before saying that people are full of shit.
There's a huge difference between hearing yourself in order to play and hearing others in order to play along with them.
People can easily play along with other musicians even if the sound from them took 20 decades to arrive (e.g. 20 decades of latency). They put on a CD, then play along with it.
But it's harder if your instrument takes 20 decades to make a sound after you do something to it. And in fact it's still easier than if your instrument takes just a second longer to make a sound - since it's a greater distraction than not hearing any sound and assuming you are playing "deaf" or without sound.
If you still can't understand the difference, too bad for you.
For short trips e.g. New York to London it's not worth it whether it's Mach 6 or Mach 12 - the gains you have would be overshadowed by the hours you spend getting to/fro the airport and getting through the airport to/fro the plane. For longer trips yes - e.g. New York to Singapore, or London to Auckland. On the bright side maybe if your luggage ends up on the wrong flight (to Hawaii?) it won't take as long for them to get it back to you.
;).
Seriously though, when you talk about economical - you have to ask how much fuel it uses. Whether scramjet or rocket, if both use way too much fuel, there won't be an "Economy Class" ticket
Crysis + AvP... Now that might be interesting :).
> A species is more important if it points to my stomach.
Especially if it points using a very sharp spear, or a shotgun. Then you can really talk about extinction and things "vital to the existence".
> Even my government hasn't such a power.
;).
They do[1], but given so many people are so happy when Amazon screws them, the Gov can always outsource it to someone to outsource it to Amazon
[1] They can even come into your home and take all your computers. Even if you are found innocent later you may never get all of your stuff back.
BUT there's a difference in theory at least, in democratic countries, the voters can vote out a Government that pisses them off too much.
If people aren't voting out governments that piss them off, the very same people sure aren't going to do much to the likes of Amazon.
> In essence, they shipped out stolen property.
1) It wasn't stolen property
1.1) If a shopping mall finds out that a shop (in the mall) is selling stolen property even if it has the physical ability (mall guards etc) to go to buyer's houses, take the stuff and return it to the original owners, it does not have the legal right to do it. The mall should report it to the relevant authorities so that appropriate action can be taken. The mall could tell the shop they cannot operate in the mall, and they might be sued by the mall too for breach of contract (doing illegal stuff) etc.
2) If a shopping mall finds out that a shop is illegally copying software/music for customers, even if it has the technical ability to delete the material from the buyer's computers it does not have the legal right to do it.
Who does the Kindle belong to? Amazon or the user? If it's the user's then what Amazon might be illegal in many countries - it would breach computer misuse acts or antihacking laws.
And even if it belongs to Amazon and is just rented to the user, the Courts might not agree that Amazon has complete and utter control over the kindle. There are limits to what landlords can do to their tenants and the rented property. Same goes for rented cars. Or even repossessing cars.
If people are fine with Corporations doing what Amazon did, then they are frogs being slowly boiled. Eventually the Corporations may extend their powers to more domains and the precious constitutions and laws of various countries would effectively be irrelevant. They may not succeed at first but they will keep on trying (after all the end result is very profitable for them).
What good is a constitutional right to freedom of speech if EVERY place (even the house you rent) is owned by a Corporation that only allows you to stay if you don't say or do certain things, and everyone believes that since the Corporations own it the Corporations can do whatever they want to it.
If all you want to do is learn for free, you can always watch lectures online.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT
http://www.youtube.com/user/stanforduniversity
http://www.youtube.com/user/ucberkeley
You can even get lectures from Australia or India:
http://www.youtube.com/user/unsw
http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd
And if you want to learn stuff like how to solder and splice try http://www.tpub.com/neets/
Or watch someone make vacuum tubes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl-QMuUQhVM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S5OwqOXen8
Sure you might not be able to afford all that equipment to actually do everything. But at least you have a better idea of what you might like and what's worth it before forking out lots of money (or going in debt) in fees.
> No, permanent blinding weapons are illegal
Yes but please see "Article 3" in your link.
Article 3
Blinding as an incidental or collateral effect of the legitimate military employment of laser systems, including laser systems used against optical equipment, is not covered by the prohibition of this Protocol.
So if one of those common laser targeters or this super laser can blind you, they still comply since they weren't designed specifically to blind people, they come under "incidental or collateral effect".
You're just not supposed to:
"employ laser weapons specifically designed, as their sole combat function or as one of their combat functions, to cause permanent blindness to unenhanced vision"
So just blind people and say "Oops".
Just make sure choice politicians are on board.
;).
Or hold a reality show called "Voted Off The Planet!".
I'm too lazy at the moment so I'll let you all imagine/figure out the details - e.g. 1-way or return.
Lastly if the "right" people get voted off the planet that might actually save a lot more than 150 paltry billions in the long run
All depends on which bits you can change.
:).
If you can change the constants of the universe I'm sure you only need to change one bit to kill everyone
But your imaginary "ball" scenario doesn't help show why it should work at all.
You experience weightlessness/zero G when you fall without any resistance. If you are in a giant plastic ball full of water and that ball falls, you will definitely still feel like you are falling. Your inner ears will still tell you that you are falling.
If you are in a giant plastic ball full of water and that ball rotates, you may feel like puking after a few spins.
So there will be a noticeable difference for your given scenario.
They should just put some mice up in space and have them breed etc, or some other creature with a short gestation period.
No point. Plenty of asteroids are already in a parking orbit.
It would be way too expensive to force an asteroid that's hurtling towards the earth to slow down and go into orbit instead of whizzing past.
Dogs are likely to get bored and want to do other stuff after a while. Also the results might not be as consistent from one dog to another.
The device in the article sounds really crap though - consistently crap is not very useful.
I'd be more interested when it is far more accurate. Right now it's not news at all.
> Or to have an immune system that can detect and flush out badly replicating cells, really.
:).
;).
After a while the immune system may have to kill nearly every cell to do that, including many of its own cells. It'll be a bit like removing all the rust from an old car that's already mostly rust
My guess is after a while of aging it's hard for the body to figure out what is a good cell - since the cells would have drifted "apart" from each other and the "ideal" - one skill cell would be not quite the same as another skin cell (just look at old skin and a baby's skin), and the immune system can't go around killing all the inferior clones since the body has stopped being able to make "perfect" clones.
That's probably a reason why you have reproduction - out of very many cells you start all over again with two cells that are hopefully good enough.
Genetic drift for bacteria and other unicellular stuff is nothing since they aren't as dependent on the rest of their clones behaving "properly".
If you have tech to kill all bad cell clones, you probably can't use it on Chimeras, and people that have transplants from other people/creatures. The bacteria in your body might also have "issues" with that tech
We may still be able to do better than 140ish years, since other animals apparently can manage that.
Maybe she should have been prosecuted for child abuse?
;).
After all don't they lock up guys who try dubious stuff with FBI agents pretending to be 14 year olds?
BTW I wonder if those guys could get away with it if treated their correspondents as FBI agents pretending to be 14 year olds
Actually many Amish communities do use electricity. But their electrical devices tend to be using batteries or generators and not connected to the national grid.
If you start improving cochlear implants significantly (better fidelity etc) and attaching computers to them, I'm sure the RIAA and gang will have a word with you, and "convince" you to include DRM.
So will it be a penny for your ("their") thoughts? I'm thinking they might charge more.
But what if I want to provide free AND secure wireless in a user friendly way? What about the people who want to provide free wifi that doesn't allow users to eavesdrop on each other's traffic?
WiFi security is pretty dismal.
There's nothing at the level of https - where users can have confidential connections without messing about too much - no need even for "username and password".
With WiFi, either users have zero security, or they have to enter a username and password (and possibly jump through other hoops).
I'd love to know if there's an existing way and I'm missing something. Forcing users to use IPSEC does not count as "not jumping through hoops".
Yes I know, https users still have to beware of MITM attacks, but at least fix WiFi to the https level.
Does that mean instead of outsourcing the grunts, they outsourced the CEO?