I would definitely count fractals as discoveries, not inventions. I would say that the abstract set of points that make up for example the mandelbrot fractal according to some mathematical rule, 'existed' before the first plot of it was made. (and no plot can even capture all points)
Not knowing either Russion or Chinese, I have to ask why the need to change the first part of the term, but keep the last part of the term the same? Or is that actually what the Russians and Chinese call their astronauts?
Why cann't they just let ME decide which version I want to watch, the ones with all the new features or the one "customized" for the country i happen to connect from.
The attorney in this case made some interesting comments on this site (posted earlier in this thread):
"Although my comments in this regard are speculative, I am reading between the lines. I have had several other similar cases in front of the same judge. Off the record, my read is that the judge was silently applauding my efforts (pro bono) to defend the innocent, but was not going to let me turn this into a cottage industry to make thousands in legal fees. "
4 digit pins means that if you snoop 10000 cards, and try them all with the same pin, on average one of them will work. Usually you have three tries for each pin, so it should also work with 3333 cards. Snoop cards in some busy shoping centers until you have a million, and then rake in the cash.
Oh I don't misunderstand the difference. However, most public schools do, and they teach a theory as if it were a law (such as the laws of thermodynamics or the laws of gravity). I think a lot of people misinterpret trying to bring the theory of evolution down to a "theory" as trying to convert it into a hypothetis. This just isn't the desired intent.
Which laws of gravity are you talking about? the newtonian laws always were just a theory too, which has since been disproven and replaced by einsteins theories. The "laws" are still used because they seem to be a good aproximation.
There really are no absolute laws in nature that we can discover. While you can observe a falling stone again and again, you can never proove that it will fall down the next time and not float straight up. The "real laws" of gravity could for example be that a stone will only fall down 99,99...%, and only occams razor can give you some hint that this is not the case. But you can never be sure.
Now, thermodynamics is a little bit different. given a few simple axioms about the statistic behaviour of a system you can actually prove a few theorems, which boil down to the laws of thermodynamics. Of course, it is not possible to proove that the axioms really apply to our world, so we cannot proove the laws of thermodynamics either. And of course the statistical nature of the laws of thermodynamics means that they can be violated on a small scale anyway.
Part of the solution is simply to use better dialogue windows and part of it is to give the user better choices. I remember in Word (back in the day) I would get a dialogue box that said, "Warning, this word file contains macros that may be viruses, open it anyway? OK/Cancel" Talk about useless. What it needed was a button that said, "open the file, but don't run any macros." I know people who would have paid $500 bucks for that option.
That is still too complicated for many. Best to just open the document WHITOUT macros per default, and present a small info bar somewhere "macros have been blocked. click here to learn more or change settings". No click neccesary to just continue working.
they do? Interesting. I thought azureus had 6800 as default too. But i would guess that azureus and co are only really popular with the heavy users, probably not the people that only want to download a gutenberg book. ABC, torrentstorm, and the python variants of the orginal client use the standard ports afaik. Opera probably too. Of yourse it can be changed, but 99% of the users won't botter, and why should they, if their connection is not blocked?
That will not make much difference if everyone else still uses the default ports. You still need someone to connect to and these filters usually block the outgoing port
You might be able to receive and reply to connection requests, but you cannot initiate connections yourself.
well, that sounds logical, so I'm probably confused. Maybe the article I read talked about higher frequencies, not intensity. Anyway, thanks for the explanation
IIRC, air is normally mostly transparent to laser light, but at a certain intensity it is ionized, becomming intransparent. I am not sure were I read that thought.
I once saw a prototype for a kinda similar but easier technique: inside a glas dome there was a rotating helix of some semi-transparent material. (take a flat square of some flexible material, fix it vertically with one side to the ground, and twist the top side by 180 around the z-axis and you get such a helix)
A laser would shine up vertically from below, illminating one spot on that helix. since the helix was turning, the iluminated spot would appear at a different height, depending on the timing of the laser pulse, thereby giving you a z-coordinate for a voxel. X and Y coordinates could be achieved by using several lasers or mirrors from below the helix.
But this was some years ago, and I never again heard about that system
replies are not a problem in the case of the submitter. For something like that newsletter (or "targeted info") i find a common subject usefull, does nto even have to be a tag, could simple be "SUPERDUPER-NEWS No 123 - get rich fast!!!"
Now, the problem with RE:AW:RE:AW is indeed annoing, but that's entirely the fault of outlook express, real mail clients don't do that, and whoever thought that "RE:" should be translated deserves to be flogged
If the user just wants to download some software from you, or get some info, or join a webforum, do NOT require them to signup for your list, do NOT include any checkboxes that are checked by default and sign them up, or optimally do not include any such checkboxes at all. Instead, offer a separate form on your website where the user can signup for your list if he chooses to. Optimally, in other places simply do not ask for their email address at all.
Make sure that all your mailings ALWAYS have the same from-header, and that they all include an identical tag at the start of the subject line (like "[YOURCOMPANY-info]")
The address in the from header should exist, and unsubscribe request and bounces to this address should be processed (but offer unsubscribe via web form too!)
Let the user chose at signup whether they want html or plaintext. The confirmation mail after signup obviously should always be plaintext. The confirmation mail should also include from which IP , when and how the signup request was made.
If the mail is html, do not include any IMG tags that link to images not included in the mail (which could cause the mail-client to connect to the internet), and only include very small images in the mail if any at all.
For people that do not want you to send them mails but still want to read the content, offer the option to read all your info-mails on your website, without them having to log in. (assuming the mails do not contain private information)
that's all I can think of right now, but it all seems pretty obvious to me if you always have your customers best interest in mind.
helium next to lithium, neon next to natrium and so on, seems counterintuitive to me. The old table has a line break at these points, which makes the number of electron shells easier to see
If the 1x1 pixels are changed back to dots, and the victim visits the page again, the new version will replace the old version in the cache, but the images stay. You could even make it so that the 1x1 pixels are only included for the first access from the same IP. Then make the page reload itself.
better yet, use a javascript that silently submits a form in a hidden iframe. The target of that form is a page with the discriminating images. results of POST requests are not cached.
I don't know the numbers, but with all the stuff we are broadcasting already every second, shouldn't they be able to hear us already, assuming there is something there.
And, if that planet had a civilisation level similar to ours, would seti be able to pick up their noise?
My time is not free. Hunting something down can be time consuming task, and with the usual p2p crap chances are you end up with something incomlete, useless or worse (like a children's movie with porn sliced in (or so I have heard (no, really, just heard about it:-) ) ) )
So "cheap" would probably be far cheaper than "free" in this case
From the ship's point of view, clocks 'A' and 'B' would be out of sync, even though their now adjacent. From the tollbooth's point of view, of course, all these clocks are in sync.
Good example, but that seems impossible to me. Here, two clocks that are next to each other and identical in structure show identical behaviour when seen from one frame of reference (tollbooth), and different behaviour when seen from another (ship). This would imply that these clocks have a property that is different between A and B and unobservable from the tollbooths point of view. So if we swap A and B, the tollbooth would be unable to tell which is which, but the ship could. For clocks made of ordinary matter, such a property does not seem possible.
I think the signal is seen as instant from all reference frames (and the ship and the tollboth would disagree on when the signal was received, instead of its latency). Consider that the ansible works by makeing two distant points effectively adjacent. Those points are adjacent from anyone's point of view.
The ansible connects two points of space-time. But I would say that a signal passing throught the ansible from X to Y would not neccessary be perceived as instantly from my frame. just as the signal appears to bridge a gap in space, it can also appear to bridge a gap in time, appearing at Y before or after it left X, depending on my frame of reference.
Too bad that probably neither interpretation will be confirmed or denied by experimental data in our lifetime:)
Currently I have a dynamic IP. my IP is assigned by my provider from a pool, and changes at least dayly. I see this as an important advantage for my privacy.
If IPv6 became widespread, would this result in me having the same IP for as long as I stay with this ISP? Or even longer?
I regulary delete cookies I don't want, but if there is an unique identifier that is tied to me, then this is no longer possible. Cookies could just be saved server-side, and shared among different servers. As long as I cannot change my IP, I could be clearly identified
Right now it is not feasible to identify users in this way, because most users do not have a static IP. Would this change if IPv6 became widespread?
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I would definitely count fractals as discoveries, not inventions.
I would say that the abstract set of points that make up for example the mandelbrot fractal according to some mathematical rule, 'existed' before the first plot of it was made. (and no plot can even capture all points)
Not knowing either Russion or Chinese, I have to ask why the need to change the first part of the term, but keep the last part of the term the same? Or is that actually what the Russians and Chinese call their astronauts?
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Was wondering about that too. Apparently the official chinese name is yuhangyuan.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-yu
its getting harder and harder to just access google.com from germany
they used to check your language preferences and redirect you to a localised version based on that. No prob, I removed all my language preferences.
Now they seem to be doing that based on my IP
They used to have a link to the main google page that would not redirect: http://www.google.com/ncr
That link does not work anymore (redirects to the country specific version)
http://www.google.us/ --> redirects to my country
by chance I now found that http://www.google.com/webhp still works without a redirect, but for how long?
Why cann't they just let ME decide which version I want to watch, the ones with all the new features or the one "customized" for the country i happen to connect from.
The attorney in this case made some interesting comments on this site (posted earlier in this thread):
"Although my comments in this regard are speculative, I am reading between the lines. I have had several other similar cases in front of the same judge. Off the record, my read is that the judge was silently applauding my efforts (pro bono) to defend the innocent, but was not going to let me turn this into a cottage industry to make thousands in legal fees. "
I know you are joking, but the site displays in Helvetica for me. Just change the default font for your browser.
4 digit pins means that if you snoop 10000 cards, and try them all with the same pin, on average one of them will work.
Usually you have three tries for each pin, so it should also work with 3333 cards.
Snoop cards in some busy shoping centers until you have a million, and then rake in the cash.
Oh I don't misunderstand the difference. However, most public schools do, and they teach a theory as if it were a law (such as the laws of thermodynamics or the laws of gravity). I think a lot of people misinterpret trying to bring the theory of evolution down to a "theory" as trying to convert it into a hypothetis. This just isn't the desired intent.
Which laws of gravity are you talking about? the newtonian laws always were just a theory too, which has since been disproven and replaced by einsteins theories. The "laws" are still used because they seem to be a good aproximation.
There really are no absolute laws in nature that we can discover.
While you can observe a falling stone again and again, you can never proove that it will fall down the next time and not float straight up.
The "real laws" of gravity could for example be that a stone will only fall down 99,99...%, and only occams razor can give you some hint that this is not the case. But you can never be sure.
Now, thermodynamics is a little bit different. given a few simple axioms about the statistic behaviour of a system you can actually prove a few theorems, which boil down to the laws of thermodynamics. Of course, it is not possible to proove that the axioms really apply to our world, so we cannot proove the laws of thermodynamics either. And of course the statistical nature of the laws of thermodynamics means that they can be violated on a small scale anyway.
Part of the solution is simply to use better dialogue windows and part of it is to give the user better choices. I remember in Word (back in the day) I would get a dialogue box that said, "Warning, this word file contains macros that may be viruses, open it anyway? OK/Cancel" Talk about useless. What it needed was a button that said, "open the file, but don't run any macros." I know people who would have paid $500 bucks for that option.
That is still too complicated for many. Best to just open the document WHITOUT macros per default, and present a small info bar somewhere "macros have been blocked. click here to learn more or change settings". No click neccesary to just continue working.
I dunno about you, but I WANT my phone to have GPS.
Then buy a phone with GPS. Problem solved.
I fail to see how making GPS mandatory is neccessary for that
they do? Interesting. I thought azureus had 6800 as default too.
But i would guess that azureus and co are only really popular with the heavy users, probably not the people that only want to download a gutenberg book.
ABC, torrentstorm, and the python variants of the orginal client use the standard ports afaik. Opera probably too.
Of yourse it can be changed, but 99% of the users won't botter, and why should they, if their connection is not blocked?
That will not make much difference if everyone else still uses the default ports.
You still need someone to connect to
and these filters usually block the outgoing port
You might be able to receive and reply to connection requests, but you cannot initiate connections yourself.
well, that sounds logical, so I'm probably confused.
Maybe the article I read talked about higher frequencies, not intensity.
Anyway, thanks for the explanation
IIRC, air is normally mostly transparent to laser light, but at a certain intensity it is ionized, becomming intransparent. I am not sure were I read that thought.
I once saw a prototype for a kinda similar but easier technique: inside a glas dome there was a rotating helix of some semi-transparent material.
(take a flat square of some flexible material, fix it vertically with one side to the ground, and twist the top side by 180 around the z-axis and you get such a helix)
A laser would shine up vertically from below, illminating one spot on that helix. since the helix was turning, the iluminated spot would appear at a different height, depending on the timing of the laser pulse, thereby giving you a z-coordinate for a voxel. X and Y coordinates could be achieved by using several lasers or mirrors from below the helix.
But this was some years ago, and I never again heard about that system
you could build a device that gets the time via radio (LINK) or buy one that does this (like a gps receiver?).
or if any udp port is open in the firewall, set up a ntp server outside that answers on that port
replies are not a problem in the case of the submitter. For something like that newsletter (or "targeted info") i find a common subject usefull, does nto even have to be a tag, could simple be "SUPERDUPER-NEWS No 123 - get rich fast!!!"
Now, the problem with RE:AW:RE:AW is indeed annoing, but that's entirely the fault of outlook express, real mail clients don't do that, and whoever thought that "RE:" should be translated deserves to be flogged
If the user just wants to download some software from you, or get some info, or join a webforum, do NOT require them to signup for your list, do NOT include any checkboxes that are checked by default and sign them up, or optimally do not include any such checkboxes at all. Instead, offer a separate form on your website where the user can signup for your list if he chooses to. Optimally, in other places simply do not ask for their email address at all.
Make sure that all your mailings ALWAYS have the same from-header, and that they all include an identical tag at the start of the subject line (like "[YOURCOMPANY-info]")
The address in the from header should exist, and unsubscribe request and bounces to this address should be processed (but offer unsubscribe via web form too!)
Let the user chose at signup whether they want html or plaintext.
The confirmation mail after signup obviously should always be plaintext. The confirmation mail should also include from which IP , when and how the signup request was made.
If the mail is html, do not include any IMG tags that link to images not included in the mail (which could cause the mail-client to connect to the internet), and only include very small images in the mail if any at all.
For people that do not want you to send them mails but still want to read the content, offer the option to read all your info-mails on your website, without them having to log in. (assuming the mails do not contain private information)
that's all I can think of right now, but it all seems pretty obvious to me if you always have your customers best interest in mind.
helium next to lithium, neon next to natrium and so on, seems counterintuitive to me.
The old table has a line break at these points, which makes the number of electron shells easier to see
Each time they kill off a technology the next generation is always much better. I can't wait to see what is after bittorrent.
Audiogalaxy got killed, but so far no replacement ever came close to it.
If the 1x1 pixels are changed back to dots, and the victim visits the page again, the new version will replace the old version in the cache, but the images stay.
You could even make it so that the 1x1 pixels are only included for the first access from the same IP. Then make the page reload itself.
better yet, use a javascript that silently submits a form in a hidden iframe. The target of that form is a page with the discriminating images. results of POST requests are not cached.
I don't know the numbers, but with all the stuff we are broadcasting already every second, shouldn't they be able to hear us already, assuming there is something there.
And, if that planet had a civilisation level similar to ours, would seti be able to pick up their noise?
hmm. But it should not matter whether it is imported or not, so are second hand PSPs now a trademark violation too?
If someone is selling genuine PSPs that he legaly bought, where is the trademark infringement?
Even if he did not buy them but stole them or something I still do not see any connection to trademark laws
Makes no sense at all to me
My time is not free. :-) ) ) )
Hunting something down can be time consuming task, and with the usual p2p crap chances are you end up with something incomlete, useless or worse (like a children's movie with porn sliced in (or so I have heard (no, really, just heard about it
So "cheap" would probably be far cheaper than "free" in this case
Good example, but that seems impossible to me.
Here, two clocks that are next to each other and identical in structure show identical behaviour when seen from one frame of reference (tollbooth), and different behaviour when seen from another (ship).
This would imply that these clocks have a property that is different between A and B and unobservable from the tollbooths point of view.
So if we swap A and B, the tollbooth would be unable to tell which is which, but the ship could.
For clocks made of ordinary matter, such a property does not seem possible.
The ansible connects two points of space-time.
But I would say that a signal passing throught the ansible from X to Y would not neccessary be perceived as instantly from my frame. just as the signal appears to bridge a gap in space, it can also appear to bridge a gap in time, appearing at Y before or after it left X, depending on my frame of reference.
Too bad that probably neither interpretation will be confirmed or denied by experimental data in our lifetime
Currently I have a dynamic IP. my IP is assigned by my provider from a pool, and changes at least dayly. I see this as an important advantage for my privacy.
If IPv6 became widespread, would this result in me having the same IP for as long as I stay with this ISP? Or even longer?
I regulary delete cookies I don't want, but if there is an unique identifier that is tied to me, then this is no longer possible.
Cookies could just be saved server-side, and shared among different servers. As long as I cannot change my IP, I could be clearly identified
Right now it is not feasible to identify users in this way, because most users do not have a static IP.
Would this change if IPv6 became widespread?