Idiots flow from areas with fewer idiots to areas with more idiots, but it takes work to reverse the flow and decrease the idiot density of one (low-density) area while increasing the idiot density of another, higher-idiot-density area.
Now demonstrated to be false since the discovery of Quantum Bogodynamics, back in the early days of IT. http://wikibin.org/articles/quantum-bogodynamics.html
Idiots flow from idiot-dense areas to low idiot density - non-idiots must work hard to either keep idiots out. This force is transmitted by an Idiot giving up a particle of Bogon which is absorbed by a non-idiot. Thus manifesting as an attractive force.
This is why the most beautifully engineered and brilliant machines will fail in the most spectacular way when the strongest bogon emitters are invariably attracted to them. This is why Lamborghinis seem to spontanously catch on fire but that old Toyota Corolla you can't can't kill.
My understanding is that most helium is a byproduct of extracting natural gas from gas fields. If natural gas resources are not dwindling, and no doubt there are still undiscovered fields, then isn't this scarcity somewhat artificial?
I insist my Bank either mails to the local branch for pick up (with ID) or in some cases sends by signed courier. Almost every service representitive, when questioned thinks this is a "good idea" because they admit they hear of an enormous ammount of fraud this way. Banks have no interest in doing this by default in my area.
I understand it's usual practice in MOST countries to mail pre-activated cards (maily credit, debit not so much) to residential addresses. Indeed credit cards go 'missing' in the mail often.
This is one of the most common methods of physically obtaining a credit card. Even if you have to go to the branch to get the card activated by a pin, which occurs with Debit cards (credit cards you just need to sign the back of them and their good to go) the fraudsters know branches are slack about correctly checking ID and obtaining a fake or doctored ID is trivial.
My advice, for you own good, insist you pick up your new card from your local branch, if you have the option of paying for a signed courier if the bank won't then do so.
The forthcoming cyberwar will be isolated to the Microsoft ecosystem, use of MS Windows attcking malware is almost a prerequisite in a large scale cyber attack. *nix OSes are fundamentally more resistant in practice, automated/self-replicating attacks.
Plato's model of the heavens was excusable considering the lack of telescopes in the time. Plato also perhaps did not feel the unusual movements of the planets needing explanation, which would have gone away with heliocentric model. The first good empirical evidence came from Galileo's observations, such as observing the phases of Venus, and the circular orbits of the moons of Jupiter. Which supported a heliocentric model of the solar system.
Plato's thinking laid the foundation for our civilization today, which I can't help but find comparable to the peak of Greece and Rome, before their fall. So I ask, is there some equivalent thinker alive in modern times, possibly even now, laying the foundation for a future civilization after the next dark age or whatever will befall our current unsustainable civilization? A telling prerequisite would be that the ideas are so forward thinking they would seem threatening to our status quo.
All these years cracking this code, he's done it, and he hasn't tried to put it all together to see if the hidden code makes any readible sense? I tried do it out of the annoated pdf download of Socrates' Symposium speech from Jay Kennedy's website but my ancient greek is a little rusty and my translation was nonsensical. All I got was:
"help me are student here time machine mishap kernel panic in quantum fluctuation regulator module stupid arduino fail experiement sent back too far wanted woodstock not greek ancient time fml please send spare flux capacitor from 2013"
I use Chrome and sometimes Opera for security. I will not do internet banking with anything else other than Chrome or the browser on my Android phone. Firefox, as much as I love it, has become outdated slow and bloated. It's also very popular, meaning it's under attack (indeed have witnessed more and more malware getting through firefox - it's no longer the automatic cure for malware magnet users) although flaws are fixed so fast it makes your head spin, in reality it's always been unpatched browsers that have been the risk.
I uh, was also under the impression Chrome has some pretty heavy duty security features and built in anti-phishing support. To the point that it embarasses the competition who are playing catch up. If anything banks should be strongly encouraging people install these browsers.
People have enough trouble using their turn signals, safe following distances and I don't know, general road rules? Adding a 3rd dimension and 200mph is asking for chaos. So what we're talking about is a aircraft that fits in a domestic garage and has road-legal extended taxiing ability. It's still a aircraft first. Thankfully.
Occam's DIMM I'm affraid. I had a stick of DDR2 that had a stuck bit that caused almost exactly the same issue as TFA. As a hardware geek, not a *nix geek with time to waste, I went straight to memtest86, and there it was, one single stuck bit.
Although interesting, TFA it is without a doubt the most pedantic and roundabout way I've ever read of establishing your rig is not stable.
From TFSA:
And in fact, since that incident, I've had several other, similar problems. I haven't gotten around to memtesting my machine, but that does suggest I might just have a bad RAM chip on my hands.
Yeah he has a stuck or semi-stuck bit and a hour or two of his life he won't get back.
In such a circumstance I've found underclocking and overvolting the DIMM might coax it to work again but it's best to RMA or bin it.
If you don't like it don't install! When you install it warns you what kind of data the application has access to and what kind of settings it can change. This is truly a first for any operating system and an awesome feature - frankly linux distros, Apple and Microsoft would do well to pay attention to Android, some of it's security features are so far ahead it's not funny.
If that fart button app reports it wants access to full internet, your calls, services that cost you money... maybe you should hit cancel and move on.
Now preserved here in Slashdot comments for when it evaporates from cache:
New Zealand Brings Software Patents back From Brink of Extinction
New Zealand looks like its reversing course on software patent protection. On June 9, there was a meeting between representatives of NZ Ministry of Economic Development (MED) and representatives of NZICT Group. It appears that New Zealand is likely to ultimately adopt an approach to software patents that is consistent with the EPO’s position. My thanks to Jim Hallenbeck (Schwegman) and Paik Saber (IBM) for relaying this information.
Here is the summary of the meeting provided by Brett O’Riley CEO of NZICT:
Our representative delegation met with MED in Wellington yesterday. This was to discuss the formal submission we had made to Hon Simon Power last week covering our concerns about the proposed draft legislation.
The end result of the meeting was extremely encouraging. While section 15 (3A) will not be removed (our ideal outcome), Hon Simon Power has asked MED to work with the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office to redraft the section along the lines of the European Patent Convention. He has informed the Commerce Select Committee that Crown Law will be undertaking some redrafting before the bill gets to its Second Reading.
While it’s obviously not the end of the journey, it was very pleasing to have a positive indication that the Government recognises there is a need to amend section 15(3A) to make sure it’s consistent with the intent of adopting European practice. While European law does restrict software patents this is positive progress, and the view of our team is that this would be a good outcome for the New Zealand ICT industry.
In summary, the MED confirmed earlier statements from Select Committee members and MED officials that the intent was to follow European law (even though this is not mentioned in the Commentary to the Patents Bill). The MED acknowledged that amendment is required to achieve this, and that the Minister supports finding a reasonable way forward on this point before proceeding with the Bill.
The meeting was attended by myself, as well as Peter Wren-Hilton from Pingar, Dougal Watt and Julie Motley from IBM, and Waldo Kuipers from Microsoft. There was an apology from Ed Robinson (Aptimize) though I verbally covered his concerns. From the MED, Rory McLeod (Director – Competition, Trade and Investment Branch) attended, as did Silke Radde and Warren Hassett who are responsible for overall IP policy and the Patents Bill respectively.
Rory McLeod began with an update on the Patents Bill clause 15(3A).
He described the decision of the Select Committee as being to move to a “normal patentable situation as in Europe”, that did not allow patenting of software per se.
Rory then went into some detail (partly in response to questions we had raised) about what the Select Committee intent was:
The intent had never been to ban software patents outright (and the MED would have serious concerns about that if it were proposed).
If it is patentable in the EU then it should be patentable in New Zealand.
Software should be treated like other technology, so should have a technical purpose and be an inventive step to be patentable, as in Europe.
Not just any software would be patentable, it would need to meet the above test.
Embedded or not embedded is or was not the distinction that is intended.
The signal that the Government wants to send is to follow European law and practice.
The MED also now clearly acknowledge that clause 15(3A) is not adequate to convey this intent. It was great being able to present practical examples of world leading software being developed by Pingar and Aptimize, and hear MED recognise the importance of these companies being able to seek patent protection.
I think you misunderstood the mechanism here. I do believe that absortion of H2O by NaCL is an endothermic reaction, thus a cooling effect. You can then recycle the solution by extract moisture with heat somehow.
The cooler is two stage, the air is first highly humidified (if not too humid already), lowering it's temperature, the second stage the endothermic effect cools it further. This would work in a humid environment and indeed allows control of humidity outlet.
I live in a country where we have a publicly funded health care system. There are no death panels. When I get asked about pre-existing health problems it's for a doctor to better treat me. Not to deny treatment or insurance payout.
When I get asked about race, nationality, it's to better cater to your cultural needs. You won't be tested for your wealth.
Treatment here is based on need and need alone. Not on ability to pay / socio-economic caste.
Of course there are limited resources and distribution issue, and somehow inequality still emerges (Inevitably, a capatilist demorcracy does not suffer the under class it creates) and you will go on a waiting list if you have non-urgent surgery. But thankfully this is assesed on medical need first and foremost, not on whether you're worthwhile saving.
The providers of medical care in America are blessed with an oversupply of diagonese and treatments compared to 1910 when doctors could do little but give you snake oil and suggest bed rest. Of course, to make more and more money they have invent new ways to provide more service and treat more agressively. In litigious America better for Doctors to over diagonose and over prescribe, with to a false dubios positive being better than a lawsuit spawning false negative.
In turn the insurance companies need to make more and more profit, charging it's customer base more and paying out less. A route to record profit is denying treatment at every excuse.
Who gets the squeeze here? It's the very people who the healthcare system was intended to treat.
I recall reading that the actual all up cost of hospital bed for a night in the US is as much as six times that of other countries.
When you shine a light on America's health system from the point of view of any other developed nations health system it looks very very bad.
But here's the death blow to private health care model: We still have private health care insurance and private practices and private hospitals in my country.
Yep it co-exists nicely with a publicly funded baseline system.
The old quote is that with tax you buy civilisation. I've often said tax is kind of enforced insurance on civilisation. It spreads the cost of maintaining civilisation accross the population, like an insurance policy spreads bankrupting life saving surgery of one individual accross all policy holders.
The only way to fix healthcare in America is a gradually introduced public healthcare system at least for urgent & emergency care, with elective and first instance care through insurance and private practice.
Just get a crying track and some random lights between your seat and the screen, that should duplicate those quite well.
But how do you plan to replicate the smell of childs vomit? Add to that, too much popcorn and soda too quickly for a small child in 3D Avatar has a particular chain reaction among children and even adults nearby.
Good coders shouldn't spend too long on something like picking a name, because it seems to me part of coding well is keeping a ryhthym of only spending just enough time on each element to get it right. Part of coding is not spending long on solving each individual problem, I would suggest that this method of everything being "that'll do" means when coming to a decision such as naming, the default method is to pick something and move on with your day.
I didn't quite understand this as a student, I got higher marks in programming assignments than people who'd already learnt to code out in the wild. I was a perfectionist and took way to long to get anything done to the point I swore off a career in pure development. My impression is that it's just too difficult to take too much into consideration at a line by line level. It's near impossible to get anything done with a perfectionist attitude.
I finally understood why so many finished projects seem to be great in concept but realised with a "that'll do" attitude.
Ironically... if we were prepared for an earthquake every day we'd have no problem. ie. better enforcement of building codes, individual preparedness and other measures that should be shown to work.
Despite the face that Weather forecasts are nowadays accurate six days out of seven, nobody would dream of accusing meteorlogists of negligence when they get it wrong. Considering extreme weather costs billions in damage and takes countless lives, you would think there would be lawsuits flying everywhere.
Because hard data (if well demonstrated) actually stands up pretty well in court. The burden of proof is on the accusor to show that the data and method actually showed a possibility of a major earthquake and were negligent in missing it.
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... politicians had it wrong, reduce law to increase order.
Idiots flow from areas with fewer idiots to areas with more idiots, but it takes work to reverse the flow and decrease the idiot density of one (low-density) area while increasing the idiot density of another, higher-idiot-density area.
Now demonstrated to be false since the discovery of Quantum Bogodynamics, back in the early days of IT. http://wikibin.org/articles/quantum-bogodynamics.html Idiots flow from idiot-dense areas to low idiot density - non-idiots must work hard to either keep idiots out. This force is transmitted by an Idiot giving up a particle of Bogon which is absorbed by a non-idiot. Thus manifesting as an attractive force.
This is why the most beautifully engineered and brilliant machines will fail in the most spectacular way when the strongest bogon emitters are invariably attracted to them. This is why Lamborghinis seem to spontanously catch on fire but that old Toyota Corolla you can't can't kill.
My understanding is that most helium is a byproduct of extracting natural gas from gas fields. If natural gas resources are not dwindling, and no doubt there are still undiscovered fields, then isn't this scarcity somewhat artificial?
I insist my Bank either mails to the local branch for pick up (with ID) or in some cases sends by signed courier. Almost every service representitive, when questioned thinks this is a "good idea" because they admit they hear of an enormous ammount of fraud this way. Banks have no interest in doing this by default in my area.
I understand it's usual practice in MOST countries to mail pre-activated cards (maily credit, debit not so much) to residential addresses. Indeed credit cards go 'missing' in the mail often.
This is one of the most common methods of physically obtaining a credit card. Even if you have to go to the branch to get the card activated by a pin, which occurs with Debit cards (credit cards you just need to sign the back of them and their good to go) the fraudsters know branches are slack about correctly checking ID and obtaining a fake or doctored ID is trivial.
My advice, for you own good, insist you pick up your new card from your local branch, if you have the option of paying for a signed courier if the bank won't then do so.
The forthcoming cyberwar will be isolated to the Microsoft ecosystem, use of MS Windows attcking malware is almost a prerequisite in a large scale cyber attack. *nix OSes are fundamentally more resistant in practice, automated/self-replicating attacks.
... the live CD you have with you.
Plato's model of the heavens was excusable considering the lack of telescopes in the time. Plato also perhaps did not feel the unusual movements of the planets needing explanation, which would have gone away with heliocentric model. The first good empirical evidence came from Galileo's observations, such as observing the phases of Venus, and the circular orbits of the moons of Jupiter. Which supported a heliocentric model of the solar system.
Plato's thinking laid the foundation for our civilization today, which I can't help but find comparable to the peak of Greece and Rome, before their fall. So I ask, is there some equivalent thinker alive in modern times, possibly even now, laying the foundation for a future civilization after the next dark age or whatever will befall our current unsustainable civilization? A telling prerequisite would be that the ideas are so forward thinking they would seem threatening to our status quo.
All these years cracking this code, he's done it, and he hasn't tried to put it all together to see if the hidden code makes any readible sense? I tried do it out of the annoated pdf download of Socrates' Symposium speech from Jay Kennedy's website but my ancient greek is a little rusty and my translation was nonsensical. All I got was:
"help me are student here time machine mishap kernel panic in quantum fluctuation regulator module stupid arduino fail experiement sent back too far wanted woodstock not greek ancient time fml please send spare flux capacitor from 2013"
I use Chrome and sometimes Opera for security. I will not do internet banking with anything else other than Chrome or the browser on my Android phone. Firefox, as much as I love it, has become outdated slow and bloated. It's also very popular, meaning it's under attack (indeed have witnessed more and more malware getting through firefox - it's no longer the automatic cure for malware magnet users) although flaws are fixed so fast it makes your head spin, in reality it's always been unpatched browsers that have been the risk.
I uh, was also under the impression Chrome has some pretty heavy duty security features and built in anti-phishing support. To the point that it embarasses the competition who are playing catch up. If anything banks should be strongly encouraging people install these browsers.
People have enough trouble using their turn signals, safe following distances and I don't know, general road rules? Adding a 3rd dimension and 200mph is asking for chaos. So what we're talking about is a aircraft that fits in a domestic garage and has road-legal extended taxiing ability. It's still a aircraft first. Thankfully.
Although interesting, TFA it is without a doubt the most pedantic and roundabout way I've ever read of establishing your rig is not stable.
From TFSA:
And in fact, since that incident, I've had several other, similar problems. I haven't gotten around to memtesting my machine, but that does suggest I might just have a bad RAM chip on my hands.
Yeah he has a stuck or semi-stuck bit and a hour or two of his life he won't get back.
In such a circumstance I've found underclocking and overvolting the DIMM might coax it to work again but it's best to RMA or bin it.
Well it is. People only noticed mine when I connected it to my NAS.
If you don't like it don't install! When you install it warns you what kind of data the application has access to and what kind of settings it can change. This is truly a first for any operating system and an awesome feature - frankly linux distros, Apple and Microsoft would do well to pay attention to Android, some of it's security features are so far ahead it's not funny.
If that fart button app reports it wants access to full internet, your calls, services that cost you money... maybe you should hit cancel and move on.
New Zealand Brings Software Patents back From Brink of Extinction
New Zealand looks like its reversing course on software patent protection. On June 9, there was a meeting between representatives of NZ Ministry of Economic Development (MED) and representatives of NZICT Group. It appears that New Zealand is likely to ultimately adopt an approach to software patents that is consistent with the EPO’s position. My thanks to Jim Hallenbeck (Schwegman) and Paik Saber (IBM) for relaying this information.
Here is the summary of the meeting provided by Brett O’Riley CEO of NZICT:
Our representative delegation met with MED in Wellington yesterday. This was to discuss the formal submission we had made to Hon Simon Power last week covering our concerns about the proposed draft legislation.
The end result of the meeting was extremely encouraging. While section 15 (3A) will not be removed (our ideal outcome), Hon Simon Power has asked MED to work with the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office to redraft the section along the lines of the European Patent Convention. He has informed the Commerce Select Committee that Crown Law will be undertaking some redrafting before the bill gets to its Second Reading.
While it’s obviously not the end of the journey, it was very pleasing to have a positive indication that the Government recognises there is a need to amend section 15(3A) to make sure it’s consistent with the intent of adopting European practice. While European law does restrict software patents this is positive progress, and the view of our team is that this would be a good outcome for the New Zealand ICT industry.
In summary, the MED confirmed earlier statements from Select Committee members and MED officials that the intent was to follow European law (even though this is not mentioned in the Commentary to the Patents Bill). The MED acknowledged that amendment is required to achieve this, and that the Minister supports finding a reasonable way forward on this point before proceeding with the Bill.
The meeting was attended by myself, as well as Peter Wren-Hilton from Pingar, Dougal Watt and Julie Motley from IBM, and Waldo Kuipers from Microsoft. There was an apology from Ed Robinson (Aptimize) though I verbally covered his concerns. From the MED, Rory McLeod (Director – Competition, Trade and Investment Branch) attended, as did Silke Radde and Warren Hassett who are responsible for overall IP policy and the Patents Bill respectively.
Rory McLeod began with an update on the Patents Bill clause 15(3A).
He described the decision of the Select Committee as being to move to a “normal patentable situation as in Europe”, that did not allow patenting of software per se.
Rory then went into some detail (partly in response to questions we had raised) about what the Select Committee intent was:
The intent had never been to ban software patents outright (and the MED would have serious concerns about that if it were proposed).
If it is patentable in the EU then it should be patentable in New Zealand.
Software should be treated like other technology, so should have a technical purpose and be an inventive step to be patentable, as in Europe.
Not just any software would be patentable, it would need to meet the above test.
Embedded or not embedded is or was not the distinction that is intended.
The signal that the Government wants to send is to follow European law and practice.
The MED also now clearly acknowledge that clause 15(3A) is not adequate to convey this intent. It was great being able to present practical examples of world leading software being developed by Pingar and Aptimize, and hear MED recognise the importance of these companies being able to seek patent protection.
The MED said they wou
You're thinking of Australia
heatsinks are NOT noisy....... not one bit
No they do, sounds a bit like "GAAAAAAAAH!" and occurs when oversize tower cooler wrenches motherboard...
I think you misunderstood the mechanism here. I do believe that absortion of H2O by NaCL is an endothermic reaction, thus a cooling effect. You can then recycle the solution by extract moisture with heat somehow.
The cooler is two stage, the air is first highly humidified (if not too humid already), lowering it's temperature, the second stage the endothermic effect cools it further. This would work in a humid environment and indeed allows control of humidity outlet.
Food even can contain high levels of dihydrogen monoxide. Which can kill you if inhaled.
I live in a country where we have a publicly funded health care system. There are no death panels. When I get asked about pre-existing health problems it's for a doctor to better treat me. Not to deny treatment or insurance payout.
When I get asked about race, nationality, it's to better cater to your cultural needs. You won't be tested for your wealth.
Treatment here is based on need and need alone. Not on ability to pay / socio-economic caste.
Of course there are limited resources and distribution issue, and somehow inequality still emerges (Inevitably, a capatilist demorcracy does not suffer the under class it creates) and you will go on a waiting list if you have non-urgent surgery. But thankfully this is assesed on medical need first and foremost, not on whether you're worthwhile saving.
The providers of medical care in America are blessed with an oversupply of diagonese and treatments compared to 1910 when doctors could do little but give you snake oil and suggest bed rest. Of course, to make more and more money they have invent new ways to provide more service and treat more agressively. In litigious America better for Doctors to over diagonose and over prescribe, with to a false dubios positive being better than a lawsuit spawning false negative.
In turn the insurance companies need to make more and more profit, charging it's customer base more and paying out less. A route to record profit is denying treatment at every excuse.
Who gets the squeeze here? It's the very people who the healthcare system was intended to treat.
I recall reading that the actual all up cost of hospital bed for a night in the US is as much as six times that of other countries.
When you shine a light on America's health system from the point of view of any other developed nations health system it looks very very bad.
But here's the death blow to private health care model: We still have private health care insurance and private practices and private hospitals in my country.
Yep it co-exists nicely with a publicly funded baseline system.
The old quote is that with tax you buy civilisation. I've often said tax is kind of enforced insurance on civilisation. It spreads the cost of maintaining civilisation accross the population, like an insurance policy spreads bankrupting life saving surgery of one individual accross all policy holders.
The only way to fix healthcare in America is a gradually introduced public healthcare system at least for urgent & emergency care, with elective and first instance care through insurance and private practice.
Cory Doctorow can do the Creative Commons novel adataptation tie-in. But what about the action figures? Print on a 3D printer?
Just get a crying track and some random lights between your seat and the screen, that should duplicate those quite well.
But how do you plan to replicate the smell of childs vomit? Add to that, too much popcorn and soda too quickly for a small child in 3D Avatar has a particular chain reaction among children and even adults nearby.
Replicate that with your pirated downloads.
Good coders shouldn't spend too long on something like picking a name, because it seems to me part of coding well is keeping a ryhthym of only spending just enough time on each element to get it right. Part of coding is not spending long on solving each individual problem, I would suggest that this method of everything being "that'll do" means when coming to a decision such as naming, the default method is to pick something and move on with your day.
I didn't quite understand this as a student, I got higher marks in programming assignments than people who'd already learnt to code out in the wild. I was a perfectionist and took way to long to get anything done to the point I swore off a career in pure development. My impression is that it's just too difficult to take too much into consideration at a line by line level. It's near impossible to get anything done with a perfectionist attitude.
I finally understood why so many finished projects seem to be great in concept but realised with a "that'll do" attitude.
Because otherwise it would never ship in time.
Ironically... if we were prepared for an earthquake every day we'd have no problem. ie. better enforcement of building codes, individual preparedness and other measures that should be shown to work.
Despite the face that Weather forecasts are nowadays accurate six days out of seven, nobody would dream of accusing meteorlogists of negligence when they get it wrong. Considering extreme weather costs billions in damage and takes countless lives, you would think there would be lawsuits flying everywhere.
Because hard data (if well demonstrated) actually stands up pretty well in court. The burden of proof is on the accusor to show that the data and method actually showed a possibility of a major earthquake and were negligent in missing it.
I only have enough tin foil to cover one of:
Xbox, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, pr0n NAS, P2P server, desktop rig, iPad, vintage amiga, vintage commodorre 64 !
How ever will I decide which vintage game console to save??