yeah, and they can't spend massive resources developing estimates for every configuration of hardware in the universe.
beyond that, the kalman filter's assumptions are really not tenable for this application, even those of the advanced variants. particularly, the process isn't stationary, and the noise terms are not independent. more basic statistics can do just as well; it's really a matter of it not being worth the trouble.
many of them should ``go backwards'' all the time, as would any half-way honest estimate without an oracle; the installer found a special case and has to run another code branch to replace something that's already been done; download drivers; etc.
it's just that the ui element won't update for it. no progress bar shows ``actual progress''; they all show percentage to completion. these are slightly different.
sure, if the juice hasn't been heat-treated, allowed to oxidize, etc.
at any rate, the majority of vitamins present in most commercial fruit juices have been added, and are mostly artificial.
why should i pay for someone to `fortify' my juice with a dime's worth of multivitamin? juice=sugar, and mostly fructose (=`fruit sugar') if that concerns you (it doesn't me).
if the author is in fact a new yorker, he may have been influenced by some self-congratulatory advertisements the mta put up in the subway a few years ago, implying exactly that their new regenerative braking systems supply a net gain.
not that this means much, of course. i'm just wondering if that might have been the source of this manifestation of his idiocy.
1: 'If scientific theory concerning biological origin is taught in a course of study, biological evolution and biological intelligent design shall be taught.'
2: 'If biological intelligent design is taught, any proposed identity of the intelligence responsible for earth's biology shall be verifiable by present-day observation or experimentation.'
well, since the second condition is impossible to meet, and is a necessary condition to satisfy the first, it means only that scientific theory concerning biological origin cannot be taught in a course of study. (contrapositive)
so... does that just mean you can't teach abiogenesis? that is what `origin' means in this context, right? evolution is okay to teach, and doesn't trigger the latter necessary conditions, even though they mention ``biological evolution,'' apparently as a red herring.
wait. did they mean for this to be a silly logic puzzle, or are they just too stupid to realize what they're saying?
apples don't have vitamin c naturally, and in fact not much of any vitamin. any vitamins in apple juice have been added.
there's nothing wrong with adding artificial vitamins of course, but on the flip side, why not just take a multivitamin with my mountain dew if i prefer that?
no, my written letters (when i write them, which is none too often) are much deeper and more coherent and meaningful than the idle chatter on slashdot.
no, you don't understand. this is ron paul we're talking about. since ron paul is, by definition, opposed to everything bad and in support of everything good, there must instead be a problem with semantics.
ah yes, there it is! sure it says ``trademark,'' which literally refers to a registered device for identifying products or services, but what it really means is the totality of someone's likeness, which is the most private of properties because it recapitulates one's own intellect and character!
phew. glad we resolved that! it's just like the case of those racist newsletters. sure, it looked like either ron paul was aware of it, or was a total idiot who didn't know what his campaign was doing in his own name, but then he cleared it up for us: racism is a form of collectivism, so obviously it would have been impossible for ron paul to have anything to do with it. it follows logically, don'tcha know.
there are fallacies apart from deductive logical fallacies. if someone offers a prescriptive moral system, it seems reasonable to evaluate it by whether its adherents can follow the system consistently. for example, let's consider the prescription of catholic priests not marrying. sure, it makes sense; no wife means closer to god (if `god' is uncomfortable to you, replace it with `studies' or `devotion'). great, except now they sodomize little boys. there's no logical fallacy there, but it does suggest that the moral system is inadequate in the face of human nature.
it would be quite easy for me to devise a perfectly logical way of life, which is nonetheless too strenuous or silly for 99%+ or even 100% of the population to obey. further, if, in fact, the system i develop is too difficult for me to adhere to, it does suggest that it's not very realistic to expect anyone else to.
uh, yeah; since i've justified it about a dozen times, it's certainly a conscious decision by now even if it wasn't when i started, which it was.
so, once again: the purpose is to emphasize that web forums, like slashdot, are more like chatting than they are like formal writing. in conversation, there is no capitalization. i don't want anything i write here to be taken as an authoritative written statement, so i demarcate by using a pseudonym and not capitalizing.
though, i've got to admit, i'm getting tired of being slagged over this issue. just keep it up and i might capitulate.
i agree in part, but really it's a matter of whether your supposed cleverness is actually very predictable, as happened to Feynman's boss. it's really psychology more than it is entropy.
some people think leetspeak is good enough for obfuscation; they were right a few years ago, but not anymore. extrapolating, it's a bit silly to think that simple padding methods such as the one you stated will never be added to the cracking strategies.
feynman cracked the safe in los alamos by guessing that his boss would use a mathematical constant for the password.
it's not hard to imagine an attack utility which tries doing nerdy transformations of the guessed phrases, much as they already automatically do 7331-speak substitutions. adding digits of pi at prime number offsets would be close to the first entry on the list...
now, is anyone going to do that any time soon? probably not. there's still plenty of lower-hanging fruit. nonetheless, i wouldn't be too smug.
aren't they messy? not if you use cartridges. also, blue fountain pen ink is usually easily washable, unless you specifically get a variety which isn't.
won't the dumb kid lose his $20 fountain pen? well, i guess this might be a problem (although somehow we managed before), but i'm sure this accelerometer/vibrator pen would cost a lot more anyway.
the ergonomics are another advantage. making the pen easier to hold can only improve handwriting.
there's one major reason racism and eugenics are unpopular right now: adolf hitler, who made the mistake of attempting to eradicate the one ethnicity which is arguably adapted to modern life.
this current period of not being utterly brutal racists is extremely brief relative to the span of western civilization. to be honest, there's not much reason to think it will last forever, or even very much longer. it's not a pleasant thought, really.
yeah, except this is "crashing" due to a malcoded assert, as has been brought up many times on this forum.
that's basically the safest crash that's possible. i won't say it's unexploitable, but it's about as close as can be. you'd be better off looking for uncaught exceptions.
okay, fine. it won't do anything unless the victim clicks on the entry field. if they do, you've... crashed their web browser. not the hack of the century, and the victim won't do it again.
sorry, i just don't see how this would be a problem. most websites don't want to crash their visitors' web browsers. i guess you can use it in a shock site, but hell, last measure (link mostly safe) was more annoying than this could be, and that didn't even exploit a bug.
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yeah, and they can't spend massive resources developing estimates for every configuration of hardware in the universe.
beyond that, the kalman filter's assumptions are really not tenable for this application, even those of the advanced variants. particularly, the process isn't stationary, and the noise terms are not independent. more basic statistics can do just as well; it's really a matter of it not being worth the trouble.
ah! i knew i'd miss something! very astute... i doff my hat to you, sir.
``We don't demand solid facts. What we demand is a total absence of solid facts. I demand that I may, or may not, be Vroomfondel."
many of them should ``go backwards'' all the time, as would any half-way honest estimate without an oracle; the installer found a special case and has to run another code branch to replace something that's already been done; download drivers; etc.
it's just that the ui element won't update for it. no progress bar shows ``actual progress''; they all show percentage to completion. these are slightly different.
sure, if the juice hasn't been heat-treated, allowed to oxidize, etc.
at any rate, the majority of vitamins present in most commercial fruit juices have been added, and are mostly artificial.
why should i pay for someone to `fortify' my juice with a dime's worth of multivitamin? juice=sugar, and mostly fructose (=`fruit sugar') if that concerns you (it doesn't me).
if the author is in fact a new yorker, he may have been influenced by some self-congratulatory advertisements the mta put up in the subway a few years ago, implying exactly that their new regenerative braking systems supply a net gain.
not that this means much, of course. i'm just wondering if that might have been the source of this manifestation of his idiocy.
1: 'If scientific theory concerning biological origin is taught in a course of study, biological evolution and biological intelligent design shall be taught.'
2: 'If biological intelligent design is taught, any proposed identity of the intelligence responsible for earth's biology shall be verifiable by present-day observation or experimentation.'
well, since the second condition is impossible to meet, and is a necessary condition to satisfy the first, it means only that scientific theory concerning biological origin cannot be taught in a course of study. (contrapositive)
so... does that just mean you can't teach abiogenesis? that is what `origin' means in this context, right? evolution is okay to teach, and doesn't trigger the latter necessary conditions, even though they mention ``biological evolution,'' apparently as a red herring.
wait. did they mean for this to be a silly logic puzzle, or are they just too stupid to realize what they're saying?
if openoffice were commercial proprietary software, it would be marked $4.99 in the bargain bin with the smashed jewel cases of DOOM II.
apples don't have vitamin c naturally, and in fact not much of any vitamin. any vitamins in apple juice have been added.
there's nothing wrong with adding artificial vitamins of course, but on the flip side, why not just take a multivitamin with my mountain dew if i prefer that?
yeah, i know, man; i have the same reaction to the internet adulation of ron paul.
no, my written letters (when i write them, which is none too often) are much deeper and more coherent and meaningful than the idle chatter on slashdot.
and, yes, my casual notes are also uncapitalized.
no, you don't understand. this is ron paul we're talking about. since ron paul is, by definition, opposed to everything bad and in support of everything good, there must instead be a problem with semantics.
ah yes, there it is! sure it says ``trademark,'' which literally refers to a registered device for identifying products or services, but what it really means is the totality of someone's likeness, which is the most private of properties because it recapitulates one's own intellect and character!
phew. glad we resolved that! it's just like the case of those racist newsletters. sure, it looked like either ron paul was aware of it, or was a total idiot who didn't know what his campaign was doing in his own name, but then he cleared it up for us: racism is a form of collectivism, so obviously it would have been impossible for ron paul to have anything to do with it. it follows logically, don'tcha know.
there are fallacies apart from deductive logical fallacies. if someone offers a prescriptive moral system, it seems reasonable to evaluate it by whether its adherents can follow the system consistently. for example, let's consider the prescription of catholic priests not marrying. sure, it makes sense; no wife means closer to god (if `god' is uncomfortable to you, replace it with `studies' or `devotion'). great, except now they sodomize little boys. there's no logical fallacy there, but it does suggest that the moral system is inadequate in the face of human nature.
it would be quite easy for me to devise a perfectly logical way of life, which is nonetheless too strenuous or silly for 99%+ or even 100% of the population to obey. further, if, in fact, the system i develop is too difficult for me to adhere to, it does suggest that it's not very realistic to expect anyone else to.
uh, yeah; since i've justified it about a dozen times, it's certainly a conscious decision by now even if it wasn't when i started, which it was.
so, once again: the purpose is to emphasize that web forums, like slashdot, are more like chatting than they are like formal writing. in conversation, there is no capitalization. i don't want anything i write here to be taken as an authoritative written statement, so i demarcate by using a pseudonym and not capitalizing.
though, i've got to admit, i'm getting tired of being slagged over this issue. just keep it up and i might capitulate.
i agree in part, but really it's a matter of whether your supposed cleverness is actually very predictable, as happened to Feynman's boss. it's really psychology more than it is entropy.
some people think leetspeak is good enough for obfuscation; they were right a few years ago, but not anymore. extrapolating, it's a bit silly to think that simple padding methods such as the one you stated will never be added to the cracking strategies.
apart from my conscious decision to eschew capitalization, could you point out what you mean?
they could require it in addition to what's already there...
he probably means a fingerprint scanner. not uncommon, especially for thinkpads.
feynman cracked the safe in los alamos by guessing that his boss would use a mathematical constant for the password.
it's not hard to imagine an attack utility which tries doing nerdy transformations of the guessed phrases, much as they already automatically do 7331-speak substitutions. adding digits of pi at prime number offsets would be close to the first entry on the list...
now, is anyone going to do that any time soon? probably not. there's still plenty of lower-hanging fruit. nonetheless, i wouldn't be too smug.
you meant segue.
although the segway was, itself, a self-serving display of technical prowess.
i'm skeptical about the spelling and grammar checker, but as for the pressure...
pens have already been developed which don't require noticeable pressure in the first place.
there are even some for children.
aren't they messy? not if you use cartridges. also, blue fountain pen ink is usually easily washable, unless you specifically get a variety which isn't.
won't the dumb kid lose his $20 fountain pen? well, i guess this might be a problem (although somehow we managed before), but i'm sure this accelerometer/vibrator pen would cost a lot more anyway.
the ergonomics are another advantage. making the pen easier to hold can only improve handwriting.
only programmers and IT geeks would be so conceited as to even think this is a possibility.
there's one major reason racism and eugenics are unpopular right now: adolf hitler, who made the mistake of attempting to eradicate the one ethnicity which is arguably adapted to modern life.
this current period of not being utterly brutal racists is extremely brief relative to the span of western civilization. to be honest, there's not much reason to think it will last forever, or even very much longer. it's not a pleasant thought, really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scientific_racism_irish.jpg
dates to 1899, about 14 years short, but these attitudes probably hung around a while.
obligatory: not everyone thought of the irish this way, blah, blah, blah.
yeah, except this is "crashing" due to a malcoded assert, as has been brought up many times on this forum.
that's basically the safest crash that's possible. i won't say it's unexploitable, but it's about as close as can be. you'd be better off looking for uncaught exceptions.
okay, fine. it won't do anything unless the victim clicks on the entry field. if they do, you've ... crashed their web browser. not the hack of the century, and the victim won't do it again.
sorry, i just don't see how this would be a problem. most websites don't want to crash their visitors' web browsers. i guess you can use it in a shock site, but hell, last measure (link mostly safe) was more annoying than this could be, and that didn't even exploit a bug.