Except that finding out the identity involved getting the IP that the post was made from logged by the web site, then getting the ISP to identify whom was assigned that IP at that time. Since they bothered with the ISP step it would seem his identity was not known by the site.
Which likely could be done for an Anonymous Coward post on slashdot too.
Oh and the mother isn't the mother of the "anonymous" poster but of the guy he pissed off on the forum.
What exactly is wrong with that? Some speculators lose their shirts, while others (who doubt the projections and short long term oil contracts) get new shirts.
Sure some short term panic, but that's no reason to withhold data. Should we also not mention to people when earthquakes are likely to occur or a tsunami is a-coming, since they might panic? Better not know about that asteroid heading our way too?
Simple economics will solve any real shortage anyway. Sure the days of cheap oil ending would be a pain, but all the global warming fuss is actually doing a lot of good in that respect since alternatives are being invested in before economics would say they should based on oil supplies alone.
Where are the stats on traffic ticket counts by state?
Florida does have 6% of the population, so the fact that there are 50 states is irrelevant. It's also a tourist destination which I would suspect increases the driving population even further (foreigners get tickets, as do people from other states). Though that might be balanced by people maintaining residence in Florida for state income tax purposes but spending just under half the year somewhere else.
There's a difference between a runner and an Olympic runner.
Yes your good competitive runner likely isn't fat and their training probably got them that way.
An Olympic level runner on the other hand combined that training with some genetics or with some drugs/etc. Either way it was more than just the training.
Most people don't weigh 225 pounds. Sure fat ass Americans maybe, but normal people don't. I don't weigh that much, my wife weighs about a third of that.
You are also trying to steer a car going 90mph through traffic.
But sure dismiss it and ignore the fact that people died failing to do this very thing.
Assuming you don't cut the engine of course, which given the strangeness of that car - no key to turn to kill the engine, non-standard tricky (in a panic situation) way to get it into neutral - doesn't seem that strange.
But people who care about the search warrants being used to read their email archives likely can at least educate themselves enough to do so.
And there's no need to actually do it in your house. Get a cheap VPS in another country. Sure they could cave and provide the a copy of the VPS image, but you can encrypt things and the cheaper the VPS is the less likely they are going to do have the know how or level of effort to bother digging into the ram.
Of course for most people it's not worth it, but most people also don't really worry about no notice warrants being used to read their email.
It's reasonably likely my phone calls were snooped on in the past - if they weren't then whomever's job it is to do homeland security is incompetent (my household included a recent immigrant, arrived via the middle east, triple citizen one of those being Iranian, post 9/11, blah-de-blah) - and I don't care enough to do anything like that.
No. They still need a warrant, it's just that the warrant is shown to the ISP who gives them the email and the actual owner is none the wiser. So it works like a phone tap instead of like a search and seizure in your home.
Just run your own mail server and now the warrant needs to go to you, so you get notified. Doesn't stop them reading it of course...
Obviously there something to it, since Im sure the programmers weren't complete idiots. I just can't see it.
You detect an incoming threat, and then N ticks later you look again to determine the trajectory. Why would you care about the actual time? You just care how many ticks have passed between two events. Unless you have a database of scheduled friendly flights by time (and I would think an IFF system would be more likely than that), but that would be independent of the trajectory check.
Reboot every hour or so means you need an additional system, to catch an incoming threat during the reboot of the other device. I'm sure management selling those systems didn't see that as too big a deal:)
And of course the fatalities mentioned are really the fault of the guy firing the scud, then the operator of the patriot who didn't follow the specifications and left it running for 100 hours, and finally the idiotic software. Since the guy doing the firing wanted it to kill people I'd say the blame lands at the feet of the operator...
BVut as I said I'm sure there's some detail of the system explaining it.
I don't understand how they can accumulate errors in the first place.
You store the numbers of ticks in a 24 bit register, that gives you almost 19.5 days before it loops to 0 - so you either handle the "the timer looped" or it is required to be reset every 19 days (make it 14 for a safety margin).
You only ever multiply by 0.1 when you need the value in seconds (and why would you even need that, just work in ticks as the time unit instead of seconds).
I can't see how you could possibly accumulate floating point rounding errors. Sure if you tracked time as a floating point number and added 0.1 to it each tick. But that would be retarded in the first place for many reasons, not just because you would obviously accumulate errors.
It's simple business, the content producers divvy up distribution licensing. Having the rights to distribute in the US does not mean you can distribute in Germany for example. They do that because they make more money that way, since they can sell those rights multiple times.
Hulu is more a distributor than a content producer, and content producers is what the post I replied to was about.
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They just need to tie the ankle strap to their ankle and the couch.
Why would microsoft want to assist people selling/buying used consoles???
They'd prefer people bought new ones, obviously.
They will do that regardless of expectations on the supply of oil, betting on whatever they think will make the biggest moves.
So how does that matter to deciding if making some information/analysis public is a good thing or not?
Except that finding out the identity involved getting the IP that the post was made from logged by the web site, then getting the ISP to identify whom was assigned that IP at that time. Since they bothered with the ISP step it would seem his identity was not known by the site.
Which likely could be done for an Anonymous Coward post on slashdot too.
Oh and the mother isn't the mother of the "anonymous" poster but of the guy he pissed off on the forum.
What exactly is wrong with that? Some speculators lose their shirts, while others (who doubt the projections and short long term oil contracts) get new shirts.
Sure some short term panic, but that's no reason to withhold data. Should we also not mention to people when earthquakes are likely to occur or a tsunami is a-coming, since they might panic? Better not know about that asteroid heading our way too?
Simple economics will solve any real shortage anyway. Sure the days of cheap oil ending would be a pain, but all the global warming fuss is actually doing a lot of good in that respect since alternatives are being invested in before economics would say they should based on oil supplies alone.
Where are the stats on traffic ticket counts by state?
Florida does have 6% of the population, so the fact that there are 50 states is irrelevant. It's also a tourist destination which I would suspect increases the driving population even further (foreigners get tickets, as do people from other states). Though that might be balanced by people maintaining residence in Florida for state income tax purposes but spending just under half the year somewhere else.
15% does sound a bit high.
Why not just seek a state law that explicitly recognizes the eyeball judgment by the ticketing officer as scientifically reliable?
Maybe save and reboot while you catch 5 minutes sleep???
E=mc^2
Of course the anti-hydrogen you'd also be producing would be every so slightly more valuable. And that satellite just got a lot heavier.
And if you microwave beams are inefficient...
Of course, you don't lose 99% of your power over the beaming distance anyway, so it's all irrelevant.
There's a difference between a runner and an Olympic runner.
Yes your good competitive runner likely isn't fat and their training probably got them that way.
An Olympic level runner on the other hand combined that training with some genetics or with some drugs/etc. Either way it was more than just the training.
Most people don't weigh 225 pounds. Sure fat ass Americans maybe, but normal people don't. I don't weigh that much, my wife weighs about a third of that.
You are also trying to steer a car going 90mph through traffic.
But sure dismiss it and ignore the fact that people died failing to do this very thing.
Except they aren't suing them for copying anything. And it has nothing to do with trademarks or branding.
If you are already moving at highway speeds when you jam the brake and accelerator you are going to keep moving.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/computing/it/riskfactor/how-hard-should-it-be-to-stop-a-runaway-car claims that "Tests indicate that a person would have to exert 225 pounds of pressure on a brake pedal to stop it " where it is a Lexus ES 350 with the throttle stuck on full open. Because the power assist fails after you panic pump the brakes...
Assuming you don't cut the engine of course, which given the strangeness of that car - no key to turn to kill the engine, non-standard tricky (in a panic situation) way to get it into neutral - doesn't seem that strange.
But people who care about the search warrants being used to read their email archives likely can at least educate themselves enough to do so.
And there's no need to actually do it in your house. Get a cheap VPS in another country. Sure they could cave and provide the a copy of the VPS image, but you can encrypt things and the cheaper the VPS is the less likely they are going to do have the know how or level of effort to bother digging into the ram.
Of course for most people it's not worth it, but most people also don't really worry about no notice warrants being used to read their email.
It's reasonably likely my phone calls were snooped on in the past - if they weren't then whomever's job it is to do homeland security is incompetent (my household included a recent immigrant, arrived via the middle east, triple citizen one of those being Iranian, post 9/11, blah-de-blah) - and I don't care enough to do anything like that.
Yes, but that is a different beast (with different solutions) than the reading old mail in mailboxes.
No. But it is irrelevant to the PS3, which doesn't connect to your computer let alone install rootkits on it.
No. They still need a warrant, it's just that the warrant is shown to the ISP who gives them the email and the actual owner is none the wiser. So it works like a phone tap instead of like a search and seizure in your home.
Just run your own mail server and now the warrant needs to go to you, so you get notified. Doesn't stop them reading it of course...
Other than the fact that they are consuming not producing energy, yeah exactly like that...
Obviously there something to it, since Im sure the programmers weren't complete idiots. I just can't see it.
You detect an incoming threat, and then N ticks later you look again to determine the trajectory. Why would you care about the actual time? You just care how many ticks have passed between two events. Unless you have a database of scheduled friendly flights by time (and I would think an IFF system would be more likely than that), but that would be independent of the trajectory check.
Reboot every hour or so means you need an additional system, to catch an incoming threat during the reboot of the other device. I'm sure management selling those systems didn't see that as too big a deal :)
And of course the fatalities mentioned are really the fault of the guy firing the scud, then the operator of the patriot who didn't follow the specifications and left it running for 100 hours, and finally the idiotic software. Since the guy doing the firing wanted it to kill people I'd say the blame lands at the feet of the operator...
BVut as I said I'm sure there's some detail of the system explaining it.
I don't understand how they can accumulate errors in the first place.
You store the numbers of ticks in a 24 bit register, that gives you almost 19.5 days before it loops to 0 - so you either handle the "the timer looped" or it is required to be reset every 19 days (make it 14 for a safety margin).
You only ever multiply by 0.1 when you need the value in seconds (and why would you even need that, just work in ticks as the time unit instead of seconds).
I can't see how you could possibly accumulate floating point rounding errors. Sure if you tracked time as a floating point number and added 0.1 to it each tick. But that would be retarded in the first place for many reasons, not just because you would obviously accumulate errors.
Where did a ascribe malice?
It's simple business, the content producers divvy up distribution licensing. Having the rights to distribute in the US does not mean you can distribute in Germany for example. They do that because they make more money that way, since they can sell those rights multiple times.
Hulu is more a distributor than a content producer, and content producers is what the post I replied to was about.
Obviously they'd prefer to sell^Wlicense the distribution rights multiple times across multiple "regions".
Which they clearly think will give them more money than doing so on a global basis.
Do more government is better because there are other areas that the government is even bigger?
The good old, "but he did it worse" excuse.
Either less is more or it isn't. If less is more in terms of government than clearly spending any money at all on NASA is worse than spending none.
So it's then illegal to drive a manual?
Joy. The environment will love that, not that Canada couldn't do with some warming anyway.
off the wheel.
They are going to be driving really slow I guess...