Basic human nature is to cooperate as long as it is in one's own best interests.
Some might say that, others will say that the psychological model used in free-market theories doesn't seem to reflect human behaviour (except upper management, but they've been diagnosed as psychopaths long ago, so...).
So you are saying I should stop turning off my A/C and lights, since someone else would use that electricity anyways?
No they wouldn't. Aside from extracting electric energy from a reaction, one of the main differences between f. ex. a nuclear powerplant and a nuclear bomb is that we can control the speed of the reaction. This includes the option to produce less electricity when demand is lower (or when profits need to go up, but we can skip that for now).
Should I run my taps 24/7 as well, since someone else would be using that fresh water anyways?
No to this one as well, for pretty much the same reason. Water that doesn't get "used" stays in the pipes, so if you reduce your consumption then overall consumption drops as well.
What the parent means is that CO2 that is bound in trees will get released back into the atmosphere fairly soon after the tree dies even without human intervention, while the CO2 released by burning oil/coal/gas would have remained bound for a long time if we hadn't extracted it.
Must depend on where you do military service =) I live in Sweden, and we were taught by our sergeant to always lower the seat before flushing, just to not spread so many germs around...
It's not like there's a difference between text and numbers to computers anyway.
Except that comparisons are faster for numbers than for strings... Maybe I missed your point, but it sounds like you want the FQDN as "target" in each packet, rather than a "fixed-length address". If that's what you want, then the internet will slow down, as each router must now do a string compare instead of a simple bitmask compare before passing the packet along.
That been said, it's great to get an album and 'discover' songs you'd never heard of, and would never have bought if you'd had to pay for each song in advance.
Well, that's what you have BitTorrent for. You grab a new album, listens to it a few times, and if you like the songs, you buy them. If not, you just delete the download.
Don't phones in the US allow calls to 911 even when it's locked? Here in Sweden, you can dial 911 (or 112, as it is in the EU) with keylock activated, and if the phone is turned off, you can press "Cancel" when asked for a PIN, and still dial 911 - specifically so that you can pick up someone else's phone to dial for help...
OK, I didn't RTFA, IANATE (Telco Engineer) (although my sister is, and I'll mention this paper next time I see her) and so on, but I don't think your method (or any other method using Internet SMS gateways) would crash the system.
Think about it for a second: this exploit (as far as I understand it) overloads a control freq used between your cell phone and the nearest base station. Do you really think Google have their own base stations spread throughout the world, sending SMS to each operator via radio? Or do you think they they use SMS gateways located on the cell operator's (Inter)net?
And even if you manage to send out all those messages to phones who are all in the same cell, the base tower presumably throttles the number of messages it will send out over the waves each second...
Well, you might... I like both A&A and Civ board game.
I think the main difference is that there are no dice used - all combat is "most units wins" (with Militia being the only unit, six Militias banding together to build a city). Some randomness is introduced by various disasters being mixed with the trade cards (used to buy tech), but essentially most games will develop the same way unless you switch starting places.
No, what he said was that the AI marched a settler _through_ his country, and found a spot inside which wasn't covered by culture yet - and built a city there. I have seen it happen many times too; if the AI was to actually build a new city inside your cultural influence, that would be an act of war even in CivIII. From how I read the interview, in CivIV it will be an act of war as soon as an AI unit enters your cultural influence.
I've seen something similar in Sweden, though IIRC they use 7-segment displays (black on grayish-brown) instead... after all, that's enough to show a price
IIRC, the "sith apprentice" (Kyp Durren) was not trained by Palpatine, but by the ghost of a Sith lord (Exar Kun) who was killed 4000 years ago, but bound his spirit to one of the temples his slaves had built for him. Kyp's story has a few similarities to Anakin's, but he falls because of a desire for vengence (Imperials killed his brother) rather than protecting someone he loves. In the end, he is brought back to the light side by Luke
(Of course, I havn't read any of the emperor's clone books, so maybe Palpatine had another Sun Crusher in his pocket, along with an apprentice)
That means scary scenarios in which someone downloads a document or piece of code, modifies it, makes it match the original (already published) hash, and redistrutes it are false. The article discusses no such capabilities being discovered.
OTOH, IIRC, that would be covered by the birthday paradox: It is a lot more likely that you find two random people have the same birthday than that you find a random person with the same birthday a a specific person.
So, the danger is not someone changing a document signed by someone else, but rather someone having two versions of a document: You sign doc A, since you agree, but then he shows you doc B, which you don't agree to at all, but since he made it so they have the same signature, you've essentially signed them both...
Even better were some of our high school tests (Sweden), where you could explain carefully each step, and pass the test despite miscalculations at the end of each question. As our teachers used to say: "You are here to learn mathematics, not addition."
In low-end systems, they could dedicate a portion of main RAM to the cache
Yes, this is done today. This cache, residing in system RAM, is properly flushed by fsync(). The problem is that there is another cache on the HDD, and this cache is _not_ flushed by said command.
And of course, you would similarily have to put the battery in the HDD, not on the motherboard.
well, here in Sweden the cell phone operators have figured out that it's a good idea to let people talk for free within their own net - so, if all your friends have the same operator, you all call each other for free. I guess it's more expensive to call from a landline, but who has them now except companies?
No no no... you've got it all backwards.... the reason sex feels good is to make us want to reproduce, otherwise we would all be just sitting around reading poetry until we died, and with no kids to replace us...
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Basic human nature is to cooperate as long as it is in one's own best interests.
Some might say that, others will say that the psychological model used in free-market theories doesn't seem to reflect human behaviour (except upper management, but they've been diagnosed as psychopaths long ago, so ...).
I would say subsistence farming is much better than 41 cents/hour in a factory.
Well, either the subsistence-farmers-turned-factory-workers disagree with you or they are unable to get any arable land for subsistence farming ...
So you are saying I should stop turning off my A/C and lights, since someone else would use that electricity anyways?
No they wouldn't. Aside from extracting electric energy from a reaction, one of the main differences between f. ex. a nuclear powerplant and a nuclear bomb is that we can control the speed of the reaction. This includes the option to produce less electricity when demand is lower (or when profits need to go up, but we can skip that for now).
Should I run my taps 24/7 as well, since someone else would be using that fresh water anyways?
No to this one as well, for pretty much the same reason. Water that doesn't get "used" stays in the pipes, so if you reduce your consumption then overall consumption drops as well.
What the parent means is that CO2 that is bound in trees will get released back into the atmosphere fairly soon after the tree dies even without human intervention, while the CO2 released
by burning oil/coal/gas would have remained bound for a long time if we hadn't extracted it.
C.A.T.S.: All your base are belong to us!
Shouldn't that be
C.A.T.S.: All your mice are belong to us!
Must depend on where you do military service =) I live in Sweden, and we were taught by our sergeant to always lower the seat before flushing, just to not spread so many germs around ...
It's not like there's a difference between text and numbers to computers anyway.
... Maybe I missed your point, but it sounds like you want the FQDN as "target" in each packet, rather than a "fixed-length address". If that's what you want, then the internet will slow down, as each router must now do a string compare instead of a simple bitmask compare before passing the packet along.
Except that comparisons are faster for numbers than for strings
That been said, it's great to get an album and 'discover' songs you'd never heard of, and would never have bought if you'd had to pay for each song in advance.
Well, that's what you have BitTorrent for. You grab a new album, listens to it a few times, and if you like the songs, you buy them. If not, you just delete the download.
Don't phones in the US allow calls to 911 even when it's locked? Here in Sweden, you can dial 911 (or 112, as it is in the EU) with keylock activated, and if the phone is turned off, you can press "Cancel" when asked for a PIN, and still dial 911 - specifically so that you can pick up someone else's phone to dial for help ...
OK, I didn't RTFA, IANATE (Telco Engineer) (although my sister is, and I'll mention this paper next time I see her) and so on, but I don't think your method (or any other method using Internet SMS gateways) would crash the system.
...
Think about it for a second: this exploit (as far as I understand it) overloads a control freq used between your cell phone and the nearest base station. Do you really think Google have their own base stations spread throughout the world, sending SMS to each operator via radio? Or do you think they they use SMS gateways located on the cell operator's (Inter)net?
And even if you manage to send out all those messages to phones who are all in the same cell, the base tower presumably throttles the number of messages it will send out over the waves each second
Well, you might ... I like both A&A and Civ board game.
I think the main difference is that there are no dice used - all combat is "most units wins" (with Militia being the only unit, six Militias banding together to build a city). Some randomness is introduced by various disasters being mixed with the trade cards (used to buy tech), but essentially most games will develop the same way unless you switch starting places.
No, what he said was that the AI marched a settler _through_ his country, and found a spot inside which wasn't covered by culture yet - and built a city there. I have seen it happen many times too; if the AI was to actually build a new city inside your cultural influence, that would be an act of war even in CivIII. From how I read the interview, in CivIV it will be an act of war as soon as an AI unit enters your cultural influence.
So, IMHO, this question is already answered
I've seen something similar in Sweden, though IIRC they use 7-segment displays (black on grayish-brown) instead ... after all, that's enough to show a price
I like most books I find by Tor and Random House, but I haven't heard of Perseus - could you recommend some good books they have published?
Please, can't someone patent 1337-speak? And ban EVERYONE from using it ...
... or "Windows XP - built on NT Technology"?
(Of course, I havn't read any of the emperor's clone books, so maybe Palpatine had another Sun Crusher in his pocket, along with an apprentice)
OTOH, IIRC, that would be covered by the birthday paradox: It is a lot more likely that you find two random people have the same birthday than that you find a random person with the same birthday a a specific person.
So, the danger is not someone changing a document signed by someone else, but rather someone having two versions of a document: You sign doc A, since you agree, but then he shows you doc B, which you don't agree to at all, but since he made it so they have the same signature, you've essentially signed them both
Even better were some of our high school tests (Sweden), where you could explain carefully each step, and pass the test despite miscalculations at the end of each question. As our teachers used to say: "You are here to learn mathematics, not addition."
And Padme's comment: "So this is how freedom dies? With people shouting and cheering"
come on mods, click the link ... this is funny, not informative .... =)
... but of course you meant
#define NINE (8 + 1)
#define SIX (1 + 5)
otherwise it will expand to 8 + 1 * 1 + 5 = 14
Good idea ... A few notes, though:
In low-end systems, they could dedicate a portion of main RAM to the cache
Yes, this is done today. This cache, residing in system RAM, is properly flushed by fsync(). The problem is that there is another cache on the HDD, and this cache is _not_ flushed by said command.
And of course, you would similarily have to put the battery in the HDD, not on the motherboard.
... and shame on all of us who got the lisp joke =)
well, here in Sweden the cell phone operators have figured out that it's a good idea to let people talk for free within their own net - so, if all your friends have the same operator, you all call each other for free. I guess it's more expensive to call from a landline, but who has them now except companies?
No no no ... you've got it all backwards .... the reason sex feels good is to make us want to reproduce, otherwise we would all be just sitting around reading poetry until we died, and with no kids to replace us ...