There is no way they can prove that these flip flops don't have bias one way or the other. Even if you could design a perfect circuit it would be subject to the imbalances between p-type and n-type transistors and process variations. This makes it impossible to create a perfect Gaussian metastability function or to place a device at the apex of that function such that the probability is 50/50 of switching to 1 or 0. Hence, you will not achieve truly random results. Metastability is also affected by the power supply voltage and current. A cryptographic device employing this technique could be subject to attack by lowering or modulating the power supply in such a way as to create predictable "random" numbers. i.e. make sure all the flip-flops transition to 1 or 0.
I have no intention of ever buying into BluRay precisely because of the ability to play these sort of anti-consumer games. Wake me up when they start their attack on HD OTA broadcasts.
The main source of the problem is that the IOC has gotten special privileges over the use of the name "Olympic" and all variants as well as the interlocked ring motif. In the US this transcends all IP laws by an act of Congress. I'm sure they've accomplished similar things in other countries. Traditional trademark law would have allowed a Greek owned "Olympic Pizza" shop to continue running in Atlanta but it was forced to change its name by the IOC. People with Celtic ring designs have been pressured by the IOC to stop their infringement despite historical precedent that predates the modern Olympics. It should still be fine to say that Vonn won a gold medal in some unspecified international competition. However, as soon as you invoke the magic O-words you pass outside the realm of rationality and into the IOC's autocratic la la land.
As an aside, more people should develop their site to work on an iPhone first, then scale it up.
Lord no. We are just now getting out of the era of web pages hard coded to 800 pixels wide. Having sites primarily designed around mobile screen resolutions will be a major annoyance to desktop users.
Your analysis is a bit specious. Control of copyright has always been a part of the music industry in the industrialized era even since before the birth of recorded sound. There was no great turning point in 1978. Frank Sinatra founded Reprise Records in 1960 and re-recorded his back catalog because he was fed up with being screwed by Capitol. If anything your observation points to a shift in emphasis for musicians and the record companies. In the early years of the LP there was more incentive to take advantage of all that the new technology offered to prove its merits against 78 RPM records. Once 78's were dead and gone there was no longer any need to fill a record up. There was also the rise of the 10" mini-LP format in the late 70's and 80's that filled a niche for albums with less content. If you've included these in your post 1978 analysis there is again some bias due to change in consumer demand.
Sorry if this shows up twice. The site seems to have been broken when I first posted this response and it never made it onto the thread.
Your analysis is a bit specious. Control of copyright has always been a part of the music industry in the industrialized era even since before the birth of recorded sound. There was no great turning point in 1978. Frank Sinatra founded Reprise Records in 1960 and re-recorded his back catalog because he was fed up with being screwed by Capitol. If anything your observation points to a shift in emphasis for musicians and the record companies. In the early years of the LP there was more incentive to take advantage of all that the new technology offered to prove its merits against 78 RPM records. Once 78's were dead and gone there was no longer any need to fill a record up. There was also the rise of the 10" mini-LP format in the late 70's and 80's that filled a niche for albums with less content. If you've included these in your post 1978 analysis there is again some bias due to change in consumer demand.
That's all well and good except for the fact that the screenplay "Hardwired" was not written as an adaptation of Asimov's work. The title and three laws were just grafted on to pull in more ticket sales.
The danger to aircraft lies in potentially damaging the eyes of the pilots. At low angles of inclination the atmosphere will be sufficient to scatter the laser. If you weren't such a complete moron it would have been obvious to you. I assumed everyone on/. was smart enough to not have everything explained to them in detail but I guess there's an exception to every rule.
While safety issues are readily apparent it would be possible to mitigate them by keeping the laser above eye level (10 ft. or so) and only allowing it to aim horizontally or a few degrees above to avoid issues with aircraft.
They only get shoved down your throat if you have automatic updates turned on. Change the default and you don't have to deal with these messes every week.
Now the real question is why are they going into providing consumers fiber access.
The bandwidth costs of YouTube alone would justify them deploying their own infrastructure. If they can shift X% of their users to their own network they only have to pay for the overhead of maintaining that network. The rest is savings for them.
By this standard I believe that the advertisement of adult services in Vegas are obscene. Considering that this is the basis of their latest ad campaign I trust that their tourism board will be duly sued by every other state in the union.
I think it more likely that hordes of 4channers were clicking on targeted links and the referrer field in the HTTP headers was pointing to boards.4chan.org. Apparently you can be accused of guilt by association if you jump to another site after visiting 4chan.
They are common carriers. The whole net neutrality debate is about them wanting to have it both ways: restrict or rate limit certain forms of traffic while still retaining common carrier status and the liability protection it provides under the guise that they can't be held responsible for the traffic that flows on their network as it is out of their control.
I'm just sick of these ever evolving home theater standards.
Just don't buy into the BS then. There's nothing wrong with component video or VGA and either Toslink or coax for audio. Make sure you buy hardware that supports them and you won't have any troubles connecting things together. There will be no silly resolution restrictions, or DRM handshake dropouts. Everything that's been foisted on us since then has been an attempt to lock us out of handling our media in a convenient way and doesn't add anything new to the user experience.
I'm looking at you Scribd. Why Google can't figure out how to push your spam results off the front result page puzzles me since they have a method to keep the Wikipedia clones off the front page. I can't wait for you to experience the same fate.
The problem with hardcovers in the US is the extortionist pricing (it's just paper and cardboard FFS) and the sometimes multi-year wait until softcover editions come out. Hop over to Canada and you will see much saner retail pricing in their bookstores. Books are much cheaper in Japan too and the paper, printing, and binding is WAY higher quality than what you can get in North American mass market publications. If hard cover book sales suffer in the US it's because we're tired of being raped and finally have an alternative.
Actually the Japanese have developed a number of intellectual concepts around the timing of your and your opponents actions. It is worthwhile to investigate them since they had a combative culture based around one on one confrontation that lasted for hundreds of years. There was a lot of philosophical musing about how to succeed at this. With regards to timing there are three terms frequently used to describe an engagement. They sometimes go by different names but the ones I'm familiar with are:
Go no sen - Reacting to your opponent after they initiate an attack
Sen no sen - Acting simultaneously to your opponent
Sensen no sen - Sensing your opponent's intent and acting before them
This system is a very deep, core element of serious budo. Certain scenarios will be explained as one of these three types of interaction with your opponent as a means of illustrating what is happening and assessing your options for taking action.
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To be fair, the "Mike & Ike" claim was made by the kid. And he might be lying.
Not to worry. The school has photographic evidence to back up its claim.
There is no way they can prove that these flip flops don't have bias one way or the other. Even if you could design a perfect circuit it would be subject to the imbalances between p-type and n-type transistors and process variations. This makes it impossible to create a perfect Gaussian metastability function or to place a device at the apex of that function such that the probability is 50/50 of switching to 1 or 0. Hence, you will not achieve truly random results. Metastability is also affected by the power supply voltage and current. A cryptographic device employing this technique could be subject to attack by lowering or modulating the power supply in such a way as to create predictable "random" numbers. i.e. make sure all the flip-flops transition to 1 or 0.
I have no intention of ever buying into BluRay precisely because of the ability to play these sort of anti-consumer games. Wake me up when they start their attack on HD OTA broadcasts.
The main source of the problem is that the IOC has gotten special privileges over the use of the name "Olympic" and all variants as well as the interlocked ring motif. In the US this transcends all IP laws by an act of Congress. I'm sure they've accomplished similar things in other countries. Traditional trademark law would have allowed a Greek owned "Olympic Pizza" shop to continue running in Atlanta but it was forced to change its name by the IOC. People with Celtic ring designs have been pressured by the IOC to stop their infringement despite historical precedent that predates the modern Olympics. It should still be fine to say that Vonn won a gold medal in some unspecified international competition. However, as soon as you invoke the magic O-words you pass outside the realm of rationality and into the IOC's autocratic la la land.
Just to get things rolling. Here is the tasteful mashup with Nirvana.
That pony better be a hyper-fluorescent pink or there'll be hell to pay.
You haven't lived until you've seen the mashup with "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
As an aside, more people should develop their site to work on an iPhone first, then scale it up.
Lord no. We are just now getting out of the era of web pages hard coded to 800 pixels wide. Having sites primarily designed around mobile screen resolutions will be a major annoyance to desktop users.
Your analysis is a bit specious. Control of copyright has always been a part of the music industry in the industrialized era even since before the birth of recorded sound. There was no great turning point in 1978. Frank Sinatra founded Reprise Records in 1960 and re-recorded his back catalog because he was fed up with being screwed by Capitol. If anything your observation points to a shift in emphasis for musicians and the record companies. In the early years of the LP there was more incentive to take advantage of all that the new technology offered to prove its merits against 78 RPM records. Once 78's were dead and gone there was no longer any need to fill a record up. There was also the rise of the 10" mini-LP format in the late 70's and 80's that filled a niche for albums with less content. If you've included these in your post 1978 analysis there is again some bias due to change in consumer demand.
Sorry if this shows up twice. The site seems to have been broken when I first posted this response and it never made it onto the thread.
Your analysis is a bit specious. Control of copyright has always been a part of the music industry in the industrialized era even since before the birth of recorded sound. There was no great turning point in 1978. Frank Sinatra founded Reprise Records in 1960 and re-recorded his back catalog because he was fed up with being screwed by Capitol. If anything your observation points to a shift in emphasis for musicians and the record companies. In the early years of the LP there was more incentive to take advantage of all that the new technology offered to prove its merits against 78 RPM records. Once 78's were dead and gone there was no longer any need to fill a record up. There was also the rise of the 10" mini-LP format in the late 70's and 80's that filled a niche for albums with less content. If you've included these in your post 1978 analysis there is again some bias due to change in consumer demand.
That's all well and good except for the fact that the screenplay "Hardwired" was not written as an adaptation of Asimov's work. The title and three laws were just grafted on to pull in more ticket sales.
The danger to aircraft lies in potentially damaging the eyes of the pilots. At low angles of inclination the atmosphere will be sufficient to scatter the laser. If you weren't such a complete moron it would have been obvious to you. I assumed everyone on /. was smart enough to not have everything explained to them in detail but I guess there's an exception to every rule.
While safety issues are readily apparent it would be possible to mitigate them by keeping the laser above eye level (10 ft. or so) and only allowing it to aim horizontally or a few degrees above to avoid issues with aircraft.
Star Wars Mosquito Defense System. Now where are our flying cars?
They only get shoved down your throat if you have automatic updates turned on. Change the default and you don't have to deal with these messes every week.
for the South Carolina state legislature?
Now the real question is why are they going into providing consumers fiber access.
The bandwidth costs of YouTube alone would justify them deploying their own infrastructure. If they can shift X% of their users to their own network they only have to pay for the overhead of maintaining that network. The rest is savings for them.
By this standard I believe that the advertisement of adult services in Vegas are obscene. Considering that this is the basis of their latest ad campaign I trust that their tourism board will be duly sued by every other state in the union.
I think it more likely that hordes of 4channers were clicking on targeted links and the referrer field in the HTTP headers was pointing to boards.4chan.org. Apparently you can be accused of guilt by association if you jump to another site after visiting 4chan.
They are common carriers. The whole net neutrality debate is about them wanting to have it both ways: restrict or rate limit certain forms of traffic while still retaining common carrier status and the liability protection it provides under the guise that they can't be held responsible for the traffic that flows on their network as it is out of their control.
I'm just sick of these ever evolving home theater standards.
Just don't buy into the BS then. There's nothing wrong with component video or VGA and either Toslink or coax for audio. Make sure you buy hardware that supports them and you won't have any troubles connecting things together. There will be no silly resolution restrictions, or DRM handshake dropouts. Everything that's been foisted on us since then has been an attempt to lock us out of handling our media in a convenient way and doesn't add anything new to the user experience.
I'm suspicious if it isn't oxygen free. Are you sure that cable is a good value?
I'm looking at you Scribd. Why Google can't figure out how to push your spam results off the front result page puzzles me since they have a method to keep the Wikipedia clones off the front page. I can't wait for you to experience the same fate.
The problem with hardcovers in the US is the extortionist pricing (it's just paper and cardboard FFS) and the sometimes multi-year wait until softcover editions come out. Hop over to Canada and you will see much saner retail pricing in their bookstores. Books are much cheaper in Japan too and the paper, printing, and binding is WAY higher quality than what you can get in North American mass market publications. If hard cover book sales suffer in the US it's because we're tired of being raped and finally have an alternative.
Actually the Japanese have developed a number of intellectual concepts around the timing of your and your opponents actions. It is worthwhile to investigate them since they had a combative culture based around one on one confrontation that lasted for hundreds of years. There was a lot of philosophical musing about how to succeed at this. With regards to timing there are three terms frequently used to describe an engagement. They sometimes go by different names but the ones I'm familiar with are:
This system is a very deep, core element of serious budo. Certain scenarios will be explained as one of these three types of interaction with your opponent as a means of illustrating what is happening and assessing your options for taking action.