Anyone who cares about whether they're buying a stolen bike should ask the seller for the serial number. Thieves will balk at providing it, whereas legit sellers should have no problem.
Given how IBM has been performing lately, perhaps they should put Watson in charge of the company. Then the question of "whether it [IBM] wants to try and dethrone Google" can also be answered by Watson.
Or, that's just what the Feds want you to think. If the FBI has tor cracked wide open, they'd probably make the first few busts look like the result of good ol' gumshoe work so they'll be easily able to bust whoever comes along with "Silk Road Reloaded" to replace it.
Addiction is a health issue, not a criminal issue. Making drugs illegal has never worked. Ever. We should handle drug use in much the same way we handle other risky activities - by testing and licensing. Just as one must pass written and practical exams before driving, flying or hunting, we should issue substance licenses only after the prospective user has demonstrated comprehensive understanding of the properties and risks of whatever substance they're interested in, including alcohol and nicotine. If they mess up and cause harm to themselves or others, they are punished and their license may be revoked. We should also offer free drug treatment for anyone who wants it.
How long do you suppose it will be before the serial number of currency is bar-coded and scanned for every transaction? Faster to just wave the cash over the POS laser than it is to key in the amount, and, combined with ATM withdrawal records, it helps close the gap of knowing your customer when they unhelpfully pay in cash without using a store loyalty card. On the other hand, they keep predicting that biometrics will soon be good enough that we won't need cash or credit cards - just load up the cart and walk out the door and your purchases will automatically be debited from your bank account.
Often the goal of having a program written in Perl is to get something slammed out and running as quickly as possible. Give a sloppy language like Perl to a talented cowboy, and you can get a huge amount of functionality in a short time.
Suppose someone you love has Parkinson's. Now imagine these scientists have extracted cells from your loved one, and, through genetic engineering, repaired the genetic flaw that caused your loved one to lose their substantia nigra. Now suppose these scientists cultivate a tiny little brain from these transformed cells and harvest substantia nigra cells from it, which they transplant into your loved one's brain, thus curing their Parkinson's. Would you feel any better about it then?
Particularly for something as frivolous as yet another moon landing. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Guess what we found out? The moon is made of rocks and dust. Big whoop. Now, put together a heavily-funded crash program to cure aging? That's something a lot more people could get behind.
So what you're saying is you'd prefer the certainty of information theoretic death that comes from burial or cremation over the as yet unproven, long-shot possibility that, having reduced further decay to practically zero, science will eventually be able to repair whatever killed you plus the freezer damage? That's quite a nihilistic preference you've got going.
Diets fail because you have to eat consciously. Eating, like breathing, is a "voluntary" behavior. We can exert control over it if we think about it. But in the long run, our automatic processes eventually take over. Think of it like this - your doctor tells you that unless you start filling your lungs to capacity most of the time, you're going to gradually develop a potentially fatal lung disorder. No problem, you just have to breathe slower and deeper breaths. It is in your voluntary control. Now let's see how long you can keep it up. Dieting is much the same, requiring us to override our automatic behaviors on a daily basis for the rest of our lives. We can do it, for a while.
This book and all others that require continuous conscious intervention over eating will and do ultimately fail. Every one of them.
I wonder whether precise positioning of polar and non-polar posts could be used to encourage mixtures to separate into streams that are enriched in hydrophobic or hydrophilic components? Pour wine in and get one stream of watery juice and another stream of brandy out?
/dev/random is slightly better because on a hard drive, the data band is surrounded by guard bands, areas of unused magnetic surface that separate them from the next track. Head positioning and magnetic footprint aren't 100% accurate, so these guard bands get a little magnetic influence from the data written on the data band. If the data band is erased with zeros, the guard bands are not scrambled and can be used to recover the data that had leaked onto them before. If you write random data on the data bands, the leakage into the guard bands will also scramble up the leaked magnetic patterns from the previous data.
Yeah, as long as you want a part made out of either ABS or PLA, that only has about 1/10th the tensile strength of your molded plastic part, whose tolerances are accommodating enough to deal with the inevitable warping of any 3D-printed part, and whose surfaces don't need to be smooth, you're all set.
Nukes are too problematic. What they'll probably do is fire up their space program to build a mass-driver on the moon, then use targeted mass-deliveries ala "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". This will allow the Chinese to achieve an indelible western economic presence as well as achieve military superiority over, well, just about everyone. All through peaceful and capitalist-approved methodology.
I think it was Goethe who once said "Tell me what a man spends his time doing, and I shall tell you his occupation". We have plenty of "actors" and "artists" who are just waiting tables until they get their big break. If you spend your time designing and implementing software, you are a programmer. It is once again growing extremely rare to find someone who spends their time programming who is not well-paid for it, (if they choose to be). If you find yourself between jobs, contribute to some open-source projects. Keep programming, and get your name out there. The robots will notice you.
I wonder how feasible it is to expect to tax every transaction. There are bitcoin "tumblers" that spread your bitcoins among many wallets, then provide you bitcoins that have been subject to hundreds or thousands of exchanges of bitcoin between wallets. This makes the provenance of your new bitcoins somewhat harder to determine. But since it involves a great many transactions, any per-transaction tax would be likely to confiscate 100% of bitcoins processed.
Trading bitcoins for pizza is, arguably, getting you a free pizza. Nevertheless, the sharpened pencils of the tax department have decreed that you should be taxed on the basis of value received. It therefore wouldn't be much of a stretch for them to decide that Eclipse delivers a large fraction of the value of a commercial IDE.
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Anyone who cares about whether they're buying a stolen bike should ask the seller for the serial number. Thieves will balk at providing it, whereas legit sellers should have no problem.
Texts that feature their favorite fictional character?
Given how IBM has been performing lately, perhaps they should put Watson in charge of the company. Then the question of "whether it [IBM] wants to try and dethrone Google" can also be answered by Watson.
Or, that's just what the Feds want you to think. If the FBI has tor cracked wide open, they'd probably make the first few busts look like the result of good ol' gumshoe work so they'll be easily able to bust whoever comes along with "Silk Road Reloaded" to replace it.
It is estimated that only about 23% of people who use heroin become dependent on it.
Addiction is a health issue, not a criminal issue. Making drugs illegal has never worked. Ever. We should handle drug use in much the same way we handle other risky activities - by testing and licensing. Just as one must pass written and practical exams before driving, flying or hunting, we should issue substance licenses only after the prospective user has demonstrated comprehensive understanding of the properties and risks of whatever substance they're interested in, including alcohol and nicotine. If they mess up and cause harm to themselves or others, they are punished and their license may be revoked. We should also offer free drug treatment for anyone who wants it.
How long do you suppose it will be before the serial number of currency is bar-coded and scanned for every transaction? Faster to just wave the cash over the POS laser than it is to key in the amount, and, combined with ATM withdrawal records, it helps close the gap of knowing your customer when they unhelpfully pay in cash without using a store loyalty card. On the other hand, they keep predicting that biometrics will soon be good enough that we won't need cash or credit cards - just load up the cart and walk out the door and your purchases will automatically be debited from your bank account.
Often the goal of having a program written in Perl is to get something slammed out and running as quickly as possible. Give a sloppy language like Perl to a talented cowboy, and you can get a huge amount of functionality in a short time.
Perhaps you can include hyperlinked cells that, for example, directly call whomever was responsible for the figures on the spreadsheet?
Suppose someone you love has Parkinson's. Now imagine these scientists have extracted cells from your loved one, and, through genetic engineering, repaired the genetic flaw that caused your loved one to lose their substantia nigra. Now suppose these scientists cultivate a tiny little brain from these transformed cells and harvest substantia nigra cells from it, which they transplant into your loved one's brain, thus curing their Parkinson's. Would you feel any better about it then?
Particularly for something as frivolous as yet another moon landing. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Guess what we found out? The moon is made of rocks and dust. Big whoop. Now, put together a heavily-funded crash program to cure aging? That's something a lot more people could get behind.
So what you're saying is you'd prefer the certainty of information theoretic death that comes from burial or cremation over the as yet unproven, long-shot possibility that, having reduced further decay to practically zero, science will eventually be able to repair whatever killed you plus the freezer damage? That's quite a nihilistic preference you've got going.
Prosecuting for knowledge of criminal intent is what allowed us to imprison someone for ten years for selling lights.
Diets fail because you have to eat consciously. Eating, like breathing, is a "voluntary" behavior. We can exert control over it if we think about it. But in the long run, our automatic processes eventually take over. Think of it like this - your doctor tells you that unless you start filling your lungs to capacity most of the time, you're going to gradually develop a potentially fatal lung disorder. No problem, you just have to breathe slower and deeper breaths. It is in your voluntary control. Now let's see how long you can keep it up. Dieting is much the same, requiring us to override our automatic behaviors on a daily basis for the rest of our lives. We can do it, for a while.
This book and all others that require continuous conscious intervention over eating will and do ultimately fail. Every one of them.
Weightless sex.
Surely one could simply auto-translate their prose into another language and back to avoid stylometric identification?
If you're learning this for your job, maybe you can persuade your boss to pay for an OpenCL course like this one.
I wonder whether precise positioning of polar and non-polar posts could be used to encourage mixtures to separate into streams that are enriched in hydrophobic or hydrophilic components? Pour wine in and get one stream of watery juice and another stream of brandy out?
/dev/random is slightly better because on a hard drive, the data band is surrounded by guard bands, areas of unused magnetic surface that separate them from the next track. Head positioning and magnetic footprint aren't 100% accurate, so these guard bands get a little magnetic influence from the data written on the data band. If the data band is erased with zeros, the guard bands are not scrambled and can be used to recover the data that had leaked onto them before. If you write random data on the data bands, the leakage into the guard bands will also scramble up the leaked magnetic patterns from the previous data.
Yeah, as long as you want a part made out of either ABS or PLA, that only has about 1/10th the tensile strength of your molded plastic part, whose tolerances are accommodating enough to deal with the inevitable warping of any 3D-printed part, and whose surfaces don't need to be smooth, you're all set.
Nukes are too problematic. What they'll probably do is fire up their space program to build a mass-driver on the moon, then use targeted mass-deliveries ala "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". This will allow the Chinese to achieve an indelible western economic presence as well as achieve military superiority over, well, just about everyone. All through peaceful and capitalist-approved methodology.
The Atlantic-side digging will likely be through the Indio Maiz Biological Preserve. I imagine there will be some energetic discussion over that.
I think it was Goethe who once said "Tell me what a man spends his time doing, and I shall tell you his occupation". We have plenty of "actors" and "artists" who are just waiting tables until they get their big break. If you spend your time designing and implementing software, you are a programmer. It is once again growing extremely rare to find someone who spends their time programming who is not well-paid for it, (if they choose to be). If you find yourself between jobs, contribute to some open-source projects. Keep programming, and get your name out there. The robots will notice you.
I wonder how feasible it is to expect to tax every transaction. There are bitcoin "tumblers" that spread your bitcoins among many wallets, then provide you bitcoins that have been subject to hundreds or thousands of exchanges of bitcoin between wallets. This makes the provenance of your new bitcoins somewhat harder to determine. But since it involves a great many transactions, any per-transaction tax would be likely to confiscate 100% of bitcoins processed.
Trading bitcoins for pizza is, arguably, getting you a free pizza. Nevertheless, the sharpened pencils of the tax department have decreed that you should be taxed on the basis of value received. It therefore wouldn't be much of a stretch for them to decide that Eclipse delivers a large fraction of the value of a commercial IDE.