Bingo. I have a feeling that if the researchers sampled the wares available from these mega-seeders, they'd find an unusually large percentage of them carried trojans that allow the seeder (or whoever pays the seeder), to establish a botnet.
I will sometimes couple my 'motivational speech' with encouraging gestures, such as the Flying Double-Eagle Salute, in which I extend the middle digit of both hands and bump them against each other, emulating coupling eagles soaring in a majestic display before the screen.
Well then, let's select 9000 innocent people at random and line them up against a wall. We'll give everyone who is not in favor of a blood alcohol testing in cars a gun. Most of the guns will have blanks, but some will have live rounds. Would you point your gun at these 9000 people and pull the trigger? Because that's exactly the same result as we end up with if you vote against blood alcohol testing in cars. Sure, it might not have been YOUR vote that failed to save those 9000 people (this year), and it might not have been your gun that fired a live round. Is there any ethical difference?
Driving home one evening, someone said we should hold a party for the death of Betelgeuse, and invite Michael Keaton. My girlfriend responded "Why? Because he's a dying star too?"
I've always gotten my biggest raises by changing gigs. Once I even got in a bidding war between my prospective employer and my current one, resulting in a 30% raise (I went with the new employer). Anyway, it's highly unlikely that your current employer will give you that big a jump just on merit, so find a different employer who values your skills at market rates. If you have an offer of $90K, it's a lot easier to persuade your current employer to match it, and if they don't, you've got someplace to jump.
Articles which celebrate Wikipedia hoaxes will only fan the flames, inspiring more insipid vandalism of Wikipedia. Messing stuff up is easy - even a baby knows how to mess up perfectly clean diapers. Creating a consistent, accurate and useful body of knowledge is hard. Having people actively tearing down something you're trying to build makes it doubly hard.
As a customer, I'm paying Comcast for 10 mbps of bandwidth. Period. It shouldn't matter where I request that content from. The 10 mbps pipeline to funnel that content down to me has been paid for. Netflix happens to be in the position of providing data that I want, so I am filling my little 10 mbps data-pipe with that content. Just because I have a preferred vendor for the data I request, doesn't mean Comcast should hit them up for more money. I paid for the bandwidth. I paid for the data. If it's a problem for Comcast, they should ask me for more money.
If copyright required a small annual fee to renew, we'd probably see many works coming into the public domain much sooner than author's life + 70 years. If a copyright isn't worth, say, $25 / year to maintain, then the work should be given over to the public. If an annual maintenance fee were required, I bet a nickel all these works Greg Bear is complaining about would have gone public sometime in the 1960's.
The only time there is glucose in the urine is when blood glucose levels exceed the ability of the kidneys to resorb the glucose back into the blood - a threshold level that is typically quite high (200 ml/dl). People with diagnosed diabetes typically have their blood sugar under control, and therefore do not excrete glucose in their urine. Even in cases where people do excrete glucose in their urine, it is around only 1 gm per liter. When sugar ferments, roughly 50% of its mass is given up in carbon dioxide. Also, when making whiskey, only about half of the alcohol from a run is kept, that being the middle part of the run, known as the "hearts", while the "heads" and the "tails" of the run are discarded. So of each gram of piss-sugar collected (assuming 100% harvesting efficiency), only about 1/4 gm of ethanol ends up in whiskey. To make a 750 ml of 80-proof would require over 300 gm of alcohol, which would require 1200 gm of piss-sugar, which would require over 1200 liters (over 317 US Gallons) of piss. Adult humans produce an average of 1-2 liters of urine per day. So, to make an average bottle of average strength whiskey, they'd have to collect 100% of the sugar from the urine of a diabetic with uncontrolled blood sugar for the better part of a year. Sorry, that's just BS.
The sitters group includes the people who are too sick or crippled to get up and move. It would be quite a surprise if there were not a higher incidence of mortality in this group.
We are exceedingly unlikely to ever find other intelligence. The reason for this is that as matter makes the phase transition from non-intelligent to intelligent, it quickly leaps from slow biological substrates to much faster and smaller non-biological substrates that can think millions of times faster than biological substrates can. One important consequence of this increase in experiential speed is that subjective distance also grows by several million-fold. A trip to the moon, which might take only 100 human subjective hours, would take 55 thousand years of subjective time for intelligence operating at 5 million times human intelligence. By the time any intelligence made it just to the moon and back, the intelligence it departed from may have evolved to an unrecognizable state. The notion of spending billions of subjective years just getting outside of their local solar system would make any such exploration unlikely. Plus, the non-intelligent matter of the universe is remarkably self-similar and not very information-dense (i.e. space is boring).
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Ultimately, intelligence desires speed, and this drives a desire for compactness. Intelligence will always devise a way to collapse into a black hole. This universal fate of intelligence explains why we see no sign of other intelligence, nor are we likely to unless we develop some sort of worm-hole technology that enables a path into the black holes where advanced intelligence resides.
When you make a backup, you're also enshrining all the crapware the computer comes with. This guarantees that should the drive fail, your crapware shall not perish, but shall have everlasting life. That's probably worth an extra $10 to the manufacturer, so there's no way they're going to bear the cost of a disc plus lose the extra $10 they can get from the crapware-advertisers.
Apple produces fashion electronics. People who indulge in fashion are narcissistic. Narcissists score low on measures of altruism. The sun rises in the east.
It's mostly the juniper berries you're smelling. Gin also often has spices as diverse as coriander, clove and cinnamon in it, depending on the brand.
I couldn't stand the taste of gin until I got to be in my early 40's. Then, all of a sudden, gin became a very yummy drink. Try gin and grapefruit juice (or soda). You may eventually change your mind about it.
An exploit for remote app installs should come about as soon as an exploit for the automatic OS update feature. Chances are good they both use similar protections.
Freeze-distillation consists of partially freezing beer then removing the ice, which has more water than alcohol. Each time a bit of ice is tossed, fractionally more alcohol is left behind. They repeat this process until the liquid fraction is as strong as they care for. Of course, alcohol isn't the only thing that gets left out of the ice when it forms. You get to keep all of the other crap the yeast poop out in addition to alcohol. Stuff like methanol, acetone, isopropyl and iso-amyl alcohol. These are called congeners, and they're responsible for a good percentage of your hangover. A proper still will let you selectively include or leave out these congeners. But freeze distillation keeps them all. Concentrates them. Makes their flavor and after-effects more intense for each fluid ounce you drink. Kind of pointless, in my opinion.
Now, genetic engineering of a yeast that can tolerate higher alcohol concentration without producing a lot of congeners - that would be something worth doing.
Writing software requires a peculiar temperament. One must enjoy solving puzzles, be relatively immune to repeated assaults by frustration and failure, and be willing to sink your teeth into a problem and not let go until you've solved it. Then there's the whole 'thinking logically' and breaking bigger problems down into a structure of smaller nested problems thing. Some folks just can't do it. Their brains simply do not work that way.
If the kid in question isn't already curious about programming, I'd bet money he won't ever be. It's not something like encouraging him to take up playing the trumpet.
99.999% of all species that ever existed are now extinct. Do you believe that 99.999% of all useful coping mechanisms are gone? And what does any of this have to do with the finding of quantum entanglement in photosynthetic systems?
You are a vendor of engineering services. Your customer (employer) says something to the effect of "We want a certified developer to work on this project. We're kind of hoping you'll be that developer." What you do is up to you.
If you're discussing bugs, antennae is correct. If you're talking radio, however, it's "antennas".
Also, recall that the power density drops by the square of the distance from the antenna. So, if you measure the power at one micron away from the antenna, it will be twice the strength you'd get if you measure it two microns away. Extend this out, and at 3 microns, you're down to 1/8th the power, 4 microns = 1/16th. At 20 feet, you should be all the way down to 1 / 3,716,121,600,000th the original power, or about one three-trillionth the original power. Right? So nothing to worry about.
FWIW, I find I'm enjoying my life most now, in my 50's. (Well, all except the gonna die soon part. Oh, and the feeling like I'm 70 years old for the first few minutes every morning. And watching my body fall apart. And lack of sex drive. And... ah, fuggit. Swap, you say?)
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Bingo. I have a feeling that if the researchers sampled the wares available from these mega-seeders, they'd find an unusually large percentage of them carried trojans that allow the seeder (or whoever pays the seeder), to establish a botnet.
I will sometimes couple my 'motivational speech' with encouraging gestures, such as the Flying Double-Eagle Salute, in which I extend the middle digit of both hands and bump them against each other, emulating coupling eagles soaring in a majestic display before the screen.
Well then, let's select 9000 innocent people at random and line them up against a wall. We'll give everyone who is not in favor of a blood alcohol testing in cars a gun. Most of the guns will have blanks, but some will have live rounds. Would you point your gun at these 9000 people and pull the trigger? Because that's exactly the same result as we end up with if you vote against blood alcohol testing in cars. Sure, it might not have been YOUR vote that failed to save those 9000 people (this year), and it might not have been your gun that fired a live round. Is there any ethical difference?
Driving home one evening, someone said we should hold a party for the death of Betelgeuse, and invite Michael Keaton. My girlfriend responded "Why? Because he's a dying star too?"
I've always gotten my biggest raises by changing gigs. Once I even got in a bidding war between my prospective employer and my current one, resulting in a 30% raise (I went with the new employer). Anyway, it's highly unlikely that your current employer will give you that big a jump just on merit, so find a different employer who values your skills at market rates. If you have an offer of $90K, it's a lot easier to persuade your current employer to match it, and if they don't, you've got someplace to jump.
Articles which celebrate Wikipedia hoaxes will only fan the flames, inspiring more insipid vandalism of Wikipedia. Messing stuff up is easy - even a baby knows how to mess up perfectly clean diapers. Creating a consistent, accurate and useful body of knowledge is hard. Having people actively tearing down something you're trying to build makes it doubly hard.
Specifically, the 1982 Siberian pipeline sabotage.
As a customer, I'm paying Comcast for 10 mbps of bandwidth. Period. It shouldn't matter where I request that content from. The 10 mbps pipeline to funnel that content down to me has been paid for. Netflix happens to be in the position of providing data that I want, so I am filling my little 10 mbps data-pipe with that content. Just because I have a preferred vendor for the data I request, doesn't mean Comcast should hit them up for more money. I paid for the bandwidth. I paid for the data. If it's a problem for Comcast, they should ask me for more money.
If copyright required a small annual fee to renew, we'd probably see many works coming into the public domain much sooner than author's life + 70 years. If a copyright isn't worth, say, $25 / year to maintain, then the work should be given over to the public. If an annual maintenance fee were required, I bet a nickel all these works Greg Bear is complaining about would have gone public sometime in the 1960's.
The only time there is glucose in the urine is when blood glucose levels exceed the ability of the kidneys to resorb the glucose back into the blood - a threshold level that is typically quite high (200 ml/dl). People with diagnosed diabetes typically have their blood sugar under control, and therefore do not excrete glucose in their urine. Even in cases where people do excrete glucose in their urine, it is around only 1 gm per liter. When sugar ferments, roughly 50% of its mass is given up in carbon dioxide. Also, when making whiskey, only about half of the alcohol from a run is kept, that being the middle part of the run, known as the "hearts", while the "heads" and the "tails" of the run are discarded. So of each gram of piss-sugar collected (assuming 100% harvesting efficiency), only about 1/4 gm of ethanol ends up in whiskey. To make a 750 ml of 80-proof would require over 300 gm of alcohol, which would require 1200 gm of piss-sugar, which would require over 1200 liters (over 317 US Gallons) of piss. Adult humans produce an average of 1-2 liters of urine per day. So, to make an average bottle of average strength whiskey, they'd have to collect 100% of the sugar from the urine of a diabetic with uncontrolled blood sugar for the better part of a year. Sorry, that's just BS.
Okay, ignore that. (Replying without RTFA again. Sheesh!)
The sitters group includes the people who are too sick or crippled to get up and move. It would be quite a surprise if there were not a higher incidence of mortality in this group.
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Ultimately, intelligence desires speed, and this drives a desire for compactness. Intelligence will always devise a way to collapse into a black hole. This universal fate of intelligence explains why we see no sign of other intelligence, nor are we likely to unless we develop some sort of worm-hole technology that enables a path into the black holes where advanced intelligence resides.
Here's an Android 1.7 tablet, $107, free shipping.
When you make a backup, you're also enshrining all the crapware the computer comes with. This guarantees that should the drive fail, your crapware shall not perish, but shall have everlasting life. That's probably worth an extra $10 to the manufacturer, so there's no way they're going to bear the cost of a disc plus lose the extra $10 they can get from the crapware-advertisers.
Apple produces fashion electronics. People who indulge in fashion are narcissistic. Narcissists score low on measures of altruism. The sun rises in the east.
It's mostly the juniper berries you're smelling. Gin also often has spices as diverse as coriander, clove and cinnamon in it, depending on the brand. I couldn't stand the taste of gin until I got to be in my early 40's. Then, all of a sudden, gin became a very yummy drink. Try gin and grapefruit juice (or soda). You may eventually change your mind about it.
An exploit for remote app installs should come about as soon as an exploit for the automatic OS update feature. Chances are good they both use similar protections.
Now, genetic engineering of a yeast that can tolerate higher alcohol concentration without producing a lot of congeners - that would be something worth doing.
Writing software requires a peculiar temperament. One must enjoy solving puzzles, be relatively immune to repeated assaults by frustration and failure, and be willing to sink your teeth into a problem and not let go until you've solved it. Then there's the whole 'thinking logically' and breaking bigger problems down into a structure of smaller nested problems thing. Some folks just can't do it. Their brains simply do not work that way. If the kid in question isn't already curious about programming, I'd bet money he won't ever be. It's not something like encouraging him to take up playing the trumpet.
99.999% of all species that ever existed are now extinct. Do you believe that 99.999% of all useful coping mechanisms are gone? And what does any of this have to do with the finding of quantum entanglement in photosynthetic systems?
You are a vendor of engineering services. Your customer (employer) says something to the effect of "We want a certified developer to work on this project. We're kind of hoping you'll be that developer." What you do is up to you.
You could use sites like BabyZoink as an authoritative source.
Also, recall that the power density drops by the square of the distance from the antenna. So, if you measure the power at one micron away from the antenna, it will be twice the strength you'd get if you measure it two microns away. Extend this out, and at 3 microns, you're down to 1/8th the power, 4 microns = 1/16th. At 20 feet, you should be all the way down to 1 / 3,716,121,600,000th the original power, or about one three-trillionth the original power. Right? So nothing to worry about.
FWIW, I find I'm enjoying my life most now, in my 50's. (Well, all except the gonna die soon part. Oh, and the feeling like I'm 70 years old for the first few minutes every morning. And watching my body fall apart. And lack of sex drive. And... ah, fuggit. Swap, you say?)