However, only 1/3 max of our reps can be voted out at a time, so I'd be willing to bet the next group will continue trying to ruin our lives the same way.
All the representatives can be voted out in a given election. The 1/3 only applies to senators.
That's just plain goofy. Simply burning the thugs a copy would be more effective, as none of the 26.5 million people would have gotten notice that their data was compromised.
While identity theft is rampant, theft of personal information occurs far more often (meaning not all stolen information is used for identity theft). I suspect that stolen information is used for other purposes besides just identity theft (such as data mining).
My suspicion is that in most cases the information was not the target of the theft. Laptops are targets for theft for their combination of value and portability. If they happen to also contain millions of SSNs that doesn't necessarily mean that the thief knew that beforehand, or that the data survived for long after the theft.
If you have your equipment in Faraday cages such that no RF/EM energy leaks out or comes in to the system, then how are you going to control it wirelessly?
Yes, it is two separate issues, but they work together.
You use the quantum technique to transmit the key and are sure no one intercepted it. You then use that key which no one else knows as a one time pad to encrypt your data. One time pads are mathematically proven to be unbreakable.
The quote about Blu-Ray being a bomb is in paragraph 5 of TFA, not the article he linked to. The article he linked is to establish that Universal is a part of the HD-DVD Consortium (see the answer to the "Who's on each side?" question), establishing motive for the anonymous exec to cast doubt on Blu-Ray.
It depends on the problem that you are trying to solve. Distributed systems are great for problems that can be broken up into a lot of unrelated smaller problems. They aren't so good when that isn't the case, as in climate modelling or nuclear explosion simulations.
You realize that there is about half of one part per million of Hydrogen in air, right? Since at 32C (90F) the maximum water vapor is around 50,000 PPM, even with a relative humidity of 1%, there is still 500 PPM of water in the air, or 1000 times as much water as Hydrogen.
If the claim were just regarding the compiler, then yes. However, the compiler issue is just one instance of anti-competitive tactics.
The claim is that Intel employs illegal tactics to maintain a monopoly in the x86 market. What the raids are looking for is documentation that threats were made or odd financial deals were occurring. The compiler issue is extremely marginal in this case.
AMD is not out of line here. Possibly if the suit were entirely based on the compiler issue they would be. However, the compiler issue is only offered as one example of a pattern of anti-competitive behavior.
Here's the run-down for you: Intel has a monopoly in the x86 market (90% share by revenue, 80% by units). To help maintain their monopoly in that market, they do questionable things in other markets (the compiler thing).
The case being brought by AMD is not about Intel's compiler. Rather, Intel's compiler is a piece in the puzzle, which when assembled looks like an anti-trust violation.
The problem is that each character gets smaller by a factor of 100. So even if you start with a rod one parsec long and can measure with an precision of a nanometer, you only get around 13 characters.
Parsec ~3 x 10^16 Nanometer = 1 x 10^-9
That gives around 25 decimal places between the two extremes, and each character takes 2 of them.
Adding extra brain cells won't make you (or your kids) smarter. In fact, it might make them less intelligent. It is somewhat common for people with macrocephaly to have some degree of mental retardation.
It does mention in that reference that the smallest theoretical critical mass is a few hundred grams, but it does not go into the other bits required in that extreme case.
As long as a command line tool to decode the audio exists which can direct its output to standard out, it can be transcoded and streamed using SlimServer.
Holy cow, do you have any idea how many people are employed by the federal government?
Here's a slight hint, there are currently 16,325 job openings posted on USAJOBS. How many special elections do you think we'll need to fill all those jobs?
Interesting, on closer examination, it appears that Slashcode replaces the & in the link at the beginning of the а with a slash. But it only does that with the а in the link, if you do it as text like this www.pypal.com, it just drops it.
The other guy was most likely referring to trolls making use of the IDN exploit to fool people with goatse.cx mirrors hosted at domains looking like nytimes.com or other legitimate sites.
The real question is whether or not the slashcode which puts up the "real domain" is capable of handling this exploit.
Interesting, my Googling turned up a value of 1.07 for Saturn here and here, so I assumed that 1.07 was the correct value. Further googling reveals estimates of Saturn's surface gravity ranging from 0.74 to 1.19.
So the physical fact that green lasers and NVGs can be used to detect explosives, of resideue, (or soap), is now a patentable process.
No, that isn't what was patented. The critical bit that was patented was the discrimination that eliminates false positives. So buy, use, and sell all the green lasers and night vision goggles that you want. Just don't try to sell a combined laser/NVG device that has the ability to turn on the correct filters.
Slashdot Mirror
For this particular problem, the easiest solution would be to use a startup MAXscript on your render nodes which sets the priority.
Or you could use a rendering manager which lets you control the priority of the render nodes, like Deadline from Frantic Films.
All the representatives can be voted out in a given election. The 1/3 only applies to senators.
That's just plain goofy. Simply burning the thugs a copy would be more effective, as none of the 26.5 million people would have gotten notice that their data was compromised.
My suspicion is that in most cases the information was not the target of the theft. Laptops are targets for theft for their combination of value and portability. If they happen to also contain millions of SSNs that doesn't necessarily mean that the thief knew that beforehand, or that the data survived for long after the theft.
If you have your equipment in Faraday cages such that no RF/EM energy leaks out or comes in to the system, then how are you going to control it wirelessly?
Yes, it is two separate issues, but they work together.
You use the quantum technique to transmit the key and are sure no one intercepted it. You then use that key which no one else knows as a one time pad to encrypt your data. One time pads are mathematically proven to be unbreakable.
The quote about Blu-Ray being a bomb is in paragraph 5 of TFA, not the article he linked to. The article he linked is to establish that Universal is a part of the HD-DVD Consortium (see the answer to the "Who's on each side?" question), establishing motive for the anonymous exec to cast doubt on Blu-Ray.
It depends on the problem that you are trying to solve. Distributed systems are great for problems that can be broken up into a lot of unrelated smaller problems. They aren't so good when that isn't the case, as in climate modelling or nuclear explosion simulations.
I'd like to see you prove that!
Why didn't you go with a USB to Parallel adapter.
He just jumped to the smallest length possible, the Planck length. You pretty much asked for that, since you mentioned quantum mechanics.
You realize that there is about half of one part per million of Hydrogen in air, right? Since at 32C (90F) the maximum water vapor is around 50,000 PPM, even with a relative humidity of 1%, there is still 500 PPM of water in the air, or 1000 times as much water as Hydrogen.
If the claim were just regarding the compiler, then yes. However, the compiler issue is just one instance of anti-competitive tactics.
The claim is that Intel employs illegal tactics to maintain a monopoly in the x86 market. What the raids are looking for is documentation that threats were made or odd financial deals were occurring. The compiler issue is extremely marginal in this case.
AMD is not out of line here. Possibly if the suit were entirely based on the compiler issue they would be. However, the compiler issue is only offered as one example of a pattern of anti-competitive behavior.
Here's the run-down for you:
Intel has a monopoly in the x86 market (90% share by revenue, 80% by units). To help maintain their monopoly in that market, they do questionable things in other markets (the compiler thing).
The case being brought by AMD is not about Intel's compiler. Rather, Intel's compiler is a piece in the puzzle, which when assembled looks like an anti-trust violation.
The problem is that each character gets smaller by a factor of 100. So even if you start with a rod one parsec long and can measure with an precision of a nanometer, you only get around 13 characters.
Parsec ~3 x 10^16
Nanometer = 1 x 10^-9
That gives around 25 decimal places between the two extremes, and each character takes 2 of them.
Adding extra brain cells won't make you (or your kids) smarter. In fact, it might make them less intelligent. It is somewhat common for people with macrocephaly to have some degree of mental retardation.
Based on a small sampling of Google references, I would have to go with the 10kg critical mass for a bare sphere of Pu-239.
Here's a good reference IEER Factsheet on Pu.
It does mention in that reference that the smallest theoretical critical mass is a few hundred grams, but it does not go into the other bits required in that extreme case.
FLAC, WAV, OGG, SHN, APE, WMA, MOV
As long as a command line tool to decode the audio exists which can direct its output to standard out, it can be transcoded and streamed using SlimServer.
You need a password because it's also a wireless access point.
Holy cow, do you have any idea how many people are employed by the federal government?
Here's a slight hint, there are currently 16,325 job openings posted on USAJOBS. How many special elections do you think we'll need to fill all those jobs?
Interesting, on closer examination, it appears that Slashcode replaces the & in the link at the beginning of the а with a slash. But it only does that with the а in the link, if you do it as text like this www.pypal.com, it just drops it.
The other guy was most likely referring to trolls making use of the IDN exploit to fool people with goatse.cx mirrors hosted at domains looking like nytimes.com or other legitimate sites.
The real question is whether or not the slashcode which puts up the "real domain" is capable of handling this exploit.
Let's see:
Bogus link to paypal
Well, the preview shows the "real domain" as [www.p], so it would appear that trolls won't be able to use this very effectively.
Interesting, my Googling turned up a value of 1.07 for Saturn here and here, so I assumed that 1.07 was the correct value. Further googling reveals estimates of Saturn's surface gravity ranging from 0.74 to 1.19.
And Saturn. Plus Earth just barely beats out Venus.
No, that isn't what was patented. The critical bit that was patented was the discrimination that eliminates false positives. So buy, use, and sell all the green lasers and night vision goggles that you want. Just don't try to sell a combined laser/NVG device that has the ability to turn on the correct filters.