If you are referring to "Other OS", it's not targeting specific users because of EULA violations, it was patching of a "security" hole that effected all users.
Whoa. I'd like to see the security hole that actually brings users into existence. That would be sweet. It is some kind of condom manufacturing machine defect?
The USB displays that I know only have drivers for Windows.
Really? Because the ultra-cheap USB display I picked up off of woot.com a while ago just kind of automatically works when I plug it into my netbook running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Perhaps you should do a bit more research?
You know, the funny thing is that I found myself thinking (just the other day) that Assange is the greatest US patriot the world has seen since Woodward and Bernstein (or Ellsburg, depending on what you think is more important). But then I realized that he's Australian, and can't really be a US patriot. His service is really more to everyone the planet, which apparently has fallen under US influence (especially the spineless "leaders" of the UK and Australia).
So... suppressed information that US taxpayer money has been used to sell 8-year-old boys in Afghanistan into sexual slavery isn't damning? It doesn't count as scandalous, wrong, or corrupt?
You have a messed up system of morals.
Either that or you're spouting off without having any real facts.
Although I should qualify that -- we're talking big-O analysis, not small-o. Big-O only gets you complexity, not run-time. So you can't necessarily make direct comparisons like this. (The easy way to think about this is: you can design a system that performs an analysis in O(n) time, but if the run time of that system is actually 1 year per element, then it can be beat by a reasonably fast O(n^2) algorithm for almost every practical value of n.)
I know tracking down the actual article and reading it can end up being a bit of a chore. So, to assist you in finding your fallacy without putting you through the excessive work of figuring it out yourself: the guy who was pulled over was using a helmet cam. He had it on long before the law enforcement officer got involved -- quite possibly, in fact, before he even started the motorcycle in question.
The only way the officer could make the claim you assert he would involves him finding the dude at the very beginning of the ride and saying something like, "hey, I'm a cop, and I might pull you over in a bit if you happen to do something illegal."
But I doubt you're envisioning something like that.
I haven't looked at the algorithm they use to combine the rows. If the resulting keys can be "unmixed" to find the original rows, then the system was designed by someone too incompetent to take home a paycheck for cryptography work in good conscience.
I'm not sympathizing with the designers of the system, but -- c'mon, guys. This is easy to avoid. If you want to use the "one key to bind them all" model, simply issue RSA key pairs signed by a single authority.
The initial input to the algorithm is a 40-bit random integer, selected so that the binary representation contains exactly 20 zeros and 20 ones. These bits are then used to select rows in the matrix.
It sounds like there's an excellent market for a backup app that just sucks all data off a mobile PC, stores it on someone's home PC, then wipes the mobile PC and installs an empty, quickly searchable OS and storage. Then later, the mobile PC hits a website that redirects to the home PC, from which the mobile PC is restored intact.
That doesn't really make sense, at least with today's technology. Downloading the contents of my relatively modest 250 GB main hard drive over the fastest connection I can get at my home -- a measly 768 kbps upstream -- would take just over a solid month of downloading, under ideal conditions. Throw in the reality of network overhead and unpredictable slowdowns, and it probably takes twice that.
Now, once we all have 40 Gbps last mile links, and backbones that can support them, it might become more reasonable. (That 250 GB drive would take just under a minute -- but it would also probably be laughably small). It's hard to predict the relative growth of data one might want to reasonably keep on their laptop versus the growth of network connection speeds.
If Penn wants people to be 'polite' and not use profanity in public places, thats perfectly acceptable, IF they vote it into law. If its not a law then thats it, game over... majority rules, if a community doesn't want people swearing in public then you deal with it.
Okay, time for a quick high-school civics refresher. The basis of law in the United States all derives from the U.S. constitution. While the 10th amendment to that constitution does grant the states and the people a lot of latitude, it explicitly places the protections of the rest of the constitution as superior to any laws that might be passed by the states (or any lower level). That's why the Supreme Court can and frequently does strike down statutes and ordinances that they find to be in conflict with the Constitution.
In other words, if Pennsylvania wants to pass "community standards" laws that constrain speech in this way, they really only have two choices: (1) somehow get an amendment to US Constitution that curtails the 1st amendment; or (2) secede. From a practical perspective, #1 won't happen, and #2 would probably be met with armed resistance.
I think the difference is timeframe. "All History" would presumably exclude pre-historic times, and therefore cover from about 3200 BCE to today. The Wolfram answer is an estimate starting at 50,000 BCE.
That said, a citation that there have been only about 14 billion people alive in the past 5200 years or so is probably in order.
Yep. The "news" part of "PR Newswire" is an aesthetic, meaningless part of their name. The "PR" stands for "Public Relations." All it takes is some paperwork to get your account set up, a little dab of money, and they'll push any random drivel you want out to the news outlets -- regardless of veracity. Any time you see *anything* come from PR Newswire, you should treat it as coming from the website of someone who has an inherent bias regarding the topic.
Oh noes! Government-sponsored financial stimulus leading to increasing incomes and rising quality of life? The resulting successful economy paying for shared services? Someone say it ain't so!
You do realize that, absent salary withholdings, you are legally required to pay taxes four times a year, right? The way the tax code is set up, federal taxes are due quarterly.
If you happen to be an employee of someone else, you get a special break whereby your employer takes care of all of the headache of paying your taxes year-round, and you only need to deal with settling up the difference between what was paid and what you actually owe after the year finishes.
If you want to game the system, your best bet is figuring out the maximum deductions to claim on your W-4 to minimize your deductions without owing a penalty in the spring. Of course, you'll owe a whopping huge check to the IRS come April, so make sure that money is liquid at that time. But you can earn whatever measly interest is available nowadays -- 0.4% is pretty much the going rate for liquid funds -- on that difference. In other words, if you make $100,000 a year, you might be able to game the system for about $200 to $500 in interest. Do that every year for 100 years, you can get a new car.
Finally, interest represents "the time value of money" (as do any financial returns on investment). There are other ways you can leverage having the money immediately available -- including many intangible ones -- but counting the interest and the immediate availability of funds is accounting for the time value twice. It's one of the most literal attempts to have a cake and eat it too that I've ever seen.
Case in point: TFA contains the following gem: "The words 'a lot' have become one word, for everyone, as far as I can tell. 'Definitely' is always spelled with an 'a' -'definitely'."
Clearly the final word in that sentence was supposed to be intentionally misspelled. But some moron copy editor with a spell checker decided to "fix" it without first checking the context. In doing so, he rendered the sentence complete nonsense.
Unless, of course, they were interviewing the lead character from Rain Man.
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If you are referring to "Other OS", it's not targeting specific users because of EULA violations, it was patching of a "security" hole that effected all users.
Whoa. I'd like to see the security hole that actually brings users into existence. That would be sweet. It is some kind of condom manufacturing machine defect?
If it is being reported significantly higher with Toyotas.
There. Fixed that for you. Now finish your explanation.
I have found an article that may be of interest to you. I found an essay on a related topic that you might want to look into as further reading.
The USB displays that I know only have drivers for Windows.
Really? Because the ultra-cheap USB display I picked up off of woot.com a while ago just kind of automatically works when I plug it into my netbook running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Perhaps you should do a bit more research?
You know, the funny thing is that I found myself thinking (just the other day) that Assange is the greatest US patriot the world has seen since Woodward and Bernstein (or Ellsburg, depending on what you think is more important). But then I realized that he's Australian, and can't really be a US patriot. His service is really more to everyone the planet, which apparently has fallen under US influence (especially the spineless "leaders" of the UK and Australia).
Would that make him an Earth patriot?
So... suppressed information that US taxpayer money has been used to sell 8-year-old boys in Afghanistan into sexual slavery isn't damning? It doesn't count as scandalous, wrong, or corrupt?
You have a messed up system of morals.
Either that or you're spouting off without having any real facts.
Because otherwise Texas' education board would make us look like the most whacked out state in the union.
Although I should qualify that -- we're talking big-O analysis, not small-o. Big-O only gets you complexity, not run-time. So you can't necessarily make direct comparisons like this. (The easy way to think about this is: you can design a system that performs an analysis in O(n) time, but if the run time of that system is actually 1 year per element, then it can be beat by a reasonably fast O(n^2) algorithm for almost every practical value of n.)
Uh. Math?
1000000 ^ 3 = 1000000000000000000
1000000 * (log(1000000))^2 = 169000000
1000000000000000000 / 169000000 = 5917159763
So it's more like 5.9 billion -- but "billion" is the right order of magnitude.
SDD != SSD.
"SDD" stands for "symmetric diagonally dominant."
I know tracking down the actual article and reading it can end up being a bit of a chore. So, to assist you in finding your fallacy without putting you through the excessive work of figuring it out yourself: the guy who was pulled over was using a helmet cam. He had it on long before the law enforcement officer got involved -- quite possibly, in fact, before he even started the motorcycle in question.
The only way the officer could make the claim you assert he would involves him finding the dude at the very beginning of the ride and saying something like, "hey, I'm a cop, and I might pull you over in a bit if you happen to do something illegal."
But I doubt you're envisioning something like that.
I haven't looked at the algorithm they use to combine the rows. If the resulting keys can be "unmixed" to find the original rows, then the system was designed by someone too incompetent to take home a paycheck for cryptography work in good conscience.
I'm not sympathizing with the designers of the system, but -- c'mon, guys. This is easy to avoid. If you want to use the "one key to bind them all" model, simply issue RSA key pairs signed by a single authority.
No, it's a complex way to publish 147,846,528,820 keys ( http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=40+C+20 ).
The initial input to the algorithm is a 40-bit random integer, selected so that the binary representation contains exactly 20 zeros and 20 ones. These bits are then used to select rows in the matrix.
Not so much -- cf. L4D for Mac. Six months (or more -- still isn't out) is pretty bad.
February, they say? Here's a guide to help you translate from what Valve says to what Valve actually means: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/affect-versus-effect.aspx
Hey, if you're gonna ruin a joke, ruin it all the way.
http://begthequestion.info/
It sounds like there's an excellent market for a backup app that just sucks all data off a mobile PC, stores it on someone's home PC, then wipes the mobile PC and installs an empty, quickly searchable OS and storage. Then later, the mobile PC hits a website that redirects to the home PC, from which the mobile PC is restored intact.
That doesn't really make sense, at least with today's technology. Downloading the contents of my relatively modest 250 GB main hard drive over the fastest connection I can get at my home -- a measly 768 kbps upstream -- would take just over a solid month of downloading, under ideal conditions. Throw in the reality of network overhead and unpredictable slowdowns, and it probably takes twice that.
Now, once we all have 40 Gbps last mile links, and backbones that can support them, it might become more reasonable. (That 250 GB drive would take just under a minute -- but it would also probably be laughably small). It's hard to predict the relative growth of data one might want to reasonably keep on their laptop versus the growth of network connection speeds.
+1 informative. Thanks for the correction and citations.
If Penn wants people to be 'polite' and not use profanity in public places, thats perfectly acceptable, IF they vote it into law. If its not a law then thats it, game over ... majority rules, if a community doesn't want people swearing in public then you deal with it.
Okay, time for a quick high-school civics refresher. The basis of law in the United States all derives from the U.S. constitution. While the 10th amendment to that constitution does grant the states and the people a lot of latitude, it explicitly places the protections of the rest of the constitution as superior to any laws that might be passed by the states (or any lower level). That's why the Supreme Court can and frequently does strike down statutes and ordinances that they find to be in conflict with the Constitution.
In other words, if Pennsylvania wants to pass "community standards" laws that constrain speech in this way, they really only have two choices: (1) somehow get an amendment to US Constitution that curtails the 1st amendment; or (2) secede. From a practical perspective, #1 won't happen, and #2 would probably be met with armed resistance.
I think the difference is timeframe. "All History" would presumably exclude pre-historic times, and therefore cover from about 3200 BCE to today. The Wolfram answer is an estimate starting at 50,000 BCE.
That said, a citation that there have been only about 14 billion people alive in the past 5200 years or so is probably in order.
Yep. The "news" part of "PR Newswire" is an aesthetic, meaningless part of their name. The "PR" stands for "Public Relations." All it takes is some paperwork to get your account set up, a little dab of money, and they'll push any random drivel you want out to the news outlets -- regardless of veracity. Any time you see *anything* come from PR Newswire, you should treat it as coming from the website of someone who has an inherent bias regarding the topic.
Oh noes! Government-sponsored financial stimulus leading to increasing incomes and rising quality of life? The resulting successful economy paying for shared services? Someone say it ain't so!
12 months?
You do realize that, absent salary withholdings, you are legally required to pay taxes four times a year, right? The way the tax code is set up, federal taxes are due quarterly.
If you happen to be an employee of someone else, you get a special break whereby your employer takes care of all of the headache of paying your taxes year-round, and you only need to deal with settling up the difference between what was paid and what you actually owe after the year finishes.
If you want to game the system, your best bet is figuring out the maximum deductions to claim on your W-4 to minimize your deductions without owing a penalty in the spring. Of course, you'll owe a whopping huge check to the IRS come April, so make sure that money is liquid at that time. But you can earn whatever measly interest is available nowadays -- 0.4% is pretty much the going rate for liquid funds -- on that difference. In other words, if you make $100,000 a year, you might be able to game the system for about $200 to $500 in interest. Do that every year for 100 years, you can get a new car.
Finally, interest represents "the time value of money" (as do any financial returns on investment). There are other ways you can leverage having the money immediately available -- including many intangible ones -- but counting the interest and the immediate availability of funds is accounting for the time value twice. It's one of the most literal attempts to have a cake and eat it too that I've ever seen.
Case in point: TFA contains the following gem: "The words 'a lot' have become one word, for everyone, as far as I can tell. 'Definitely' is always spelled with an 'a' -'definitely'."
Clearly the final word in that sentence was supposed to be intentionally misspelled. But some moron copy editor with a spell checker decided to "fix" it without first checking the context. In doing so, he rendered the sentence complete nonsense.
Unless, of course, they were interviewing the lead character from Rain Man.