We've already got space == time, matter == energy, why not also information == energy? There are starting parallels between Shannon's information theory, and the theory of thermodynamics. There is some mysterious shit going on here.
I'm not a theoretical physicist, but I thought the equivalence was more along the lines of
Information = order = !entropy
and it was entropy constraints that gave rise to Hawking Radiation.
His observation applied to any system that can be described by self-referential, non-linear equations.
Correct, but the timescale you quoted only applied to weather systems. Lorenz's result has implications for climate models, but *not* on that timescale, merely on equivalent number of model iterations. And, this may come as a shock to you, climate modellers are well aware of the stability of their numerical models. I've sat through a great many highly detailed talks on precisely that subject.
It was a key finding and yet you still have people making global warming forecasts for the next 100 years as if Lorenz hadn't already demonstrated they can't possibly know what they're talking about.
Repeat after me 100 times:
Climate is not the same as weather Climate is not the same as weather Climate is not the same as weather Climate is not the same as weather Climate is not the same as weather...
Please note that the editor of "E&E" is one of the few environmental scientists who agreed with Bjorn Lomborg "Skeptical Environmentalist", and a self-confessed environmental sceptic. As stated there, the journal itself has a "stance [that] is critical of conventional wisdom".
Now, I don't read E&E (I tend to read the mainstream geophysics journals: GAFD, JGR(Oceans) and GRL -- "E&E" is not a mainstream geophysics journal), but I am slightly concerned about work published in a journal with an agenda. One may also be concerned about the suitability of referees selected by an editor out to prove a point, rather than to publicise good science.
So the spammer decides he's not interested in those using C-R, and enters mark (at) hornclan . com as his email address, and spams away. Can your bandwith cope with this sudden influx of 3,000,000 challenges?
Well done, if theres widespread take-up your proposed anti-spam system is now someone else's extremely handy DDOS tool.
They're very good for *some* people. But if you use whitelists and don't use challenge response, no one you don't know can contact you; this may be fine for you, its completely unacceptable for many (including me).
If you use challenge response, you're either setting up a mechanism to JoeJob people, as well as inevitable deadlock issues (automating resolution of deadlocks means that getting through C-R can be automated, which means you can be spammed).
The functioning only solution is the way we already deal with crime. All servers are innocent until proven guilty, and the if you spam me -- and fail to take immediate reparative action -- your service provider loses the right to send global email.
True SPEWS are over-fundamentalist about blacklisting (punishment failing to fit the crime), but many blacklists and blocklists (spamhaus.org being one) take very sensible measures. I maintain my own server blackholes (Mainland China and Taiwan and the pink contractors at ATT, Verizon, SWBell and BT mainly) and it works just fine.
I normally run an MTA on my machine, and don't see any reason to relay mail... Free Email Everywhere Just Doesn't Work.
Ahh, I see. Everyone in the world must jump through the painful, non-functioning hoops of whitelisting, just because you don't want the minor inconvenience of relaying.
Thats really grown up of you.... People like you should be forced to use carrier pigeons.
Remember folks -- and this may be difficult to believe -- sometimes bloggers polictical bloggers lie too. Moore has addresed these criticisms in some detail, including unedited transcripts and footage of the interviews that Spinsanity say he faked.
Here in Australia, for instance, we have a wretched little (introduced) animal called the cane toad. If a virus like this could be engineered such that it would kill them all out, I'd say it's not such a bad thing.
I'd say its a pretty bad thing for the cane toad...
Look, I've already read "Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance... Do I really need another watered down screed on half-understood principals of Eastern philosophy
Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance isn't about Eastern philosophy (nearly all of it is based in Western Classicism) and doesn't pretend to be either. The frontpiece of the book even includes a disclaimer to that effect.
Other than that, I agree with you. ESR is a shameless pseud whose knowledge of real Zen buddhism would fit on the back of a postage stamp, and still leave space for the "Bhagavad-Gita"
That's if you get digital. If you don't have a digibox, you get a grand total of two TV stations.
And 5 national radio stations, more local radio stations than you can shake a stick at, the world service, and one of the most highly respected and widely read news websites in the world (think how many times slashdot link to news.bbc.co.uk compared to other general interest websites.).
Not true. They tax you for owning a TV, whether you watch it (and what you watch) is irrelevant. And every time I visit the US and watch what passes for quality broadcasting there, I thank Christ for the BBC.
One mechanism that addresses this problem is employed by a UNIX "talk" program, which performs a character-by-character transmission of an instant message. That is, each time individual types of a single character on the computer keyboard, that character is transmitted to all other participants in the instant messaging session. Because other participants are essentially watching the person type, there are clear cues that a user is "talking."
However, this approach has several limitations. First, character-by-character transmission greatly increases the flow of network traffic because each character requires one or more data packets to be sent to each participant in the instant messaging session. In addition, many users do not like to be "watched" as they type, as their typing errors and incomplete thoughts are transmitted before they can be corrected.
would you need to sue MS in order to get this patent overturned
No, you could just breach it, and wait for MS to sue you. If the court found for you, for reasons related to the validity of the patent, that would pretty much kill it stone dead.
It was about several hundred square miles in extent at greatest (in winter), and it has been shedding Ice Islands for 40 years (last one in the mid-80s).
Last count, it was about 10 miles across, IIRC. The extent of ice cover out to sea varies a lot with season.
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Information = order = !entropy
and it was entropy constraints that gave rise to Hawking Radiation.
Climate is not the same as weather
Climate is not the same as weather
Climate is not the same as weather
Climate is not the same as weather
Climate is not the same as weather...
Please note that the editor of "E&E" is one of the few environmental scientists who agreed with Bjorn Lomborg "Skeptical Environmentalist", and a self-confessed environmental sceptic. As stated there, the journal itself has a "stance [that] is critical of conventional wisdom".
Now, I don't read E&E (I tend to read the mainstream geophysics journals: GAFD, JGR(Oceans) and GRL -- "E&E" is not a mainstream geophysics journal), but I am slightly concerned about work published in a journal with an agenda. One may also be concerned about the suitability of referees selected by an editor out to prove a point, rather than to publicise good science.
Well done, if theres widespread take-up your proposed anti-spam system is now someone else's extremely handy DDOS tool.
They're very good for *some* people. But if you use whitelists and don't use challenge response, no one you don't know can contact you; this may be fine for you, its completely unacceptable for many (including me).
If you use challenge response, you're either setting up a mechanism to JoeJob people, as well as inevitable deadlock issues (automating resolution of deadlocks means that getting through C-R can be automated, which means you can be spammed).
The functioning only solution is the way we already deal with crime. All servers are innocent until proven guilty, and the if you spam me -- and fail to take immediate reparative action -- your service provider loses the right to send global email.
True SPEWS are over-fundamentalist about blacklisting (punishment failing to fit the crime), but many blacklists and blocklists (spamhaus.org being one) take very sensible measures. I maintain my own server blackholes (Mainland China and Taiwan and the pink contractors at ATT, Verizon, SWBell and BT mainly) and it works just fine.
Thats really grown up of you.... People like you should be forced to use carrier pigeons.
Remember folks -- and this may be difficult to believe -- sometimes bloggers polictical bloggers lie too. Moore has addresed these criticisms in some detail, including unedited transcripts and footage of the interviews that Spinsanity say he faked.
for i in $(find ~/altimetry ~/SSH-anomalies -name "*.gif" -type f); do convert $i `dirname $i`/`basename $i
Show me that GUI, and I'll abandon the command line.
Other than that, I agree with you. ESR is a shameless pseud whose knowledge of real Zen buddhism would fit on the back of a postage stamp, and still leave space for the "Bhagavad-Gita"
Not true. They tax you for owning a TV, whether you watch it (and what you watch) is irrelevant. And every time I visit the US and watch what passes for quality broadcasting there, I thank Christ for the BBC.
I'm not entirely sure thats frame-by-frame...
Frame 2: Very like Frame 1. Everyone has moved very slightly...
Frame 3: Very like Frame 2. The camera has started to move. Very slowly...
It was about several hundred square miles in extent at greatest (in winter), and it has been shedding Ice Islands for 40 years (last one in the mid-80s).
Last count, it was about 10 miles across, IIRC. The extent of ice cover out to sea varies a lot with season.
section? Point made Umberto, ENOUGH ALREADY with the STONEs