Hmmm...Maybe IBM should just buy SCO and Novel. This way, no mater which company is determined to have the rights to the IP code in question, IBM will own it all. Problem solved.
Except that the people running IBM are a little bit smarter than that. They have invested in the success of Linux, and thus have a vested interest in crushing any public impression of weakness of the GPL in the courts. For the price of just legal fees, this is a much better deal for them than buying a stock that's overvalued by about tenfold.
Honestly, if somebody is not intelligent enough to punch a stylus through a paper card, they probably have no business voting anyway.
Apparently you never voted with one of these. You have to check the result of your vote very carefully afterward to make sure the apparatus actually punched the chad through the paper card instead of just putting a pinhole in the chad. And this requires holding up the punchcard afterward and checking the thing for tiny pinholes, because while you're voting you can't see the chad because the ballot blocks your view, and afterward you just have a punchcard with a bunch of meaningless numbers that have been punched out of it. The only recourse is to carefully cross-reference the missing numbers with the ballot again afterward. It can be done by anyone who wants to be extremely careful, but it's by no means automatically straightforward.
He claims there cannot be both discrete events and continuity because if there were discrete events then there cannot be continuity... How about something, anything to back up this idea?
How about the Uncertainty Principle? To measure a "discrete" time for an event to occur, it requires a very precise time measurement. By the Uncertainty Principle this requires that the uncertainty in energy be very large. If the uncertainty in energy is sufficiently large, then there really isn't much "continuity" between one time and a following time.
This of course isn't really anything new, it's just a matter of philosophical interpretation.
The benefit to advertiser is clear: Google is the ONLY place on the net where I click on ad links. I am not alone...
Same here. I don't click on ads that annoy me by getting in my way, because I just expect the site I reach to do the same. But Google ads avoid this, and it often feels more like there might be useful related content on the other side (and sometimes there is).
Following is the panel they will have available for interviews in an hour. Note that there is a geologist, but no biologist or anything similar. Thus I would guess that they found strong evidence for water, rather than stumbling across bacteria.
# Professor Steve Squyres, Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Principal Investigator, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. # Professor John Grotzinger, MER science team geologist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. # Dr. Benton C. Clark III, MER science team member and Chief Scientist of Space Exploration, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Astronautics Operations, Denver # Dr. Joy Crisp, MER Project Scientist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. # Dr. Jim Garvin, Lead Scientist for Mars and the Moon, NASA Headquarters
The link goes to an American Institute of Physics bulletin on successful instantaneous determination of a photon's energy from a distance of 10km. It's still got a long way to go until it's true 'communication', but this stuff was known back in 1998.
Actually, it's not at all communication. It's only correlation. The photon energies have a mutual relationship because they were created together, and determining the energy of one tells you the energy the other one must have. No information is passed faster than light in this experiment.
Many skills, including technical skills, are not permenant. It is the case of using it, or losing it. A 6 to 12 month gap in employment might suggest that you are not as fresh as someone who is presently employed.
Real experience isn't that transitory. If you hire people for them knowing information they can find within 15 seconds in a google search, then you deserve the kind of employees you get. A valuable employee will have experience demonstrating suitable problem solving ability.
But employers don't like resume gaps. They will want to know what you were doing in that time.
I've never understood that impression. Why does everyone think employers want to know what you were doing at all times in the past few years? Isn't the point of listing jobs actually to describe your prior work experience? What do gaps say about prior work experience? If you weren't working or training during a gap, then you weren't gaining experience, but you weren't exactly losing it either.
Then you have still put it in a publically accessible place, and bear full blame for others finding it.
The line isn't quite so clear. There's a difference between a box along the street saying "Free letters to read" and a box along the side of the street serving as your mailbox. Are your letters in the mailbox out along the public street publicly accessible because you didn't ship them in a locked steel vault?
Yeah, of course if you NEED security you take strong precautions. But when you simply expect privacy, sometimes the situation can be effectively handled by convention. Example: Someone who owns a building could put a camera in the bathroom, but you typically don't wear a ski mask to use the restroom. We handle this situation by a chosen convention. We expect people to not place cameras in this environment, and sometimes we even pass laws to help enforce the convention without making life more difficult.
It just seems to me that it's bad policy on a person's or organization's part to lend support to groups that are engaged in terrorist activities.
Imagine, for a moment if you will, that some group X is labelled as a terrorist group by the government, and this group's members happen to think they're not terrorists and don't support terrorism. There are two groups of professionals they might desperately like to hire, lawyers to plead their case, and public relations experts to present their case clearly. It's only fair in a free society that the accused be afforded a chance to defend themselves in this manner.
Die miserable painful death from bovine spongiform encephalopathy... or have my privacy invaded.
Or, die a miserable painful death caused by a terrorist act... or have your privacy invaded. At least following the government logic.
There's a HUGE difference. The difference is, the supermarket is already violating the privacy of these people with those cards, it's just that most of them don't know it. The only question is what should the supermarket do with the information it already collected. The government is using fear to justify infringing further on privacy, which is something any free society needs to be very concerned about.
What I never understood about that joke, aside from the fact that 'NO CARRIER' would be seen client side and not server side... how do you hit submit after being disconnected halfway though typing?
Yes, because only physically possible jokes are funny.:)
(It's a throwback to the types of things one would see on a bbs.)
I'd like to know how SCO can possibly claim others have infringed on their intellectual property when they've clearly shown that they have absolutely no intellect.
Stupidity is their intellectual property. And as we all know, there are certainly enough unauthorized uses of stupidity.
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I'd be interested to see a weighted graph so that sites with more traffic have a greater impact. But the problem with that is, how do you measure it?
Number of hits is nice, but there's an even more useful metric out there: the Google ranking. A little cooperation between Netcraft and Google, and they could produce some interesting graphs that would roughly show the significance of web server usage for the web.
Actually, reliability varies inside normal detection needs. And the reason for this is demonstrated by the first sentence. The first letters of each word spell out your handle. What kind of program could automatically detect such things given the infinite varieties?
You can at best detect a tiny subset of steganography algorithms, then along will come a smarter fish. Can you find the second hidden message in this post?
Google OWES Linux. They have profited greatly from having Linux available for their company. Now they have to stand up for the community
It's much simpler than that. Google uses Linux, Google has an invested stake in Linux continuing to succeed as an operating system, so that they in turn can keep using it for free for their servers.
Considering the data on which the global warming theory is based is statistically dubious at best, i'll treat this report as something less than gospel...
In a slightly more productive sense, can anyone out there in the Slashdot community link to any solid, conclusive, and convincing evidence that global warming will actually occur?
16C - awesome calculator for programmers, especially embedded work. There is no better number system converter available at any price. No I can't do bin/dec/hex in my head faster than the 16C and neither can you. Expensive due to relatively low numbers produced.
Try the trivial (and free) script at the end of this post, run as:
base 0xF43B base 0b0010101 base 0755 base 521
Output: Dec Hex Oct Bin 493 1ed 755 111101101
Whenever you're programming, a command line is closer than a calculator.
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Hmmm...Maybe IBM should just buy SCO and Novel. This way, no mater which company is determined to have the rights to the IP code in question, IBM will own it all. Problem solved.
Except that the people running IBM are a little bit smarter than that. They have invested in the success of Linux, and thus have a vested interest in crushing any public impression of weakness of the GPL in the courts. For the price of just legal fees, this is a much better deal for them than buying a stock that's overvalued by about tenfold.
Honestly, if somebody is not intelligent enough to punch a stylus through a paper card, they probably have no business voting anyway.
Apparently you never voted with one of these. You have to check the result of your vote very carefully afterward to make sure the apparatus actually punched the chad through the paper card instead of just putting a pinhole in the chad. And this requires holding up the punchcard afterward and checking the thing for tiny pinholes, because while you're voting you can't see the chad because the ballot blocks your view, and afterward you just have a punchcard with a bunch of meaningless numbers that have been punched out of it. The only recourse is to carefully cross-reference the missing numbers with the ballot again afterward. It can be done by anyone who wants to be extremely careful, but it's by no means automatically straightforward.
I just read this paper.
I didn't, but I will respond to your question.
He claims there cannot be both discrete events and continuity because if there were discrete events then there cannot be continuity... How about something, anything to back up this idea?
How about the Uncertainty Principle? To measure a "discrete" time for an event to occur, it requires a very precise time measurement. By the Uncertainty Principle this requires that the uncertainty in energy be very large. If the uncertainty in energy is sufficiently large, then there really isn't much "continuity" between one time and a following time.
This of course isn't really anything new, it's just a matter of philosophical interpretation.
Now, every windows user aware of this will believe a firewall is a great danger for his computer.
This would provide a nice counter to the current view that having a firewall makes you immune to viruses and worms.
Could someone please enlighten me?
Read this essay if you missed it when it was posted: What You Can't Say
The benefit to advertiser is clear: Google is the
ONLY place on the net where I click on ad links.
I am not alone...
Same here. I don't click on ads that annoy me by getting in my way, because I just expect the site I reach to do the same. But Google ads avoid this, and it often feels more like there might be useful related content on the other side (and sometimes there is).
Following is the panel they will have available for interviews in an hour. Note that there is a geologist, but no biologist or anything similar. Thus I would guess that they found strong evidence for water, rather than stumbling across bacteria.
# Professor Steve Squyres, Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Principal Investigator, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
# Professor John Grotzinger, MER science team geologist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
# Dr. Benton C. Clark III, MER science team member and Chief Scientist of Space Exploration, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Astronautics Operations, Denver
# Dr. Joy Crisp, MER Project Scientist, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
# Dr. Jim Garvin, Lead Scientist for Mars and the Moon, NASA Headquarters
The link goes to an American Institute of Physics bulletin on successful instantaneous determination of a photon's energy from a distance of 10km. It's still got a long way to go until it's true 'communication', but this stuff was known back in 1998.
Actually, it's not at all communication. It's only correlation. The photon energies have a mutual relationship because they were created together, and determining the energy of one tells you the energy the other one must have. No information is passed faster than light in this experiment.
Many skills, including technical skills, are not permenant. It is the case of using it, or losing it. A 6 to 12 month gap in employment might suggest that you are not as fresh as someone who is presently employed.
Real experience isn't that transitory. If you hire people for them knowing information they can find within 15 seconds in a google search, then you deserve the kind of employees you get. A valuable employee will have experience demonstrating suitable problem solving ability.
But employers don't like resume gaps. They will want to know what you were doing in that time.
I've never understood that impression. Why does everyone think employers want to know what you were doing at all times in the past few years? Isn't the point of listing jobs actually to describe your prior work experience? What do gaps say about prior work experience? If you weren't working or training during a gap, then you weren't gaining experience, but you weren't exactly losing it either.
I don't understand the big push for electronic voting. What exactly are we fixing?
:)
They're fixing the election, of course. Sheesh, you must be new here.
Then you have still put it in a publically accessible place, and bear full blame for others finding it.
The line isn't quite so clear. There's a difference between a box along the street saying "Free letters to read" and a box along the side of the street serving as your mailbox. Are your letters in the mailbox out along the public street publicly accessible because you didn't ship them in a locked steel vault?
Yeah, of course if you NEED security you take strong precautions. But when you simply expect privacy, sometimes the situation can be effectively handled by convention. Example: Someone who owns a building could put a camera in the bathroom, but you typically don't wear a ski mask to use the restroom. We handle this situation by a chosen convention. We expect people to not place cameras in this environment, and sometimes we even pass laws to help enforce the convention without making life more difficult.
The GPL is one of the most restrictive licenses software is published under.
If you call "This is mine, but you can use it for free to do anything you want. If you agree to share, it can be yours too." a restrictive license.
It just seems to me that it's bad policy on a person's or organization's part to lend support to groups that are engaged in terrorist activities.
Imagine, for a moment if you will, that some group X is labelled as a terrorist group by the government, and this group's members happen to think they're not terrorists and don't support terrorism. There are two groups of professionals they might desperately like to hire, lawyers to plead their case, and public relations experts to present their case clearly. It's only fair in a free society that the accused be afforded a chance to defend themselves in this manner.
Die miserable painful death from bovine spongiform encephalopathy... or have my privacy invaded.
Or, die a miserable painful death caused by a terrorist act... or have your privacy invaded. At least following the government logic.
There's a HUGE difference. The difference is, the supermarket is already violating the privacy of these people with those cards, it's just that most of them don't know it. The only question is what should the supermarket do with the information it already collected. The government is using fear to justify infringing further on privacy, which is something any free society needs to be very concerned about.
What I never understood about that joke, aside from the fact that 'NO CARRIER' would be seen client side and not server side... how do you hit submit after being disconnected halfway though typing?
:)
Yes, because only physically possible jokes are funny.
(It's a throwback to the types of things one would see on a bbs.)
Maybe the Beagle was infected with the Slammer.
Well, Beagle's failure probably did have something to do with slamming.
I'd like to know how SCO can possibly claim others have infringed on their intellectual property when they've clearly shown that they have absolutely no intellect.
Stupidity is their intellectual property. And as we all know, there are certainly enough unauthorized uses of stupidity.
I'd be interested to see a weighted graph so that sites with more traffic have a greater impact. But the problem with that is, how do you measure it?
Number of hits is nice, but there's an even more useful metric out there: the Google ranking. A little cooperation between Netcraft and Google, and they could produce some interesting graphs that would roughly show the significance of web server usage for the web.
Actually, reliability varies inside normal detection needs. And the reason for this is demonstrated by the first sentence. The first letters of each word spell out your handle. What kind of program could automatically detect such things given the infinite varieties?
You can at best detect a tiny subset of steganography algorithms, then along will come a smarter fish. Can you find the second hidden message in this post?
Google OWES Linux. They have profited greatly from having Linux available for their company. Now they have to stand up for the community
It's much simpler than that. Google uses Linux, Google has an invested stake in Linux continuing to succeed as an operating system, so that they in turn can keep using it for free for their servers.
Considering the data on which the global warming theory is based is statistically dubious at best, i'll treat this report as something less than gospel...
In a slightly more productive sense, can anyone out there in the Slashdot community link to any solid, conclusive, and convincing evidence that global warming will actually occur?
16C - awesome calculator for programmers, especially embedded work. There is no better number system converter available at any price. No I can't do bin/dec/hex in my head faster than the 16C and neither can you. Expensive due to relatively low numbers produced.
Try the trivial (and free) script at the end of this post, run as:
base 0xF43B
base 0b0010101
base 0755
base 521
Output:
Dec Hex Oct Bin
493 1ed 755 111101101
Whenever you're programming, a command line is closer than a calculator.
#!/bin/sh
NUM="$1"
perl -e "printf (\"Dec\tHex\tOct\tBin\n%d\t%x\t%o\t%b\n\", $NUM, $NUM, $NUM, $NUM);"
Damn, those martians shot down another one of our probes!
Perhaps someday a martian will stumble across it, fix it, make it intelligent, and Bagel will come back to us searching for its Creator.
but is there something about the overall situation that we are missing.
Perhaps the simple cliche that there's always a bigger fool?
Are all our ducks in a row?
Well, they at least all seem to be looking and quacking like ducks.