U of P is a Catholic school with no particular engineering focus. I think he would have stood a better chance of a reasonable response had he been attending a "real" engineering school. There's nothing wrong with Catholic school, or in studying engineering at such a school, but I think this poor guy should have seen it coming... If you're going to do research like this, do it at home. If he wanted to inform Cisco of the problems, he should have just done so directly. I feel bad for the guy but it's not surprising.
So I guess you'd have no problem if, say, France came over here, bombed the shit out of us, then traveled the country curing children of diseases? Hey, they're HELPING!
Why do you say that? I find QM very intuitive once you stop telling yourself "It's not intuitive." Shrodinger didn't derive his equation from basic principles, he intuited it. As for QM being "weird," again, it's only weird so long as you keep telling yourself that.
Materials scientists make "new" materials all the time - they dream up an unknown composition and make it in the lab. Just because someone digs something out of the ground somehow makes it special?
Sure. There's a big gap between materials which occur naturally and those which must be manufactured. You aren't going to find big deposits of nitroglycerin underground, for instance. What if we were digging in some mine somewhere and discovered a "naturally occurring" Honda Civic? You're saying there wouldn't be anything out of the ordinary there?
I was going to agree with you but you're wrong. Process priority is the sum of an intrinsic priority and another value which increments as time goes on, in order to ensure that EVERY process can run at least SOME of the time. This means that at every scheduling pass, all of these dynamic priorities must be updated. That's OBVIOUSLY O(n).
If you're non-technical, and you see a little piece of wire hanging from your display, I don't think your first thought will be "Gosh, that looks like an antenna!"
taking away the means for the public to defend themselves doesn't solve the problem of some wacko wanting to hurt people for no apparent reason.
Okay. In theory, it's true that if one of the students in that room had had a weapon, Cho might have been prevented from doing what he did. But simply possessing a weapon doesn't mean you know how to use it properly, or understand the circumstances in which it would be appropriate to use it. A kid with a gun trying to kill Cho could just have easily killed somebody else on accident.
I see plenty of morons at the range I shoot at. These people are not malicious, necessarily, but they are a fucking danger to themselves and everyone else around them. When these people show up at the quarry, I LEAVE. Perhaps we need "marshals" similar to what we have on airplanes, who have the specific responsibility of responding to threats. Anytime you've got a lot of people in an enclosed space, be it an aircraft or a classroom, it is imperative that the people who possess weapons know EXACTLY what the hell they are doing. A college student who picked up a 9mm over the weekend for self defense and has never even fired it doesn't count.
One thing that confuses me is how this guy managed to kill essentially everybody in the room. Why did nobody jump on top of him or struggle with him? I understand that fear can be paralyzing... But who the hell just stands against the wall waiting to be shot? If you're going to die anyway, why not try to save others' lives as you go out?
And I intend absolutely no disrespect to those who died by that.
Fred Phelps and his crew of assholes are planning to protest at the funeral of one of the slain students. How much do people want to bet he finally gets shot this time?
Maybe in marketdroid speak. In the world where I live, we use a definition of intelligence which is slightly above the congitive ability of a meat pie.
Jesus, man, the implication was "The smartest stuff we can get the computer to do unsupervised." Try reading between a lines a bit.
It is a common phenomenon in the AI community. When a new method or algorithm is first proposed, which achieved gains over prior methods, it is consider "new AI." But as time goes on and the algorithm is put into common use, it degrades into "just another algorithm."
AI is really just whatever the bleeding edge happens to be. For instance the A* algorithm to find "good" paths. It's certainly an intelligent algorithm, but nobody really considers it "AI" anymore. It's just a search method.
So, is a series of if-then statements "AI?" If it's new and powerful and does stuff that no other algorithm can do, probably yes. But as time goes on it becomes just another algorithm. AI, pretty much by definition, is simply "The smartest stuff we can do as of yet."
No such opinion appears in the article, and, your comment being the first post, clearly no such opinion has been expressed on Slashdot. So shut the fuck up and sit down.
Can you say, "sysconf?" Or the/proc filesystem? That's a "registry" if I ever saw one. Slightly more manageable than the one on Windows, but a registry nevertheless.
Unfortunately, Web fonts don't allow custom kerning pairs, so you can't work the same magic online as in print.
They don't? What the hell are you talking about? A TrueType font contains a kerning table. If the font rendering does not kern properly, it just means the rendering engine is a piece of shit. There is nothing about "web fonts" (what the hell does that mean?) that preclude proper kerning. It just means that the fonts which are typically installed have shitty kerning tables.
If you earn Linden Dollars, and sell them for real-world dollars, you're earning income, and are subject to paying income tax on those earnings.
Maybe, maybe not. To me it looks like currency conversion. If I take 50 euros and convert to US dollars, I don't get taxed on "earnings." If Linden dollars can be directly traded for real world goods, then they are a currency just like any other, and converting them into dollars is not the same thing as "earning income."
Of course, it's a two way street. If Linden dollars are viewed as a legitimate currency (which really depends on whether people believe it is or not), then they should probably be subject to real taxation.
Thanks for jogging my memory, folks. I'm fairly certain that it's "The Second Civil War" that I'm thinking of. My mind must've melded Idaho and Montana together. Which I am ashamed of, given that I live in Oregon and certainly understand the difference (having spent time in both places).
Am I completely crazy, or was there a movie/short series a while back (perhaps quite a while back!) where a modern civil war broke out in the USA, and the trigger point was somewhere in... Montana? Can anybody give me a reference? What the hell am I remembering here?
All you people who said these "crimes" are not "Internet crimes", are correct. The Internet is just the medium that was used to communicate when committing such crimes as "check fraud" etc.
While strictly, most of these crimes have direct analogs that do not involve the Internet, the Internet makes the execution of many of these crimes orders of magnitude easier.
Consider scamming people out of their money by setting up a fake web site that looks like Bank of America. Compare with scamming people by building a physical building which is a fake Bank of America branch. Nobody would attempt the latter (at least I've never heard of it) while the former is stupidly easy.
there is a lab in the southwest (nevada i think) where they generate fields as strong as the earth's magnetic field (in otherwords, what theyre looking for here).
The Earth's magnetic field is wimpy. A refrigerator magnet produces a stronger field. The thing about Earth's field is that it is HUGE, spatially. So particles have a LOT of field to contend with on their way through the magnetosphere. Even though the field itself is incredibly weak.
While we're waxing ridiculous on Star Trek, why didn't their uber-powerful computer have the capacity to predict where the enemy weapon/projectile was about to strike the ship, then focus ALL of the shield energy in that ONE location? It would increase the effectiveness of the shields by hundreds of times.
If you don't care that your tax dollars were used to spec the efile system but you can't use it without giving money to someone who lobbied for the privilege of collecting your money, well, all I can say is that you're a good little consumer.
Look, if the system could be made more efficient by changing certain laws, I'm all for it. Where do I sign? Until such time, I'd rather save my energy.
do you enjoy giving a company money to boost their profit margin just because their lobbyists made it impossible for people to send their data to the IRS without a middleman?
I enjoy getting my refund faster. I see no relevance in the fact that some company derives profit from this. What the hell do I care about that?
Am I really the only one who thinks it's ridiculous to pay intuit $30 to send my return electronically (which actually is cheaper for the IRS to process)
What does the cost to the IRS have to do with it? Are you just bitching because somebody somewhere is saving money and that person isn't you?
Personally, I think it's worth a little bit of money to be able to get my refund weeks sooner than I otherwise would. But I guess you think that all conveniences should be free.
A company can put anything they feel like in their EULA. It does nothing to stop a person from suing anyway (you're just going to have a harder time winning).
For example, you can mmap a 10GB file to memory, then poke at it like you would a C array, even though you may only have 512MB in the system. That's something you just can't do in a 32-bit process even if you had the memory.
Sure about that? Intel processors have had, for a long time, features to window very large address spaces into the 32-bit addressable region. "Windowing is a pain in the ass" you say? Well, I say that doubling the size of every pointer from 4 bytes to 8 bytes is more of a pain in the ass.
This is like saying that because books are filled with more and more information, we should make the pages of the book larger.
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U of P is a Catholic school with no particular engineering focus. I think he would have stood a better chance of a reasonable response had he been attending a "real" engineering school. There's nothing wrong with Catholic school, or in studying engineering at such a school, but I think this poor guy should have seen it coming... If you're going to do research like this, do it at home. If he wanted to inform Cisco of the problems, he should have just done so directly. I feel bad for the guy but it's not surprising.
So I guess you'd have no problem if, say, France came over here, bombed the shit out of us, then traveled the country curing children of diseases? Hey, they're HELPING!
Quantum mechanics is not intuitive
Why do you say that? I find QM very intuitive once you stop telling yourself "It's not intuitive." Shrodinger didn't derive his equation from basic principles, he intuited it. As for QM being "weird," again, it's only weird so long as you keep telling yourself that.
Materials scientists make "new" materials all the time - they dream up an unknown composition and make it in the lab. Just because someone digs something out of the ground somehow makes it special?
Sure. There's a big gap between materials which occur naturally and those which must be manufactured. You aren't going to find big deposits of nitroglycerin underground, for instance. What if we were digging in some mine somewhere and discovered a "naturally occurring" Honda Civic? You're saying there wouldn't be anything out of the ordinary there?I was going to agree with you but you're wrong. Process priority is the sum of an intrinsic priority and another value which increments as time goes on, in order to ensure that EVERY process can run at least SOME of the time. This means that at every scheduling pass, all of these dynamic priorities must be updated. That's OBVIOUSLY O(n).
If you're non-technical, and you see a little piece of wire hanging from your display, I don't think your first thought will be "Gosh, that looks like an antenna!"
Uh, "A cure for AIDS" is entirely appropriate. We cure diseases, not viruses.
taking away the means for the public to defend themselves doesn't solve the problem of some wacko wanting to hurt people for no apparent reason.
Okay. In theory, it's true that if one of the students in that room had had a weapon, Cho might have been prevented from doing what he did. But simply possessing a weapon doesn't mean you know how to use it properly, or understand the circumstances in which it would be appropriate to use it. A kid with a gun trying to kill Cho could just have easily killed somebody else on accident.
I see plenty of morons at the range I shoot at. These people are not malicious, necessarily, but they are a fucking danger to themselves and everyone else around them. When these people show up at the quarry, I LEAVE. Perhaps we need "marshals" similar to what we have on airplanes, who have the specific responsibility of responding to threats. Anytime you've got a lot of people in an enclosed space, be it an aircraft or a classroom, it is imperative that the people who possess weapons know EXACTLY what the hell they are doing. A college student who picked up a 9mm over the weekend for self defense and has never even fired it doesn't count.
One thing that confuses me is how this guy managed to kill essentially everybody in the room. Why did nobody jump on top of him or struggle with him? I understand that fear can be paralyzing... But who the hell just stands against the wall waiting to be shot? If you're going to die anyway, why not try to save others' lives as you go out?
And I intend absolutely no disrespect to those who died by that.
Fred Phelps and his crew of assholes are planning to protest at the funeral of one of the slain students. How much do people want to bet he finally gets shot this time?
Maybe in marketdroid speak. In the world where I live, we use a definition of intelligence which is slightly above the congitive ability of a meat pie.
Jesus, man, the implication was "The smartest stuff we can get the computer to do unsupervised." Try reading between a lines a bit.It is a common phenomenon in the AI community. When a new method or algorithm is first proposed, which achieved gains over prior methods, it is consider "new AI." But as time goes on and the algorithm is put into common use, it degrades into "just another algorithm."
AI is really just whatever the bleeding edge happens to be. For instance the A* algorithm to find "good" paths. It's certainly an intelligent algorithm, but nobody really considers it "AI" anymore. It's just a search method.
So, is a series of if-then statements "AI?" If it's new and powerful and does stuff that no other algorithm can do, probably yes. But as time goes on it becomes just another algorithm. AI, pretty much by definition, is simply "The smartest stuff we can do as of yet."
No such opinion appears in the article, and, your comment being the first post, clearly no such opinion has been expressed on Slashdot. So shut the fuck up and sit down.
No magical black box registry
Can you say, "sysconf?" Or theUnfortunately, Web fonts don't allow custom kerning pairs, so you can't work the same magic online as in print.
They don't? What the hell are you talking about? A TrueType font contains a kerning table. If the font rendering does not kern properly, it just means the rendering engine is a piece of shit. There is nothing about "web fonts" (what the hell does that mean?) that preclude proper kerning. It just means that the fonts which are typically installed have shitty kerning tables.
If you earn Linden Dollars, and sell them for real-world dollars, you're earning income, and are subject to paying income tax on those earnings.
Maybe, maybe not. To me it looks like currency conversion. If I take 50 euros and convert to US dollars, I don't get taxed on "earnings." If Linden dollars can be directly traded for real world goods, then they are a currency just like any other, and converting them into dollars is not the same thing as "earning income."
Of course, it's a two way street. If Linden dollars are viewed as a legitimate currency (which really depends on whether people believe it is or not), then they should probably be subject to real taxation.
Thanks for jogging my memory, folks. I'm fairly certain that it's "The Second Civil War" that I'm thinking of. My mind must've melded Idaho and Montana together. Which I am ashamed of, given that I live in Oregon and certainly understand the difference (having spent time in both places).
Am I completely crazy, or was there a movie/short series a while back (perhaps quite a while back!) where a modern civil war broke out in the USA, and the trigger point was somewhere in... Montana? Can anybody give me a reference? What the hell am I remembering here?
All you people who said these "crimes" are not "Internet crimes", are correct. The Internet is just the medium that was used to communicate when committing such crimes as "check fraud" etc.
While strictly, most of these crimes have direct analogs that do not involve the Internet, the Internet makes the execution of many of these crimes orders of magnitude easier.
Consider scamming people out of their money by setting up a fake web site that looks like Bank of America. Compare with scamming people by building a physical building which is a fake Bank of America branch. Nobody would attempt the latter (at least I've never heard of it) while the former is stupidly easy.
there is a lab in the southwest (nevada i think) where they generate fields as strong as the earth's magnetic field (in otherwords, what theyre looking for here).
The Earth's magnetic field is wimpy. A refrigerator magnet produces a stronger field. The thing about Earth's field is that it is HUGE, spatially. So particles have a LOT of field to contend with on their way through the magnetosphere. Even though the field itself is incredibly weak.While we're waxing ridiculous on Star Trek, why didn't their uber-powerful computer have the capacity to predict where the enemy weapon/projectile was about to strike the ship, then focus ALL of the shield energy in that ONE location? It would increase the effectiveness of the shields by hundreds of times.
If you don't care that your tax dollars were used to spec the efile system but you can't use it without giving money to someone who lobbied for the privilege of collecting your money, well, all I can say is that you're a good little consumer.
Look, if the system could be made more efficient by changing certain laws, I'm all for it. Where do I sign? Until such time, I'd rather save my energy.
do you enjoy giving a company money to boost their profit margin just because their lobbyists made it impossible for people to send their data to the IRS without a middleman?
I enjoy getting my refund faster. I see no relevance in the fact that some company derives profit from this. What the hell do I care about that?Am I really the only one who thinks it's ridiculous to pay intuit $30 to send my return electronically (which actually is cheaper for the IRS to process)
What does the cost to the IRS have to do with it? Are you just bitching because somebody somewhere is saving money and that person isn't you?
Personally, I think it's worth a little bit of money to be able to get my refund weeks sooner than I otherwise would. But I guess you think that all conveniences should be free.A company can put anything they feel like in their EULA. It does nothing to stop a person from suing anyway (you're just going to have a harder time winning).
For example, you can mmap a 10GB file to memory, then poke at it like you would a C array, even though you may only have 512MB in the system. That's something you just can't do in a 32-bit process even if you had the memory.
Sure about that? Intel processors have had, for a long time, features to window very large address spaces into the 32-bit addressable region. "Windowing is a pain in the ass" you say? Well, I say that doubling the size of every pointer from 4 bytes to 8 bytes is more of a pain in the ass.
This is like saying that because books are filled with more and more information, we should make the pages of the book larger.