It's not even to do with numbers, it's just unique identifiers.
You could do it with animals. 1 = cow, 2 = sheep, so one so forth. I like to do it with colours, red, blue, yellow, etc. You could do it with Letters, ABCD...
There is no addition, subtraction, no real computation done with any of the numbers. The only rules are that there has to be 1 of every 9 symbol in each box and each row, and that rule will enforce the subsets that most other people apply (no two identical symbols in the same row or box).
I've been having trouble satisfying my girlfriend in the bedroom. Tried everything, hours of foreplay, tools, toys, you name it! Then Google came along and changed everything. I simply took a picture of her lying naked on my bed with my cell phone, uploaded the picture to Google, and went to go grab some chinese food. By the time I got halfway through the Schezwan Chicken, she was having multiple orgasms! Thanks to Google, my relationship has never been better!
While I do enjoy a good Sudoku while on a long flight or perhaps while on the train, I've never understood everyone else's insatiable fascination with them. From a programming perspective, it's an easy puzzle to solve. All you need to know is the various techniques for solving a square. Though also from a computing standpoint, you could quite easily brute force your way through it in a few minutes, no doubt. And like the famous Rubiks Cube - you COULD essentially do it if you had enough memory to preform the pattern recognition, as there are truly only so many ways things can line up, once you look at them abstractly and not as individual numbers. Then you can have it rotated any of the 4 ways but basically, this is not that hard of an App to write, I'm wondering which approach it is they took.
I find it more fun to do with something less easy to work with. Most people think that Sudoku is a math puzzle because its often associated with numbers, but thats not really the case as you can do it with any 9 unique identifiers. I personally like a rainbow ROYGTBPVM of colours instead of numbers, it adds a bit of flavour to the challenge and lets me use up all those old school supplies. Not that I ever have them with me whenever I travel, but someone had the idea to throw one of those Sudoku puzzle books in a stocking one year and I pull it out on occaison when the power goes out and I need that mental interaction that video games provide.
I'm not sure I see how it could be obsolete though? Is the LHC going to be done all its research by 2014? If so, why did we spend so much to build that one?
Firstly, no, not all religions and religious individuals are like that, but there is still quite a bit of danger in challenging certain people on their beliefs. I can't go to the Bible Belt and start bashing Christians and expect to come out without a good beating. I can't go to the Middle East and Dis Islamd and expect to come out alive. However, like Hog said, no one was killed for saying Newton's physics were wrong. I'd say even the Pope would not take criticism kindly, though his reaction wouldn't be violent. We've come a long way in a lot of respects to human rights and equality, but there are people still fighting over religion today, like Israel and Palestine.
Secondly, new "Ideas" are not discovering a breakthrough. They require rigorous testing to become a breakthrough. That's the whole point of the scientific process. Come up with a theory, test it, if it holds, publish, if not, revise. Scientists are only quick to deny ideas when there isn't any evidence to support them.
Finally, yes, science IS an open process. Anyone who has access to any kind of education can join the endevour. United States, Canada, almost any developed nation has affordable post secondary education, or a student loans program. Not being able to access these services is about as much about the open-ness of the situation as not having food makes the eating process a closed system. Yes, some people are starving, but it's not like they are specifically restricted from eating, by those who have food.
There's this thing called Government grants, and they provide all the funding necessary to do research. You simply need to build a theory, find applications for the new possibilities, define the costs, and apply. If your country isn't willing to back research costs for noble endeavours, it's entirely a problem with economics and not the open standard of the scientific process.
In my philosophy of science course, on the other hand, I was taught by a world-renowned professor (Paul Feyerabend) that there is no such thing as scientific method and that physicists have no better claim to knowledge than voodoo priests
I'd say he's a bit of a silly goose who needs to study the things he is dismantling before making claims against them. While inductive reasoning leaves itself open to be false, and there are times where inductive reasoning has proven to be false, it does not discredit the scientific method anywhere near enough to put it in the same ballpark as religious beliefs.
Like this review and this book no doubt mentions, science is an open process where anybody and everybody can study and contribute. To find a major flaw in the currently accepted and believed theories is considered a scientific breakthrough, not blasphemy or heathen. Given that those who embrace the scientific method are willing to accept criticism and increase their knowledge of the entire system instead of deny or rebel against it, I believe those people have far more claim to knowledge. If you don't believe what a physicist has come up with, just recreate the scenario yourself and see the results. I challenge any priest, voodoo or otherwise, to do the same without the aid of science or mathematics.
but if one is a father, one has certain responsibilities that are paramount about anything else.
Oh - now that's something I disagree with and I'll probably get flamed more than you.
I could be a terrible father. I don't have any children, and I don't want any for a bit (I'm still pretty young). But if I were to have 3 kids tomorrow I would much rather put them up for adoption than try raising them myself. I've still got to pay off my school debt, I've got living expenses of my own, heck I might be switching jobs soon. Money is going to be tight.
I know it's not morally justified or anything like that, but if I had kids right now I would end up having this animosity towards them that they ruined my 20's, caused me so much stress, caught me unprepared - basically a bunch of negative energy. I'd do my best to be a loving parent but I won't deny that those thoughts would be there. As such, I'd probably make a terrible father. When there are people out there unable to have children, who are much more loving than I and would be overjoyed with being able to take care of my kids.
Whether that's being selfish or selfless - I don't know. When one option is both better for the kids and better for me, does that make me a bad person?
I've worked with directX at a low level a bit, but no I've never actually to develop the hardware or the drivers for such devices.
What I was getting at is that if the Chip is designed specifically for DirectX11, you shouldn't have DirectX11 bugs. Yes, chip bugs definately do exist, but I would think (though I have no proof) that when a piece of hardware is designed for a specific task, it generally preforms that one task better and has issues elsewhere.
And what use is it when a bug is found in DirectX, you can change software, but hardware?
Well, considering DX11 has been out for a while and has been generally tested for bugs already - the idea is that you won't HAVE a bug if it's in the hardware - theres no where for the variables to change values based on a different CPU build or other factors if the calculations are specifically designed to run on that piece of hardware. At least, thats the theory.
But yeah - this does nothing if you typically aren't running Windows. Though I'm more concerned on what this will do to the future of DirectX. Where will the push be to improve things for a DX12 if everything is neatly designed for DX11? We've got enough backwards compatibility issues with old games requiring DX3 not working anymore.
This seems like a prime time for OpenGL to pick up speed. Specific hardware to meet DX11 makes it sound like the DX development process is becoming stagnated. Otherwise, why would you bother?
Ignoring the fact that this has nothing to do with Javascript - or IE. Some of the things they listed are simple social engineering attacks. You visit the site, asks you to run the Java Applet, the Java applet is malicious code. And if you can compromise someone's website to redirect you to your own look-alike with a malicious Java Applet asking to run, that looks like another prime strategy.
The Java exploit is basically what takes what should be a seperate application and somehow gets more access than it should have, and probably installs something on the users computer like a trojan or worm.
Browsing in Chrome won't save you from this. This is (sort of) a problem with the way Java Applets are handled - or a problem with the way users interact with the web (take your pick). They're both contributors to the problem really.
I would generally tend to agree, in the growing pains of the company - they hired more lab people then they had computer techs to handle, as such a few labs have generic lab accounts, and whenever one of them gets a virus or deletes something important by accident or whatever, there's no one you can point the finger at because there's no log besides the generic account.
And the same thing is open with our support section, anonymity with admin rights, very dangerous should someone screw up or should someone want to screw the company.
However, its a small team, we're only 4 individuals trying to keep 1000 computers running. If one of us were to do anything stupid, it wouldn't be hard to figure out who it was. We would at minimum know the computer used for the support account at what time something bad would happen. Then it's just a matter of figuring out which of us 4 was there and doing it.
You might find it a bit easier to rest knowing that Internet Policies are one section that Canada has stemmed away from the States, in that we have simply put a tax on blank media to cover costs for artists who might feel they've lost sales through digital downloads of copyrighted material. This mostly keeps the RIAA and MPAA out.
I haven't personally read a news article where any member of Anonymous has been arrested for their activities online, but I can almost guarantee Canada won't be the place where it happens. We've got too many other issues to deal with, and with the Pirate Party just starting up and growing, it's more likely that our government will try to reach a consensus or compensation if it becomes a big issue, as opposed to just outright combatting it. (No, I am not associating the two, but you can't deny that their views tend to align from time to time). Remember, it's the US Creed to not negotiate with terrorists, not Canada's. At the very least we will listen to demands before refuting them.
If you need to be worried about anything in Canada happening against Anon's, it's Shaw and Bell and Primus increasing the rates and decreasing teh Caps on internet usage, which means its going to cost people more money if they rapidly download movies, music, etc - or if they spend all their evenings sending out DDOSs. The Corporations are a bigger threat to Anonymous in Canada than the government is.
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It's not even to do with numbers, it's just unique identifiers.
You could do it with animals. 1 = cow, 2 = sheep, so one so forth. I like to do it with colours, red, blue, yellow, etc. You could do it with Letters, ABCD...
There is no addition, subtraction, no real computation done with any of the numbers. The only rules are that there has to be 1 of every 9 symbol in each box and each row, and that rule will enforce the subsets that most other people apply (no two identical symbols in the same row or box).
You think that's impressive?
I've been having trouble satisfying my girlfriend in the bedroom. Tried everything, hours of foreplay, tools, toys, you name it! Then Google came along and changed everything. I simply took a picture of her lying naked on my bed with my cell phone, uploaded the picture to Google, and went to go grab some chinese food. By the time I got halfway through the Schezwan Chicken, she was having multiple orgasms! Thanks to Google, my relationship has never been better!
They probably didn't do the image processing from scratch, they probably used a pre-existing image comparison tool to check for something like
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Then chopped each square into its own, verified the symbol, and filled their arrays and got Cracking.
While I do enjoy a good Sudoku while on a long flight or perhaps while on the train, I've never understood everyone else's insatiable fascination with them. From a programming perspective, it's an easy puzzle to solve. All you need to know is the various techniques for solving a square. Though also from a computing standpoint, you could quite easily brute force your way through it in a few minutes, no doubt. And like the famous Rubiks Cube - you COULD essentially do it if you had enough memory to preform the pattern recognition, as there are truly only so many ways things can line up, once you look at them abstractly and not as individual numbers. Then you can have it rotated any of the 4 ways but basically, this is not that hard of an App to write, I'm wondering which approach it is they took.
I find it more fun to do with something less easy to work with. Most people think that Sudoku is a math puzzle because its often associated with numbers, but thats not really the case as you can do it with any 9 unique identifiers. I personally like a rainbow ROYGTBPVM of colours instead of numbers, it adds a bit of flavour to the challenge and lets me use up all those old school supplies. Not that I ever have them with me whenever I travel, but someone had the idea to throw one of those Sudoku puzzle books in a stocking one year and I pull it out on occaison when the power goes out and I need that mental interaction that video games provide.
What are you? A Microsoft Fanboy?
Huh?
What?
Bring it.
The summary leads me to believe that we've only gotten better images, and that we still have yet to confirm what it is. Am I right or wrong?
Unless of course they know something we don't.
I'm not sure I see how it could be obsolete though? Is the LHC going to be done all its research by 2014? If so, why did we spend so much to build that one?
Because every observatory on Earth was rendered obsolete by Hubble, right?
Even an inferior Tevatron can produce results, two instruments operating at a time is often better than one really good one.
To counter, point by point;
Firstly, no, not all religions and religious individuals are like that, but there is still quite a bit of danger in challenging certain people on their beliefs. I can't go to the Bible Belt and start bashing Christians and expect to come out without a good beating. I can't go to the Middle East and Dis Islamd and expect to come out alive. However, like Hog said, no one was killed for saying Newton's physics were wrong. I'd say even the Pope would not take criticism kindly, though his reaction wouldn't be violent. We've come a long way in a lot of respects to human rights and equality, but there are people still fighting over religion today, like Israel and Palestine.
Secondly, new "Ideas" are not discovering a breakthrough. They require rigorous testing to become a breakthrough. That's the whole point of the scientific process. Come up with a theory, test it, if it holds, publish, if not, revise. Scientists are only quick to deny ideas when there isn't any evidence to support them.
Finally, yes, science IS an open process. Anyone who has access to any kind of education can join the endevour. United States, Canada, almost any developed nation has affordable post secondary education, or a student loans program. Not being able to access these services is about as much about the open-ness of the situation as not having food makes the eating process a closed system. Yes, some people are starving, but it's not like they are specifically restricted from eating, by those who have food.
There's this thing called Government grants, and they provide all the funding necessary to do research. You simply need to build a theory, find applications for the new possibilities, define the costs, and apply. If your country isn't willing to back research costs for noble endeavours, it's entirely a problem with economics and not the open standard of the scientific process.
I've studied quite a bit of philosophy, though not his specifically.
Yeah. I hear ya.
In my philosophy of science course, on the other hand, I was taught by a world-renowned professor (Paul Feyerabend) that there is no such thing as scientific method and that physicists have no better claim to knowledge than voodoo priests
I'd say he's a bit of a silly goose who needs to study the things he is dismantling before making claims against them. While inductive reasoning leaves itself open to be false, and there are times where inductive reasoning has proven to be false, it does not discredit the scientific method anywhere near enough to put it in the same ballpark as religious beliefs.
Like this review and this book no doubt mentions, science is an open process where anybody and everybody can study and contribute. To find a major flaw in the currently accepted and believed theories is considered a scientific breakthrough, not blasphemy or heathen. Given that those who embrace the scientific method are willing to accept criticism and increase their knowledge of the entire system instead of deny or rebel against it, I believe those people have far more claim to knowledge. If you don't believe what a physicist has come up with, just recreate the scenario yourself and see the results. I challenge any priest, voodoo or otherwise, to do the same without the aid of science or mathematics.
Next thing you know Adult Only games'll be banned on Mars too.
but if one is a father, one has certain responsibilities that are paramount about anything else.
Oh - now that's something I disagree with and I'll probably get flamed more than you.
I could be a terrible father. I don't have any children, and I don't want any for a bit (I'm still pretty young). But if I were to have 3 kids tomorrow I would much rather put them up for adoption than try raising them myself. I've still got to pay off my school debt, I've got living expenses of my own, heck I might be switching jobs soon. Money is going to be tight.
I know it's not morally justified or anything like that, but if I had kids right now I would end up having this animosity towards them that they ruined my 20's, caused me so much stress, caught me unprepared - basically a bunch of negative energy. I'd do my best to be a loving parent but I won't deny that those thoughts would be there. As such, I'd probably make a terrible father. When there are people out there unable to have children, who are much more loving than I and would be overjoyed with being able to take care of my kids.
Whether that's being selfish or selfless - I don't know. When one option is both better for the kids and better for me, does that make me a bad person?
I've worked with directX at a low level a bit, but no I've never actually to develop the hardware or the drivers for such devices.
What I was getting at is that if the Chip is designed specifically for DirectX11, you shouldn't have DirectX11 bugs. Yes, chip bugs definately do exist, but I would think (though I have no proof) that when a piece of hardware is designed for a specific task, it generally preforms that one task better and has issues elsewhere.
I love the way it bump-mapped the bumped post on 4chan.
I suppose it's easier to implement something than it is to implement it well.
80/20 rule.
He's babbling about DRM.
What that has to do with this Intel Chip? I don't know. But at least I have a SLIGHT idea what he's ranting about.
And what use is it when a bug is found in DirectX, you can change software, but hardware?
Well, considering DX11 has been out for a while and has been generally tested for bugs already - the idea is that you won't HAVE a bug if it's in the hardware - theres no where for the variables to change values based on a different CPU build or other factors if the calculations are specifically designed to run on that piece of hardware. At least, thats the theory.
But yeah - this does nothing if you typically aren't running Windows. Though I'm more concerned on what this will do to the future of DirectX. Where will the push be to improve things for a DX12 if everything is neatly designed for DX11? We've got enough backwards compatibility issues with old games requiring DX3 not working anymore.
This seems like a prime time for OpenGL to pick up speed. Specific hardware to meet DX11 makes it sound like the DX development process is becoming stagnated. Otherwise, why would you bother?
Administering a network of a thousand computers with no users is way easier than a network of 100 computers with 100 users.
Yeah. Same with that guy who started calling it "Cloud" Services. I called up that Amazon Rep and he said he didn't know a thing about Fog machines.
Ignoring the fact that this has nothing to do with Javascript - or IE. Some of the things they listed are simple social engineering attacks. You visit the site, asks you to run the Java Applet, the Java applet is malicious code. And if you can compromise someone's website to redirect you to your own look-alike with a malicious Java Applet asking to run, that looks like another prime strategy.
The Java exploit is basically what takes what should be a seperate application and somehow gets more access than it should have, and probably installs something on the users computer like a trojan or worm.
Browsing in Chrome won't save you from this. This is (sort of) a problem with the way Java Applets are handled - or a problem with the way users interact with the web (take your pick). They're both contributors to the problem really.
I would generally tend to agree, in the growing pains of the company - they hired more lab people then they had computer techs to handle, as such a few labs have generic lab accounts, and whenever one of them gets a virus or deletes something important by accident or whatever, there's no one you can point the finger at because there's no log besides the generic account.
And the same thing is open with our support section, anonymity with admin rights, very dangerous should someone screw up or should someone want to screw the company.
However, its a small team, we're only 4 individuals trying to keep 1000 computers running. If one of us were to do anything stupid, it wouldn't be hard to figure out who it was. We would at minimum know the computer used for the support account at what time something bad would happen. Then it's just a matter of figuring out which of us 4 was there and doing it.
It's placed in a Container we don't have access to. In essence we can't touch that account.
You might find it a bit easier to rest knowing that Internet Policies are one section that Canada has stemmed away from the States, in that we have simply put a tax on blank media to cover costs for artists who might feel they've lost sales through digital downloads of copyrighted material. This mostly keeps the RIAA and MPAA out.
I haven't personally read a news article where any member of Anonymous has been arrested for their activities online, but I can almost guarantee Canada won't be the place where it happens. We've got too many other issues to deal with, and with the Pirate Party just starting up and growing, it's more likely that our government will try to reach a consensus or compensation if it becomes a big issue, as opposed to just outright combatting it. (No, I am not associating the two, but you can't deny that their views tend to align from time to time). Remember, it's the US Creed to not negotiate with terrorists, not Canada's. At the very least we will listen to demands before refuting them.
If you need to be worried about anything in Canada happening against Anon's, it's Shaw and Bell and Primus increasing the rates and decreasing teh Caps on internet usage, which means its going to cost people more money if they rapidly download movies, music, etc - or if they spend all their evenings sending out DDOSs. The Corporations are a bigger threat to Anonymous in Canada than the government is.