Hammering a DNA database looking for matches will produce many false positives (due to the birthday paradox),
The birthday paradox works because you are looking for any two matches, not a match on a specific date. If you have a specific DNA sequence from a crime scene, the birthday paradox doesn't apply.
Not that I disagree with you. There will still be many false positives due to the power of large numbers, and the general scientific illiteracy of potential jurors, attorneys, cops, and judges.
For that matter, Firefox 2.x was just about as feature complete as you'd want a browser to be. All they really needed to do was fix the memory issues and keep the rendering engine up to date, but I guess we can't have nice things.
There is nothing inherently good about a democracy, nor anything inherently bad about even a dictatorship. The moral judgment comes from the actual actions of the members of government in either system.
Nonsense. Even a benevolent dictatorship violates the right of the people to self-determination. That's exactly like saying slavery isn't inherently bad as long as the overseer is merciful.
Here is the cry for help I issued on the Arch forums. I didn't really expect any help, since the Catalyst drivers were exiled to AUR. For good reason it seems.
Anyways, if you see any clues I missed, or if you know of a better place to ask for help, please let me know.
Which brings up an interesting point (others -- care to weight in?): if/when you yell "at your computer," are you yelling at your computer, or a particular piece of software / hardware?
This has not been my experience. I bought an HD4350 for an HTPC build. Open source drivers flicker every 10-20 seconds, that's unwatchable. The closed source drivers are another story entirely. They installed fine, and judging from the Xorg logs they were working. Except that *nothing* was displayed on the screen. No errors, no warnings, X correctly determined which displays were connected. Yet all I got was empty blackness.
The card is completely useless in Linux. I can't see myself ever buying an ATI card again. No one is doing anyone any favors by calling non-functional garbage "massively improved".
This is where we are down to, with this copyright/intellectual property shit. i mean, now arrangements of colors are being owned/dominated.
The funny thing is that the flag is MORE worthy of copyright protection than the original key. If you pick 5 random colors and put them on a flag, that's creative work worthy of copyright protection. An arbitrary encryption key is the result of a purely mechanical process and should not meet the threshold of originality.
There is no copyright owner. The flag is a graphical representation of an encryption key. Since an encryption key is arbitrary, and requires no creative input, it cannot be copyrighted.
Of course, none of that means that WP won't be sued anyway.
You didn't have to throttle your P2P traffic, you could have used QoS instead. There's nothing wrong with prioritizing latency sensitive packets. You can do this and still use ALL of your bandwidth.
If you wanted a game that was all about sex, I'm sure they exist, but they'd be 'adult' games, or so heavily rated 18+ that nobody can really get to them easily (see Paragraph 1). And even then, do you think there is enough of an audience who wants to play a game who's main gameplay involves having a realistic relationship with someone? Nope.
I'm pretty sure the real reason is better summed up in your last sentence than the rest of your post. Even for someone who has no puritanical hangups about sex, it's hard to imagine a game with sex as a central theme that wouldn't come off as ridiculous.
Best time to have sex is in the morning, afternoon, or an hour or two after dinner. I'm always too tired to have sex by the time I feel like going to sleep.
No fucking shit. The "peaceniks" were right! They're right today too, and they'll be right in the future. There's a reason we are called Progressives, it's fucking progress!
The article refers to a poll, not an experiment. Could it be that those who have trouble sleeping are more likely to engage in interactive entertainment?
Personally, I very, very rarely have trouble sleeping. I usually find myself getting too tired for interactive entertainment about an hour before I want to sleep. I'd *love* to be able to continue playing video games up until lights out, but I just don't have the energy. Those who have lots of energy will keep playing/blogging/hacking.
DVD region codes were meant to keep you from watching a movie that was unreleased in your territory (OH NOES!), not to charge poor people less.
DVD region codes weren't meant to allow them to charge people from poor countries less. They were intended to allow them to charge people from rich countries more.
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Hammering a DNA database looking for matches will produce many false positives (due to the birthday paradox),
The birthday paradox works because you are looking for any two matches, not a match on a specific date. If you have a specific DNA sequence from a crime scene, the birthday paradox doesn't apply.
Not that I disagree with you. There will still be many false positives due to the power of large numbers, and the general scientific illiteracy of potential jurors, attorneys, cops, and judges.
Nobody's right all the time. Many people are wrong all the time. Lots of them are in Congress.
I thought it was still VA Linux.
That memory leak was fixed a long time ago. And by that I mean since at least Firefox 3.5.
Yeah I know. I was talking about Firefox 2.x. Reading comprehension, learn it.
There's got to be a Kari Byron joke in there somewhere.
I think if someone's pointing a gun sight at you, you have worse problems than a kW laser beam.
For that matter, Firefox 2.x was just about as feature complete as you'd want a browser to be. All they really needed to do was fix the memory issues and keep the rendering engine up to date, but I guess we can't have nice things.
The book's author, I'd assume. NLP is referenced in the review, in the description of chapter 5.
And yes, NLP is complete and utter bunk.
It's going to take a quantum leap in hardware design
You mean the smallest possible change?
There is nothing inherently good about a democracy, nor anything inherently bad about even a dictatorship. The moral judgment comes from the actual actions of the members of government in either system.
Nonsense. Even a benevolent dictatorship violates the right of the people to self-determination. That's exactly like saying slavery isn't inherently bad as long as the overseer is merciful.
What does a librarian do that google can't?
Here is the cry for help I issued on the Arch forums. I didn't really expect any help, since the Catalyst drivers were exiled to AUR. For good reason it seems.
Anyways, if you see any clues I missed, or if you know of a better place to ask for help, please let me know.
Which brings up an interesting point (others -- care to weight in?): if/when you yell "at your computer," are you yelling at your computer, or a particular piece of software / hardware?
Neither. You're yelling at the programmers.
This has not been my experience. I bought an HD4350 for an HTPC build. Open source drivers flicker every 10-20 seconds, that's unwatchable. The closed source drivers are another story entirely. They installed fine, and judging from the Xorg logs they were working. Except that *nothing* was displayed on the screen. No errors, no warnings, X correctly determined which displays were connected. Yet all I got was empty blackness.
The card is completely useless in Linux. I can't see myself ever buying an ATI card again. No one is doing anyone any favors by calling non-functional garbage "massively improved".
Why is this modded Funny and not Insightful?
You're right. I was thinking of the copyright owner of the encryption key, of which the flag is a derivative work.
This is where we are down to, with this copyright/intellectual property shit. i mean, now arrangements of colors are being owned/dominated.
The funny thing is that the flag is MORE worthy of copyright protection than the original key. If you pick 5 random colors and put them on a flag, that's creative work worthy of copyright protection. An arbitrary encryption key is the result of a purely mechanical process and should not meet the threshold of originality.
There is no copyright owner. The flag is a graphical representation of an encryption key. Since an encryption key is arbitrary, and requires no creative input, it cannot be copyrighted.
Of course, none of that means that WP won't be sued anyway.
You didn't have to throttle your P2P traffic, you could have used QoS instead. There's nothing wrong with prioritizing latency sensitive packets. You can do this and still use ALL of your bandwidth.
If you wanted a game that was all about sex, I'm sure they exist, but they'd be 'adult' games, or so heavily rated 18+ that nobody can really get to them easily (see Paragraph 1). And even then, do you think there is enough of an audience who wants to play a game who's main gameplay involves having a realistic relationship with someone? Nope.
I'm pretty sure the real reason is better summed up in your last sentence than the rest of your post. Even for someone who has no puritanical hangups about sex, it's hard to imagine a game with sex as a central theme that wouldn't come off as ridiculous.
Best time to have sex is in the morning, afternoon, or an hour or two after dinner. I'm always too tired to have sex by the time I feel like going to sleep.
No fucking shit. The "peaceniks" were right! They're right today too, and they'll be right in the future. There's a reason we are called Progressives, it's fucking progress!
The article refers to a poll, not an experiment. Could it be that those who have trouble sleeping are more likely to engage in interactive entertainment?
Personally, I very, very rarely have trouble sleeping. I usually find myself getting too tired for interactive entertainment about an hour before I want to sleep. I'd *love* to be able to continue playing video games up until lights out, but I just don't have the energy. Those who have lots of energy will keep playing/blogging/hacking.
In this global age, imposing artificial price differences is wrong.
In this digital age, imposing artificial scarcity is wrong.
DVD region codes were meant to keep you from watching a movie that was unreleased in your territory (OH NOES!), not to charge poor people less.
DVD region codes weren't meant to allow them to charge people from poor countries less. They were intended to allow them to charge people from rich countries more.