But no! Of course the reason that randomly typing text until you have re-created shakespeare is so difficult is because of the greater improbability of getting strings of characters in the correct order as the length of that string increases. To only consider 9-character strings, and purposefully search for those random strings in a work until you find one, eventually finding them all, is a drastic and cheat-ful short cut. I cry foul.
Putting in place restrictions to prevent illegal trades will also catch those who are making money at it. Funny how we only hear stories about illegal trades that result in huge losses - people are never prosecuted for successful illegal - excuse me, "unauthorized" - trading.
Someone should do a study of these RF refugees. Perhaps there's a protein or tissue structure they share that's sensitive to RF. While it may be only in their head, it also might not until we get evidence.
If they can use the simulation to keep real rats from experiments, then the virtual rat is saving the lives of real rats before any humans are affected.
If analysts can now predict relationships without FB, then they can make money off those relationships without FB. So turn off all the servers and give me back my free time and shut down FB please - it's no longer needed as a profit source.
Yes, patently obvious. Proclaiming that anonymity must go away is absurd coming from someone whose company stands to make billions by selling personal data that is not anonymous. His stance is so biased he does not deserve to be heard here - of course Facebook is going to argue that they should be given free and accurate data to sell. Facebook should NEVER get involved in any decisions about this.
SV's dream is to find and develop an idea for a product that's hugely useful to a community. Then they patent it, monetize it, and monopolize it/defend it in direct proportion to its usefulness. Their assembly line takes truly good ideas out of the public sphere and changes them into privately held things that are much less useful but much more profitable. The forces that benefit are mostly the forces that are wealthy to begin with. If SV cared they would be trying to build systems that took ideas and kept them open and free to be used, shared, and built upon, that enriched the masses and not primarily the wealthy.
It's always a shock to remember that one approximate division between the richest and poorest 50% is that half of the world does not live with indoor toilets or indoor running water.
Given that Gates is responsible for a good part of our current software IP cultural cesspool that limits choices and uses in favor of profits and power-building, I'd say he's more than qualified to wade into this one. His ideal toilet? You don't own it, you pay per use to use it with his permission after agreeing that he owns it. You can't use another toilet without paying for it too, and your guests can't use your toilet unless you buy a special license. It upgrades itself without your consent, and several times per month it freezes up and doesn't let you use it. The next version of the toilet supposedly runs twice as fast and freezes half as often, but it takes you 15 minutes to find where they put the handle on it this time. And every time they upgrade the toilet, you need to buy a new house because your old house isn't big enough to accommodate it.
This article shows, to those that might think otherwise, that the US government can be as authoritarian, repressive, anti-democratic, and destructive as any of its enemies that we US citizens might believe are evil. I agree that this repression can be minimized by openness and accessibility. Corporations are another thing entirely, entities enacted to minimize financial risk to individuals and maximize profits, they are a social cancer originally granted license only for a limited short time (2 - 4 years) to reward risk-takers for building something that might return useful products like roads, machines, etc., they have metastacized into sacred entities that the courts equal to people. They don't need to be open or accountable to anything but their board (often comprised of cronies), unlike governments. Most of the regulations on them have been chipped away in the past 200 years and now the cancers spread throughout the economy.
Competitive mechanisms work to centralize profits and power, which tend to dump any resulting problems on other parties. Like the government and the citizenry. So we are left to clean up what is inconvenient or expensive for private concerns to deal with. And so we will turn around and regulate them, to force them to clean up their problems themselves. Which we should do from the beginning: airlines are attractors for terrorist threats, airlines must prevent terrorist threats according to specific guidelines, like use a centrally trained and accountable police force. And all police forces need to learn and improve their procedures and remain accountable. It's painful but unavoidable iterative work.
How attractive they are, and how drunk they are, and other things: A real-time graph of local bars (and local parties with > 12 people so you can more easily crash them!) with amount of people, % of desirable gender, degree of attractiveness (important!) , % etoh consumed, and possibly other factors: type and loudness of music, price of drinks, cover charge, have the police been notified, is there parking or transportation available, how reliable are these statistics (how many sources), etc.
This would give Facebook a run, and also be shut down in days as disruptive flash mobs are attributed to it.
In 2001 they began a 10 year attempt to achieve 30% renewable (from 17%). They worked hard at it and achieved 45% renewable in 5 years. We're not even trying.
The idiots funding her PACathon are multi-billionaires grateful for any wild and extremely conservative thing she says that stays on the lips of the media for a few hours.
Specifying the design of a building shouldn't be done in a vacuum (!). They should estimate how soon that center needs to be back online (to service local centers, I imagine) if it gets taken out, how much it will cost (to them or their clients) if it is not back online on time, how much extra it will cost to harden or duplicate the center, how often they expect a disaster that could take out the center, etc.
And if experts say they should build for 120 - 180 mph winds (given all the needs) and they don't, there's a problem. Is someone wishing that social security would just go away so it wouldn't have to be paid for anymore (so the money could be funneled to someone else's pockets)? Would a major disaster argue for scrapping a system that could be spun as ineffective? That might be a political problem, not an IT or architectural or even financial problem.
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But no!
Of course the reason that randomly typing text until you have re-created shakespeare is so difficult is because of the greater improbability of getting strings of characters in the correct order as the length of that string increases.
To only consider 9-character strings, and purposefully search for those random strings in a work until you find one, eventually finding them all, is a drastic and cheat-ful short cut.
I cry foul.
Putting in place restrictions to prevent illegal trades will also catch those who are making money at it.
Funny how we only hear stories about illegal trades that result in huge losses - people are never prosecuted for successful illegal - excuse me, "unauthorized" - trading.
On the other hand, they're probably crazy.
Someone should do a study of these RF refugees. Perhaps there's a protein or tissue structure they share that's sensitive to RF.
While it may be only in their head, it also might not until we get evidence.
How do they define a successful trial - one where no one litigates?
They return themselves.
If they can use the simulation to keep real rats from experiments, then the virtual rat is saving the lives of real rats before any humans are affected.
How long before it's used as evidence in court?
If analysts can now predict relationships without FB, then they can make money off those relationships without FB. So turn off all the servers and give me back my free time and shut down FB please - it's no longer needed as a profit source.
It's never too late to educate your police force on the fine points of the Constitution.
They might even grow to appreciate it.
Yes, patently obvious.
Proclaiming that anonymity must go away is absurd coming from someone whose company stands to make billions by selling personal data that is not anonymous. His stance is so biased he does not deserve to be heard here - of course Facebook is going to argue that they should be given free and accurate data to sell. Facebook should NEVER get involved in any decisions about this.
Perfect MS architecture: you think it's open, we own what's under the surface.
Perfect in that it fits their historical culture.
SV's dream is to find and develop an idea for a product that's hugely useful to a community. Then they patent it, monetize it, and monopolize it/defend it in direct proportion to its usefulness. Their assembly line takes truly good ideas out of the public sphere and changes them into privately held things that are much less useful but much more profitable. The forces that benefit are mostly the forces that are wealthy to begin with.
If SV cared they would be trying to build systems that took ideas and kept them open and free to be used, shared, and built upon, that enriched the masses and not primarily the wealthy.
And it will only work for you if you bought your food from him.
It's always a shock to remember that one approximate division between the richest and poorest 50% is that half of the world does not live with indoor toilets or indoor running water.
Given that Gates is responsible for a good part of our current software IP cultural cesspool that limits choices and uses in favor of profits and power-building, I'd say he's more than qualified to wade into this one.
His ideal toilet? You don't own it, you pay per use to use it with his permission after agreeing that he owns it.
You can't use another toilet without paying for it too, and your guests can't use your toilet unless you buy a special license.
It upgrades itself without your consent, and several times per month it freezes up and doesn't let you use it. The next version of the toilet supposedly runs twice as fast and freezes half as often, but it takes you 15 minutes to find where they put the handle on it this time.
And every time they upgrade the toilet, you need to buy a new house because your old house isn't big enough to accommodate it.
This article shows, to those that might think otherwise, that the US government can be as authoritarian, repressive, anti-democratic, and destructive as any of its enemies that we US citizens might believe are evil.
I agree that this repression can be minimized by openness and accessibility.
Corporations are another thing entirely, entities enacted to minimize financial risk to individuals and maximize profits, they are a social cancer originally granted license only for a limited short time (2 - 4 years) to reward risk-takers for building something that might return useful products like roads, machines, etc., they have metastacized into sacred entities that the courts equal to people. They don't need to be open or accountable to anything but their board (often comprised of cronies), unlike governments. Most of the regulations on them have been chipped away in the past 200 years and now the cancers spread throughout the economy.
In Soviet America, Hemingway reads you.
No, they don't.
Competitive mechanisms work to centralize profits and power, which tend to dump any resulting problems on other parties. Like the government and the citizenry.
So we are left to clean up what is inconvenient or expensive for private concerns to deal with.
And so we will turn around and regulate them, to force them to clean up their problems themselves.
Which we should do from the beginning: airlines are attractors for terrorist threats, airlines must prevent terrorist threats according to specific guidelines, like use a centrally trained and accountable police force. And all police forces need to learn and improve their procedures and remain accountable.
It's painful but unavoidable iterative work.
How attractive they are, and how drunk they are, and other things:
A real-time graph of local bars (and local parties with > 12 people so you can more easily crash them!) with amount of people, % of desirable gender, degree of attractiveness (important!) , % etoh consumed, and possibly other factors: type and loudness of music, price of drinks, cover charge, have the police been notified, is there parking or transportation available, how reliable are these statistics (how many sources), etc.
This would give Facebook a run, and also be shut down in days as disruptive flash mobs are attributed to it.
I think what he meant was "we don't have enough engineers who will work for minimum wage."
Check out Portugal's recent attempt to go green: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Portugal
In 2001 they began a 10 year attempt to achieve 30% renewable (from 17%). They worked hard at it and achieved 45% renewable in 5 years.
We're not even trying.
Maybe the authorities just let LuisSec check his email from jail.
She moved to Arizona. Now she can see Mexico from her house.
The idiots funding her PACathon are multi-billionaires grateful for any wild and extremely conservative thing she says that stays on the lips of the media for a few hours.
Or is their plan a disaster?
Specifying the design of a building shouldn't be done in a vacuum (!).
They should estimate how soon that center needs to be back online (to service local centers, I imagine) if it gets taken out, how much it will cost (to them or their clients) if it is not back online on time, how much extra it will cost to harden or duplicate the center, how often they expect a disaster that could take out the center, etc.
And if experts say they should build for 120 - 180 mph winds (given all the needs) and they don't, there's a problem.
Is someone wishing that social security would just go away so it wouldn't have to be paid for anymore (so the money could be funneled to someone else's pockets)? Would a major disaster argue for scrapping a system that could be spun as ineffective?
That might be a political problem, not an IT or architectural or even financial problem.