I swear I heard ~15 years ago that (at least some) NASA rockets utilized a gyroscope to automatically detonate during launch if they started pointing below the horizon.
One man's scrutiny and accountability is another man's harassment. Someone getting publicly called out for something they did can be called harassment. It doesn't help that there are two unequal definitions of 'harassment': 1) Someone doing the harassing, multiple times to one person. 2) Someone being harassed, once, by many people. The end result might be the same, as a person ends up being harassed multiple times. However, in the case of #2, no individual could be necessarily said to be committing harassment on their own. Therefore, the question of "is it harassment" could be evaluated from either end. Ones more likely to be harassed (minorities) are more likely to consider from the 'receiving' point of view, whereas ones frequently cited as harassers are more likely to consider from the 'sending' point of view.
I imagine the 'should social media providers deal with harassment' belief tracks closely to personal beliefs about how to deal with bullying. I predict that those who believe you should sock 'em in the jaw are less likely to believe the websites should step in, whereas those who advocate going to an authority to resolve the situation are more likely to.
That's the thing about social sciences: every probe into a problem seems to raise more questions than it answers. It's like meteorology minus the incontrovertible facts.
Legal experts suggest that attribution studies could play a major role in lawsuits brought by citizens against companies, industries or even governments.
I predict that soon, due to this, Puerto Rico and Philippines will be richer than India, China and the USA combined. Therefore, I suggest we send all our tort lawyers to these islands and tell them to wait for a typhoon. I anticipate it being 'a good start'.
Permanence? I've used vinyl records more than enough to know how poorly they degrade. Bring a record over to a friend's house, and his record player has an old stylus? It'll permanently scratch your record, degrading its quality. Play a record a bunch of times? The stylus gradually wears away the vinyl, degrading its quality. Accidentally drop the arm onto the record? I've done it tons of times, on players that don't have a lever/button that moves the arm into position. Degrades the record's quality. The same doesn't happen with lasers on CD players.
Old records seem to degrade just from age. Bitrot does happen with optical discs etc. but you can use checksums to verify that it is NOT happening, and easily make verifiable 1:1 identical backups and infinite backup copies, whisked away by the internet within seconds to offsite backup locations around the planet. Making backup copies of vinyl to another vinyl disc with a guarantee of an identical copy? Not so easy for a consumer.
However, the procedure is so complex, only a handful of scientists would be able to perform it. So what would really be needed is a way to automate artificial sperm production; let's call it an 'organ'. Going to a special facility that seeds the organ with source cells to create the artificial sperm would be a hassle, so why not embed this organ inside the human body? Not everyone would need these sperm-creating organs, since some would only utilize their eggs; so, only about half of the females would need these artificial 'sperm-production organs'. Now, there would need to be a convenient way to harvest these artificial sperm and get them to the target egg, since they're now produced inside a human body, and surgery is a drag. Perhaps the artificial sperm can be propelled out of the body with some force, so they can be harvested? Better yet, they can be expelled out of a probe that can be inserted into the uterus, or nearabouts, for better chances of conception. Of course, the sperm-bearing females should look different for optimal mate selection purposes, for those looking to reproduce, and it'd similarly be more efficient for people to prefer a mate of opposite appearance. Medical probe insertion is boring, so maybe the probe should have nerve endings so its stimulation provides interesting feelings?
I hereby patent the above, and call it 'sex'. Any reproduction (ha!) of this idea is forbidden for the next 20 years. Pray I don't get an extension.
Such calculations are ubiquitous on the Internet, but AFAICT are full of shit. I looked at a 55" 4k TV in a store from as far away as I could get (maybe 15 feet away) and could still tell in some scenes that the resolution was higher than 1080p.
I'm sure the Kodi code runs in userland, so at worst it'd lead to a userland exploit, which is unlikely to be interesting. It could theoretically chain to a kernel exploit, but there are likely other userland exploits out there (in the Web Browser etc.) that could be used instead. Microsoft let anyone run their own apps coded in XNA on the Xbox 360 and AFAIK that didn't lead to any kernel exploits. Besides, the retail Xbox One was intended to be usable as a dev box, so letting users run Kodi plugins is nothing compared to full dev access (if that ever actually happened, I'm unsure, but it was mooted).
Instead of terminating his VPN access, Exmo should redirect his logon to a separate honeypot server whose wallet database only has a handful of keys that add up to a few dozen bitcoin. Lerner can lie and say "yep that's everything, we covered it up due to embezzlement" or say "they must've revoked access to the database except for this one old backdoor database they forgot about" and hopefully they'd let him off with that. And of course the other exchanges have been notified ahead of time to blacklist those wallets and the chain of downstream transfer wallets. They'd pretty much have to also blacklist wallets downstream of a coin tumbler, for that to actually work, unless the cybercriminals are particularly dumb (I wouldn't count on that.) Might just have to settle for the guy being released and a few bitcoins being swiped.
The headline suggests one satellite worth $45 Million was lost, while the summary suggests it was 18 small satellites. Was there a $45 Million satellite in addition to those 18 mini satellites? Or was it $45 Million total between the 18 of them? The article says '18 satellites [...] were on the same rocket' so I'm guessing there were 19, one of which was worth ~$45 Million.
Sounds like in a roundabout way they're describing metacognition, or critical thinking. The latter can find the flaws in a conspiracy theory. I think what happens is that the more you understand how the news media is made of flawed individuals who get it wrong sometimes, the less you take 'the news' as gospel handed down from upon high by the omniscient.
So if they're ruling out depression and level of physical activity, then what's the proposed mechanism of action? I have a hard time believing there are things unrelated to what they controlled for that are the cause. E.g. not every geriatric is diagnosed with ischemic heart disease before they suffer cardiac arrest. Then there's the case of the bedridden, who can have blood flow problems.
Nintendo has done nothing this year if not prove that game size (in bytes) has little to do with quality. Almost no (if any) 3ds games were more than 4GB, so even 16GB (current max Switch cartridge size) is a big improvement for a Nintendo handheld. Compared to their last console, it is less than Wii U discs, however. Maybe they'll release a 32GB cartridge as a stopgap. Upping that to 64GB would give more capacity than the dual-layer 50GB Blurays that the ps4 and xbox one use for games. Of course, the next generation of consoles might be out in 2019, utilizing 100GB UHD Blurays.
The speakers are actually haunted by the spirits of Chinese workers in the factory they were made in, who jumped off the roof for insurance money. Strange messages end up in fortune cookies for the same reason.
Big-budget films shown in theaters nowadays are played off of hard drives (shipped to the theater, encrypted), on a Windows PC connected to a digital projector. The bitrate of these files can be much higher than what even a UHD Bluray can offer, as the latter is limited to 100GB and hard drives can be had that are 100x+ that capacity. That means video quality can be much higher than what you can get for your home cinema. Even with gigabit internet you can only stream just over 1TB over the course of a 2.5 hour film (and of course no streaming service offers anywhere near gigabit streams). One might argue this kind of bandwidth is unnecessary for film, but the emergence of lightfield photography, and VR video, can make use of it easily. Lytro's top-quality lightfield video currently uses 500GB/minute, for reference. People who care about top-end video quality will still come to theaters. VR can simulate the experience of watching a film in a theater (with other people in it, if you wish), from your home, albeit with reduced fidelity. Watching at home will almost always be about convenience, with some quality tradeoffs.
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I swear I heard ~15 years ago that (at least some) NASA rockets utilized a gyroscope to automatically detonate during launch if they started pointing below the horizon.
One man's scrutiny and accountability is another man's harassment. Someone getting publicly called out for something they did can be called harassment.
It doesn't help that there are two unequal definitions of 'harassment': 1) Someone doing the harassing, multiple times to one person.
2) Someone being harassed, once, by many people.
The end result might be the same, as a person ends up being harassed multiple times. However, in the case of #2, no individual could be necessarily said to be committing harassment on their own. Therefore, the question of "is it harassment" could be evaluated from either end. Ones more likely to be harassed (minorities) are more likely to consider from the 'receiving' point of view, whereas ones frequently cited as harassers are more likely to consider from the 'sending' point of view.
I imagine the 'should social media providers deal with harassment' belief tracks closely to personal beliefs about how to deal with bullying. I predict that those who believe you should sock 'em in the jaw are less likely to believe the websites should step in, whereas those who advocate going to an authority to resolve the situation are more likely to.
That's the thing about social sciences: every probe into a problem seems to raise more questions than it answers. It's like meteorology minus the incontrovertible facts.
Legal experts suggest that attribution studies could play a major role in lawsuits brought by citizens against companies, industries or even governments.
I predict that soon, due to this, Puerto Rico and Philippines will be richer than India, China and the USA combined. Therefore, I suggest we send all our tort lawyers to these islands and tell them to wait for a typhoon. I anticipate it being 'a good start'.
The stock sale likely has more to do with Intel taking more risks, which investors tend not to like when they see you as a blue-chip stock.
I completely agree. That's why I BUY music from the MSN Music store, with PlaysForSure DRM!
Permanence? I've used vinyl records more than enough to know how poorly they degrade. Bring a record over to a friend's house, and his record player has an old stylus? It'll permanently scratch your record, degrading its quality. Play a record a bunch of times? The stylus gradually wears away the vinyl, degrading its quality. Accidentally drop the arm onto the record? I've done it tons of times, on players that don't have a lever/button that moves the arm into position. Degrades the record's quality. The same doesn't happen with lasers on CD players.
Old records seem to degrade just from age. Bitrot does happen with optical discs etc. but you can use checksums to verify that it is NOT happening, and easily make verifiable 1:1 identical backups and infinite backup copies, whisked away by the internet within seconds to offsite backup locations around the planet. Making backup copies of vinyl to another vinyl disc with a guarantee of an identical copy? Not so easy for a consumer.
However, the procedure is so complex, only a handful of scientists would be able to perform it. So what would really be needed is a way to automate artificial sperm production; let's call it an 'organ'. Going to a special facility that seeds the organ with source cells to create the artificial sperm would be a hassle, so why not embed this organ inside the human body? Not everyone would need these sperm-creating organs, since some would only utilize their eggs; so, only about half of the females would need these artificial 'sperm-production organs'. Now, there would need to be a convenient way to harvest these artificial sperm and get them to the target egg, since they're now produced inside a human body, and surgery is a drag. Perhaps the artificial sperm can be propelled out of the body with some force, so they can be harvested? Better yet, they can be expelled out of a probe that can be inserted into the uterus, or nearabouts, for better chances of conception.
Of course, the sperm-bearing females should look different for optimal mate selection purposes, for those looking to reproduce, and it'd similarly be more efficient for people to prefer a mate of opposite appearance. Medical probe insertion is boring, so maybe the probe should have nerve endings so its stimulation provides interesting feelings?
I hereby patent the above, and call it 'sex'. Any reproduction (ha!) of this idea is forbidden for the next 20 years. Pray I don't get an extension.
Such calculations are ubiquitous on the Internet, but AFAICT are full of shit. I looked at a 55" 4k TV in a store from as far away as I could get (maybe 15 feet away) and could still tell in some scenes that the resolution was higher than 1080p.
Just don't sell your eyes.
I'm sure the Kodi code runs in userland, so at worst it'd lead to a userland exploit, which is unlikely to be interesting. It could theoretically chain to a kernel exploit, but there are likely other userland exploits out there (in the Web Browser etc.) that could be used instead. Microsoft let anyone run their own apps coded in XNA on the Xbox 360 and AFAIK that didn't lead to any kernel exploits. Besides, the retail Xbox One was intended to be usable as a dev box, so letting users run Kodi plugins is nothing compared to full dev access (if that ever actually happened, I'm unsure, but it was mooted).
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I'd like to see the release notes to see just HOW MANY missing features it now contains. That list could be literally endless!
Instead of terminating his VPN access, Exmo should redirect his logon to a separate honeypot server whose wallet database only has a handful of keys that add up to a few dozen bitcoin. Lerner can lie and say "yep that's everything, we covered it up due to embezzlement" or say "they must've revoked access to the database except for this one old backdoor database they forgot about" and hopefully they'd let him off with that. And of course the other exchanges have been notified ahead of time to blacklist those wallets and the chain of downstream transfer wallets. They'd pretty much have to also blacklist wallets downstream of a coin tumbler, for that to actually work, unless the cybercriminals are particularly dumb (I wouldn't count on that.) Might just have to settle for the guy being released and a few bitcoins being swiped.
The headline suggests one satellite worth $45 Million was lost, while the summary suggests it was 18 small satellites. Was there a $45 Million satellite in addition to those 18 mini satellites? Or was it $45 Million total between the 18 of them?
The article says '18 satellites [...] were on the same rocket' so I'm guessing there were 19, one of which was worth ~$45 Million.
I eat 'J's all the time. Not as convenient to eat as 'O's or 'I's though.
IOW, tribalism and basking in reflected glory.
Improve your news media literacy with this one weird trick media moguls don't want you to know!
She has to leave the House to, uhh, find out what's in it.
Sounds like in a roundabout way they're describing metacognition, or critical thinking. The latter can find the flaws in a conspiracy theory.
I think what happens is that the more you understand how the news media is made of flawed individuals who get it wrong sometimes, the less you take 'the news' as gospel handed down from upon high by the omniscient.
So if they're ruling out depression and level of physical activity, then what's the proposed mechanism of action? I have a hard time believing there are things unrelated to what they controlled for that are the cause. E.g. not every geriatric is diagnosed with ischemic heart disease before they suffer cardiac arrest. Then there's the case of the bedridden, who can have blood flow problems.
And this, ladies and gentleman, is why we need term limits for our Representatives. For their own health and safety.
Nintendo has done nothing this year if not prove that game size (in bytes) has little to do with quality. Almost no (if any) 3ds games were more than 4GB, so even 16GB (current max Switch cartridge size) is a big improvement for a Nintendo handheld. Compared to their last console, it is less than Wii U discs, however. Maybe they'll release a 32GB cartridge as a stopgap. Upping that to 64GB would give more capacity than the dual-layer 50GB Blurays that the ps4 and xbox one use for games. Of course, the next generation of consoles might be out in 2019, utilizing 100GB UHD Blurays.
The speakers are actually haunted by the spirits of Chinese workers in the factory they were made in, who jumped off the roof for insurance money. Strange messages end up in fortune cookies for the same reason.
He'll make a Humvee equivalent, with mounted machine gun to shoot down Elon haters.
Big-budget films shown in theaters nowadays are played off of hard drives (shipped to the theater, encrypted), on a Windows PC connected to a digital projector. The bitrate of these files can be much higher than what even a UHD Bluray can offer, as the latter is limited to 100GB and hard drives can be had that are 100x+ that capacity. That means video quality can be much higher than what you can get for your home cinema. Even with gigabit internet you can only stream just over 1TB over the course of a 2.5 hour film (and of course no streaming service offers anywhere near gigabit streams). One might argue this kind of bandwidth is unnecessary for film, but the emergence of lightfield photography, and VR video, can make use of it easily. Lytro's top-quality lightfield video currently uses 500GB/minute, for reference. People who care about top-end video quality will still come to theaters. VR can simulate the experience of watching a film in a theater (with other people in it, if you wish), from your home, albeit with reduced fidelity. Watching at home will almost always be about convenience, with some quality tradeoffs.