A lot of times you can see a legitimate trend in a noisy signal. The problem is to determine when you are looking at variations that are in fact noise produced, vs legit trends. And humans seem to be geared to picking out a signal from the noise in the first place, even if they often get it wrong.
The stock market, day traders, etc are all dependant of this sort of thing. even though the possibily that their successes are often not distinguishable from random luck gives them all nightmares.
kinda difficult to pick out signals where they are buried in the noise floor to begin with.
Completely coincidentally, Nebraska has a new law that prohibits election workers from looking at the paper ballots, even in a recount. The only machines permitted to count votes in Nebraska are ES&S.
And completely coincidentally, Senator Hagel has won recent elections by surprising margins.
See also this capitol hill newspaper report
there's more to this, but I can't find the links yet.
Human remains recovered from shuttle
Cox News Service
An East Texas high school was turned into a morgue as authorities collected the remains of astronauts from the doomed space shuttle Columbia.
Authorities said remains were being collected in an area between Hemphill and Jasper and taken to Hemphill High School. A local funeral home was assisting officials from the FBI and Defense Department in the grisly work.
One official said investigators were using a global positioning system to record where the remains were being found.
The remains -- which included an arm and a hand found near Chinquipin -- were part of the debris scattered across East Texas after the shuttle broke apart Saturday as it made its way towards a landing in Florida.
A flight helmet landed on James Couch's property near state Highway 103 and F.M. 1751 in San Augustine County. Couch kept guard over the helmet by setting up camp five feet away.
Couch said he and his family were eating breakfast when he heard something -- it turned out to be a piece of pipe -- hit the roof of his house.
"It didn't really scare me," Couch said. "A lot of people around here dynamite stumps on the weekend... and the phone started to ring and my daughter from Pineland told me what happened."
Mica Miller was working on some equipment at his farm near Etoile when he heard some rumbling and noticed swirls of smoke in the sky. About two minutes later, he heard a swishing sound and saw that a large piece of debris had landed on a flatbed trailer 30 feet away.
"I'm devastated to see the aftermath of what just happened," Miller said.
The innovative savvy of American electrical engineers always astounds. If something terrible can be built in the name of security, they never shirk. Who else would be brilliant enough to come up with a water gun that carries molar-rattling electrical shocks?
The aqueous electrocutor sprays a "high-pressure saline solution with additives" mixed in to maximize range in putting down that troublesome rabble. "[Debilitating] but not lethal shocks" move through the water jet, according to Jaycor's online brochure. The company hints the voltage can be turned up "to deliver potent electrical shocks to equipment as well as individuals."
This stuff is starting to scare me. And the basic idea is simple enough that it could be a do it yourself in your own garage type of project for either the profoundly brilliant or profoundly stupid
it's like the joke "Windows 98 is a 32-bit patch to a 16-bit overlay on an 8-bit operating system created by a 2-bit company." (Isn't there a "4-bit" in there?)
I recall the article from a few days ago taking about the Microsoft OS installed in BMWs.
The thing that comes to mind was the discussion the BMW exec had with a number of attendess at a tech conference. He point out that they are required to support cars with parts, etc for Ten Years. And the obvious question was how may people there were running things that were ten yerars old, nevermind able to get support for it.
Now we get to End of Life issues. How long should software be supported? Ten years for something like software, Is this even reasonable? It's important for the embedded market, at least.
That's not data traveling, that's assumptions you are making.
Actually the data was transmitted, but not when he thought.
He, as the reader, had to learn all of the data to make the context that allowed him to reach those conclusions. That data communication took place while he was undergoing is primary and secondary and collegiate education.
Somehow I smell a class action suit, something along the idea of unfair restraint of trade.
Maybe some smart lawyer type could force the organization, via a court order, to put up and maintain the database themselves for free, as they forced the removal of the data.
I think this has something to do with monopoly laws, etc. I can imagine some folks would be will to send in their dimes and nickels to help this out.
This will solve several problems, and make the states lots of money. Also, there is plenty of precedent for taxing spam as part of interstate commerce.
Forced registration of spammers (a spammer's license) would enable people to track them down (spam hunting) and make money from the spammers. Money strapped countries around the world could get on board with this one.
The extra bonus brownie points for having a bounty on spammers avoiding the law just sweetens the deal. And Spamming would no longer be a free ride on the back of the internet.
This is a match made in heaven.
Why not use the greed of the law makers to our advantage?
What is a "sales engineer"? Is your job primarily public relations, or primarily engineering, or primarily product sales?
Basically a 'sales engineer' is a salesman with a technical background so that they can talk intelligently about the product without looking like a pointy haired manager. sometimes an ex-geek.
Okay. So what precisely are the differences between Palladium and your product, and what assurance do we have that it will not act as crippling ware for open source and other similar free (as in free speech) software endevors? Any thoughts on backward compatibility modes?
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The stock market, day traders, etc are all dependant of this sort of thing. even though the possibily that their successes are often not distinguishable from random luck gives them all nightmares.
kinda difficult to pick out signals where they are buried in the noise floor to begin with.
Completely coincidentally, Nebraska has a new law that prohibits election workers from looking at the paper ballots, even in a recount. The only machines permitted to count votes in Nebraska are ES&S.
And completely coincidentally, Senator Hagel has won recent elections by surprising margins. See also this capitol hill newspaper report
there's more to this, but I can't find the links yet.
which raises the obvious question on if this is the direction commercial consumer oriented linux should go in.
I've had a good response to the idea of an internet spammer hunting license or season, complete with cute orange ear tags for the spammers.
Cox News Service
An East Texas high school was turned into a morgue as authorities collected the remains of astronauts from the doomed space shuttle Columbia.
Authorities said remains were being collected in an area between Hemphill and Jasper and taken to Hemphill High School. A local funeral home was assisting officials from the FBI and Defense Department in the grisly work.
One official said investigators were using a global positioning system to record where the remains were being found.
The remains -- which included an arm and a hand found near Chinquipin -- were part of the debris scattered across East Texas after the shuttle broke apart Saturday as it made its way towards a landing in Florida.
A flight helmet landed on James Couch's property near state Highway 103 and F.M. 1751 in San Augustine County. Couch kept guard over the helmet by setting up camp five feet away.
Couch said he and his family were eating breakfast when he heard something -- it turned out to be a piece of pipe -- hit the roof of his house.
"It didn't really scare me," Couch said. "A lot of people around here dynamite stumps on the weekend
Mica Miller was working on some equipment at his farm near Etoile when he heard some rumbling and noticed swirls of smoke in the sky. About two minutes later, he heard a swishing sound and saw that a large piece of debris had landed on a flatbed trailer 30 feet away.
"I'm devastated to see the aftermath of what just happened," Miller said.
As noted in the Village Voice:
The innovative savvy of American electrical engineers always astounds. If something terrible can be built in the name of security, they never shirk. Who else would be brilliant enough to come up with a water gun that carries molar-rattling electrical shocks?
The aqueous electrocutor sprays a "high-pressure saline solution with additives" mixed in to maximize range in putting down that troublesome rabble. "[Debilitating] but not lethal shocks" move through the water jet, according to Jaycor's online brochure. The company hints the voltage can be turned up "to deliver potent electrical shocks to equipment as well as individuals."
This stuff is starting to scare me. And the basic idea is simple enough that it could be a do it yourself in your own garage type of project for either the profoundly brilliant or profoundly stupid
Obviously not the kind of people who shop at Home Despot
that's right, despot, not depot
I beleive it's a 4 bit processor
The thing that comes to mind was the discussion the BMW exec had with a number of attendess at a tech conference. He point out that they are required to support cars with parts, etc for Ten Years. And the obvious question was how may people there were running things that were ten yerars old, nevermind able to get support for it.
Now we get to End of Life issues. How long should software be supported? Ten years for something like software, Is this even reasonable? It's important for the embedded market, at least.
they range all over the place from small outfits to the monstrous.
So this thing of carbon copy letters is really the mark of an political script kiddy. A pro would be able to get unique mail written every time.
maybe as a public service?
we could only hope.
Actually the data was transmitted, but not when he thought.
He, as the reader, had to learn all of the data to make the context that allowed him to reach those conclusions. That data communication took place while he was undergoing is primary and secondary and collegiate education.
Which was likely a good while ago.
No speed of light paradox here.
Ahh, here it is, in Newsday from January 11th.
Not to worry. I think Saddam may be recruiting a new posse as it is.
Somehow I smell a class action suit, something along the idea of unfair restraint of trade.
Maybe some smart lawyer type could force the organization, via a court order, to put up and maintain the database themselves for free, as they forced the removal of the data.
I think this has something to do with monopoly laws, etc. I can imagine some folks would be will to send in their dimes and nickels to help this out.
Actually, I find extensive use of sandpaper after attaching the disk to a high speed drill works wonders.
Barring that, an old fashioned bulk tape eraser also has interesting effects.
I'm thinking of other options, including battery acid, and use as a grounding rod for a Tesla Coil.
pardon me, I'm cranky when I don't have enopugh coffee in the morning, but ...
I have tended to see the RIAA as becoming a terrorist organization, via their adopting of terrorist tools and tactics.
This vs the usual thievery that they practice, and that occurs in the USA, which continues its march toward becoming a kleptocracy.
I think of it as collecting the damages in advance. There could even be a way to make sure you are properly compensated.
But I would mod your comment up as well. well thought out
Require something like:
All unsolicited commercial email must be on an direct and specific opt-in basis only
Or something similar. You can fine tune it.
This will solve several problems, and make the states lots of money. Also, there is plenty of precedent for taxing spam as part of interstate commerce.
Forced registration of spammers (a spammer's license) would enable people to track them down (spam hunting) and make money from the spammers. Money strapped countries around the world could get on board with this one.
The extra bonus brownie points for having a bounty on spammers avoiding the law just sweetens the deal. And Spamming would no longer be a free ride on the back of the internet.
This is a match made in heaven.
Why not use the greed of the law makers to our advantage?
Thank God they haven't turned to spam yet.
wait a second ... oh, never mind
Basically a 'sales engineer' is a salesman with a technical background so that they can talk intelligently about the product without looking like a pointy haired manager. sometimes an ex-geek.
Okay. So what precisely are the differences between Palladium and your product, and what assurance do we have that it will not act as crippling ware for open source and other similar free (as in free speech) software endevors? Any thoughts on backward compatibility modes?
put a patent on every single one for purposes of commercial exploitation
[insert picture of your anti-favorite politician here]
which brings us to the delicate question of how did you lose your empire? Bad Rations? Too Much Rock-n-Roll?