> you think it is OK for anyone to abuse the public power to prevent academics from doing their job?
How does having the communication involved with your work for a public institution (assuming that's what "University of $STATE" implies) being a matter of public record "prevent academics from doing their job"?
Kidnapping. Removing fingers. Blinding. Burning the library. Installing etherkillers on his machines - those are methods to prevent people from doing their job. Obliging so-called scientists to be *accountable* is in no way preventing them from doing their job.
TFA: """ The underlying flaw affects IE 9 and earlier, and from what has been seen so far, the in-the-wild exploit only targets IE 8 and 7 on Windows XP only, Bekrar said. """
I hope the result of the computation won't be NaN. I expect to see the results published at the HotChipatees conference. I wonder if they'll use off-the-shelf processors, or build their own Sag-ALU, or even utilise Ghee-P.U.s
From http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_19.html : In a big city (population over half a million) over.34% of people are victims (not just witnesses to, or scared of, but actual victims) of gun-related crime per year. That's 1 in <300 people. How big is that area of people? That's your tenement building and maybe the building opposite too. I think it's fair to say that there's a good chance people living in such areas have been affected in some way by gun crime. (If any of your close family are victims, then you're affected, if any of your work mates are victims, you might be affected, if any of your local store owners are victims, you might be affected - 1/300 is a gross underestimate, I'm sure.)
In small towns, it looks like it's less than a third of that rate.
Fortunately, the majority do live in smaller towns, but there's still a significant proportion of the population who live in gun-crime-heavy areas.
However, as you say, within those large cities, there's even more of a skew than that - there will be ghetto/project spikes, and more spacious suburbia might be relatively low.
Of course, the flipside of this skewed distribution is that the vast majority of *regions* of the US are not suffering from large quantities of gun crime. Which makes it nice and easy to pick two seemingly contradictory statistics, depending on what side you wish to present.
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros.html : "Saros 136 will produce 71 eclipses over 1262 years in the following order: 8 partial, 6 annular, 6 hybrid, 44 total, and 7 partial. "
From: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/image/SEpanoramaGvdB-big.JPG it seems that most cycles have about 50 annular/hybrid/total eclipses, so that would be 900 years of activity.
Looking at one single saros cycle that's only part way through its life: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/image/Saros145-big.JPG it seems to take just over 100 years to go from grazing the top of the earth (1891) to peaking in central europe (lat 47-ish, sin(47)=0.73) and another just over 50 years to peak in saudi arabia (lat 25-ish, sin(25)=0.42). Alas the latitude doesn't take into account the tilt of the earth, so it's hard to extrapolate to find out when the eclipse will be centred at the equator, and subsequently reach the opposite pole. However, I wouldn't be surprised if a saros cycle lived for 500-ish years. In that time, every latitude will have been touched approximately equally, as there'll be as many new ones starting at one pole as there are ending at the other pole.
Of course, there's probably a known figure for the life of a saros cycle's eclipse activity, I just haven't found it with a quick google. But anyway, such a cycle is plenty plenty of time for it to even out, so I'm sure it's true with a span of only a couple of hundred years too, so you didn't really need to reword your claim.
Hooray - finally I have a challenger! While people were showing off their new fancy phones, I always used to just pull out my old nokia (5110, probaby), and say "can it do this?", and then throw it against the wall or the floow. "No" was always the response. It bounced down 2 flights of spiral staircase once too, and didn't even think about misrendering a pixel. However, I can't beat your motorbike, I suspect that whilst on my pedal bike I (a) never jetisoned my phone; and (b) never reached anything like 55 mph.
It's also in some ways a non-solution to a non-problem, as it has the issue of being unable to distinguish evesdropping from noise. And as noise always happens, you can never be sure some of it isn't actually evesdropping.
> Can you see murder and burning if someone stands outside of the Basilica and insults the pope?
Yes, for many many centuries of christain history.
> The other religions are a product of their times, and have grown up.
If it took the best part of 2 millennia for the christains to grow out of it, then surely we should give the muslims several hundred more years leniency too?
And how can you say that a bunch of people who play dress-up once a week, and mindlessly recite sayings that range from meaningless to contradictory, whilst pretending that some invisible big man in the sky exists and is interested in what they're doing have "grown up"?
Linux is written *almost entirely* by companies who *need* the features, not by hobbyists who think supporting a feature will be cool. If Intel has decided that pushing this chip towards applications where linux is used is not part of their business model, then I reallly wouldn't hold my breath. And even if a hobbyist writes support for these features, it might not get mainlined, as to be mainlined it needs a maintainer (compare the discussion surrounding android's wakelocks, or whatever they were called).
From 2000 data, as calculated by Mark Brader, for which many thanks: "The popular vote is 88,649,000-11 or a bit under 99.999988% for B, but assuming no faithless electors, A wins the electoral college 270-268."
Or 0.000012% of the vote in order to win. To decrease that ratio, just bloat the population in all the states that aren't electing your desired winner. Details can be found on rec.puzzles, inst. .
Cos, like, this is, like, *2 dimensional*, man, it's, like, completely different! It's twice as secure! I hear those clever Japanese are working on a 3 dimensional serial number that's 3 times as secure!
Don't blame (just) the submitter of the article - you've forgotten that on/. there are editors whose job it is to vet the contents of the artic...... oh, scratch that.
Because we are not sanctioning "GNU Unix", nor ever would, and the expansion of the "P" in "PIN" is not "PIN". There's practically no similarity between the two cases apart from the fact that there are TLAs involved.
And Duverger's Law shows that it will always be the case no matter how many of you "we can make a difference" types complain about the people not making the system work. The system, as implemented in the US, and the UK for that matter, doesn't work. Working within the bounds of that system can never magically make it work.
Your implementation of democracy is ruining America. (It is theoretically possible for a party to receive about 0.00001% of the vote cast, and still elect their president in your system, for example.)
The thing that most worries me about the paper is that 60% of the references in the paper are to his own work, and many of the rest are to general texts not specific to the question at hand.
Sounds like he's working in a bit of a vacuum. That's always high-risk. At least it's out now, so critique can begin. I won't be convinced until Tao, Mazur, Elkies, etc. are convinced.
Here are my Stones: http://www.ratebeer.com/user/51287/ratings/112/2/ Apparently nobody's had any 18th Anniversary: http://www.ratebeer.com/brewers/stone-brewing-co/76/ However, as the 16th anniversary only appeared a month ago, perhaps that was a typo: http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/stone-16th-anniversary-ipa/182049/1/25/ The chances of it reaching Estonia are slim. It might hit Utobeer in London, for example, and I try to go there at least once a year. Perhaps bierkompass.de will get it too, who knows? I'll look out for it.
And on our side of the Atlantic, BrewDog have been taking Stone's pretentiousness and ice distilling it. Unfortunately a significant proportion of their beers suck (unlike the Stone beers that I've had, which have almost all been hits).
When why would they do something that caused their shareprice to lose 16% in a day? http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NOA3.DE&t=5d&l=on&z=l&q=l&c= They clearly want to be bought by somebody
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The quote above, in http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3126075&cid=41373721 , says otherwise.
I don't think employee's necessary - he'd still be an agent even if he weren't an employee.
> you think it is OK for anyone to abuse the public power to prevent academics from doing their job?
How does having the communication involved with your work for a public institution (assuming that's what "University of $STATE" implies) being a matter of public record "prevent academics from doing their job"?
Kidnapping. Removing fingers. Blinding. Burning the library. Installing etherkillers on his machines - those are methods to prevent people from doing their job. Obliging so-called scientists to be *accountable* is in no way preventing them from doing their job.
TFA:
"""
The underlying flaw affects IE 9 and earlier, and from what has been seen so far, the in-the-wild exploit only targets IE 8 and 7 on Windows XP only, Bekrar said.
"""
TFS mentions the "earlier" versions too.
I hope the result of the computation won't be NaN.
I expect to see the results published at the HotChipatees conference.
I wonder if they'll use off-the-shelf processors, or build their own Sag-ALU, or even utilise Ghee-P.U.s
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.
From http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_19.html : .34% of people are victims (not just witnesses to, or scared of, but actual victims) of gun-related crime per year. That's 1 in <300 people. How big is that area of people? That's your tenement building and maybe the building opposite too. I think it's fair to say that there's a good chance people living in such areas have been affected in some way by gun crime. (If any of your close family are victims, then you're affected, if any of your work mates are victims, you might be affected, if any of your local store owners are victims, you might be affected - 1/300 is a gross underestimate, I'm sure.)
In a big city (population over half a million) over
In small towns, it looks like it's less than a third of that rate.
Fortunately, the majority do live in smaller towns, but there's still a significant proportion of the population who live in gun-crime-heavy areas.
However, as you say, within those large cities, there's even more of a skew than that - there will be ghetto/project spikes, and more spacious suburbia might be relatively low.
Of course, the flipside of this skewed distribution is that the vast majority of *regions* of the US are not suffering from large quantities of gun crime. Which makes it nice and easy to pick two seemingly contradictory statistics, depending on what side you wish to present.
> By what metric?
Volume?
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/SEsaros.html :
"Saros 136 will produce 71 eclipses over 1262 years in the following order: 8 partial, 6 annular, 6 hybrid, 44 total, and 7 partial. "
From: http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/image/SEpanoramaGvdB-big.JPG
it seems that most cycles have about 50 annular/hybrid/total eclipses, so that would be 900 years of activity.
Looking at one single saros cycle that's only part way through its life:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsaros/image/Saros145-big.JPG
it seems to take just over 100 years to go from grazing the top of the earth (1891) to peaking in central europe (lat 47-ish, sin(47)=0.73) and another just over 50 years to peak in saudi arabia (lat 25-ish, sin(25)=0.42). Alas the latitude doesn't take into account the tilt of the earth, so it's hard to extrapolate to find out when the eclipse will be centred at the equator, and subsequently reach the opposite pole. However, I wouldn't be surprised if a saros cycle lived for 500-ish years. In that time, every latitude will have been touched approximately equally, as there'll be as many new ones starting at one pole as there are ending at the other pole.
Of course, there's probably a known figure for the life of a saros cycle's eclipse activity, I just haven't found it with a quick google. But anyway, such a cycle is plenty plenty of time for it to even out, so I'm sure it's true with a span of only a couple of hundred years too, so you didn't really need to reword your claim.
> I throw it at walls.
Hooray - finally I have a challenger! While people were showing off their new fancy phones, I always used to just pull out my old nokia (5110, probaby), and say "can it do this?", and then throw it against the wall or the floow. "No" was always the response. It bounced down 2 flights of spiral staircase once too, and didn't even think about misrendering a pixel. However, I can't beat your motorbike, I suspect that whilst on my pedal bike I (a) never jetisoned my phone; and (b) never reached anything like 55 mph.
It's also in some ways a non-solution to a non-problem, as it has the issue of being unable to distinguish evesdropping from noise. And as noise always happens, you can never be sure some of it isn't actually evesdropping.
> Can you see murder and burning if someone stands outside of the Basilica and insults the pope?
Yes, for many many centuries of christain history.
> The other religions are a product of their times, and have grown up.
If it took the best part of 2 millennia for the christains to grow out of it, then surely we should give the muslims several hundred more years leniency too?
And how can you say that a bunch of people who play dress-up once a week, and mindlessly recite sayings that range from meaningless to contradictory, whilst pretending that some invisible big man in the sky exists and is interested in what they're doing have "grown up"?
Or my POWER from 1994.
Linux is written *almost entirely* by companies who *need* the features, not by hobbyists who think supporting a feature will be cool. If Intel has decided that pushing this chip towards applications where linux is used is not part of their business model, then I reallly wouldn't hold my breath. And even if a hobbyist writes support for these features, it might not get mainlined, as to be mainlined it needs a maintainer (compare the discussion surrounding android's wakelocks, or whatever they were called).
From 2000 data, as calculated by Mark Brader, for which many thanks:
"The popular vote is 88,649,000-11 or a bit under 99.999988% for B, but assuming no faithless electors, A wins the electoral college 270-268."
Or 0.000012% of the vote in order to win. To decrease that ratio, just bloat the population in all the states that aren't electing your desired winner. Details can be found on rec.puzzles, inst. .
Cos, like, this is, like, *2 dimensional*, man, it's, like, completely different! It's twice as secure! I hear those clever Japanese are working on a 3 dimensional serial number that's 3 times as secure!
Don't blame (just) the submitter of the article - you've forgotten that on /. there are editors whose job it is to vet the contents of the artic... ... oh, scratch that.
Because we are not sanctioning "GNU Unix", nor ever would, and the expansion of the "P" in "PIN" is not "PIN". There's practically no similarity between the two cases apart from the fact that there are TLAs involved.
Many thanks for the link.
Had mod points yesterday, but not today, have a virtual +1 interesting instead.
And Duverger's Law shows that it will always be the case no matter how many of you "we can make a difference" types complain about the people not making the system work. The system, as implemented in the US, and the UK for that matter, doesn't work. Working within the bounds of that system can never magically make it work.
Your implementation of democracy is ruining America. (It is theoretically possible for a party to receive about 0.00001% of the vote cast, and still elect their president in your system, for example.)
If you're surrounded by it, is it now the Blue Shroud of Death?
A planetarium has more than your field of vision covered, and that's century-old technology.
The thing that most worries me about the paper is that 60% of the references in the paper are to his own work, and many of the rest are to general texts not specific to the question at hand.
Sounds like he's working in a bit of a vacuum. That's always high-risk. At least it's out now, so critique can begin. I won't be convinced until Tao, Mazur, Elkies, etc. are convinced.
Here are my Stones: http://www.ratebeer.com/user/51287/ratings/112/2/
Apparently nobody's had any 18th Anniversary: http://www.ratebeer.com/brewers/stone-brewing-co/76/
However, as the 16th anniversary only appeared a month ago, perhaps that was a typo: http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/stone-16th-anniversary-ipa/182049/1/25/
The chances of it reaching Estonia are slim. It might hit Utobeer in London, for example, and I try to go there at least once a year. Perhaps bierkompass.de will get it too, who knows? I'll look out for it.
And on our side of the Atlantic, BrewDog have been taking Stone's pretentiousness and ice distilling it. Unfortunately a significant proportion of their beers suck (unlike the Stone beers that I've had, which have almost all been hits).
When why would they do something that caused their shareprice to lose 16% in a day?
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NOA3.DE&t=5d&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=
They clearly want to be bought by somebody