You're not thinking big enough. Super-tough material that never wears out? Bah! Why not just invent and install some teleporters at every city, or perhaps for every building? It's simple enough to describe, so it shouldn't be hard to actually do. Hmmm, I just had an even better idea... we could just invent a machine that solves all problems in the best possible way.
I don't think atomic structures are visible, due to their size and the wavelength of light. So the best we can do is visualize them with representations.
Yes, taunting the pedant (was trying to be funny, but oh well). And yes, I hate the kibbles-and-bits SI unit too. The way I like to resolve the issue in a formal way is to say that KB, MB, and GB are units in their own right, rather than a mere combination of a prefix and units of bytes. Thus KB is the name of a unit of measurement that denotes 1024 octets, MB denotes 1048576 octets, and GB denotes 1073741824 octets. These shouldn't be confused with kB, which is the prefix "kilo" and unit of bytes, which means 1000 bytes. kb of course means 1000 bits. This nicely resolves the issue for me, without any hand-waving, and without naming things after dog food.:)
So can anyone explain to me what exactly a Kelvin gram is, and how it relates to hard drives? I'm guessing something to do with heat capacity...
Well, since KB is a kibibyte, these are probably just measured in kibigrams (1024 grams = 1 kibigram). Remember, this was a long time ago before marketing got into the act. Ahh the good old days...
Just a guess, but I think the DMCA forgery laws apply to another party submitting a DMCA takedown request to Flickr, not Flickr taking something down and claiming it was because of a DMCA takedown request even though there was none.
Another note: If laptops are going to be searched, would iPhones, etc. not be essentially the same? Someone should bring that up in court.
That could go two ways: they are the same, and since iPhones aren't searched, laptops shouldn't be, or, since laptops are searched, iPhones should be too. I think we know which way that would go...
The most likely answer is that Flickr, like television media, is left-leaning. The management probably felt offended by the image against their favorite man, yanked it off the site, and then made-up a story about a DMCA notice that doesn't exist. I wonder if we could file a Freedom of Information (sp?) request to discover who issued the notice.
What, you think we now have right to force a company to explain why it did something with its own property? If they felt like it, they could just close up shop and take everything down tomorrow. It'd be a bad economic and social decision, but they are within their legal right to (barring any contracts they've made to keep it running).
Freedom of speech, freedom of information requests, etc. apply to the government, because it exercises force on everyone, not just its own property as private owners do, thus it must have limits placed on it (in theory of course, as it regularly ignores these in practice).
Carry a large USB stick. Back up your personal information (browser history, saved email, etc.) to it and put it in your pocket or even better, mail it home to yourself at your destination before you board the airplane. When you arrive, replace the personal information.
Do what most businesses are no doubt already doing: ship the laptop via UPS, FedEx, etc. Those companies are part of the free market, so they stay in business by not pissing the customer off. You can insure it when you ship with them. What assurance do you have that you will get yours back from customs, with everything intact and nothing added (software or hardware)?
Don't forget where the hidden tax (inflation) sends money as well. That one's nice because it'll take value even from money you have stuffed in a mattress. Hackers stealing one cent from every account can't match monetary expansion in this regard (otherwise called counterfeiting).
I once found a bank card (w/ Visa logo) on top of an ATM. For some reason, they set it down and forgot it there. Brilliant.
Yeah, because people never make mistakes. BTW, I found a VISA card recently at a bus stop. It only took a few minutes to call the toll-free number on the back, enter the card number, and talk to someone to have it invalidated. I did have to figure out to choose an option that asked for the card number, as they didn't have any way to talk to a human to report a found card.
In contrast the citizens can't really tell Corporations "you disrespected our precious Constitution so we're not going to vote for you this time". Since according to you it does NOT apply to them, thus logically if the Corporations end up having more and more power over greater and greater areas in the lives of citizens, it means the Constitution becomes less and less relevant.
Corporations exercise control over their property. It's basic property law. The problems we have with them currently are due to government involvement, either with it being used to crush competition, bribed to not enforce laws on the corporation, or used to externalize costs (for example, RIAA having the government stop people from copying things). If government were stripped of its ill-gotten power, it would just be exercising a monopoly on the use of force, and everything else would be carried out by property owners exercising power over their property and nobody else's.
You can get QoS while remaining protocol agnostic. You simply base the priority for any connection based on the amount of bandwidth it uses. Lower bandwidth, higher priority. Low-bandwidth latency-sensitive apps like VOIP work perfectly without having their protocol recognized, bulk data transfers are deprioritized but still get plenty of bandwidth (because the higher priority connections are by definition not using much) again without the protocol mattering.
By connection do you mean user, or individual connection the user is making? If the former, what happens when the user wants to download and make a VoIP call at the same time? If the latter, what keeps the user from just opening lots of low-bandwidth connections? Perhaps you just throttle them all, and let the user figure out that he can't game it. Thus it works if he only has a few low-bandwidth connections and lots of high-bandwidth ones (the low-bandwidth ones get priority).
And maybe the banks can even set up some standalone, hardened, and locked-down computers in convenient locations around the city for their customers to use. Maybe they could even get money out of these computers. They could be like bank tellers, but automated.
Yeah, but you know they'd screw it up somehow, like have it run Windows or have a company like Diebold to make them...
If his defense works, it'll be a great one to use when downloading music and movies. "Your honor, I simply downloaded all these thinking they were part of an open-source project I was working on. I didn't realize I downloaded a few, well all of them actually, that weren't part of it."
Yes, that's exactly the policy Wikipedia was founded on. "An encyclopedia not a journal... No original research". So they're still doing that right, then. Got an actual criticism there?
Wikipedia should be whatever I want it to be today! So what if everything2 is what I want, Wikipedia should be too! (sorry, but like you I agree that people often make the mistake of assuming that something has a different purpose than it does, and thus effectively complaining that it's not what they expected)
I wouldn't think so - the amount of adaptability required for the actions would preclude a straight calculation (tiny variations would blow out) - it would more likely be some kind of neural network based approach.
Feedback. As long as the error for each iteration (bounce) isn't too great, the long-term error can be kept within this by adjusting the next response based on feedback from the previous. Anything that's open-loop (lacking feedback) will fall apart, neural-net-based or not.
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Sadly I couldn't get my Mac OS X 10.3.9 (PowerPC) machine to panic with the C code.
You're not thinking big enough. Super-tough material that never wears out? Bah! Why not just invent and install some teleporters at every city, or perhaps for every building? It's simple enough to describe, so it shouldn't be hard to actually do. Hmmm, I just had an even better idea... we could just invent a machine that solves all problems in the best possible way.
I don't think atomic structures are visible, due to their size and the wavelength of light. So the best we can do is visualize them with representations.
Err, except that the mega and giga SI prefixes are capitalized as M and G, so MB and GB would be ambiguous under my explanation. Oh well.
Yes, taunting the pedant (was trying to be funny, but oh well). And yes, I hate the kibbles-and-bits SI unit too. The way I like to resolve the issue in a formal way is to say that KB, MB, and GB are units in their own right, rather than a mere combination of a prefix and units of bytes. Thus KB is the name of a unit of measurement that denotes 1024 octets, MB denotes 1048576 octets, and GB denotes 1073741824 octets. These shouldn't be confused with kB, which is the prefix "kilo" and unit of bytes, which means 1000 bytes. kb of course means 1000 bits. This nicely resolves the issue for me, without any hand-waving, and without naming things after dog food. :)
Well, since KB is a kibibyte, these are probably just measured in kibigrams (1024 grams = 1 kibigram). Remember, this was a long time ago before marketing got into the act. Ahh the good old days...
How right you are! I found a page which details Mac OS X's satanic connections.
Just a guess, but I think the DMCA forgery laws apply to another party submitting a DMCA takedown request to Flickr, not Flickr taking something down and claiming it was because of a DMCA takedown request even though there was none.
That could go two ways: they are the same, and since iPhones aren't searched, laptops shouldn't be, or, since laptops are searched, iPhones should be too. I think we know which way that would go...
He was just cleverly tricking Slashdot readers into reading the fine article when they were simply examining the URL.
What, you think we now have right to force a company to explain why it did something with its own property? If they felt like it, they could just close up shop and take everything down tomorrow. It'd be a bad economic and social decision, but they are within their legal right to (barring any contracts they've made to keep it running).
Freedom of speech, freedom of information requests, etc. apply to the government, because it exercises force on everyone, not just its own property as private owners do, thus it must have limits placed on it (in theory of course, as it regularly ignores these in practice).
Do what most businesses are no doubt already doing: ship the laptop via UPS, FedEx, etc. Those companies are part of the free market, so they stay in business by not pissing the customer off. You can insure it when you ship with them. What assurance do you have that you will get yours back from customs, with everything intact and nothing added (software or hardware)?
Don't worry, the rest of us are drunk on bread and circuses.
Don't forget where the hidden tax (inflation) sends money as well. That one's nice because it'll take value even from money you have stuffed in a mattress. Hackers stealing one cent from every account can't match monetary expansion in this regard (otherwise called counterfeiting).
Yeah, because people never make mistakes. BTW, I found a VISA card recently at a bus stop. It only took a few minutes to call the toll-free number on the back, enter the card number, and talk to someone to have it invalidated. I did have to figure out to choose an option that asked for the card number, as they didn't have any way to talk to a human to report a found card.
Corporations exercise control over their property. It's basic property law. The problems we have with them currently are due to government involvement, either with it being used to crush competition, bribed to not enforce laws on the corporation, or used to externalize costs (for example, RIAA having the government stop people from copying things). If government were stripped of its ill-gotten power, it would just be exercising a monopoly on the use of force, and everything else would be carried out by property owners exercising power over their property and nobody else's.
Put another way, Mac OS X is anti-virus.
By connection do you mean user, or individual connection the user is making? If the former, what happens when the user wants to download and make a VoIP call at the same time? If the latter, what keeps the user from just opening lots of low-bandwidth connections? Perhaps you just throttle them all, and let the user figure out that he can't game it. Thus it works if he only has a few low-bandwidth connections and lots of high-bandwidth ones (the low-bandwidth ones get priority).
Yeah, but you know they'd screw it up somehow, like have it run Windows or have a company like Diebold to make them...
If his defense works, it'll be a great one to use when downloading music and movies. "Your honor, I simply downloaded all these thinking they were part of an open-source project I was working on. I didn't realize I downloaded a few, well all of them actually, that weren't part of it."
Wikipedia should be whatever I want it to be today! So what if everything2 is what I want, Wikipedia should be too! (sorry, but like you I agree that people often make the mistake of assuming that something has a different purpose than it does, and thus effectively complaining that it's not what they expected)
How could it possibly be? Wikipedia isn't a government entity.
Feedback. As long as the error for each iteration (bounce) isn't too great, the long-term error can be kept within this by adjusting the next response based on feedback from the previous. Anything that's open-loop (lacking feedback) will fall apart, neural-net-based or not.
Since we're talking x86 here, a big reason to do an x86-64 build is the availability of more registers.
Somehow this "facebook" has never acquired any information about me. Oh right, that's because I've never signed up.