You can't prove that all variables can be graphed unless you graph them all. Since that would take an infinite amount of time, you can never prove it. However, we could make a graph with the number of variables successfully graphed on the X axis, and the amount of time taken on the Y axis. That might be interesting, like this related obligatory graph.
Save your comments for the next article, "What's happened to web pages over the past 10 years", the primary thing being splitting a three-paragraph article into 10 pages, each with two sentences and none times as much filler around it. Sad indeed.
They don't all end in 99. Last visit to store (from memory), oranges were I believe $0.97 per pound, cereal I got was $2.79, frozen vegetables were $1.79 and $1.99, yogurt was $3.33, 6 eggs $2.39, frozen orange juice $1.25.
I've written some audio decoder libraries and I'm amazed at how most users just ignore the errors returned, or treat them as pass/fail, even though this is extremely unhelpful to the user. The user wants to solve the problem, but needs to know the difference between "out of memory", "disk full", "insufficient file permissions", "corrupt file", and "unsupported feature". The user can often guess, but if he's wrong, he'll waste time applying useless solutions, and perhaps finally, via trial-and-error, determine the real problem.
The problem here is that the remote machine is decrypting the data. If you don't trust that machine, how can you avoid interception of the data? I don't see a way to fully trust a cloud machine. The only thing you can use untrusted machines/connections for is transporting/storing encrypted+signed data. The encryption prevents them from reading the data, and the signing prevents them from forging it.
I'm a troll because I showed how false reports could easily be determined by simply reviewing the last few minutes of the webcam footage to see whether anyone really appeared in it? Whatever!
Very interesting. Too bad if more people took advantage, you'd start to have the same problems. I'm wondering, how does safety compare? Sounds like you get there faster, more safely, have no traffic jams or idiot drivers to deal with, etc.
I was using dialup until about 3 years ago, when I moved into a place that offered free WiFi. Regarding modem quality, I had repeated trouble with USR's modems. I believe it was because they didn't use an isolation transformer between the phone line and the modem electronics, resulting in voltage differences between the phone and ground causing noise. I once made an RS-232 isolator using a bunch of optocouplers, and that elimianted the problem. I later got some of the Diamond modems which properly used an isolation transformer, and never had a problem with them. Before I got them, I had actually preferred using my older 33.6 kbps USR modem, because it used a transformer as well. I couldn't believe that USR would skimp on their 56K modems like that, but there you go. BTW, their isolation scheme was cute: they coupled the phone line circuitry with the rest of the modem via small capacitors. Even the power supplied to the phone line portion was through a capacitor, presumably as a high-frequency square wave that the phone line side rectified. This eliminates any DC coupling, but doesn't help when the voltage potential between the phone side and ground changes suddenly, as was happening in my case.
I regularly got 53333 bits per second connections over a phone line. And of course nowadays, the modulation schemes used are quite sophisticated, using all sorts of digital signal processing and high-order math.
My fear that eventually travelers will all have to fly wearing issued paper-tissue gowns and be sedated during the flight approaches...
Or mandatory diapers. Why beat around the bush when their real objective is to regress everyone into infants that constantly need help with everything?
"Hey landlord my heat is broken for the third time since you changed out the external heat pump unit. I think that's broken."
"Ok, can I come over today and fix it? I'll need you to leave all your safes unlocked and open, and you cannot be present while I'm there."
"Nope, never, sorry. Im giving you my notice and suing you for no heat"..
I just want to point out that when configuration A in environment X works, but configuration A in environment Y fails, you still lack enough information to determine whether the problem is with A or Y. It could be a problem with A that is only triggered by Y, or a problem with Y.
There is a fairly straightforward way to locate the cameras if you have a bit more time than me. Using the time of the sunrise and sunset (and the length of the day),
Simple solution: delay the feeds by the approprite amount of time so that the sun rises on all cameras at the same moment. Though I suppose this wouldn't protect against using solar eclipses to determine the time delays, heh.
... or to continuously report a bunch of fake border crossings all the time so that the real events drown in a sea of fake ones.
Caller: "I saw someone on the border cam! Go get him!"
Operator: "Let me review the last 5 minutes"
<5 seconds later>
Operator: "I didn't see anything from that camera in the past 5 minutes."
Well, I've examined my motivations and I don't find any hint of trying to sound smart. I do find some evidence that I probably wouldn't have used the term "non-zero-sum game" had I been discussing this in a less tech-savvy forum. I will remember your suggestion of "win win" as an alternate term, though it still doesn't say as much as "non-zero-sum" says to me.
I think this is more an issue of having a set of terms from various disciplines, and using whatever comes naturally. If you know that your audience will understand it, why waste energy finding alternatives?
The other reason to use appropriate terminology (if the audience knows it) is concise communication of ideas. Even "non-zero-sum" is a term that someone must know of, and which you might think is just trying to sound smart. I guess I could have said that Google pointing people to online publications is "a situation where one party's gain isn't made at the expense of the other party, such that the sum of their gains is positive", but that would have obscured the simple idea I was communicating.
Obviously they just need to get a few of the people on board whom they leak damning information about! Those guys always end up immune to legal action.
Imagine what would have happened if this software's prediction happened to match an actual attack, and they had ignored it. Nostradamus was a smart guy, but not because of his ability to accurately predict...
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You can't prove that all variables can be graphed unless you graph them all. Since that would take an infinite amount of time, you can never prove it. However, we could make a graph with the number of variables successfully graphed on the X axis, and the amount of time taken on the Y axis. That might be interesting, like this related obligatory graph.
Save your comments for the next article, "What's happened to web pages over the past 10 years", the primary thing being splitting a three-paragraph article into 10 pages, each with two sentences and none times as much filler around it. Sad indeed.
I guess Foundem's idea of "search neutrality" is "search rsults filled with spam" (well, moreso than they already are).
They don't all end in 99. Last visit to store (from memory), oranges were I believe $0.97 per pound, cereal I got was $2.79, frozen vegetables were $1.79 and $1.99, yogurt was $3.33, 6 eggs $2.39, frozen orange juice $1.25.
I've written some audio decoder libraries and I'm amazed at how most users just ignore the errors returned, or treat them as pass/fail, even though this is extremely unhelpful to the user. The user wants to solve the problem, but needs to know the difference between "out of memory", "disk full", "insufficient file permissions", "corrupt file", and "unsupported feature". The user can often guess, but if he's wrong, he'll waste time applying useless solutions, and perhaps finally, via trial-and-error, determine the real problem.
Nahh, cron would be too reliable for that task.
I think you mean 4.096K sector size. It's a hard drive, after all.
The problem here is that the remote machine is decrypting the data. If you don't trust that machine, how can you avoid interception of the data? I don't see a way to fully trust a cloud machine. The only thing you can use untrusted machines/connections for is transporting/storing encrypted+signed data. The encryption prevents them from reading the data, and the signing prevents them from forging it.
So why is the response to terrorist attacks to attack US citizens' freedom and dignity?
Just total up the man-hours wasted this year alone for TSA bullshit and it easily totals many lifetimes.
I'm a troll because I showed how false reports could easily be determined by simply reviewing the last few minutes of the webcam footage to see whether anyone really appeared in it? Whatever!
Very interesting. Too bad if more people took advantage, you'd start to have the same problems. I'm wondering, how does safety compare? Sounds like you get there faster, more safely, have no traffic jams or idiot drivers to deal with, etc.
I was using dialup until about 3 years ago, when I moved into a place that offered free WiFi. Regarding modem quality, I had repeated trouble with USR's modems. I believe it was because they didn't use an isolation transformer between the phone line and the modem electronics, resulting in voltage differences between the phone and ground causing noise. I once made an RS-232 isolator using a bunch of optocouplers, and that elimianted the problem. I later got some of the Diamond modems which properly used an isolation transformer, and never had a problem with them. Before I got them, I had actually preferred using my older 33.6 kbps USR modem, because it used a transformer as well. I couldn't believe that USR would skimp on their 56K modems like that, but there you go. BTW, their isolation scheme was cute: they coupled the phone line circuitry with the rest of the modem via small capacitors. Even the power supplied to the phone line portion was through a capacitor, presumably as a high-frequency square wave that the phone line side rectified. This eliminates any DC coupling, but doesn't help when the voltage potential between the phone side and ground changes suddenly, as was happening in my case.
I regularly got 53333 bits per second connections over a phone line. And of course nowadays, the modulation schemes used are quite sophisticated, using all sorts of digital signal processing and high-order math.
Ahh yes, I remember going from 2400 to 14400 (Supra), was pure awesome at the time.
Or mandatory diapers. Why beat around the bush when their real objective is to regress everyone into infants that constantly need help with everything?
"Hey landlord my heat is broken for the third time since you changed out the external heat pump unit. I think that's broken."
"Ok, can I come over today and fix it? I'll need you to leave all your safes unlocked and open, and you cannot be present while I'm there."
"Nope, never, sorry. Im giving you my notice and suing you for no heat"..
FTFY.
I just want to point out that when configuration A in environment X works, but configuration A in environment Y fails, you still lack enough information to determine whether the problem is with A or Y. It could be a problem with A that is only triggered by Y, or a problem with Y.
Simple solution: delay the feeds by the approprite amount of time so that the sun rises on all cameras at the same moment. Though I suppose this wouldn't protect against using solar eclipses to determine the time delays, heh.
Caller: "I saw someone on the border cam! Go get him!"
Operator: "Let me review the last 5 minutes"
<5 seconds later>
Operator: "I didn't see anything from that camera in the past 5 minutes."
Well, I've examined my motivations and I don't find any hint of trying to sound smart. I do find some evidence that I probably wouldn't have used the term "non-zero-sum game" had I been discussing this in a less tech-savvy forum. I will remember your suggestion of "win win" as an alternate term, though it still doesn't say as much as "non-zero-sum" says to me.
I think this is more an issue of having a set of terms from various disciplines, and using whatever comes naturally. If you know that your audience will understand it, why waste energy finding alternatives?
The other reason to use appropriate terminology (if the audience knows it) is concise communication of ideas. Even "non-zero-sum" is a term that someone must know of, and which you might think is just trying to sound smart. I guess I could have said that Google pointing people to online publications is "a situation where one party's gain isn't made at the expense of the other party, such that the sum of their gains is positive", but that would have obscured the simple idea I was communicating.
Obviously they just need to get a few of the people on board whom they leak damning information about! Those guys always end up immune to legal action.
Leave it to Apple to simplify a product's name to a single horizontal line, ______. With simplicity like that, I can't wait for the product!
Imagine what would have happened if this software's prediction happened to match an actual attack, and they had ignored it. Nostradamus was a smart guy, but not because of his ability to accurately predict...