It's never been a very good argument, though. The flood was divine intervention. God could just click his fingers and magic the water into existence, and get rid of it in the same manner.
For that matter he could have just clicked his fingers and made everyone drop dead, but God really loves to put on a big flashy show of things.
Would it be possible to farm under domes? The Millennium Folly can withstand any storm, and is quite big enough to farm under. Mass produce to bring the costs down, seal off the lower edge, and you can reclaim all that water lost to transpiration. Added bonus of protecting the crops from storm damage and pests.
In this case, statistics don't matter - we're talking about behaviors. It's not important that the incidence of home invasion is miniscule, because people perceive it to be a lot higher and will act according to that perception. Blame the media, or hollywood.
No, it still provides your MAC to the network. Doing otherwise would break things - static DHCP reservations for one. It means the iPhone won't provide its MAC address *until* it finds a recognised network to connect to - it won't be broadcasting it constantly while you are out traveling or shopping.
Not true. MAC filtering is easily subverted if there is a device nearby already connected, and if the attacker is willing to spend some minutes looking over dumps. It's pathetic security, but it's still better than none at all, as the extra time taken can hold of opportunistic hackers. There's still no good reason to use it, though.
Given the low takings in relation to salery for someone in such a position, I suspect it may have been motivated as much by bragging rights or enthusiasm for bitcoin as direct profits. Sometimes you just want to impress people with your mining rig.
Sure, everyone knew Capone was guilty. But the police couldn't prove it in court (largely due to Capone's effective witness intimidation and bribery campaigns). The correct response to this situation should be to gather evidence of the alleged crimes until they could successfully prosecute. Instead someone decided to go on a fishing expidition. It was an underhanded trick, to first decide someone needed to be convicted and then go looking for a crime to convict them of.
People approve of that case because it was used to lock up a real crime lord - but it's exactly the same legal trick that can be used to silence political opponents, break up protest groups and imprison activists. First decide someone must be eliminated, then look for a law they have violated. There are so many laws, everyone has violated some of them - there is no longer any such thing as a law-abiding person.
Irresponsible gun owners? It's not that easy. The only way a gun owner can keep their gun from being stolen is to store it in a secure gun safe, bolted to the structure of the building. But this defeats the purpose of the gun as a tool of self-defense. If someone breaks into your house, you can't spend a precious minute in the dark fumbling around with a key or trying to enter a combination, making noise that will alert the intruder. You need to be able to grab your gun in seconds, ideally loaded and ready to use.
Usually they'll use that to threaten the suspect into a plea bargin. Either admit guilt and go to jail for five years, or fight it and they'll do the best they can to send you for fifty.
No, that paper just discusses quadtrees for accelerated lookup. I had the idea of putting to use the convex property of voronoi cells (In Euclidian metric space, anyway) as a means of high-speed construction of bitmap image representations. It's very rapid when the size of the cells is large relative to the resolution of the desired bitmap image, and a lot simpler than (potentially even faster) scanline techniques.
As you can tell by the writing style, I am not a professional academic and have no formal training in computer science. I just dabble. I was interested in using voronoi diagrams as approximations for inpainting animation - removing the annoying channel logo in the corner.I had some success, too: http://birds-are-nice.me/progr...
The US allows for business method and software patents, most countries do not. That means the bar for patents in the US are set a lot lower. There are a couple of things I could have patented in the US from my inept dabblings*, and I'm just a worthless amateur. Can't patent them here in the UK though.
*Why can I not find anything on quadtree construction of voronoi diagrams? The idea is so obvious I find it hard to believe I'm the only one to think of it, but I can't find it described anywhere.
I get similar things bothering my on Skype from time to time. They can usually pass as human for about two lines of conversation. On the third they invite you to see their cam site. I'm not sure if they actually respond to what is sent, or just have a three-line script.
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The competitor is at a disadvantage so great as to make their business non-viable.
"The 10.5-inch device weighs just 467g and measures a mere 6.6mm in thickness" ...
It's never been a very good argument, though. The flood was divine intervention. God could just click his fingers and magic the water into existence, and get rid of it in the same manner.
For that matter he could have just clicked his fingers and made everyone drop dead, but God really loves to put on a big flashy show of things.
But then where did the water come from? It can't rain upwards!
Agriculture is the biggest user.
Would it be possible to farm under domes? The Millennium Folly can withstand any storm, and is quite big enough to farm under. Mass produce to bring the costs down, seal off the lower edge, and you can reclaim all that water lost to transpiration. Added bonus of protecting the crops from storm damage and pests.
Because the very first application they release will probably be a linux-compatibility abstraction layer.
We warned you years ago this would happen! But no-one ever listens.
It can be both!
In this case, statistics don't matter - we're talking about behaviors. It's not important that the incidence of home invasion is miniscule, because people perceive it to be a lot higher and will act according to that perception. Blame the media, or hollywood.
How hard can it be to teach American history? There isn't really much of it.
No, they all get it - but only if you are in proximity to an access point you intentionally connected to.
Get DC++, join comics hub. Easy to get access to all the comics you could ever want.
No, it still provides your MAC to the network. Doing otherwise would break things - static DHCP reservations for one. It means the iPhone won't provide its MAC address *until* it finds a recognised network to connect to - it won't be broadcasting it constantly while you are out traveling or shopping.
Not true. MAC filtering is easily subverted if there is a device nearby already connected, and if the attacker is willing to spend some minutes looking over dumps. It's pathetic security, but it's still better than none at all, as the extra time taken can hold of opportunistic hackers. There's still no good reason to use it, though.
It has exactly as much intrinsic value as the dollar: None. It has value only because people are willing to trade for it.
Not many people though, which is why the value fluctuates so wildly.
Given the low takings in relation to salery for someone in such a position, I suspect it may have been motivated as much by bragging rights or enthusiasm for bitcoin as direct profits. Sometimes you just want to impress people with your mining rig.
I still do not approve of that move.
Sure, everyone knew Capone was guilty. But the police couldn't prove it in court (largely due to Capone's effective witness intimidation and bribery campaigns). The correct response to this situation should be to gather evidence of the alleged crimes until they could successfully prosecute. Instead someone decided to go on a fishing expidition. It was an underhanded trick, to first decide someone needed to be convicted and then go looking for a crime to convict them of.
People approve of that case because it was used to lock up a real crime lord - but it's exactly the same legal trick that can be used to silence political opponents, break up protest groups and imprison activists. First decide someone must be eliminated, then look for a law they have violated. There are so many laws, everyone has violated some of them - there is no longer any such thing as a law-abiding person.
2% or so is within what you'd expect of random noise.
Irresponsible gun owners? It's not that easy. The only way a gun owner can keep their gun from being stolen is to store it in a secure gun safe, bolted to the structure of the building. But this defeats the purpose of the gun as a tool of self-defense. If someone breaks into your house, you can't spend a precious minute in the dark fumbling around with a key or trying to enter a combination, making noise that will alert the intruder. You need to be able to grab your gun in seconds, ideally loaded and ready to use.
Usually they'll use that to threaten the suspect into a plea bargin. Either admit guilt and go to jail for five years, or fight it and they'll do the best they can to send you for fifty.
The abstract of the first link looks like exactly what I came up with though, just taken to a far greater depth of mathematical analysis.
No, that paper just discusses quadtrees for accelerated lookup. I had the idea of putting to use the convex property of voronoi cells (In Euclidian metric space, anyway) as a means of high-speed construction of bitmap image representations. It's very rapid when the size of the cells is large relative to the resolution of the desired bitmap image, and a lot simpler than (potentially even faster) scanline techniques.
This is what I came up with: http://birds-are-nice.me/progr...
As you can tell by the writing style, I am not a professional academic and have no formal training in computer science. I just dabble. I was interested in using voronoi diagrams as approximations for inpainting animation - removing the annoying channel logo in the corner.I had some success, too: http://birds-are-nice.me/progr...
The US allows for business method and software patents, most countries do not. That means the bar for patents in the US are set a lot lower. There are a couple of things I could have patented in the US from my inept dabblings*, and I'm just a worthless amateur. Can't patent them here in the UK though.
*Why can I not find anything on quadtree construction of voronoi diagrams? The idea is so obvious I find it hard to believe I'm the only one to think of it, but I can't find it described anywhere.
I get similar things bothering my on Skype from time to time. They can usually pass as human for about two lines of conversation. On the third they invite you to see their cam site. I'm not sure if they actually respond to what is sent, or just have a three-line script.
Progress is crawling along. Generalised AI hasn't progressed very far at all, though there are plenty of avenues that look promising.