What are the odds they'll let something that can heat up that much on an airplane
Very high. The surface volume that can be heated to that temperature is microscopic.
There would not be sufficient power available to heat anything non-microscopic to that temperature.
The small amount of heat would be quickly dissipated over a massive surface area upon contact with anything else,
so the 800 degree temperature of the cell is in no way shape or form, a danger.
It's not obvious to me... it just looks like Nintendo decided to kill the licensing deal with the company that is actually handling the magazine.
Possibly, they weren't able to pay Nintendo enough what Nintendo wants anymore, to be allowed to continue to use their trademarked name?
What's the obsession with pretending Apple and Microsoft are the only computer vendors on Slashdot?
Microsoft is a software company, not a computer vendor.
They have a similar advantage that Google has over Apple.
Their OS supports multiple different kinds of hardware, so the end user has more flexibility;
it doesn't matter to them which computer vendor sells you the solution, and the Android transformer is a boon to Google's platform.
With Apple, you can only have hardware that Apple has specifically designed, which increases cost and limits your flexibility, expandability, and options.
Last I checked, you couldn't even swap a battery on your iPad, and they won't dare provide SD expansion card slots to add memory.
Google android has the disadvantage that the apps are essentially for one kind of CPU -- you don't get the flexibility to run the same code on both desktop OS and on tablet/smart phone; Windows 8 provides this added flexibility.
That is nonsense. Money is is divisible. If your gold coin is worth too much to by a pair of boots, you exchange it for a smaller denomination. Deflation doesn't matter.
The requirement to use smaller denominations, mean the higher denominations are worth more.
It seems that you are admitting deflation happens, but hand waving it away with a suggestion that it "doesn't matter".
There is a lot of literature out there that says otherwise, and it is quite unlikely that deflation doesn't matter, so if you want to say deflation doesn't matter or is better than the current situation, then, the burden of proof is on you to show that.
Deflation has tangible negative effects on folks that are not rich -- when you borrow some money, the deflationary effect essentially means that you might never be able to pay back the loan, because the value of the gold in real terms that you have to pay back is increasing, on top of the actual interest charges; you can't know the economic growth in advance....
If the economic growth doesn't happen, there's no job for you to get to repay your loan or buy a house. If the economic growth does happen, and you owe money, then your debt becomes as much more burdensome as the rate of inflation caused by that growth, with a non-fiat currency.
It also means, that as the economy grows, wages will continuously go down -- a certain amount of gold becomes worth more over time, therefore, to be paying the same rate, the employers have to continuously decrease the amount of gold paid, and employers who hold large quantities of money have the advantage, since they receive money from the revenue making activities of their business, and there is a delay before they pay employees; whereas, in an inflationary environment, wages continuously increase, and this works to the disadvantage of the employer who has large quantities of cash, and to the advantage of the lower/middle-class laborers .
You can not increase the wealth and quality of life by inducing inflation.
Sure you can... inflation acts as a stimulus, encouraging new investment and revenue generating activities; just leaving your money in the bank is marginally penalized, due to the gradual decrease in value.
Investment is rewarded, with inflation and economic growth -- resulting in more productive use of the money, then sticking it in a bank account.
Non-inflationary currency rewards stagnation --- leave your money in safe keeping.
It will just continuously be worth more and more over time, and you will need smaller and smaller denominations to pay for products and services with.
This means the other businesses you are buying products from, and laborers you are buying services from are at a disadvantage, because over time they are receiving smaller and smaller denominations of gold for their services.
E.g. You get just an artificial reward for holding onto the currency you obtained, before
demand increased, instead of investing in profitable activities.
Not that there is a problem with saving money -- but it is nothing to base a system of trade on,
at least not one that is expected to excel.
No no no... You have that right by default, unless the law denies it.
You can repeat some code, natural right to free speech protected by the constitution.
However, some restrictions may apply.
One of those restrictions is, if someone else wrote the code, their work may be protected by copyright.
If they register their copyright with the US copyright office, within a certain time period after having created
the work, they could sue you for infringement.
In case they haven't registered the copyright, as may be the case with someone's personal project,
they may not be eligible in fact to sue you. They have to register it first, and there is a time limit for
registering a copyright after having created the work.
So if they chose not to register it, the time limit passed, and they weren't granted any exception, then
they will have no means to prove ownership of a copyright on the OSS code in order to sue.
Seagate bought out Samsung's HDD division. Due to the history that he had with Seagate and having to file bankruptcy, I'm sure he still harbours some ill will to anyone who had dealings with Seagate.
If he was ever an employee of Apple, Samsung, or a Competitor, then yeah, he should be excluded from the jury, due to the possibility of personal interest in the outcome -- or past employer interest in the outcome (possibilities of being influenced by previous employers, or harboring a disposition towards a previous employer).
However, Seagate's "hard drive division" is not Seagate. Buying out their business unit, shutting it down, and transferring the business to a Samsung business unit, doesn't make Samsung seagate.
But there are laws that say you can't stipulate a contract to be paid in gold.
You can stipulate a contract that involves you being paid in other forms, but
gold is explicitly banned.
There is no inflation. Inflation occurs because fiat currency is tied to nothing.
No... with a currency tied to gold; there tends to be deflation, when economic activity increases, due to increased demand for currency. And an insufficient supply of currency to generate further business, resulting in economic growth being depressed.
The scarcity of the gold-based currency essentially dampens economic growth.
And economic growth is necessary for the government to pay for all those expensive government programs,
cover its debt, and increase the wealth and quality of life of its people.
He was involved a lawsuit with Seagate, which is not Samsung.
Every juror who purchased an Apple product but no Samsung phone could be said to be biased in favor
of Apple (they chose the Apple product over a Samsung product, after all).
Every juror who purchased a Samsung product, but not an Apple smartphone could be said to be biased
in favor of Samsung.
You want jurors who own devices from both, or who own devices from neither,
eg.. Blackberry / Windows 7 Phone / Palm owners.
But I bet if they offered you a more expensive version with no crapware, you'd take the crapware, and clean it yourself,
and be happy you saved the money.
The crapware makers subsidize the PC makers; without those extra marketing deals from all those companies,
the new Windows 8 PC would be about as expensive as an Apple.
School is mandatory to 16 years of age as a minimum while some states including Texas are at 18.
People of age 14 are able to seek full time employment, particularly in Farming/agriculture communities.
They can get out of the schooling requirement, there are various ways.
One of which is taking an accelerated program, and meeting the minimum requirement to earn a High school diploma early. Once they have the diploma, they are relieved of the requirement, without reaching a particular age.
Bad things happen when people attempt to use intuition to make decisions about security and risk,
without fully understanding the mathematics and the statistics involved.
When "reply all" is chosen. Instead of opening the message with all users listed as recipients.
Change the command to "reply multiple"
When chosen, open a window with a checklist containing all the recipients unchecked by default.
Ask the user, to check each recipient they want in their response message, and click OK.
Only the recipients they manually checked will appear in the reply message.
And the Jews could have moved out of Germany before they where all rounded up.
No they couldn't; their movements were restricted by Germany. They tried, and actually Germany tried forced emigration out of the country before death camps, you know... before Germany's attempts to take over the world.
Some jews successfully fled, and got into safer countries. The vast majority of jews attempting to flee were in fact rejected when they attempted to enter the other countries.
Almost all the jewish refugees attempting to flee Europe were rejected due to anti-jewish sentiment in other countries, and the result was a huge PR boost for Hitler.
even two letters right next to each other may not represent the same letter in the original plaintext..
Any cipher worth its salt will have this characteristic.
A one time pad is a mixing operation; a combination of random data with the plaintext being protected, using an operation that preserves entropy; which means that none of the randomless from the one time pad bits are lost EVEN though the plain message being encrypted is non-random, the result will have exactly as much randomness as the more random of the two bits being mixed, and therefore it is mathematically impossible to discover the value of a single bit of plaintext, without knowing the corresponding bit of one time pad.
Nor is it possible to determine the value of any single bit of one time pad, without knowing the corresponding plaintext bit.
Any attack requires discovering the value of the one time pad through an outside source, or exploiting a weakness in the pad, such as
key reuse, OR inadequate random number generator used to produce the pad.
The only thing you can ascertain about the one time pad by looking at the enciphered message, is its maximum potential length,
since you can see the number of symbols that are printed on the card, and that will be a finite number.
Data on where/how the student spends her lunch break.
What kind of data on where the student spends his or her lunch break? In most cases, this has to be on school premises, and the student is to be in a specific area during lunch break: that they are not allowed to leave.
So there should be no data to gather here in the first place....
Data on when the student goes to the bathroom.
And how would the school abuse that? It's not as if there is any risk or harm done by the school knowing that detail
In most schools... students need permission to gain access to the bathroom during class, or whenever a staff member isn't present in the bathroom to monitor it, anyways, and the halls, including often, the hall where the bathroom's located, will be monitored by cameras. The bathrooms in large schools are ordinarily kept locked to prevent vandalism, and hall monitors are placed to monitor students' access to the hallways and movements, for proper authorization. The student who is granted permission for bathroom, receives a pass, and/or bathroom key, after the name, date, time, and bathroom pass/key number is recorded, with their signature, and the student gets the bathroom pass, which is essentially a card key that the student uses to access the bathroom.
In other words: This can be recorded and often is recorded to provide accountability, in case, the facility is abused by the student.
Its a high school, not a college.
She attends by law, not by choice.
Ok, well, it is a college; high schools are colleges, anyways.
It's not a distinction I was making.
She may have to attend due to circumstance, but someone close to her has a choice.
The law in the states applies to most (but not all) children -- have to be enrolled in a program, and attend school they are enrolled in, at unless they have reached age 14 and drop out of high school with parental permission, get married/emancipated, exempt, they reach age 18, or otherwise get excused from the requirement.
Even if the student is enrolled in the program, and it's a requirement -- ither the student (or their parent) have some choice about which school the child is enrolled in, which is related to the choice of which state, county, city, they choose to live in --- they can move to a different place of residence, where the local school will be a different one without the RFID thing, they can also move to a different state, where the child may no longer be required to attend high school..
So it's a little more complicated than "no choice"; it's more like potentially:
"very limited, troublesome, unfairly burdensome or damaging options" for escaping the RFID badge rule.
The student was offered a security card with no battery and chip, but still refused. I'd have some sympathy if the college hadn't offered this option
And you'd have some sympathy for Rosa parks, if the driver hadn't offered her the option of standing, instead of leaving the bus?
It might be work, if the college promised to have no battery, chip, or RFID in the cards of all students.
Otherwise, it's just a continuation of the status quo.
Attempting to work out an exception for the person with the courage to refuse and mount a legal challenge with great personal cost,
without changing the rules for everyone, doesn't rectify the social injustice; it just results in a situation that is even more unfair,....
Oh, and also.... if you have one or two people with no RFID chip, they will be easy to track.
I'm surprised they don't work out a deal with that company that lets business monitor foot traffic in their stores
by tracking individual cell phones.
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What are the odds they'll let something that can heat up that much on an airplane
Very high. The surface volume that can be heated to that temperature is microscopic.
There would not be sufficient power available to heat anything non-microscopic to that temperature.
The small amount of heat would be quickly dissipated over a massive surface area upon contact with anything else, so the 800 degree temperature of the cell is in no way shape or form, a danger.
It's not obvious to me... it just looks like Nintendo decided to kill the licensing deal with the company that is actually handling the magazine. Possibly, they weren't able to pay Nintendo enough what Nintendo wants anymore, to be allowed to continue to use their trademarked name?
What's the obsession with pretending Apple and Microsoft are the only computer vendors on Slashdot?
Microsoft is a software company, not a computer vendor.
They have a similar advantage that Google has over Apple. Their OS supports multiple different kinds of hardware, so the end user has more flexibility; it doesn't matter to them which computer vendor sells you the solution, and the Android transformer is a boon to Google's platform.
With Apple, you can only have hardware that Apple has specifically designed, which increases cost and limits your flexibility, expandability, and options.
Last I checked, you couldn't even swap a battery on your iPad, and they won't dare provide SD expansion card slots to add memory.
Google android has the disadvantage that the apps are essentially for one kind of CPU -- you don't get the flexibility to run the same code on both desktop OS and on tablet/smart phone; Windows 8 provides this added flexibility.
The new rules banned rituals like beolju, or forcing drinks on others,
Wait... Samsung allowed that practice before?
How despicable and unbecoming of a professional enterprise....
That is nonsense. Money is is divisible. If your gold coin is worth too much to by a pair of boots, you exchange it for a smaller denomination. Deflation doesn't matter.
The requirement to use smaller denominations, mean the higher denominations are worth more. It seems that you are admitting deflation happens, but hand waving it away with a suggestion that it "doesn't matter". There is a lot of literature out there that says otherwise, and it is quite unlikely that deflation doesn't matter, so if you want to say deflation doesn't matter or is better than the current situation, then, the burden of proof is on you to show that.
Deflation has tangible negative effects on folks that are not rich -- when you borrow some money, the deflationary effect essentially means that you might never be able to pay back the loan, because the value of the gold in real terms that you have to pay back is increasing, on top of the actual interest charges; you can't know the economic growth in advance....
If the economic growth doesn't happen, there's no job for you to get to repay your loan or buy a house. If the economic growth does happen, and you owe money, then your debt becomes as much more burdensome as the rate of inflation caused by that growth, with a non-fiat currency.
It also means, that as the economy grows, wages will continuously go down -- a certain amount of gold becomes worth more over time, therefore, to be paying the same rate, the employers have to continuously decrease the amount of gold paid, and employers who hold large quantities of money have the advantage, since they receive money from the revenue making activities of their business, and there is a delay before they pay employees; whereas, in an inflationary environment, wages continuously increase, and this works to the disadvantage of the employer who has large quantities of cash, and to the advantage of the lower/middle-class laborers .
You can not increase the wealth and quality of life by inducing inflation.
Sure you can... inflation acts as a stimulus, encouraging new investment and revenue generating activities; just leaving your money in the bank is marginally penalized, due to the gradual decrease in value.
Investment is rewarded, with inflation and economic growth -- resulting in more productive use of the money, then sticking it in a bank account.
Non-inflationary currency rewards stagnation --- leave your money in safe keeping. It will just continuously be worth more and more over time, and you will need smaller and smaller denominations to pay for products and services with.
This means the other businesses you are buying products from, and laborers you are buying services from are at a disadvantage, because over time they are receiving smaller and smaller denominations of gold for their services.
E.g. You get just an artificial reward for holding onto the currency you obtained, before demand increased, instead of investing in profitable activities.
Not that there is a problem with saving money -- but it is nothing to base a system of trade on, at least not one that is expected to excel.
because no law grants you that right.
No no no... You have that right by default, unless the law denies it. You can repeat some code, natural right to free speech protected by the constitution.
However, some restrictions may apply. One of those restrictions is, if someone else wrote the code, their work may be protected by copyright.
If they register their copyright with the US copyright office, within a certain time period after having created the work, they could sue you for infringement.
In case they haven't registered the copyright, as may be the case with someone's personal project, they may not be eligible in fact to sue you. They have to register it first, and there is a time limit for registering a copyright after having created the work.
So if they chose not to register it, the time limit passed, and they weren't granted any exception, then they will have no means to prove ownership of a copyright on the OSS code in order to sue.
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Lastly, he lied during the jury selection process so that he would be put on the jury. That in and of itself also demonstrates bias.
Well, if true... overt lying on the record under oath during jury selection, should be prosecuted as perjury. He should go to jail for that.
The case needs to be retried, and the juror should be responsible for any legal costs this may incur.
Is it a maze or does it just look like one?
It is a maze. It doesn't necessarily have exactly one solution (It probably has more than one). It doesn't necessarily have any solutions.
The loop never seems to terminate, so it seems that the maze will keep getting larger until the program is manually aborted
Seagate bought out Samsung's HDD division. Due to the history that he had with Seagate and having to file bankruptcy, I'm sure he still harbours some ill will to anyone who had dealings with Seagate.
If he was ever an employee of Apple, Samsung, or a Competitor, then yeah, he should be excluded from the jury, due to the possibility of personal interest in the outcome -- or past employer interest in the outcome (possibilities of being influenced by previous employers, or harboring a disposition towards a previous employer).
However, Seagate's "hard drive division" is not Seagate. Buying out their business unit, shutting it down, and transferring the business to a Samsung business unit, doesn't make Samsung seagate.
Nothing is stopping you from buying gold.
But there are laws that say you can't stipulate a contract to be paid in gold. You can stipulate a contract that involves you being paid in other forms, but gold is explicitly banned.
There is no inflation. Inflation occurs because fiat currency is tied to nothing.
No... with a currency tied to gold; there tends to be deflation, when economic activity increases, due to increased demand for currency. And an insufficient supply of currency to generate further business, resulting in economic growth being depressed.
The scarcity of the gold-based currency essentially dampens economic growth.
And economic growth is necessary for the government to pay for all those expensive government programs, cover its debt, and increase the wealth and quality of life of its people.
And that is the reason for fiat currencies.
He was involved a lawsuit with Seagate, which is not Samsung.
Every juror who purchased an Apple product but no Samsung phone could be said to be biased in favor of Apple (they chose the Apple product over a Samsung product, after all).
Every juror who purchased a Samsung product, but not an Apple smartphone could be said to be biased in favor of Samsung.
You want jurors who own devices from both, or who own devices from neither, eg.. Blackberry / Windows 7 Phone / Palm owners.
But I bet if they offered you a more expensive version with no crapware, you'd take the crapware, and clean it yourself, and be happy you saved the money.
The crapware makers subsidize the PC makers; without those extra marketing deals from all those companies, the new Windows 8 PC would be about as expensive as an Apple.
Yes, it would. Investing in stocks and "other stuff" is, likewise, a good thing.
It doesn't eliminate the need. People who want to profit, will still need to invest.
It does raise the bar on what the reward/risk ratio must be, for the investment to be worthwhile.
School is mandatory to 16 years of age as a minimum while some states including Texas are at 18.
People of age 14 are able to seek full time employment, particularly in Farming/agriculture communities.
They can get out of the schooling requirement, there are various ways.
One of which is taking an accelerated program, and meeting the minimum requirement to earn a High school diploma early. Once they have the diploma, they are relieved of the requirement, without reaching a particular age.
Bad things happen when people attempt to use intuition to make decisions about security and risk, without fully understanding the mathematics and the statistics involved.
When "reply all" is chosen. Instead of opening the message with all users listed as recipients. Change the command to "reply multiple"
When chosen, open a window with a checklist containing all the recipients unchecked by default.
Ask the user, to check each recipient they want in their response message, and click OK. Only the recipients they manually checked will appear in the reply message.
And the Jews could have moved out of Germany before they where all rounded up.
No they couldn't; their movements were restricted by Germany. They tried, and actually Germany tried forced emigration out of the country before death camps, you know... before Germany's attempts to take over the world.
Some jews successfully fled, and got into safer countries. The vast majority of jews attempting to flee were in fact rejected when they attempted to enter the other countries.
Almost all the jewish refugees attempting to flee Europe were rejected due to anti-jewish sentiment in other countries, and the result was a huge PR boost for Hitler.
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even two letters right next to each other may not represent the same letter in the original plaintext..
Any cipher worth its salt will have this characteristic.
A one time pad is a mixing operation; a combination of random data with the plaintext being protected, using an operation that preserves entropy; which means that none of the randomless from the one time pad bits are lost EVEN though the plain message being encrypted is non-random, the result will have exactly as much randomness as the more random of the two bits being mixed, and therefore it is mathematically impossible to discover the value of a single bit of plaintext, without knowing the corresponding bit of one time pad.
Nor is it possible to determine the value of any single bit of one time pad, without knowing the corresponding plaintext bit.
Any attack requires discovering the value of the one time pad through an outside source, or exploiting a weakness in the pad, such as key reuse, OR inadequate random number generator used to produce the pad.
The only thing you can ascertain about the one time pad by looking at the enciphered message, is its maximum potential length, since you can see the number of symbols that are printed on the card, and that will be a finite number.
Data on where/how the student spends her lunch break.
What kind of data on where the student spends his or her lunch break? In most cases, this has to be on school premises, and the student is to be in a specific area during lunch break: that they are not allowed to leave. So there should be no data to gather here in the first place....
Data on when the student goes to the bathroom.
And how would the school abuse that? It's not as if there is any risk or harm done by the school knowing that detail
In most schools... students need permission to gain access to the bathroom during class, or whenever a staff member isn't present in the bathroom to monitor it, anyways, and the halls, including often, the hall where the bathroom's located, will be monitored by cameras. The bathrooms in large schools are ordinarily kept locked to prevent vandalism, and hall monitors are placed to monitor students' access to the hallways and movements, for proper authorization. The student who is granted permission for bathroom, receives a pass, and/or bathroom key, after the name, date, time, and bathroom pass/key number is recorded, with their signature, and the student gets the bathroom pass, which is essentially a card key that the student uses to access the bathroom. In other words: This can be recorded and often is recorded to provide accountability, in case, the facility is abused by the student.
Its a high school, not a college.
She attends by law, not by choice.
Ok, well, it is a college; high schools are colleges, anyways. It's not a distinction I was making.
She may have to attend due to circumstance, but someone close to her has a choice.
The law in the states applies to most (but not all) children -- have to be enrolled in a program, and attend school they are enrolled in, at unless they have reached age 14 and drop out of high school with parental permission, get married/emancipated, exempt, they reach age 18, or otherwise get excused from the requirement.
Even if the student is enrolled in the program, and it's a requirement -- ither the student (or their parent) have some choice about which school the child is enrolled in, which is related to the choice of which state, county, city, they choose to live in --- they can move to a different place of residence, where the local school will be a different one without the RFID thing, they can also move to a different state, where the child may no longer be required to attend high school..
So it's a little more complicated than "no choice"; it's more like potentially: "very limited, troublesome, unfairly burdensome or damaging options" for escaping the RFID badge rule.
They'll probably abuse it.)
Data on when the student enters and exits the classroom?
In what manner is it even possible to abuse that; which doesn't exist with normal manual attendance taking?
Yes, let's condition our children to be treated like cattle. I'm sure that will do wonders for our free society!
Sure... I wonder why they aren't implanting the RFID tags though?
RFID badges are easily traded/held by friends, zapped with a microwave, or blocked with RF blocking.
The student was offered a security card with no battery and chip, but still refused. I'd have some sympathy if the college hadn't offered this option
And you'd have some sympathy for Rosa parks, if the driver hadn't offered her the option of standing, instead of leaving the bus?
It might be work, if the college promised to have no battery, chip, or RFID in the cards of all students.
Otherwise, it's just a continuation of the status quo.
Attempting to work out an exception for the person with the courage to refuse and mount a legal challenge with great personal cost, without changing the rules for everyone, doesn't rectify the social injustice; it just results in a situation that is even more unfair,....
Oh, and also.... if you have one or two people with no RFID chip, they will be easy to track.
I'm surprised they don't work out a deal with that company that lets business monitor foot traffic in their stores by tracking individual cell phones.