Hell, as long as you're okay with some slack, you really only need to do all the figures in feet and then find the smallest integer C whose square is larger than a^2+b^2, which one should be able to do in one's head pretty well.
If the standard deviation within a group is large, than the small differences between the groups is even less relevant. A small difference between groups is most relevant if the standard deviation within a group is small.
But yes, undoubtedly the standard deviation is large, which really means that none of the listed professions get a statistically significantly different amount of sleep than the others.
There's major interest in using social networks for real-time detection and monitoring of natural disasters. It's cheap, has good coverage, and is faster than the news.
"Quantized" and "digital" are not strictly the same. While a cursory review of quantum mechanics can make you think that it's the case, it's not really.
It's a deceptive statement regardless, since the quantization granularity of digital-to-analog conversion in electronics (e.g., recording or analyzing music) is many orders of magnitude coarser than the quantization scales in QM.
"Idiots" is a gratuitous insult, although it probably seems fair to anyone who's glanced at/b/.
"Geniuses" doesn't refer to organizers, really. Some of Anonymous's actions are simply DDoS, which just takes an organizer and some idiots. It doesn't even take a particular organizer, since the legion of idiots isn't really an organized group. Their more interesting actions, though, involve some substantial hackery.
So what they're talking about is the density of actual, competent hackers vs. people who participate in DDoSes and how the organization of the former is different from the organization of the latter.
I don't know, but as a practical matter, I don't think it matters. I think current TPM encryption is "resilient enough" against brute-force and other attacks.
...which in this case meant producing money that he did not have.
In this case, it actually means producing money that he claims that he did not have. Nobody but Chadwick knows if he actually has the money or not -- his lawyer claims that he doesn't and his ex-wife's lawyer claims that he does.
Bear in mind that when he was released, the judge was still convinced that he had access to the money and that he was lying about having lost it. However, the point of contempt of court is to compel you to follow the judge's orders and it was clear at that point that contempt of court no longer had any capacity to compel Chadwick.
The spirit of the 5th amendment is to prevent the government from compelling you to help them prosecute you.
This is where you and many Constitutional scholars disagree. The spirit of the 5th Amendment is to prevent you from having to give actual testimony against yourself. Prior to this, people were often forced to confess and to bear witness against themselves in court.
There are well-established legal situations in which you do, in fact, have to help the government prosecute you, in the broad sense. If they subpoena information, you are legally required to provide it, even if it's damning evidence.
The founders talked extensively about how it was immoral to require someone to help the government put them in jail.
Are you kidding? That's nothing. Technically-minded people on Slashdot have no sense of how much ionizing radiation they're exposed to from perfectly ordinary and unavoidable sources in the course of a day. Forget regular people understanding anything about non-ionizing radiation.
Actually, oranges in a crate are stacked more like carbon atoms in C60 (a buckminster fullerene). The atoms in graphite (stacked graphene) are more akin to stacked egg cartons as graphite is organized in layers.
The carbon atoms in C60 aren't stacked, they form a hollow sphere and they're distinctly not like stacked oranges. At this point it's probably easier to be specific. Oranges, like any other collection of weakly-interacting spheres, are stacked HCP or FCC. HCP and FCC are nearly the same and both can be viewed as consisting of "layers".
No, the crate just bears some weight at the edges because the attraction between oranges is weak compared to gravity. Oranges in a crate are stacked just like carbon atoms in graphite, and graphite's certainly a solid.
No, PETA would need to get a series of sympathetic judges. Here, "sympathetic" means "terrible at law". You could maybe bribe a sympathetic judge into such a ruling, in which case it would be overturned on appeals.
Correct: if you can measure the recoil of your laser, your laser is almost certainly an "I win" button. (It's also well into the realm of many other more difficult practical matters.)
Funny, that article didn't use the words "terrorist", "untenable", or "national security" at all. It's only "the federal government" in that it's the Secret Service.
It's the size of a single double-wide PCI card. Okay, scratch that, it *is* a single double-wide PCIE card. That counts as a single device. Just like how if you put a bunch of hard drive platters behind a common interface within a standard-size hard drive shell, it counts as one hard drive.
Oh, I don't blame them. I was just curious if someone had a reason they were running applications from.dmg files other than "user error".
I consider it poor design for a dmg-installer to not have the giant instructions showing you dragging the application to the Applications directory. (Bonus points if they include an alias or symlink to the Applications directory within the.dmg!)
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Hell, as long as you're okay with some slack, you really only need to do all the figures in feet and then find the smallest integer C whose square is larger than a^2+b^2, which one should be able to do in one's head pretty well.
If the standard deviation within a group is large, than the small differences between the groups is even less relevant. A small difference between groups is most relevant if the standard deviation within a group is small.
But yes, undoubtedly the standard deviation is large, which really means that none of the listed professions get a statistically significantly different amount of sleep than the others.
UTC includes leap seconds. TAI does not.
There's major interest in using social networks for real-time detection and monitoring of natural disasters. It's cheap, has good coverage, and is faster than the news.
"Quantized" and "digital" are not strictly the same. While a cursory review of quantum mechanics can make you think that it's the case, it's not really.
It's a deceptive statement regardless, since the quantization granularity of digital-to-analog conversion in electronics (e.g., recording or analyzing music) is many orders of magnitude coarser than the quantization scales in QM.
They don't have any history prior to 4chan. Their hacking activities predate their meatspace protests.
I don't really get your rambling about false flag RICO conspiracies, since I didn't mention any of that, but sure, whatever.
"Idiots" is a gratuitous insult, although it probably seems fair to anyone who's glanced at /b/.
"Geniuses" doesn't refer to organizers, really. Some of Anonymous's actions are simply DDoS, which just takes an organizer and some idiots. It doesn't even take a particular organizer, since the legion of idiots isn't really an organized group. Their more interesting actions, though, involve some substantial hackery.
So what they're talking about is the density of actual, competent hackers vs. people who participate in DDoSes and how the organization of the former is different from the organization of the latter.
Cue a large number of comments that incorrectly state that "Anonymous isn't anyone", "Anonymous is everyone", "Anonymous is an idea", etc.
...why doesn't the US enact a law...
See below:
I know this would suck for consumers ... and the corporate planners ... this is not going to be popular with lots of people..."
If an iPad costs you a month's wages, you're not making minimum wage.
I don't know, but as a practical matter, I don't think it matters. I think current TPM encryption is "resilient enough" against brute-force and other attacks.
That's what TPM-based encryption is for. You know, the TPM that people on Slashdot claim is a government / corporate conspiracy to [do some shit].
...which in this case meant producing money that he did not have.
In this case, it actually means producing money that he claims that he did not have. Nobody but Chadwick knows if he actually has the money or not -- his lawyer claims that he doesn't and his ex-wife's lawyer claims that he does.
Bear in mind that when he was released, the judge was still convinced that he had access to the money and that he was lying about having lost it. However, the point of contempt of court is to compel you to follow the judge's orders and it was clear at that point that contempt of court no longer had any capacity to compel Chadwick.
The spirit of the 5th amendment is to prevent the government from compelling you to help them prosecute you.
This is where you and many Constitutional scholars disagree. The spirit of the 5th Amendment is to prevent you from having to give actual testimony against yourself. Prior to this, people were often forced to confess and to bear witness against themselves in court.
There are well-established legal situations in which you do, in fact, have to help the government prosecute you, in the broad sense. If they subpoena information, you are legally required to provide it, even if it's damning evidence.
The founders talked extensively about how it was immoral to require someone to help the government put them in jail.
Out of curiosity, where?
Are you kidding? That's nothing. Technically-minded people on Slashdot have no sense of how much ionizing radiation they're exposed to from perfectly ordinary and unavoidable sources in the course of a day. Forget regular people understanding anything about non-ionizing radiation.
Actually, oranges in a crate are stacked more like carbon atoms in C60 (a buckminster fullerene). The atoms in graphite (stacked graphene) are more akin to stacked egg cartons as graphite is organized in layers.
The carbon atoms in C60 aren't stacked, they form a hollow sphere and they're distinctly not like stacked oranges. At this point it's probably easier to be specific. Oranges, like any other collection of weakly-interacting spheres, are stacked HCP or FCC. HCP and FCC are nearly the same and both can be viewed as consisting of "layers".
No, the crate just bears some weight at the edges because the attraction between oranges is weak compared to gravity. Oranges in a crate are stacked just like carbon atoms in graphite, and graphite's certainly a solid.
No, only number of stones used to construct it (one).
No, PETA would need to get a series of sympathetic judges. Here, "sympathetic" means "terrible at law". You could maybe bribe a sympathetic judge into such a ruling, in which case it would be overturned on appeals.
Correct: if you can measure the recoil of your laser, your laser is almost certainly an "I win" button. (It's also well into the realm of many other more difficult practical matters.)
Technically lasers have recoil. Just not much.
Funny, that article didn't use the words "terrorist", "untenable", or "national security" at all. It's only "the federal government" in that it's the Secret Service.
It's the size of a single double-wide PCI card. Okay, scratch that, it *is* a single double-wide PCIE card. That counts as a single device. Just like how if you put a bunch of hard drive platters behind a common interface within a standard-size hard drive shell, it counts as one hard drive.
Oh, I don't blame them. I was just curious if someone had a reason they were running applications from .dmg files other than "user error".
I consider it poor design for a dmg-installer to not have the giant instructions showing you dragging the application to the Applications directory. (Bonus points if they include an alias or symlink to the Applications directory within the .dmg!)