ISPs don't control DNS, registrars do. Your ISP can control DNS just as much under a decentralized system as they can now. (They run a caching proxy, but you don't have to use it. They can block or steal any DNS queries that don't go to their proxy, but that's stoppable with DNSSEC. The same is true in either system.)
There's no good, proposed way of decentralizing DNS. DNS is by design a canonical mapping of names to IP addresses, and most decentralized systems don't really support canonical mappings (because nobody is in the position to decide what's canon).
Maybe they've got a thing against hypocracy. Or they know that the government isn't some monolithic entity that unilaterally agrees with any bill currently being considered in Congress.
Well, there weren't scientists until the 16th or 17th century. Learned people have thought the world to be flat since long before that.
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Why, for example, are people allowed to leave estates to their children (or others or even charities) at all? If you didn't give the money away while you were alive, why allow any last will in testiments?
It's "and testament". The word "testament" is related to "testimony" and is basically redundant when preceded by "will".
One reason for it is that barring inheritance (which doesn't even require a will) would only really affect people without access to lawyers. There are plenty of other ways of giving money to people while still being able to access it, like a trust.
Why any tax exemptions for inherited monies?
A long-standing tradition of inherited real property.
That's simply not true. The ancient Greeks knew the earth wasn't flat. Hell, Eratosthenes (of Sieve fame) calculated the circumference of the earth to within a few percent, and that was around 200 BC.
However, we do seem to be approaching the point where 97% of people will believe any kind of shit you tell them as long as they agree with your conclusions.
A closed system is one that does not exchange matter with its environment; it is allowed to exchange energy and heat. (Yes, I know matter and energy are the same. Blame the thermodynamicists.) You're perhaps thinking of an isolated system. Technically the earth is an open system, as it gains and loses matter from its environment, but that effect is probably minimal.
Also, the amount of energy the earth gets from the sun is far more than 99%.
It depends on why you really dislike the DRM. If it's a matter of principle, sure, the console is worse. If it's a matter of wanting to not pay for the game, sure, the console is worse.
If you want to play a game without worrying about someone shutting down the activation servers, hardware changes invalidating your registration, losing your original install disk / registration code / whatever random token you need to register, or the DRM messing with your system, then the console DRM is pretty good. It tends to always work without any nasty surprises -- much more so than PC DRM.
Right, but ext3/4 and NTFS don't really support those either, do they? I haven't seen about ReFS. I suppose Win 7 with NTFS supports limited-duplication snapshots with VSC (not arbitrary deduplication, but snapshots that store only changed blocks instead of changed files).
Low-cost snapshots is a pretty useful feature, though. The HFS+ snapshot solution not only uses a fair bit of space, but its implementation is ugly -- it's all hard links, where hard links are a weirdly-implemented feature stapled on to HFS+ (they work, but it's a bit disconcerting).
Absolutely. But the only way to really ruin the results is to get enough people to make such comments that it has a statistically-relevant influence on the end result.
A lot of sentiment-analysis algorithms are very simple, though -- they should probably consider most or all of your examples to be unclassifiable (so they'd still count as "mentions", but not with a positive or negative sentiment).
It's more likely that you'd get bad data off of statements like, "I hate how Ron Paul is being mistreated by the media," or, "Ron Paul would be a great president, if you like policies that don't make sense and have no chance of being implemented."
It's not, actually. While the summary is misleading, Facebook is performing the analysis themselves and providing Politico with the summary results. It would be more correct to say that Facebook is sharing the results of analysis performed on private data with Politico, as they're not sharing the data itself.
What's actually going on is that a while back, a collection of lobbyists convinced a few Congressmen that this was an important issue and helped them draft a bill. It was discussed a lot among Congressmen, they called in a few for and against experts, and in the meantime found out that a respectably large number of people were opposed to it. They probably decided that it would be a bad idea to keep pushing an issue enough people disliked in an election year, so scrapped it.
You also have to not use a tracker -- or use only small, well-secured private trackers. Otherwise they'll just get your IP from the tracker list.
You also have to not be downloading something popular. Otherwise they can simply scrape a site like TPB for magnet links (or.torrent files), use tracker + DHT + PEX like anyone else, and crawl most of the active peers. Encrypted connections do not magically ward off the people you would like to be anonymous from. The attacks you're concerned about -- someone sniffing your traffic -- are much more difficult to perform than simple IP discovery by following the BitTorrent protocol as if you were a downloader.
The reason encrypted connections exist in BitTorrent clients is not for security or anonymity, but to obfuscate the protocol from ISPs, who often use protocol detection for P2P throttling.
Highlighting pedestrians and other features, particularly at night, would actually be really useful. There are a lot of things at night or during heavy rain or snow that can be picked up visually, eventually, but are challenging for humans. (Likewise for road signs at dusk.)
You paint an awfully optimistic picture of automotive black-boxes. Current ones capture a substantial amount of data regarding sensor readouts and human inputs (usually using a sliding time window), but are often only readable by the car manufacturer using custom hardware and software. Even law enforcement agencies have to get the car manufacturer to take the black box and give them data from it.
One would hope that technology found in a patent filed in 2006 for improving a specific product would appear in that product some time after 2006, yes.
Oh, it's still not a bad model for many reasonably simple actions. But it's an easy limitation to run in to, and it's also easy to notice. For example, objects disappear over the horizon differently between flat and curved surfaces. It's also why there are different time zones.
There have always been means of copying. Long before Shakespeare's time, the primary enterprise of monks was the duplication of written works. It's just that back in the day, copying was less efficient and less accurate. (You could watch Hamlet and copy it, but you would only get an exact copy of the text if you happened to secure a written copy of it.)
Pretty ballsy to organize, perpetrate, and hide massive election fraud when susceptible voting machines are used in only a handful of states and counties.
Ah, that's true. It was machined to high accuracy relative to their ground-truth provider, the tester. Sadly, they didn't believe the results of the two backup testers and NASA didn't catch the problem. (To be fair, these are not simple things to test.)
Actually, the Hubble mirror isn't supposed to be flat, its shape is a particular function. It was actually manufactured exactly to spec, but the spec was wrong.
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ISPs don't control DNS, registrars do. Your ISP can control DNS just as much under a decentralized system as they can now. (They run a caching proxy, but you don't have to use it. They can block or steal any DNS queries that don't go to their proxy, but that's stoppable with DNSSEC. The same is true in either system.)
There's no good, proposed way of decentralizing DNS. DNS is by design a canonical mapping of names to IP addresses, and most decentralized systems don't really support canonical mappings (because nobody is in the position to decide what's canon).
Maybe they've got a thing against hypocracy. Or they know that the government isn't some monolithic entity that unilaterally agrees with any bill currently being considered in Congress.
Well, there weren't scientists until the 16th or 17th century. Learned people have thought the world to be flat since long before that.
Why, for example, are people allowed to leave estates to their children (or others or even charities) at all? If you didn't give the money away while you were alive, why allow any last will in testiments?
It's "and testament". The word "testament" is related to "testimony" and is basically redundant when preceded by "will".
One reason for it is that barring inheritance (which doesn't even require a will) would only really affect people without access to lawyers. There are plenty of other ways of giving money to people while still being able to access it, like a trust.
Why any tax exemptions for inherited monies?
A long-standing tradition of inherited real property.
That's simply not true. The ancient Greeks knew the earth wasn't flat. Hell, Eratosthenes (of Sieve fame) calculated the circumference of the earth to within a few percent, and that was around 200 BC.
However, we do seem to be approaching the point where 97% of people will believe any kind of shit you tell them as long as they agree with your conclusions.
A closed system is one that does not exchange matter with its environment; it is allowed to exchange energy and heat. (Yes, I know matter and energy are the same. Blame the thermodynamicists.) You're perhaps thinking of an isolated system. Technically the earth is an open system, as it gains and loses matter from its environment, but that effect is probably minimal.
Also, the amount of energy the earth gets from the sun is far more than 99%.
It depends on why you really dislike the DRM. If it's a matter of principle, sure, the console is worse. If it's a matter of wanting to not pay for the game, sure, the console is worse.
If you want to play a game without worrying about someone shutting down the activation servers, hardware changes invalidating your registration, losing your original install disk / registration code / whatever random token you need to register, or the DRM messing with your system, then the console DRM is pretty good. It tends to always work without any nasty surprises -- much more so than PC DRM.
Right, but ext3/4 and NTFS don't really support those either, do they? I haven't seen about ReFS. I suppose Win 7 with NTFS supports limited-duplication snapshots with VSC (not arbitrary deduplication, but snapshots that store only changed blocks instead of changed files).
Low-cost snapshots is a pretty useful feature, though. The HFS+ snapshot solution not only uses a fair bit of space, but its implementation is ugly -- it's all hard links, where hard links are a weirdly-implemented feature stapled on to HFS+ (they work, but it's a bit disconcerting).
What important features does HFS+ lack that ext3/4, ntfs, or refs have?
Absolutely. But the only way to really ruin the results is to get enough people to make such comments that it has a statistically-relevant influence on the end result.
A lot of sentiment-analysis algorithms are very simple, though -- they should probably consider most or all of your examples to be unclassifiable (so they'd still count as "mentions", but not with a positive or negative sentiment).
It's more likely that you'd get bad data off of statements like, "I hate how Ron Paul is being mistreated by the media," or, "Ron Paul would be a great president, if you like policies that don't make sense and have no chance of being implemented."
It's not, actually. While the summary is misleading, Facebook is performing the analysis themselves and providing Politico with the summary results. It would be more correct to say that Facebook is sharing the results of analysis performed on private data with Politico, as they're not sharing the data itself.
What's actually going on is that a while back, a collection of lobbyists convinced a few Congressmen that this was an important issue and helped them draft a bill. It was discussed a lot among Congressmen, they called in a few for and against experts, and in the meantime found out that a respectably large number of people were opposed to it. They probably decided that it would be a bad idea to keep pushing an issue enough people disliked in an election year, so scrapped it.
You also have to not use a tracker -- or use only small, well-secured private trackers. Otherwise they'll just get your IP from the tracker list.
You also have to not be downloading something popular. Otherwise they can simply scrape a site like TPB for magnet links (or .torrent files), use tracker + DHT + PEX like anyone else, and crawl most of the active peers. Encrypted connections do not magically ward off the people you would like to be anonymous from. The attacks you're concerned about -- someone sniffing your traffic -- are much more difficult to perform than simple IP discovery by following the BitTorrent protocol as if you were a downloader.
The reason encrypted connections exist in BitTorrent clients is not for security or anonymity, but to obfuscate the protocol from ISPs, who often use protocol detection for P2P throttling.
Workplace-exposure radiation badges are actually reasonably inexpensive.
The passwords aren't stored cleartext in the database, they're encrypted with your master password.
Highlighting pedestrians and other features, particularly at night, would actually be really useful. There are a lot of things at night or during heavy rain or snow that can be picked up visually, eventually, but are challenging for humans. (Likewise for road signs at dusk.)
You paint an awfully optimistic picture of automotive black-boxes. Current ones capture a substantial amount of data regarding sensor readouts and human inputs (usually using a sliding time window), but are often only readable by the car manufacturer using custom hardware and software. Even law enforcement agencies have to get the car manufacturer to take the black box and give them data from it.
That's how car loans and mortgages both work.
One would hope that technology found in a patent filed in 2006 for improving a specific product would appear in that product some time after 2006, yes.
The copy of Zimbra I'm using, at least, only has that option for whole days.
Oh, it's still not a bad model for many reasonably simple actions. But it's an easy limitation to run in to, and it's also easy to notice. For example, objects disappear over the horizon differently between flat and curved surfaces. It's also why there are different time zones.
Means of coping? Do you mean means of copying?
There have always been means of copying. Long before Shakespeare's time, the primary enterprise of monks was the duplication of written works. It's just that back in the day, copying was less efficient and less accurate. (You could watch Hamlet and copy it, but you would only get an exact copy of the text if you happened to secure a written copy of it.)
Pretty ballsy to organize, perpetrate, and hide massive election fraud when susceptible voting machines are used in only a handful of states and counties.
Ah, that's true. It was machined to high accuracy relative to their ground-truth provider, the tester. Sadly, they didn't believe the results of the two backup testers and NASA didn't catch the problem. (To be fair, these are not simple things to test.)
Actually, the Hubble mirror isn't supposed to be flat, its shape is a particular function. It was actually manufactured exactly to spec, but the spec was wrong.