I'd guess any variation in time so large that you can see it in decay time measurements would have created so many other clearly visible effects that it would not have gone unnoticed.
there is really no natural, real world example of algorithmic recursion, and so the concept is alien.
I object. Recursion is a fundamental property of just about any natural language. You can make sentences infinitely long by recusively adding attributes, subsentences, clauses and whatnot.
I do agree though that the fact that many instructions are expressed in a steap-by-step manner may influence the way we think about algorithms - but it works the other way around too: If we think about algorithms as stepwise instructions, we may forget to look at them in a declarative manner, which can make such programming concepts harder to grasp if you are accustomed to the imperative style.
This has been common practice in Germany for as long as I remember (or live). If you do notice an illegitimate transfer, you can tell the bank to undo it, at which point it is up to the company again to bug you about the money. I think all in all, it's less hassle to just check whether all deductions are legit than to manually transfer money to your billers.
There is the potential problem that the address can then be combined with some personal data, such as your last.fm profile, thus allowing for more targeted phishing attacks or plain old fraud.
For example: "Special offer just for you! Book tickets for [favorite artist] backstage in [your hometown] for [ridiculously low price] and meet them backstage!"
If the issue is only with a limited numbers of computers running P2P software, and that software doesn't have options of limiting bandwidth built in, the simplest solution would be a client-side bandwidth limiter. There are plenty (see your favorite search engine) available that let you throttle bandwidth use for specific applications.
I'm not all informed about this, but if I recollect correctly the ion engine on DS1 will not provide much more thrust than your breath, its actual power being that it can keep this breath steady nonstop without consuming alot of energy . With almost no friction or gravity in deep space, it will accellerate all the time.
I suppose this is less effective in the ISS scenario.
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I'd guess any variation in time so large that you can see it in decay time measurements would have created so many other clearly visible effects that it would not have gone unnoticed.
What would be the most striking?
there is really no natural, real world example of algorithmic recursion, and so the concept is alien.
I object. Recursion is a fundamental property of just about any natural language. You can make sentences infinitely long by recusively adding attributes, subsentences, clauses and whatnot.
I do agree though that the fact that many instructions are expressed in a steap-by-step manner may influence the way we think about algorithms - but it works the other way around too: If we think about algorithms as stepwise instructions, we may forget to look at them in a declarative manner, which can make such programming concepts harder to grasp if you are accustomed to the imperative style.
This has been common practice in Germany for as long as I remember (or live). If you do notice an illegitimate transfer, you can tell the bank to undo it, at which point it is up to the company again to bug you about the money. I think all in all, it's less hassle to just check whether all deductions are legit than to manually transfer money to your billers.
There is the potential problem that the address can then be combined with some personal data, such as your last.fm profile, thus allowing for more targeted phishing attacks or plain old fraud.
For example:
"Special offer just for you! Book tickets for [favorite artist] backstage in [your hometown] for [ridiculously low price] and meet them backstage!"
If the issue is only with a limited numbers of computers running P2P software, and that software doesn't have options of limiting bandwidth built in, the simplest solution would be a client-side bandwidth limiter. There are plenty (see your favorite search engine) available that let you throttle bandwidth use for specific applications.
I'm not all informed about this, but if I recollect correctly the ion engine on DS1 will not provide much more thrust than your breath, its actual power being that it can keep this breath steady nonstop without consuming alot of energy . With almost no friction or gravity in deep space, it will accellerate all the time.
;)
I suppose this is less effective in the ISS scenario.
I'd be glad to stand corrected