By which you mean it's limited to a finite number of sites? The number of sites they can check for is also finite. The number of sites in my history/cache is also finite.
Note currently it's "yes" or "no", and "no" is indistinguishable from "blocked". They could make it slightly more reliable if they actively checked to see if I was blocking (e.g. Grooveshark pops up a warning box if it can't load the facebook integration).
e.g. Block fsdn.com on third-party sites except slashdot.org ||fsdn.com^$third-party,domain=~slashdot.org Block fbcdn.com on third-party sites except facebook.com, facebook.net, and fbcdn.net (write similar rules to block the other 3 facebook domains) ||fbcdn.com^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.net
This benchmark will crash Opera 11.01 (draws the Mandelbrot set).
Windows XP with 2.5 GB of RAM: Opera silently dies at about 50% through the test, with 1:20 CPU time and 350 MB of RAM. FF chugs away and finishes it, albeit somewhat slower than Opera... elapsed time 11:56, and eating 900 MB of RAM.
(Yes, it's specifically intended to bring any browser to its knees by overloading its DOM engine. It takes seconds to run the same exact code using a canvas for the output.)
Correct. It's hard to believe that somebody actually tried to correct you on that after you had corrected GP...
Females can in theory spontaneously reproduce... Males cannot.
Well, in mammals that's true... the Y chromosome causes male development. Birds (and lizards, I think) are the opposite, though... the male has two identical sex chromosomes, whereas the females have a dissimilar pair. Who knows, maybe that makes a difference?
Something which can be accessed, exploited, and used to inject packets from a "trusted" inside-the-network IP address, bypassing firewalls and thus allowing you to exploit other machines which would normally be protected.
Even better if it's something that will likely be missed when they notice the infection and try to clean up their network, so that it can re-infect all their computers again afterward.
The point isn't that the network is poorly protected. The point is that someday grandma or grandpa is going to get a virus that infects their printer and you're probably going to completely overlook it when you try to clean their system.
Part where your hypothesis falls apart is where you assume that losing one dimension of the wave of light from the Sun reduces the amount of luminance carried by the wave of light from the Sun. This is false.
It's not false. It does, and necessarily so. It's the same reason which allows LCD displays to vary between completely dark and completely light. As the angle between the polarization of the light varies with the angle of the filter, the intensity will be reduced by the cosine of that angle.
If you put two polarizing filters in line (with their polarizations aligned to each other), the second filter will not significantly diminish the intensity of the light passing through the first. However, if you rotate the 2nd filter 45 degrees in relation to the first, then it will block about 50% of the light passing through the first filter - even though all of that light was of the "wrong" polarization to this filter (wrong by 45 degrees, to be specific). It is reduced to the cosine of 45 degrees, which is 50%.
As a matter of fact, if the 2nd filter is rotated 90 degrees in relation to the first filter, it will block all of the light (nearly, since it's not a perfect filter) - but if you place a 3rd filter between them, rotated 45 degrees in relation to both of them, you get more light through the 3 filters than you did through the original 2.
If you want to test this, just take two pairs of polarizing sunglasses (or pop the 2 lenses out of one pair of polarizing sunglasses) and use an LCD computer monitor (there's a polarizing filter in the monitor already - if you were counting, you knew we need 3 filters to do this). Rotate one pair of sunglasses until the LCD looks completely dark; that's 90 degrees to the polarizing filter in the monitor. Then put the 2nd pair of sunglasses between the LCD and the 1st pair of glasses, tilted at a 45 degree angle... you'll discover that some light gets through, even though the first filter is still at 90 degrees to the filter in the LCD.
Unpolarized light from the sun is very uniform in term of linear polarizations
And the transmission coefficient of that unpolarized light - a uniform mixture of linear polarizations - is 50%. You practically just quoted the passage from Wikipedia. I'm not sure if that means you didn't read it, or read it and just didn't understand it.
Sunlight is fully unpolarized, therefore it will not be hindered by polarization... polarizing has no effect on brightness of unpolarized light (beyond the impact of filter's imperfect optical properties of course).
A beam of unpolarized light can be thought of as containing a uniform mixture of linear polarizations at all possible angles. Since the average value of cos^2 theta is 1/2, the transmission coefficient becomes I / Io = 1/2.
You need to just quit whining. "Black Friday" refers to Friday the 13th, or any Friday on which a catastrophe occurs. The only reason the day after Thanksgiving is called "Black Friday" is because the Philly PD started calling it that:
JANUARY 1966 -- "Black Friday" is the name which the Philadelphia Police Department has given to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. It is not a term of endearment to them. "Black Friday" officially opens the Christmas shopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing.
That's because alcohol is so damn easy to make. Ever heard of somebody running an illegal distillery, or, even more common (and legal), brewing their own beer? It's easier to make it yourself (legally, even) than it is to find someone who makes and sells it illegally.
It doesn't matter if it's inflammable. The fire department wants to know about any and all chemicals that could create toxic vapors when they're subjected to high temperatures, even if they're not themselves a fire hazard.
Slashdot Mirror
By which you mean it's limited to a finite number of sites?
The number of sites they can check for is also finite.
The number of sites in my history/cache is also finite.
Note currently it's "yes" or "no", and "no" is indistinguishable from "blocked". They could make it slightly more reliable if they actively checked to see if I was blocking (e.g. Grooveshark pops up a warning box if it can't load the facebook integration).
AdBlock Plus lets you do that very easily.
e.g.
Block fsdn.com on third-party sites except slashdot.org
||fsdn.com^$third-party,domain=~slashdot.org
Block fbcdn.com on third-party sites except facebook.com, facebook.net, and fbcdn.net (write similar rules to block the other 3 facebook domains)
||fbcdn.com^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.net
Not me. But I did happen to have the portable edition handy, purely for testing purposes such as these, and I haven't updated it in a while.
But here, Opera 11.52 crashing hard under Win 7:
http://ompldr.org/vYmtscQ
This benchmark will crash Opera 11.01 (draws the Mandelbrot set).
Windows XP with 2.5 GB of RAM:
Opera silently dies at about 50% through the test, with 1:20 CPU time and 350 MB of RAM.
FF chugs away and finishes it, albeit somewhat slower than Opera... elapsed time 11:56, and eating 900 MB of RAM.
(Yes, it's specifically intended to bring any browser to its knees by overloading its DOM engine. It takes seconds to run the same exact code using a canvas for the output.)
No in Jurassic Park they didn't make Males.
Correct. It's hard to believe that somebody actually tried to correct you on that after you had corrected GP...
Females can in theory spontaneously reproduce... Males cannot.
Well, in mammals that's true... the Y chromosome causes male development. Birds (and lizards, I think) are the opposite, though... the male has two identical sex chromosomes, whereas the females have a dissimilar pair. Who knows, maybe that makes a difference?
With regards to rooster-to-hen transitions, apparently some of them have laid eggs: every now and then, a disease may cause a rooster to change its gender and become a hen, or vice-versa. Some of these roosters-turned-hens have actually laid eggs. Whether or not those eggs could be fertilized remains a mystery, but I don't see any reason why they could not.
Hen-to-rooster transitions, apparently, are sterile: The hen does not completely change into a rooster, however ... while the hen will no longer lay eggs, she won't be fathering any offspring, either
So... you never know.
Versions 7 & 8 were both huge improvements.
Something which can be accessed, exploited, and used to inject packets from a "trusted" inside-the-network IP address, bypassing firewalls and thus allowing you to exploit other machines which would normally be protected.
Even better if it's something that will likely be missed when they notice the infection and try to clean up their network, so that it can re-infect all their computers again afterward.
The point isn't that the network is poorly protected. The point is that someday grandma or grandpa is going to get a virus that infects their printer and you're probably going to completely overlook it when you try to clean their system.
First words in that article: Ink is a liquid or paste.
If it's completely dry, it's not ink.
Floating rocks? I'm done with this conversation.
GP was very obviously referring to pumice.
Part where your hypothesis falls apart is where you assume that losing one dimension of the wave of light from the Sun reduces the amount of luminance carried by the wave of light from the Sun. This is false.
It's not false. It does, and necessarily so. It's the same reason which allows LCD displays to vary between completely dark and completely light. As the angle between the polarization of the light varies with the angle of the filter, the intensity will be reduced by the cosine of that angle.
If you put two polarizing filters in line (with their polarizations aligned to each other), the second filter will not significantly diminish the intensity of the light passing through the first. However, if you rotate the 2nd filter 45 degrees in relation to the first, then it will block about 50% of the light passing through the first filter - even though all of that light was of the "wrong" polarization to this filter (wrong by 45 degrees, to be specific). It is reduced to the cosine of 45 degrees, which is 50%.
As a matter of fact, if the 2nd filter is rotated 90 degrees in relation to the first filter, it will block all of the light (nearly, since it's not a perfect filter) - but if you place a 3rd filter between them, rotated 45 degrees in relation to both of them, you get more light through the 3 filters than you did through the original 2.
If you want to test this, just take two pairs of polarizing sunglasses (or pop the 2 lenses out of one pair of polarizing sunglasses) and use an LCD computer monitor (there's a polarizing filter in the monitor already - if you were counting, you knew we need 3 filters to do this). Rotate one pair of sunglasses until the LCD looks completely dark; that's 90 degrees to the polarizing filter in the monitor. Then put the 2nd pair of sunglasses between the LCD and the 1st pair of glasses, tilted at a 45 degree angle... you'll discover that some light gets through, even though the first filter is still at 90 degrees to the filter in the LCD.
Unpolarized light from the sun is very uniform in term of linear polarizations
And the transmission coefficient of that unpolarized light - a uniform mixture of linear polarizations - is 50%. You practically just quoted the passage from Wikipedia. I'm not sure if that means you didn't read it, or read it and just didn't understand it.
Sunlight is fully unpolarized, therefore it will not be hindered by polarization ... polarizing has no effect on brightness of unpolarized light (beyond the impact of filter's imperfect optical properties of course).
You are wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarizer#Malus.27_law_and_other_properties
A beam of unpolarized light can be thought of as containing a uniform mixture of linear polarizations at all possible angles. Since the average value of cos^2 theta is 1/2, the transmission coefficient becomes I / Io = 1/2.
Trust me... I know.
Anecdotal, but my brother does.
Seize those too.
Reading comprehension fail. I never said anything about the form of the verb "gets", and nobody used it.
GGGP said "get's". GGP thought that the 's made "get" plural.
Both of them were wrong.
GGGP should have said "gets", and adding 's does not make a word plural. It's either possessive or a contraction.
You need to just quit whining. "Black Friday" refers to Friday the 13th, or any Friday on which a catastrophe occurs. The only reason the day after Thanksgiving is called "Black Friday" is because the Philly PD started calling it that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)#Origin_of_the_term
JANUARY 1966 -- "Black Friday" is the name which the Philadelphia Police Department has given to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. It is not a term of endearment to them. "Black Friday" officially opens the Christmas shopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing.
Grammar fail. Adding 's does not make a word plural.
Liquid crystals to turn on/off an optical pathway.
...slowly
I'm weaning myself off it by cutting it to 60% with ethanol.
YOU are being arbitrary.
You arbitrarily limited its use to "smoking", and decided that it's harmful.
More facts, indeed. There are ways to use marijuana without smoking it.
That's because alcohol is so damn easy to make. Ever heard of somebody running an illegal distillery, or, even more common (and legal), brewing their own beer? It's easier to make it yourself (legally, even) than it is to find someone who makes and sells it illegally.
It doesn't matter if it's inflammable. The fire department wants to know about any and all chemicals that could create toxic vapors when they're subjected to high temperatures, even if they're not themselves a fire hazard.
Water most definitely has a flavor. Filtering removes the other flavors.