No, it's more like an address. Basically, the lines represent the period of a bunch of different pulsars and their distance from our sun. The idea is that if E.T. happens to know three (I think) or more of these pulsars, and happens to read binary, he might go "aha!" and find us and steal our water and/or women.
I believe Mr. von Lohmann is uniquely qualified to wonder out loud what the P2P solution might be. Whether or not you believe his solution is viable, you cannot claim that he doesn't understand the problem. He probably knows more about it than all of the participants in this discussion put together, and his job is to think about it all the time.
The EFF and Mr. von Lohmann are probably the P2P communities' best friend right now, and in the realm of law they are the only ones fighting the good fight.
I'm afraid the truth is actually much worse. The black void pictured is identical to the one previously encountered, as can plainly be seen here.
It's the result of an 11,000 mile long space amoeba, which, if allowed to multiply, will threaten every living thing in this galaxy, starting with Spock.
this guy is apparently so keen on tabbed browsing, yet there is no sign of this on the horizon for Safari
Actually, there are more than signs of this on the horizon for Safari. A build was leaked that included tabbed browsing. Some genius put the build on his iDisk and posted it in a forum so many people have seen it.
It is of course horrible that someone was killed by this less intrusive surgery, when they might have lived with the more intrusive and more often performed traditional sternum-cracking surgery.
IANAMD, however I am certain it is not the first time that a new surgical technique designed to be less risky for the patient was actually more risky because of the novelty it presented the surgeons performing it. There's no way to leapfrog the novelty of the technique, but in the long run, for the general public, it will be less risky because it is less intrusive.
Re:Please, Deep Blue is not AI, chess is a limited
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but in the end chess is just billions of possible moves, and now that computers can process far enough into the game, they need never lose.
What you say is true is true, but in the past, chess seemed like a problem that computers would never "understand" and thus would always be second to humans. Even though the solution may not seem elegant, it nonetheless works.
This solution may not have been imaginable forty years ago. Perhaps forty years from now, we'll be able to brute force "a real thinking, feeling machine."
A great book for idiots like me on how true AI may be possible is Marvin Minsky's Society of the Mind.
Author of Sputnix here -- thanks for your kind comment.
Audiogalaxy is/was an excellent service, underrated by many because of the obnoxious spyware they unfortunately propagated. No other p2p music sharing comes close, especially when it comes to finding older or rarer recordings.
We are a culturally poorer country for the damage the RIAA has inflicted on our rights to fair use. This is a sad day -- it's not O.K. to say, "well just use Kazaa/Gnutella."
Jar Jar was actually the best possible combination of shapes and personalities and elements that
George wanted.
(emphasis mine)
translation:
Jar Jar was actually the best possible combination of shapes and personalities and elements that
anyone could make out of a sack of crap.
Yuck yuck yuck! If anyone involved in the conception and realization of JJ Binks ever qualifies him by saying "well, he was designed for kids" again, I am going to move to a different planet.
I just got off the phone with the Apple Store in Peabody. The kid I talked to said he thought they would have 10.1 on Saturday at the earliest, and that it would be free at the store. He said it was possible that some stores were burning CDs, but, since there was an official part # for the upgrade CD, that it was unlikely that such behavior was endorsed by Apple.
However, I didn't get the impression that he knew all there was to know. He stressed that it was not official that the update would be free in the physical stores.
Are there any have hard facts about whether or not the 10.1 upgrade will be available for free in the brick & mortar Apple Stores?
The press release states that the "free" upgrade will cost $20 for S&H direct from Apple, but I've heard rumors that the stores would let you pick it up for nothing.
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No, it's more like an address. Basically, the lines represent the period of a bunch of different pulsars and their distance from our sun. The idea is that if E.T. happens to know three (I think) or more of these pulsars, and happens to read binary, he might go "aha!" and find us and steal our water and/or women.
I believe Mr. von Lohmann is uniquely qualified to wonder out loud what the P2P solution might be. Whether or not you believe his solution is viable, you cannot claim that he doesn't understand the problem. He probably knows more about it than all of the participants in this discussion put together, and his job is to think about it all the time.
The EFF and Mr. von Lohmann are probably the P2P communities' best friend right now, and in the realm of law they are the only ones fighting the good fight.
Perhaps you can come up with a better idea, after doing a little research. I recommend in particular IAAL: Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and Copyright Law after Napster
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I'm afraid the truth is actually much worse. The black void pictured is identical to the one previously encountered, as can plainly be seen here.
It's the result of an 11,000 mile long space amoeba, which, if allowed to multiply, will threaten every living thing in this galaxy, starting with Spock.
Don't say I didn't warn you. Details and more details.
this guy is apparently so keen on tabbed browsing, yet there is no sign of this on the horizon for Safari
Actually, there are more than signs of this on the horizon for Safari. A build was leaked that included tabbed browsing. Some genius put the build on his iDisk and posted it in a forum so many people have seen it.
It is of course horrible that someone was killed by this less intrusive surgery, when they might have lived with the more intrusive and more often performed traditional sternum-cracking surgery.
IANAMD, however I am certain it is not the first time that a new surgical technique designed to be less risky for the patient was actually more risky because of the novelty it presented the surgeons performing it. There's no way to leapfrog the novelty of the technique, but in the long run, for the general public, it will be less risky because it is less intrusive.
but in the end chess is just billions of possible moves, and now that computers can process far enough into the game, they need never lose.
What you say is true is true, but in the past, chess seemed like a problem that computers would never "understand" and thus would always be second to humans. Even though the solution may not seem elegant, it nonetheless works.
This solution may not have been imaginable forty years ago. Perhaps forty years from now, we'll be able to brute force "a real thinking, feeling machine."
A great book for idiots like me on how true AI may be possible is Marvin Minsky's Society of the Mind.
Let's write a law to make it legal to hack* RIAA lawyers when we suspect them of "pirating" our money.
* hack meaning to chop into little pieces
Author of Sputnix here -- thanks for your kind comment.
Audiogalaxy is/was an excellent service, underrated by many because of the obnoxious spyware they unfortunately propagated. No other p2p music sharing comes close, especially when it comes to finding older or rarer recordings.
We are a culturally poorer country for the damage the RIAA has inflicted on our rights to fair use. This is a sad day -- it's not O.K. to say, "well just use Kazaa/Gnutella."
Support the EFF.
Colossus IS a great movie, and in my book, one of the ten best sci-fi movies of all time, although few people have even heard of it.
One reason it is overlooked is because its release was overshadowed by 2001: ASO.
I'd love to have Colossus on DVD, or any of the books (I think there were three) on which it was based.
(emphasis mine)
translation:
Yuck yuck yuck! If anyone involved in the conception and realization of JJ Binks ever qualifies him by saying "well, he was designed for kids" again, I am going to move to a different planet.
A small random group of subscribers will transparently receive the update followed by a slightly larger group.
Suggesting the users won't know they're beta testing, performing a service for Tivo? Can I get beta testers like that? They'd be much less uppity.
- a cool picture of a pink torus of plasma
- commercial fusion may be possible in "a few decades"
- that is all
I just got off the phone with the Apple Store in Peabody. The kid I talked to said he thought they would have 10.1 on Saturday at the earliest, and that it would be free at the store. He said it was possible that some stores were burning CDs, but, since there was an official part # for the upgrade CD, that it was unlikely that such behavior was endorsed by Apple.
However, I didn't get the impression that he knew all there was to know. He stressed that it was not official that the update would be free in the physical stores.
Are there any have hard facts about whether or not the 10.1 upgrade will be available for free in the brick & mortar Apple Stores?
The press release states that the "free" upgrade will cost $20 for S&H direct from Apple, but I've heard rumors that the stores would let you pick it up for nothing.
> it's no less theft-proof...it just takes a theif of a different calibur to pull it off
That's like saying steel is no less melt-proof than butter; it just takes a different temperature to pull it off.