They know when she died with a great degree of accuracy. they are also aware of lacerations on her neck, which aren't consistent with a heart attack. They have video footage showing the suspects car there at the same time.
Like I said, this is a view of some people. you are clearly not included in that group.
Do you look into the amount of man hours taken to produce everything you buy? Would you pay more for a slower delivery because it costs more to pay the delivery driver?
Some people - and I expect this view to be particularly common amongst the overly-logical coder types and slashdotters - is that the company is paying for a job to be done. If the job is done is a week or an hour, it makes no difference to the customer (in this case, a company).
Others consider it to be a relationship. The company does its best for the employee, and the employee does its best for the customer. Morally, then, if the company doesn't need you to do that job any more, you should tell them. Likewise, the company has a moral obligation to ensure you have a new job. Companies like this do exist, I believe.
There's also a view that a job as a sort of sacrifice. You sacrifice certain hours. The company rewards you. A lot of managers in large companies see it this was as well, since there is little tangible relationship between effort and company success. This seems to be how most people see it on some level. Earning money for not doing anything feels like cheating.
That last view is what is tripping people up. We're wired to think this way. People will think this is cheating even if, logically, they can't really argue it is.
I have a really hard time getting my head around how these troll accounts work.
For reasons that have yet to be explained, someone - likely a government agency - has decided to put resources into making nerds hate something.
These troll accounts are identifiable by - what exactly? Do they wear furry Russian hats? Is there an objective way of determining which are Russian Troll accounts and which are idiots on the internet? And how do they get followers in the first place? They can't influence anyone if they just follow each other, surely.
The guy was a bit of a kook. I could imagine he simply didn't trust the patent system.
The thing is, he could have sold it for millions as a trade secret. He was worried about doing that though, in case it was worth billions. While that makes sense on one level, in practice, he didn't sell it, so made £0.00
Yes. Some tasks have got a lot faster with the standard box of chips (primarily tasks that take advantage of GPUs), and a lot of tasks are faster on a single processor, as long as they take advantage of multithreading.
Honestly I'm a little surprised that clock speed increase seems to have slowed so much but an 8th generation i7 will knock compile times down a lot from a first gen.
Surely the quantum state collapses as soon as the state of the particle is measured. It's measured as soon as it affects things at a macroscopic level, not when someone looks at the measurement. So the cat is not simultaneously dead and alive. It's one or the other. Even without the cat, the geiger counter will have measured the state.
Nintendo obviously aren't willing to hold on to data for longer than it remains profitable. If someone decides to take a break for a few years then it may make sense to delete all information about them. At the very least, Nintendo wants to make sure it has this option.
Cost of storage and the bad PR means they probably won't. I feel those who do lose their data are in first world problems territory though.
I like your facebook friends. They seem like nice people.
A lot of my facebook friends repost any old political crap they've seen that happens to support their prejudices. I mean they're my friends and it's ultimately harmless, but it would be nice if they hadle a little more introspection here.
I'm actually okay with that. Or even just master and servant. I don't actually have a problem with master and slave, but as long as we keep the basic metaphor that one of them is in absolute control, and the other is just obeying commands, I don't really have a problem with different naming.
The problem with most of the suggestions, is that they don't indicate the relationship clearly. The ones mentiones in the summary are even worse in that they're ambiguous. "Parent" implies there's a hierarchy of children and grandchildren below the current node. Worker suggest a separate task busily beavering away at something typically on a separate thread.
Well, there's politeness and there's treading on eggshells.
You seem quite content, for example, to dismiss a viewpoint entirely and represent it in a negative way. Is that polite? Would it not be more polite to spend a little time understanding the alternative viewpoint and suggesting a compromise?
Most people like to watch on devices that don't offer a download option though. Smart TVs are much more convenient than plugging a laptop into the TV. And if you have a large collection, downloads can take up a fair chunk of hard disk space.
Given the way these are marketed we really should have the continued ability to access them.
AIs are great if you have this degree. AIs are based heavily on mathematics and statistics. Acturial science is all about mathematics and statistics. Someone has to build these things, and the skills are transferable.
This does make sense. Not only does it lead potentially to a career in a well paid industry, high levels of numeracy - not just arithmetic, but having a good intuitive understanding of what calculations mean and how probability works - are very useful in a lot of areas.
Connecting to a wireless router will also not always result in the same IP address either, I don't know where you get that idea from. DHCP doesn't work that way.
I was simplifying. I'm assuming that most people on slashdot know broadly how these things work.
My point is, if you have someone's IP address, then, you can work out which router was being used at that time. You can't say anything more. There could be a dozen or so devices attached to that network, with multiple users.
If, somehow, you have someone's MAC address (I'm not saying you can - this is the actual reason this technique wouldn't work), then, unless someone is making a deliberate attempt to spoof your MAC, you know which device it is.
This is a civil suit. It's not based on reasonable doubt, but preponderance of evidence. For the most part, people aren't going to be spoofing MAC addresses. If you can show that there is someone likely to do so then you can do so as a defence. Also, people are most likely to be the only person using a given device.
So, sure. Maybe someone else used your device. Or maybe someone spoofed the MAC address (and used it only at times you weren't there so the network actually works). But it's a less solid defence than the claim that someone else might have logged onto your open network.
You're not going inadvertantly do so though. If i wanted to spoof your MAC address, I'd need to explictly configure my hardware to do so, having found out what your MAC address is.
It's not something that will automatically happen for anyone who connects to your network. If you are connected to the same network then it won't even work.
So rather than the somewhat plausible defence that someone logged on to your home network, you're going for the somewhat less plausible claim that someone deliberately set you up.
They're at least reliable enough to infer a specific device, unless someone is actively trying to frame you. Connecting to a wireless router will always result in the same IP address.
It does seem like an odd strategy. It's a good idea but it feels like something that requires the self-driving part to work. I mean, maybe they have a business plan that involves licensing the designs once self driving cars are fully available, or maybe they'll actually get the product to market just in time but this seems like they're starting way too early.
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They know when she died with a great degree of accuracy. they are also aware of lacerations on her neck, which aren't consistent with a heart attack. They have video footage showing the suspects car there at the same time.
Evidence does not exist in a vacuum.
Like I said, this is a view of some people. you are clearly not included in that group.
Do you look into the amount of man hours taken to produce everything you buy? Would you pay more for a slower delivery because it costs more to pay the delivery driver?
Some people - and I expect this view to be particularly common amongst the overly-logical coder types and slashdotters - is that the company is paying for a job to be done. If the job is done is a week or an hour, it makes no difference to the customer (in this case, a company).
Others consider it to be a relationship. The company does its best for the employee, and the employee does its best for the customer. Morally, then, if the company doesn't need you to do that job any more, you should tell them. Likewise, the company has a moral obligation to ensure you have a new job. Companies like this do exist, I believe.
There's also a view that a job as a sort of sacrifice. You sacrifice certain hours. The company rewards you. A lot of managers in large companies see it this was as well, since there is little tangible relationship between effort and company success. This seems to be how most people see it on some level. Earning money for not doing anything feels like cheating.
That last view is what is tripping people up. We're wired to think this way. People will think this is cheating even if, logically, they can't really argue it is.
I have a really hard time getting my head around how these troll accounts work.
For reasons that have yet to be explained, someone - likely a government agency - has decided to put resources into making nerds hate something.
These troll accounts are identifiable by - what exactly? Do they wear furry Russian hats? Is there an objective way of determining which are Russian Troll accounts and which are idiots on the internet? And how do they get followers in the first place? They can't influence anyone if they just follow each other, surely.
Yes. He was something of a regular on Tomorrow's World. Must have been the 80's (because I saw it and remember very little about the 70's).
The guy was a bit of a kook. I could imagine he simply didn't trust the patent system.
The thing is, he could have sold it for millions as a trade secret. He was worried about doing that though, in case it was worth billions. While that makes sense on one level, in practice, he didn't sell it, so made £0.00
Yes. Some tasks have got a lot faster with the standard box of chips (primarily tasks that take advantage of GPUs), and a lot of tasks are faster on a single processor, as long as they take advantage of multithreading.
Honestly I'm a little surprised that clock speed increase seems to have slowed so much but an 8th generation i7 will knock compile times down a lot from a first gen.
Surely the quantum state collapses as soon as the state of the particle is measured. It's measured as soon as it affects things at a macroscopic level, not when someone looks at the measurement. So the cat is not simultaneously dead and alive. It's one or the other. Even without the cat, the geiger counter will have measured the state.
Nintendo obviously aren't willing to hold on to data for longer than it remains profitable. If someone decides to take a break for a few years then it may make sense to delete all information about them. At the very least, Nintendo wants to make sure it has this option.
Cost of storage and the bad PR means they probably won't. I feel those who do lose their data are in first world problems territory though.
I like your facebook friends. They seem like nice people.
A lot of my facebook friends repost any old political crap they've seen that happens to support their prejudices. I mean they're my friends and it's ultimately harmless, but it would be nice if they hadle a little more introspection here.
I'm actually okay with that. Or even just master and servant. I don't actually have a problem with master and slave, but as long as we keep the basic metaphor that one of them is in absolute control, and the other is just obeying commands, I don't really have a problem with different naming.
The problem with most of the suggestions, is that they don't indicate the relationship clearly. The ones mentiones in the summary are even worse in that they're ambiguous. "Parent" implies there's a hierarchy of children and grandchildren below the current node. Worker suggest a separate task busily beavering away at something typically on a separate thread.
Well, there's politeness and there's treading on eggshells.
You seem quite content, for example, to dismiss a viewpoint entirely and represent it in a negative way. Is that polite? Would it not be more polite to spend a little time understanding the alternative viewpoint and suggesting a compromise?
Most people like to watch on devices that don't offer a download option though. Smart TVs are much more convenient than plugging a laptop into the TV. And if you have a large collection, downloads can take up a fair chunk of hard disk space.
Given the way these are marketed we really should have the continued ability to access them.
AIs are great if you have this degree. AIs are based heavily on mathematics and statistics. Acturial science is all about mathematics and statistics. Someone has to build these things, and the skills are transferable.
This does make sense. Not only does it lead potentially to a career in a well paid industry, high levels of numeracy - not just arithmetic, but having a good intuitive understanding of what calculations mean and how probability works - are very useful in a lot of areas.
To be fair, these are Apple users. They don't want to spend $20 for something that if they can spend the extra $60 on something cooler.
I was simplifying. I'm assuming that most people on slashdot know broadly how these things work.
My point is, if you have someone's IP address, then, you can work out which router was being used at that time. You can't say anything more. There could be a dozen or so devices attached to that network, with multiple users.
If, somehow, you have someone's MAC address (I'm not saying you can - this is the actual reason this technique wouldn't work), then, unless someone is making a deliberate attempt to spoof your MAC, you know which device it is.
This is a civil suit. It's not based on reasonable doubt, but preponderance of evidence. For the most part, people aren't going to be spoofing MAC addresses. If you can show that there is someone likely to do so then you can do so as a defence. Also, people are most likely to be the only person using a given device.
So, sure. Maybe someone else used your device. Or maybe someone spoofed the MAC address (and used it only at times you weren't there so the network actually works). But it's a less solid defence than the claim that someone else might have logged onto your open network.
Okay. Spoof my MAC address then.
No, I'm not telling you what it is.
Oh, I want you to use my network as well. At the same time as me. Not sure what happens if you have two identical MAC addresses on the same network.
You're not going inadvertantly do so though. If i wanted to spoof your MAC address, I'd need to explictly configure my hardware to do so, having found out what your MAC address is.
It's not something that will automatically happen for anyone who connects to your network. If you are connected to the same network then it won't even work.
So rather than the somewhat plausible defence that someone logged on to your home network, you're going for the somewhat less plausible claim that someone deliberately set you up.
They're at least reliable enough to infer a specific device, unless someone is actively trying to frame you. Connecting to a wireless router will always result in the same IP address.
Hey, my grandfather was killed when a coal power station fell on him!
Well, what do I know? I'm just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit.
Most cars aren't designed to drive the entire journey in reverse.
It does seem like an odd strategy. It's a good idea but it feels like something that requires the self-driving part to work. I mean, maybe they have a business plan that involves licensing the designs once self driving cars are fully available, or maybe they'll actually get the product to market just in time but this seems like they're starting way too early.
I'm guessing there are some antennas optimised for the frequency range used by US digital TV broadcasts. Either that or it's snake oil.