It is kinda of interesting how some of you have run to an unfalsifiable "metastable climate" theory when the other projections didn't quite pan out.
It's not science. It's pretty much exactly the same tactic religion uses with the "second coming" rhetoric.
Repent your environmental sins now, because at any point there could be a massive change. It's the perfect solution for ongoing fear mongering, without having to bother with things like science or testability of the theory.
The prudent thing to do is to prevent the governments from subsidizing bad environmental policies, like wasting all the dent corn on ethanol, growing so much dent corn in the first place, holding fossil energy prices artificially low through price controls, etc.
If the government doesn't fuck it up, the world will adapt. If vested interests manage to preserve a status quo that makes less and less sense as the environment changes through government collusion and interference with the market, then we will be fucked in a much larger way.
Not really. If someone got your DB they could collide (i.e. crack, albiet not necessarily getting the original password, but one that would work for logging in) all the passwords in a trivial amount of time.
Finding a collision in a 24 bit output space, even with brute force and a fixed length requirement, could probably be done in under a second.
It's inevitable. Fossil sources will keep increasing in price slowly as extraction becomes more complex and expensive. We have enough coal and oil for at least another hundred years, but it's getting harder to extract. At some point it won't have a positive EROEI anymore and we'll have to stop using it as an energy source because it won't make economic sense to do so anymore.
The only thing that could possibly make this situation into a disaster is governments passing price controls that artificially lower the prices of fossil energies. That's the worst case scenario and something that must be prevented at all costs.
Despite all the federal reserve attempts to "stimulate" the economy, people are still inexplicably (as far as Keynesians are concerned) paying down debt and acting with financial responsibility, and even driving less.
On the whole, people act in a rational way, just not in the way that central-control manipulators necessarily want them to.
Because all the stupid government programs to turn all our dent corn into inefficient alcohol, and the fed printing US money like crazy, those things have nothing to do with food price inflation?
A couple well connected people taking an idea straight to the foundation and the foundation ramming the idea down the throat of the community is nothing like the normal process.
The community would never accept the "Wikipedian in Residence" idea, for example. It's pretty much a built-in conflict of interest.
The burden is on you here. Show me the big community-wide discussions that lead to the creation of this GLAM stuff. They don't exist.
GLAM wasn't created by normal Wikipedia editors. It was something the foundation made up to draw in people who don't really give a shit about open source type ideals.
It's not really a surprise that it would end this way.
If they are skimming money consistently, then by definition they are still adding liquidity. You can't make money off of arbitrage unless there's a market inefficiency to be corrected.
If by "cutting edge" you mean "finding some extremely obscure niche that no one else has cared enough about to write many papers on, and then writing some papers on that", then yes, that's exactly what a PhD is.
If you mean actually creating new things, that's left to people that do actual work in the real world, not academics.
That's not the case. In addition to the internal stuff the examiners do, the USPTO also has the peer to patent project to crowdsource prior art on participating patents.
That's not entirely true. The patent examiner is supposed to weed out patents that fail novelty or obviousness tests. Provisional applications are not examined, but real patents are.
Slashdot Mirror
All of the above?
It is kinda of interesting how some of you have run to an unfalsifiable "metastable climate" theory when the other projections didn't quite pan out.
It's not science. It's pretty much exactly the same tactic religion uses with the "second coming" rhetoric.
Repent your environmental sins now, because at any point there could be a massive change. It's the perfect solution for ongoing fear mongering, without having to bother with things like science or testability of the theory.
The prudent thing to do is to prevent the governments from subsidizing bad environmental policies, like wasting all the dent corn on ethanol, growing so much dent corn in the first place, holding fossil energy prices artificially low through price controls, etc.
If the government doesn't fuck it up, the world will adapt. If vested interests manage to preserve a status quo that makes less and less sense as the environment changes through government collusion and interference with the market, then we will be fucked in a much larger way.
Not really. If someone got your DB they could collide (i.e. crack, albiet not necessarily getting the original password, but one that would work for logging in) all the passwords in a trivial amount of time.
Finding a collision in a 24 bit output space, even with brute force and a fixed length requirement, could probably be done in under a second.
The 1984 version of cognitive dissonance.
You can't legislate out stigma.
The people who actually work for a living will always be resentful of the moochers. That can't be changed by calling it a right.
It's inevitable. Fossil sources will keep increasing in price slowly as extraction becomes more complex and expensive. We have enough coal and oil for at least another hundred years, but it's getting harder to extract. At some point it won't have a positive EROEI anymore and we'll have to stop using it as an energy source because it won't make economic sense to do so anymore.
The only thing that could possibly make this situation into a disaster is governments passing price controls that artificially lower the prices of fossil energies. That's the worst case scenario and something that must be prevented at all costs.
People aren't that stupid.
Despite all the federal reserve attempts to "stimulate" the economy, people are still inexplicably (as far as Keynesians are concerned) paying down debt and acting with financial responsibility, and even driving less.
On the whole, people act in a rational way, just not in the way that central-control manipulators necessarily want them to.
The US mainly grows corn and soy because the government protects those industries from ever having to retool for more viable crops.
Because all the stupid government programs to turn all our dent corn into inefficient alcohol, and the fed printing US money like crazy, those things have nothing to do with food price inflation?
With 50-100 years to adapt, I'm sure it'll be fine. We survive much more immediate disruptions from natural disasters every year.
He was already rich when he started Wikipedia.
"longtime Wikipedian"
A couple well connected people taking an idea straight to the foundation and the foundation ramming the idea down the throat of the community is nothing like the normal process.
The community would never accept the "Wikipedian in Residence" idea, for example. It's pretty much a built-in conflict of interest.
The burden is on you here. Show me the big community-wide discussions that lead to the creation of this GLAM stuff. They don't exist.
GLAM wasn't created by normal Wikipedia editors. It was something the foundation made up to draw in people who don't really give a shit about open source type ideals.
It's not really a surprise that it would end this way.
Articles like those get a lot of elementary school students messing with them, which is why they are often semi-protected.
the same pattern as the previous campaigns against science on smoking, passive smoke, ozone depletion and acid rain
So pretty much all the liberal-boogeyman scare science.
If your work is paid for with government money, your work emails should be public. Simple as that.
You can use options to avoid limit sell crash losses. Instead of placing a limit sell you can buy a put.
Damn those "evil derivatives" and their benefits to the common investor.
If they are skimming money consistently, then by definition they are still adding liquidity. You can't make money off of arbitrage unless there's a market inefficiency to be corrected.
If by "cutting edge" you mean "finding some extremely obscure niche that no one else has cared enough about to write many papers on, and then writing some papers on that", then yes, that's exactly what a PhD is.
If you mean actually creating new things, that's left to people that do actual work in the real world, not academics.
Lotus v Borland, Apple v Microsoft
That's not the case. In addition to the internal stuff the examiners do, the USPTO also has the peer to patent project to crowdsource prior art on participating patents.
"Look and feel" was a copyright concept that has been pretty much universally struck down in court. It had nothing to do with utility patents.
That's not entirely true. The patent examiner is supposed to weed out patents that fail novelty or obviousness tests. Provisional applications are not examined, but real patents are.
The mars orbiters are already basically space wireless routers. If MRO weren't so broken, they'd have a high bandwidth relay link to earth through it.
The short range link between the lander and the orbiters is Proximity-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity-1_Space_Link_Protocol