Exactly. As a software developer, I often get bug reports. My standard reply is to ask for the (equivalent of) config files, because 99 % of the time, it is not a bug, but user error. In those cases, I can find the error in the user's files in far less time than it would take me to go bug-hunting in the project code. Conversely, when I submit bug-reports myself, I try to make a minimal case. If I can reproduce the bug with a fresh installation and default configuration, then I say so in the report.
The problem with that picture is the Senator putting him or herself into that position in the first place.
In an ideal world, senators would not be buying drugs online, tweeting pictures of their weiner, or doing other things that could be used to blackmail them. But this is the U.S. senate we're talking about.
There are quite a few people that think he's using the US as an excuse to avoid extradition.
...in particular since he could not be extradited from Sweden without the permission of the U.K., and if they were going to give that permission, why would they send him to Sweden at all? They could send him straight to the U.S. if they wanted to.
Like Polanski, he's a suspected rapist who might get away with it because he's popular.
In the mean time, Manning - the real hero of the story - is rotting in prison, and nobody seems to care half as much about him as they do Assange.
All this time I've been pissed at the nouveau drivers that came as default with my linux distribution. "NVIDIA's drivers are working perfectly" I thought. "Why the hell are you building something not as good, just to make it open source?"
From Wikipedia: "In a 1970 survey, the New York Times suggested a consensus definition of a minicomputer as a machine costing less than 25 000 USD, with an input-output device such as a teleprinter and at least 4K words of memory, that is capable of running programs in a higher level language, such as Fortran or Basic." It would seem this board meets the definition, as long as you connect it to some I/O device.
It's near-infrared - not infrared - whoever wrote TFA probably does not understand the distinciton. Essentially, the near-IR markings on the cards are too faint to see in normal light. You then wear lenses that diminish all light, except near-IR, by a factor 100 or so. The eye compensates for this, and as a result the markings become visible.
The viewing distance of a 30-inch monitor is not three times that of a 9-inch tablet. Most often, it's not even two times, so the monitor should have at least twice the number of pixels to give the same angular resolution. "Lack of demand in the marketplace" is just an assumption. Nobody has actually tried selling a high-res monitor at a reasonable price.
The macbook pro has 2880x1800, which is ok, and other laptop-makers are going to have to follow suit sooner or later. On the other hand, how come a $2000, 27-inch iMac, or a $1000, 30-inch monitor doesn't have more pixels than a $400 tablet?
The first part of my post was meant to be humorous. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear. And I didn't mean move closer to work - I meant move to a different continent, because your commute would have more blizzards then all of the United States combined.
If 10-20% of your commutes involve sitting for two hours in a blizzard, you should definitely think about moving. Still, the next model Leaf will have more efficient heating, so that may solve your problem.
"[NAND memory] isn't getting any cheaper" combined with "they will always be ten times the cost of a hard drive" could mean either:(a) both SSD:s and spinning drives will suddenly stop getting cheaper for no apparent reason or (b) Whoever wrote TFA and TFS are morons who doesn't realize that the first statement doesn't follow from the second.
Pointing at year-to-year variations in order to prove or disprove a phenomenon that has a time-scale of decades is stupid, no matter which side of the argument you're on. This is like saying you don't believe winter will be cold, because the weather is actually warmer today than it was last week.
Looking at the numbers, it is fair to assume that these requests could all relate to crimes. 12 400 requests in 0.5 years translates to about 8 requests per year per 100 000 population. (The homicide rate in the US is about 5 per year per 100 000 population, and that's not the only crime that might warrant acessing a suspect's email.)
Exactly! Why manufacture something that nobody is using?
This reminds me of this company that I know of, that has a beautiful working prototype for a flying car. It is awesome in every way, just like in Blade Runner. This prototype has been sitting around since the late nineties, but they decided not to take it into production. Why? Because nobody uses friggin' flyin cars.
Anyways. I hope people start using flying cars soon, so that companies can start producing them.
They have actually been very ufront with what they are doing. They spy on anyone, as long as there's a 51 probablity that he/she is not an american. (source)
This is what the relevant part of the PRISM code actually looks like: boolean OK_to_spy(individual *TARGET) {
if( US_POPULATION < 0.51 * DATABASE_SIZE)
return TRUE;
else
error("Database is too small."); }
The problem here is that we, as humans, are very bad at working with probabilities. When asked "how likely is... ?" we mentally substitute the question "how easily can I think of examples of... ?"
Try it yourself. Which of the below do you think is more likely: * A child or teenager in the U.S. is kidnapped by a stranger (not a family member or aquaintance.) * A child or teenager in the U.S. is killed or injured in an accident involving a gun.
If you're an average American, and unless you googled the statistics first, you probably said that stereotypical kidnappings are more common than gun accidents. After all, we hear about it in the news all the time, and you can probably name a few children that were abducted. Therefore you'd worry if our child goes out by himself, but feel quite safe leaving him unsupervised at home with a gun in the house.
In fact, gun accidents are much more common. There are about a hundred stereotypical kidnapppings a year in the U.S. but about a thousand gun accidents involving children and teenagers. (If we only look at fataiities, there are also more children killed in gun accidents than by non-family, non-aquaintance kinappers.)
When it comes to guns, we can very easily think of scenarios where we pulls out our gun and save the day. This happens all the time in movies, and although it happens rarely in reality it gets much publicity when it does, so in our minds it is a common occurence.
We have a much harder time imagining the statistically more likely scenario that someone else gets hold of our gun and hurts somebody with it.
A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used in a completed or attempted suicide (11 times more likely), a criminal assault or homicide (seven times more likely), or unintentional shooting death or injury (four times more likely) than in a self-defense shooting. (Source)
Statistically speaking, a gun with a personalization system that is so bad that it never allows the gun to fire would still be safer for the gun-owner and his family than a gun with no personalization. Still people worry about the remote possibility that "the gun might not fire in that critical moment."
1: Don't need another point of failure introduced, if the reader doesn't recognize it's owner at the worst possible moment when he needs to fire a gun.
There are also those who argue that you shouldn't wear your seat-belt because it may prevent you from getting out if your car in on fire. (I'm not making this up!) Both arguments are equally stupid, and for the same reasons.
2: Price hike. I expect there would be a hefty price jump with these newfangled electronic gizmos.
Not if they made mandatory. I'd expect the price-hikes will be comparable to what happended when the FCC announced that emergency GPS location will be mandatory in cell-phones (I.e. no price-hike at all. Electronics is cheap to mass-produce.)
3: Remote killswitch? The police can kill your car's engine and disable your gun with a simple command. So can hackers.
I don't think anybody is proposing to include a remote killswitch.
Also, are batteries included? I don't think people want to charge up their guns, unless they're shooting plasma bolts.
Guns need to be dissassembled and cleaned on a regular basis. Charging or replacing a battery does not add much to that procedure.
Good point. I should, of course, have said: I can't think of any company that buys senators of only one conviction except when that conviction is to further said company's interests.
Bah. I'm pretty sure that Apple also buys senators of every kind (just like every big company in the U.S.) The data is mostly public. I can't think of any company that pays only senators of a certain conviction.
Stabilizing the sensor does not work when filming with rectilnear lenses. Nearly all lenses are rectilinear, which means they scale the image differently in different parts of the field of view. If you move the sensor to stabilize the movie, then objects will appear to strech and contract as if they were made of Jell-O.
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Exactly. As a software developer, I often get bug reports. My standard reply is to ask for the (equivalent of) config files, because 99 % of the time, it is not a bug, but user error. In those cases, I can find the error in the user's files in far less time than it would take me to go bug-hunting in the project code.
Conversely, when I submit bug-reports myself, I try to make a minimal case. If I can reproduce the bug with a fresh installation and default configuration, then I say so in the report.
The problem with that picture is the Senator putting him or herself into that position in the first place.
In an ideal world, senators would not be buying drugs online, tweeting pictures of their weiner, or doing other things that could be used to blackmail them. But this is the U.S. senate we're talking about.
There are quite a few people that think he's using the US as an excuse to avoid extradition.
...in particular since he could not be extradited from Sweden without the permission of the U.K., and if they were going to give that permission, why would they send him to Sweden at all? They could send him straight to the U.S. if they wanted to.
Like Polanski, he's a suspected rapist who might get away with it because he's popular.
In the mean time, Manning - the real hero of the story - is rotting in prison, and nobody seems to care half as much about him as they do Assange.
All this time I've been pissed at the nouveau drivers that came as default with my linux distribution. "NVIDIA's drivers are working perfectly" I thought. "Why the hell are you building something not as good, just to make it open source?"
Now I know.
From Wikipedia: "In a 1970 survey, the New York Times suggested a consensus definition of a minicomputer as a machine costing less than 25 000 USD, with an input-output device such as a teleprinter and at least 4K words of memory, that is capable of running programs in a higher level language, such as Fortran or Basic."
It would seem this board meets the definition, as long as you connect it to some I/O device.
It's near-infrared - not infrared - whoever wrote TFA probably does not understand the distinciton. Essentially, the near-IR markings on the cards are too faint to see in normal light. You then wear lenses that diminish all light, except near-IR, by a factor 100 or so. The eye compensates for this, and as a result the markings become visible.
I found this by googling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCO2y0zszyE
The viewing distance of a 30-inch monitor is not three times that of a 9-inch tablet. Most often, it's not even two times, so the monitor should have at least twice the number of pixels to give the same angular resolution.
"Lack of demand in the marketplace" is just an assumption. Nobody has actually tried selling a high-res monitor at a reasonable price.
The macbook pro has 2880x1800, which is ok, and other laptop-makers are going to have to follow suit sooner or later.
On the other hand, how come a $2000, 27-inch iMac, or a $1000, 30-inch monitor doesn't have more pixels than a $400 tablet?
Only 49 % fucked.
The robot won't kill you unless it is at least 51 percent certain that you're not a U.S. citizen...
Those who are paying him are using fradulent methods to inflate view counters, so they want to stay anonymous.
The first part of my post was meant to be humorous. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear. And I didn't mean move closer to work - I meant move to a different continent, because your commute would have more blizzards then all of the United States combined.
If 10-20% of your commutes involve sitting for two hours in a blizzard, you should definitely think about moving. Still, the next model Leaf will have more efficient heating, so that may solve your problem.
"[NAND memory] isn't getting any cheaper" combined with "they will always be ten times the cost of a hard drive" could mean either:(a) both SSD:s and spinning drives will suddenly stop getting cheaper for no apparent reason or (b) Whoever wrote TFA and TFS are morons who doesn't realize that the first statement doesn't follow from the second.
I'm guessing (b).
Pointing at year-to-year variations in order to prove or disprove a phenomenon that has a time-scale of decades is stupid, no matter which side of the argument you're on. This is like saying you don't believe winter will be cold, because the weather is actually warmer today than it was last week.
Looking at the numbers, it is fair to assume that these requests could all relate to crimes. 12 400 requests in 0.5 years translates to about 8 requests per year per 100 000 population. (The homicide rate in the US is about 5 per year per 100 000 population, and that's not the only crime that might warrant acessing a suspect's email.)
Just wait a few weeks until they find out that 1800 mSv is the maximum reading on the new instrument.
they are dumb because nothing supports 8 cores
Exactly! Why manufacture something that nobody is using?
This reminds me of this company that I know of, that has a beautiful working prototype for a flying car. It is awesome in every way, just like in Blade Runner. This prototype has been sitting around since the late nineties, but they decided not to take it into production. Why? Because nobody uses friggin' flyin cars.
Anyways. I hope people start using flying cars soon, so that companies can start producing them.
They have actually been very ufront with what they are doing. They spy on anyone, as long as there's a 51 probablity that he/she is not an american. (source)
This is what the relevant part of the PRISM code actually looks like:
boolean OK_to_spy(individual *TARGET) {
if( US_POPULATION < 0.51 * DATABASE_SIZE)
return TRUE;
else
error("Database is too small.");
}
Except, you don't invisible. No matter what color your wetsuit is, your body blocks light. From below you look like a dark silhouette against the sky.
This patent is about making money, not saving lives.
That's easy to prevent.
The problem here is that we, as humans, are very bad at working with probabilities. When asked "how likely is ... ?" we mentally substitute the question "how easily can I think of examples of ... ?"
Try it yourself. Which of the below do you think is more likely:
* A child or teenager in the U.S. is kidnapped by a stranger (not a family member or aquaintance.)
* A child or teenager in the U.S. is killed or injured in an accident involving a gun.
If you're an average American, and unless you googled the statistics first, you probably said that stereotypical kidnappings are more common than gun accidents. After all, we hear about it in the news all the time, and you can probably name a few children that were abducted. Therefore you'd worry if our child goes out by himself, but feel quite safe leaving him unsupervised at home with a gun in the house.
In fact, gun accidents are much more common. There are about a hundred stereotypical kidnapppings a year in the U.S. but about a thousand gun accidents involving children and teenagers. (If we only look at fataiities, there are also more children killed in gun accidents than by non-family, non-aquaintance kinappers.)
When it comes to guns, we can very easily think of scenarios where we pulls out our gun and save the day. This happens all the time in movies, and although it happens rarely in reality it gets much publicity when it does, so in our minds it is a common occurence.
We have a much harder time imagining the statistically more likely scenario that someone else gets hold of our gun and hurts somebody with it.
A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used in a completed or attempted suicide (11 times more likely), a criminal assault or homicide (seven times more likely), or unintentional shooting death or injury (four times more likely) than in a self-defense shooting. (Source)
Statistically speaking, a gun with a personalization system that is so bad that it never allows the gun to fire would still be safer for the gun-owner and his family than a gun with no personalization. Still people worry about the remote possibility that "the gun might not fire in that critical moment."
1: Don't need another point of failure introduced, if the reader doesn't recognize it's owner at the worst possible moment when he needs to fire a gun.
There are also those who argue that you shouldn't wear your seat-belt because it may prevent you from getting out if your car in on fire. (I'm not making this up!) Both arguments are equally stupid, and for the same reasons.
2: Price hike. I expect there would be a hefty price jump with these newfangled electronic gizmos.
Not if they made mandatory. I'd expect the price-hikes will be comparable to what happended when the FCC announced that emergency GPS location will be mandatory in cell-phones (I.e. no price-hike at all. Electronics is cheap to mass-produce.)
3: Remote killswitch? The police can kill your car's engine and disable your gun with a simple command. So can hackers.
I don't think anybody is proposing to include a remote killswitch.
Also, are batteries included? I don't think people want to charge up their guns, unless they're shooting plasma bolts.
Guns need to be dissassembled and cleaned on a regular basis. Charging or replacing a battery does not add much to that procedure.
Good point. I should, of course, have said: I can't think of any company that buys senators of only one conviction except when that conviction is to further said company's interests.
Bah. I'm pretty sure that Apple also buys senators of every kind (just like every big company in the U.S.) The data is mostly public. I can't think of any company that pays only senators of a certain conviction.
Stabilizing the sensor does not work when filming with rectilnear lenses. Nearly all lenses are rectilinear, which means they scale the image differently in different parts of the field of view. If you move the sensor to stabilize the movie, then objects will appear to strech and contract as if they were made of Jell-O.