Well sure. But being able to carry around antimatter in a box (or rather a shipping container) would be nice, and I suspect very useful for physics (letting labs around the world get a supply for study from somewhere bigger).
And think of the surprise on the face of the TSA guy who opens it!
Do you have a formal process for versioning and versioning software? When you stated that you have seen bugs that you fixed crop again it brings to mind people not using the production version piece of code, modifiying it then putting it prod which can reintroduce previously fixed bugs. Good test plans/tools that get good coverage are important but you also need to have some sort of process in place when changing your codebase as well.
More likely what it means is that when they fix a bug once, they aren't incorporating a test for that bug into their test process or updating their documentation. Doing that prevents bugs from reincarnating. I've seen the same bug reappear in code 3 times because successive programmers thought there was a simpler way to do something and didn't realize that the current code dealt with special cases they hadn't considered.
Obviously, a good spec and a good test up front would have covered the special cases, prevented the bug in the first place and would have been cheaper than fixing it 3 times.
See? You're the perfect example of the bias I'm talking about. The account I read said that MacDougall was serious and genuinely attempting to weigh the soul. His own personal beliefs may have influenced him to get a positive result (much like the PSI studies) but I wouldn't call him a crank for that. Do you consider Michaelson and Morley cranks for trying to measure the aether?
I don't understand this. If the researchers did a proper experiment, respected the rules, followed proper procedures, and did a proper analysis of the data they collected, in a scientific way. Why is it a problem to publish ? So now we should bar publication that don't agree with our general conception ? If it was done considering the specific guidelines set by the scientific community of how to do things, screw them. Science is not a democratic process, nor it should be politically correct. Science is science.
According to the article refuting the study, what the PSI studies did was make many experiments and then look through them for statistically significant results. Given enough experiments you will always find some results that pass some significance test. What they should have done then was to retest just those results to see if they were real, or just normal variation, but they instead presented the results as though they were confirmed.
Your comment does hit on another area of bias, which is to discredit results we don't agree with rather than retry the experiments. My favorite example is Duncan MacDougall's experiment to prove the existence of the soul. Everybody discredits him but the experiment has never been repeated. So if anybody asks me, I will always say that the best scientific evidence is that there is a soul.
If it's very specific, why doesn't measuring the entropy of a system tell you what time it is or vice versa (unless you have a very simple system)? It's observational because it is not derived from other principals. Thank you for not trying to explain information theory to me.
Entropy is the observation that the universe becomes more disordered with time, establishing a measurable direction for time's arrow. Ultimately the heat death of the universe leaves all matter in the same state at the same temperature, completely disordered. Memory is the reverse - disordered in the past, more state in the future, with ultimately a complete memory of the entire history of the universe available to some future super-being. If entropy were the cause of our perception of moving through time, then what explains memory?
Why do you remember the past and not the future? "Hasn't happened yet" is a perception, not a physical characteristic of the world. The world just exists in 4 dimensions; it doesn't change. Living things perceive a direction of time.
It's ESP if the cause is believed to be a currently unknown sense or special power. If they are doing a scientific study on whether people can perceive the future with no conclusions about the cause, then it's not really about ESP.
No. In this case crazed researchers chanting "Free the Radicals" stormed the barricades, set fire to the labs and forced their theory of mitochondrial breakdown as the root cause of aging on everyone they found. Why do you ask?
Yea, what I was thinking exactly. This could be one of the most useless & non-damaging data breaches I've ever heard of. Some phone numbers, addresses and names.. What's exactly is a hacker going to do with this information?
Since TFA is down by now, and I can't get the exact details... does this mean that any program running and setting the right bits in the right registers can get "processor root" access to everything the processor does, irrespective of any security constraint the OS may place on that process?
Oh dear
Any program that can read and write to any processor register already has complete access to everything on your computer. The reason this is secret is not to protect your data, its to protect AMD's secrets.
This is true in the States too. I know a woman who used pepper spray on an attacker and was charged with violating Massachusetts gun laws. You must have a firearms ID card to carry pepper spray here.
I looked at the picture in the fine article: Oak Trail, Lincroft, Whitney Point, Langwell, and I thought they were talking about some suburban development in California.
I have been hearing lately that Apple is *worse* than Microsoft.
Please enlighten me how it is so.
Neither is "worse". They are both just companies trying to maximize profits. Neither wants unlicensed software to run on the hardware that they sell since it doesn't provide them with a continuing revenue stream.
As for the two different cases: The reason to unlock a phone is to use all of the capabilities of the hardware on any carrier. The reason Crippen was arrested was because the unlocked xboxes could run pirated games.
That said, why is tracking down software pirates a high DHS priority? They can't find anything else to do?
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Easy to use graphics tablets have been around since as early as 1969. The only reason mice are the standard is that they are cheap.
Harvesting antimatter is incredibly hard. ...
And you know this how?
I asked Barbie.
Well sure. But being able to carry around antimatter in a box (or rather a shipping container) would be nice, and I suspect very useful for physics (letting labs around the world get a supply for study from somewhere bigger).
And think of the surprise on the face of the TSA guy who opens it!
Do you have a formal process for versioning and versioning software? When you stated that you have seen bugs that you fixed crop again it brings to mind people not using the production version piece of code, modifiying it then putting it prod which can reintroduce previously fixed bugs. Good test plans/tools that get good coverage are important but you also need to have some sort of process in place when changing your codebase as well.
More likely what it means is that when they fix a bug once, they aren't incorporating a test for that bug into their test process or updating their documentation. Doing that prevents bugs from reincarnating. I've seen the same bug reappear in code 3 times because successive programmers thought there was a simpler way to do something and didn't realize that the current code dealt with special cases they hadn't considered.
Obviously, a good spec and a good test up front would have covered the special cases, prevented the bug in the first place and would have been cheaper than fixing it 3 times.
"some crank trying to weigh souls?"
See? You're the perfect example of the bias I'm talking about. The account I read said that MacDougall was serious and genuinely attempting to weigh the soul. His own personal beliefs may have influenced him to get a positive result (much like the PSI studies) but I wouldn't call him a crank for that. Do you consider Michaelson and Morley cranks for trying to measure the aether?
too bad I don't have enough money to stay in college until I am 50 to figure it out.
Slashdot should offer a Bachelor's degree. BSBS seems like the appropriate letters.
So your GPS only outputs 1 number for your position? Mine gives me latitude, longitude and height (and time of course).
I don't understand this. If the researchers did a proper experiment, respected the rules, followed proper procedures, and did a proper analysis of the data they collected, in a scientific way. Why is it a problem to publish ?
So now we should bar publication that don't agree with our general conception ? If it was done considering the specific guidelines set by the scientific community of how to do things, screw them. Science is not a democratic process, nor it should be politically correct. Science is science.
According to the article refuting the study, what the PSI studies did was make many experiments and then look through them for statistically significant results. Given enough experiments you will always find some results that pass some significance test. What they should have done then was to retest just those results to see if they were real, or just normal variation, but they instead presented the results as though they were confirmed.
Your comment does hit on another area of bias, which is to discredit results we don't agree with rather than retry the experiments. My favorite example is Duncan MacDougall's experiment to prove the existence of the soul. Everybody discredits him but the experiment has never been repeated. So if anybody asks me, I will always say that the best scientific evidence is that there is a soul.
If it's very specific, why doesn't measuring the entropy of a system tell you what time it is or vice versa (unless you have a very simple system)? It's observational because it is not derived from other principals. Thank you for not trying to explain information theory to me.
Entropy is the observation that the universe becomes more disordered with time, establishing a measurable direction for time's arrow. Ultimately the heat death of the universe leaves all matter in the same state at the same temperature, completely disordered. Memory is the reverse - disordered in the past, more state in the future, with ultimately a complete memory of the entire history of the universe available to some future super-being. If entropy were the cause of our perception of moving through time, then what explains memory?
Why do you remember the past and not the future? "Hasn't happened yet" is a perception, not a physical characteristic of the world. The world just exists in 4 dimensions; it doesn't change. Living things perceive a direction of time.
It's ESP if the cause is believed to be a currently unknown sense or special power. If they are doing a scientific study on whether people can perceive the future with no conclusions about the cause, then it's not really about ESP.
To be fair, a one-man crusade is fairly easy to lift.
Tested and tried on basil and cannabis and capsicums.
Perhaps this explains his incredible results.
Shouldn't it be "widely" ?
No. In this case crazed researchers chanting "Free the Radicals" stormed the barricades, set fire to the labs and forced their theory of mitochondrial breakdown as the root cause of aging on everyone they found. Why do you ask?
Yea, what I was thinking exactly. This could be one of the most useless & non-damaging data breaches I've ever heard of. Some phone numbers, addresses and names.. What's exactly is a hacker going to do with this information?
Sell it to Jenny Craig?
Here ya go, grab those high paying jobs now:
http://alberta.jobs-open.ca/ab07-jo-8.php
liberals are so gullible.
But the Cost of Living Index is about 3% lower in Canada than US, so that is more than balanced out.
... and since the people that know it are dying off I think there were 3 new job openings last year.
Since TFA is down by now, and I can't get the exact details... does this mean that any program running and setting the right bits in the right registers can get "processor root" access to everything the processor does, irrespective of any security constraint the OS may place on that process?
Oh dear
Any program that can read and write to any processor register already has complete access to everything on your computer. The reason this is secret is not to protect your data, its to protect AMD's secrets.
This is true in the States too. I know a woman who used pepper spray on an attacker and was charged with violating Massachusetts gun laws. You must have a firearms ID card to carry pepper spray here.
To test your theory I have just stopped listening to Rihanna. hmmm - I detect no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever.
I looked at the picture in the fine article: Oak Trail, Lincroft, Whitney Point, Langwell, and I thought they were talking about some suburban development in California.
Feel free to run Halo on your phone.
I have been hearing lately that Apple is *worse* than Microsoft.
Please enlighten me how it is so.
Neither is "worse". They are both just companies trying to maximize profits. Neither wants unlicensed software to run on the hardware that they sell since it doesn't provide them with a continuing revenue stream.
As for the two different cases: The reason to unlock a phone is to use all of the capabilities of the hardware on any carrier. The reason Crippen was arrested was because the unlocked xboxes could run pirated games.
That said, why is tracking down software pirates a high DHS priority? They can't find anything else to do?