What a perfect (and missed) opportunity for NASA to use BitTorrent [bittorrent.com] instead of a huge zip file.
Unless I'm mistaken, making something available via BitTorrent does not relieve someone from having to download it. It simply provides a better distribution mechanism for the data, huge as it is.
Additionally, why do so many Slashdotters immediately apply general complains about privacy and liberty to something that's being constructed for schools.
Schools with little children are increasingly feeling the pressure to provide an Internet experience for children, but are terrified that the children will be exposed to inappropriate content or predatory personalities while online. In a class of 1-3 dozen children, depending on class size, a teacher plus helper cannot monitor everything every child does all the time. Not only is this about protecting the kids, it's about protecting the schools from lawsuits.
The school my children go to have really picky policies about what web sites the children can visit. They must be linked to from the school's home page and the children must not navigate more than one link from those approved sites.
The article summary even says that these would be provided to school administrators, so presumably the school would bring these out at the appropriate time and collect them when the students were finished. Giving them out to the kids to keep and carry around would be irresponsible.
These would be used for interaction with other people at sites for kids that supported these keys. This is not some Big Brother invention to tag us all with verifiable IDs, it's to help protect our children when they're in school, out of their parent's control.
For those of you chanting "parents should protect their own children", I'd like you to explain how you do that when they're in school. Require everyone to homeschool?
From the linked article, "The settlement bars the illegal practices in the future [...]"
Er, doesn't the law already bar illegal practices? If they mean, "if they do it again in the future, they'll get spanked even harder", why doesn't it just say that?
This is clearly another one of those lawyer-isms that just doesn't square with common sense.
Yup -- a company I used to work for (large international pharma, though I won't give the name), owns an entire Class A. They have about 40,000 employees [...]
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-spa ce
Hmmm, probably Ely Lilly, since Merck has about 50% more employees than that.
Not sure how this works in.us, but over here.au the deal is that if you remain connected to the same exchange then you can keep the same number, regardless of who you pay the bills to. But move up the street into the next exchange's zone, and you're up for a new number...
In.us, there are recent geographic portability rules that allow you to keep the same number across providers (wireless or wired) in the same geographic area. Move to another geographic area and you're out of luck.
The difference is akin to dropping a rock and hitting a dime and accomplishing the same task with a plumb bob. The difficulty level is lowered further if you are allowed to move the dime in the process.
Now realize that we're talking about a thousand-mile plumb bob, subject to varying winds at all levels of the atmosphere, and it becomes somewhat more complex than the plumb-bob-and-dime analogy.
Since bluffing is meant to fool human heuristics that judge the strenght of other players' hands based on those players' bets, why would a bot that works on probabilities NEED to consider bluffs?
Keep in mind that there is some variance between the books and the radio drama. This is not so different from other audio and video adaptations of books, except that (IIRC) here the radio drama came first.
For those who don't know what we're talking about, here's some hard medical facts. They even have a picture of it, including the baby, for whatever reason.
(Those who might be offended by babies, their excretia, or their body parts should avoid clicking the link.)
I have a kid, and no way would I let them tag her.
Children get distracted, forget that they're supposed to stay next to you, wander around corners, and don't answer when you call them. It's a terrible feeling, looking around, knowing they were JUST THERE but now seem to have vanished.
Perhaps it is better that kids are chaperoned by their parents rather than tracked by chips after all.
Being chaperoned and tightly-monitored by their parents is no guarantee that a child won't get lost or stolen. It only takes looking away for a moment. A child can easily walk a couple feet and practically disappear, and they don't always hear or choose to respond when you call for them. This is particularly true for heavily-crowded, highly-distracting areas like Disney parks in season.
Speaking as someone with three kids, none of whom are over 10, I would really appreciate something that would track them if they got separated from us. I would love it if the kids' tags could be keyed to cause a security-summoning alarm if it tried to leave the park without an authorized, tagged adult with it.
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He thinks fast and continues without pause "... and that's how it's done!" And they walk out, leaving everyone in the office gaping in shock.
Completely off-topic story that this reminded me of:
That happened to me once with a Microvax and its root password. Someone and I were about to leave the computer lab as the last people leaving, when on the spur of the moment I sat down and tried to login as root with a password I came up with on the fly.
To my utter shock it actually worked.
I was so stunned that I just logged out and left, shaking my head in utter astonishment. I'm not sure what the other person thought had just happened. I later thought briefly about leaving a note about insecure passwords, but remembered that people in such positions don't usually have a very good sense of humor about such things.
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What a perfect (and missed) opportunity for NASA to use BitTorrent [bittorrent.com] instead of a huge zip file.
Unless I'm mistaken, making something available via BitTorrent does not relieve someone from having to download it. It simply provides a better distribution mechanism for the data, huge as it is.
We're not talking about polygamy here, or animal husbandry - [...]
What happens when furries, et al. start doing extensive body modifications?
Additionally, why do so many Slashdotters immediately apply general complains about privacy and liberty to something that's being constructed for schools.
Schools with little children are increasingly feeling the pressure to provide an Internet experience for children, but are terrified that the children will be exposed to inappropriate content or predatory personalities while online. In a class of 1-3 dozen children, depending on class size, a teacher plus helper cannot monitor everything every child does all the time. Not only is this about protecting the kids, it's about protecting the schools from lawsuits.
The school my children go to have really picky policies about what web sites the children can visit. They must be linked to from the school's home page and the children must not navigate more than one link from those approved sites.
The article summary even says that these would be provided to school administrators, so presumably the school would bring these out at the appropriate time and collect them when the students were finished. Giving them out to the kids to keep and carry around would be irresponsible.
These would be used for interaction with other people at sites for kids that supported these keys. This is not some Big Brother invention to tag us all with verifiable IDs, it's to help protect our children when they're in school, out of their parent's control.
For those of you chanting "parents should protect their own children", I'd like you to explain how you do that when they're in school. Require everyone to homeschool?
From the linked article, "The settlement bars the illegal practices in the future [...]"
Er, doesn't the law already bar illegal practices? If they mean, "if they do it again in the future, they'll get spanked even harder", why doesn't it just say that?
This is clearly another one of those lawyer-isms that just doesn't square with common sense.
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Yup -- a company I used to work for (large international pharma, though I won't give the name), owns an entire Class A. They have about 40,000 employees [...]
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http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-sp
Hmmm, probably Ely Lilly, since Merck has about 50% more employees than that.
Not sure how this works in .us, but over here .au the deal is that if you remain connected to the same exchange then you can keep the same number, regardless of who you pay the bills to. But move up the street into the next exchange's zone, and you're up for a new number...
.us, there are recent geographic portability rules that allow you to keep the same number across providers (wireless or wired) in the same geographic area. Move to another geographic area and you're out of luck.
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Sandra is hot.
And turned 40 this year, I see.
The difference is akin to dropping a rock and hitting a dime and accomplishing the same task with a plumb bob. The difficulty level is lowered further if you are allowed to move the dime in the process.
Now realize that we're talking about a thousand-mile plumb bob, subject to varying winds at all levels of the atmosphere, and it becomes somewhat more complex than the plumb-bob-and-dime analogy.
Since bluffing is meant to fool human heuristics that judge the strenght of other players' hands based on those players' bets, why would a bot that works on probabilities NEED to consider bluffs?
Keep in mind that there is some variance between the books and the radio drama. This is not so different from other audio and video adaptations of books, except that (IIRC) here the radio drama came first.
I read HHGTTG when I was in 4th grade or something. It was neato back then, but I can't see myself ever being interested in it now.
Unless you were a particularly mature, cynical 4th grader, you probably missed some of the humor.
I've never read or heard Hitchhikers (yes I know, I'm sorry please forgive me I give up my geek status), but I plan to do so tonight.
You might be a bit lost on the general plot, then, since this is a ways into the story. Not that you shouldn't bother, just keep that in mind.
If you're out of reception range of BBC Radio Four, then you can listen online: [...]
Sounds great. Hey, what's that van doing parked outside with all the antennae?
...without the Smoke & Mirrors.
Nonsense. SCO is clearly blowing smoke.
The lack of perfection does not imply incompetence.
However, the lack of any coherent post-invasion plan and any realistic exit strategy would seem to imply that.
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Drugs, like those that make you misunderstand the use of the * wildcard?
The GGP used * properly as a wildcard. It wasn't being used as a Kleene closure operator, as used in regular expressions.
You beat me to it.
For those who don't know what we're talking about, here's some hard medical facts. They even have a picture of it, including the baby, for whatever reason.
(Those who might be offended by babies, their excretia, or their body parts should avoid clicking the link.)
is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. Apologies to Asimov.
Er, don't you mean Clarke , as the AC also pointed out?
One of the many forks of the Jargon File also has an appropriate entry for this topic which also includes the version of the maxim that you used.
I have a kid, and no way would I let them tag her.
Children get distracted, forget that they're supposed to stay next to you, wander around corners, and don't answer when you call them. It's a terrible feeling, looking around, knowing they were JUST THERE but now seem to have vanished.
Have you experienced that before?
Perhaps it is better that kids are chaperoned by their parents rather than tracked by chips after all.
Being chaperoned and tightly-monitored by their parents is no guarantee that a child won't get lost or stolen. It only takes looking away for a moment. A child can easily walk a couple feet and practically disappear, and they don't always hear or choose to respond when you call for them. This is particularly true for heavily-crowded, highly-distracting areas like Disney parks in season.
Speaking as someone with three kids, none of whom are over 10, I would really appreciate something that would track them if they got separated from us. I would love it if the kids' tags could be keyed to cause a security-summoning alarm if it tried to leave the park without an authorized, tagged adult with it.
Root password on a Microvax? I call BS :)
I take it you've never heard of Ultrix.
He thinks fast and continues without pause "... and that's how it's done!" And they walk out, leaving everyone in the office gaping in shock.
Completely off-topic story that this reminded me of:
That happened to me once with a Microvax and its root password. Someone and I were about to leave the computer lab as the last people leaving, when on the spur of the moment I sat down and tried to login as root with a password I came up with on the fly.
To my utter shock it actually worked.
I was so stunned that I just logged out and left, shaking my head in utter astonishment. I'm not sure what the other person thought had just happened. I later thought briefly about leaving a note about insecure passwords, but remembered that people in such positions don't usually have a very good sense of humor about such things.
Under Newtonian physics, it was thought that there would be another planet inside Mercury because of anomolies in Mercuries observable orbit.
Uh, no. Vulcan was postulated to be inside the orbit of Mercury, not inside Mercury.