The probes aren't polarized; i.e., they aren't magnetically aligned north & south as a whole, so it would take a rather strong magnetic field.
They don't need to be specifically polarized. A conductor travelling through a magnetic field may experience induced electric current due to intercepted magnetic field flux, and changes in the induced current would produce a magnetic field which would (IIRC) be in opposite polarity to the ambient magnetic field. This would not need to be very large, since the observed acceleration is only on the order of 10^-9 m/s^2. (About one trillionth the acceleration due to Earth's gravity on the Earth's surface.) I'm not suggesting this is a solution for this anomaly, just expanding on this particular idea.
I can't remember where the Pioneer spacecraft are w/r/t the heliopause. Heck, this might even be due to infalling interstellar dust or something. It's certainly an interesting problem.
If you paid attention to Anakin's whining you'd realize he's expressing fascist ideals -- making people do something or be a certain way. I'm sure young Adolf Hitler expressed a few similar sentiments while serving in WWI.
Apparently Godwin's Law applies equally to Slashdot.
So I gather that Led Zeppelins Kashmir qualifies...
At least that's one song where the opening melody is a memorable riff.
I hate the fact that nearly every song I'd like to have as a ringtone has been created such that only the completely unrecognizable first 7-8 seconds of the song has been used. The good, recognizable part of the song, which I'd want to hear when the phone rang, is skipped in favor of a polyphonic representation of the opening drumbeats or something equally pointless.
The rest of the movie passes with chills of excitement and oohs and ahhs, I probably would have won a staring constest as I don't think I blinked once the whole time. I'd be back a few times, others would be back every day or a few showings every day for months.
I know exactly what you mean, though my memory is fogged somewhat by having only been a half-dozen years old at the time it came out.
Interestingly, my youngest son seems to have had the same experience with The Fellowship of the Ring. He was only five, but never turned away from the screen, never begged to use the bathroom (over three hours after having consumed a good fraction of a 32oz soda!), even when he got scared by the Nazgul--he was riveted to the screen. That's the kind of film experience you always remember.
Considering the way EpI affected me and so many others, I really hope Lucas doesn't have Anakin jump over a lava shark.
So patents are great when they're used against organizations you don't like, but they're evil when they're used to squash innovation? You can't have it both ways.
You don't have to like the method of delivery to experience Schadenfreude.
They didn't copy the jokes, routines, or characters; they have different kinds of movies and different themes and so forth. They are not doing the same thing.
They're not doing the exact same thing, word for word--which would be protected by copyright--they're doing the same KIND of thing--protected by trademark.
1. Phonetic similarities. "Mister Sinus" versus "Mystery Science". The SOUNDEX values for these are exactly the same. A reasonable person would agree that the former was styled after the latter.
2. Similaries in goods and services. They're providing the same service, humorous commentary during a movie intended to parody the movie while being viewed. They may use more adult-oriented humor, but it's the same service.
3. The strength of the plaintiff's mark. MST3K pioneered the idea and would be the top of anyone's list for this kind of activity.
5. The intent of the defendent in adopting the mark. They were clearly trying to do something similar to MST3K, and even approached them to license the trademark. They were turned away, and created a similar mark for a similar product. The intent appears pretty clear.
Four of the five first items, which this site claims are the most important, seem to indicate that there's a high likelihood of confusion between the two trademarks.
IANAL (and clearly neither are you) but this sounds slam-dunkish.
True, but OTPs aren't reusable, and the key needs to have as much information as the message, so they're not an answer to digital signatures or secure transactions online. Or at least, not an answer that's easy enough for me to comprehend.
Imagine REALLY, REALLY large sets of cryptographically random data exchanged between two communicating parties to be used as a one-time pad. (c.f. Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, where one-time pads where the only form of encryption used. Multiple separate XORs would be separately shipped in secrecy and combined to the form the final pad at the destination.)
Of course, there are plent of implementation issues before doing something like this, like having that data securely available when you need it. You might have to trust to physical data security or steganography to protect your data when not on point-to-point OTP-protected links.
Seems like saying this publicly was a bad idea. If Best Brains Inc is going to claim that Mr Sinus Theater 3000 is too much like Mystery Science Theater 3000, publicly claiming they did not accept the licensing becuase it was not enough like the original might weaken the case.
They didn't claim it "was not enough like the original", they pointed out that Mr. Sinus wasn't doing things less family-oriented than MST3K did.
To take this to the extreme, if someone approached Disney for the rights to use the Muppets in a pornographic film, Disney would clearly turn them down. If they went ahead with it anyway, calling them "Mo Pets" and similar, but slightly different characters, do you believe Disney would have fewer rights because they thought it wasn't appropriate content for the Muppets brand to be associated with?
Nope. Tape-worm doesn't require instinct, neither do a lot of creatures that have managed to scrape by without any predators.
Avoiding predators doesn't require instincts because tapeworms don't require instincts and don't have any predators?
Another technique is to reproduce so quickly and prolificaly that it doesn't matter if ya get killed 'cause the first thing ya did after you hatched (or whatever) was have a sh*tload of kids yourself.
You would soon find your population limited by the prevailing resources or newly-arisen predators as other species compete for the same resources.
[...] finding a collission (or even several collissions) in MD5 does not invalidate its use.
Indeed, mathematically speaking, there MUST be collisions when you map a set of larger cardinality to one with a smaller cardinality. The probability of a collision between two arbitrary elements of the larger set is still very, very remote.
The issue to worry about is if you can somehow derive or predict the input from the output, as in most cryptographic uses of the hash.
However, if you're only using MD5 for UUID/GUID generation in non-cryptographic environments, this shouldn't be an issue.
Agreed, and to further narrow it down, it's being *good enough* at only 1 thing: reproduction.
I disagree. It also includes avoiding being killed before reproducing.
Unfortunately, this doesn't usually have a lot to do with intelligence.
Avoiding predators and other dangers may not require intelligence, but it requires instincts. Being conspicuously careless--to bring this somewhat back on-topic--is not usually a good survival trait.
I store nearly all my personal files on my server and never carry media.
Some people actually have to host data, unlike yourself. At some point you actually want to make BACKUPS of your data. (Hopefully the admin of the server who hosts your data does likewise.)
To back up a single modern computer, even a piddly 40GB drive, without resorting to expensive DAT drives and the like, you'd need a dozen writeable DVDs. Being able to backup all my computers on a SINGLE optical disk would be fantastic.
I say, nuclear power becomes a more viable option when you can tell me what to do with the waste it generates.
Currently, wastes from using fossil fuels are dumped into the environment and basically ignored. How is this fundamentally better than burying nuclear waste?
Of course it does. Didn't you learn that in grade school? How often do you hear the word used any other way?
Why in grade school, where (since I was educated in the USA) it was typically applied to colonial revolutionaries that most certainly didn't follow the existing government without question.
This will be another 'reason' to move towards tagging people, or doing DNA tracking on *all* citizens: "We have to be sure its you, as we all know documents can be faked"
The utter rediculousness of this is that we don't know who the terrorists are, so accurate identity cannot possibly be worthwhile. The TSA is trying to figure out how to detect someone who could possibly be a terrorist based on what little we know about the terrorist groups and their membership.
Who cares what someone's policitical views are, so long as we prevent everyone from being able to take control of the plan or cause harm to the passengers? Block the weapons, ensure the planes have armed security, and you've solve the majority of the problem.
Besides, we're spending so much effort watching commercial airlines now, why would terrorists try that route? We've been distracted from other lower-profile methods of smuggling destruction. The next attack won't be the same as 9/11.
If you follow the rules, no matter what those rules tell you to do, then the responsibility for what happens falls on those who wrote the rules and made the list. The agent is not responsible.
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The probes aren't polarized; i.e., they aren't magnetically aligned north & south as a whole, so it would take a rather strong magnetic field.
They don't need to be specifically polarized. A conductor travelling through a magnetic field may experience induced electric current due to intercepted magnetic field flux, and changes in the induced current would produce a magnetic field which would (IIRC) be in opposite polarity to the ambient magnetic field. This would not need to be very large, since the observed acceleration is only on the order of 10^-9 m/s^2. (About one trillionth the acceleration due to Earth's gravity on the Earth's surface.) I'm not suggesting this is a solution for this anomaly, just expanding on this particular idea.
I can't remember where the Pioneer spacecraft are w/r/t the heliopause. Heck, this might even be due to infalling interstellar dust or something. It's certainly an interesting problem.
If time is indeed a dimension like space--part of "spacetime"--then all of the spatial dimensions would be orthogonal to time.
If you paid attention to Anakin's whining you'd realize he's expressing fascist ideals -- making people do something or be a certain way. I'm sure young Adolf Hitler expressed a few similar sentiments while serving in WWI.
Apparently Godwin's Law applies equally to Slashdot.
So I gather that Led Zeppelins Kashmir qualifies...
At least that's one song where the opening melody is a memorable riff.
I hate the fact that nearly every song I'd like to have as a ringtone has been created such that only the completely unrecognizable first 7-8 seconds of the song has been used. The good, recognizable part of the song, which I'd want to hear when the phone rang, is skipped in favor of a polyphonic representation of the opening drumbeats or something equally pointless.
The rest of the movie passes with chills of excitement and oohs and ahhs, I probably would have won a staring constest as I don't think I blinked once the whole time. I'd be back a few times, others would be back every day or a few showings every day for months.
I know exactly what you mean, though my memory is fogged somewhat by having only been a half-dozen years old at the time it came out.
Interestingly, my youngest son seems to have had the same experience with The Fellowship of the Ring. He was only five, but never turned away from the screen, never begged to use the bathroom (over three hours after having consumed a good fraction of a 32oz soda!), even when he got scared by the Nazgul--he was riveted to the screen. That's the kind of film experience you always remember.
Considering the way EpI affected me and so many others, I really hope Lucas doesn't have Anakin jump over a lava shark.
So patents are great when they're used against organizations you don't like, but they're evil when they're used to squash innovation? You can't have it both ways.
You don't have to like the method of delivery to experience Schadenfreude.
Crap, out of mod points. Wish I could mod this up.
They didn't copy the jokes, routines, or characters; they have different kinds of movies and different themes and so forth. They are not doing the same thing.
They're not doing the exact same thing, word for word--which would be protected by copyright--they're doing the same KIND of thing--protected by trademark.
View Bitlaw's Eight factors for likelihood of confusion to indicate possible trademark infringement. Here are the ones that appear appropriate:
1. Phonetic similarities. "Mister Sinus" versus "Mystery Science". The SOUNDEX values for these are exactly the same. A reasonable person would agree that the former was styled after the latter.
2. Similaries in goods and services. They're providing the same service, humorous commentary during a movie intended to parody the movie while being viewed. They may use more adult-oriented humor, but it's the same service.
3. The strength of the plaintiff's mark. MST3K pioneered the idea and would be the top of anyone's list for this kind of activity.
5. The intent of the defendent in adopting the mark. They were clearly trying to do something similar to MST3K, and even approached them to license the trademark. They were turned away, and created a similar mark for a similar product. The intent appears pretty clear.
Four of the five first items, which this site claims are the most important, seem to indicate that there's a high likelihood of confusion between the two trademarks.
IANAL (and clearly neither are you) but this sounds slam-dunkish.
True, but OTPs aren't reusable, and the key needs to have as much information as the message, so they're not an answer to digital signatures or secure transactions online. Or at least, not an answer that's easy enough for me to comprehend.
Imagine REALLY, REALLY large sets of cryptographically random data exchanged between two communicating parties to be used as a one-time pad. (c.f. Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, where one-time pads where the only form of encryption used. Multiple separate XORs would be separately shipped in secrecy and combined to the form the final pad at the destination.)
Of course, there are plent of implementation issues before doing something like this, like having that data securely available when you need it. You might have to trust to physical data security or steganography to protect your data when not on point-to-point OTP-protected links.
From my perspective, we are no nearer to solving the problem now that we were when bell-bottom pants were cool.
Indeed, why is this news?
Seems like saying this publicly was a bad idea. If Best Brains Inc is going to claim that Mr Sinus Theater 3000 is too much like Mystery Science Theater 3000, publicly claiming they did not accept the licensing becuase it was not enough like the original might weaken the case.
They didn't claim it "was not enough like the original", they pointed out that Mr. Sinus wasn't doing things less family-oriented than MST3K did.
To take this to the extreme, if someone approached Disney for the rights to use the Muppets in a pornographic film, Disney would clearly turn them down. If they went ahead with it anyway, calling them "Mo Pets" and similar, but slightly different characters, do you believe Disney would have fewer rights because they thought it wasn't appropriate content for the Muppets brand to be associated with?
I don't see what about "Mister Sinus" is NOT parodic.
They're continuing to parody movies like MST3K did, they're not parodying MST3K itself.
Just because you're performing parody doesn't imply that trademark infringement is okay.
Nope. Tape-worm doesn't require instinct, neither do a lot of creatures that have managed to scrape by without any predators.
Avoiding predators doesn't require instincts because tapeworms don't require instincts and don't have any predators?
Another technique is to reproduce so quickly and prolificaly that it doesn't matter if ya get killed 'cause the first thing ya did after you hatched (or whatever) was have a sh*tload of kids yourself.
You would soon find your population limited by the prevailing resources or newly-arisen predators as other species compete for the same resources.
[...] finding a collission (or even several collissions) in MD5 does not invalidate its use.
Indeed, mathematically speaking, there MUST be collisions when you map a set of larger cardinality to one with a smaller cardinality. The probability of a collision between two arbitrary elements of the larger set is still very, very remote.
The issue to worry about is if you can somehow derive or predict the input from the output, as in most cryptographic uses of the hash.
However, if you're only using MD5 for UUID/GUID generation in non-cryptographic environments, this shouldn't be an issue.
Agreed, and to further narrow it down, it's being *good enough* at only 1 thing: reproduction.
I disagree. It also includes avoiding being killed before reproducing.
Unfortunately, this doesn't usually have a lot to do with intelligence.
Avoiding predators and other dangers may not require intelligence, but it requires instincts. Being conspicuously careless--to bring this somewhat back on-topic--is not usually a good survival trait.
I store nearly all my personal files on my server and never carry media.
Some people actually have to host data, unlike yourself. At some point you actually want to make BACKUPS of your data. (Hopefully the admin of the server who hosts your data does likewise.)
To back up a single modern computer, even a piddly 40GB drive, without resorting to expensive DAT drives and the like, you'd need a dozen writeable DVDs. Being able to backup all my computers on a SINGLE optical disk would be fantastic.
Free Waterfall Sr: Good way to avoid frostbite folks: Put your hands between your buttocks. That's nature's pocket.
Leela: Uh...I think I'll go check on Bender.
Free Waterfall Sr: Watch that he doesn't pick your pocket.
a word that cannot be capitalized (because words like this exist....)
Er, in English? Such as...?
Sic Tennessee on France?
The local community standards knife cuts both ways.
AC or not, it's a valid correction.
I say, nuclear power becomes a more viable option when you can tell me what to do with the waste it generates.
Currently, wastes from using fossil fuels are dumped into the environment and basically ignored. How is this fundamentally better than burying nuclear waste?
Of course it does. Didn't you learn that in grade school? How often do you hear the word used any other way?
Why in grade school, where (since I was educated in the USA) it was typically applied to colonial revolutionaries that most certainly didn't follow the existing government without question.
This will be another 'reason' to move towards tagging people, or doing DNA tracking on *all* citizens: "We have to be sure its you, as we all know documents can be faked"
The utter rediculousness of this is that we don't know who the terrorists are, so accurate identity cannot possibly be worthwhile. The TSA is trying to figure out how to detect someone who could possibly be a terrorist based on what little we know about the terrorist groups and their membership.
Who cares what someone's policitical views are, so long as we prevent everyone from being able to take control of the plan or cause harm to the passengers? Block the weapons, ensure the planes have armed security, and you've solve the majority of the problem.
Besides, we're spending so much effort watching commercial airlines now, why would terrorists try that route? We've been distracted from other lower-profile methods of smuggling destruction. The next attack won't be the same as 9/11.
You're not far off.
My database server claims the SOUNDEX values for "Haddiuard Quanidi" and "Edward Kennedy" are equal.
If you follow the rules, no matter what those rules tell you to do, then the responsibility for what happens falls on those who wrote the rules and made the list. The agent is not responsible.
I can think of a counter-example or two.