It's not illegal to possess that rod bent at a certain angle.
It is illegal to possess that rod bent at a certain angle _while committing a crime_.
It's a lot like with knives. Nothing illegal about holding one in your hand in your neighbors kitchen (generally), until you reach the point where you are attacking your neighbor with it.
canadian socialism? how many people has that killed, and how does that compare with the people that capitalism has killed? (remember to count everyone we killed in iraq against capitalism).
Bad choice, the RSA encryption algorithm is extremely obvious, and the only reason it was not already in much wider use was the patent. The math for encryption just isn't that hard. At least half the people in my undergraduate math program could have developed an RSA patent infringeing algorithm with no exposure to any RSA code or documents.
From websters:
1 a : a large organized body of armed
personnel trained for war especially on land
b : a unit capable of independent action and
consisting usually of a headquarters, two or
more corps, and auxiliary troops
c : often capitalized : the complete military
organization of a nation for land warfare
2 : a great multitude
3 : a body of persons organized to advance
a cause
microsoft security easily meets 3, and probably comes closer to 1a,1b than you realize. Many of the most effective killing organizations in our history did not start out as the armed forces of an established country. many multinational corporations fund security forces with more money than some countries official armies, so where you draw the line is up to you.
GPS is going to be ultra cheap very soon. I worked for a company that has a one chip + antennae gps solution, and the antennae can be wound pretty tight if you're willing to give up some performance (which for simple needs devices like this would be acceptable). You can get the whole package into about a 2x2 inch area for a cost that will come down into the $5 range as soon as they produce them in large numbers. $5 is still high for an addon to consumer equipment, but at least for high end gear (anything over $300 retail) it is probably feasible, and the cost will
obviously keep coming down, particularly once they can wind or fractal the antennae onto the chip.
That's not at all true. Microsoft has an army, it's called 'Microsoft Security'. Try sneaking around their buildings at night, and see who stops you and how well armed they are. Most if not all large corporations have private armies. They just don't typically have quite the level of men or weaponry as a typical government army, but they are there.
"The mathematical basis for most algorithms is still out there, and just about anyone reasonably competent at programming can roll their own.
"
Actually, to roll your own without exposing yourself to side attacks is really difficult. How much entropy did the last random number generator you used/wrote have? Do you know? Would you know to know when rolling your own? Would a only 'reasonably' competent programmer know?
Wow, a round of applause for this, this must be one of the ten greatest trolls ever on slashdot. Look at all the responses, got modded +5 insightful, and not a single post identifying it as a troll yet.
Just a quick note... in CA and a lot of other states, solid individual health care can be purchased from kaiser for about $80/month, with reductions for buying for a family. You can get a pretty good deal for husband/wife/2kids at less than $250 per month, and for a lot of people it's pretty easy to get an extra $250/month out of contracting.
See my comments elsewhere... the problem is not really solving minesweeper, but verifying that the board you have presented does not represent an impossible situation (the situation you present is quite possible, and a program that can deduce this in P would be the goal.)
Actually, a large set of NP problems become immediately solvable, because people have developed linear time translations between the problems. So if you can solve minesweeper consistency, you can just translate whichever NP problem you are interested in into minesweeper consistency (very fast) and then solve minesweeper consistency, and translate the solution back.
Unfortunately, this is not the minesweeper solving problem. It is the minesweeper consistency solving problem. 2 correct examples of the consistency problem:
X = MINE
O = COVERED EMPTY
NUMBER = BOARD CLUE
1 X
X X
The correct analysis of this board would be 'inconsistent'.
2 X
X O
The correct analysis of this board would be consistent.
The minesweeper consistency problem is a matter of checking the board and being able to declare whether or not the board is correct in all of its details.
The challenge is to construct a program which will process all generalized minesweeper boards and declare them correct/incorrect (accurately) in P. IF you can write such a program, then NP=P.
>> but in a programming environment, the programmers can usually run the network better in their spare time.
> Hee, hee! That's the silliest thing I've ever heard. Please don't remain anonymous. Let us know who you are, so when you get canned by IT we don't hire you
by mistake...
You may work at a company with a competent IT department. A lot of us don't. I've worked at 3 companies so far where programmers had to go and explain network setup and make network configuration changes for the IT department. I would love it if every company hired competent IT people, but many smaller companies (particularly startups) don't.
There aren't a lot of asteroids out there the size of mars. (In fact to the best of human knowledge, mars is the only one, and it isn't considered an asteroid by most people.) However, it wouldn't take one nearly that large to destroy the earth as far as human habitation is concerned.
Uggh. This is a horribly over propogated piece of misinformation. 30 fps is not the end of smooth motion, it is the beginning. Most people do not see animation as even consistently smooth until 30 fps. Movies are 24 fps but use tricks like motion blur to improve their animated appearance. Games don't use these tricks, so they don't tend to appear smooth to most people until you reach much higher frame rates. Most people find 60 fps fairly smooth, but improvements of 10 fps are significantly noticeable to _most_ people up to 120 fps, and there are some people who can consistently detect 20 fps differences up to about 200 fps, which is roughly the limiting frequency of human vision.
The one problem I have with this is: " My position is simply that if an employee uses a chemical outside of their work environment and if their employer cannot detect drug use by looking at the quality of the work that the employee is performing, then the policy of resorting to chemically analyzing an employee's body parts is an unnecessary violation that an employee has no obligation to tolerate. "
Unfortunately, there are a number of industries (thankfully not the one I'm in) where I would not want to risk working with an employee who took drugs. Construction for example, would really suck if some guy on drugs killed you and that was the first detectable incident for the employer to discover that the person was not able to perform their job correctly.
I would say that in any job where one person's life is in the hands of another, I would _hope_ for some mandatory random drug testing, because an employer may well _not_ be able to detect the employees inability to function correctly until it is too late. Now in any other field (for example computer programming for applications other than mechanical devices) I'm happy to work alongside, or buy products from, drug users.
Of course, there's a setting on the game that limits the players who can enter to within X. So for example, if you took the default (4), a level 14 couldn't enter your level 9 game. In fact, since it is the default, you have to turn it off to allow this particular situation to happen to you.
If anyone sees this and is now thinking of reading the gap series... don't. I liked Thomas Covenant. A lot. Enough to read all the way through the gap series, which was the worst SF I've ever read, and I've read quite a lot.
His descriptive writing took a nose dive, his science is inconsistent (not just wrong, but internally inconsistent), and the characters are all completely one dimensional.
He actually said that's my right. Not that's my legal entitlement. Rights are more fundamental than legal entitlements. Many things to which we have fundamental rights are illegal in this country, and exercising those rights in conflict with legal restrictions is a morally positive action. Laws cannot take away rights, they can only threaten force against the exercise of rights.
Ugh... gonna have to hope i get a chance to knock down that moderation... informative isn't informative if it's false information.
30 fps is only reasonably smooth motion if you have motion blur. Most people can see individual frames in movie theatres if they concentrate (at 24fps). A lot of people can see individual frames in TV (30 fps). Some people can consistently identify the difference between 60 and 75 fps in double blind tests. A fairly small number of people can differentiate 80 and 120 fps in double blind tests. Almost no one can differentiate between 120 fps and anything higher.
To satisfy almost everyone, around 90 fps is enough. To satisfy everyone uncategorically, we should be shooting for 120fps.
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And to be fair... many people (upwards of 10% of the population) can see individual frames in movies, in spite of the motion blur. Movies have settled on 24fps because of equipment/cost issues, and because it is adequate to satisfy most of the population. I personally hope we get movies on the new 48fps standard soon, because the current speed bothers my eyes with the flicker. I can't watch long movies without getting a headache.
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It's not illegal to possess that rod bent at a certain angle.
It is illegal to possess that rod bent at a certain angle _while committing a crime_.
It's a lot like with knives. Nothing illegal about holding one in your hand in your neighbors kitchen (generally), until you reach the point where you are attacking your neighbor with it.
You obviously aren't a hacker, or you'd have a hacker keyboard which includes both the publish key and the any key.
canadian socialism? how many people has that killed, and how does that compare with the people that capitalism has killed? (remember to count everyone we killed in iraq against capitalism).
Bad choice, the RSA encryption algorithm is extremely obvious, and the only reason it was not already in much wider use was the patent. The math for encryption just isn't that hard. At least half the people in my undergraduate math program could have developed an RSA patent infringeing algorithm with no exposure to any RSA code or documents.
From websters:
1 a : a large organized body of armed
personnel trained for war especially on land
b : a unit capable of independent action and
consisting usually of a headquarters, two or
more corps, and auxiliary troops
c : often capitalized : the complete military
organization of a nation for land warfare
2 : a great multitude
3 : a body of persons organized to advance
a cause
microsoft security easily meets 3, and probably comes closer to 1a,1b than you realize. Many of the most effective killing organizations in our history did not start out as the armed forces of an established country. many multinational corporations fund security forces with more money than some countries official armies, so where you draw the line is up to you.
GPS is going to be ultra cheap very soon. I worked for a company that has a one chip + antennae gps solution, and the antennae can be wound pretty tight if you're willing to give up some performance (which for simple needs devices like this would be acceptable). You can get the whole package into about a 2x2 inch area for a cost that will come down into the $5 range as soon as they produce them in large numbers. $5 is still high for an addon to consumer equipment, but at least for high end gear (anything over $300 retail) it is probably feasible, and the cost will
obviously keep coming down, particularly once they can wind or fractal the antennae onto the chip.
"Remember, only governments have armies."
That's not at all true. Microsoft has an army, it's called 'Microsoft Security'. Try sneaking around their buildings at night, and see who stops you and how well armed they are. Most if not all large corporations have private armies. They just don't typically have quite the level of men or weaponry as a typical government army, but they are there.
"The mathematical basis for most algorithms is still out there, and just about anyone reasonably competent at programming can roll their own.
"
Actually, to roll your own without exposing yourself to side attacks is really difficult. How much entropy did the last random number generator you used/wrote have? Do you know? Would you know to know when rolling your own? Would a only 'reasonably' competent programmer know?
Wow, a round of applause for this, this must be one of the ten greatest trolls ever on slashdot. Look at all the responses, got modded +5 insightful, and not a single post identifying it as a troll yet.
Bravo!
Just a quick note ... in CA and a lot of other states, solid individual health care can be purchased from kaiser for about $80/month, with reductions for buying for a family. You can get a pretty good deal for husband/wife/2kids at less than $250 per month, and for a lot of people it's pretty easy to get an extra $250/month out of contracting.
See my comments elsewhere ... the problem is not really solving minesweeper, but verifying that the board you have presented does not represent an impossible situation (the situation you present is quite possible, and a program that can deduce this in P would be the goal.)
Actually, a large set of NP problems become immediately solvable, because people have developed linear time translations between the problems. So if you can solve minesweeper consistency, you can just translate whichever NP problem you are interested in into minesweeper consistency (very fast) and then solve minesweeper consistency, and translate the solution back.
The problem is not solving minesweeper, it is checking the board for consistency, see some of my comments elsewhere.
If you read the details, you don't have to solve minesweeper, you have to be able to check if the board is self consistent or not.
Ie:
2 MINE
MINE BLANK
is a self consistent board while:
2 BLANK
BLANK BLANK
is not.
Unfortunately, this is not the minesweeper solving problem. It is the minesweeper consistency solving problem. 2 correct examples of the consistency problem:
X = MINE
O = COVERED EMPTY
NUMBER = BOARD CLUE
1 X
X X
The correct analysis of this board would be 'inconsistent'.
2 X
X O
The correct analysis of this board would be consistent.
The minesweeper consistency problem is a matter of checking the board and being able to declare whether or not the board is correct in all of its details.
The challenge is to construct a program which will process all generalized minesweeper boards and declare them correct/incorrect (accurately) in P. IF you can write such a program, then NP=P.
>> but in a programming environment, the programmers can usually run the network better in their spare time.
> Hee, hee! That's the silliest thing I've ever heard. Please don't remain anonymous. Let us know who you are, so when you get canned by IT we don't hire you
by mistake...
You may work at a company with a competent IT department. A lot of us don't. I've worked at 3 companies so far where programmers had to go and explain network setup and make network configuration changes for the IT department. I would love it if every company hired competent IT people, but many smaller companies (particularly startups) don't.
There aren't a lot of asteroids out there the size of mars. (In fact to the best of human knowledge, mars is the only one, and it isn't considered an asteroid by most people.) However, it wouldn't take one nearly that large to destroy the earth as far as human habitation is concerned.
Uggh. This is a horribly over propogated piece of misinformation. 30 fps is not the end of smooth motion, it is the beginning. Most people do not see animation as even consistently smooth until 30 fps. Movies are 24 fps but use tricks like motion blur to improve their animated appearance. Games don't use these tricks, so they don't tend to appear smooth to most people until you reach much higher frame rates. Most people find 60 fps fairly smooth, but improvements of 10 fps are significantly noticeable to _most_ people up to 120 fps, and there are some people who can consistently detect 20 fps differences up to about 200 fps, which is roughly the limiting frequency of human vision.
The one problem I have with this is:
"
My position is simply that if an employee uses a chemical outside of their work environment and if their employer cannot detect drug use by looking at the quality of the work
that the employee is performing, then the policy of resorting to chemically analyzing an employee's body parts is an unnecessary violation that an employee has no obligation
to tolerate.
"
Unfortunately, there are a number of industries (thankfully not the one I'm in) where I would not want to risk working with an employee who took drugs. Construction for example, would really suck if some guy on drugs killed you and that was the first detectable incident for the employer to discover that the person was not able to perform their job correctly.
I would say that in any job where one person's life is in the hands of another, I would _hope_ for some mandatory random drug testing, because an employer may well _not_ be able to detect the employees inability to function correctly until it is too late. Now in any other field (for example computer programming for applications other than mechanical devices) I'm happy to work alongside, or buy products from, drug users.
Of course, there's a setting on the game that limits the players who can enter to within X. So for example, if you took the default (4), a level 14 couldn't enter your level 9 game. In fact, since it is the default, you have to turn it off to allow this particular situation to happen to you.
If anyone sees this and is now thinking of reading the gap series ... don't. I liked Thomas Covenant. A lot. Enough to read all the way through the gap series, which was the worst SF I've ever read, and I've read quite a lot.
His descriptive writing took a nose dive, his science is inconsistent (not just wrong, but internally inconsistent), and the characters are all completely one dimensional.
He actually said that's my right. Not that's my legal entitlement. Rights are more fundamental than legal entitlements. Many things to which we have fundamental rights are illegal in this country, and exercising those rights in conflict with legal restrictions is a morally positive action. Laws cannot take away rights, they can only threaten force against the exercise of rights.
recusive? perhaps you meant recursive? ... it's not? it certainly
and if so
is self contradictory, but unline GNU:
GNU -> GNU is Not Unix -> GNU is Not Unix is Not Unix -> and so on.
LINL -> Linux Is Not Linux
and stops, because it doesn't contain LINL?
just feeling bored here.
Ugh ... gonna have to hope i get a chance to knock down that moderation ... informative isn't informative if it's false information.
30 fps is only reasonably smooth motion if you have motion blur. Most people can see individual frames in movie theatres if they concentrate (at 24fps). A lot of people can see individual frames in TV (30 fps). Some people can consistently identify the difference between 60 and 75 fps in double blind tests. A fairly small number of people can differentiate 80 and 120 fps in double blind tests. Almost no one can differentiate between 120 fps and anything higher.
To satisfy almost everyone, around 90 fps is enough. To satisfy everyone uncategorically, we should be shooting for 120fps.
And to be fair ... many people (upwards of 10% of the population) can see individual frames in movies, in spite of the motion blur. Movies have settled on 24fps because of equipment/cost issues, and because it is adequate to satisfy most of the population. I personally hope we get movies on the new 48fps standard soon, because the current speed bothers my eyes with the flicker. I can't watch long movies without getting a headache.