"deviated from standard Soviet doctrine by correctly identifying a missile attack warning as a false alarm on September 26, 1983.[1] This decision most likely resulted in preventing an accidental retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its Western Allies."
The solution is a paywall you can climb over with a little effort: a pay model that you can circumvent with a little research and time/effort. Then, you can retain everyone who's too price sensitive to pay; that means they don't flock to your competition. Meanwhile, the people who have money for it are not going to waste their valuable time (since their time IS money) circumventing the paywall, it's cheaper for them to just pay. Finally, despite being a pay site, they can retain some advertising, and if 10 million people are jumping the pay fence, that's ten million more eyeballs; granted, it's the poorest ones, but you can still sell them nachos and light beer.
And by firewalls, I mean secretaries, or at least someone to check and occasionally massage quite abrasive and personalizing correspondence. It's very simple: Linus was right. He had reason to be pissed. But Cox is important. ANYONE who knows who Cox is would have looked at Linus's letter and saw immediately that it needed some small changes, if nothing else to let Cox save face.
The problem is made even worse by drugs that leave important academic users super-focused (not saying Linus is on any) -- the more clearly you see "idiocy" the more important it is to have a firewall take out words like that.
Actually, Linus's e-mail includes the word "idiotic" explicitly.
I doubt what I'm saying will have many takers around here, but posting at +2 in case anyone has any interesting responses for me.
>The term 'free' is an unfortunate consequence of there being no more specific word in English.
That might have been true 25 years ago, but today you can just call it "freedom software".
(with the added bonus that if it's not freedom software it's terrorist software -- a pretty good description of the crap a convicted monopolist pushes).
airplanes "fly" by making the air they're going through go through a longer route on their top side,/--\, than their bottom side, ___, but in the same amount of time, thereby creating lower pressure above them: the pressure difference raises them. Problem is you need to keep moving.
But imagine for a moment if instead of the airplane we turned to... the dirigible.
Imagine if you could change the average density of the WHOLE body to be less than the surrounding "air" (water).
You would have to somehow find something that weighed less than water.
In a normal dirigible, where you have to find something lighter than the surrounding air, you fill it with helium/hydrogen/or hot air (which is less dense). But for an "underwater" dirigible?
Well since AIR is ligher than water, imagine if you had hollow sections filled with AIR!
You could have balloons of air, let's call these "ballasts". If you wanted to go lower in the water, you would fill these "ballasts", with seawater from "outside", and when you need to "ascend" again you could drive the water back out (filling the "ballast" from tanks of compressed air).
It's like the thinking goes "let's substitute out something utterly inconsequential and that will have no ramifications whatsoever". No, a charity isn't going to sue your pants off, so I guess it's okay, right?
What's next, Nike tests shoes (leaked codename: "rental") that deteriorate in 30 days -- on retarded children. Through a charity donation. That they write off their taxes the full value of.
Seriously: these are the times I'm glad to procrastinate about being an internet activist[1], because YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP. I couldn't have warned of this if I had tried.
[1] CHILL, guy with the sig 'whenever I hear the word activist I reach for my revolver' It's going to be all right.
Now an Australian group has built and tested logic gates that convert qubits into qutrits (three-level quantum states) before processing and then convert them back again. That makes them far more powerful.
thank you for taking the time to find that, and sorry if I'm being daft, but I just don't see the quote from Apple people saying they count the unactivated iPhones as lost revenue...
The big question on the minds of Apple watchers is: Where have the other 1.7 million iPhones gone?
The uncertainty has helped sink Apple's (AAPL) stock price to $130 a share, down 34% since the beginning of the year. That is far worse than the 13% drop for the tech-heavy Nasdaq index.
And an inventory buildup is always dangerous, particularly amid slowing demand. Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, figures Apple's first-quarter iPhone sales could be down as much as 30% compared with daily sales rates last year.
The part you reproduced quotes
Charles Wolf, an analyst with Needham & Co.,
consultant Technology Business Research
and I see further quotes from
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster
Bill Shope, an analyst at JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
Chris Whitmore, an analyst at Deutsche Bank Equity Research (DB)
And maybe I'm missing some others, but I just don't see the apple quote. Thanks again for taking the time to find the article, though, and please let me know what part you were referring to. Thank you!
This is not a mistake on Apple's part. Their contract with AT&T probably prevents them from releasing an unlocked phone within the time period of the contract, and if Apple were to release unlocking instructions themselves it would legally be almost the same as releasing an unlocked phone: ie contract violation. Instead, they have been careful to remain neutral about it, in order to respect their contract with AT&T. At the same time, they are very happy that people all over the world use (unlocked) iPhones, and Apple executives have probably spent a lot of time thinking about how they could have played the game differently with AT&T to still get the contract with them (which you'll remember took a major infrastructural investment on AT&T's part to bring the iPhone -- and only the iPhone -- visual voicemail) , while not having to wait on their laurels for third parties to purchase, unlock, and ship their phones to the rest of the world. It must be very painful to have to keep mum, when the whole world wants your product, and you have a contract you've signed in your home country that keeps you from giving it to them. The news that they are inviting a speaker who is active in iPhone unlocking just confirms this suspicion, and of course the biggest confirmation will be seeing if Apple suddenly changes policy upon the expiration of the AT&T contract. We don't know the terms of that contract, but it's safe to guess it's a 12, 18, 24, or 36 month contract. I'm betting it was a 12-month contract, which is a very long time in the mobile phone world, and that upon the anniversary of the release of iPhone you will see an end to the silence on Apple's part regarding unlocking.
The drop-off you see near the end of the graph is where both versions of Firefox crash. I'm excited, because unlike the old version, this now actually really helps reduce its memory usage.
Compress it and take the hex checksum. You can use any compression scheme and any checksum algo (but use a real one, don't just make one up ad hoc) to get the hex result, it doesn't really matter. However, you have to go with the first one you pick, you can't pick a different one just because you didn't like the results.
Take the last hex digit of your checksum that isn't a C, D, E or F. (If your whole checksum consists of just these letters, add 1 to your compressed DNA and checksum again (repeating if necessary). Use the following guide to picking an astrological sign:
Next, read the linked Wikipedia article (and any mainstream sources too if you want, for example in newspapers and magazines), and:
Start acting in accordance with your selected personality. That's it!
Now for some good news: by following the above steps, you will develop a mathematically sound personality that society actually needs, and, more to the point, every one of the linked personalities gets laid and so will you. Study your personality, make the set of behaviors etc. your own, and date only people who have an astrological sign that complements the one you've chosen using the above steps! When faced with a choice, read the astrology section of a trusted newspaper, and just do whatever is prescibed for your chosen personality. The only caveat (and really it is the only one) is not to mention your true birthday, only one that fits in with your chosen sign, if anyone asks. This is just to keep from having to explain the science behind your choice every time you mention it. If the relationship gets to be very serious, just invent a story about a botched birth certificate, for why your identification doesn't show your "true" birthday... As with nicknames, people will understand that you have a different "official" birthday.
FAQ.
Why is this better than a traditional horoscope? The traditional way of determining astrological signs for selecting a personality is flawed because there is an unequal distribution of births by month. (It's not the only thing true about birth months, incidentally! Check out these studies linking lifespan and month of birth!) Also, your physical birth month will be a function of, how can I put this delicately, your parents' mating habits, so it's less than scientific...
But won't twins have the same checksum? Duh. It's an astrological sign. You know, normally based on birthdate...
But won't people cheat and just keep picking different checksum schemes until they get the "
Here is my idea for an absolutely secure voting machine. Each person who goes into vote gets a token. Made of radioactive material. This material is heavily controlled, and outside the voting machine you have SWAT teams with geiger counters, and obviously anyone wearing a foot of lead is busted.
Voting consists of dropping the Uranium into one of several lead boxes which contain giant magnets to keep someone from trying to alter votes by moving tokens from one box to another. At the end of the day, you read the results digitally with a geiger counter. Every party can be there with representatives, disagreements can be sorted out on the spot with a manual count in front of a multiparty committee. 100% foolproof.
Basically, I got the idea from Bruce Schnier, who observed that it's not such a bad idea for people to keep their passwords written down on a piece of paper in their wallet. After all, people already know how to keep their wallets secure.
The US Military already knows how to keep weapons-grade plutonium secure. Basically, my idea is to just piggy-back on that, to keep voting secure.
A lot of people like to stick with old, low-tech stuff, don't have the will to try anything new. "What about the radiation poisoning" they would no doubt whine. Well I say progress consists in throwing out what's old and "safe" and being bold.
Slashdot, USA. A new online authentication system called Dynaface could make logging in to websites a little easier. With Dynaface, users simply identify their own face, instead of entering a cryptic password or buying a biometric device to scan their fingerprints. The user's sample photographs are made under a variety of hair styles and lighting conditions, since the shape and other characteristics of a person's face are harder for an outside party to recognize than hair and lighting is. The lighting and hairstyle used are random, so the shape of the face is the only clue to the correct answer."
What would be better would be to have a list of 'close friends' or something like that that you can add to a feed and only get reports from those few people
Good idea about keeping your friends close, but even better if you can keep your enemies even closer: have every action they perform highlighted in red, and a little graph that shows exactly when they must have been up, in order to make that change. Also, intelligent aggregation should keep a tally of each time they report about having done the same thing, and how often this has happened. For example, if your enemy mentions a concert, you should know that this is the first fucking concert they've mentioned, and they've been using this shit for four years. Newb.
BTW, your form is the very first example on elvtr's man page! RTFM, and if you can't or won't read a four-page man page on something as critical as elevator functionality, you have no business administering a computer. It's that simple.
Slashdot Mirror
Bah, you call that news? Try:
"Humans Nearly Went Extinct 27 Years Ago"
the commander's Wikipedia entry says he:
You can follow any of the links in the above search, or here's a particularly lively read.
The solution is a paywall you can climb over with a little effort: a pay model that you can circumvent with a little research and time/effort. Then, you can retain everyone who's too price sensitive to pay; that means they don't flock to your competition. Meanwhile, the people who have money for it are not going to waste their valuable time (since their time IS money) circumventing the paywall, it's cheaper for them to just pay. Finally, despite being a pay site, they can retain some advertising, and if 10 million people are jumping the pay fence, that's ten million more eyeballs; granted, it's the poorest ones, but you can still sell them nachos and light beer.
>For a guy with planck in his name you really need to read up on particle physics
ironically, that's the exact opposite of the advice given to Planck:
And by firewalls, I mean secretaries, or at least someone to check and occasionally massage quite abrasive and personalizing correspondence. It's very simple: Linus was right. He had reason to be pissed. But Cox is important. ANYONE who knows who Cox is would have looked at Linus's letter and saw immediately that it needed some small changes, if nothing else to let Cox save face.
The problem is made even worse by drugs that leave important academic users super-focused (not saying Linus is on any) -- the more clearly you see "idiocy" the more important it is to have a firewall take out words like that.
Actually, Linus's e-mail includes the word "idiotic" explicitly.
I doubt what I'm saying will have many takers around here, but posting at +2 in case anyone has any interesting responses for me.
wtf
That might have been true 25 years ago, but today you can just call it "freedom software".
(with the added bonus that if it's not freedom software it's terrorist software -- a pretty good description of the crap a convicted monopolist pushes).
airplanes "fly" by making the air they're going through go through a longer route on their top side, /--\, than their bottom side, ___, but in the same amount of time, thereby creating lower pressure above them: the pressure difference raises them. Problem is you need to keep moving.
But imagine for a moment if instead of the airplane we turned to ... the dirigible.
Imagine if you could change the average density of the WHOLE body to be less than the surrounding "air" (water).
You would have to somehow find something that weighed less than water.
In a normal dirigible, where you have to find something lighter than the surrounding air, you fill it with helium/hydrogen/or hot air (which is less dense). But for an "underwater" dirigible?
Well since AIR is ligher than water, imagine if you had hollow sections filled with AIR!
You could have balloons of air, let's call these "ballasts". If you wanted to go lower in the water, you would fill these "ballasts", with seawater from "outside", and when you need to "ascend" again you could drive the water back out (filling the "ballast" from tanks of compressed air).
It might just be crazy enough to work!
It's like the thinking goes "let's substitute out something utterly inconsequential and that will have no ramifications whatsoever". No, a charity isn't going to sue your pants off, so I guess it's okay, right?
What's next, Nike tests shoes (leaked codename: "rental") that deteriorate in 30 days -- on retarded children. Through a charity donation. That they write off their taxes the full value of.
Seriously: these are the times I'm glad to procrastinate about being an internet activist[1], because YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP. I couldn't have warned of this if I had tried.
[1] CHILL, guy with the sig 'whenever I hear the word activist I reach for my revolver' It's going to be all right.
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns arent lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
(Dorothy Parker)
So now we actually DO need to make the Internet more like a series of tubes??? brain asplode
I'm a visionary!
3-State Bit
The big question on the minds of Apple watchers is: Where have the other 1.7 million iPhones gone?
The uncertainty has helped sink Apple's (AAPL) stock price to $130 a share, down 34% since the beginning of the year. That is far worse than the 13% drop for the tech-heavy Nasdaq index.
And an inventory buildup is always dangerous, particularly amid slowing demand. Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, figures Apple's first-quarter iPhone sales could be down as much as 30% compared with daily sales rates last year.
The part you reproduced quotes
- Charles Wolf, an analyst with Needham & Co.,
- consultant Technology Business Research
and I see further quotes from- Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster
- Bill Shope, an analyst at JPMorgan Chase (JPM)
- Chris Whitmore, an analyst at Deutsche Bank Equity Research (DB)
And maybe I'm missing some others, but I just don't see the apple quote. Thanks again for taking the time to find the article, though, and please let me know what part you were referring to. Thank you!This is not a mistake on Apple's part. Their contract with AT&T probably prevents them from releasing an unlocked phone within the time period of the contract, and if Apple were to release unlocking instructions themselves it would legally be almost the same as releasing an unlocked phone: ie contract violation. Instead, they have been careful to remain neutral about it, in order to respect their contract with AT&T. At the same time, they are very happy that people all over the world use (unlocked) iPhones, and Apple executives have probably spent a lot of time thinking about how they could have played the game differently with AT&T to still get the contract with them (which you'll remember took a major infrastructural investment on AT&T's part to bring the iPhone -- and only the iPhone -- visual voicemail) , while not having to wait on their laurels for third parties to purchase, unlock, and ship their phones to the rest of the world. It must be very painful to have to keep mum, when the whole world wants your product, and you have a contract you've signed in your home country that keeps you from giving it to them. The news that they are inviting a speaker who is active in iPhone unlocking just confirms this suspicion, and of course the biggest confirmation will be seeing if Apple suddenly changes policy upon the expiration of the AT&T contract. We don't know the terms of that contract, but it's safe to guess it's a 12, 18, 24, or 36 month contract. I'm betting it was a 12-month contract, which is a very long time in the mobile phone world, and that upon the anniversary of the release of iPhone you will see an end to the silence on Apple's part regarding unlocking.
The drop-off you see near the end of the graph is where both versions of Firefox crash. I'm excited, because unlike the old version, this now actually really helps reduce its memory usage.
Now for some good news: by following the above steps, you will develop a mathematically sound personality that society actually needs, and, more to the point, every one of the linked personalities gets laid and so will you. Study your personality, make the set of behaviors etc. your own, and date only people who have an astrological sign that complements the one you've chosen using the above steps! When faced with a choice, read the astrology section of a trusted newspaper, and just do whatever is prescibed for your chosen personality. The only caveat (and really it is the only one) is not to mention your true birthday, only one that fits in with your chosen sign, if anyone asks. This is just to keep from having to explain the science behind your choice every time you mention it. If the relationship gets to be very serious, just invent a story about a botched birth certificate, for why your identification doesn't show your "true" birthday... As with nicknames, people will understand that you have a different "official" birthday.
FAQ.
Why is this better than a traditional horoscope?
The traditional way of determining astrological signs for selecting a personality is flawed because there is an unequal distribution of births by month. (It's not the only thing true about birth months, incidentally! Check out these studies linking lifespan and month of birth!) Also, your physical birth month will be a function of, how can I put this delicately, your parents' mating habits, so it's less than scientific...
But won't twins have the same checksum?
Duh. It's an astrological sign. You know, normally based on birthdate...
But won't people cheat and just keep picking different checksum schemes until they get the "
Can you guess what an SND is?
Hint: the N is for "news"
I know! What's with trying to compress an already compressed JPEG? I mean it's not like you can losslessly compress JPEG's by roughly 30%...
You don't need to traverse every road connecting your errands, since you're not selling door to door along the way.
Here is my idea for an absolutely secure voting machine. Each person who goes into vote gets a token. Made of radioactive material. This material is heavily controlled, and outside the voting machine you have SWAT teams with geiger counters, and obviously anyone wearing a foot of lead is busted.
Voting consists of dropping the Uranium into one of several lead boxes which contain giant magnets to keep someone from trying to alter votes by moving tokens from one box to another. At the end of the day, you read the results digitally with a geiger counter. Every party can be there with representatives, disagreements can be sorted out on the spot with a manual count in front of a multiparty committee. 100% foolproof.
Basically, I got the idea from Bruce Schnier, who observed that it's not such a bad idea for people to keep their passwords written down on a piece of paper in their wallet. After all, people already know how to keep their wallets secure.
The US Military already knows how to keep weapons-grade plutonium secure. Basically, my idea is to just piggy-back on that, to keep voting secure.
A lot of people like to stick with old, low-tech stuff, don't have the will to try anything new. "What about the radiation poisoning" they would no doubt whine. Well I say progress consists in throwing out what's old and "safe" and being bold.
For immediate release.
Slashdot, USA. A new online authentication system called Dynaface could make logging in to websites a little easier. With Dynaface, users simply identify their own face, instead of entering a cryptic password or buying a biometric device to scan their fingerprints. The user's sample photographs are made under a variety of hair styles and lighting conditions, since the shape and other characteristics of a person's face are harder for an outside party to recognize than hair and lighting is. The lighting and hairstyle used are random, so the shape of the face is the only clue to the correct answer."
sorry, you're right. In my first draft I had been talking about the total distance. But the rest of the comment stands.
I hereby call dibs on Grigory Perelman's medal.
Go ahead, check the comment history. I am the first, therefore (omiting some trivial intermediate steps)... the medal is mine.
See you at the top, non-figureheads!
May I be the first to predict the following road map:
and finally, after dozens of missed deadlines, project renamings, and changes in leadership, the long-awaited revolutionary:
what,
lift --compatible
not good enough for you?
BTW, your form is the very first example on elvtr's man page! RTFM, and if you can't or won't read a four-page man page on something as critical as elevator functionality, you have no business administering a computer. It's that simple.