"God"=="supernatural"=="not allowed by physical (natural) law." All of the multiverses are supposedly governed by physical law.
Nothing in natural law (i.e. physics) forbids the existence of something that does not follow natural law. It does forbid something natural (or possessing natural qualities) from not following natural law (insofar as it possesses such quantities), but that does not mean something supernatural cannot exist.
Perhaps these folks were smoking that much pot as a coping means ("self medicating") because of their troubles, rather than pot causing the troubles
Possibly, but that doesn't fully explain why people who smoked pot at an earlier age (under 15) were more likely to have psychotic episodes at an earlier age, nor why those who smoked stronger pot in larger quantities were also more likely to experience such episodes. The study found both effects. And since the study focused on people who had psychotic episodes in the first place (i.e. people who likely had mental issues to start with), it's unlikely self-medication is the explanation. Possible, of course, but unlikely.
Obviously, we'd need a study that has people smoke pot with a control group that doesn't smoke pot to be sure, but that might never happen due to legal and ethical concerns.
Profit: The difference between what's gained and what's spent. If you spend $50 and gain something equivalent to a $5000 camera, then you have essentially created a $4500 profit.
You are confusing profits with savings. I do not "profit" by $10 when I buy a $100 item at $90, I "save" $10. You do not profit until you actually gain a return on an investment. So if he sold his program or images? That would net a profit. Until then, he saved, but did not profit.
The question "How many gates does it take to implement this algorithm?" is stupid. It's like asking "How long is a piece of string?"
There will always be a time/space tradeoff, even with translating an algorithm to hardware. You can save time by throwing more gates at the problem to increase parallelism, or you can save space by reusing gates in sequential operations.
Not entirely true. While obviously the number of gates will depend on your exact implementation (you could theoretically use an infinite number of gates for any algorithm), there will be a certain minimum number of gates dependent on the algorithm itself. Even if you reuse gates by performing sequential algorithms, you still need to store data from previous operations and will need a certain number of gates for that.
The manufacturer is probably asking how many gates you need to implement the algorithm exactly as it is coded, with exactly as much parallel or sequential logic as it already has, and that will have a fairly specific answer. Again, you might be able to optimize the code to use fewer gates, but that would be a different question.
With what energy? Short of fission or fusion, how exactly do you plan on smelting ore in space (let alone forge it)?! Perhaps fusion in zero-G might make it easier, but who knows at this point. It's not being done now.
Solar panels. Solar energy is quite efficient in space, especially when you don't have to worry about things like the Earth getting in the way of the sun. Granted, solar panels are less effective out in the asteroid belt, but it's still a viable method.
so what would i do with a computer in my fridge, toaster, oven, AC, on my clothing, etc? all wired into the internet and open to hacking?
i still need to put the toast into the toaster to actually make the toast, although i'm sure some technofiends will put the toast in, walk away and use an app via wifi to start the toasting process
Because one day (and it'll probably be pretty soon) you won't have to put in the toast yourself. The fridge will be able to tell you when the milk is expired, or if you need eggs (and you'll be able to look. And being able to turn on an oven on your way home after picking up, say, a take-n-bake pizza? I'd consider that useful.
But the whole point - indeed, the only point - of giving something a "Like" is to share your opinion with others. Don't pretend to be surprised when the sharing happens.
No, that's an interpretation, but it isn't a correct one.
If I like something on Facebook, it's because I would like to see their future updates. Period.
Seriously? That's how you interpret clicking the "like" button in a social network which is specifically and from the very beginning designed to share stuff with other people? And you think he has the wrong interpretation?
Well, that's certainly an... interesting position to take.
It's still only happening about every 100,000 years. Will it eventually happen? Yes. Can we do anything about it? Nope. This planet is still the dog and we are still the fleas.
Depends what you mean by "do anything about it" - if by "do anything" you mean "preserve the human race", then we could easily have a permanent and self-sufficient base on the moon within a few decades if we dedicated half of our military budget to it, and a base on Mars a few decades beyond that. The entire Apollo project "only" cost around $170 billion in 2005 dollars -- the USA Military Budget is around $700B annually.
Or we could just do nothing, as humanity survived the last Yellowstone eruption just fine (or we wouldn't be around today). And they managed that without any of our modern technology or scientific knowledge. A base on the moon or Mars is definitely in the long-term survival plans for humanity, but we don't need one to survive a once-in-a-million year event like a supervolcano eruption, it's the once-in-a-hundred million events like asteroid collisions (or eventually the sun expanding) we need to worry about.
Yes, because in that scenario I end up without a car. If I "steal" a movie by downloading and then go see it in theaters/buy the DVD because of that, the studio/theater ends up with my money, and still has the movie in any case.
Ironic, then that it was USA Today who first broke the story about NSA warrantless wiretapping and phone metadata collection ***in 2006***
And they had... what evidence, exactly? "Inside anonymous sources" is not the same as thousands of pages of documentation. That old article had very few details, no proof, no names, and nothing that actually proved anything whatsoever. Snowden showed what was actually going one, that it was illegal, and exactly how far it went.
They don't (necessarily) have to, if the attack was ongoing (which it sounds like it very much was) then the attackers could have retrieved the PINs in transit.
As an American, it's hard to criticize Dubai when kids in the US getting expelled from school and/or arrested over the content of their jokes or writing assignments.
No, it's still very easy to criticize. Just make sure you criticize everyone who acts like that.
Not sure if troll or ignorant. Chinese empire is the oldest one on earth by far. No other civilization in our history survived as long as theirs.
The current Chinese "empire" is only about 60 years old. It replaced the one before that in the Communist revolution, which in turn replaced the dynastic empire of ancient China 40 years before that. The current government has about as much connection to that ancient empire as modern day Egypt does to the pyramid builders, so if we're defining civilizations simply by their geography and demographics, the Egyptian civilization is actually older than the Chinese one by a thousand years or so.
Because guys, that's the story that law enforcement, in collusion with the company, has released to the general public.
Where, exactly, was this story released to the public? I've read two articles on the subject, neither of them say that anyone has made any such claims whatsoever. Target's press release certainly makes no such claims. All they've said is that they've fixed the immediate problem and they're hiring a forensics company to figure out how it happened.
Not exactly. A dirty bomb wouldn't kill very many people, not directly, anyways (or at least not in the short term, although it'd raise the cancer rate considerably). What it would do is be one of the best weapons of terror ever used. Radiation freaks people out, because they don't understand it, can't see it, and can't really do anything about it. Terrorism don't have to cause damage to be effective, all they have to do is cause terror. The people/government does the rest.
The human mind is capable of adapting to viewing the world upside down. Disjointing motion from vision certainly can cause nausea and disorientation, especially in some people, but most people will be able to adapt very quickly. That's assuming the problem even still exists when they release the Rift, and eliminating that problem is a lot easier when you have $75 million to play with.
Again, I apologize. I should never denigrate your belief in a magical, invisible, physically-impossible grant-wishing space-dwelling "god" by referring it to as a "sky faery".
This post is an excellent example of why this attitude is so... well, laughable. Because (with a few exceptions, like Scientology, but that's a scam, not a religion) most religions don't believe god is magical, space-dwelling, or grant-wishing. As far as "physically impossible", well, that's manifestly false (something not physical can by definition not be physically impossible, in the same way that an algebraic equation can't be geometrically impossible). And invisible? Shit, air is invisible (well, mostly). Gravity is invisible. I suppose you don't believe in gravity?
What this kind of post shows is ignorance about what religious people actually believe. And making fun of someone out of ignorance is far more ignorant than actually believing in a sky faery.
"Depends on who's asking and who's reading it. Polls are notoriously unreliable. Social science has a long way to go."
I agree with the guy who replied just above you. These polls (no matter their results) are pretty much always garbage.
Yet, surprisingly, polls in the US can be used to predict the presidential election results quite well. Polls are garbage if you expect a 95%+ confidence interval. For a general trend of the way people feel? They're usually pretty good. Polls aren't scientific, but they don't need to be.
current surveillance practice 'undermines the freedom' of people.
I can choose not to use Google (yes, I can even choose to disable their trackers on websites, like, say Slashdot). I can't choose not to have the NSA snoop on email. So it's more like the merchants criticizing the taxmen. One will happily take your freedoms if you give it to them, the other will take your freedoms willing or not.
I don't think this one was karma but rather Darwinism. I'm sure the containers had plenty of warnings. They were crooked and DUMB.
The thieves probably assumed the warnings were fake, meant to deter... well, people like them. I know people will ship containers labeled things like "bull semen" and the like so that shippers will handle it carefully. The thieves probably (wrongly, of course) assumed this was something similar: drugs, money, or something else valuable labeled with radioactive symbols to discourage theft.
Funny how Monsanto isn't required to definitively prove their crap is safe, but everyone else is required to definitely prove that it isn't.
So basically we've got an evidentiary double-standard where Monsanto et al get to say "perfectly safe until proven otherwise", and we don't get to say "prove it". And then we all get to be the test subjects in the long-term studies.
Except they do have to prove it's safe, to within a certain margin. GM foods generally have a substantially similar composition and nutritional content as existing foods, which means if that food is safe so is the derived food. Believe it or not, but the FDA and equivalent organizations do have regulations for GM foods to ensure they're safe. Of course you can't definitely prove it's safe: that's an impossible burden of proof, because you can't prove anything definitively, in science.
Far more GPIO (the Pi only has 8, which is rather pitiful), compatibility with Ardiuno (so lots of expansion modules readily available), built-in SATA/COM/parallel port support, etc. Not everything is about speed. Also, it's x86, so it's compatible with a totally different set of programs/OSes.
The law says it’s only a crime if the hidden compartment is added with the “intent” to conceal drugs, but it also outlaws anybody who has been convicted of felony aggravated drug trafficking laws from operating any vehicle with hidden compartments.
Can anyone find the arrest record/docket and figure out exactly how they alleged intent, or that he was formerly convicted of felony aggravated drug trafficking laws? Otherwise, this looks like a money grab to me.
As for the car itself, the Institute for Justice’s 2010 “Policing for Profit” report calculated that law enforcement officials in the state have collected more than $80 million in shared proceeds from asset forfeiture funds. Oh, and the hidden compartment law exempts vehicles being operated by law enforcement officers, so if state troopers can come up with an excuse to use the ride they just grabbed, they may be able to keep it for themselves.
The bit TFA and TFS omit in the story is that (to quote from the local news source)
Troopers noticed an overwhelming smell of raw marijuana which gave them probable cause to search the car.
Assuming they are telling the truth, there is reason to believe the compartment was in fact used to transport drugs. There are more strict chemical tests they could run on the compartment to tell if it actually did contain drugs in the past which, to be honest, is most likely the case (I grant that not all electronically-sealed secret compartments are used for illegal purposes, but I'd be a little surprised if that wasn't the purpose of the majority).
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"God"=="supernatural"=="not allowed by physical (natural) law." All of the multiverses are supposedly governed by physical law.
Nothing in natural law (i.e. physics) forbids the existence of something that does not follow natural law. It does forbid something natural (or possessing natural qualities) from not following natural law (insofar as it possesses such quantities), but that does not mean something supernatural cannot exist.
Perhaps these folks were smoking that much pot as a coping means ("self medicating") because of their troubles, rather than pot causing the troubles
Possibly, but that doesn't fully explain why people who smoked pot at an earlier age (under 15) were more likely to have psychotic episodes at an earlier age, nor why those who smoked stronger pot in larger quantities were also more likely to experience such episodes. The study found both effects. And since the study focused on people who had psychotic episodes in the first place (i.e. people who likely had mental issues to start with), it's unlikely self-medication is the explanation. Possible, of course, but unlikely.
Obviously, we'd need a study that has people smoke pot with a control group that doesn't smoke pot to be sure, but that might never happen due to legal and ethical concerns.
Profit: The difference between what's gained and what's spent. If you spend $50 and gain something equivalent to a $5000 camera, then you have essentially created a $4500 profit.
You are confusing profits with savings. I do not "profit" by $10 when I buy a $100 item at $90, I "save" $10. You do not profit until you actually gain a return on an investment. So if he sold his program or images? That would net a profit. Until then, he saved, but did not profit.
The question "How many gates does it take to implement this algorithm?" is stupid. It's like asking "How long is a piece of string?"
There will always be a time/space tradeoff, even with translating an algorithm to hardware. You can save time by throwing more gates at the problem to increase parallelism, or you can save space by reusing gates in sequential operations.
Not entirely true. While obviously the number of gates will depend on your exact implementation (you could theoretically use an infinite number of gates for any algorithm), there will be a certain minimum number of gates dependent on the algorithm itself. Even if you reuse gates by performing sequential algorithms, you still need to store data from previous operations and will need a certain number of gates for that.
The manufacturer is probably asking how many gates you need to implement the algorithm exactly as it is coded, with exactly as much parallel or sequential logic as it already has, and that will have a fairly specific answer. Again, you might be able to optimize the code to use fewer gates, but that would be a different question.
With what energy? Short of fission or fusion, how exactly do you plan on smelting ore in space (let alone forge it)?! Perhaps fusion in zero-G might make it easier, but who knows at this point. It's not being done now.
Solar panels. Solar energy is quite efficient in space, especially when you don't have to worry about things like the Earth getting in the way of the sun. Granted, solar panels are less effective out in the asteroid belt, but it's still a viable method.
so what would i do with a computer in my fridge, toaster, oven, AC, on my clothing, etc? all wired into the internet and open to hacking? i still need to put the toast into the toaster to actually make the toast, although i'm sure some technofiends will put the toast in, walk away and use an app via wifi to start the toasting process
Because one day (and it'll probably be pretty soon) you won't have to put in the toast yourself. The fridge will be able to tell you when the milk is expired, or if you need eggs (and you'll be able to look. And being able to turn on an oven on your way home after picking up, say, a take-n-bake pizza? I'd consider that useful.
No, that's an interpretation, but it isn't a correct one.
If I like something on Facebook, it's because I would like to see their future updates. Period.
Seriously? That's how you interpret clicking the "like" button in a social network which is specifically and from the very beginning designed to share stuff with other people? And you think he has the wrong interpretation?
Well, that's certainly an... interesting position to take.
It's still only happening about every 100,000 years. Will it eventually happen? Yes. Can we do anything about it? Nope. This planet is still the dog and we are still the fleas.
Depends what you mean by "do anything about it" - if by "do anything" you mean "preserve the human race", then we could easily have a permanent and self-sufficient base on the moon within a few decades if we dedicated half of our military budget to it, and a base on Mars a few decades beyond that. The entire Apollo project "only" cost around $170 billion in 2005 dollars -- the USA Military Budget is around $700B annually.
Or we could just do nothing, as humanity survived the last Yellowstone eruption just fine (or we wouldn't be around today). And they managed that without any of our modern technology or scientific knowledge. A base on the moon or Mars is definitely in the long-term survival plans for humanity, but we don't need one to survive a once-in-a-million year event like a supervolcano eruption, it's the once-in-a-hundred million events like asteroid collisions (or eventually the sun expanding) we need to worry about.
Yes, because in that scenario I end up without a car. If I "steal" a movie by downloading and then go see it in theaters/buy the DVD because of that, the studio/theater ends up with my money, and still has the movie in any case.
Ironic, then that it was USA Today who first broke the story about NSA warrantless wiretapping and phone metadata collection ***in 2006***
And they had... what evidence, exactly? "Inside anonymous sources" is not the same as thousands of pages of documentation. That old article had very few details, no proof, no names, and nothing that actually proved anything whatsoever. Snowden showed what was actually going one, that it was illegal, and exactly how far it went.
There does exist at least one GUI front-end for it (qtoctave), but development stopped a while back and it wasn't an official part of Octave itself.
They don't (necessarily) have to, if the attack was ongoing (which it sounds like it very much was) then the attackers could have retrieved the PINs in transit.
As an American, it's hard to criticize Dubai when kids in the US getting expelled from school and/or arrested over the content of their jokes or writing assignments.
No, it's still very easy to criticize. Just make sure you criticize everyone who acts like that.
Not sure if troll or ignorant. Chinese empire is the oldest one on earth by far. No other civilization in our history survived as long as theirs.
The current Chinese "empire" is only about 60 years old. It replaced the one before that in the Communist revolution, which in turn replaced the dynastic empire of ancient China 40 years before that. The current government has about as much connection to that ancient empire as modern day Egypt does to the pyramid builders, so if we're defining civilizations simply by their geography and demographics, the Egyptian civilization is actually older than the Chinese one by a thousand years or so.
Because guys, that's the story that law enforcement, in collusion with the company, has released to the general public.
Where, exactly, was this story released to the public? I've read two articles on the subject, neither of them say that anyone has made any such claims whatsoever. Target's press release certainly makes no such claims. All they've said is that they've fixed the immediate problem and they're hiring a forensics company to figure out how it happened.
Not exactly. A dirty bomb wouldn't kill very many people, not directly, anyways (or at least not in the short term, although it'd raise the cancer rate considerably). What it would do is be one of the best weapons of terror ever used. Radiation freaks people out, because they don't understand it, can't see it, and can't really do anything about it. Terrorism don't have to cause damage to be effective, all they have to do is cause terror. The people/government does the rest.
The human mind is capable of adapting to viewing the world upside down. Disjointing motion from vision certainly can cause nausea and disorientation, especially in some people, but most people will be able to adapt very quickly. That's assuming the problem even still exists when they release the Rift, and eliminating that problem is a lot easier when you have $75 million to play with.
Again, I apologize. I should never denigrate your belief in a magical, invisible, physically-impossible grant-wishing space-dwelling "god" by referring it to as a "sky faery".
This post is an excellent example of why this attitude is so... well, laughable. Because (with a few exceptions, like Scientology, but that's a scam, not a religion) most religions don't believe god is magical, space-dwelling, or grant-wishing. As far as "physically impossible", well, that's manifestly false (something not physical can by definition not be physically impossible, in the same way that an algebraic equation can't be geometrically impossible). And invisible? Shit, air is invisible (well, mostly). Gravity is invisible. I suppose you don't believe in gravity?
What this kind of post shows is ignorance about what religious people actually believe. And making fun of someone out of ignorance is far more ignorant than actually believing in a sky faery.
"Depends on who's asking and who's reading it. Polls are notoriously unreliable. Social science has a long way to go."
I agree with the guy who replied just above you. These polls (no matter their results) are pretty much always garbage.
Yet, surprisingly, polls in the US can be used to predict the presidential election results quite well. Polls are garbage if you expect a 95%+ confidence interval. For a general trend of the way people feel? They're usually pretty good. Polls aren't scientific, but they don't need to be.
current surveillance practice 'undermines the freedom' of people.
I can choose not to use Google (yes, I can even choose to disable their trackers on websites, like, say Slashdot). I can't choose not to have the NSA snoop on email. So it's more like the merchants criticizing the taxmen. One will happily take your freedoms if you give it to them, the other will take your freedoms willing or not.
I don't think this one was karma but rather Darwinism. I'm sure the containers had plenty of warnings. They were crooked and DUMB.
The thieves probably assumed the warnings were fake, meant to deter... well, people like them. I know people will ship containers labeled things like "bull semen" and the like so that shippers will handle it carefully. The thieves probably (wrongly, of course) assumed this was something similar: drugs, money, or something else valuable labeled with radioactive symbols to discourage theft.
Funny how Monsanto isn't required to definitively prove their crap is safe, but everyone else is required to definitely prove that it isn't.
So basically we've got an evidentiary double-standard where Monsanto et al get to say "perfectly safe until proven otherwise", and we don't get to say "prove it". And then we all get to be the test subjects in the long-term studies.
Except they do have to prove it's safe, to within a certain margin. GM foods generally have a substantially similar composition and nutritional content as existing foods, which means if that food is safe so is the derived food. Believe it or not, but the FDA and equivalent organizations do have regulations for GM foods to ensure they're safe. Of course you can't definitely prove it's safe: that's an impossible burden of proof, because you can't prove anything definitively, in science.
Far more GPIO (the Pi only has 8, which is rather pitiful), compatibility with Ardiuno (so lots of expansion modules readily available), built-in SATA/COM/parallel port support, etc. Not everything is about speed. Also, it's x86, so it's compatible with a totally different set of programs/OSes.
He never said it was a successful attempt.
The law says it’s only a crime if the hidden compartment is added with the “intent” to conceal drugs, but it also outlaws anybody who has been convicted of felony aggravated drug trafficking laws from operating any vehicle with hidden compartments.
Can anyone find the arrest record/docket and figure out exactly how they alleged intent, or that he was formerly convicted of felony aggravated drug trafficking laws? Otherwise, this looks like a money grab to me.
As for the car itself, the Institute for Justice’s 2010 “Policing for Profit” report calculated that law enforcement officials in the state have collected more than $80 million in shared proceeds from asset forfeiture funds. Oh, and the hidden compartment law exempts vehicles being operated by law enforcement officers, so if state troopers can come up with an excuse to use the ride they just grabbed, they may be able to keep it for themselves.
The bit TFA and TFS omit in the story is that (to quote from the local news source)
Troopers noticed an overwhelming smell of raw marijuana which gave them probable cause to search the car.
Assuming they are telling the truth, there is reason to believe the compartment was in fact used to transport drugs. There are more strict chemical tests they could run on the compartment to tell if it actually did contain drugs in the past which, to be honest, is most likely the case (I grant that not all electronically-sealed secret compartments are used for illegal purposes, but I'd be a little surprised if that wasn't the purpose of the majority).