I set up a wiki a few seconds ago, for the sole purpose of providing a place for the automotive engineering community to post its research online in a free and open manner.
I've done my part by creating an open forum and setting the default admin password (GMail me at my slashdot username for this). Now all that needs to happen is some automotive engineers need to start posting their papers in their new wiki.
The credit card industry is really making irresponsible loans these days. There's no way these dogs make enough money to cover all the treats they'll buy if they're given half a chance preapproved with a 0% teaser rate.
You know, I followed your link to the Colorado Confidential site and read a bit about what happened with Suzanne Shell there. I have to say that I don't know much at all about the cases in question, but reading that site, it's pretty clear that there are some very weird and not altogether decent characters attacking her. Her response to the court's decision seemed intelligent and believable.
That's a lopsided comparison. You're basically evaluating this woman's culpability in that case by comparing the remarks she made in her own defense to those of the random blog commenters who showed up in that thread to criticize her.
Random blog commenters have nothing at stake in such a discussion. They will not be inclined any more than usual to word their comments extremely carefully and will not have previous court documents as readily available to them. They will not have retained the services of an attorney to assist in the defense of the very case which is the topic of the thread, so they will not be as familiar with the minutiae of the case as the defendant.
I have no idea what the actual facts are here, but when one party seems intelligent, well-spoken, and does not engage in personal attacks, and the other party is incoherent, rambling, and engages in constant ad hominem attack, I think I know which party seems more believable to me.
I didn't even read as far as those comments since what they have to say is largely irrelevant anyway. "The other side" and "the other party" would both refer to the state of Colorado, not whatever rude commenters are attracted like moths to a spanking advocate on the Internet.
robots.txt is a nice convention, but its absence doesn't allow anyone to break copyright. Where does that idea come from??
It isn't just a "nice convention". It's a sufficiently reasonable precaution available to plaintiff to effectively avoid the inadvertent disclosure of copyrighted documents. Failure to provide a simple robots.txt file evidences a lack of reasonable precaution and undermines plaintiff's claims to redress in a court of law.
In her defense it seems she probably needs the money after being fined $6000 in a Colorado state court a few months ago for a contempt violation (unauthorized practice of law) after she participated in three separate Colorado court cases under a power of attorney when she had no prior involvement- after having been warned on a prior occasion that this was illegal in the state of Colorado. In fact it's illegal everywhere except Slashdot. But of course it's lies, all lies!
I did not give legal advice to anyone. I did not use powers of attorney to represent anyone or give legal advice to anyone. As I testified, and which was not refuted, I used Powers of Attorney because I was previously accused of forging signatures on release of information forms. I started using powers of attorney to access the DHS records under an existing Colorado Children's Code statutory provision recognizing powers of attorney for that purpose, legislation which I influenced.
What are you going to do with a dozen spectrographs?
A dozen $199 spectrographs from one of those club stores?
I'll win $100,000 from somebody for inventing the cheapest array spectrograph ever, that's what. Even if you count the damned membership fee in there. Meanwhile, guys like you are going to be kicking yourselves and wondering, "Why didn't I think of that?" You would probably have your remaining 11 Chinese spectrographs sitting in the garage waiting to be used as Christmas presents.
Fortress does all loops in parallel by default. You have to explicitly tell it when you want a serial loop.
Fortress does, but Fortran-90 didn't. It was strictly a SISD language and had to be extended in HPF with javadoc-style hacks as I described above so that the compiler knew how to link against the MPI libraries and produce an executable that could take advantage of data parallelism on SIMD/MIMD architectures. The whole thing was one big hack. I think starting with Fortran 95 they began to incorporate features at the language level to support data parallelism. It sounds like it didn't go well because now they're working on a successor language. I have no idea what's been going on with Fortran, having not had to work with it in over ten years.
It would probably be possible to confirm the identity of the person who's subscribed to the ISP being used for a given connection, if not the identity of the person actually using that connection at the time. It would be possible for a government to require that all ISPs are required to give each user a unique (across all ISPs in that country) identifier, which you'd have to use for this sort of thing.
Java does have the for-each syntax, but it is just an abbreviation of the "for i from 0 to x" loop.
I would be very surprised if nobody's tried to work around this problem with AOP and annotations. It would be trivial to code parallelization with a method interceptor.
On a multiprocessor machine the JVM will assign threads to individual CPUs. Your interceptor would populate an array of N threads, assign each thread a number, wrap the annotated method in a callback with a finally {lock.notify()} at the end, synchronize on the lock, start all worker threads, and wait on the lock N times.
The client programmer would annotate a method this way:
@parallelizable(threadIndex = "processorNum") public void doSomething(int processorNum, Object otherParameter, int etc) {...}
The value of the named int parameter would then be replaced with the thread index by the interceptor, and doSomething() would query that parameter and execute its portion of the for loop.
Or you could apply data parallelization, like parallel Fortran, that supported a meta language in the comments. You'd declare an array and then annotate each dimension with compiler directives like *, BLOCK, or SCATTER. BLOCK split the array in contiguous chunks across N CPUs, SCATTER assigned elements to CPUs so that element i went to the (i mod N) -th CPU, and * was for array dimensions that you didn't want to distribute. So instead of passing down a thread index the annotation would apply to arrays and array dimensions, or preferentially to list collections (to avoid having to copy an array into N subarrays):
They introduce the antitumor and it annihilates the tumor.
Although they have to be careful not to damage the surrounding tissue. This means avoiding use of antimuscles, anticonnective tissue, antibones, antilivers, and antibrains.
I was feeling embarrassed for my own country, which is drifting in this direction, and then I heard Turkey was enforcing a law making it explicitly illegal to insult it. Lots of countries have old laws on the books like this, and political factors make it difficult to either repeal or prosecute them, so they're just ignored. But in Turkey people have been actually prosecuted for violating this one- in modern times too!
Great going, Turks, real classy. Nobody could have insulted you any more deeply than you insulted yourselves. This law is being marvelled at around the world. Signapore's chewing gum law had nothing on this. Most of the news I hear from Turkey is about someone getting in trouble for "insulting Turkishness". Whatever previous impression I had of Turkey is gone. Now I always think of this law, and how embarrassing it must be to live in a country backwards enough to have such a thing.
BTW Turkey did play a role in the Armenian genocide; apparently Turks think a Turkish law making it illegal to say it in Turkey will convince the world otherwise. Turkey's genocide occurred 90 years ago, but this law makes it an issue again.
I suppose I shouldn't venture into Turkey after posting this, but I can't see ever wanting to visit such a place.
Run the count electronically, sure, but randomly verify counts of a few precincts and if anything is off you know you have to audit the whole thing.
Will you keep a random seed in the public record, have one provided by the current FEC Chairman for use in each election as a specific function among his other duties of state, or is each election going to be followed by a TV spot where a registered senior citizen voter drops the lotto balls through a spinning machine to determine which precincts will get their counts verified?
By introducing more complex data into DNA sequences it opens the possibility of AI/Self Awareness within the bacterial strains...this is a distinct possibility and needs to be addressed.
It's pretty easy to check for open reading frames in DNA you're writing; not checking would be negligent. You can encode your movies using only three bases if your lawyers are really worried about spawning a transcendant blob and you'd rather not think about it.
These are certainly interesting times. The Arabs had "our" oil, and now it turns out the Chinese have "our" water in their mantle. Expect to see a lot of cheap knock-off water hitting the market soon.
in order to really prove that there was a global flood, you would need to produce the Mexicans that built the Arc
I thought the Ark maintenance guys had decided by Genesis 8:20 that the whole thing was made in China, and not a Noah original with Mexican hired laborers. It carried two of every shipping container, one for the male and one for the female of each species, plus piles of inexpensive cheap shirts, sweaters, pants, ties, coffee mugs, pillows, socks, cordless drills, cheap carbon-zinc batteries, and phones, all wrapped in those annoying plastic bags. You know how to spot an Ark that's a cheap Chinese knockoff? When the Ark is empty it displaces more water than a genuine Noah's Ark. Also, the termites and the woodpeckers can tell you. God made them so they just know.
As to proving the existence of a god, in whatever form you want, that's an exercise best left to the reader.
If there were no God, someone would surely manufacture a convincing knock-off of Him.
Our income tax costs us far more than the revenues collected. Nearly every business and personal investment decision is affected by tax considerations.
You mean the money spent on avoiding rather than paying taxes is non-zero. I think I knew that already.
Ideally taxes are supposed to affect every business and personal decision in an equally burdensome way across all spheres of economic activity. That's the only way they can work. When they affect some of these decisions more than others is when they become a problem that requires hiring experts. Instead of a consistent predictable loss it becomes a lottery game of carrots and sticks designed to "incentivize" your behavior and affect your economic decisions by pushing you around one way or another. There are sticks, like the AMT, or the one discouraging marriage. Or there are carrots, encouraging you to have children and spread your savings among them (or not), or all the goofy deductions, with which they think they're doing you a big favor, but which get priced into the markets that they're trying to distort in your favor (e.g. the first time homeowner's deduction which has raised housing prices). The end result is you just end up with more homework and piles of receipts to go through. But the thing with looking up the bracket from AGI takes two minutes. I would prefer a continuous analytic function instead of brackets that you suddenly fall into but I don't run the world.
Thousands of people work full-time on tax accounting, who could be employed in capacities that actually contribute to the wealth of our economy.
You're probably referring to the health-insurance industry, which can always use people skilled at finding reasons for their employers not to make payments. Yeah, we need more of those people. We have practically a whole subcontinent of English-speaking workers being trained for jobs like that but I guess we need more. It would certainly "contribute to the wealth of our economy".
Well, we wanted all this "globalization", didn't we? And we have worldwide communication now, don't we? So why do they act surprised when people start pirating titles when they delay release dates across different continents by months?
I mean, geez, who's running the television industry, the Dutch East India Pictures Association? Why is their incompetence the fault of the market? Why do we have laws to protect incompetence?
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I set up a wiki a few seconds ago, for the sole purpose of providing a place for the automotive engineering community to post its research online in a free and open manner.
I've done my part by creating an open forum and setting the default admin password (GMail me at my slashdot username for this). Now all that needs to happen is some automotive engineers need to start posting their papers in their new wiki.
Drug sniffing dogs are addicted to plastic?
The credit card industry is really making irresponsible loans these days. There's no way these dogs make enough money to cover all the treats they'll buy if they're given half a chance preapproved with a 0% teaser rate.
Random blog commenters have nothing at stake in such a discussion. They will not be inclined any more than usual to word their comments extremely carefully and will not have previous court documents as readily available to them. They will not have retained the services of an attorney to assist in the defense of the very case which is the topic of the thread, so they will not be as familiar with the minutiae of the case as the defendant.I didn't even read as far as those comments since what they have to say is largely irrelevant anyway. "The other side" and "the other party" would both refer to the state of Colorado, not whatever rude commenters are attracted like moths to a spanking advocate on the Internet.
It isn't just a "nice convention". It's a sufficiently reasonable precaution available to plaintiff to effectively avoid the inadvertent disclosure of copyrighted documents. Failure to provide a simple robots.txt file evidences a lack of reasonable precaution and undermines plaintiff's claims to redress in a court of law.
In her defense it seems she probably needs the money after being fined $6000 in a Colorado state court a few months ago for a contempt violation (unauthorized practice of law) after she participated in three separate Colorado court cases under a power of attorney when she had no prior involvement- after having been warned on a prior occasion that this was illegal in the state of Colorado. In fact it's illegal everywhere except Slashdot. But of course it's lies, all lies!She needs a good spanking.
Check out her current robots.txt file.
I'll win $100,000 from somebody for inventing the cheapest array spectrograph ever, that's what. Even if you count the damned membership fee in there. Meanwhile, guys like you are going to be kicking yourselves and wondering, "Why didn't I think of that?" You would probably have your remaining 11 Chinese spectrographs sitting in the garage waiting to be used as Christmas presents.
Well I would have said "Tianjin" instead but I knew my post would never rise above a 2 with these Americans moderating.
I can practically hear the shipping containers being filled in Beijing with $199 combination laser pointer/spectrographs as we speak!
I have to remember to pick one up at Costco when we go next week.
It's amazing how many estate agents don't actually know which direction a given house faces.
If you're talking about price, they all know that most houses are facing downward at this point.
Fortress does all loops in parallel by default. You have to explicitly tell it when you want a serial loop.
Fortress does, but Fortran-90 didn't. It was strictly a SISD language and had to be extended in HPF with javadoc-style hacks as I described above so that the compiler knew how to link against the MPI libraries and produce an executable that could take advantage of data parallelism on SIMD/MIMD architectures. The whole thing was one big hack. I think starting with Fortran 95 they began to incorporate features at the language level to support data parallelism. It sounds like it didn't go well because now they're working on a successor language. I have no idea what's been going on with Fortran, having not had to work with it in over ten years.
(*) technical (*) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to ah never mind.
Java does have the for-each syntax, but it is just an abbreviation of the "for i from 0 to x" loop.
I would be very surprised if nobody's tried to work around this problem with AOP and annotations. It would be trivial to code parallelization with a method interceptor.
On a multiprocessor machine the JVM will assign threads to individual CPUs. Your interceptor would populate an array of N threads, assign each thread a number, wrap the annotated method in a callback with a finally {lock.notify()} at the end, synchronize on the lock, start all worker threads, and wait on the lock N times.
The client programmer would annotate a method this way:
@parallelizable(threadIndex = "processorNum")
public void doSomething(int processorNum, Object otherParameter, int etc) {...}
The value of the named int parameter would then be replaced with the thread index by the interceptor, and doSomething() would query that parameter and execute its portion of the for loop.
Or you could apply data parallelization, like parallel Fortran, that supported a meta language in the comments. You'd declare an array and then annotate each dimension with compiler directives like *, BLOCK, or SCATTER. BLOCK split the array in contiguous chunks across N CPUs, SCATTER assigned elements to CPUs so that element i went to the (i mod N) -th CPU, and * was for array dimensions that you didn't want to distribute. So instead of passing down a thread index the annotation would apply to arrays and array dimensions, or preferentially to list collections (to avoid having to copy an array into N subarrays):
@parallelizable(array-names="politicians, donors, amounts, votes" array-distributions="[BLOCK], [SCATTER], [BLOCK,SCATTER], [*,BLOCK]")
public void findPatterns(List politicians, Donor[] donors, float[][] amounts, List> votes) {...}
But this is all really ugly. It would have been so much easier if the language were just designed properly.
I've been trying to think of values of X for which the statement
We can put a man on the moon, so we can X on the Internet
is true or even makes any sense, besides trivial values like "put pictures of men on the moon".
You think you're surprised? I've been spraying myself with positrons every morning for the past five years to look younger!
They introduce the antitumor and it annihilates the tumor.
Although they have to be careful not to damage the surrounding tissue. This means avoiding use of antimuscles, anticonnective tissue, antibones, antilivers, and antibrains.
I was feeling embarrassed for my own country, which is drifting in this direction, and then I heard Turkey was enforcing a law making it explicitly illegal to insult it. Lots of countries have old laws on the books like this, and political factors make it difficult to either repeal or prosecute them, so they're just ignored. But in Turkey people have been actually prosecuted for violating this one- in modern times too!
Great going, Turks, real classy. Nobody could have insulted you any more deeply than you insulted yourselves. This law is being marvelled at around the world. Signapore's chewing gum law had nothing on this. Most of the news I hear from Turkey is about someone getting in trouble for "insulting Turkishness". Whatever previous impression I had of Turkey is gone. Now I always think of this law, and how embarrassing it must be to live in a country backwards enough to have such a thing.
BTW Turkey did play a role in the Armenian genocide; apparently Turks think a Turkish law making it illegal to say it in Turkey will convince the world otherwise. Turkey's genocide occurred 90 years ago, but this law makes it an issue again.
I suppose I shouldn't venture into Turkey after posting this, but I can't see ever wanting to visit such a place.
When the oil finally runs out we're going to have a lot of those "jobs that Americans don't want".
These are certainly interesting times. The Arabs had "our" oil, and now it turns out the Chinese have "our" water in their mantle. Expect to see a lot of cheap knock-off water hitting the market soon.
in order to really prove that there was a global flood, you would need to produce the Mexicans that built the Arc
I thought the Ark maintenance guys had decided by Genesis 8:20 that the whole thing was made in China, and not a Noah original with Mexican hired laborers. It carried two of every shipping container, one for the male and one for the female of each species, plus piles of inexpensive cheap shirts, sweaters, pants, ties, coffee mugs, pillows, socks, cordless drills, cheap carbon-zinc batteries, and phones, all wrapped in those annoying plastic bags. You know how to spot an Ark that's a cheap Chinese knockoff? When the Ark is empty it displaces more water than a genuine Noah's Ark. Also, the termites and the woodpeckers can tell you. God made them so they just know.
As to proving the existence of a god, in whatever form you want, that's an exercise best left to the reader.
If there were no God, someone would surely manufacture a convincing knock-off of Him.
Our income tax costs us far more than the revenues collected. Nearly every business and personal investment decision is affected by tax considerations.
You mean the money spent on avoiding rather than paying taxes is non-zero. I think I knew that already.
Ideally taxes are supposed to affect every business and personal decision in an equally burdensome way across all spheres of economic activity. That's the only way they can work. When they affect some of these decisions more than others is when they become a problem that requires hiring experts. Instead of a consistent predictable loss it becomes a lottery game of carrots and sticks designed to "incentivize" your behavior and affect your economic decisions by pushing you around one way or another. There are sticks, like the AMT, or the one discouraging marriage. Or there are carrots, encouraging you to have children and spread your savings among them (or not), or all the goofy deductions, with which they think they're doing you a big favor, but which get priced into the markets that they're trying to distort in your favor (e.g. the first time homeowner's deduction which has raised housing prices). The end result is you just end up with more homework and piles of receipts to go through. But the thing with looking up the bracket from AGI takes two minutes. I would prefer a continuous analytic function instead of brackets that you suddenly fall into but I don't run the world.
Thousands of people work full-time on tax accounting, who could be employed in capacities that actually contribute to the wealth of our economy.
You're probably referring to the health-insurance industry, which can always use people skilled at finding reasons for their employers not to make payments. Yeah, we need more of those people. We have practically a whole subcontinent of English-speaking workers being trained for jobs like that but I guess we need more. It would certainly "contribute to the wealth of our economy".
Well, we wanted all this "globalization", didn't we? And we have worldwide communication now, don't we? So why do they act surprised when people start pirating titles when they delay release dates across different continents by months?
I mean, geez, who's running the television industry, the Dutch East India Pictures Association? Why is their incompetence the fault of the market? Why do we have laws to protect incompetence?
All tax systems are destructive. Not all are used as weapons in culture wars.
Not me. *I* find my Windows XP SP2 vulnerabilities using a Commodore 64 and a Commodore 1541 disk drive with a VM in its controller.