The EU way is to work with other member states, not, as you implied, to cooperate in general. The EU will see to it's own interests, just as the US will see to it's own interests. Saddam switched the the euro, for oil trading, which was against US interests. The US put him out of business, which really put out the EU, who was willing to overlook all of Saddam's brutalities in exchange for oil. Not unlike the US.
This whole Iraq thing is, in part, a battle between the US and the EU over resources. And each side will do what it takes to serve the interests of it's people.
Mars does not have the air pressure required to provide enough force for such a mechanism to work. If there was, NASA would not need to cushion the impact of probes with giant balloons.
While the effort is interesting, we're not going to see it crawl across Mars any time soon.
Zimbabwe has no money. If you want expensive things, you should make the money to pay for them. Expensive Aids Drugs don't go to people who can't pay because no money is made from that transaction. Countrys that have a better social situation and healthcare plans etc, etc, get the expensive drugs, because they can pay for them.... I'm sorry that THAT is the way it works, but the sooner you face it the better. I'm not saying it's humane or right or good... it just is.... The good people of Zimbabwe, and all other good people of similarly troubled countries have to correct their social situation before any lasting relief will come to their land(s). Our money, drugs, jeans, media, food, military can not help them. In fact, these things mostly prolong and increase overall suffering.
Well, in high tech, 'it aint that way son'. You say no, there's a big stink, and in the end... you loose your job. You see, you have a right to say 'no' and your employer has a right not to require your services any longer. And yes, it's 'in the contract'.
Employment in todays high tech companies usually (always?) requires the employee to give up some of his rights. For example, the security guard at the front desk might ask an employee who is leaving late in the evening if he would mind a quick look in his brief case. The employee can allow the unreasonable search or not, but to say no means termination. The employee agreed when he was hired, to allow the security guards to search his bags when they saw fit. Saying "no" translates to "I don't want to work here anymore". No one 'stole' the protection from unreasonable searches from the employee, he GAVE that right away, in exchange for a pay check. Biometric information and a company's use of said information will fair no better than the constitutional rights of it's employees.
If I wanted everyone in my country to have implanted tracking devices, rather than making them manditory by force of law, I'd make them like this little creation. Now this tooth phone is not such a whiz-bang, can't-do-without-it concept, but the tracking devices we will all have implanted in us from birth in the future... they will be so cool and usefull that folks without them will be rendered useless and unable to compete with those who do. ... I'm not paranoid... I'm suspicious.
Imagine phones that don't use Telco hardware at all. Information hops from phone to phone, finding it's target via other people's phones exclusivly... What would the big Telcos do then? Would they care? They certainly would boast the better, more reliable connection. But if such a system could be worked out, where individuals could CHOOSE to opt in to such a system... would it create a (virtually) free method of communication that no corporation could charge for or userp? Hmmm... Open Source Cellular?
If you can't do the math, no calculator can help you. Oh, it might make the difference between getting an 'F' and a 'D', but think back to your own math classes. Performing a finite integration to find the area under a curve between x=0 and x=18 is difficult enough. Just require that the student show their steps in solving the problem. I don't care if the answer's right in a calculus class... I'm not there to teach arithmetic... were the steps used to solve the problem correct? Just because there was a silly addition error doesn't mean the whole problem get's no credit, and just because the answer's right doesn't mean it get's full credit either. A calculator can't help a student who doesn't know the intermediate steps to solving a complex math problem.
No matter what server I go to, I get my rear end handed to me on a plate, with a side of 'slaw! At first, I wanted to believe that you were all cheating... you dirty rotten minks! But, in all honesty... I really am that bad. Last week I survived for more that 30 seconds... I was elated! Then 'ANAL-PLASMA-BABE' hosed me like never before, and insulted my still writhing corps I have much to learn...
I'm serving web pages from by NeXT Station at home. My logs show tons of attempts to reach internal WIN-NT paths. Which is slightly amusing. But in the end, that's just my DMZ machine, and my linxis(sp?) firewall is trusted to keep out other naughty people. Still, nothing keeps the wife from opening an email with an executable attachment... So my web server stays up while I refresh the image on my PC. The most stable running box in the house is still the NeXT.
This is a common fiction. Kildall actually had a deal with IBM, they simply went with MS because it was cheaper. When confronted with the fact that MS-DOS was possibly stolen, IBM offered Kildall a huge sum (at the time) of money, and Kildall accepted the appology, and the cash. This info from a highly reliable source, who attended Kildall's funeral.
I guess it makes it easier to swallow if we believe that Kildall missed the boat, rather than sold the farm.
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The FBI's job is to enforce the law. Not to enforce only good law that makes sense.
I say, enforce the bad law, expose it for what it is, and get it ruled as unconstitutional. Or, get congress to change the law, in light of the bad ways it is required to be enforced.
It's just sad that some poor sod has to sit in jail while this process goes on.
Just keep in mind, the folks who made the law are to blame, not the folks mandated to enforce it.
I notice there are not a lot of comments posted on this Katz article. This is unusual in the extream. Could it be that no one wants to admit that the net isn't the freedom sword everyone hoped it would be?
Change tactics. On-line magazines could be successful, it's just that passivly posting a web page and hoping that someone comes to read it doesn't work.
Hope is not a valid magagement strategy.
That's the lesson here.
Wanna see MS go down? Do a better job than they do. Write compelling software that changes how people live their lives. Provide an app. that folks can't live without. No matter how much money MS has, no matter how powerfull they (seemingly) become, their weakness, any company's weakness, is Intelectual Property.
'If life was fair, birds wouldn't eat worms.' Folks need to stop whining about MS and start
changing the world. Open Source IS the weapon,
use it!
What garbage! Gambling is a tax on those not good at math. For every one person that wins, scores of people lose. That means the winners are taking advantage of other people's misfortune. Not a very nice thing to do. The only mitigating factor in gambling (for the most part) is that the losers are generally not forced to participate.
Letting minors participate in gambling is simply unwise, from the casino's point of view. Minors are not responsible for contracts they sign, and can not be forced to pay any gambling debt they incurr. The casinos will do their best to insure that the only folks who play are folks whom they can legaly contract with.
As for getting kids to attend school by letting them gamble... well, I just don't know how to experess the utter lunacy of that idea without appearing to be insulting or judgmental.
This fellow paid $100 for the opportunity to stick it to some some other fellow. He made a $100 bet, on the off change that he'd get $5000. If he had a brain in his head, he'd send his address and get his money back, and laugh about joke. Sticking to the "I met the stated rules" just look dumb, especially when you're out $100.
Information THEORY aside, the challenge can be met.
Imagine the bits of a file, lined up, bit-0 through bit-n, as the output of a boolean logic function. The number of variables required to produce those bits is Z, where 2^Z = Total bits.
So, 1024 bits requires a maximum of 10 variables, but usually less, depending on the data.
Write a program that will find the boolean equation that, will produce bit 0 of the origional file if all variables are set to 0, and bit 1 of the file, if all but the last variable is set to zero (a binary count, you get the idea?)
The resulting equation will have log2(Total bits)+4 unique symbols. Now reduce the function to eliminate all unneeded terms. Now write the equation to a file, prepending the binary number equal to the number of bits in the origional file.
This procedure, if run on a large data set, like megs, will result in the highest level of compression possible, because boolean reduction WILL find the minimum possible symbols for even random data.
One reason this procedure is no good is that the processing power, and storage capacity needed to achieve it is incredibly large, and exponential with origional data size.
I've written the code and yes, it works great, but I have not been able to do files of any size due to the fact that expanding the boolean terms takes 2^(bits in origional file)/2 terms, which is quite a chunk of change.
Information THEORY is just that. If you can code up the above, and run it on data sizes in the megs, you won't need my $5000 bucks, you'll have plenty of money rolling in on your own.
I love Slashdot.
Given that caveat, I'll continue.
Many posts will (likely) never get rated more than a 1.
Many readers read at ratings of 3 and higher.
Slashdot has a wonderful way of culling out the stuff that (basiclly) no one wants to see anyway. And they call this merrit based censorship a good thing. Posts get rated up or down, not based upon official policy, but based upon those who read the post, and their whim.
Whim based censorship.
Oh sure, we can pontificate on how the average rater is level headed and equitable. But in the end, stuff that doesn't agree with the typical average slashdot reader, stands a slim chance of being seen.
So rather than kicking people off your posting board, you simply hide their post through moderation. So the person is shouting down a hole, no one hears, and no one cares.
A handy way to avoid messing around in legal battles, but far more cruel in the end.
One reason not to apologise that I have not seen listed:
I'm sorry from the U.S. would lead to a trial of our service men/women that are currently being held hostage there.
If we apologise, our people over there are doomed.
I like the idea of having a game that NEVER stops. Characters continue interacting and "doing" things even when the player is off-line.
And what is wrong with this simple bot routine:
1 wander around country-side.
2 look for stuff to pound on for EXP and treasure.
2.1 pound on the right stuff.
3 run from big nasties.
4 store treasure, stash items, heal self.
5 start from #1 again.
Hey, if that's cheating, the game is way too simple. And if you enjoy such simplicity... well
good for you!
The average weight advantage I'll grant you. But less agressive is pure bunk. You've obviously never coached a womens sporting team before. Women are often far worse than men when it comes to getting along for long periods of time. And they often have a harder time working together. Women have different problems than men in many respects, but those issues are no less limiting.
And the whole 'women are hardier' thing... talk about a women's agenda item. WOW! Astronauts are usually in top physical condition, regardless of their sex. Using statistics gathered from a fat, unhealthy population to apply to a small subset of really healthy individuals might not be fruitfull here.
The decision to fund a mission to Mars, for example, does not come down to the difference in a few million dollars. That's chump change, really.
So the average difference in weight between males and females is irrelivant in the long run.
Both sexes have members that would be ideally suited for such a mission.
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That's the whole American gig!
We don't care what you think.
What you think is irrelivant.
We are a target because we are not sheep.
The EU way is to work with other member states, not, as you implied, to cooperate in general.
The EU will see to it's own interests, just as the US will see to it's own interests.
Saddam switched the the euro, for oil trading, which was against US interests.
The US put him out of business, which really put out the EU, who was willing to overlook all of Saddam's brutalities in exchange for oil. Not unlike the US.
This whole Iraq thing is, in part, a battle between the US and the EU over resources. And each side will do what it takes to serve the interests of it's people.
There is NO high horse upon which to sit.
The first book I ever read, cover to cover, was "A", from World Book.
As I recall, I then skipped to "R" for Rockets.
Mars does not have the air pressure required to provide enough force for such a mechanism to work. If there was, NASA would not need to cushion the impact of probes with giant balloons.
While the effort is interesting, we're not going to see it crawl across Mars any time soon.
What do you mean by oit shenanigans? Just Curious, I'm an OIT illumni (Oregon Institute of Technology) probably not related to your comment at all.
Zimbabwe has no money. If you want expensive things, you should make the money to pay for them. Expensive Aids Drugs don't go to people who can't pay because no money is made from that transaction. Countrys that have a better social situation and healthcare plans etc, etc, get the expensive drugs, because they can pay for them. ... ...
I'm sorry that THAT is the way it works, but the sooner you face it the better. I'm not saying it's humane or right or good... it just is.
The good people of Zimbabwe, and all other good people of similarly troubled countries have to correct their social situation before any lasting relief will come to their land(s). Our money, drugs, jeans, media, food, military can not help them. In fact, these things mostly prolong and increase overall suffering.
Well, in high tech, 'it aint that way son'.
You say no, there's a big stink, and in the end...
you loose your job. You see, you have a right to say 'no' and your employer has a right not to require your services any longer. And yes, it's 'in the contract'.
Employment in todays high tech companies usually (always?) requires the employee to give up some of his rights. For example, the security guard at the front desk might ask an employee who is leaving late in the evening if he would mind a quick look in his brief case. The employee can allow the unreasonable search or not, but to say no means termination. The employee agreed when he was hired, to allow the security guards to search his bags when they saw fit. Saying "no" translates to "I don't want to work here anymore".
No one 'stole' the protection from unreasonable searches from the employee, he GAVE that right away, in exchange for a pay check.
Biometric information and a company's use of said information will fair no better than the constitutional rights of it's employees.
If I wanted everyone in my country to have implanted tracking devices, rather than making them manditory by force of law, I'd make them like this little creation.
Now this tooth phone is not such a whiz-bang, can't-do-without-it concept, but the tracking devices we will all have implanted in us from birth in the future... they will be so cool and usefull that folks without them will be rendered useless and unable to compete with those who do.
...
I'm not paranoid... I'm suspicious.
Imagine phones that don't use Telco hardware at
all. Information hops from phone to phone,
finding it's target via other people's phones
exclusivly... What would the big Telcos do then?
Would they care? They certainly would boast the
better, more reliable connection. But if such a
system could be worked out, where individuals
could CHOOSE to opt in to such a system... would
it create a (virtually) free method of
communication that no corporation could charge for
or userp? Hmmm... Open Source Cellular?
If you can't do the math, no calculator can help you. Oh, it might make the difference between getting an 'F' and a 'D', but think back to your own math classes. Performing a finite integration to find the area under a curve between x=0 and x=18 is difficult enough.
Just require that the student show their steps in solving the problem. I don't care if the answer's right in a calculus class... I'm not there to teach arithmetic... were the steps used to solve the problem correct? Just because there was a silly addition error doesn't mean the whole problem get's no credit, and just because the answer's right doesn't mean it get's full credit either. A calculator can't help a student who doesn't know the intermediate steps to solving a complex math problem.
No matter what server I go to, I get my rear end handed to me on a plate, with a side of 'slaw!
At first, I wanted to believe that you were all cheating... you dirty rotten minks!
But, in all honesty... I really am that bad.
Last week I survived for more that 30 seconds... I was elated! Then 'ANAL-PLASMA-BABE' hosed me like never before, and insulted my still writhing corps
I have much to learn...
I'm serving web pages from by NeXT Station at home. My logs show tons of attempts to reach internal WIN-NT paths. Which is slightly amusing. But in the end, that's just my DMZ machine, and my linxis(sp?) firewall is trusted to keep out other naughty people. Still, nothing keeps the wife from opening an email with an executable attachment... So my web server stays up while I refresh the image on my PC. The most stable running box in the house is still the NeXT.
This is a common fiction. Kildall actually had a deal with IBM, they simply went with MS because it was cheaper. When confronted with the fact that MS-DOS was possibly stolen, IBM offered Kildall a huge sum (at the time) of money, and Kildall accepted the appology, and the cash. This info from a highly reliable source, who attended Kildall's funeral.
I guess it makes it easier to swallow if we believe that Kildall missed the boat, rather than sold the farm.
The FBI's job is to enforce the law. Not to enforce only good law that makes sense.
I say, enforce the bad law, expose it for what it is, and get it ruled as unconstitutional. Or, get congress to change the law, in light of the bad ways it is required to be enforced.
It's just sad that some poor sod has to sit in jail while this process goes on.
Just keep in mind, the folks who made the law are to blame, not the folks mandated to enforce it.
I notice there are not a lot of comments posted on this Katz article. This is unusual in the extream. Could it be that no one wants to admit that the net isn't the freedom sword everyone hoped it would be?
Change tactics. On-line magazines could be successful, it's just that passivly posting a web page and hoping that someone comes to read it doesn't work.
Hope is not a valid magagement strategy.
That's the lesson here.
Wanna see MS go down? Do a better job than they do. Write compelling software that changes how people live their lives. Provide an app. that folks can't live without. No matter how much money MS has, no matter how powerfull they (seemingly) become, their weakness, any company's weakness, is Intelectual Property.
'If life was fair, birds wouldn't eat worms.' Folks need to stop whining about MS and start
changing the world. Open Source IS the weapon,
use it!
What garbage! Gambling is a tax on those not good at math. For every one person that wins, scores of people lose. That means the winners are taking advantage of other people's misfortune. Not a very nice thing to do. The only mitigating factor in gambling (for the most part) is that the losers are generally not forced to participate.
Letting minors participate in gambling is simply unwise, from the casino's point of view. Minors are not responsible for contracts they sign, and can not be forced to pay any gambling debt they incurr. The casinos will do their best to insure that the only folks who play are folks whom they can legaly contract with.
As for getting kids to attend school by letting them gamble... well, I just don't know how to experess the utter lunacy of that idea without appearing to be insulting or judgmental.
This fellow paid $100 for the opportunity to stick it to some some other fellow. He made a $100 bet, on the off change that he'd get $5000. If he had a brain in his head, he'd send his address and get his money back, and laugh about joke. Sticking to the "I met the stated rules" just look dumb, especially when you're out $100.
Information THEORY aside, the challenge can be met.
Imagine the bits of a file, lined up, bit-0 through bit-n, as the output of a boolean logic function. The number of variables required to produce those bits is Z, where 2^Z = Total bits.
So, 1024 bits requires a maximum of 10 variables, but usually less, depending on the data.
Write a program that will find the boolean equation that, will produce bit 0 of the origional file if all variables are set to 0, and bit 1 of the file, if all but the last variable is set to zero (a binary count, you get the idea?)
The resulting equation will have log2(Total bits)+4 unique symbols. Now reduce the function to eliminate all unneeded terms. Now write the equation to a file, prepending the binary number equal to the number of bits in the origional file.
This procedure, if run on a large data set, like megs, will result in the highest level of compression possible, because boolean reduction WILL find the minimum possible symbols for even random data.
One reason this procedure is no good is that the processing power, and storage capacity needed to achieve it is incredibly large, and exponential with origional data size.
I've written the code and yes, it works great, but I have not been able to do files of any size due to the fact that expanding the boolean terms takes 2^(bits in origional file)/2 terms, which is quite a chunk of change.
Information THEORY is just that. If you can code up the above, and run it on data sizes in the megs, you won't need my $5000 bucks, you'll have plenty of money rolling in on your own.
I love Slashdot.
Given that caveat, I'll continue.
Many posts will (likely) never get rated more than a 1.
Many readers read at ratings of 3 and higher.
Slashdot has a wonderful way of culling out the stuff that (basiclly) no one wants to see anyway. And they call this merrit based censorship a good thing. Posts get rated up or down, not based upon official policy, but based upon those who read the post, and their whim.
Whim based censorship.
Oh sure, we can pontificate on how the average rater is level headed and equitable. But in the end, stuff that doesn't agree with the typical average slashdot reader, stands a slim chance of being seen.
So rather than kicking people off your posting board, you simply hide their post through moderation. So the person is shouting down a hole, no one hears, and no one cares.
A handy way to avoid messing around in legal battles, but far more cruel in the end.
So lets get off the high horse about censorship.
One reason not to apologise that I have not seen listed: I'm sorry from the U.S. would lead to a trial of our service men/women that are currently being held hostage there. If we apologise, our people over there are doomed.
Given a few billion years, and beaker as big as Earth, and the odds are, you'll still have a beaker with dirty water.
The odds of life happening randomly are indeed slim, given what we know about the chemicals involved.
Anyone who uses or implies the term "statistical certainty" or "statisticaly inevitable" knows nothing of statistics to begin with.
The "odds" of intellegence, I have found, are slim, even on Earth, much less off planet.
I like the idea of having a game that NEVER stops. Characters continue interacting and "doing" things even when the player is off-line.
And what is wrong with this simple bot routine:
1 wander around country-side.
2 look for stuff to pound on for EXP and treasure.
2.1 pound on the right stuff.
3 run from big nasties.
4 store treasure, stash items, heal self.
5 start from #1 again.
Hey, if that's cheating, the game is way too simple. And if you enjoy such simplicity... well
good for you!
The average weight advantage I'll grant you. But less agressive is pure bunk. You've obviously never coached a womens sporting team before. Women are often far worse than men when it comes to getting along for long periods of time. And they often have a harder time working together. Women have different problems than men in many respects, but those issues are no less limiting.
And the whole 'women are hardier' thing... talk about a women's agenda item. WOW! Astronauts are usually in top physical condition, regardless of their sex. Using statistics gathered from a fat, unhealthy population to apply to a small subset of really healthy individuals might not be fruitfull here.
The decision to fund a mission to Mars, for example, does not come down to the difference in a few million dollars. That's chump change, really.
So the average difference in weight between males and females is irrelivant in the long run.
Both sexes have members that would be ideally suited for such a mission.