Essentially this technique relies on no-one fixing clock skew.
Your clock is supposed to be accurate. A clock with a skew is [in some degree] broken. If this guy can measure the skew rate of your clock, then you should be able to measure it too, and automatically correct for it - reducing the skew rate to a value very close to 0.
I'd suspect that this isn't the case. flappinbooger was close when he said "When you get sued or someone dies, or both". That's still not right either, because plenty of people die without anyone being sued.
Funny things, words. "false advertising" is the what gets used in a lawsuit when someone is complaining about a vendor lying about their product. The real word is "lie".
Most people are already aware that a significant proportion of advertising is a lie. It becomes false advertising when a lawyer decides he can make a buck from the suit.
Almost EVERY car advert you see has come slick shiny car driving fast down the middle of an empty road.
The roads we all drive on are never empty. We all know it. We all laugh it off. We could sue the people who advertise like this, but we'd all get a class action settlement check for $0.27.
Oh, they know that most people will not cash those checks. They usually get the money back from uncashed checks. The lawyers get a share of the entire settlement. The entire settlement is usually written off on taxes or insured.
Yeah, solar panels are so new and special that roofing manufacturers would never test them for really rare stuff like hail, wind, rain, sleet and snow.
What's even more fun is that if the terrorists managed to discover the secret, they could take whatever actions they liked [concerning the pipeline ] in plain view because nobody else would the location they were working on was significant.
Or course, the following quote is from the article that only some people who click the link actually get:
Another problem is the terribly unruly behavior of positrons whenever physicists try to corral them into a special container. Inside these containers, known as Penning traps, magnetic fields prevent the antiparticles from contacting the material wall of the container -- lest they annihilate on contact. Unfortunately, because like-charged particles repel each other, the positrons push each other apart and quickly squirt out of the trap.
If positrons can't be stored for long periods, they're as useless to the military as an armored personnel carrier without a gas tank. So Edwards is funding investigations of ways to make positrons last longer in storage.
You can start to get respect for these inflatable structures when you realise that normal atmospheric pressure is just about 10 *tonnes* per square meter.
No, you can't.
10 tonnes per square meter = 22,046 pounds per square meter = 22,046 pounds per 1550 square inches = About 14.2 psi.
You can exert more pressure with your little finger.
FTA: The ISS is pressurized to 14.7 psi. Skylab was 12. These inflatable things are going to be about 10.
This is a prime example of Flash being misused. It's not needed at all, and only serves to slow things down. It also makes it impossible to use the data for anything useful.
You might be correct, but you've made at least one assumption that could easily be incorrect. You're assuming "Make it really hard for anyone else to use the data" was not among the requirements.
Do you really think that the kid doesn't know that opening up someone's car door and taking something that doesn't belong to them is wrong? Is there anyone over the age of four who honestly does not believe that that is "over the line"?
Of course not. However, there are people who are in denial about it and will try to justify it with a variety of reasons. There are also people who have been doing similar things since before they were four because no-one ever bothered telling them not to.
A number of people have already made the point that if this is the first time they have done it and they get caught, there's a chance they will be scared/guilty enough to not do it again.
Don't you think there's something wrong with a society where a cop watches you doing the wrong thing and takes no proactive action to protect and serve?
What's wrong with the cop stopping the kid, asking his name and address and generally letting him know that his actions are monitored and he's on the verge of crossing the line.
If no-one ever tells you where the line is, how do you know when you've crossed it?
I'm sure that anything that can successfully recognize handwriting would also be able to recognize a significant portion of the new variety of "Only a human could recognize this" tests being used to validate new logins for email providers and the like.
i think that education and the availability of the free online dictionaries have pretty much obsoleted punctuation and grammar. grammar and punctuation is difficult to automate also. it is bit 100% oranges like apples is...
I'd like to sail around the world in a sexy big yacht and visit some hot, exotic places, how can I get someone else to pay for it? I know, I'll get some of the deckhands to dangle buckets over the side and write down what they pull out! But we're going to need a name so it sounds all scientific like
What you don't understand, and what many people do not seem to understand about this comparison is this:
The machines that make the parts for the shoes cost millions and are engineered in places like the US. The service technicians for those machines are also most likely from the US etc. The shoe designers are also probably in the US.
You are comparing the software to the shoes, when you should be comparing the software to the shoe plant, and comparing the relatively unskilled assembly people to software engineers with degrees and years of experience.
The shoe factories have a reasonably large defect rate, which is acceptible as they can still sell the defective product in outlet stores.
I've seen the code produced by outsourcing to India on more than one occasion. While this is anecdotal at best, can you say "cut and paste"? It all instances it has been obvious that it was produced by someone with no real understanding of programming practices at all. Sure, they sat through a couple of weeks/months of coding courses, but the code produced is some of the worst spaghetti I've ever had the misfortune to have to work with. It worked... sort of... but if you ever have a problem or need a change post production it suddenly has a fearfully large TCO, even after factoring in the cheap production costs.
This guy is saying for the most part society in general is pretty damn predictable and if you know how you can produce something that is "pleasant". i.e. it fits well within the mainstream and can be said to have some mildly controversial elements (ha! controversational) while not really offending anybody.
Essentially you can bank on being able to sell something if you're prepared to make pap. Is it any sort of news that tastes in music can be estimated as easily as tastes in food?
Only problem is they are not making it part of the OS, they are making it an extra.
You make antivirus part of the OS by simply building security into the OS. It's difficult to avoid using UNIX as an example, but there's not a lot of viruses on that OS, now is there?
Microsoft doing this is like a major car company selling gas guzzling vehicles, while simultaneously lobbying the government to eliminate legislation requiring them to be more fuel efficient as well as going out and buying gas stations. Oh... wait...
Why is the article titled "China and Russia 'behind current spam deluge' when they are just the ISPs? It's Americans paying for it, so they are behind it.
Of course, the lack of respect for US spam policy does not help the situation - but this is not surprising, given that the unstated rule of almost all American policy is "If you have enough money you can get away with whatever you like". (Note that this isn't "If you give me enough..." you just have to have it)
Selling junk to idiots, America's number one industry.
The ruin of the ch^ateau de Bourcia overlooks a fertile valley surrounded by wooded hills.
The site is ideal for a mathematical research institute. The restoration of the ch^ateau for that purpose would be an appropriate use of the million dollars offered for a proof of the Riemann hypothesis.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure sounds like they are capable of producing masses of 3Gev particles to me.
Essentially this technique relies on no-one fixing clock skew.
Your clock is supposed to be accurate. A clock with a skew is [in some degree] broken. If this guy can measure the skew rate of your clock, then you should be able to measure it too, and automatically correct for it - reducing the skew rate to a value very close to 0.
How many bits of entropy does that have?
I'd suspect that this isn't the case. flappinbooger was close when he said "When you get sued or someone dies, or both". That's still not right either, because plenty of people die without anyone being sued.
Funny things, words. "false advertising" is the what gets used in a lawsuit when someone is complaining about a vendor lying about their product. The real word is "lie".
Most people are already aware that a significant proportion of advertising is a lie. It becomes false advertising when a lawyer decides he can make a buck from the suit.
Almost EVERY car advert you see has come slick shiny car driving fast down the middle of an empty road.
The roads we all drive on are never empty. We all know it. We all laugh it off. We could sue the people who advertise like this, but we'd all get a class action settlement check for $0.27.
Oh, they know that most people will not cash those checks. They usually get the money back from uncashed checks. The lawyers get a share of the entire settlement. The entire settlement is usually written off on taxes or insured.
This is the house that Jack built.
I'd really like to see what sort of webs spiders exposed to alcohol would produce.
Yeah, solar panels are so new and special that roofing manufacturers would never test them for really rare stuff like hail, wind, rain, sleet and snow.
What's even more fun is that if the terrorists managed to discover the secret, they could take whatever actions they liked [concerning the pipeline ] in plain view because nobody else would the location they were working on was significant.
You want to people to concentrate on your language lessons instead of using language to communicate with each other?
How ironic.
How about you install chatzilla for them and required they only use whatever language they are supposed to be learning.
Of course, I'm assuming by language you mean a spoken language - you didn't say.
No, you can't.
10 tonnes per square meter =
22,046 pounds per square meter =
22,046 pounds per 1550 square inches =
About 14.2 psi.
You can exert more pressure with your little finger.
FTA: The ISS is pressurized to 14.7 psi. Skylab was 12. These inflatable things are going to be about 10.
He's pointing out the incredible lack of language skills evident in MSNs' marketing department.
Two mych dependentf onne "fpell checker"
You might be correct, but you've made at least one assumption that could easily be incorrect. You're assuming "Make it really hard for anyone else to use the data" was not among the requirements.
Of course not. However, there are people who are in denial about it and will try to justify it with a variety of reasons. There are also people who have been doing similar things since before they were four because no-one ever bothered telling them not to.
A number of people have already made the point that if this is the first time they have done it and they get caught, there's a chance they will be scared/guilty enough to not do it again.
Don't you think there's something wrong with a society where a cop watches you doing the wrong thing and takes no proactive action to protect and serve?
What's wrong with the cop stopping the kid, asking his name and address and generally letting him know that his actions are monitored and he's on the verge of crossing the line.
If no-one ever tells you where the line is, how do you know when you've crossed it?
I'm sure that anything that can successfully recognize handwriting would also be able to recognize a significant portion of the new variety of "Only a human could recognize this" tests being used to validate new logins for email providers and the like.
i think that education and the availability of the free online dictionaries have pretty much obsoleted punctuation and grammar. grammar and punctuation is difficult to automate also. it is bit 100% oranges like apples is...
-1 "Stream of Conciousness Frist Ps0t attempt"
And it sounds like Congress (representatives of the public remember) has gotten sick of Publisher F charging whatever they want.
For a $10,000 yearly subscription, I want my journal delivered by a supermodel. Be nice if she could read it to me too. While sitting on my lap.
bzzt.
No one with the money to afford putting together a manned asteroid mining mission has any interest in "everyone living like humans should"
What you don't understand, and what many people do not seem to understand about this comparison is this:
... sort of ... but if you ever have a problem or need a change post production it suddenly has a fearfully large TCO, even after factoring in the cheap production costs.
The machines that make the parts for the shoes cost millions and are engineered in places like the US. The service technicians for those machines are also most likely from the US etc. The shoe designers are also probably in the US.
You are comparing the software to the shoes, when you should be comparing the software to the shoe plant, and comparing the relatively unskilled assembly people to software engineers with degrees and years of experience.
The shoe factories have a reasonably large defect rate, which is acceptible as they can still sell the defective product in outlet stores.
I've seen the code produced by outsourcing to India on more than one occasion. While this is anecdotal at best, can you say "cut and paste"? It all instances it has been obvious that it was produced by someone with no real understanding of programming practices at all. Sure, they sat through a couple of weeks/months of coding courses, but the code produced is some of the worst spaghetti I've ever had the misfortune to have to work with. It worked
Why not try to find out how hard it's going to be to boot from the USB device?
(And another reason to forget the floppy: CD)
1996? Is he on crack? Perhaps he means the "Stoned Age".
Internet gaming has been around a hell of a lot longer than that.
This guy is saying for the most part society in general is pretty damn predictable and if you know how you can produce something that is "pleasant". i.e. it fits well within the mainstream and can be said to have some mildly controversial elements (ha! controversational) while not really offending anybody.
Essentially you can bank on being able to sell something if you're prepared to make pap. Is it any sort of news that tastes in music can be estimated as easily as tastes in food?
McDonalds anyone?
Only problem is they are not making it part of the OS, they are making it an extra.
... wait ...
You make antivirus part of the OS by simply building security into the OS. It's difficult to avoid using UNIX as an example, but there's not a lot of viruses on that OS, now is there?
Microsoft doing this is like a major car company selling gas guzzling vehicles, while simultaneously lobbying the government to eliminate legislation requiring them to be more fuel efficient as well as going out and buying gas stations. Oh
Can you spell "conflict of interest"?
Why is the article titled "China and Russia 'behind current spam deluge' when they are just the ISPs? It's Americans paying for it, so they are behind it.
..." you just have to have it)
Of course, the lack of respect for US spam policy does not help the situation - but this is not surprising, given that the unstated rule of almost all American policy is "If you have enough money you can get away with whatever you like". (Note that this isn't "If you give me enough
Selling junk to idiots, America's number one industry.