3 hour bus ride? That's a lot of time taken out of a terrorist plot. Do you have any idea how much evil can HAPPEN in three hours? Hot dang. That's a whole 8th of a season. Just ask Jack Bauer.
I honestly don't know. If this were in effect before the attack, what difference would it have made? I can't help but think "not a heck of a lot". Terror has a way of routing itself around obstacles. While it's good to have a secure network, should it be mandated?
Is a network "unsecure" if you intentionally keep it open? Does this outlaw sharing access then?
Some sites like Amazon merge a mini-social site into their main commerce site. By merging who we know with what we purchase, a system could divine quite a lot. It might be able to divine that you are looking for a job, cheating on your spouse, etc. Or it might be able to spoil something innocent like the fact that you are planning a surprise trip to Disney World for the Family.
My only hope is that there will be ways around this. A popular stance defending this lack of privacy is "if you have nothing to hide, what are you worried about?" I am of the opinion that it is okay to have something to hide. It is important that we be able to sneak around. Yes. I do have something I would like to hide, and while I'm not all that *worried*, there are certain people whom I'd prefer not know certain things about me.
Maybe I'm paranoid. But I really think they're simply out to get me.
Let's mod the parent "Redundant". Not because it isn't valid. It's basically the only reasonable response to stories like this and I would hope the majority of posts that follow are in the same vein. But hot dang, we've beaten this to death and now it's like we're just indulging it. Mod this story redundant.
Is what will cause the over intelligent person to fail. No matter how much time you spend analyzing some decision, there will be even more to consider. You will never know for sure what the best option is.
It comes down to "stupid" and seemingly "irrational" reasons that make us finally decide.
This:
These Corn Pops are cheaper... but I get more Oz. per Dollar if I buy the more expensive ones... but I may not finish the bigger box... but if I get the small box, I might have a surplus of milk. Oh.. I could buy the smaller milk. Oh wow. The value of the quart-sized milk drops dramatically from that of the Gallon size. Ok. I will rule out milk as a deciding factor...
Or this: These corn pops look good. Big box or small? I'm not that hungry now, which has nothing to do with anything... but small box it is.
I guess it's a matter of choosing your battles. In general, I believe that if we mean well and make honest decisions, on average we will do better. Not always, but it will tend towards better. Do try.. but do not kill yourself. The returns on worrying will likely diminish as you sit there.
If everyone TRIED to be conscious of energy waste, I feel pretty confident that the net payoff would be worth it. Again, only go as far as is reasonable. Yes. That's a subjective thing. That's one thing "Humans" are skilled at. Subjectivity. It's an important part of what makes us intelligence. Call it your heart or your gut. It's smarter than the credit we give it.
I tried to pay the $2.00 price for this solution by entering my Bank of America login and password as you required. But, I have yet to receive an email containing the information. Could you please send it again?
This is speculation, but my (big fat) gut tells me that while this might be true in general, there's probably at least one person at the top of a major phishing scheme making decent money.
Sure, the peons (as in any industry) who do the actual labor get paid crud, my guess is that Upper Management does just fine. Sure, unskilled labor gets the market rate for such.
And you are a programmer, I would highly recommend the book Deep C Secrets. It's partly practical and partly culture. It covers some well (and lesser) known bugs that while very small and "stupid" had very real consequences.
Even if this didn't involve technology, who is to say that this isn't "news for nerds" or something "that matters"? Nerds are interested in more than just the latest tech. Here on Slashdot many of us also like to talk about copyright, privacy, civil liberties. I'd say that this site is as much about a culture as it is about tech. Hopefully I'm not alone here. I don't feel alone.
You could probably translate different things about the text into different audio cues. Bigger text? Louder reading. Stereo headphones could also make the reading come from the direction of the sign. As image recognition gets faster and more accurate, I'm sure a number of different audio cues could tip a blind user off with clues about the environment. I am sure the usefulness of this will go well beyond blind users.
Does this only affect at&t 2G phones? Even if-so, should this not fall under the jurisdiction of the FCC? Is a company allowed to create devices/systems that use the spectrum in such a way that they interfere with other devices created by the same company?
Clever contract wording or not, this just doesn't seem like it should be allowed.
Wouldn't it be faster for Microsoft to simply give each of the 8 users a call and walk them through the work-around? If their numbers change in the next four years, they can simply notify Zune support.
Ahhh. You are missing a subtle point in their claim "that no one should be killed or injured *in* a Volvo car"! All they have to do is simply eject the passenger from the car so they die outside of the vehicle......
But, if you were to access an account with someone else's credentials, are you bound to the Terms of Service for that site?
What if the TOS states that only the person who signed up is allowed access to the site? What if the TOS states that you are not allowed to share or grant access to others? Is the State allowed to break these rules? Should they be allowed? I know if I ran a site, I would not want people who did not agree to my TOS to use my site. Of course, if I ran a site that allowed user logins, perhaps I might add: "Unless it is to undermine the exploitation of children" or an "I reserve the right to cooperate with authorities".
I have had similar experiences. This year, I put 3 CFL bulbs in various rooms in the house. Two of them burnt out already. It could be that these bulbs simply don't stand up to the old wiring in this place. Not sure.
Ahh, each generation doesn't necessarily yield a circle, though. At first almost all of them do. But as it moves on.. it gets harder to find a better fit.. one that "improves" the image. After millions of generations, getting an improvement becomes rare. Unfortunately, I never bothered counting the circles that actually get plotted, so I can not say how many circles make up the image.
Also, I tried different "number of children" per generation. The bigger that number, the more likely I am to find an improvement, but the longer it takes. There's got to be a "sweet spot" for that number. I am thinking for quality over time, it's about 40. Maybe with more memory it'd be different. Also, there is no threaded. A multi-core machine would be able to do a lot of this comparison in parallel.
Indeed.. I compare the distance of the colors in the color cube.
You have the right idea about the comparison. To save on computation, I do this:
Choose a random subsection of the canvas to mutate. Say, the first quadrant. Clone that section... and start trying different circles. Compare that section to the same clipped area of the original.
2.5 million generations began on a Wed. and finished monday. I'm actually up to about 6 million. It's getting marginally better, but very slowly.
Yes indeed. It turns out the more detailed things get, the smaller the circles get. Obviously. I set the software so that the minimum circle radius is larger than a pixel. Because of the alpha blending, color is not determined by just the circle, but also the overlap of other circles.
The first experiment I did was to actually randomize all pixels... and mutate a different pixel in each child. Not as nice as the circles. BTW, the code can just as well draw polygons. I made one with triangles. When it comes down to it... I simply like the way the circles look!
One thing the Mona Lisa example does that I will probably now try is the ability to make arbitrary polygons. Right now, mine are all "regular" polygons: square, triangle, pentagon, hex, octagon, etc.
I was never really concerned with compression so much as the idea, to be honest. Like yours did, my gut tells me the Mona Lisa would indeed compress better. But where one unit is "n points (x,y for each), color, alpha" on the Mona Lisa example, mine is just: x,y,radius,color, alpha.
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3 hour bus ride? That's a lot of time taken out of a terrorist plot. Do you have any idea how much evil can HAPPEN in three hours? Hot dang. That's a whole 8th of a season. Just ask Jack Bauer.
I honestly don't know. If this were in effect before the attack, what difference would it have made? I can't help but think "not a heck of a lot". Terror has a way of routing itself around obstacles. While it's good to have a secure network, should it be mandated?
Is a network "unsecure" if you intentionally keep it open? Does this outlaw sharing access then?
Some sites like Amazon merge a mini-social site into their main commerce site. By merging who we know with what we purchase, a system could divine quite a lot. It might be able to divine that you are looking for a job, cheating on your spouse, etc. Or it might be able to spoil something innocent like the fact that you are planning a surprise trip to Disney World for the Family.
My only hope is that there will be ways around this. A popular stance defending this lack of privacy is "if you have nothing to hide, what are you worried about?" I am of the opinion that it is okay to have something to hide. It is important that we be able to sneak around. Yes. I do have something I would like to hide, and while I'm not all that *worried*, there are certain people whom I'd prefer not know certain things about me.
Maybe I'm paranoid. But I really think they're simply out to get me.
Let's mod the parent "Redundant". Not because it isn't valid. It's basically the only reasonable response to stories like this and I would hope the majority of posts that follow are in the same vein. But hot dang, we've beaten this to death and now it's like we're just indulging it. Mod this story redundant.
The news story shouldn't be:
6 Year Old Blames GTA for Car Crash.
The story is:
6 Year Old Crashes Car
or
6 Year Old Allowed to Play GTA
Is what will cause the over intelligent person to fail. No matter how much time you spend analyzing some decision, there will be even more to consider. You will never know for sure what the best option is.
It comes down to "stupid" and seemingly "irrational" reasons that make us finally decide.
This:
These Corn Pops are cheaper... but I get more Oz. per Dollar if I buy the more expensive ones... but I may not finish the bigger box... but if I get the small box, I might have a surplus of milk. Oh.. I could buy the smaller milk. Oh wow. The value of the quart-sized milk drops dramatically from that of the Gallon size. Ok. I will rule out milk as a deciding factor...
Or this:
These corn pops look good. Big box or small? I'm not that hungry now, which has nothing to do with anything... but small box it is.
I guess it's a matter of choosing your battles. In general, I believe that if we mean well and make honest decisions, on average we will do better. Not always, but it will tend towards better. Do try.. but do not kill yourself. The returns on worrying will likely diminish as you sit there.
If everyone TRIED to be conscious of energy waste, I feel pretty confident that the net payoff would be worth it. Again, only go as far as is reasonable. Yes. That's a subjective thing. That's one thing "Humans" are skilled at. Subjectivity. It's an important part of what makes us intelligence. Call it your heart or your gut. It's smarter than the credit we give it.
Well, when it's back up, someone make sure it gets on the front page of Slashdot.
I tried to pay the $2.00 price for this solution by entering my Bank of America login and password as you required. But, I have yet to receive an email containing the information. Could you please send it again?
This is speculation, but my (big fat) gut tells me that while this might be true in general, there's probably at least one person at the top of a major phishing scheme making decent money.
Sure, the peons (as in any industry) who do the actual labor get paid crud, my guess is that Upper Management does just fine. Sure, unskilled labor gets the market rate for such.
It's that Tim O'Reilly doesn't sleep!
http://twitter.com/timoreilly
And that this "old-timer" is more in touch with technology and society than I will ever be.
And you are a programmer, I would highly recommend the book Deep C Secrets. It's partly practical and partly culture. It covers some well (and lesser) known bugs that while very small and "stupid" had very real consequences.
Even if this didn't involve technology, who is to say that this isn't "news for nerds" or something "that matters"? Nerds are interested in more than just the latest tech. Here on Slashdot many of us also like to talk about copyright, privacy, civil liberties. I'd say that this site is as much about a culture as it is about tech. Hopefully I'm not alone here. I don't feel alone.
You could probably translate different things about the text into different audio cues. Bigger text? Louder reading. Stereo headphones could also make the reading come from the direction of the sign. As image recognition gets faster and more accurate, I'm sure a number of different audio cues could tip a blind user off with clues about the environment. I am sure the usefulness of this will go well beyond blind users.
I suppose the chances are pretty close to this one!!
www.socuteurl.com/buggy
Pretty exciting stuff. Another notable open source victory was that of the release of Django 1.0 in November.
Sadly, Django is not written in Python 3, and python 3 breaks backwards compatibility.
Since both the Django and python communities are very active, I suspect this will be remedied soon. I cannot wait.
Does this only affect at&t 2G phones? Even if-so, should this not fall under the jurisdiction of the FCC? Is a company allowed to create devices/systems that use the spectrum in such a way that they interfere with other devices created by the same company?
Clever contract wording or not, this just doesn't seem like it should be allowed.
Wouldn't it be faster for Microsoft to simply give each of the 8 users a call and walk them through the work-around? If their numbers change in the next four years, they can simply notify Zune support.
Ahhh. You are missing a subtle point in their claim "that no one should be killed or injured *in* a Volvo car"! All they have to do is simply eject the passenger from the car so they die outside of the vehicle. ... ..
Profit?
This may be more academic than anything else.
But, if you were to access an account with someone else's credentials, are you bound to the Terms of Service for that site?
What if the TOS states that only the person who signed up is allowed access to the site? What if the TOS states that you are not allowed to share or grant access to others? Is the State allowed to break these rules? Should they be allowed? I know if I ran a site, I would not want people who did not agree to my TOS to use my site. Of course, if I ran a site that allowed user logins, perhaps I might add: "Unless it is to undermine the exploitation of children" or an "I reserve the right to cooperate with authorities".
I have had similar experiences. This year, I put 3 CFL bulbs in various rooms in the house. Two of them burnt out already. It could be that these bulbs simply don't stand up to the old wiring in this place. Not sure.
And who is to say that when/if the demand for these LEDs goes up it won't simply be these that are being imported from China.
I hope to get it posted to eigenfaces soon. I'll come back to this thread and notify you when I do.
Ahh, each generation doesn't necessarily yield a circle, though. At first almost all of them do. But as it moves on.. it gets harder to find a better fit.. one that "improves" the image. After millions of generations, getting an improvement becomes rare. Unfortunately, I never bothered counting the circles that actually get plotted, so I can not say how many circles make up the image.
Also, I tried different "number of children" per generation. The bigger that number, the more likely I am to find an improvement, but the longer it takes. There's got to be a "sweet spot" for that number. I am thinking for quality over time, it's about 40. Maybe with more memory it'd be different. Also, there is no threaded. A multi-core machine would be able to do a lot of this comparison in parallel.
Indeed.. I compare the distance of the colors in the color cube.
You have the right idea about the comparison. To save on computation, I do this:
Choose a random subsection of the canvas to mutate. Say, the first quadrant. Clone that section... and start trying different circles. Compare that section to the same clipped area of the original.
2.5 million generations began on a Wed. and finished monday. I'm actually up to about 6 million. It's getting marginally better, but very slowly.
Yes indeed. It turns out the more detailed things get, the smaller the circles get. Obviously. I set the software so that the minimum circle radius is larger than a pixel. Because of the alpha blending, color is not determined by just the circle, but also the overlap of other circles.
The first experiment I did was to actually randomize all pixels... and mutate a different pixel in each child. Not as nice as the circles. BTW, the code can just as well draw polygons. I made one with triangles. When it comes down to it... I simply like the way the circles look!
One thing the Mona Lisa example does that I will probably now try is the ability to make arbitrary polygons. Right now, mine are all "regular" polygons: square, triangle, pentagon, hex, octagon, etc.
I was never really concerned with compression so much as the idea, to be honest. Like yours did, my gut tells me the Mona Lisa would indeed compress better. But where one unit is "n points (x,y for each), color, alpha" on the Mona Lisa example, mine is just: x,y,radius,color, alpha.
I'm happy to share the code. I'll see if I cannot clean it up and add some comments first.