ok, it's simple biomechanics... But...
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Ok, the simple truth is this...
As adults... (The growth mechanism of children is quite different then the maintenance mechanisms of adults...)
We are genetically inclined to eat carbs. Our whole body from taste buds, to energy use, and insulin cycles are based upon the carbohydrate energy cycle.
Two problems... 100's of years of developing tasty food (IE food that has been shown to have maximum effect on our carbohydrate systems), and secondly, unparalled access to limitless quantities of such food.
And a third problem, we are hormonally beholding to the carbohydrate cycle. And hormones win nearly everytime over will-power. (Anyone who disbelieves this, is either genetically "lucky" or is woefully ignorant of modern psychiatry and the biomechanical nature of the brain and how it affects behavior).
This results in overeating of carbs (we are just doing what feels normal...) This results in insulin resistence (the body going... I am sorry sir, but I cannot possibly store any more energy in these cells), followed by type 2 diabetes (the blood is a lovely red syrup), followed by nerve damage, loss of limbs, blindness and death....
All of this because, well historically (ignoring the past 50 years or so), it was genetically superior to be carb-centric. Those that are carb-centric lived longer, were revered, and had more power.
Atkins works because it lowers blood sugar due to lack of carbohydrates in the diet. This essentially stops type 2 diabetes.
If calories are below need then energy is released by cells. (This will increase insulin sensitivity as cells now have space to store excess sugar)... (Though the calorie equation is best a guess. Basing how much water temprature rises is equivelant to biomechanical energy release is at best a sketchy and not fully understood relationship).
Ultimately people are MUCH healthier not being in type 2 diabetic and insulin resistent state. Than being *in* that state.
However, lack of blood sugar has negative affect on brain activity, and excess protien in the blood has been shown to increase kidney stone production, and may be related to renal failure....
So, once moved to the much healthier non-diabetic bloodstream, and non-insulin resistent cell-state, a balanced macro-nutrient diet, is probably best (as research done on sports teams, and diabetic patients)...
BUT.... Oh and this is a big BUT!!! We are still hormonally driven beings.... And hormones will drive you back to Carbo-Heaven... Cuz that is what we are genetically incline to eat. And this will make this an ongoing mental and physical exercise to exorcise the hormonal demons..
You can get a riding lawnmower from sears for $899.00.
And geez imagine the damage that can do, especially if you're really stupid.
This is not even close to the same class of difficulty of making, it is mearly a problem of deciding to make the product at a volume that will satisfy the demand of a thousand dollar price point.
I have yet to meet the geek that doesn't drool over one of these things, they are very cool.
If you watched the TechTV episode, there is not much to these puppys. They could easily be $1000 dollar items. It is clear that the price point is due to relative lack of volume, but the assembly and manufacture of these things could be done very cheaply. I suspect after HP or some other large scale manufacturer provides an offer that they can't refuse that these suckers will be available for the general marketplace.
Um, ok Alaska is big, but not NEARLY as big as it appears on a map, sort of like, Greenland is not nearly that fsking big. It is a byproduct of the mercator projection...
Sheesh doesn't anybody watch the westwing anymore??? (Cartographers for social equality).
because of the addressing scheme used in Intel processors, and the standard ways of creating buffers in C and how they get executed.
When you create a buffer it tends to use *short* addressing, which means the buffer location is NEAR the code that is being executed. Generally something like,
Store a char Increment buffer pointer by one, am I done? No repeat
The problem is that if the buffer "overflows" it wraps the addressing to back over the instructions being executed.
And it turns out that this behavior is not random, and you can depend on precisely what character will overwrite the code that is being executed and you write a jump statement to replace the store a char instruction into the buffer and your code starts executing... Voila, a buffer overflow exploit.
It *WAS* standard coding practice in the good old days to place the burden of correctly sized and or terminated inputs onto the code that was creating the string to be inputed. This prevented the need for excessive cycles being wasted making sure that there wasn't bad input going into the buffer. And in the good old days this was the correct thing to do. Which is why all the code was written this way, it was *good* design.
Today it turns out, that the risk of *malware*, code designed to take advantage of this behavior, for nefarious use is greater than the waste of cycles to detect bad code (which is a lot of cycles wasted). So the code needs to be rewritten to check for malware. This is the NEW good design, but it requires a massive effort to change old practices to new practices. Stuffing inputs into buffers is probably one of the most common of all operations done on computers. And changing all this code, and preventing new code written in the old way (because the code will operate correctly in the absence of malware) is a big and important effort.
Electric Vehicles are usually fairly enviormentally unfriendly. When you consider how the electricity is generated, and the amount of lead in current electric vehicles.
Hybrids are better, but if you factor in the amount of resources utilized in it's creation, there is only one reasonable alternative.
BUY A USED CAR. Reduce - Reuse - recycle. These are much more powerful words when it comes to resource utilization. The money saved on the vehicle (probably 10's of thousands of dollars) can be spent on EFF, OSS, GAS, or all the twinkies you can eat. And the amount of resources saved by not building *you* a new car, is much more "enviromentally" friendly the how much petrol you will be burning.
The RIAA's most clearcut argument, is that music should not be *distributed* beyond "personal use" without paying royalties.
In the cases listed above... They were distributed to you with a royalty payment.
Play music while your friends are over... OK. Play music while a hundred strangers are at your place of commercial business... Not ok. Play music over the radio, etc... etc... Not OK.
So the question is, is it fair use to record an otherwise legal distribution of the song...
Yes, it probably is.
But it is planely illegal to redistribute that song...
So, the RIAA has raided your computer, and you say... Hey these are just from broadcast radio, or music channels or something...
I highly suspect you will find significant differences between the broadcast MP3s and ones from KAZAA. Enough so, that you could make the claim. And you may get away with it for a song or so. But if you had substantial numbers that can be sourced to KAZAA, you would have a difficult time proving otherwise. (Civil trials have much lower standards of proof, and defendants have a correspondingly higher demands of defense.).
this is either a funny joke aimed at a limited audience, or it shows a remarkable lack of understanding about how businesses report taxes.
"sales taxes" are actually misnamed "use taxes" and if you don't pay them there are penalties. But in reality businesses and only businesses report them and pay taxes, even if you order it online.
Actually in their model, you have to spend MORE on cards than you do in the real world.
Magic Online boosters are full retail price always.
ITRW, boosters are often sold at a fraction of retail for a variety of reasons. (Stock is old, volume purchase etc...). And actual cards may be bought or sold for nearly no cost as well. (Friends no longer play etc...).
Virtual cards cost more, and you can't bring your real world investment with you. And the door between virtual world, to real world is one way. Don't let that Goblin Warlord hit you in the ass on the way out.
There are two interesting problems that calculus presents, when talking about an instance in time.
Lets say we have two identical objects one moving "a bunch" faster in respect to each other...
And lets say we have two instances in time, i and i+1.
At time i the objects are very near to each other. The first problem, is that what distinguishs the faster one from the slower one? Is velocity somehow an attribute of the object that you could somehow measure?
Now mark where the object is somehow, and move to time i+1. Here object A moves this far
@.@
and object B lets say moves this far
@.......@
The problem is that the object has moved this huge distance through space, without EXISTING in the middle parts.
This paper solves both of these problems by stating, you can never have an "instance" in time. That reality is continuos and not discrete. That there is no such thing as i and i+1 that these are inappropriate constructs in the universe (even if satisfying enough to build a discipline called calculus around).
An instance really means that passage of time = 0. And what he states is that it is NEVER 0 and what ever you think is an "instance" the objects are actually still moving at the speed they are moving, even if that speed is infinitely small. (as opposed to a classical "instance" where everything is frozen).
He also states that if the universe was indeed discrete in couldn't function, because at the smallest level objects would not know how and where to move in space from instant to instant, and that the universe would become "frozen".
It will be interesting to see how Hawkings replies to this.
The microengine are very small (thumbnail) sized combustion engines that drive a generator.
I believe the 300x figure would be for electricity generated in a cubic inch... Though the article seems to actually trying to state that it would be based on cost, that the energy requirement for making the battery far exceeds the amount of electricity that comes out of the battery over it's entire life.
So that these little engines would be very cheap to manufacture. And I need a little assurance that these aren't locally potentially pretty bad (exhaust, explosition, leakage, etc....)
The costs involved are way too high. It's not just bandwidth. It's EVERYBODIES bandwidth and it will not be cheap to increase the core bandwidth so a few million homes can watch independent movie quality images at home. Not to mention the server requirements to pull it off.
Pay per view, a few dozen channels as they do on a DBS system is about the best you are going to do.
No the future is not going to be blue laser (this really has a good chance of being another betamax and minidisk for sony), it is going to be HDTV resolution using WM9 (Sorry this will happen so quickly, nobody really stands a chance to get in a different format, the economics won't work), on standard manufactured DVD's.
This is the next big thing for the movie industry. For the next year or so, there will be special editions providing the high-res versions, in six monthes or so you should see high end versions of DVD Players that play the new format, at the same time, all new releases will be available in the HDTV format.
Then as the cost of HDTV televisions comes to the mainstream, this will be the firmly entrenched standard, and with HDTV and 5.1 sound, you are likely to have satisfied the home user with everything that they need. Format, and superior sound and video quality, at a delivery price structure as current DVD's are.
WM9 will win, because there is no infrastructure cost changes. The cost of the equipment to press blue laser type DVD's is VERY expensive. The complete infrastructure exists to support it, from manufacture to sale.
WM9 will win because it is here now, and product adoption will happen too fast to allow any other standards a chance to get in.
With at least your sample key, it is very easy to brute force this, I only have to try slightly over 1 million keys.
There are two problems with this, first is the relatively small number of Irrational numbers that are likely to be used (unless there is a large and easy to mine font of these I am not aware of).
The source of security of most encryption systems is that the "random streams" created by the initial key are extraordinarially large.
Changing the starting point in 1 given or even a handful of given streams, leaves you open to a simple sliding window against a previously stored length of strings.
It would become every more problematic the bigger the number Z (yours example would be trivially easy).
With a LARGE z it would take your encryption program a long time to get there (Except for PI), and the decryptor would also have a long time to get to the starting position.
Most professional decryptors are going to have most of the stream prestored, unless z is REALLY BIG).
I suspect that you can use really large Z numbers with t = PI and it would take a long time to brute force your answer. (This would be from the algorithm that lets you calculate any given position of PI).
There are 1 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't...... (Nobody would use 2 bits to describe something that can use only one bit)
This whole methodology is already patented by Microsoft. ANY implementation not licensed by Microsoft is going to be a violation... And now that you know, it is treble damages...
This whole methodology is already patented by Microsoft. ANY implementation not licensed by Microsoft is going to be a violation... And now that you know, it is treble damages...
The rules state that it requires human "muscle" power. That is a bit unfortunate, but I still think that given enough human muscles, that you ought to be able to convert that to some sort of fuel to power some type of deasel engine.
I wonder if Dr. Lector has any leftovers that can be experimented with...
The digital representation of the "copyrighted" work as existed in a "page layout" program, using a technological means to prevent digital copying: Imaged to paper using digitally created "Plates".
By attempting to "recreate" the digital representation by using technological means to defeat the digital copy protection of a bound book, you are criminally liable to the owner of the copyright.
(Now if you were just copying this to another piece of paper, you may be ok under existing laws. But moving it to digital... Um, hands up scofflaw!)
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Actually more correct is that "high-power" signals transmitted from space through clowds that are miles thick with water, can be attenuated to the point that it becomes difficult to maintain an encrypted MPEG digital stream.
It isn't the 'rain' that causes the problem it is the clouds.
Weather is not going to be the problem, multi-path is likely to be the problem.
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Ok, the simple truth is this...
As adults... (The growth mechanism of children is quite different then the maintenance mechanisms of adults...)
We are genetically inclined to eat carbs. Our whole body from taste buds, to energy use, and insulin cycles are based upon the carbohydrate energy cycle.
Two problems... 100's of years of developing tasty food (IE food that has been shown to have maximum effect on our carbohydrate systems), and secondly, unparalled access to limitless quantities of such food.
And a third problem, we are hormonally beholding to the carbohydrate cycle. And hormones win nearly everytime over will-power. (Anyone who disbelieves this, is either genetically "lucky" or is woefully ignorant of modern psychiatry and the biomechanical nature of the brain and how it affects behavior).
This results in overeating of carbs (we are just doing what feels normal...) This results in insulin resistence (the body going... I am sorry sir, but I cannot possibly store any more energy in these cells), followed by type 2 diabetes (the blood is a lovely red syrup), followed by nerve damage, loss of limbs, blindness and death....
All of this because, well historically (ignoring the past 50 years or so), it was genetically superior to be carb-centric. Those that are carb-centric lived longer, were revered, and had more power.
Atkins works because it lowers blood sugar due to lack of carbohydrates in the diet. This essentially stops type 2 diabetes.
If calories are below need then energy is released by cells. (This will increase insulin sensitivity as cells now have space to store excess sugar)... (Though the calorie equation is best a guess. Basing how much water temprature rises is equivelant to biomechanical energy release is at best a sketchy and not fully understood relationship).
Ultimately people are MUCH healthier not being in type 2 diabetic and insulin resistent state. Than being *in* that state.
However, lack of blood sugar has negative affect on brain activity, and excess protien in the blood has been shown to increase kidney stone production, and may be related to renal failure....
So, once moved to the much healthier non-diabetic bloodstream, and non-insulin resistent cell-state, a balanced macro-nutrient diet, is probably best (as research done on sports teams, and diabetic patients)...
BUT.... Oh and this is a big BUT!!! We are still hormonally driven beings.... And hormones will drive you back to Carbo-Heaven... Cuz that is what we are genetically incline to eat. And this will make this an ongoing mental and physical exercise to exorcise the hormonal demons..
You can get a riding lawnmower from sears for $899.00.
And geez imagine the damage that can do, especially if you're really stupid.
This is not even close to the same class of difficulty of making, it is mearly a problem of deciding to make the product at a volume that will satisfy the demand of a thousand dollar price point.
I have yet to meet the geek that doesn't drool over one of these things, they are very cool.
If you watched the TechTV episode, there is not much to these puppys. They could easily be $1000 dollar items. It is clear that the price point is due to relative lack of volume, but the assembly and manufacture of these things could be done very cheaply. I suspect after HP or some other large scale manufacturer provides an offer that they can't refuse that these suckers will be available for the general marketplace.
Even on a map, Alaska looks very big...
Um, ok Alaska is big, but not NEARLY as big as it appears on a map, sort of like, Greenland is not nearly that fsking big. It is a byproduct of the mercator projection...
Sheesh doesn't anybody watch the westwing anymore??? (Cartographers for social equality).
Of course he is... Don't be daft.
because of the addressing scheme used in Intel processors, and the standard ways of creating buffers in C and how they get executed.
When you create a buffer it tends to use *short* addressing, which means the buffer location is NEAR the code that is being executed. Generally something like,
Store a char
Increment buffer pointer by one,
am I done?
No repeat
The problem is that if the buffer "overflows" it wraps the addressing to back over the instructions being executed.
And it turns out that this behavior is not random, and you can depend on precisely what character will overwrite the code that is being executed and you write a jump statement to replace the store a char instruction into the buffer and your code starts executing... Voila, a buffer overflow exploit.
It *WAS* standard coding practice in the good old days to place the burden of correctly sized and or terminated inputs onto the code that was creating the string to be inputed. This prevented the need for excessive cycles being wasted making sure that there wasn't bad input going into the buffer. And in the good old days this was the correct thing to do. Which is why all the code was written this way, it was *good* design.
Today it turns out, that the risk of *malware*, code designed to take advantage of this behavior, for nefarious use is greater than the waste of cycles to detect bad code (which is a lot of cycles wasted). So the code needs to be rewritten to check for malware. This is the NEW good design, but it requires a massive effort to change old practices to new practices. Stuffing inputs into buffers is probably one of the most common of all operations done on computers. And changing all this code, and preventing new code written in the old way (because the code will operate correctly in the absence of malware) is a big and important effort.
Electric Vehicles are usually fairly enviormentally unfriendly. When you consider how the electricity is generated, and the amount of lead in current electric vehicles. Hybrids are better, but if you factor in the amount of resources utilized in it's creation, there is only one reasonable alternative. BUY A USED CAR. Reduce - Reuse - recycle. These are much more powerful words when it comes to resource utilization. The money saved on the vehicle (probably 10's of thousands of dollars) can be spent on EFF, OSS, GAS, or all the twinkies you can eat. And the amount of resources saved by not building *you* a new car, is much more "enviromentally" friendly the how much petrol you will be burning.
IANAL, but I like to play one on the internet.
The correct answer is *maybe*.
The RIAA's most clearcut argument, is that music should not be *distributed* beyond "personal use" without paying royalties.
In the cases listed above... They were distributed to you with a royalty payment.
Play music while your friends are over... OK. Play music while a hundred strangers are at your place of commercial business... Not ok.
Play music over the radio, etc... etc... Not OK.
So the question is, is it fair use to record an otherwise legal distribution of the song...
Yes, it probably is.
But it is planely illegal to redistribute that song...
So, the RIAA has raided your computer, and you say... Hey these are just from broadcast radio, or music channels or something...
I highly suspect you will find significant differences between the broadcast MP3s and ones from KAZAA. Enough so, that you could make the claim. And you may get away with it for a song or so. But if you had substantial numbers that can be sourced to KAZAA, you would have a difficult time proving otherwise. (Civil trials have much lower standards of proof, and defendants have a correspondingly higher demands of defense.).
this is either a funny joke aimed at a limited audience, or it shows a remarkable lack of understanding about how businesses report taxes.
"sales taxes" are actually misnamed "use taxes" and if you don't pay them there are penalties. But in reality businesses and only businesses report them and pay taxes, even if you order it online.
Actually in their model, you have to spend MORE on cards than you do in the real world.
Magic Online boosters are full retail price always.
ITRW, boosters are often sold at a fraction of retail for a variety of reasons. (Stock is old, volume purchase etc...). And actual cards may be bought or sold for nearly no cost as well. (Friends no longer play etc...).
Virtual cards cost more, and you can't bring your real world investment with you. And the door between virtual world, to real world is one way. Don't let that Goblin Warlord hit you in the ass on the way out.
There are two interesting problems that calculus presents, when talking about an instance in time.
Lets say we have two identical objects one moving "a bunch" faster in respect to each other...
And lets say we have two instances in time, i and i+1.
At time i the objects are very near to each other. The first problem, is that what distinguishs the faster one from the slower one? Is velocity somehow an attribute of the object that you could somehow measure?
Now mark where the object is somehow, and move to time i+1. Here object A moves this far
@.@
and object B lets say moves this far
@.......@
The problem is that the object has moved this huge distance through space, without EXISTING in the middle parts.
This paper solves both of these problems by stating, you can never have an "instance" in time. That reality is continuos and not discrete. That there is no such thing as i and i+1 that these are inappropriate constructs in the universe (even if satisfying enough to build a discipline called calculus around).
An instance really means that passage of time = 0. And what he states is that it is NEVER 0 and what ever you think is an "instance" the objects are actually still moving at the speed they are moving, even if that speed is infinitely small. (as opposed to a classical "instance" where everything is frozen).
He also states that if the universe was indeed discrete in couldn't function, because at the smallest level objects would not know how and where to move in space from instant to instant, and that the universe would become "frozen".
It will be interesting to see how Hawkings replies to this.
The microengine are very small (thumbnail) sized combustion engines that drive a generator.
I believe the 300x figure would be for electricity generated in a cubic inch... Though the article seems to actually trying to state that it would be based on cost, that the energy requirement for making the battery far exceeds the amount of electricity that comes out of the battery over it's entire life.
So that these little engines would be very cheap to manufacture. And I need a little assurance that these aren't locally potentially pretty bad (exhaust, explosition, leakage, etc....)
um, a virus needs to be able to propogate. This would be as effective an epidemic as if SARS killed the carrier on contact.
It is however a great way to piss off a friend or if someone had a good spam list, or a DOS of a company...
But it makes a really bad virus.
The costs involved are way too high. It's not just bandwidth. It's EVERYBODIES bandwidth and it will not be cheap to increase the core bandwidth so a few million homes can watch independent movie quality images at home. Not to mention the server requirements to pull it off.
Pay per view, a few dozen channels as they do on a DBS system is about the best you are going to do.
No the future is not going to be blue laser (this really has a good chance of being another betamax and minidisk for sony), it is going to be HDTV resolution using WM9 (Sorry this will happen so quickly, nobody really stands a chance to get in a different format, the economics won't work), on standard manufactured DVD's.
This is the next big thing for the movie industry. For the next year or so, there will be special editions providing the high-res versions, in six monthes or so you should see high end versions of DVD Players that play the new format, at the same time, all new releases will be available in the HDTV format.
Then as the cost of HDTV televisions comes to the mainstream, this will be the firmly entrenched standard, and with HDTV and 5.1 sound, you are likely to have satisfied the home user with everything that they need. Format, and superior sound and video quality, at a delivery price structure as current DVD's are.
WM9 will win, because there is no infrastructure cost changes. The cost of the equipment to press blue laser type DVD's is VERY expensive. The complete infrastructure exists to support it, from manufacture to sale.
WM9 will win because it is here now, and product adoption will happen too fast to allow any other standards a chance to get in.
With at least your sample key, it is very easy to brute force this, I only have to try slightly over 1 million keys.
There are two problems with this, first is the relatively small number of Irrational numbers that are likely to be used (unless there is a large and easy to mine font of these I am not aware of).
The source of security of most encryption systems is that the "random streams" created by the initial key are extraordinarially large.
Changing the starting point in 1 given or even a handful of given streams, leaves you open to a simple sliding window against a previously stored length of strings.
It would become every more problematic the bigger the number Z (yours example would be trivially easy).
With a LARGE z it would take your encryption program a long time to get there (Except for PI), and the decryptor would also have a long time to get to the starting position.
Most professional decryptors are going to have most of the stream prestored, unless z is REALLY BIG).
I suspect that you can use really large Z numbers with t = PI and it would take a long time to brute force your answer. (This would be from the algorithm that lets you calculate any given position of PI).
There are 1 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't...... (Nobody would use 2 bits to describe something that can use only one bit)
This whole methodology is already patented by Microsoft. ANY implementation not licensed by Microsoft is going to be a violation... And now that you know, it is treble damages...
patent 6,161,130
This whole methodology is already patented by Microsoft. ANY implementation not licensed by Microsoft is going to be a violation... And now that you know, it is treble damages...
patent 6,161,130
Interestingly enough, the answer is in this weeks Slate...
The rules state that it requires human "muscle" power. That is a bit unfortunate, but I still think that given enough human muscles, that you ought to be able to convert that to some sort of fuel to power some type of deasel engine.
I wonder if Dr. Lector has any leftovers that can be experimented with...
What I really want to know is how many LOC's (Library of Congress) this is per second....
The digital representation of the "copyrighted" work as existed in a "page layout" program, using a technological means to prevent digital copying: Imaged to paper using digitally created "Plates".
By attempting to "recreate" the digital representation by using technological means to defeat the digital copy protection of a bound book, you are criminally liable to the owner of the copyright.
(Now if you were just copying this to another piece of paper, you may be ok under existing laws. But moving it to digital... Um, hands up scofflaw!)
No it has a "we have been slashdotted... Underconstruction page..."
Try The real start page
Actually more correct is that "high-power" signals transmitted from space through clowds that are miles thick with water, can be attenuated to the point that it becomes difficult to maintain an encrypted MPEG digital stream.
It isn't the 'rain' that causes the problem it is the clouds.
Weather is not going to be the problem, multi-path is likely to be the problem.
Prior art has NOTHING to do with trademark infringement. (It does have something to do with patents...)
Vigorous defense of trademarks is a requirement to keep trademarks, or else you lose them. Like Aspirin.
Unfortunately, this is currently the way it is. (