That one misuse of the word "internet" was typical of anyone speaking faster than they're thinking in any venue. He clearly meant to say "email" and didn't realize he'd duplicated a different word in his linguistic stream of consciousness. Read a few transcripts of any unscripted dialogue and you'll giggle the first ten times then just roll right past them.
The rest of his description was actually pretty good, from an "explain it to me like i'm six years old" perspective. Which is the sort of perspective you have to have when talking to Congress and/or the kind of people who watch the news and write letters to Congress.
Talking dumber than the smart people in your audience informs more people than talking smarter than the dumb people, and anyone who's been in Congress that long will know that.
Typically in cases such as this the judge sets the sentences to run concurrently.
Then if Stevens' appeals show that one or more are false convictions, those can be vacated but the rest will continue to run.
In this case his appeals will likely center on the court proceedings themselves, so they would apply to all of the convictions equally, so if he wins on appeal all will be vacated.
Or the governor (remember her? she still has power, even if she doesn't have a brain) will commute his sentence, the way I. "Scooter" Libby's sentence was commuted by George W. "I know who the real traitor is" Bush.
The reason a black hole has an event horizon is that it has gravity. The reason it has gravity is that it has mass. If shooting energy into it can grow it, then shooting energy into it increases its mass.
But what if it doesn't? What if it just increases its temperature?
Then the black hole can increase its rate of radiating energy. Which will at some point repel particles and preven the accretion of further mass.
Increasing temperature can also increase the rate of "evaporation" of a black hole, which involves the creation of particle-antiparticle pairs through quantum uncertainty at the event horizon. A particle and antiparticle are created on opposite sides of the event horizon and follow different geodesics, with one falling in and the other pushed out. If the push is greater than the force due to gravity, the outer particle may never fall in.
One reason black holes are hard to see is sometimes they are very bright.
There is a structure to the domain name service that keeps it from having deadlocks and holes and (sometimes) spoofs and (usually) stale data.
The real problem is that they are vastly overpricing the application process, when it should take seconds for a cognizant individual to make a determination that a group of characters is suitable for addition to the system. For $100K I can write them a piece software to replace ICANN entirely.
They should have made the application cost a few $K and the fee after granting several hundred $K per year.
We did that. It took 5 years, lots of bullets, and actual guts.
Not like the "guts" it took to write this shitbag law and run it through while the country was being whipped into a frenzy of fear over a small terror sect (that has also been whipped into a frenzy and multiplied in size by the irrational and, ironically, terroristic response to it).
The chances that your RAID will have a double failure causing your data to be lost are just about the same as the chances that your RAID will have a single failure and your tape backup also has a failure.
You can back up your RAID, but that'd be like backing up your backup tapes.
Staying up past your bedtime is a mentally liberating thing.
There is probably some serotonin-related brain chemistry; maybe also you're a few hours farther away from the blood-sucking, chemically disruptive digestive process than at other times of the day; but mostly I think it's just that if you know you're "up late" you're working on free time, and not during the times of day that are otherwise owed to the things you haven't gotten done already.
You put aside your 16-hours-a-day budget and use the free time to reach beyond your to-do list.
Also, it's possible the situation is conditioned. Finding something creative to do at bedtime lets you stay up late, which is and always has been a reward, even if you really want to get some sleep because you have something scheduled for the morning.
is no collective intelligence that supersedes individual intelligence
Seriously?
I'll go tell Science to burn its books, then.
(Interp for the unready: the Truth is the Truth, and if we burn the books it still will be, but the books tell us how to skip the 10,000 years of experiments we've already conducted, and do something new, and how to do it so we determine the truth. That is a collective intelligence right there. We realized long ago that no individual can refute the truth, only obfuscate it.)
"there may in fact be alien superorganisms out there that have far superior intelligence to our own."
not such that they're made up of individuals with the intelligence level of ants
"we" are a superorganism, too./. would be just a bunch of grey and green boxes unless I had you to talk to on it, and by "you" i mean the entity that is not me and fills in all the other grey and green boxes when I'm not posting
any entity coming from outside would include me in the "you" and then we would be "we"
and each of us is made of microorganisms which have a sort of transactional intelligence of their own, kind of like an ant, so this works on several levels
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That one misuse of the word "internet" was typical of anyone speaking faster than they're thinking in any venue. He clearly meant to say "email" and didn't realize he'd duplicated a different word in his linguistic stream of consciousness. Read a few transcripts of any unscripted dialogue and you'll giggle the first ten times then just roll right past them.
The rest of his description was actually pretty good, from an "explain it to me like i'm six years old" perspective. Which is the sort of perspective you have to have when talking to Congress and/or the kind of people who watch the news and write letters to Congress.
Talking dumber than the smart people in your audience informs more people than talking smarter than the dumb people, and anyone who's been in Congress that long will know that.
He's not a stupid politician, in other words.
Just a crooked and arrogant one.
Make that 9 days. It will be Governor Sarah Palin's first official act once her mistaken run for the White House has run its course.
Typically in cases such as this the judge sets the sentences to run concurrently.
Then if Stevens' appeals show that one or more are false convictions, those can be vacated but the rest will continue to run.
In this case his appeals will likely center on the court proceedings themselves, so they would apply to all of the convictions equally, so if he wins on appeal all will be vacated.
Or the governor (remember her? she still has power, even if she doesn't have a brain) will commute his sentence, the way I. "Scooter" Libby's sentence was commuted by George W. "I know who the real traitor is" Bush.
"EM energy is an entirely different beast."
No it isn't.
The reason a black hole has an event horizon is that it has gravity. The reason it has gravity is that it has mass. If shooting energy into it can grow it, then shooting energy into it increases its mass.
But what if it doesn't? What if it just increases its temperature?
Then the black hole can increase its rate of radiating energy. Which will at some point repel particles and preven the accretion of further mass.
Increasing temperature can also increase the rate of "evaporation" of a black hole, which involves the creation of particle-antiparticle pairs through quantum uncertainty at the event horizon. A particle and antiparticle are created on opposite sides of the event horizon and follow different geodesics, with one falling in and the other pushed out. If the push is greater than the force due to gravity, the outer particle may never fall in.
One reason black holes are hard to see is sometimes they are very bright.
$185k per TLD application
$ wc -l /usr/share/dict/words /usr/share/dict/words
479625
that makes
$ dc
185000
479625*p
88730625000
Eighty-eight billion, seven hundred thirty million, six hundred twenty-five thousand dollars.
And no sense.
Because they still have to run the TLD servers.
There is a structure to the domain name service that keeps it from having deadlocks and holes and (sometimes) spoofs and (usually) stale data.
The real problem is that they are vastly overpricing the application process, when it should take seconds for a cognizant individual to make a determination that a group of characters is suitable for addition to the system. For $100K I can write them a piece software to replace ICANN entirely.
They should have made the application cost a few $K and the fee after granting several hundred $K per year.
I used to be pretty good with a BFG3000.
I wonder if Bill likes to frag.
We did that. It took 5 years, lots of bullets, and actual guts.
Not like the "guts" it took to write this shitbag law and run it through while the country was being whipped into a frenzy of fear over a small terror sect (that has also been whipped into a frenzy and multiplied in size by the irrational and, ironically, terroristic response to it).
It's already been done.
Ever looked into the admin structure and its means of adjudicating offenses against the wikipedia establishment?
If Wikipedia could refer to Wikipedia, it would.
Truth is verifiable every time you test it, not just every time you check the same failed test.
No, it's Wikipedia.
By refusing to subvert quotability to competence, it guarantees that falsehoods will outlive the facts.
The chances that your RAID will have a double failure causing your data to be lost are just about the same as the chances that your RAID will have a single failure and your tape backup also has a failure.
You can back up your RAID, but that'd be like backing up your backup tapes.
Feel free. Tape-hangers need jobs.
He did stay up later, thinking up quotes that made everyone else miss their peak creative hours, which left him as the wisest man of his times.
He also exhorted everyone to get drunk on beer. While selling beer and staying up late etc. etc.
Ahead of his time in the sophistry department, that guy was.
Staying up past your bedtime is a mentally liberating thing.
There is probably some serotonin-related brain chemistry; maybe also you're a few hours farther away from the blood-sucking, chemically disruptive digestive process than at other times of the day; but mostly I think it's just that if you know you're "up late" you're working on free time, and not during the times of day that are otherwise owed to the things you haven't gotten done already.
You put aside your 16-hours-a-day budget and use the free time to reach beyond your to-do list.
Also, it's possible the situation is conditioned. Finding something creative to do at bedtime lets you stay up late, which is and always has been a reward, even if you really want to get some sleep because you have something scheduled for the morning.
We can slashdot that for you wholesale.
False. Housing for the poor did not cause $700 billion in bad decisions by the rich.
1992 was not the last time legislation related to mortgages and financial-comapany regulations was considered by the Congress.
Please reset your brain and try again.
Physical security is a mature field.
Internet security is not and probably will not be for some time.
Sure it is. I've had this printed out and posted on the bulletin board behind my head for about 24 years now:
THE INTERNET IS NOT SECURE
That's all the maturity any Internet Security personnel need.
is no collective intelligence that supersedes individual intelligence
Seriously?
I'll go tell Science to burn its books, then.
(Interp for the unready: the Truth is the Truth, and if we burn the books it still will be, but the books tell us how to skip the 10,000 years of experiments we've already conducted, and do something new, and how to do it so we determine the truth. That is a collective intelligence right there. We realized long ago that no individual can refute the truth, only obfuscate it.)
So the guy in front of me can send me spam through my HUD?
Fuck that.
>Equally profound: can a submarine swim?
More practical: Can a dolphin fire a Polaris missile?
Your daughter would pass the QA test for an Aibo.
But that's how a human would attempt to crock you into voting wrong.
Nobody said the Turing Test had to be fair.
"there may in fact be alien superorganisms out there that have far superior intelligence to our own."
not such that they're made up of individuals with the intelligence level of ants
"we" are a superorganism, too. /. would be just a bunch of grey and green boxes unless I had you to talk to on it, and by "you" i mean the entity that is not me and fills in all the other grey and green boxes when I'm not posting
any entity coming from outside would include me in the "you" and then we would be "we"
and each of us is made of microorganisms which have a sort of transactional intelligence of their own, kind of like an ant, so this works on several levels
Elections have more than two candidates?
They would if the third parties didn't all turn out to be either special-interest groups or whackjobs kiting on the First Amendment.