A team has a probability of winning or losing a game against any given opponent. Whether they win or lose a single game does not determine whether their probability is above or below 50%, therefore it does not determine whether they are a "better" or "worse" team.
In the end a season of league play and playoffs isn't about who is supposed to win. It's about who might overcome the odds, and who did.
But it pretty much proves that graduating from college and being elected President is no guarantee that you won't get hundreds of thousands of people killed by starting a war without checking the facts.
You'll keep buying them as data and pixel densities increase and SNR improves (yes, "digital" does not equal "perfect" and the algorithms can always be made better).
Otherwise we'd all have Kinescope players at home and wonder why anyone would make a Blu-Ray drive...
DRM isn't there to make you buy new stuff every few years. You'll do that anyway. It's there so you will buy the stuff from them instead of from the pirates.
Your users don't really need that kind of power, then. They could get by using much less of a computer, because they're spending less time coding and have time for running. In fact, I suspect about 70% of your users could get by on a 4x4 card if they ran it and went on vacation for the summer.
The really big HPCs can tolerate the really big software development efforts because the runtime saved by the specialized OS may more than discount the extra development effort.
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I suspect no computing power is being thrown at predicting where the financial markets are going.
A lot is thrown at pretending to predict it, but it's brilliantly obvious that the output of such things is no better than chicken entrails or the last two presidential elections.
False. Private companies contract with the government to provide these services and their contract dictates approved methods and the standard of their performance.
The government can not circumvent the Constitution just by contracting-out its work.
And now you've given them probable cause to believe you're obstructing justice, so they obtain a warrant, seize your vehicle, vacuum it, and determine that nobody else's DNA is in it.
Then you go to jail.
Or, you could admit you broke the law and pay the fine or take the Defensive Driving course.
Is it really that easy to become the subject of a Disagree Mail story? Write a Penthouse Forum submission and change the pool boy to the/. letter opener?
I bet there wasn't a chick within two mothers' basements of the person who wrote that email.
Publius wasn't anonymous. He was only anonymous to THOSE WHO DID NOT KNOW WHO HE WAS.
Someone had to print and distribute the articles Publius wrote.
There is no innate right to be anonymous and carry out vandalism and other crimes. There is an innate right to free speech which should be sufficient to prevent someone from seeking your identity if you are not otherwise committing a crime.
It's easy to ban spam. Just define it without regard to the anonymity issue. I don't want spam from spammers I can identify any more than from anonymous spammers.
You mean as though you looked up their name in the phone book?
Duh.
One of the points of IPv6 is to get rid of the kind of Internet invisibility that allows spamming and phishing to flourish. Being on the Internet will be like being in public. Privacy will be opt-in. Any community you join will have to agree to allow you to hide yourself. You will be able to hide your identity from other users on a content provider (like here on/.) but you won't be able to hide from the content provider as you DOS his account-creation system or scan his ports.
Will this create tracking-privacy issues? Sure. But we can deal with those by exercising our right to control the agencies that would use that data. It will prevent much more pervasive problems involving people we don't have legal control of until we catch them.
You will have the same freedoms you now have - maybe more as you won't have to alter your personality to duck from the trolls or hide your email address from spammers; your security will be increased; and your in-box will have your email in it instead of a flaming bag of crap every morning.
I get the feeling that their network is managed rather manually, is far too tightly coupled, and is not at all robust to common (if infrequent) faults the designers didn't consider as they were building it up over the decades.
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What I want to know is why U.S. News considers itself qualified to rate colleges in the first place.
Single-elimination playoffs are arbitrary, too.
A team has a probability of winning or losing a game against any given opponent. Whether they win or lose a single game does not determine whether their probability is above or below 50%, therefore it does not determine whether they are a "better" or "worse" team.
In the end a season of league play and playoffs isn't about who is supposed to win. It's about who might overcome the odds, and who did.
But it pretty much proves that graduating from college and being elected President is no guarantee that you won't get hundreds of thousands of people killed by starting a war without checking the facts.
You'll keep buying them as data and pixel densities increase and SNR improves (yes, "digital" does not equal "perfect" and the algorithms can always be made better).
Otherwise we'd all have Kinescope players at home and wonder why anyone would make a Blu-Ray drive...
DRM isn't there to make you buy new stuff every few years. You'll do that anyway. It's there so you will buy the stuff from them instead of from the pirates.
offer a VPN for sale on eBay
"accidentally" leave it configured for connection
wait for connection
pwn the connecting machine...
here's a tip: configure your network hardware before actually connecting it to a network
I'm boycotting Duke Nukem Forever.
So far it's working.
Your users don't really need that kind of power, then. They could get by using much less of a computer, because they're spending less time coding and have time for running. In fact, I suspect about 70% of your users could get by on a 4x4 card if they ran it and went on vacation for the summer.
The really big HPCs can tolerate the really big software development efforts because the runtime saved by the specialized OS may more than discount the extra development effort.
I suspect no computing power is being thrown at predicting where the financial markets are going.
A lot is thrown at pretending to predict it, but it's brilliantly obvious that the output of such things is no better than chicken entrails or the last two presidential elections.
a furlong (plus one ear)
It's a democracy. Vote to have the three prequels expunged from the planet and done over by Joss Whedon and Rockne O'Bannon.
Either kill it or post the email addresses of the people who write the "disagree mail"
Haven't you noticed? He shows up as a selection in every poll.
/. idle is goofy.
Depends on how badly he infracted. Most speeding tickets are civil infractions. Some are criminal depending on speed and other circumstances.
People who do it persistently and refuse to pay the civil sanctions are criminals. Antisocial individuals not willing to live by the rule of law.
We identify those in court and remove them from society, because they don't want to be there anyway.
Too bad about the one we put them in while they're gone, though, huh....
False. Private companies contract with the government to provide these services and their contract dictates approved methods and the standard of their performance.
The government can not circumvent the Constitution just by contracting-out its work.
Or you could get the speed limit raised on that stretch of road.
You are, after all, the one doing the voting.
And now you've given them probable cause to believe you're obstructing justice, so they obtain a warrant, seize your vehicle, vacuum it, and determine that nobody else's DNA is in it.
Then you go to jail.
Or, you could admit you broke the law and pay the fine or take the Defensive Driving course.
"They" aren't doing this, YOU are.
You are the government. Go govern your civil servants.
Look. "Astronaut" is Greek. "Cosmonaut" also Greek. "Taikonaut" is dumb.
But it's not the fault of the Chinese. They call their space travelers "Yuhangyuan".
It's a Higgs Boson.
The folks at CERN are gonna be pissed after they spent all that time building the LHC and we just find one lying around...
If you do something to disturb the peace, everyone will know who you are. It will be a matter of public record.
Is it really that easy to become the subject of a Disagree Mail story? Write a Penthouse Forum submission and change the pool boy to the /. letter opener?
I bet there wasn't a chick within two mothers' basements of the person who wrote that email.
Publius wasn't anonymous. He was only anonymous to THOSE WHO DID NOT KNOW WHO HE WAS.
Someone had to print and distribute the articles Publius wrote.
There is no innate right to be anonymous and carry out vandalism and other crimes. There is an innate right to free speech which should be sufficient to prevent someone from seeking your identity if you are not otherwise committing a crime.
It's easy to ban spam. Just define it without regard to the anonymity issue. I don't want spam from spammers I can identify any more than from anonymous spammers.
You mean as though you looked up their name in the phone book?
Duh.
One of the points of IPv6 is to get rid of the kind of Internet invisibility that allows spamming and phishing to flourish. Being on the Internet will be like being in public. Privacy will be opt-in. Any community you join will have to agree to allow you to hide yourself. You will be able to hide your identity from other users on a content provider (like here on /.) but you won't be able to hide from the content provider as you DOS his account-creation system or scan his ports.
Will this create tracking-privacy issues? Sure. But we can deal with those by exercising our right to control the agencies that would use that data. It will prevent much more pervasive problems involving people we don't have legal control of until we catch them.
You will have the same freedoms you now have - maybe more as you won't have to alter your personality to duck from the trolls or hide your email address from spammers; your security will be increased; and your in-box will have your email in it instead of a flaming bag of crap every morning.
I get the feeling that their network is managed rather manually, is far too tightly coupled, and is not at all robust to common (if infrequent) faults the designers didn't consider as they were building it up over the decades.
Like the network core power outage, for instance.
$30 it's the boss's desktop machine.