No, city property belongs to the city and not to the admin. Failing to allow the city access to or control of its own property is a crime known as "conversion." This guy should be thinking about his personality disorders between prison showers.
brilliant. And a little off the wall. Goes together.
No, it doesn't.
Business simply tolerates the off-the-wall person it would have fired if he wasn't also productive because he is smart enough to get the work done at a profit. Sometimes.
Business prefers brilliant people who aren't off-the-wall. Because then shit like this doesn't happen in their yard.
I bet there are half a dozen companies this guy interviewed with before he settled for a government job who are right now saying, "we saw him coming and wanted no part of him."
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Something created the universe out of nothing. Which suggests space itself may be damaged by certain events, possibly creating another universe inflating at the speed of the Big Bang.
Now that'd be something.
A non-evaporating black hole would merely swallow the Earth over a matter of days or weeks. Then the moon would continue to orbit a black hole with the Earth's mass, but no more ocean tides sapping its orbital energy, and the rest of the solar system wouldn't notice all that much.
It would drastically reduce the probability of a collision with a planet-killer asteriod, though. So we got that going for us.
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Those multiple-platter sets usually spread the bytes across the platters. One or two bits per platter from each byte.
So yes, if one platter or a head on one platter became non-functional, you didn't just lose 1/Nth of your files, you lost a portion of every byte, including all the volume and directory structures.
Poof.
Tape backup systems have always sold well, until the robust forms of RAID were developed, because the best backup is an actual backup.
What you want is a nonatomic clock that senses the position of the sun and tells you what your current angle is.
Or the position of a particular star.
Or the position of the hands of the clock at your next appointment.
Your TiVo is cheap crap, and so is your cable company, so you will never be able to delete those extra minutes you add before and after every scheduled recording.
The atomic clocks, on the other hand, are all averaged together to tell us what TAI time it is, to an accuracy greater than any single clock yet devised can achieve. And TAI time can be converted to any other kind of time you want in less than a second, maybe less than a millisecond, maybe even less than a microsecond, but not likely less than a nanosecond on retail hardware.
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(updates Drake's equation for possibility of races too smart for their own good)
That would be.409 TieV (450 GeV = 419 GieV, 419/1024 =.409).
450 GeV, on the other hand, is still.45 TeV, and because of the introduction of the Gi/Ti/etc. prefixes this is no longer ambiguous nor nearly as funny as it once was....
I tell you what. If you think the world will end tomorrow, you give me all your possessions today, and I'll give you the satisfaction of knowing you were right when it happens. That will be the only thing worth having at that point, and I will have a lot of stuff that won't be worth a thing, and no integrity whatsoever as we slip into hell.
Sound like a deal?
Because if you don't want to do it, then you're the one lacking in integrity.
The "IS" in "RISC" and "CISC" is "Instruction Set."
If the instruction set is complex, it's CISC. If the instruction set is simple, it's RISC.
CISC saves on instruction memory and cache. The CPU keeps up. How it breaks up the instructions is irrelevant to whether it's CISC or RISC.
Apple was running into walls trying to do things in PowerPC, and realized x86 was a better choice. The newer x86 versions are also less broken than the originals, for obvious reasons.
They're making a ton of money at it. It's always about money.
e-Ink will be much cheaper than regular ink, especially after you've erased and rewritten "I will not make a fool of myself on the Internet" 5e9 times on your e-ink tablet.
The deranged lunacy turned ranged a long time ago.
The core instruction set has had multiple sets of custom enhancements over the years, and can now do some pretty amazing stuff "in a single instruction."
It's the RISC methodology that can no longer keep up except under specific constraints to the problem set. That's why Apple switched to keep up in general-purpose and multimedia computing, and you'll find PowerPC only in embedded and HPC any more.
Once you standardize the hardware, you compile the software ONCE, and then everyone can copy it.
Expect a website to appear to collect all of the compiled apps for this thing. From then on there's no effort or cost for new users to obtain new software.
Of course, there are a hundred security issues with this, but for $89 retail you aren't going to get a secure platform.
Um, there's no criminality in releasing the info, but they could get sued for it, and harm can be proved, and just the expected value on the risk that a jury would agree that the harm alone is worth compensation would leave Mythbusters and their production company and Discovery Channel paying the banking industry their entire annual revenue for the next few millennia.
I say they made a good choice here.
That isn't to say that the banks' reliance on the obscurity of RFID technical specs isn't faulty security. I can imagine that sometime in the future, if they have led the public to believe RFID is a security device the banks themselves will be sued over it. But that wouldn't make it right to hasten the exposure of the information.
I believe the ruling in the MBTA case turned on a technicality in the law the MBTA was using to justify the gag-order, and may have been complicated by the fact that the MBTA is a government agency. It won't stop the MBTA from suing if actual harm is realized.
You can sue to stop perfectly legal acts. And you can be sued even if what you did was legal. And all it takes for you to lose is for them to prove through a preponderance of the evidence (not even beyond a reasonable doubt as in a criminal case) that you acted knowing that you were harming them, and for the judge or jury to believe it.
Billions if not trillions of dollars on the line, or at least hundreds of millions dealing with the nuisance factor of replacing the entire RFID system several years before its scheduled end-of-life?
That is a major tort, and I would not be surprised if every one of those lawyers were there, at least on a conference call, or if many or all of them were actually the General Counsels themselves.
TV is a big eye, and a company's image in that business is pure gold, and the obscurity of RFID is the key to a significant portion of their strongbox.
Frankly, Mythbusters should have thought ahead on that one. It shows they aren't considering the consequences of their actions until someone comes up to them waving threats.
First, $2.50? Every bank I know of charges $25 or more per bounced transaction.
Second, the credit-card company has agreed to extend you credit and knows you can have dozens of cards competing for your interest payments. The bank has not extended you credit and knows that having more than one bank account would be a pain in the ass so they have little competition once you are cashing your paychecks with them.
The laws regarding demand accounts are different from the laws regarding credit accounts in just about every possible way, so trying to treat them as similar just because they both come on plastic is a matter of failing to read the agreements you signed when opening the accounts.
You're confusing politics with money (easy to do).
They were given to believe (and possibly told outright) that they would be roasted alive in court for injuring a multi-trillion-dollar industry if they made it significantly easier for random gorks to steal money.
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No, city property belongs to the city and not to the admin. Failing to allow the city access to or control of its own property is a crime known as "conversion." This guy should be thinking about his personality disorders between prison showers.
brilliant. And a little off the wall. Goes together.
No, it doesn't.
Business simply tolerates the off-the-wall person it would have fired if he wasn't also productive because he is smart enough to get the work done at a profit. Sometimes.
Business prefers brilliant people who aren't off-the-wall. Because then shit like this doesn't happen in their yard.
I bet there are half a dozen companies this guy interviewed with before he settled for a government job who are right now saying, "we saw him coming and wanted no part of him."
Something created the universe out of nothing. Which suggests space itself may be damaged by certain events, possibly creating another universe inflating at the speed of the Big Bang.
Now that'd be something.
A non-evaporating black hole would merely swallow the Earth over a matter of days or weeks. Then the moon would continue to orbit a black hole with the Earth's mass, but no more ocean tides sapping its orbital energy, and the rest of the solar system wouldn't notice all that much.
It would drastically reduce the probability of a collision with a planet-killer asteriod, though. So we got that going for us.
So who hit "Preview" and "Submit"?
Just to remind those of us who were there:
Those multiple-platter sets usually spread the bytes across the platters. One or two bits per platter from each byte.
So yes, if one platter or a head on one platter became non-functional, you didn't just lose 1/Nth of your files, you lost a portion of every byte, including all the volume and directory structures.
Poof.
Tape backup systems have always sold well, until the robust forms of RAID were developed, because the best backup is an actual backup.
Are there still actually questions about Creationism?
I mean, beyond, "why do we still allow human beings to be to believe in Creationism?"
This here is nanomachine engineering. Arranging molecules. Making devices that perform certain functions.
If it's life-like, then yay, we can check that box, and get on to finding profitable uses for the technology.
The atomic clocks know what time it is.
What you want is a nonatomic clock that senses the position of the sun and tells you what your current angle is.
Or the position of a particular star.
Or the position of the hands of the clock at your next appointment.
Your TiVo is cheap crap, and so is your cable company, so you will never be able to delete those extra minutes you add before and after every scheduled recording.
The atomic clocks, on the other hand, are all averaged together to tell us what TAI time it is, to an accuracy greater than any single clock yet devised can achieve. And TAI time can be converted to any other kind of time you want in less than a second, maybe less than a millisecond, maybe even less than a microsecond, but not likely less than a nanosecond on retail hardware.
(updates Drake's equation for possibility of races too smart for their own good)
That would be .409 TieV (450 GeV = 419 GieV, 419/1024 = .409).
450 GeV, on the other hand, is still .45 TeV, and because of the introduction of the Gi/Ti/etc. prefixes this is no longer ambiguous nor nearly as funny as it once was....
Your statistic is not statistically accurate.
More than half of all people ever born are alive.
You are incorrect.
The world will end before the Cubs win the World Series.
The LHC may take a few weeks to create its first non-evaporating black hole.
I tell you what. If you think the world will end tomorrow, you give me all your possessions today, and I'll give you the satisfaction of knowing you were right when it happens. That will be the only thing worth having at that point, and I will have a lot of stuff that won't be worth a thing, and no integrity whatsoever as we slip into hell.
Sound like a deal?
Because if you don't want to do it, then you're the one lacking in integrity.
False.
The "IS" in "RISC" and "CISC" is "Instruction Set."
If the instruction set is complex, it's CISC. If the instruction set is simple, it's RISC.
CISC saves on instruction memory and cache. The CPU keeps up. How it breaks up the instructions is irrelevant to whether it's CISC or RISC.
Apple was running into walls trying to do things in PowerPC, and realized x86 was a better choice. The newer x86 versions are also less broken than the originals, for obvious reasons.
They're making a ton of money at it. It's always about money.
It doesn't need to be uncloneable.
Just expensive enough to clone that it's not worth what is to be gained from it.
So don't store anything expensive in something that's inexpensive to break into.
The problem isn't with UTC or TAI or any other timekeeping system used by the world.
The problem is with the cheap crap you have in your home which assumes every day is 86400 seconds long and every year is 365 days.
You bought it, you adjust it. I got better problems to solve.
The next cover would have some sort of program encryption.
e-Ink will be much cheaper than regular ink, especially after you've erased and rewritten "I will not make a fool of myself on the Internet" 5e9 times on your e-ink tablet.
Because you are an idiot and will pay $400 for a Kindle when it costs about $10 to build.
The deranged lunacy turned ranged a long time ago.
The core instruction set has had multiple sets of custom enhancements over the years, and can now do some pretty amazing stuff "in a single instruction."
It's the RISC methodology that can no longer keep up except under specific constraints to the problem set. That's why Apple switched to keep up in general-purpose and multimedia computing, and you'll find PowerPC only in embedded and HPC any more.
Here's the thing about software:
Once you standardize the hardware, you compile the software ONCE, and then everyone can copy it.
Expect a website to appear to collect all of the compiled apps for this thing. From then on there's no effort or cost for new users to obtain new software.
Of course, there are a hundred security issues with this, but for $89 retail you aren't going to get a secure platform.
Um, there's no criminality in releasing the info, but they could get sued for it, and harm can be proved, and just the expected value on the risk that a jury would agree that the harm alone is worth compensation would leave Mythbusters and their production company and Discovery Channel paying the banking industry their entire annual revenue for the next few millennia.
I say they made a good choice here.
That isn't to say that the banks' reliance on the obscurity of RFID technical specs isn't faulty security. I can imagine that sometime in the future, if they have led the public to believe RFID is a security device the banks themselves will be sued over it. But that wouldn't make it right to hasten the exposure of the information.
I believe the ruling in the MBTA case turned on a technicality in the law the MBTA was using to justify the gag-order, and may have been complicated by the fact that the MBTA is a government agency. It won't stop the MBTA from suing if actual harm is realized.
You can sue to stop perfectly legal acts. And you can be sued even if what you did was legal. And all it takes for you to lose is for them to prove through a preponderance of the evidence (not even beyond a reasonable doubt as in a criminal case) that you acted knowing that you were harming them, and for the judge or jury to believe it.
Innocent?
Billions if not trillions of dollars on the line, or at least hundreds of millions dealing with the nuisance factor of replacing the entire RFID system several years before its scheduled end-of-life?
That is a major tort, and I would not be surprised if every one of those lawyers were there, at least on a conference call, or if many or all of them were actually the General Counsels themselves.
TV is a big eye, and a company's image in that business is pure gold, and the obscurity of RFID is the key to a significant portion of their strongbox.
Frankly, Mythbusters should have thought ahead on that one. It shows they aren't considering the consequences of their actions until someone comes up to them waving threats.
But that's show business.
Did you vote to annex the Sudetenland before you voted against it?
Cuz if you flip-flop on some things, it's a good thing.
First, $2.50? Every bank I know of charges $25 or more per bounced transaction.
Second, the credit-card company has agreed to extend you credit and knows you can have dozens of cards competing for your interest payments. The bank has not extended you credit and knows that having more than one bank account would be a pain in the ass so they have little competition once you are cashing your paychecks with them.
The laws regarding demand accounts are different from the laws regarding credit accounts in just about every possible way, so trying to treat them as similar just because they both come on plastic is a matter of failing to read the agreements you signed when opening the accounts.
You're confusing politics with money (easy to do).
They were given to believe (and possibly told outright) that they would be roasted alive in court for injuring a multi-trillion-dollar industry if they made it significantly easier for random gorks to steal money.