That's an interesting theory. You'd suggest that since there's no obligation to the citizens of another country, that some other government would spy on you, and then your government would spy on their citizens, and then just trade information back and forth "as required, for national security matters"?
I wonder they'd have a cool acronym for the program.
Except that it's not a random number or a random number generator.
It's a cipher generator, which is what Stradenko is getting at -- it's also what you're getting at, ironically. If the numbers were totally random, they would be useless. What it's doing is applying the downside of PRNGs - namely, their predictability - to create a sequence that is known to the computers in question, but appears random to the observer. If you seed multiple generators, all with the same algorithm, then you'll get the same sequence. That's terrible if you're running a lotto, but pretty good if you're trying to get two things to sync up.
People have won millions by successfully outguessing PRNGs. I am not sure if this will add more security or if this is just security theater. Given the banking industry's track record, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that it's WIWTF security.
If you fallow Darwinian logic won't there eventually only be one species? Survival of the fittest and all.
I'm afraid you're mixing up "the origin of species" with Highlander.
Mr. JB, this is the best quote on evolution that I've ever seen. Note that Darwin never states "survival of the fittest". The Theory states that those most suited to their environment have a greater chance of survival, and thus reproduction.
"You're mixing up 'Origin of the Species' with 'Highlander'." Classic.
At least here, the Motor Vehicle Act and the Criminal Code are completely different bits of legislation. Not the least of which is that the first is provincial while the second is federal.
You can design roads for speed, both fast and slow. You would want your residential areas designed for slow speeds. To slow traffic, all you have to do is put in some planters, bike lanes, and curve the road. Make the roads wide, flat, and smooth and people will be doing 50 without thinking about it.
It also depends on context. If people are speeding in school zones or park zones then they should lose their licences. If you want to blow down the highway at 80 mph, have fun.
Now, the penalties for killing someone while in your car are a different matter -- they are WAY too lenient -- but that's a different thread.
I'm Canadian, and my preference for goods are those manufactured in Canada. My money stays here. Made in the USA is a close second; I consider that to be almost as good. It's less likely to be made by slave labour. I will actually pay MORE for a good if it is made in Canada.
The only reason most manufacturers use people at all is because Chinese workers are cheaper than NA robots. If your iPod could be built by a robot here for cheaper, we'd never see "Made in PRC" again.
Rotating your firmware monitor is the best thing you can do for yourself. The only problem is that the manufacturers assume that you'd never do that so the display is sub-par, but it's perfectly suitable for an IDE.
Number 2 is to comply with... certain standards. I'm not sure how one would be able to print to the printer in the normal room and still comply with those standards, but it's there.
More accurately, how could one PRINT AT ALL and still comply with those standards?
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I'm an Electrical Engineer. I do a fair bit of spec writing and drafting.
I have 2 monitors right now, and I could easily have two more and replace one of mine with a much bigger monitor. (The seams really mess up the visuals when working with large drafts.)
I would anticipate that most people who use their computers for the same kind of work would want: 1. One big monitor. The bigger the better. 36" would be about right. 2. One communications monitor. 3. One datasheet monitor. 4. Once spec monitor.
I pay my ISP $130 a month. I pay a levy on blank media. I consider any media online as "media I have purchased".
They even explain how to set up torrent clients on their website, and let you know that they'll cap you during peak load periods (I don't have a problem with that -- I consider downloading "low priority" traffic.)
I'm a Canadian Citizen. My taxes go, in part, to providing funding for various Canadian artists, shows, and other productions. _I've paid for the content three times_.
If that's not permission to download, I don't know what is.
From what I understand, the FCC regulates the use of the channel. They make sure you're putting appropriate material in your allocated slice of the spectrum. That includes a small amount of actual content control to ensure that, for example, you don't have a parade of nipples during a family event, such as the Superb Owl. They'll also make sure that your transmitters are of a certain power, etc.
The FTC makes sure that customers are getting what they paid for. For example, if you're paying $X for a 10MB/s connection and you're only ever getting 3MB/s, then they'll step in and slap the provider around with a haddock. The FCC can't regulate this because it's outside their jurisdiction, nor can they prevent a provider from filtering results or blocking traffic. The FTC will put limits on font sizes so they can't say "actual bandwidth depends on network conditions and by "internet" we mean only HTTP and SMTP" in 3pt on the back of the inside cover of the modem.
Please bear in mind that I'm not from the US so I could just be dead wrong. Also, I didn't read the article or any of the other comments.
Ouch. I only watch Fox for Simpsons and Family Guy.
If my local rag knowingly put out a fake story on Page 1 above the fold with a plan to retract it later in a small box on page B7, then yes, I would no longer trust my paper.
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That's an interesting theory. You'd suggest that since there's no obligation to the citizens of another country, that some other government would spy on you, and then your government would spy on their citizens, and then just trade information back and forth "as required, for national security matters"?
I wonder they'd have a cool acronym for the program.
Except that it's not a random number or a random number generator.
It's a cipher generator, which is what Stradenko is getting at -- it's also what you're getting at, ironically. If the numbers were totally random, they would be useless. What it's doing is applying the downside of PRNGs - namely, their predictability - to create a sequence that is known to the computers in question, but appears random to the observer. If you seed multiple generators, all with the same algorithm, then you'll get the same sequence. That's terrible if you're running a lotto, but pretty good if you're trying to get two things to sync up.
People have won millions by successfully outguessing PRNGs. I am not sure if this will add more security or if this is just security theater. Given the banking industry's track record, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that it's WIWTF security.
I'm afraid you're mixing up "the origin of species" with Highlander.
Mr. JB, this is the best quote on evolution that I've ever seen. Note that Darwin never states "survival of the fittest". The Theory states that those most suited to their environment have a greater chance of survival, and thus reproduction.
"You're mixing up 'Origin of the Species' with 'Highlander'." Classic.
I don't.
At least here, the Motor Vehicle Act and the Criminal Code are completely different bits of legislation. Not the least of which is that the first is provincial while the second is federal.
You can design roads for speed, both fast and slow. You would want your residential areas designed for slow speeds. To slow traffic, all you have to do is put in some planters, bike lanes, and curve the road. Make the roads wide, flat, and smooth and people will be doing 50 without thinking about it.
It also depends on context. If people are speeding in school zones or park zones then they should lose their licences. If you want to blow down the highway at 80 mph, have fun.
Now, the penalties for killing someone while in your car are a different matter -- they are WAY too lenient -- but that's a different thread.
That's why I generally borrow a game from the library before I buy it.
Hell yes.
I'm Canadian, and my preference for goods are those manufactured in Canada. My money stays here. Made in the USA is a close second; I consider that to be almost as good. It's less likely to be made by slave labour. I will actually pay MORE for a good if it is made in Canada.
The only reason most manufacturers use people at all is because Chinese workers are cheaper than NA robots. If your iPod could be built by a robot here for cheaper, we'd never see "Made in PRC" again.
Thanks for modding, person who has never read LotR. Your off-topic mod sure was right!
Rotating your firmware monitor is the best thing you can do for yourself. The only problem is that the manufacturers assume that you'd never do that so the display is sub-par, but it's perfectly suitable for an IDE.
Number 2 is to comply with... certain standards. I'm not sure how one would be able to print to the printer in the normal room and still comply with those standards, but it's there.
More accurately, how could one PRINT AT ALL and still comply with those standards?
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
WE NOTICED THAT YOU ARE RUNNING LOW ON BLACK TONER
We noticed that you are running low on black toner
I'm an Electrical Engineer. I do a fair bit of spec writing and drafting.
I have 2 monitors right now, and I could easily have two more and replace one of mine with a much bigger monitor. (The seams really mess up the visuals when working with large drafts.)
I would anticipate that most people who use their computers for the same kind of work would want:
1. One big monitor. The bigger the better. 36" would be about right.
2. One communications monitor.
3. One datasheet monitor.
4. Once spec monitor.
The last three could be normal sized, e.g. 22".
More like:
"No charge! ...
I thought the same thing: "looks `shopped".
Good question as to why nobody's dropped a camera down the hole yet.
My lawyer would tell me that it's not worth bothering for less than $2500, so they've got a reasonable plan there.
It would take far more to fight that in court, even in Canada, where we've got that loser-pay system.
I pay my ISP $130 a month. I pay a levy on blank media. I consider any media online as "media I have purchased".
They even explain how to set up torrent clients on their website, and let you know that they'll cap you during peak load periods (I don't have a problem with that -- I consider downloading "low priority" traffic.)
I'm a Canadian Citizen. My taxes go, in part, to providing funding for various Canadian artists, shows, and other productions. _I've paid for the content three times_.
If that's not permission to download, I don't know what is.
I just want to get a tablet that has a reasonable price and can run Linux.
I hate Twilight for the same reason I hate Monster Cable.
Awww, FUCK! Why didn't I think of that first?
From what I understand, the FCC regulates the use of the channel. They make sure you're putting appropriate material in your allocated slice of the spectrum. That includes a small amount of actual content control to ensure that, for example, you don't have a parade of nipples during a family event, such as the Superb Owl. They'll also make sure that your transmitters are of a certain power, etc.
The FTC makes sure that customers are getting what they paid for. For example, if you're paying $X for a 10MB/s connection and you're only ever getting 3MB/s, then they'll step in and slap the provider around with a haddock. The FCC can't regulate this because it's outside their jurisdiction, nor can they prevent a provider from filtering results or blocking traffic. The FTC will put limits on font sizes so they can't say "actual bandwidth depends on network conditions and by "internet" we mean only HTTP and SMTP" in 3pt on the back of the inside cover of the modem.
Please bear in mind that I'm not from the US so I could just be dead wrong. Also, I didn't read the article or any of the other comments.
Yeah, damn, I'm from BC and this guy's stuff looks epic.
Brilliant post though. I'm honestly not sure if he actually believes that or if he's having a wag.
No, that soundstage was used to film Capricorn One
Don't be ridiculous. The sand would be the wrong colour...
Canadian football fields are 110 meters.
At least, as far as I know. I don't think I've actually seen one.
The moon landing was a fake, but it was filmed on the moon. They didn't want you to know that we've had a moon base since 1964.
Hey, what they could do is give the kids laptops supplied with webcams, and have the schools monitor their activity 24/7.
I'm surprised that nobody thought of that before.
Ouch. I only watch Fox for Simpsons and Family Guy.
If my local rag knowingly put out a fake story on Page 1 above the fold with a plan to retract it later in a small box on page B7, then yes, I would no longer trust my paper.