Seriously, if you're downloading from a third-party mirror, why would you not check the hash of the binary compared to the original? I mean, why would anyone even use Sourceforge for this in the first place? The official website has the official versions, and whatever distro you're using has screened versions in their repos.
Where is the official website? The GIMP is easy; Google knows that it originated at gimp.org. But a search also brings up GIMP at 'softtonic', 'gimpshop', CNet, and TechRadar -- all of which probably have added malware. If the program were more obscure, finding the correct link would be more difficult.
It would be nice to have one site that served trustable downloads for shareware and open-source code. Sourceforge used to be that site.
Sourceforge used to be the one site I trusted to not contain adware and viruses, because it was near-impossible to add those without the OSS community noticing them. Now they're fuxing with the code after community review.
What sites still exist that I can trust? Sometimes I need to download apps and code, like when I'm loading up a new PC. Are there any remaining software/shareware sites that do *not* stuff their downloads full of malware?
The purpose of the ISS was to spread the cost of a space station among many different countries, so that no one of them had to foot the bill for their own. One of the reasons the USSR went bankrupt is because they could not keep up with US cold war expenditures, including the space race.
Which makes it truly bizarre that Russia would be thinking of going into space alone again. Putin doesn't appear to remember any history at all.
The legs are 'springy' and can be used to hop the lander off the surface. The problem is that they can't tell the orientation of the lander. If it's in a cave, the legs might hop it deeper into shadow.
IAMA physicist, but not a very good one and this isn't my field.
From what I gather, they got liquid helium to react to the wavefunction of an electron without reacting to the electron itself. In other words, an electron approached the surface of a vat of liquid helium, the helium reacted (by forming bubbles), but the electron continued and eventually reacted somewhere else.
If true, this is really, deeply, weird. The wavefunction is supposed to be just a mathematical model of where the electron should be. Instead, this suggests that the wavefunction is a field with physical reality. A physical reality that can be studied in parts, not necessarily as a whole. It's pretty mindblowing and could lead to new physics -- gluon-like particles that carry wavefunction potential, maybe? But I'm skeptical until these results can be duplicated.
Note that the entire article is written in adherence to the Copenhagen interpretation. If you look at it via the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum physics, it gets even weirder -- is the helium responding to events in parallel universes? Luckily, I've always preferred the Copenhagen theory.
Apps and Android OS both continue to get more bloated as time passes, so the better the performance, the longer the device will remain relevant and useful. It's a measure of lifetime. A weak phone might not be able to run the apps that will be released two years from now. A strong phone might still be able to run apps four or more years in the future.
If you upgrade your phone every two years like clockwork, then it doesn't matter to you. Those who prefer to delay upgrading until its necessary will appreciate a phone that's powerful enough to age well.
I'm not the original anonymous questioner, but I'm in the same boat. I live in a rural area where Verizon has the only coverage, and I've been on an unlimited plan for years. My phone is a Galaxy S (that's S #1) that's getting a bit old; it chokes on a lot of modern websites and apps. I never go above 2 GB/month. I don't even think it's possible, as my old phone is 3G and barely handles Youtube.
I would have switched plans before, but Verizon didn't give me any incentive other than a new phone. My monthly rate would have stayed the same (or even went up, depending on the store personnel I had) while I got less bandwidth. That's unacceptable. If they cut my monthly rate by $20 then I'd leap at the new contract. Any phone I get from them under a new contract would also be stocked with their worthless software; I'd have to root it to clean it out. It's worth it to me to pay full price for a new phone just to avoid the bloatware, let alone the loss of bandwidth that I may or may not use.
TLDR: A new contract means they're going to restrict my bandwidth, make me pay the same amount, and pile bloat on top of any phone I get. I think it's still worth it to me to buy a new phone at full price and keep the unlimited plan.
Nope. From the article, the looters were chanting that they believed Ebola was a scam. They do not believe it exists. So they're not going to bother trying to sterilize the objects stolen or 'purge' the infected. They're going to treat them as if they're going to get better. But they won't, and now the entire neighborhood is vulnerable to the disease.
I think they're building these robots to solve the problem of how to make these robots. A pixel in a game of Life is easy to maintain -- it has an x,y coordinate and immediately knows all its neighbor's positions. A robot has to identify all its neighbors and then localize itself using infrared and communication time lags. That's a challenge. The only way to meet that challenge is to build the robots and figure out how to make them work.
You're saying that Thor is a transitive property. I'm guessing that like XOR, it's an abbreviation of 'Therefore-Or', and is some kind of operator akin to the fuzzy logic Union operator.
If that's true, then we can use De Morgans' law to state that:
NOT(a THOR b) = NOT(a) THOR NOT(b)
This is true of a class of operators M, if any M(j) in the set obeys the commutative relationship:
a M(j) b = b M(j) a
and the distributive relationship:
a (M(j))^x b = (a M(j) b)^x
But if that's true, then we can write:
(M(j))^x = THOR^x
Or in other words, any operator that holds M(j) will possess the power of THOR.
Thanks! You just cleared up forty years of Marvel comic plots for me!
Not faces that are easy to punch. Faces that can take a punch.
This isn't an attempt at humor, I'm serious. A strong jaw, chiseled features, and a cleft (therefore padded) chin -- these are modifications that help a face receive punching with minimal injury. They have also become preferred characteristics in sexual selection.
Mutant registration acts are fictional also.
I think you have to look at this as if we're living in a comic book world. If mutants are real, then are mutant registration acts legal and ethical? Can you then compare them to vaccination registration acts?
I don't have an answer to any of these questions. I think it's a very thorny debate.
Don't pin your hopes on teaching people what your religion believes. *Every* religion believes in wacky, nonsensical things that can be twisted around and laughed at.
Teach people that your religion *acts well*. That should be your central difference with Scientology -- the Scientologists break the law to spy on and destroy their enemies, while legitimate religions treat people fairly. Belief does not matter at all. The way a religion acts is what makes them honorable or criminal.
The problem is that in order to do that the original companies need to sell the Intellectual Property to the new owners. That won't happen cheap. Even the City of Heroes IP, which was shut down by NCSoft because it was no longer worth running the servers, could not be sold for less than ten million dollars.
IP is expensive. The companies are all speculating that they might be able to make a new game with the same IP someday. With that kind of IP hoarding mentality, they will never let another company run servers for a defunct game that might someday compete with them for the same IP.
No reason to get snarky, especially when the original post is correct. There are magnetic materials in birds' eyes. However, they only register when exposed to a magnetic field under certain conditions, as a quantum phenomenon. It is an electron spin transfer that is delayed by the quantum Zeno effect to a timescale where the birds' retina can detect the difference.
It's not as simple as a compass that points them in the right direction. Birds use some seriously weird quantum tricks to see magnetic fields.
Hmn. My link didn't work, so let's try it here. This is a study on avian electromagnetic vision, with a simulation of what a bird sees when looking at the magnetic field of the Earth.
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Researc...
I think the bigger problem is that the avian electromagnetic sense is tied to their eyesight. So the electromagnetic noise isn't just causing them to fly in the wrong direction, it's interfering with their ability to see. This may cause them to run into buildings, wind turbines, and power lines more often than usual.
It might not be that the young mice have something the old mice don't. It might be that old blood has too much debris -- malformed platelets, histamines, hormones, viruses, and rubble from collapsed cell walls. That junk could be gunking up the metabolic works in the elderly. Then you're not looking for a protein factor, you're looking for a filter, which is much more difficult to develop.
What you call 'spiral dynamics' sounds a lot like Machiavelli's theory of political history, which he laid out in his book The Prince.
Machiavelli postulated that Monarchy tends to devolve into an aristocratic and oligarchic Tyranny, Tyranny is supplanted via revolution by Democracy, Democracy eventually (and inexorably) falls into Anarchy, and Anarchy is solved when one person rises to lead the masses and forms a Monarchy.
History is cyclic. The question is whether we can break the cycle, and do we want to. As powerful as the security state has become, we're likely to break the cycle by spawning an eternal Tyranny instead of a sustainable Democracy.
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Seriously, if you're downloading from a third-party mirror, why would you not check the hash of the binary compared to the original? I mean, why would anyone even use Sourceforge for this in the first place? The official website has the official versions, and whatever distro you're using has screened versions in their repos.
Where is the official website? The GIMP is easy; Google knows that it originated at gimp.org. But a search also brings up GIMP at 'softtonic', 'gimpshop', CNet, and TechRadar -- all of which probably have added malware. If the program were more obscure, finding the correct link would be more difficult.
It would be nice to have one site that served trustable downloads for shareware and open-source code. Sourceforge used to be that site.
Sourceforge used to be the one site I trusted to not contain adware and viruses, because it was near-impossible to add those without the OSS community noticing them. Now they're fuxing with the code after community review.
What sites still exist that I can trust? Sometimes I need to download apps and code, like when I'm loading up a new PC. Are there any remaining software/shareware sites that do *not* stuff their downloads full of malware?
The purpose of the ISS was to spread the cost of a space station among many different countries, so that no one of them had to foot the bill for their own. One of the reasons the USSR went bankrupt is because they could not keep up with US cold war expenditures, including the space race.
Which makes it truly bizarre that Russia would be thinking of going into space alone again. Putin doesn't appear to remember any history at all.
The legs are 'springy' and can be used to hop the lander off the surface. The problem is that they can't tell the orientation of the lander. If it's in a cave, the legs might hop it deeper into shadow.
They constrained the distribution of the electron's probability without affecting the electron. That's very, very weird.
IAMA physicist, but not a very good one and this isn't my field.
From what I gather, they got liquid helium to react to the wavefunction of an electron without reacting to the electron itself. In other words, an electron approached the surface of a vat of liquid helium, the helium reacted (by forming bubbles), but the electron continued and eventually reacted somewhere else.
If true, this is really, deeply, weird. The wavefunction is supposed to be just a mathematical model of where the electron should be. Instead, this suggests that the wavefunction is a field with physical reality. A physical reality that can be studied in parts, not necessarily as a whole. It's pretty mindblowing and could lead to new physics -- gluon-like particles that carry wavefunction potential, maybe? But I'm skeptical until these results can be duplicated.
Note that the entire article is written in adherence to the Copenhagen interpretation. If you look at it via the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum physics, it gets even weirder -- is the helium responding to events in parallel universes? Luckily, I've always preferred the Copenhagen theory.
Apps and Android OS both continue to get more bloated as time passes, so the better the performance, the longer the device will remain relevant and useful. It's a measure of lifetime. A weak phone might not be able to run the apps that will be released two years from now. A strong phone might still be able to run apps four or more years in the future.
If you upgrade your phone every two years like clockwork, then it doesn't matter to you. Those who prefer to delay upgrading until its necessary will appreciate a phone that's powerful enough to age well.
I'm not the original anonymous questioner, but I'm in the same boat. I live in a rural area where Verizon has the only coverage, and I've been on an unlimited plan for years. My phone is a Galaxy S (that's S #1) that's getting a bit old; it chokes on a lot of modern websites and apps. I never go above 2 GB/month. I don't even think it's possible, as my old phone is 3G and barely handles Youtube.
I would have switched plans before, but Verizon didn't give me any incentive other than a new phone. My monthly rate would have stayed the same (or even went up, depending on the store personnel I had) while I got less bandwidth. That's unacceptable. If they cut my monthly rate by $20 then I'd leap at the new contract. Any phone I get from them under a new contract would also be stocked with their worthless software; I'd have to root it to clean it out. It's worth it to me to pay full price for a new phone just to avoid the bloatware, let alone the loss of bandwidth that I may or may not use.
TLDR: A new contract means they're going to restrict my bandwidth, make me pay the same amount, and pile bloat on top of any phone I get. I think it's still worth it to me to buy a new phone at full price and keep the unlimited plan.
Nope. From the article, the looters were chanting that they believed Ebola was a scam. They do not believe it exists. So they're not going to bother trying to sterilize the objects stolen or 'purge' the infected. They're going to treat them as if they're going to get better. But they won't, and now the entire neighborhood is vulnerable to the disease.
I think they're building these robots to solve the problem of how to make these robots. A pixel in a game of Life is easy to maintain -- it has an x,y coordinate and immediately knows all its neighbor's positions. A robot has to identify all its neighbors and then localize itself using infrared and communication time lags. That's a challenge. The only way to meet that challenge is to build the robots and figure out how to make them work.
You mis-spelled 'Tribalism'. Your tribe might be your nation, your religion, your skin color or your political party.
Unfortunately tribalism was bred into us back when we were apes. Experiencing evil is part of being human.
You're saying that Thor is a transitive property. I'm guessing that like XOR, it's an abbreviation of 'Therefore-Or', and is some kind of operator akin to the fuzzy logic Union operator.
If that's true, then we can use De Morgans' law to state that:
NOT(a THOR b) = NOT(a) THOR NOT(b)
This is true of a class of operators M, if any M(j) in the set obeys the commutative relationship:
a M(j) b = b M(j) a
and the distributive relationship:
a (M(j))^x b = (a M(j) b)^x
But if that's true, then we can write:
(M(j))^x = THOR^x
Or in other words, any operator that holds M(j) will possess the power of THOR.
Thanks! You just cleared up forty years of Marvel comic plots for me!
Picture a massless, spherical cow.
Now picture that massless, spherical cow bouncing like a pinball around a giant tornado hemmed in by a thousand-foot wall...
Not faces that are easy to punch. Faces that can take a punch. This isn't an attempt at humor, I'm serious. A strong jaw, chiseled features, and a cleft (therefore padded) chin -- these are modifications that help a face receive punching with minimal injury. They have also become preferred characteristics in sexual selection.
Perhaps God created our faces so that we could withstand a punch. Jesus did say to turn the other cheek. It could be that He knew we could take it.
Of course sexual selection matters. Women select for the men whose faces can best withstand punching.
Mutant registration acts are fictional also. I think you have to look at this as if we're living in a comic book world. If mutants are real, then are mutant registration acts legal and ethical? Can you then compare them to vaccination registration acts? I don't have an answer to any of these questions. I think it's a very thorny debate.
Don't pin your hopes on teaching people what your religion believes. *Every* religion believes in wacky, nonsensical things that can be twisted around and laughed at.
Teach people that your religion *acts well*. That should be your central difference with Scientology -- the Scientologists break the law to spy on and destroy their enemies, while legitimate religions treat people fairly. Belief does not matter at all. The way a religion acts is what makes them honorable or criminal.
The problem is that in order to do that the original companies need to sell the Intellectual Property to the new owners. That won't happen cheap. Even the City of Heroes IP, which was shut down by NCSoft because it was no longer worth running the servers, could not be sold for less than ten million dollars. IP is expensive. The companies are all speculating that they might be able to make a new game with the same IP someday. With that kind of IP hoarding mentality, they will never let another company run servers for a defunct game that might someday compete with them for the same IP.
No reason to get snarky, especially when the original post is correct. There are magnetic materials in birds' eyes. However, they only register when exposed to a magnetic field under certain conditions, as a quantum phenomenon. It is an electron spin transfer that is delayed by the quantum Zeno effect to a timescale where the birds' retina can detect the difference.
It's not as simple as a compass that points them in the right direction. Birds use some seriously weird quantum tricks to see magnetic fields.
Hmn. My link didn't work, so let's try it here. This is a study on avian electromagnetic vision, with a simulation of what a bird sees when looking at the magnetic field of the Earth. http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Researc...
I think the bigger problem is that the avian electromagnetic sense is tied to their eyesight. So the electromagnetic noise isn't just causing them to fly in the wrong direction, it's interfering with their ability to see. This may cause them to run into buildings, wind turbines, and power lines more often than usual.
It might not be that the young mice have something the old mice don't. It might be that old blood has too much debris -- malformed platelets, histamines, hormones, viruses, and rubble from collapsed cell walls. That junk could be gunking up the metabolic works in the elderly. Then you're not looking for a protein factor, you're looking for a filter, which is much more difficult to develop.
I spell it CDO, because it doesn't annoy me as much when it's in alphabetical order.
What you call 'spiral dynamics' sounds a lot like Machiavelli's theory of political history, which he laid out in his book The Prince.
Machiavelli postulated that Monarchy tends to devolve into an aristocratic and oligarchic Tyranny, Tyranny is supplanted via revolution by Democracy, Democracy eventually (and inexorably) falls into Anarchy, and Anarchy is solved when one person rises to lead the masses and forms a Monarchy.
History is cyclic. The question is whether we can break the cycle, and do we want to. As powerful as the security state has become, we're likely to break the cycle by spawning an eternal Tyranny instead of a sustainable Democracy.