Numbers are typically picked weekly and most weeks there is no winner.
That's an interesting theory, but I would imagine that the lottery data include all the drawn numbers, not just those with winning tickets. A quick look at the data suggests that that is indeed the case, but I'll leave it as an exercise for some enterprising hacker to take a thorough look for missing dates.
1) These guys did an impressive amount of work, but seem to be completely oblivious to proper statistical analysis. It would have been nice to have seen a p-value somewhere in there.
2) You don't get an edge in the lottery by picking numbers that are more likely to come up; you get it by picking numbers that other players are less likely to choose (e.g. >31), so that you don't have to split your win with as many others.
If this were Gentoo or Debian, I'd be sympathetic. But Mandriva (putting aside the fact that it's only "one of these tiny Linux compan[ies]" because of their own mismanagement, and that when you walked into a CompUSA in 1999 there were Mandrake boxes everywhere) is in business, and doesn't need to cry because Microsoft was mean to them. He should be glad he's getting paid at all from this deal.
And is that the phrase for the for the dental plan password, the diversity training registration password, or the office supply purchasing password? Or an older phrase for one of them, as each one needs to be changed (out of sync!) 6 times a year.
Also, if I'd been surveyed as to whether checking webmail is "risky", I'd also have said that it isn't. It's certainly not "risky" on the level that downloading and running some P2P application is; it's not even dangerous on the level that requiring 20 different, complex, constantly changed passwords is.
Between here and Reddit, I probably picked up 50 negative moderation points during 2007 for daring to question OLPC's predictions of 13 jillion computers shipped by year's end. (The fact that Nicholas Negroponte seemed completely oblivious to whether the governments with whom he had shaky agreements (Thaksin, Hamas) were even still in power was a tipoff.)
I predict that 2008 will provide similar opportunities to bleed karma; also, it's going to be The Year Of Linux On The Desktop!
This is at least a decade old, was published in 2000 (I like the breathless "unearthed today", like it was some sort of secret -- the original Hancock paper is listed as having 29 cites) and has rather obvious applications for marketing, billing and security. The "oddly close to the data mining the NSA performed after 9/11" seems a bit excessive.
The developers and managers at company X aren't exactly the sort of people who work at Flickr. Someone has read about Wikis, so they implement one in a way that's completely counterproductive.
None of the employees under the age of 23 knows what to do with Web 2.0'ish features anyway.
So the whole thing winds up going the way of the CMS, and the Intranet HTML pages before that and the Lotus Notes nightmare before that.
Aren't we overdue for some "2008 Is Going To Be The Year Of Linux On The Desktop!" stories? That at least has a better chance than vinyl. Heck, the Amiga has a better chance than vinyl.
I know nothing specific about the Waqf organization...
Ummm, doesn't that seem like something you ought to know before lecturing us on insufficient "care" in distinguishing one sect from another?
Anywhere where a mosque or anything resembling a Sunni Islamic organization appears, it's either done by House of Saud's financed activists...
If you're going to call any Saudi-linked Muslims "Wahhabis" (which, as you say, includes pretty much all of Sunni Islam) doesn't that erase your entire point?
The debate's tone would try not to be adversarial, but cordial and educational. It could even be fun.
You get the candidates you deserve. The voters and the media have made it impossible for candidates for major office (who are almost by definition smart, personable people) to do anything but recite polished talking points.
C'mon, do you think if any candidate stumbled on the tiniest fact, or said something that could be taken out of context to sound silly, the loudmouths here would ever let it slide? Go ask poor Ted Stevens about why it's 1337 to refer to Internet connections as "pipes" but you're a retard if you say "tubes"...
I think you should take care to distinguish between different Muslim sects.
None of your links in any way support the notion that the Temple Mount Waqf is Wahhabi. Do you have some basis for claiming that or did you just make it up?
Maybe I'm missing something. This company is in the same office building as a second company, the CEO of which founded a third company 16 years ago. The "coincidence" is what?
Given that the best the kookazoids at Groklaw can come up with is some sketchy conspiracy theory about "nanotubes", there doesn't seem to be a whole lot here.
Is there anything on which Bruce Schneier is not an expert? Now he's an expert on evolution? I'm not sure why he thinks his knowledge of cryptography qualifies him to hold forth on every freaking subject on the planet.
Yeah, that wasn't the world's greatest analogy but it's the best I could think of. If you have a better example of illegal activity enabled by a treadmill, feel free to provide it.
Except that, to extend your analogy a bit, you're going on the treadmill to lose weight to further identity theft. So complaints about the imperfection of Comcast's ethics don't quite qualify as the "major public relations problem" the article frets about, at least not in my corner of the public.
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That's an interesting theory, but I would imagine that the lottery data include all the drawn numbers, not just those with winning tickets. A quick look at the data suggests that that is indeed the case, but I'll leave it as an exercise for some enterprising hacker to take a thorough look for missing dates.
2) You don't get an edge in the lottery by picking numbers that are more likely to come up; you get it by picking numbers that other players are less likely to choose (e.g. >31), so that you don't have to split your win with as many others.
Commenters at Wired mention Royal Rife, whose career was in the 20th century but otherwise seems to be who the submitter had in mind.
Please note: the appropriate way to make such a point here is:
Once that's mastered, you can move on to more advanced forms, such as:
If this were Gentoo or Debian, I'd be sympathetic. But Mandriva (putting aside the fact that it's only "one of these tiny Linux compan[ies]" because of their own mismanagement, and that when you walked into a CompUSA in 1999 there were Mandrake boxes everywhere) is in business, and doesn't need to cry because Microsoft was mean to them. He should be glad he's getting paid at all from this deal.
And is that the phrase for the for the dental plan password, the diversity training registration password, or the office supply purchasing password? Or an older phrase for one of them, as each one needs to be changed (out of sync!) 6 times a year.
Also, if I'd been surveyed as to whether checking webmail is "risky", I'd also have said that it isn't. It's certainly not "risky" on the level that downloading and running some P2P application is; it's not even dangerous on the level that requiring 20 different, complex, constantly changed passwords is.
I predict that 2008 will provide similar opportunities to bleed karma; also, it's going to be The Year Of Linux On The Desktop!
This is at least a decade old, was published in 2000 (I like the breathless "unearthed today", like it was some sort of secret -- the original Hancock paper is listed as having 29 cites) and has rather obvious applications for marketing, billing and security. The "oddly close to the data mining the NSA performed after 9/11" seems a bit excessive.
- The developers and managers at company X aren't exactly the sort of people who work at Flickr. Someone has read about Wikis, so they implement one in a way that's completely counterproductive.
- None of the employees under the age of 23 knows what to do with Web 2.0'ish features anyway.
So the whole thing winds up going the way of the CMS, and the Intranet HTML pages before that and the Lotus Notes nightmare before that.Aren't we overdue for some "2008 Is Going To Be The Year Of Linux On The Desktop!" stories? That at least has a better chance than vinyl. Heck, the Amiga has a better chance than vinyl.
Ummm, doesn't that seem like something you ought to know before lecturing us on insufficient "care" in distinguishing one sect from another?
Anywhere where a mosque or anything resembling a Sunni Islamic organization appears, it's either done by House of Saud's financed activists...
If you're going to call any Saudi-linked Muslims "Wahhabis" (which, as you say, includes pretty much all of Sunni Islam) doesn't that erase your entire point?
You get the candidates you deserve. The voters and the media have made it impossible for candidates for major office (who are almost by definition smart, personable people) to do anything but recite polished talking points.
C'mon, do you think if any candidate stumbled on the tiniest fact, or said something that could be taken out of context to sound silly, the loudmouths here would ever let it slide? Go ask poor Ted Stevens about why it's 1337 to refer to Internet connections as "pipes" but you're a retard if you say "tubes"...
None of your links in any way support the notion that the Temple Mount Waqf is Wahhabi. Do you have some basis for claiming that or did you just make it up?
Maybe I'm missing something. This company is in the same office building as a second company, the CEO of which founded a third company 16 years ago. The "coincidence" is what?
Given that the best the kookazoids at Groklaw can come up with is some sketchy conspiracy theory about "nanotubes", there doesn't seem to be a whole lot here.
Is there anything on which Bruce Schneier is not an expert? Now he's an expert on evolution? I'm not sure why he thinks his knowledge of cryptography qualifies him to hold forth on every freaking subject on the planet.
Anyway, I can't imagine buying such a thing. Why would I possibly want a video player strapped to my wrist?
Oh, plainly! Why, unsupported assertions that critical thinking is dead among These Lousy Kids Today hardly bear questioning!
1) The one guy out there actually downloading Creative Commons-licensed Ogg Theora files
...or...
2) A complete idiot
Yeah, that wasn't the world's greatest analogy but it's the best I could think of. If you have a better example of illegal activity enabled by a treadmill, feel free to provide it.
Except that, to extend your analogy a bit, you're going on the treadmill to lose weight to further identity theft. So complaints about the imperfection of Comcast's ethics don't quite qualify as the "major public relations problem" the article frets about, at least not in my corner of the public.
...a pair of helicopters has been hovering over Fenway for the last few hours, I'm guessing to monitor the real world analog of a "system meltdown".
Only if these "near misses" are with terrestrial craft, which I think we all realize isn't the case.
FYI, this seems to be the article in question.