Yeah, the chilling effect has been rapid and amazing. The Phynd hub here at UConn was shut down within a day, and I'm sure the same has happened at various campuses across the country.
I wonder if students running these machines could incorporate the "venture" as an LLC, so that the damages---no matter how huge---can be rolled up into the corporation and not touch the individual. MegaCorpBigCompany does it all the time; can students?
Nonsense, assassination would make too much sense. If assassinating a country's leader became an acceptable mode of aggression and war, these leaders would be much, much more reluctant to "fight" each other. It's one thing to send thousands of your people to die in the trenches; it's another when it's your ass on the line.
Phrased that way, doesn't assassination look like a damned good alternative to war?
Euclid's proof by contradiction: Assume that there are finitely many prime numbers. Take their product, which must also be a finite number. Add or subtract one. This number cannot have any factors in common with the original product; it must therefore be prime. But then the original product cannot have contained all prime numbers. Contradiction, QED.
What is the degree of the infinity?
Why would it be anything other than a countable infinity? Any (infinite) subset of the natural numbers can't possibly have the cardinality of the continuum.
How does the density scale as the number increases? Why does it scale in this way?
Separate questions, having at best a peripheral relevance to the original question of the primes' infinitude.
Oh, it's not conclusive, but it certainly bears further investigation, and, more importantly, casts doubt on claims that porn is, in and of itself, a major cause of violence against women.
There was a study done a while back, and I'm... aha, found it. Avedon Carol, in "nudes, prudes and attitudes", references a study.
"When Goldstein found that *all* of the rapists in his study sample had been punished for looking at pornography, while a mere 7 per cent of his cohort sample had been, that set off alarm bells for anyone who really cared about the causes of sexual violence."
Religion is a much bigger threat to women than porn ever could be, on many, many levels.
There's too much anime and not nearly enough porn on it, but that's a minor quibble. Point is, this should have been done years ago. And now we all bask in the glory of the hot, naked downloads.
'Course, if the university let me get a DSL line in my room, I'd still rather have that. They make a shitty, overpriced ISP.
Err, the photoelectric effect (which was one of the first indicators of the quantized nature of electricity) and the nature of blackbody radiation (likewise) are readily demonstrated---in fact, they were the initial justification for quantum theory.
Okay, my understanding of quantum is mildly shaky, so someone smarter than me should probably elucidate. But from what I do know, scaling up any quantum property, much like slowing down any relativistic property, leads to classical physics. That is, Netwon's mechanics equations are a pretty good approximation when something isn't very fast or very small. (For physicist values of 'very'.)
And, of course, the idea that brains of twins are somehow 'entangled' is utter bunk. Most of the matter in our bodies is cycled through the process of eating and excreting.
I know, it sounds nice, but believe me, anything you can actually see can't be thought of in quantum terms.
What are laser diodes and what do they do that's too good to be true? I mean, I know what lasers do, and I know what diodes do, and while the former is pretty nifty, I don't think diodes really sound "too good to be true".
"A device that allows current to flow in one direction but not the other? Oh my pants!"
Egon: There's something very important I forgot to tell you. Venkman: What? Egon: Don't cross the streams. Venkman: Why? Egon: It would be bad. Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good-bad thing. Whattya mean "bad?" Egon: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. Ray: Total protonic reversal.... Venkman: Right, that's bad...OK.. important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
We at UConn run a DC hub. Out of thousands of people on campus, we only have about fifty folks on it, but we share about 2TB on a good day, at 10MBit speeds. We pool resources to get newer releases (mostly TV eps) and it all works out pretty well.
Well, ShareReactor works just as well with Overnet, since the peer-to-peer communication part is identical and the links work just the same, partial file sharing, blah blah blah. Also, see here. Future versions of eMule may support Overnet as well as server-based communication. The lastest eDonkey does. (The 'hybrid'.)
Anyway, ed2k servers are pretty easy to set up, and it's not like they all live in the basement of the ed2k Corporation, Inc, a la Napster.
Well... NNTP servers cost money, at least decent ones do. Also, there's the retention problem. What, you wanted last year's Buffy episodes? Sorry, those have been swept off the server for months now. ShareReactor releases may occasionally lack sources, but ask on the forum and someone will reshare. Anything on the mainpage will have sources, even if it's months old.
For really weird or rare stuff, I check out oth.net. It's a search engine for ratio FTP sites. Some of them are scams. Ignore these. Also good for music videos.
Complete, well-ripped releases. Most of the good stuff is in the forums. Sure, it's slow during peak hours, but that's a small price to pay for knowing that everything will arrive, intact, full quality, checksummed.
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They were as much the model's boobs as Neo's face is Keanu Reeves's. Photogrammetry will make it about as accurate as possible.
That said, if it wasn't her in the original shot that was scanned in, then never mind. But the point is, it was hot. Yes.
Hey, they did it with Helena Bonham Carter in "Fight Club". Mmm, special effects pr0n.
I think I have wood now.
--grendel drago
Yeah, the chilling effect has been rapid and amazing. The Phynd hub here at UConn was shut down within a day, and I'm sure the same has happened at various campuses across the country.
I wonder if students running these machines could incorporate the "venture" as an LLC, so that the damages---no matter how huge---can be rolled up into the corporation and not touch the individual. MegaCorpBigCompany does it all the time; can students?
--grendel drago
I see that the Anus Shades have gotten to you, too.
--grendel drago
deBeers visited the plant and it was shutdown the next day. Hmm....wonder what happened there...go figure...
Wow, what an extraordinary claim! Care to back it up with some sort of evidence?
--grendel drago
Nonsense, assassination would make too much sense. If assassinating a country's leader became an acceptable mode of aggression and war, these leaders would be much, much more reluctant to "fight" each other. It's one thing to send thousands of your people to die in the trenches; it's another when it's your ass on the line.
Phrased that way, doesn't assassination look like a damned good alternative to war?
--grendel drago
(Just dealing with the primes questions for now.)
Why?
Euclid's proof by contradiction: Assume that there are finitely many prime numbers. Take their product, which must also be a finite number. Add or subtract one. This number cannot have any factors in common with the original product; it must therefore be prime. But then the original product cannot have contained all prime numbers. Contradiction, QED.
What is the degree of the infinity?
Why would it be anything other than a countable infinity? Any (infinite) subset of the natural numbers can't possibly have the cardinality of the continuum.
How does the density scale as the number increases? Why does it scale in this way?
Separate questions, having at best a peripheral relevance to the original question of the primes' infinitude.
--grendel drago
Oh, it's not conclusive, but it certainly bears further investigation, and, more importantly, casts doubt on claims that porn is, in and of itself, a major cause of violence against women.
--grendel drago
There was a study done a while back, and I'm... aha, found it. Avedon Carol, in "nudes, prudes and attitudes", references a study.
"When Goldstein found that *all* of the rapists in his study sample had been punished for looking at pornography, while a mere 7 per cent of his cohort sample had been, that set off alarm bells for anyone who really cared about the causes of sexual violence."
Religion is a much bigger threat to women than porn ever could be, on many, many levels.
--grendel drago
Cool! Thanks for the info!
Whee! Represent that internal DC hub!
There's too much anime and not nearly enough porn on it, but that's a minor quibble. Point is, this should have been done years ago. And now we all bask in the glory of the hot, naked downloads.
'Course, if the university let me get a DSL line in my room, I'd still rather have that. They make a shitty, overpriced ISP.
--grendel drago
This? It just says "Site Under Construction". Terribly, terribly rude, I know...
Err, the photoelectric effect (which was one of the first indicators of the quantized nature of electricity) and the nature of blackbody radiation (likewise) are readily demonstrated---in fact, they were the initial justification for quantum theory.
--grendel drago
Err...
Okay, my understanding of quantum is mildly shaky, so someone smarter than me should probably elucidate. But from what I do know, scaling up any quantum property, much like slowing down any relativistic property, leads to classical physics. That is, Netwon's mechanics equations are a pretty good approximation when something isn't very fast or very small. (For physicist values of 'very'.)
And, of course, the idea that brains of twins are somehow 'entangled' is utter bunk. Most of the matter in our bodies is cycled through the process of eating and excreting.
I know, it sounds nice, but believe me, anything you can actually see can't be thought of in quantum terms.
--grendel drago
an equivalent to BCS theory for high-TC superconductivity
In English, please?
It's the "Subterranean Cosmodrome of Power", thank you very much!
What are laser diodes and what do they do that's too good to be true? I mean, I know what lasers do, and I know what diodes do, and while the former is pretty nifty, I don't think diodes really sound "too good to be true".
"A device that allows current to flow in one direction but not the other? Oh my pants!"
--grendel drago
Reproducible results, dude. If it works, and you can verify it---trivial in the case of basic antibiotics---then you've got yourself a winner.
--grendel drago
Egon: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Venkman: What?
Egon: Don't cross the streams.
Venkman: Why?
Egon: It would be bad.
Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good-bad thing. Whattya mean "bad?"
Egon: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Ray: Total protonic reversal....
Venkman: Right, that's bad...OK.. important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
3, 5 and 7. Next?
We at UConn run a DC hub. Out of thousands of people on campus, we only have about fifty folks on it, but we share about 2TB on a good day, at 10MBit speeds. We pool resources to get newer releases (mostly TV eps) and it all works out pretty well.
UConn people! The hub awaits!
--grendel drago
Well, ShareReactor works just as well with Overnet, since the peer-to-peer communication part is identical and the links work just the same, partial file sharing, blah blah blah. Also, see here. Future versions of eMule may support Overnet as well as server-based communication. The lastest eDonkey does. (The 'hybrid'.)
Anyway, ed2k servers are pretty easy to set up, and it's not like they all live in the basement of the ed2k Corporation, Inc, a la Napster.
--grendel drago
Well... NNTP servers cost money, at least decent ones do. Also, there's the retention problem. What, you wanted last year's Buffy episodes? Sorry, those have been swept off the server for months now. ShareReactor releases may occasionally lack sources, but ask on the forum and someone will reshare. Anything on the mainpage will have sources, even if it's months old.
--grendel drago
For really weird or rare stuff, I check out oth.net. It's a search engine for ratio FTP sites. Some of them are scams. Ignore these. Also good for music videos.
--grendel drago
One word.
ShareReactor.
Complete, well-ripped releases. Most of the good stuff is in the forums. Sure, it's slow during peak hours, but that's a small price to pay for knowing that everything will arrive, intact, full quality, checksummed.
Also, eMule is a really nice-looking client.
--grendel drago