It's not just roads. That would be easy enough with dual numbers (though I would do it on a replacement as-needed basis rather than a mandate all at once. Gubbmint loves to freakin' spend other peoples' money.)
But a cup of flour is a cup of flower, not 125 grams or 3.1 deciliters.
Aaaah I don't know where I was going with this. Where's pie?
Boy, a lot of comments show people got bent out of shape by the "natural materials" phrase. I loathe new agism and other "natural is good" holiness as much as the next guy, but I didn't sense that at all.
When I read "natural materials", I read, "cheap, easily-available in massive quantities materials". as opposed to current, much more exotic materials.
Seems like they could be heading for legal problems, where sales are, and simultaneously are not, actual sales, depending on which laws they are trying to dodge.
It's not sales to they can dodge warranty and liability laws, but it is sales so they can get money, but it's not so people can't resell discs, but they do anyway, so it is so we will do it, but it's not because we will force you to give us a cut of something you already bought from us, but didn't.
Generally speaking, a libertarian would want to see stuff like this handled as if it were private property, i.e. bought and sold as same. They recommend same with airwaves, and let the market sort it out.
So this is indeed strange behavior. Now if there should be some kind of registered trademark first dibs rights on domain names, protection of IP being a legitimate government function, fair enough, but that's not the way the law is currently.
As a "small-L libertarian type", I don't defend him on this.
Why? Because someone modded down that idiotic screech?
May I assume you will keep your comment in mind and browse at -1 in other topics, because that's the only place you see any remotely libertarian comments on Slashdot nowadays, once the Vox Populitards get done with what they think The People should be permitted, by them, to see.
I thought chronic, poorly-healing wounds were due to poor blood flow. Diabetes wrecks small blood vessels like capillaries, or unconscious people getting bedsores at pressure points.
Unfortunately, because of Republican intransigence in Congress, they haven't been able to build and launch a new bird.
A leftist screed is modded up at Slashdot? WTH.
Let's test. "If it was so damned important, they should have cut something else instead to pay for it."
(High pitched whine starts, rising in volume until skulls threaten to start crackiing). -1 SHUT UP! -1 I Disagree! -1 Threatens my settled worldview11!
Dr. Laura did both when her nudie shots came out. Her lawyers screamed it wan't her, and oh, by the way, she owns the copyright om those photos, so you damned well better not show them!
Creating true randomness is a tricky proposition, and I don't see why its safe to believe that "shining a light through a diffusive glass plate" will generate true randomness.
They claim it passes statistcal analysis tests for true randomness.
I would imagine such tests would also be useful to SETI to detect data transmission distinguishible from random noise. In this way, no decoding is needed to tell if there is information there. A concerted effort could bury non-random bits here and there, one out of millions, and get away with it, but not a general encrypted blob, much less just encoded data nobody is trying to hide.
In any case, it's 10gb, enough for a lifetime of text messages (the complete works of Shakespeare, IIRC, on Project Gutenberg, is only ~80 meg.)
Which then suggests the need for a metric -- how long should they trust a provably secure mechanism against standard spy techniques? Even both ends being locked in silos might not warrant a 10 year lifespan, much less security-through-obscurity of a field agent. Hell, just transmitting large blocks of 100% mathematically random data is a red flag. "One-time pad in use! Something very interesting going on here!"
"teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-parties (such as businesses or advertisers) accessing their data"
We worry about business, which is an irrelevancy, when compared to government tracking everything, which has been repeatedly shown, well, just look at history. The levels of misuse are not even close. Wherefore this rhetorically virulant boogeyman about companies, when government does magnitudes worse?
Three hundred twenty three sausages on the biergarten grill. Definitely, yes, three hundred twenty three sausages on the biergarten grill. Three hundred twenty three, yes, definitely.
> Once again, a woman is to blame. It's usually either that, or money.
It's all, all of it, about women. Every male congressman, every president, every mayor, dictator, mafia boss or lackey, all of it.
Even meek scientists are driven by internal desires to excede, tied to alpha male behavior and feathering one's nest.
Even downmods here, of the "I disagree!" butthurt type, are males defending their online social tribal group, subconsciously, you guessed it! Feathering their mental emotional nest to appear more alpha, like some bushman coming proudly back to camp with a warthog on his spear.
A house builder typically gives 1 year to find problems. After that year, you do a walkthrough with them and show them a list.
So give support for bugs for a limited time, and then that's that. Bigger companies with ongoing multiple contracts or a desire for more work would be more flexible. Also, slightly different features are not bugs, but sometimes you cover those,!too, for the same reason.
Ironically, I think it would be easier for an independent contractor to fix their own bugs since they could do it on their own time if necessary. If you bid poorly such that that is costly, over and over after you should have learned, stop being unethical.
It's a continuous curve. If it took 10 minutes, few would stick around. If instantaneous, everybody would, and only quality of results would matter. For each fraction of a second delay in-between, you get a nice sine curve of people giving up.
This was the source of an interesting analysis that forcing airlines to give free baby seats would cost more lives than it saved by driving a small fraction of people to take the car instead. You can't get something for free, and the additional dimes added to everybody else's tickets would, incredulously, drive some, subconsciously, to take a car instead, crash, and die, as car travel is much more dangerous. For each penny of increased price, you get a diminishing number of buyers. With an annual granularity of hundreds of millions, this could be tens of thousands of people at each penny at the price points.
Meanwhile, free baby seats (where babies could be strapped in instead of being held) would have only made a difference in two known cases, and one of those the baby survived anyway by flying into an overhead bin.
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It's not just roads. That would be easy enough with dual numbers (though I would do it on a replacement as-needed basis rather than a mandate all at once. Gubbmint loves to freakin' spend other peoples' money.)
But a cup of flour is a cup of flower, not 125 grams or 3.1 deciliters.
Aaaah I don't know where I was going with this. Where's pie?
Boy, a lot of comments show people got bent out of shape by the "natural materials" phrase. I loathe new agism and other "natural is good" holiness as much as the next guy, but I didn't sense that at all.
When I read "natural materials", I read, "cheap, easily-available in massive quantities materials". as opposed to current, much more exotic materials.
Actually, let's see them ignore letters from lawyers in the inevitable class action lawsuit.
"77 terabytes last month. WTF are you doing?"
"I run a small web site that was quoted and slashdotted."
Seems like they could be heading for legal problems, where sales are, and simultaneously are not, actual sales, depending on which laws they are trying to dodge.
It's not sales to they can dodge warranty and liability laws, but it is sales so they can get money, but it's not so people can't resell discs, but they do anyway, so it is so we will do it, but it's not because we will force you to give us a cut of something you already bought from us, but didn't.
Generally speaking, a libertarian would want to see stuff like this handled as if it were private property, i.e. bought and sold as same. They recommend same with airwaves, and let the market sort it out.
So this is indeed strange behavior. Now if there should be some kind of registered trademark first dibs rights on domain names, protection of IP being a legitimate government function, fair enough, but that's not the way the law is currently.
As a "small-L libertarian type", I don't defend him on this.
Why? Because someone modded down that idiotic screech?
May I assume you will keep your comment in mind and browse at -1 in other topics, because that's the only place you see any remotely libertarian comments on Slashdot nowadays, once the Vox Populitards get done with what they think The People should be permitted, by them, to see.
Must be nice to have an infinite supply of the right colors.
Wait, shouldn't it be UKbps?
I thought chronic, poorly-healing wounds were due to poor blood flow. Diabetes wrecks small blood vessels like capillaries, or unconscious people getting bedsores at pressure points.
You ask whether people who hang at slashdot are closer to a hot black-haired babe or a short ubernerd with Little Professor Syndrome?
(Insert picture of Amy Poehler at SNL. desk here) Really?
And go back to 2008 spending levels -- you know, when people were dying in the streets?
A leftist screed is modded up at Slashdot? WTH.
Let's test. "If it was so damned important, they should have cut something else instead to pay for it."
(High pitched whine starts, rising in volume until skulls threaten to start crackiing). -1 SHUT UP! -1 I Disagree! -1 Threatens my settled worldview11!
Dr. Laura did both when her nudie shots came out. Her lawyers screamed it wan't her, and oh, by the way, she owns the copyright om those photos, so you damned well better not show them!
Welp, it took about 5 years.
I would assume nickle is (or was at the time) worth more than copper, its size vs. a penny reflecting value of 5 copper slugs.
They claim it passes statistcal analysis tests for true randomness.
I would imagine such tests would also be useful to SETI to detect data transmission distinguishible from random noise. In this way, no decoding is needed to tell if there is information there. A concerted effort could bury non-random bits here and there, one out of millions, and get away with it, but not a general encrypted blob, much less just encoded data nobody is trying to hide.
In any case, it's 10gb, enough for a lifetime of text messages (the complete works of Shakespeare, IIRC, on Project Gutenberg, is only ~80 meg.)
Which then suggests the need for a metric -- how long should they trust a provably secure mechanism against standard spy techniques? Even both ends being locked in silos might not warrant a 10 year lifespan, much less security-through-obscurity of a field agent. Hell, just transmitting large blocks of 100% mathematically random data is a red flag. "One-time pad in use! Something very interesting going on here!"
Well.
We worry about business, which is an irrelevancy, when compared to government tracking everything, which has been repeatedly shown, well, just look at history. The levels of misuse are not even close. Wherefore this rhetorically virulant boogeyman about companies, when government does magnitudes worse?
Three hundred twenty three sausages on the biergarten grill. Definitely, yes, three hundred twenty three sausages on the biergarten grill. Three hundred twenty three, yes, definitely.
> Once again, a woman is to blame. It's usually either that, or money.
It's all, all of it, about women. Every male congressman, every president, every mayor, dictator, mafia boss or lackey, all of it.
Even meek scientists are driven by internal desires to excede, tied to alpha male behavior and feathering one's nest.
Even downmods here, of the "I disagree!" butthurt type, are males defending their online social tribal group, subconsciously, you guessed it! Feathering their mental emotional nest to appear more alpha, like some bushman coming proudly back to camp with a warthog on his spear.
I did not click the clickthru on the EULA, Your Honor. That was the guy in the parallel unoverse.
It is useful as a first generation experiment. Only in comic book land does it take off whizzing.
And then shortly it comes alive, with evil intent. No, no! Don't go after Lois Lane! The writers will never let you win in the end!
If you want to force Ant Man to rape Plasic Man's wife in the meantime, I guess that's OK.
A house builder typically gives 1 year to find problems. After that year, you do a walkthrough with them and show them a list.
So give support for bugs for a limited time, and then that's that. Bigger companies with ongoing multiple contracts or a desire for more work would be more flexible. Also, slightly different features are not bugs, but sometimes you cover those,!too, for the same reason.
Ironically, I think it would be easier for an independent contractor to fix their own bugs since they could do it on their own time if necessary. If you bid poorly such that that is costly, over and over after you should have learned, stop being unethical.
Or plutonium nyborg.
It's a continuous curve. If it took 10 minutes, few would stick around. If instantaneous, everybody would, and only quality of results would matter. For each fraction of a second delay in-between, you get a nice sine curve of people giving up.
This was the source of an interesting analysis that forcing airlines to give free baby seats would cost more lives than it saved by driving a small fraction of people to take the car instead. You can't get something for free, and the additional dimes added to everybody else's tickets would, incredulously, drive some, subconsciously, to take a car instead, crash, and die, as car travel is much more dangerous. For each penny of increased price, you get a diminishing number of buyers. With an annual granularity of hundreds of millions, this could be tens of thousands of people at each penny at the price points.
Meanwhile, free baby seats (where babies could be strapped in instead of being held) would have only made a difference in two known cases, and one of those the baby survived anyway by flying into an overhead bin.