Similarly if you are a school district, the first thing you cut is bus service, which irritates the hell out of parents, who now have to drive their brats to school.
It means there should be, in theory, an algorithm that is substantially better than exponential explosion, which, in the case of long-number, almost-prime cryptography, means something substantially better than "try all possibilities", which is where we are now.
One of the solutions to the Fermi Paradox is there is some feature of physics that is trivially easy for a disgruntled sentient to misuse and kill everybody.
Regions with more radiation generate more mutations, allowing for faster exploring of the evolutionary gradient descent space. Interesting observation that this influence is not static.
BTW this is similar to "simulated annealing", a technique to help an organism trapped in a local minimum escape the well so it can find a deeper one.
Actually, he's probably on the fast track to Grandmaster status.
Not only are his stories innovative and entertaining, his prose is almost Mark Twain-like in its clever humor and quick wit.
See Cryptonomicon for many excellent examples of this. One of the biggest claims against SF is the mundane writing skills in otherwise fantastic stories. That absolutely does not apply to him.
Nobody says what they did isn't illegal (presumably, under other laws).
They're saying it's like having a law making it illegal for someone off the street to walk into a bank vault and take money, then trying to charge the teller under that same law even thoug she has legitimate access.
It wasn't the taking, but the taking when you don't have access. The law is poorly written and was rejected. Good.
When the business model is "Say one thing and hope people don't notice something else is going on", that's fraud.
See also banks charging $30 for overdraft on $10 or $30/day on overdraft if you should decline, or CC companies crossing their fingers you get into financial riskier categories so theu can stick it to you under the lie that it is to compensate for your higher risk.
If the actual business model hides behind boilerplate that has nothing to do with why they cross their fingers and hope, it is fraud.
Seriously, I don't care what your political persuasion is, government has no business copyrighting its products.
Reminds me of laws written by law firms which were passed and signed, then the law firms claimed the laws were copyright by them and therefore nobody else could publish them.
Switching to neutral is a wonderful Monday morning quartebacking position, but engineers have to engineer a human in an emergency situation.
The hard fact remains thqt the brakes should be designed to overpower a full-on accelerator. If this is done properly, then we would have far fewer incidents. It also gives confidence that many such incidents are people confused and stomping the accelerator.
This itself may be fundamentally wrong. QM could itself be built on a deterministic substrait, but that would be an even greater violation of Einstein's concept of reality, AKA there exist real objects out there with real, measurable properties. Basically our reality would be pushed off two levels deeper to below QM, rather than just one, to QM.
No, the US government is rightly concerned with the Australian government making spurious claims of security problems that harm legitimate competition for money from Australian companies, and is bringing up the issue with he Australian government, which is its job.
'Tis true. Finding a solution proves the hand is winnable. Not finding one does not prove the opposite, unless you examine every possibility.
In a case like this, it suggests that, but does not prove it. Even if the hand can be won, why this particular one is so stubborn is of interest all by itself.
Of course it "defeats the logical hierarchy of current URLs"!
That hierarchy is a quaint anachronism of an earlier design.
See, it turns out the need for independent namespaces for.org and.com and.gov is essentially non-existant.
And the current design wasn't granular enough to proteect regional things which might share the same name with organizations in a dozen different areas.
There's just Pepsi and GM and the US government.
If your computer brain is confused by this just imagine an imaginary superdomain these all belong to called, oh, I don't know, dot newglobalnamespacecom.
The liberty-authority axis is astounding in its explanatory and predictive power in a lot more areas than just speech.
Typical left-right politics just swap subsets for control and for freedom.
Just like gravity and acceleration aren't just similar phenomena, but are in fact the exact same phenomenon, so, too are religion and politics [i]exactly the same phenomenon[/i].
The class action system, like the statutes of limitations, and the 7 year rule for financial documents, is about letting business and people wrap up issues and get on with their lives.
Yes you can opt out, but he government allows businesses to bundle up all claimants in one trial to end the issue as something dragging on for ever and ever. They can wrap it up and be done with it financially, opt-outs wihstanding. . This is a good thing
Sir, we're getting a signal that's tripping our algorithms' alarms.
What is it? Is it a stumbling drunk teen?
No, sir.
Is it a fallen person twitching from a heart attack?
No, sir.
Well, what the hell is it?
Sir, it looks to be a chair in that there are four spots, but it's twitching violently, but unlike a heart attack, it's incredibly regular, about 3 jerks a second. Oh, wait. It stopped. Now they're getting up and walking to the bathroom. Their phone just activated and they're ordering pizza.
I guess it was a false alarm. 352nd time on this campus tonight.
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Similarly if you are a school district, the first thing you cut is bus service, which irritates the hell out of parents, who now have to drive their brats to school.
It means there should be, in theory, an algorithm that is substantially better than exponential explosion, which, in the case of long-number, almost-prime cryptography, means something substantially better than "try all possibilities", which is where we are now.
One of the solutions to the Fermi Paradox is there is some feature of physics that is trivially easy for a disgruntled sentient to misuse and kill everybody.
Regions with more radiation generate more mutations, allowing for faster exploring of the evolutionary gradient descent space. Interesting observation that this influence is not static.
BTW this is similar to "simulated annealing", a technique to help an organism trapped in a local minimum escape the well so it can find a deeper one.
Wow, only 96 comments. I was expecting 96,000 by now.
Eating meat helped early humans reproduce...when it wasn't helping them not reproduce.
With any luck they'll copy it too closely and we can fly it out of their on its maiden voyage.
As more things are invented, there's more things to buy and less to save.
This and more in next month's issue of the economist's magazine, "Duh".
Blackberries?
In a follow-up study, the professor plans to buy 175 Colecovisions to study teens' video game habits.
It's interesting this thread is 2 away from the Neal Stehpenson thread. Go read Cryptonomicon for a fictionalized account of Turing's efforts in WWII.
Actually, he's probably on the fast track to Grandmaster status.
Not only are his stories innovative and entertaining, his prose is almost Mark Twain-like in its clever humor and quick wit.
See Cryptonomicon for many excellent examples of this. One of the biggest claims against SF is the mundane writing skills in otherwise fantastic stories. That absolutely does not apply to him.
Nobody says what they did isn't illegal (presumably, under other laws).
They're saying it's like having a law making it illegal for someone off the street to walk into a bank vault and take money, then trying to charge the teller under that same law even thoug she has legitimate access.
It wasn't the taking, but the taking when you don't have access. The law is poorly written and was rejected. Good.
When the business model is "Say one thing and hope people don't notice something else is going on", that's fraud.
See also banks charging $30 for overdraft on $10 or $30/day on overdraft if you should decline, or CC companies crossing their fingers you get into financial riskier categories so theu can stick it to you under the lie that it is to compensate for your higher risk.
If the actual business model hides behind boilerplate that has nothing to do with why they cross their fingers and hope, it is fraud.
Seriously, I don't care what your political persuasion is, government has no business copyrighting its products.
Reminds me of laws written by law firms which were passed and signed, then the law firms claimed the laws were copyright by them and therefore nobody else could publish them.
Sorry, no.
And I don't mean disable accel. I mean both on, brakes win. Jets are required to pass this test.
Switching to neutral is a wonderful Monday morning quartebacking position, but engineers have to engineer a human in an emergency situation.
The hard fact remains thqt the brakes should be designed to overpower a full-on accelerator. If this is done properly, then we would have far fewer incidents.
It also gives confidence that many such incidents are people confused and stomping the accelerator.
This itself may be fundamentally wrong. QM could itself be built on a deterministic substrait, but that would be an even greater violation of Einstein's concept of reality, AKA there exist real objects out there with real, measurable properties. Basically our reality would be pushed off two levels deeper to below QM, rather than just one, to QM.
No, the US government is rightly concerned with the Australian government making spurious claims of security problems that harm legitimate competition for money from Australian companies, and is bringing up the issue with he Australian government, which is its job.
Trying to avoid becoming the "next Greece" by ensuring they become the next Greece.
Is there no human endeavor that can't be broken to the saddle of the masses' bread-and-circuses consumption?
"Sir, what good is electricity?"
"Senator, in 20 years, you'll be taxing it."
> Baboons Learn To Identify Words
Still Won't Read Words Before Voting On Them
Bada-bing!
'Tis true. Finding a solution proves the hand is winnable. Not finding one does not prove the opposite, unless you examine every possibility.
In a case like this, it suggests that, but does not prove it. Even if the hand can be won, why this particular one is so stubborn is of interest all by itself.
Of course it "defeats the logical hierarchy of current URLs"!
That hierarchy is a quaint anachronism of an earlier design.
See, it turns out the need for independent namespaces for .org and .com and .gov is essentially non-existant.
And the current design wasn't granular enough to proteect regional things which might share the same name with organizations in a dozen different areas.
There's just Pepsi and GM and the US government.
If your computer brain is confused by this just imagine an imaginary superdomain these all belong to called, oh, I don't know, dot newglobalnamespacecom.
How's that?
The liberty-authority axis is astounding in its explanatory and predictive power in a lot more areas than just speech.
Typical left-right politics just swap subsets for control and for freedom.
Just like gravity and acceleration aren't just similar phenomena, but are in fact the exact same phenomenon, so, too are religion and politics [i]exactly the same phenomenon[/i].
The class action system, like the statutes of limitations, and the 7 year rule for financial documents, is about letting business and people wrap up issues and get on with their lives.
Yes you can opt out, but he government allows businesses to bundle up all claimants in one trial to end the issue as something dragging on for ever and ever. They can wrap it up and be done with it financially, opt-outs wihstanding.
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This is a good thing
Sir, we're getting a signal that's tripping our algorithms' alarms.
What is it? Is it a stumbling drunk teen?
No, sir.
Is it a fallen person twitching from a heart attack?
No, sir.
Well, what the hell is it?
Sir, it looks to be a chair in that there are four spots, but it's twitching violently, but unlike a heart attack, it's incredibly regular, about 3 jerks a second. Oh, wait. It stopped. Now they're getting up and walking to the bathroom. Their phone just activated and they're ordering pizza.
I guess it was a false alarm. 352nd time on this campus tonight.