There really isn't much point in doing things like Seti@home with them, as a couple of years down the road, everything you did before with previous cards can be doubled in a few months with the latest ones. 3800 cuda cores? jfc why bother?
It isn't about security. It's about tying together your surfing on disparate web sites into one big automated database to sell you targetted advertising.
That's a good question. They have to make sure this isn't a print where a very large foot slid in mud (this may or may not be obvious to footprint specialists) and that it isn't the diseased or deformed foot of some 1-off, if very large, animal.
Looking at all the large sauropods so far, assuming from the drawings they have examples of how big their feet are, and thus are accurate, this could be freaking huge.
If you look at the biggest known dinosaurs, in the first picture overlaying some, the largest two are of dubious provenance, and their feet aren't even as big as this print.
If a simple 50% majority was sufficient to join, then a 50% majority is sufficient to leave.
Neither should be the case as turning over so much power should be a supermajority decision of people in a nation (because if you can't convince most people that such a big change is a good idea, you have no business doing it.) But somehow people are trained to believe a simple majority is a godlike authority instead of an abstraction of might makes right, which it should be treated as.
ISPs with at least 100,000 customers will have 12 months after rules are published in the Federal Register to comply with the customer notice and choice requirements, while ISPs with fewer than 100,000 customers will be given an extra 12 months. ISPs will have 90 days to comply with new data security requirements and six months to comply with new data breach notification requirements.
Oh look at that. It's questionable whether any had even implemented it yet.
So you're saying Obama jammed in a regulation he knew they would have to repeal, right before he left office so he wouldn't have to deal with it, to get brownie points, and drooling cogs in the machine are dutifully acting as predicted in screaming how bad it is to go back to the 8 years Obama was fine with this?
I haven't seen anything this cynical since Clinton introduced ridiculously over-reaching anti-arsenic levels in water literally in December before he left office, so Bush would have to take the heat for reversing them.
Surprise! The cogs won that one and the nation had the honor of paying billions for pointless upgrades to the water system.
The problem is, statistics don't matter if an automated car kills someone in a situation that a human wouldn't have. One day if they are 100x safer, I would hope they would be safe in all situations that a human would be.
This is arguably why the FDA kills more than it saves. Who studies how many lives are saved by medical advancements and compares it to those saved by preventing bad medicine from getting to market. What is an extra 5 years on average of delaying good drugs vs. bad ones getting out too soon then stopped after they become a problem?
Nobody studies the tens of thousands dying because a heart med gets to market late vs. a few dozens who might die if it gets to market too soon.
Did you type that on iPhone or android or PC? You would have none of that relying on communism, which institutionalizes the dictatorship you lambaste.
There is no such thing as real communism that has never been tried. It is a dictatorship at its core. People are not free to satisfy the needs or desires of others, so it will always lag and fail at even the basics.
They namedrop a bunch of comic stuff to pull in the comic fans, then pee all over then with idiocy like the cities are next to each other, and the throwing out of not just the modern business genius Lex, but even the older, pure evil science genius Lex.
Back then he was right. Art in visual design is not art in expression of gameplay. Most games just repeated the same gamsplay over and over and over, changing a monster every 15 minutes of play.
He's still largely right today. A series of cut scenes played end to end might make for a shitty B movie, but that isn't a video game. That is a movie intertwined with one.
Let's make a new Plinkett/Bechtel type test right here. Describe artistic game expression without relying on irrelevant (to the medium) things like pretty backgrounds, models, or movie cut scenes.
She falls into the same trap that most do who think about this problem -- that the super-universe in which our simulation is embedded has physics anything like what is being simulated for us (or with us as a side effect.)
If it can do uncounted googleplex operations per second, with similar abailability of storage space (or equivalent for an analog computer!) then none of her speed concerns are valid. Indeed, the cosmic speed limit here is a curious oddity, perhaps deliberately ala Vinge's Zones of Thought.
As for Bell's inequality and hidden variables, again, if it is all simulated, none of that matters. Hidden variables is only an issue if you need to maintain Einstein's concept of reality, that there are real objects "out there" with real, measurable properties. If one gives up on that reality, one can base quantum mechanics on a deeper classical realism with no problems whatsoever.
But even that need not be the ultimate reality. But her concerns are only issues if one, needlessly, and I submit oddly, wants to maintain that that parent computer's physics is anything like the physics being sinulated.
So, instead of popping in a card and 4 digit pin, I have to fumble around with an app then punch in a clumsy, 8-digit ramdom code I will have to mentally triple-check?
What, exactly, is scandalous about finding out that the CIA hoards and exploits vulnerabilities in software for strategic gains of the USA vs other nations?
Are you surprised that the CIA is actually doing it's job?
What's scandalous is the potential for misuse of these by agents to spy on people they shouldn't, like Americans without warrants, the famed LOVINT where people obsess on their crushes, and agents side-working for this or that politician. You don't think a guy like G. Gordon Liddy wouldn't happily abuse stuff like that?
Of course, it's all well-logged and reviewed by elected Congressmen on the security committees, along with necessary warrants or security letters. Ya, I'm sure it is. It must be, right?
Also, "We are using our copyright to prevent you from using it because the government is mad at this kind of speech" should get thrown out of court with the judge ordering an assbeating by a bouncer.
Of course it's legal under the first amendment. The only real issue is copyrights, and there are already judements floating around that copyrights are to secure profits, and not to be used to prevent works from being used (though this has yet to make it's way to the Supreme Court.) One guy refused to let someone he didn't like use his song (even though he was paying the standard license for it.) The court said screw you, you can't do that. Copyright is to protect your profits, not to let you stop people from using it.
As for the Disabilities Act, well, "Congress shall make no law", end of story. They might be able to get away with it on campus as an official thing (though this should fail, too) but offering it to the general public, or even university students, sorry censors. You still have no sway in the US.
However, NASA has studied the audio recording over and over, and found no evidence that there's an 'a' ever uttered, and plenty of evidence that there simply isn't the time for him to have said what he claims he said.
Humans have notoriously terrible memories, we remember more of what we want to, not what actually happened.
Say it yourself. It's easy to get sloppy and think you are saying "for a man", yet it comes out sound like "for man". He probably spoke it in exactly that manner.
Anyone who has that kind of money in China has "ties to leading families of the Communist Party" - that's how they got the fucking money, or at least got to keep it.
Well, duh. That's why they went into power in the first place, and continue to do so in most, if not all, countries. Even the west they throw out tidbits to the population, but behind closed doors, money changes hands (unofficially, or officially through donations) and this or that regulatory burden or law gets changed. That's why they go into power everywhere.
This worldview has yet to fail in its massive explanatory and predictive power.
No, they were found guilty of not paying their, wink, "tax", so officials used the antitrust laws not for the purpose apoplectic big business haters espouse, but for their real purpose: to harm businesses that don't play the game.
It's about time. I've been whining about this for 2 years now. To hell with winning the fastest script prize when you grind everything to a halt. (This is the fault of terrible testing mags/sites who weight shit wrongly.)
It has reached critical mass -- CNN.com takes forever due to massive advertising overlays and chatty stuff. You click the close box, irritated, and it takes 5s to close.
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There really isn't much point in doing things like Seti@home with them, as a couple of years down the road, everything you did before with previous cards can be doubled in a few months with the latest ones. 3800 cuda cores? jfc why bother?
It isn't about security. It's about tying together your surfing on disparate web sites into one big automated database to sell you targetted advertising.
Phlogiston! Luminiferous Aether! Dark energy! You guys goofed when you ruled out spirits and gremlins motivating everything.
That's a good question. They have to make sure this isn't a print where a very large foot slid in mud (this may or may not be obvious to footprint specialists) and that it isn't the diseased or deformed foot of some 1-off, if very large, animal.
Looking at all the large sauropods so far, assuming from the drawings they have examples of how big their feet are, and thus are accurate, this could be freaking huge.
If you look at the biggest known dinosaurs, in the first picture overlaying some, the largest two are of dubious provenance, and their feet aren't even as big as this print.
If a simple 50% majority was sufficient to join, then a 50% majority is sufficient to leave.
Neither should be the case as turning over so much power should be a supermajority decision of people in a nation (because if you can't convince most people that such a big change is a good idea, you have no business doing it.) But somehow people are trained to believe a simple majority is a godlike authority instead of an abstraction of might makes right, which it should be treated as.
Oh look at that. It's questionable whether any had even implemented it yet.
So you're saying Obama jammed in a regulation he knew they would have to repeal, right before he left office so he wouldn't have to deal with it, to get brownie points, and drooling cogs in the machine are dutifully acting as predicted in screaming how bad it is to go back to the 8 years Obama was fine with this?
I haven't seen anything this cynical since Clinton introduced ridiculously over-reaching anti-arsenic levels in water literally in December before he left office, so Bush would have to take the heat for reversing them.
Surprise! The cogs won that one and the nation had the honor of paying billions for pointless upgrades to the water system.
The problem is, statistics don't matter if an automated car kills someone in a situation that a human wouldn't have. One day if they are 100x safer, I would hope they would be safe in all situations that a human would be.
This is arguably why the FDA kills more than it saves. Who studies how many lives are saved by medical advancements and compares it to those saved by preventing bad medicine from getting to market. What is an extra 5 years on average of delaying good drugs vs. bad ones getting out too soon then stopped after they become a problem?
Nobody studies the tens of thousands dying because a heart med gets to market late vs. a few dozens who might die if it gets to market too soon.
Did you type that on iPhone or android or PC? You would have none of that relying on communism, which institutionalizes the dictatorship you lambaste.
There is no such thing as real communism that has never been tried. It is a dictatorship at its core. People are not free to satisfy the needs or desires of others, so it will always lag and fail at even the basics.
They namedrop a bunch of comic stuff to pull in the comic fans, then pee all over then with idiocy like the cities are next to each other, and the throwing out of not just the modern business genius Lex, but even the older, pure evil science genius Lex.
Ultraviolet was, ironically, wrecked by their TV re-edit that got rid of the deservedly-mocked over-mothering of her for the violin kid.
Yet that was exactly what makes it a cult classic. Whoever owns it, restore the theatrical release version!
Ebert was way out on his own in thinking quality and writing. Siskel was the only one near him.
Everyone else was a pretender to the throne, the Joes and Curley-Joes to the Three Stooges.
Back then he was right. Art in visual design is not art in expression of gameplay. Most games just repeated the same gamsplay over and over and over, changing a monster every 15 minutes of play.
He's still largely right today. A series of cut scenes played end to end might make for a shitty B movie, but that isn't a video game. That is a movie intertwined with one.
Let's make a new Plinkett/Bechtel type test right here. Describe artistic game expression without relying on irrelevant (to the medium) things like pretty backgrounds, models, or movie cut scenes.
Where is the gameplay beef?
I have used close-to-right only once, a long time ago. Here are two similar things I currently often do:
1. Close all -- just click the little close box. Saves a few clicks over the close all tabs.
2. Close all but one -- grab the tab and pull it out into another window, then alt-tab back and click the close box on the previous window.
Easy, faster, and completely intuitive.
She falls into the same trap that most do who think about this problem -- that the super-universe in which our simulation is embedded has physics anything like what is being simulated for us (or with us as a side effect.)
If it can do uncounted googleplex operations per second, with similar abailability of storage space (or equivalent for an analog computer!) then none of her speed concerns are valid. Indeed, the cosmic speed limit here is a curious oddity, perhaps deliberately ala Vinge's Zones of Thought.
As for Bell's inequality and hidden variables, again, if it is all simulated, none of that matters. Hidden variables is only an issue if you need to maintain Einstein's concept of reality, that there are real objects "out there" with real, measurable properties. If one gives up on that reality, one can base quantum mechanics on a deeper classical realism with no problems whatsoever.
But even that need not be the ultimate reality. But her concerns are only issues if one, needlessly, and I submit oddly, wants to maintain that that parent computer's physics is anything like the physics being sinulated.
So, instead of popping in a card and 4 digit pin, I have to fumble around with an app then punch in a clumsy, 8-digit ramdom code I will have to mentally triple-check?
Might I suggest "The Inmates Are Running The Asylum"?
To borrow from the book, bank card + computer = computer
Spy scandal?
What, exactly, is scandalous about finding out that the CIA hoards and exploits vulnerabilities in software for strategic gains of the USA vs other nations?
Are you surprised that the CIA is actually doing it's job?
What's scandalous is the potential for misuse of these by agents to spy on people they shouldn't, like Americans without warrants, the famed LOVINT where people obsess on their crushes, and agents side-working for this or that politician. You don't think a guy like G. Gordon Liddy wouldn't happily abuse stuff like that?
Of course, it's all well-logged and reviewed by elected Congressmen on the security committees, along with necessary warrants or security letters. Ya, I'm sure it is. It must be, right?
Also, "We are using our copyright to prevent you from using it because the government is mad at this kind of speech" should get thrown out of court with the judge ordering an assbeating by a bouncer.
Of course it's legal under the first amendment. The only real issue is copyrights, and there are already judements floating around that copyrights are to secure profits, and not to be used to prevent works from being used (though this has yet to make it's way to the Supreme Court.) One guy refused to let someone he didn't like use his song (even though he was paying the standard license for it.) The court said screw you, you can't do that. Copyright is to protect your profits, not to let you stop people from using it.
As for the Disabilities Act, well, "Congress shall make no law", end of story. They might be able to get away with it on campus as an official thing (though this should fail, too) but offering it to the general public, or even university students, sorry censors. You still have no sway in the US.
However, NASA has studied the audio recording over and over, and found no evidence that there's an 'a' ever uttered, and plenty of evidence that there simply isn't the time for him to have said what he claims he said.
Humans have notoriously terrible memories, we remember more of what we want to, not what actually happened.
Say it yourself. It's easy to get sloppy and think you are saying "for a man", yet it comes out sound like "for man". He probably spoke it in exactly that manner.
Anyone who has that kind of money in China has "ties to leading families of the Communist Party" - that's how they got the fucking money, or at least got to keep it.
Well, duh. That's why they went into power in the first place, and continue to do so in most, if not all, countries. Even the west they throw out tidbits to the population, but behind closed doors, money changes hands (unofficially, or officially through donations) and this or that regulatory burden or law gets changed. That's why they go into power everywhere.
This worldview has yet to fail in its massive explanatory and predictive power.
No, they were found guilty of not paying their, wink, "tax", so officials used the antitrust laws not for the purpose apoplectic big business haters espouse, but for their real purpose: to harm businesses that don't play the game.
This cynicism born from reality.
It's about time. I've been whining about this for 2 years now. To hell with winning the fastest script prize when you grind everything to a halt. (This is the fault of terrible testing mags/sites who weight shit wrongly.)
It has reached critical mass -- CNN.com takes forever due to massive advertising overlays and chatty stuff. You click the close box, irritated, and it takes 5s to close.
It will be gross without fat. You like the fat, not the fatless meat.
Most high foreign officials keep money safely in US banks even as they decry how ebul the US is.