maybe an hour before someone comes up with a tool to ZOT that name and email address right out of there. Maybe it'll even put the new one in. Pride of ownership and all that.
Yeah, and if you were not paranoid enough, please note that this is only a honeypot, the real personal information is stored encrypted using applecrypt® and hidden elsewhere in the file. It includes your medical record and any past convictions for copyright infringement. Any new MP3 player, including the ipod, will check that the encrypted email address is the same as the non encrypted one and play a message from the RIAA if they are not.
I say, teach the kids to drive as early as possible. I don't mean when they're 16 or 18, I mean mean much earlier. They learn by example. If you keep shouting "get the fuck off the road moron" when taking him to daycare, guess what will be his/her first words.
Same thing with alcohol, drugs, sex, fire arms. The more you make it a big deal, the more they'll be attracted to it when they rebel. Teach them early and yes, display a playboy calendar in you computer room.
I'm also curious to know how MS invests in the local economy. To me, local means city or town. So maybe they sell professional services through local reps but to me this is really a profit center that can't practically be served by Redmond because of language or cultural barriers.
It would be interesting to see a ratio between local investments by MS and "piracy" rates based on WGA data.
I think a faster smaller iPod Touch might put a large dent into the sub-notebook market. All Apple has to do is give it's iPod Touch a better keyboard, more speed and more battery life, hence the larger size.
If you understand symmetry, and that a symmetrical object is derived from another symmetrical object (for example, a drop of water falls in a pond, generating symmetrical waves. This means that the drop is also symmetrical. By extension, our sun is symmetrical, therefore what ever created it also is.
If you go back far enough, you'll find that the event that we call the big bang, was symmetrical and therefore likely had a centre. That centre is not in our universe the same way that this dude standing on the balloon can see its centre.
My point is that you are correct in stating that our universe doesn't have a centre (or a place from where it grew) from our perspective. However, if you're in a higher dimension, you will see in fact this event as a simple drop of water falling in a cosmological pond and it will have a centre relative to other drops.
It will be interesting to see what will happen in Canada as the governing party is in a minority and likely to be overturned by the centrist coalition if they spit out absurd legislation. However, I think the deeper issue is Canada's commitment to the WIPO treaty. It might be time to review that commitment and ensure it takes into account the new reality of on-line media. Or we could just do like Taiwan and pull-out of the treaty.
I think it's really just a question of genetics and natural selection. Selective breeding is the likely answer. Now take off your lab coats and start towars (wherever smart girls hang out). $1: if anyone knows where that is, you have evolved a mutation that might save us all!
Dude, ethanol/alcohol does not conduct electricity. So technically speaking, your computer would not short-out if you pour alcohol on it. However, it has to be fairly pure ethanol. Otherwise you will in fact cause a short but it would be the water contained in the drink doing this.
There is no center to the universe. None. Nowhere. It doesn't exist.
Well there could be center but relative to what? A balloon has a center but if your frame of reference is the surface of the balloon, then there isn't one. Especially if it expands forever. However if you're the one which blew the balloon (no creationism intended) you know very well that there is a center.
Black holes don't output anything yet as the temperature of the universe is higher than the temperature of blackholes. When the reverse is true, as the universe expands and cools, then the blackholes will start to emit radiation [ref. Leonard Susskind]. That being said, black holes might have a similar purpose as batteries do. Just nor sure what they will power in a few hundred billion years.
This depends if you're on the Susskins or Hawking side of the conjecture. According to the article, all black holes accrete (ie suck) big time and will continue to do so for a long time. We should call this the Jonas brothers effect at it relates to matter the same way they related to teenage girls.
Don't forget to create a wikipedia page and a myspace page of the band. Make sure the name matches what's on the CD. That will make you much more legit. Enjoy your success!
Funny you mention pot. I had a dream about chicks looking to me to get high. This must have been a transmission from a different universe. LHC need to help us find this universe for the sanity of the human race (well that's what will be in the business case).
Since we're waaaaay off topic anyways... You probably mean evolution through natural selection. Hopefully you'll reproduce in sufficient quantity to prove this theory is right.
This is not meant to be a 'cloak of invisibility'(D&D/RPG style), nor a 'cloaking device'(Romulan style) device, just (initially) a means to 'clean up' some lab tests.
And I thought this is why all that dark matter, apparently so prevalent in the universe, is so difficult to detect.
No, no my point was that we're really at the dawn of knowledge when it comes to tapping the potential of AI. Sorry if I wasn't clear. Granted, OCR does work but within narrow parameters, same with speach recognition.
But your point in interesting. Aren't we simply an assembly of different smaller components which we call human? A bit like this other assembly of components standing in front of me which I call a computer. Part of those components is the "self awareness" which I eluded to. Maybe my computer is self aware, I can't tell because it can't express it in a way I recognise but neither does my cat.
Sorry if I'm redundant but it's one thing to say there is a link and another to say it is the cause. There are plenty of people who are inherently violent and play video games.
My point was that if we didn't know how human memory works, how can we replicate it?
It's like Leonardo da Vinci when he tied to build a bird-like device in order to fly. It took, many centuries later, some insight into aerodynamics, to figure out that flying humans would not dress in bird suits in order to fly.
Now if ANN have been around for only 10 years, we might still have a few more decades (if not centuries) to go before we better understand human memory and build something useful. I don't want to minimize the developments of tools such as Dragon Naturally Speaking but I can't really have an argument with the application or ask it why it exists.
I see here a possible method of improving AI. If we can indeed model synthetic neurons to perform in a similar way, we might have the key to designing more efficient captcha breaking systems.
I suppose the good thing about the benchmark is its non biased evidence. Who knows if it will serve to convince someone to use Ubuntu/Linux or not but at least, those who needs to, will have something to use. Provided of course the source is credible to all...or until Vista obtains a countering non biased benchmark. No I didn't read TFA but unless the difference on a modern PC causes delays of more than 10 seconds, most people using it for business productivity or for home use wont care.
I think for a picture of something that's 400 million light year away, it's pretty sharp. If you look carefully, you can even see the face of the amazing Mephistopheles at the bottom of the bluish galaxy (the orangy part). Just in time for Haloween.
I see. Therefore, we should disqualify Obama as Commander in Chief as well because he never served in the military.
I guess he'll start serving on his first day as commander in chief.
I'm not sure why to some it's such a big deal for presidents to serve in the military in order to be acceptable. The US is not alone but look at the company it keeps. It entreches a culture of agression in the country's constitution by requiring a leadership which has been to war or has at least served in an institution which at best attempts intimidate other countries.
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This guy (Gunny Ermey) would be out of a job.
maybe an hour before someone comes up with a tool to ZOT that name and email address right out of there. Maybe it'll even put the new one in. Pride of ownership and all that.
Yeah, and if you were not paranoid enough, please note that this is only a honeypot, the real personal information is stored encrypted using applecrypt® and hidden elsewhere in the file. It includes your medical record and any past convictions for copyright infringement. Any new MP3 player, including the ipod, will check that the encrypted email address is the same as the non encrypted one and play a message from the RIAA if they are not.
I say, teach the kids to drive as early as possible. I don't mean when they're 16 or 18, I mean mean much earlier. They learn by example. If you keep shouting "get the fuck off the road moron" when taking him to daycare, guess what will be his/her first words.
Same thing with alcohol, drugs, sex, fire arms. The more you make it a big deal, the more they'll be attracted to it when they rebel. Teach them early and yes, display a playboy calendar in you computer room.
"I think I need a root canal. I definitely need a long, slow root canal."
I'm also curious to know how MS invests in the local economy. To me, local means city or town. So maybe they sell professional services through local reps but to me this is really a profit center that can't practically be served by Redmond because of language or cultural barriers.
It would be interesting to see a ratio between local investments by MS and "piracy" rates based on WGA data.
I think a faster smaller iPod Touch might put a large dent into the sub-notebook market. All Apple has to do is give it's iPod Touch a better keyboard, more speed and more battery life, hence the larger size.
If you understand symmetry, and that a symmetrical object is derived from another symmetrical object (for example, a drop of water falls in a pond, generating symmetrical waves. This means that the drop is also symmetrical. By extension, our sun is symmetrical, therefore what ever created it also is.
If you go back far enough, you'll find that the event that we call the big bang, was symmetrical and therefore likely had a centre. That centre is not in our universe the same way that this dude standing on the balloon can see its centre.
My point is that you are correct in stating that our universe doesn't have a centre (or a place from where it grew) from our perspective. However, if you're in a higher dimension, you will see in fact this event as a simple drop of water falling in a cosmological pond and it will have a centre relative to other drops.
Great job Michael keep it up!
It will be interesting to see what will happen in Canada as the governing party is in a minority and likely to be overturned by the centrist coalition if they spit out absurd legislation. However, I think the deeper issue is Canada's commitment to the WIPO treaty. It might be time to review that commitment and ensure it takes into account the new reality of on-line media. Or we could just do like Taiwan and pull-out of the treaty.
I think it's really just a question of genetics and natural selection. Selective breeding is the likely answer. Now take off your lab coats and start towars (wherever smart girls hang out).
$1: if anyone knows where that is, you have evolved a mutation that might save us all!
oh, and I thought they were in fact censoring "Christian nutters" from the unaware youth.
Dude, ethanol/alcohol does not conduct electricity. So technically speaking, your computer would not short-out if you pour alcohol on it. However, it has to be fairly pure ethanol. Otherwise you will in fact cause a short but it would be the water contained in the drink doing this.
Can I make blow up with a simple SMS message? Reminds me of a "The Broken" episode. More thermite!
There is no center to the universe. None. Nowhere. It doesn't exist.
Well there could be center but relative to what? A balloon has a center but if your frame of reference is the surface of the balloon, then there isn't one. Especially if it expands forever. However if you're the one which blew the balloon (no creationism intended) you know very well that there is a center.
Black holes don't output anything yet as the temperature of the universe is higher than the temperature of blackholes. When the reverse is true, as the universe expands and cools, then the blackholes will start to emit radiation [ref. Leonard Susskind]. That being said, black holes might have a similar purpose as batteries do. Just nor sure what they will power in a few hundred billion years.
This depends if you're on the Susskins or Hawking side of the conjecture. According to the article, all black holes accrete (ie suck) big time and will continue to do so for a long time. We should call this the Jonas brothers effect at it relates to matter the same way they related to teenage girls.
Don't forget to create a wikipedia page and a myspace page of the band. Make sure the name matches what's on the CD. That will make you much more legit. Enjoy your success!
Funny you mention pot. I had a dream about chicks looking to me to get high. This must have been a transmission from a different universe. LHC need to help us find this universe for the sanity of the human race (well that's what will be in the business case).
Since we're waaaaay off topic anyways... You probably mean evolution through natural selection. Hopefully you'll reproduce in sufficient quantity to prove this theory is right.
This is not meant to be a 'cloak of invisibility'(D&D/RPG style), nor a 'cloaking device'(Romulan style) device, just (initially) a means to 'clean up' some lab tests.
And I thought this is why all that dark matter, apparently so prevalent in the universe, is so difficult to detect.
No, no my point was that we're really at the dawn of knowledge when it comes to tapping the potential of AI. Sorry if I wasn't clear. Granted, OCR does work but within narrow parameters, same with speach recognition.
But your point in interesting. Aren't we simply an assembly of different smaller components which we call human? A bit like this other assembly of components standing in front of me which I call a computer. Part of those components is the "self awareness" which I eluded to. Maybe my computer is self aware, I can't tell because it can't express it in a way I recognise but neither does my cat.
Sorry if I'm redundant but it's one thing to say there is a link and another to say it is the cause. There are plenty of people who are inherently violent and play video games.
My point was that if we didn't know how human memory works, how can we replicate it?
It's like Leonardo da Vinci when he tied to build a bird-like device in order to fly. It took, many centuries later, some insight into aerodynamics, to figure out that flying humans would not dress in bird suits in order to fly.
Now if ANN have been around for only 10 years, we might still have a few more decades (if not centuries) to go before we better understand human memory and build something useful. I don't want to minimize the developments of tools such as Dragon Naturally Speaking but I can't really have an argument with the application or ask it why it exists.
I see here a possible method of improving AI. If we can indeed model synthetic neurons to perform in a similar way, we might have the key to designing more efficient captcha breaking systems.
I suppose the good thing about the benchmark is its non biased evidence. Who knows if it will serve to convince someone to use Ubuntu/Linux or not but at least, those who needs to, will have something to use. Provided of course the source is credible to all...or until Vista obtains a countering non biased benchmark.
No I didn't read TFA but unless the difference on a modern PC causes delays of more than 10 seconds, most people using it for business productivity or for home use wont care.
I think for a picture of something that's 400 million light year away, it's pretty sharp. If you look carefully, you can even see the face of the amazing Mephistopheles at the bottom of the bluish galaxy (the orangy part). Just in time for Haloween.
I see. Therefore, we should disqualify Obama as Commander in Chief as well because he never served in the military.
I guess he'll start serving on his first day as commander in chief.
I'm not sure why to some it's such a big deal for presidents to serve in the military in order to be acceptable. The US is not alone but look at the company it keeps. It entreches a culture of agression in the country's constitution by requiring a leadership which has been to war or has at least served in an institution which at best attempts intimidate other countries.