Aft first I thought he was referring to Credit Suisse. Then I thought no, this is an article about Counter Strike. Then perhaps I thought it meant CS gas. Then perhaps, having been betrayed by an uncooperative context, I thought like you it meant Computer Science. But no - lo and behold "CS" stands for "Compressed Sensing", a new algorithm called "CS" by 1) those working on it and 2) those who have absolutely no idea what it is or how it works, but want to sound cool anyway because hey, what's cooler than using an acronym that ABSOLUTELY NO ONE has ever heard of? Forget the fact that this whole language thing is about "communication" and if you start inserting RA into your MF then NWFU!
(RA = Random Acronyms, MF = Message Format, NWFU = No-one Will Fucking Understand)
I'm not saying you will get cancer from a microwave tower. I am pointing out that the argument used above is invalid and does not rule out that microwave towers can cause cancer.
Very well. Expose yourself to direct sunlight 24/7 and let's see how long it takes for you to get skin cancer.
Just because "the basic physics" you mention in your claim point to there being less energy involved than sunlight, this does not eliminate the possibility of risk - especially when sunlight is a KNOWN carcinogen.
This smacks of a lack of nth generational financial planning, not inflation. Inflation proofing is roughly no-risk investing. You cannot expect a whole family to live on a fortune for several generations without contributing to the fortune
I guess you missed the part where I said we have tripled our money? That's not "living off of the interest".
by flooding the system with beneficial bacteria that will compete with the harmful ones for resources and eventually starve them out.
That's all very well in the lab. However in a patient those "resources" also happen to be things the patient's cells need. Guess who also is going to be "starved out". Just my 2 cents worth but don't mind me, I'm just a physician.
On February 21st the United States refused to acknowledge the surrender of Mongolia, claiming that for too long yaks have been infringing on copyrights and patents owned by American cows on mooing and milk production respectively. It announced that yaks are the hallmark of rogue, terrorist nations such as Mongolia, demanded that Mongolia switch its bovines immediately to American cows which could be purchased at reasonable rates from America or it's European partners, and further demanded that Mongolia license the rights to pay the additional fee for milk production and mooing (at discounted herd rates). Additionally the Department of Homeland Security has placed all yaks on the no-fly list.
when so many other fundamental attributes of our universe should be? It seems you think time possesses some magically unknowable characteristics
Well, why don't we drop the science part entirely and study god, or the great purple space goat? Time is not a "thing" you can study, just like "space" is not a thing you can study. Space is a place for the universe to exist. It's the distance between things - molecules, galaxies. Time is simply something for the universe to exist in.
Of course if you're a particle physicist you can invent any theory you want, and invent mysterious new particles to explain away your ideas. However I see billions of dollars being poured into detecting (not actually "doing anything with") neutrinos and Higgs bosons and frankly not much of an ROI. Governments and academia gamble on it because they buy the thing about "what if you could cash in and get a head start on something that produces as much energy as the sun itself!" and say "yeah we don't want to be left out, count me in for $300 million!". But we're paying for all this. And so far projects like the LHC have consumed far more energy than they have produced. I remember hearing that sustainable fusion was "just around the corner in the next 20 years or so". Well that was over 20 years ago. You know Jesus is coming soon, too, right?
Now someone wants to study time. OK, I would like to study distance, please. I only charge $2 million a year and I find that distance can best be studied at a bar by the beach. That way I can study the distance between myself and breasts, between breasts and breasts, between myself and the ocean, etc. It will be much more practical to humanity than time because at least I will benefit.
I'm not acurious, I simply cannot visualize any practical application. Hence it's money down the toilet.
just those programs will have to tell you that they are P2P
You have a strange notion about the power of the law. Oh they'll HAVE to tell me, will they? Especially if I download them from say, a server in Nigeria, or on SeaLand? Well thank goodness for that. Truly the pen is mightier than the sword. We should give all our money to politicians to create many more laws to protect us from the bad people. That way when they come, we can remind them that what they're doing is illegal and they will stop!
Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but it is wit nonetheless.
v = s/t therefore vt = s therefore t - s/v: Time is simply distance over velocity!
Honestly it's all very well to swindl^H^H^H^H convince people to give you grant money by investigating "time". I mean, the prospects of having one's very own time machine are incredible.
Yet one has to ask, (and this is where tenses get complicated, I will resort to the Douglas Adams trans-temporal convention) if anything practical wioll have come from such a study, we would have been receiving visitors from "the future" for a long time now! Heck, wars and genocides could have been prevented as far back as ancient Egypt. In fact, human nature being what it is, history will would have become pretty boring...
Because the government has no business getting between me and my computer, just like my OS has no business letting things install themselves without my permission. It took redmond a while to realize that opening up the user's computer for access by the WORLD was a "bad idea", and finally they have made the default "no permission" unless authorized.
That stupid people STILL click on anything, open any attachment, and naively load all sorts of programs onto their machines is not something the government should prevent. Just like they shouldn't be watching over your shoulder every minute to make sure you don't kill yourself.
If I WANT to load a program, I will - be there a law against it or NOT. Criminalizing it with laws that are prohibitively expensive to actually enforce is a waste of taxpayer resources. With 2 wars going on and all the social problems in the world, they can't think of anything better to do with public funds?
The ONLY use for a law like this is finding something to charge a person with ONCE HE HAS ALREADY BEEN ARRESTED/SEARCHED for a different reason. "Oh we seized your laptop to search it because you [fit the profile|were the next randomly selected person to be searched|we felt like it] and we didn't find any child pornography or evidence of money laundering, which is what we were looking for. HOWEVER we DID notice while going through your Windows Registry that at one point you had P2P program XYZ installed. This is an illegal program, and for that reason you are being arrested - put your hands behind your back...
The rich get much richer every year, while the poor get relatively poorer over time.
That's not exactly true. I myself come from a background that 50 years ago was incredibly wealthy. The family had race-horses and private aircraft. Everyone had a brand new luxury car and changed it every year. We had all the luxuries, and no one has been obliged to "work" in a conventional "job" for 3 generations. We thought we had looked after our money. We have managed to triple our net worth over time. And we have gone from being "ultra rich", to being merely "upper middle class". Inflation has overtaken us and destroyed our "wealth".
The DEFINITION of "rich" has changed, thanks to plummeting purchasing power. Back then, you were rich if you had $10 million. Now it takes at least $1 billion. Now, $10 million will hardly buy you a nice (but small) jet. It certainly won't get you anything decent in places like Beverly Hills or New York. You might be able to afford a couple houses in the Turks and Caicos. While I wouldn't go so far as to say that $10 million is nothing (I won't say no if you're offering), it certainly isn't what it was.
Therefore while you're complaining about the rich getting richer - remember that it's only those who are constantly putting their money at risk that are getting richer. And they are very few. I know many people who were "rich" and now are penniless - nay, in debt. There's a reality that comes into play when you take risks - eventually it catches up with you. We have played it safe, and now also suffer the consequences. But remember when you use a generalization like "the rich are getting richer", it's not necessarily the same PEOPLE.
I find it interesting on a philosophical level to think about what computing is doing to us. CPU's require energy to perform calculations. Then there's the system overhead, a fixed energy cost that included the assembly and set up costs, and the running and maintenance/replacement costs. Now obviously humans have been almost taken out of the equation. Where before you had thousands of workers all requiring to be fed, all requiring furniture and space and light and reasonably cool/warm air, all of them needing transport, and all of them victims of entropy and therefore needing accident and health insurance, taking sick days, etc. We've come a long way.
Now you just need the brains. Brains to design the system, brains to drive the investigation, and brains to try to improve the algorithms the system uses. To save even more energy. Of course eventually physical limits will be reached. There's no escaping the fundamental laws of our universe. But the energy "savings" from doing it the "old way" is translated into the ability to essentially brute-force the universe with raw computing power. Er, but what are we going to do with all the people who just don't "have" the brains? They get a free ride?
I agree. Just like any regular program, input must be reduced to an EXPECTED set of values. Bounds checking must be performed. Anything outside that strict set of values must be rejected offhand and an error message provided. This is programming 101.
Unfortunately when HTML, PHP and SQL went "mainstream", these core programming concepts didn't get passed along. Frankly I say let "evolution" take careof/teach sloppy web developers - the smarter ones will have backups and be able to fix their problems. What really gets me is when you see large, allegedly professional sites taken down by something as silly as this.
A lot good it would have done the economy to have the financial sector fail and have a drawn out depression.
And this isn't a drawn-out depression? Have the "recovery" stories in the news media actually put people to work? Is the fact that unemployment has (my belief is temporarily) not gotten WORSE an indicator of an economic boom? Jobless claims were 496K this week (hint, they're going back UP). New home sales were down (again) at 309K. Consumer confidence is down. The stock market isn't going up anymore. Exactly where again do you see recovery? Of course you're going to get a 5.7% increase in GDP - someone has been making money off the Wall Street surge. But all that is over now. Wait until you see what 2 trillion dollars bought you... you're going to be mad.
I can't believe the grandstanding coming out of the US government nowadays. From berating car company executives for flying in their jets (no, they should buy multi-million dollar jets and just let them rot), to coming down on Toyoda as if he were the embodiment of all evil (yeah, US manufacturers NEVER had recalls. I have yet to see the Toyota equivalent of the Ford Pinto), and now NASA.
Oh we took away all your funding and tied you up in red tape, but now we will complain that you lack vision and have not made any progress! It's NASA's fault for literally not delivering the moon, on a budget that would be barely noticed by an average defense contractor. Because it's ok to pour $65 billion into F-22's, the 140+ million dollar planes that always seem to be in the shop (68% readiness you know if I paid $140 million I want the damned thing to work), but no additional funding is required to move forwards in space exploration (the NASA budget has been fairly constant at all time lows since 1993).
It's the politicians in the US that need fixing. They didn't listen when the public said "no" to more war. They didn't listen when the public said "no" to the bailouts. They didn't listen when the public said "no" to the stimulus. There's a pattern here. "Voting" isn't going to change anything... real democracy died a long time ago, victim to the two party system set up by special interests.
Why in the world would anyone in the future care about a website that barely even stuck around for a month.
Data mining. Anything you say can and will be held against you. Especially if it was published on the internet. What, you think this is something FOR the people?
In fact, Microprose released a very similar concept for the 3DO way back in 1994. Granted technology has moved on, as has the ability to reproduce instruments with much higher fidelity.
However if you actually listen to the music, it's nothing special. In fact it's the sort of painful music you could imagine "nouveau riche" 30 year olds would listen to in order to pretend to be sophisticated, over glasses of california "wine", of course. For all the little ticks this program employs, reproducing patterns of melody and harmony according to some algorithms, it will never ever give us "The 4 Seasons", or something like this (Vanessa Mae BWV 1006).
I agree - I just read it and it seems that Microsoft is stating what it retains, and what process (subpoena, court order, search warrant) is required to access which information.
I think the REAL issue is the fact that the Cryptome site was shut down over this because DMCA was mentioned even though this has absolutely nothing to do with the DMCA.
Slashdot Mirror
You want specifics? Google this:
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And what, pray, does sulfuric acid have to do with anything?
Aft first I thought he was referring to Credit Suisse. Then I thought no, this is an article about Counter Strike. Then perhaps I thought it meant CS gas. Then perhaps, having been betrayed by an uncooperative context, I thought like you it meant Computer Science. But no - lo and behold "CS" stands for "Compressed Sensing", a new algorithm called "CS" by 1) those working on it and 2) those who have absolutely no idea what it is or how it works, but want to sound cool anyway because hey, what's cooler than using an acronym that ABSOLUTELY NO ONE has ever heard of? Forget the fact that this whole language thing is about "communication" and if you start inserting RA into your MF then NWFU!
(RA = Random Acronyms, MF = Message Format, NWFU = No-one Will Fucking Understand)
I'm not saying you will get cancer from a microwave tower. I am pointing out that the argument used above is invalid and does not rule out that microwave towers can cause cancer.
The basic physics say you're more than okay.
Very well. Expose yourself to direct sunlight 24/7 and let's see how long it takes for you to get skin cancer.
Just because "the basic physics" you mention in your claim point to there being less energy involved than sunlight, this does not eliminate the possibility of risk - especially when sunlight is a KNOWN carcinogen.
Your first hint should be that the apartment is for sale because everyone in it died of leukemia...
This smacks of a lack of nth generational financial planning, not inflation. Inflation proofing is roughly no-risk investing. You cannot expect a whole family to live on a fortune for several generations without contributing to the fortune
I guess you missed the part where I said we have tripled our money? That's not "living off of the interest".
by flooding the system with beneficial bacteria that will compete with the harmful ones for resources and eventually starve them out.
That's all very well in the lab. However in a patient those "resources" also happen to be things the patient's cells need. Guess who also is going to be "starved out". Just my 2 cents worth but don't mind me, I'm just a physician.
On February 21st the United States refused to acknowledge the surrender of Mongolia, claiming that for too long yaks have been infringing on copyrights and patents owned by American cows on mooing and milk production respectively. It announced that yaks are the hallmark of rogue, terrorist nations such as Mongolia, demanded that Mongolia switch its bovines immediately to American cows which could be purchased at reasonable rates from America or it's European partners, and further demanded that Mongolia license the rights to pay the additional fee for milk production and mooing (at discounted herd rates). Additionally the Department of Homeland Security has placed all yaks on the no-fly list.
The ball is in Mongolia's court.
Scratch your head and wonder why these things are being sold in India, Japan and China and not the US...
But remember, the US is still #1!!!! Guys? GUYS???
when so many other fundamental attributes of our universe should be? It seems you think time possesses some magically unknowable characteristics
Well, why don't we drop the science part entirely and study god, or the great purple space goat? Time is not a "thing" you can study, just like "space" is not a thing you can study. Space is a place for the universe to exist. It's the distance between things - molecules, galaxies. Time is simply something for the universe to exist in.
Of course if you're a particle physicist you can invent any theory you want, and invent mysterious new particles to explain away your ideas. However I see billions of dollars being poured into detecting (not actually "doing anything with") neutrinos and Higgs bosons and frankly not much of an ROI. Governments and academia gamble on it because they buy the thing about "what if you could cash in and get a head start on something that produces as much energy as the sun itself!" and say "yeah we don't want to be left out, count me in for $300 million!". But we're paying for all this. And so far projects like the LHC have consumed far more energy than they have produced. I remember hearing that sustainable fusion was "just around the corner in the next 20 years or so". Well that was over 20 years ago. You know Jesus is coming soon, too, right?
Now someone wants to study time. OK, I would like to study distance, please. I only charge $2 million a year and I find that distance can best be studied at a bar by the beach. That way I can study the distance between myself and breasts, between breasts and breasts, between myself and the ocean, etc. It will be much more practical to humanity than time because at least I will benefit.
I'm not acurious, I simply cannot visualize any practical application. Hence it's money down the toilet.
just those programs will have to tell you that they are P2P
You have a strange notion about the power of the law. Oh they'll HAVE to tell me, will they? Especially if I download them from say, a server in Nigeria, or on SeaLand? Well thank goodness for that. Truly the pen is mightier than the sword. We should give all our money to politicians to create many more laws to protect us from the bad people. That way when they come, we can remind them that what they're doing is illegal and they will stop!
Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but it is wit nonetheless.
v = s/t therefore vt = s therefore t - s/v: Time is simply distance over velocity!
Honestly it's all very well to swindl^H^H^H^H convince people to give you grant money by investigating "time". I mean, the prospects of having one's very own time machine are incredible.
Yet one has to ask, (and this is where tenses get complicated, I will resort to the Douglas Adams trans-temporal convention) if anything practical wioll have come from such a study, we would have been receiving visitors from "the future" for a long time now! Heck, wars and genocides could have been prevented as far back as ancient Egypt. In fact, human nature being what it is, history will would have become pretty boring...
How are these bad?
Because the government has no business getting between me and my computer, just like my OS has no business letting things install themselves without my permission. It took redmond a while to realize that opening up the user's computer for access by the WORLD was a "bad idea", and finally they have made the default "no permission" unless authorized.
That stupid people STILL click on anything, open any attachment, and naively load all sorts of programs onto their machines is not something the government should prevent. Just like they shouldn't be watching over your shoulder every minute to make sure you don't kill yourself.
If I WANT to load a program, I will - be there a law against it or NOT. Criminalizing it with laws that are prohibitively expensive to actually enforce is a waste of taxpayer resources. With 2 wars going on and all the social problems in the world, they can't think of anything better to do with public funds?
The ONLY use for a law like this is finding something to charge a person with ONCE HE HAS ALREADY BEEN ARRESTED/SEARCHED for a different reason. "Oh we seized your laptop to search it because you [fit the profile|were the next randomly selected person to be searched|we felt like it] and we didn't find any child pornography or evidence of money laundering, which is what we were looking for. HOWEVER we DID notice while going through your Windows Registry that at one point you had P2P program XYZ installed. This is an illegal program, and for that reason you are being arrested - put your hands behind your back...
I lol'd. Well done sir.
Your ravings is to philosophy what slaps are to fire bombing Dresden
And your criticism is to my writing what a wailing child is to a wolf.
The rich get much richer every year, while the poor get relatively poorer over time.
That's not exactly true. I myself come from a background that 50 years ago was incredibly wealthy. The family had race-horses and private aircraft. Everyone had a brand new luxury car and changed it every year. We had all the luxuries, and no one has been obliged to "work" in a conventional "job" for 3 generations. We thought we had looked after our money. We have managed to triple our net worth over time. And we have gone from being "ultra rich", to being merely "upper middle class". Inflation has overtaken us and destroyed our "wealth".
The DEFINITION of "rich" has changed, thanks to plummeting purchasing power. Back then, you were rich if you had $10 million. Now it takes at least $1 billion. Now, $10 million will hardly buy you a nice (but small) jet. It certainly won't get you anything decent in places like Beverly Hills or New York. You might be able to afford a couple houses in the Turks and Caicos. While I wouldn't go so far as to say that $10 million is nothing (I won't say no if you're offering), it certainly isn't what it was.
Therefore while you're complaining about the rich getting richer - remember that it's only those who are constantly putting their money at risk that are getting richer. And they are very few. I know many people who were "rich" and now are penniless - nay, in debt. There's a reality that comes into play when you take risks - eventually it catches up with you. We have played it safe, and now also suffer the consequences. But remember when you use a generalization like "the rich are getting richer", it's not necessarily the same PEOPLE.
I find it interesting on a philosophical level to think about what computing is doing to us. CPU's require energy to perform calculations. Then there's the system overhead, a fixed energy cost that included the assembly and set up costs, and the running and maintenance/replacement costs. Now obviously humans have been almost taken out of the equation. Where before you had thousands of workers all requiring to be fed, all requiring furniture and space and light and reasonably cool/warm air, all of them needing transport, and all of them victims of entropy and therefore needing accident and health insurance, taking sick days, etc. We've come a long way.
Now you just need the brains. Brains to design the system, brains to drive the investigation, and brains to try to improve the algorithms the system uses. To save even more energy. Of course eventually physical limits will be reached. There's no escaping the fundamental laws of our universe. But the energy "savings" from doing it the "old way" is translated into the ability to essentially brute-force the universe with raw computing power. Er, but what are we going to do with all the people who just don't "have" the brains? They get a free ride?
Sorry I'm waxing philosophical today.
I agree. Just like any regular program, input must be reduced to an EXPECTED set of values. Bounds checking must be performed. Anything outside that strict set of values must be rejected offhand and an error message provided. This is programming 101.
Unfortunately when HTML, PHP and SQL went "mainstream", these core programming concepts didn't get passed along. Frankly I say let "evolution" take careof/teach sloppy web developers - the smarter ones will have backups and be able to fix their problems. What really gets me is when you see large, allegedly professional sites taken down by something as silly as this.
It's flamebait for the "cell phones cause cancer" crowd: the word "radiation" is a dead giveaway.
Did someone say EVOLUTION? Well you know that - uh, what's that? Ahhh, radiATION...mmm, ok, wrong thread, I'll head back to my cave. /troll
A lot good it would have done the economy to have the financial sector fail and have a drawn out depression.
And this isn't a drawn-out depression? Have the "recovery" stories in the news media actually put people to work? Is the fact that unemployment has (my belief is temporarily) not gotten WORSE an indicator of an economic boom? Jobless claims were 496K this week (hint, they're going back UP). New home sales were down (again) at 309K. Consumer confidence is down. The stock market isn't going up anymore. Exactly where again do you see recovery? Of course you're going to get a 5.7% increase in GDP - someone has been making money off the Wall Street surge. But all that is over now. Wait until you see what 2 trillion dollars bought you... you're going to be mad.
I can't believe the grandstanding coming out of the US government nowadays. From berating car company executives for flying in their jets (no, they should buy multi-million dollar jets and just let them rot), to coming down on Toyoda as if he were the embodiment of all evil (yeah, US manufacturers NEVER had recalls. I have yet to see the Toyota equivalent of the Ford Pinto), and now NASA.
Oh we took away all your funding and tied you up in red tape, but now we will complain that you lack vision and have not made any progress! It's NASA's fault for literally not delivering the moon, on a budget that would be barely noticed by an average defense contractor. Because it's ok to pour $65 billion into F-22's, the 140+ million dollar planes that always seem to be in the shop (68% readiness you know if I paid $140 million I want the damned thing to work), but no additional funding is required to move forwards in space exploration (the NASA budget has been fairly constant at all time lows since 1993).
It's the politicians in the US that need fixing. They didn't listen when the public said "no" to more war. They didn't listen when the public said "no" to the bailouts. They didn't listen when the public said "no" to the stimulus. There's a pattern here. "Voting" isn't going to change anything... real democracy died a long time ago, victim to the two party system set up by special interests.
Why in the world would anyone in the future care about a website that barely even stuck around for a month.
Data mining. Anything you say can and will be held against you. Especially if it was published on the internet. What, you think this is something FOR the people?
In fact, Microprose released a very similar concept for the 3DO way back in 1994. Granted technology has moved on, as has the ability to reproduce instruments with much higher fidelity.
However if you actually listen to the music, it's nothing special. In fact it's the sort of painful music you could imagine "nouveau riche" 30 year olds would listen to in order to pretend to be sophisticated, over glasses of california "wine", of course. For all the little ticks this program employs, reproducing patterns of melody and harmony according to some algorithms, it will never ever give us "The 4 Seasons", or something like this (Vanessa Mae BWV 1006).
I agree - I just read it and it seems that Microsoft is stating what it retains, and what process (subpoena, court order, search warrant) is required to access which information.
I think the REAL issue is the fact that the Cryptome site was shut down over this because DMCA was mentioned even though this has absolutely nothing to do with the DMCA.