There are also laws against doing things like shooting an unarmed person in the head, aka assassination, but if a soldier hears his superior yell "fire", he shoots, no questions asked. In theory, the govt. abides by its own laws, in practice, 'national security' trumps all laws, and even the courts have agreed, allowing the govt. to withhold evidence on the basis of national security. Govt: "He's guilty!" Judge: "why?" Govt: "We'd like to tell you why, but that harms national security." Judge: "oh, okay, he's guilty."
Smartphone = WiFi. If your phone can do WiFi, all the big service providers, Verizon, Sprint, ATT, etc. require you to get a "data plan" because they're shit scared you'll be happy with just WiFi and never subscribe for a data plan. It doesn't matter if your phone can crack 128-bit encryption in a minute or has a pico-projector to play 1080p 3D on 80" screens, an integrated deep blue and that IBM bot that won jeopardy, if it lacks WiFi, you'll be able to avoid paying for the data plan with service providers who'll deem it a dumb phone / feature phone and not a smart phone.
That's always been my view as well. The best post-9/11 security measure has been psychological. Every passenger is psychologically trained to refuse to believe they will land safely if they 'cooperate' with hijackers. That was the only real weapon a hijacker had, not boxcutters, not a gun, but the illusory promise that all will be fine if everyone just cooperates. That weapon, the psychological stranglehold, has been screened out, and that "solves" the problem of 9/11 ever repeating again. Case in point, flight 93. It never flew into a building. All it took was some passengers to have learned that the hijackers will not release them safely.
The Taliban are based more circa-1700s, whereas the "golden age" for the Middle East was closer to 700-1200 AD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age) Whenever a group looks backward and tries to be old-fashioned, they never pick a particularly advanced, progressive period. None of the right-wing "return America to how it used to be" folks want the 1960s with hippies, civil rights, and space exploration, even though 1960 is definitely old-fashioned as it was a half-century ago. They rather have the 1980s wall street 'greed is good' or the 1940s 'white man in charge' eras. In essence, the folks who look back always pick a very rigid, uncreative era. The creative don't look back, they just create and build anew.
You're forgetting switching latency. A single high-end switch adds 600ns latency, and a single low-end switch adds 200us latency. If you have 20 hops, that's 12us vs. 4ms. And crappy wifi-routers can add 20ms of latency each. So, no, their average speed is not k*c where k is slightly less than one. One crappy wifi-router's latency is equal to light traveling 4,000 miles (more than the distance from NYC to London).
Hey you, my foot is 12 inches long, and I measured my front yard, and it's 3 feet to the curb. And "mile" is latin for 1,000 (same root as millilitre and millennium), and the English mile comes from the Roman "mille passuum" (1,000 paces of a soldier), thanks to the Romans dutifully conquering England.
Um, people do kernel programming in virtual machines. And there's plenty of debugging tools around VMs. I know, I write kernel modules.
Also, kernels can mask interrupts and ensure a function is run "single threaded" (no context-switching out), which dramatically reduces the complexity. Not every function is set up like that, many are thread-safe, but drivers are usually written to be uninterrupted and access private memory, so they don't worry about interaction with other cpus/cores/kthreads.
Both are hard, kernel programming is hard, and the massive multi-threading in window managers is hard.
In the U.S., if you are deemed to be hiding vital information and it's encrypted, you are required to give your decryption key or face jail time for contempt of court. There's an XKCD comic about beating the key out of someone as by far the most efficient way to decrypt.
static initialization occurs before main(). I'm not talking about function-scoped "static", but real static initialization. Also, any function with __attribute__((constructor)) also gets called before main().
If I am free to live, that implies there is a restriction against murder.
Don't confuse freedom with anarchy. Anarchy sucks. Slavery was abolished, and as a result, you _cannot_ sell yourself into slavery. Yes, that is a restriction, to preserve your freedom.
People get BCCs all the time. Everytime you get an email where your address doesn't show up in the To: or Cc: field, guess what? That's right, Bcc! That means all the distribution lists you belong to use bcc.
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All distribution lists are BCCs, so everyone receiving a distribution list email would say that.
If you have multiple girlfriends and you want to share with all of them "Happy Valentine's Day", and don't want to be bothered compose individual emails, then Bcc is great.
It's still far better than Google and other search tools currently available. Type a jeopardy question into Google, and click "feeling lucky" -- you won't find squat. Jeopardy is all about obscure clues. "This man was the son of a president, a president himself, and invaded the same country as his father." Type that into google and you'll get crap, because "Bush" and "Iraq" are never mentioned in the clues, because they'd be too obvious.
Most identity theft involves opening new credit lines. Guess what? Banks don't give new credit lines anymore. Folks are stuck with whatever existing credit lines they have.
Exactly - it's a very common epsilon-delta proof. You challenge the opponent to find an epsilon they think your answer is wrong by, and you come up with a delta that beats your opponent's epsilon. In formal terms, (f(x) - f(x+delta)) epsilon. In this case, f(x), the target is 1, and delta is -epsilon. If your opponent challenges you to find a number 0.0001 close to 1, you can give him 1-0.0001 (aka 0.9999). Because your opponent can pick arbitrarily close to 0, and you always have a delta to win the challenge, then your opponent cannot claim your number is any different from 1.
The people who think there's a non-zero "digit" after 0.0000.... need to be given the example of 12/99 = 0.1212121212... what do they think the number "ends" with, 1 or 2? Either their heads will explode trying to figure out what 0.1212121212.... ends with, or they will realize that such decimal strings do _not_ end.
Only problem with any voting system is that spammers can get botnet votes. A comment like "SJDHIWH@IYG#" may have 4 million upvotes, none of which come from a human.
Not to mention Android isn't an os, it's a platform involving the linux os, some device drivers, and libraries. Moreover, Android and iPad prevent copying because device manufacturers heavily lock those devices down.
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There are also laws against doing things like shooting an unarmed person in the head, aka assassination, but if a soldier hears his superior yell "fire", he shoots, no questions asked. In theory, the govt. abides by its own laws, in practice, 'national security' trumps all laws, and even the courts have agreed, allowing the govt. to withhold evidence on the basis of national security. Govt: "He's guilty!" Judge: "why?" Govt: "We'd like to tell you why, but that harms national security." Judge: "oh, okay, he's guilty."
Smartphone = WiFi. If your phone can do WiFi, all the big service providers, Verizon, Sprint, ATT, etc. require you to get a "data plan" because they're shit scared you'll be happy with just WiFi and never subscribe for a data plan. It doesn't matter if your phone can crack 128-bit encryption in a minute or has a pico-projector to play 1080p 3D on 80" screens, an integrated deep blue and that IBM bot that won jeopardy, if it lacks WiFi, you'll be able to avoid paying for the data plan with service providers who'll deem it a dumb phone / feature phone and not a smart phone.
That's always been my view as well. The best post-9/11 security measure has been psychological. Every passenger is psychologically trained to refuse to believe they will land safely if they 'cooperate' with hijackers. That was the only real weapon a hijacker had, not boxcutters, not a gun, but the illusory promise that all will be fine if everyone just cooperates. That weapon, the psychological stranglehold, has been screened out, and that "solves" the problem of 9/11 ever repeating again. Case in point, flight 93. It never flew into a building. All it took was some passengers to have learned that the hijackers will not release them safely.
The Taliban are based more circa-1700s, whereas the "golden age" for the Middle East was closer to 700-1200 AD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age) Whenever a group looks backward and tries to be old-fashioned, they never pick a particularly advanced, progressive period. None of the right-wing "return America to how it used to be" folks want the 1960s with hippies, civil rights, and space exploration, even though 1960 is definitely old-fashioned as it was a half-century ago. They rather have the 1980s wall street 'greed is good' or the 1940s 'white man in charge' eras. In essence, the folks who look back always pick a very rigid, uncreative era. The creative don't look back, they just create and build anew.
Microsoft never prevents you from running software you purchased outside Microsoft's store.
Most people hit the "up" or "down" buttons for surfing. I don't know why devices don't just prefetch the adjacent channels' streams.
You're forgetting switching latency. A single high-end switch adds 600ns latency, and a single low-end switch adds 200us latency. If you have 20 hops, that's 12us vs. 4ms. And crappy wifi-routers can add 20ms of latency each. So, no, their average speed is not k*c where k is slightly less than one. One crappy wifi-router's latency is equal to light traveling 4,000 miles (more than the distance from NYC to London).
All of evolution is luck. Consistent luck is just another term for skill.
Hey you, my foot is 12 inches long, and I measured my front yard, and it's 3 feet to the curb. And "mile" is latin for 1,000 (same root as millilitre and millennium), and the English mile comes from the Roman "mille passuum" (1,000 paces of a soldier), thanks to the Romans dutifully conquering England.
Um, people do kernel programming in virtual machines. And there's plenty of debugging tools around VMs. I know, I write kernel modules.
Also, kernels can mask interrupts and ensure a function is run "single threaded" (no context-switching out), which dramatically reduces the complexity. Not every function is set up like that, many are thread-safe, but drivers are usually written to be uninterrupted and access private memory, so they don't worry about interaction with other cpus/cores/kthreads.
Both are hard, kernel programming is hard, and the massive multi-threading in window managers is hard.
In the U.S., if you are deemed to be hiding vital information and it's encrypted, you are required to give your decryption key or face jail time for contempt of court. There's an XKCD comic about beating the key out of someone as by far the most efficient way to decrypt.
They wouldn't say that anymore if Chicago tried to apply city-tax to their income.
static initialization occurs before main(). I'm not talking about function-scoped "static", but real static initialization. Also, any function with __attribute__((constructor)) also gets called before main().
freedom != anarchy
If I am free to live, that implies there is a restriction against murder.
Don't confuse freedom with anarchy. Anarchy sucks. Slavery was abolished, and as a result, you _cannot_ sell yourself into slavery. Yes, that is a restriction, to preserve your freedom.
You realize Assange isn't an EU citizen? Hint: He's Australian.
What he did isn't considered a crime in either Australia nor the UK.
People get BCCs all the time. Everytime you get an email where your address doesn't show up in the To: or Cc: field, guess what? That's right, Bcc! That means all the distribution lists you belong to use bcc.
All distribution lists are BCCs, so everyone receiving a distribution list email would say that.
If you have multiple girlfriends and you want to share with all of them "Happy Valentine's Day", and don't want to be bothered compose individual emails, then Bcc is great.
It's still far better than Google and other search tools currently available. Type a jeopardy question into Google, and click "feeling lucky" -- you won't find squat. Jeopardy is all about obscure clues. "This man was the son of a president, a president himself, and invaded the same country as his father." Type that into google and you'll get crap, because "Bush" and "Iraq" are never mentioned in the clues, because they'd be too obvious.
Most identity theft involves opening new credit lines. Guess what? Banks don't give new credit lines anymore. Folks are stuck with whatever existing credit lines they have.
Umm, you do realize the faulty ports are all the 3 Gbps ports, and the good ports are the two 6 Gbps ports, right?
Exactly - it's a very common epsilon-delta proof. You challenge the opponent to find an epsilon they think your answer is wrong by, and you come up with a delta that beats your opponent's epsilon. In formal terms, (f(x) - f(x+delta)) epsilon. In this case, f(x), the target is 1, and delta is -epsilon. If your opponent challenges you to find a number 0.0001 close to 1, you can give him 1-0.0001 (aka 0.9999). Because your opponent can pick arbitrarily close to 0, and you always have a delta to win the challenge, then your opponent cannot claim your number is any different from 1.
The people who think there's a non-zero "digit" after 0.0000.... need to be given the example of 12/99 = 0.1212121212... what do they think the number "ends" with, 1 or 2? Either their heads will explode trying to figure out what 0.1212121212.... ends with, or they will realize that such decimal strings do _not_ end.
Only problem with any voting system is that spammers can get botnet votes. A comment like "SJDHIWH@IYG#" may have 4 million upvotes, none of which come from a human.
Not to mention Android isn't an os, it's a platform involving the linux os, some device drivers, and libraries. Moreover, Android and iPad prevent copying because device manufacturers heavily lock those devices down.