Plus anyone who lived in a in-city neighborhood during the days of white flight knows that the arrival of just one of the "filthy other" can make your entire neighborhood's home values plummet even though the market as a whole is rising. And entire neighborhoods have had their value plummet when old toxic waste dumps were found underneath, coal seam fires, and rising methane deposits. I had an uncle whose farm got cut into two pieces by a new interstate highway - it left a 30 acre piece stranded that's now 6 miles from the nearest exit with no paved road to it. What's that worth now?
The annual ozone hole is a natural phenomenon, but historically the hole was a small fraction of the size than what we have had since the 1980's. https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.g... Compare the 1979-1982 ozone hole size and Antarctica ozone levels before 1983 to after.
That the ozone depletion/ozone hole continued to grow after the Montreal agreement was predicted. The problem we faced is that the rate of production of CFCs vastly exceeded the rate of degradation of CFCs in the atmosphere so we were facing an accelerating rate of ozone depletion. The ozone hole was growing rapidly in size every year, and the global ozone levels were decreasing. https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/...
The problem CFCs and related compounds have a very long lifetime in the lower atmosphere, on the order of a century, and on the order of decades in the stratosphere. Once a CFC is degraded by UV and releases a free chlorine or bromine, the free Cl or Br atom can continue to catalyze ozone to O2 for a few years before the free atom binds with hydrogen and falls back down to the lower atmosphere and get washed out.
Here's a document with graphs showing the continuing post-Montreal increase and subsequent drop-off in atmospheric concentrations. https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/...
Actions taken under the Montreal Protocol have led to decreases in the atmospheric abundance of controlled ozone-depleting substances (ODSs), and are enabling the return of the ozone layer toward 1980 levels.
The sum of the measured tropospheric abundances of substances controlled under the Montreal Protocol continues to decrease. Most of the major controlled ODSs are decreasing largely as projected, and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and halon-1301 are still increasing. Unknown or unreported sources of carbon tetrachloride are needed to explain its abundance.
Measured stratospheric abundances of chlorine- and bromine-containing substances originating from the degradation of ODSs are decreasing. By 2012, combined chlorine and bromine levels (as estimated by Equivalent Effective Stratospheric Chlorine, EESC) had declined by about 10–15% from the peak values of ten to fifteen years ago. Decreases in atmospheric abundances of methyl chloroform (CH3CCl3), methyl bromide (CH3Br), and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) contributed approximately equally to these reductions.
Total column ozone declined over most of the globe during the 1980s and early 1990s (by about 2.5% averaged over 60S to 60N). It has remained relatively unchanged since 2000, with indications of a small increase in total column ozone in recent years, as expected. In the upper stratosphere there is a clear recent ozone increase, which climate models suggest can be explained by comparable contributions from declining ODS abundances and upper stratospheric cooling caused by carbon dioxide increases.
The Antarctic ozone hole continues to occur each spring, as expected for the current ODS abundances. The Arctic stratosphere in winter/spring 2011 was particularly cold, which led to large ozone depletion as expected under these conditions.
Total column ozone will recover toward the 1980 benchmark levels over most of the globe under full compliance with the Montreal Protocol. This recovery is expected to occur before midcentury in midlatitudes and the Arctic, and somewhat later for the Antarctic ozone hole.
And if the people of "English-speaking North America" are knuckle dragging idiots who have ensconced an outdated time-adjustment designed to support agrarian needs in some sort of money-making church of the dollar (you would not believe how much money goes into supporting the bullshite), then rest of the world can just suck it... right?
So, you don't know any farmers. They pretty much all hate DST. DST has never been favored by any agrarian interests. It's a city thing and always has been. Think about it. Do plants and animals give adjust their schedule according to the sun or to the farmer's clock? The farmer's work cycle depends (to some extent) upon the animal's circadian rhythms. Animal behavior patterns depend on the sun, not our clocks.
I wish we did get to choose between having sociopaths or having Aspies take over the asylum. They gave me a coin to flip for choosing, but both sides say "sociopath".
I was always a proponent of Daylight Saving Time. Moving all the clocks ahead or back an hour was always a lot of fun.
This, though, ruins it for me. I think we should ban DST altogether.
They tell me I'm doing DST wrong. Back when they said "move your clocks ahead or back an hour", I put all my clocks in the car and drove into Alabama. All my clocks were then right, but then they told me I can't return to Georgia for half a year.
This is fun. Here's one from 1998. https://slashdot.org/story/98/... Follow the sfgate link to see the future as it was known by executives at Netscape and AOL.
Most people go online because "they want to communicate and get quick content and information," said Wendy Brown, vice president of electronic commerce at AOL, which has 12 million subscribers. "They don't necessarily go online to buy. A lot of purchases come from impulse buying."
Although Microsoft's Start -- combined with its lucrative e-commerce sites and its control of the desktop -- pose a serious threat to Internet companies that combine content, e-commerce and searching -- such as AOL, Netscape, Yahoo and Excite -- those companies are not about to disappear, said Adam Schoenfeld, an e-commerce analyst at Jupiter Communications in New York.
It wasn't necessarily a professor's account that got compromised from the lecture hall. If it's like most places, there's a computer at the lectern in the lecture hall that is used to drive a large display/projector screen. Those things require constant support, and a keylogger would soon pick up the login of some IT support person. And even if that support person had no access to the grading system servers, the account could be used to compromise other computers of people with higher access.
It's a classic move. Put a keylogger on a user's PC, then damage it in some way that will require a visit from desktop support who will no doubt have local admin access. In many places, once you have an account and password with local admin rights for one desktop computer, you have access to them all.
"According to court documents obtained by Bleeping Computer, Grupe asked management to resign..." What was management's answer when asked to resign? Did they?
It seems to me that the original article was written in Canadian and then run through Google translate to produce Slashdot English.
Suppose you somehow survive the cataclysm. The last time we had a super volcano blow up the survivors wound up infected with numerous body thetans of the ones that got blown up. As you know the excess thetans are quite expensive to get shed of. How will we ever achieve OT if this keeps happening?
The story sounds like a PSA for what happens if you do drugs. So here is someone making a boatload of money from a criminal enterprise, but nonetheless decides it would be a good idea to fly to the USA carrying almost as much incriminating evidence as possible. And in a world that has an Internet with every photo app imaginable, he does it so people can look at his beard in person. In the USA. This is your brain on drugs.
What you said. However, I don't see why the debt must be written off. Consider that Puerto Rico's entire debt is less than one month of the Federal Reserve's Quantitative Easing at it's height that went on for 4.5 trillion of printing money for the New York banks and Wall Street.
So the USA can pay for this with change from under the sofa cushions.
Sounds like another attempt at a national ID. I am sure it will go as well as all the past efforts.
One problem isn't that the details of your identity are not a secret and actually can't be a secret or it would be pointless to maintain. The problem is that the institutions that ask for your identification, SSN, phone number etc, are getting that information from whoever is making the application and the institution really has no way to verify that the you are the person you claim to be holding the documents for.
What I want to do is indeed have something like a national ID, and in an accessible database that has a series of photos taken during your lifetime such as your driver's license photo, State ID, Student ID and so on. When you show your identification documents to the bank, or other major entity that matters, and that has an ID to be doing that, they go to the governments database using their ID. your name and SSN, and can see from the photo history that "Clovis" looks like a meth head from a South Ga trailer park (this is almost true, btw) and the person applying for credit as "Clovis" looks like Michael Moore. So, they say no. And access to your identity on the national database can be frozen and unlocked in the same way that your credit bureau data can be frozen to prevent snooping. Various government agencies already have your photo and other identity data, so it's not like you'll be giving them anything.
So, what about setting up an account at online-only banks, or initial Social Security on-line account, or IRS web site? I don't know. My first thought is that physical banks, social security offices, post office, or such can offer identification services to people. You go to the bank/office, pay a fee, they verify it's you and give you a one-time code that you use for whatever online account you are trying to setup. It's not every day, or even every year that you need a mortgage or new bank account.
My second thought was to use skype or webcam for the initial account setup and the inevitable lost password reset requests. If you don't have internet access, then you won't often be setting up online accounts anyway.
And it should be voluntary for banks or financial institutions to participate, but mandatory for government agencies.
Which horrible Pixar-country do you live in where that happens?
Do you live in North Korea? Perhaps in a time-warped East Germany?
You seriously live in a place where if you can't post anonymously on blogs they will take away your house?
Yes, that place is Slashdot. And if we ever find out who that Anonymous Coward person is that is always posting here, then, yeah, he/she/it is probably gonna lose the house and get executed.
The groups say the feature also hurts user experience by making advertising more "generic and less timely and useful."
If timely and useful advertising is so valuable to us users, then why are they giving it away for free? They should make us pay a subscription fee to get timely and useful ads. And seeing what percentage of the population that signs up to pay for "timely and useful" ads would indicate whether the advertisers are full of shit or not.
I bet that the accounts of congressmen and major celebrities are not only flagged to throw an alert if touched, but that such accounts are stored separately from the hoi polloi.
In my dream world I would have Congress make a law to have the credit reporting agencies, financial institutions, or any business holding certain types of information by default to place a freeze on exporting/sharing that information.
Something like this: For example, if a company collects social security numbers or driver's licenses numbers, then that company must by law place a freeze by default on all accounts and ANY information in that file can only be revealed by the owner of the SSN giving specific permission. No contract to do business will be allowed that makes data sharing a condition. The data-sharing permission can only be asked for after a period of some time, say, 90 days, and the default will be to not grant permission. If a business needs to pull a credit report in order to grant me credit, write an insurance policy, or whatever, then the reporting agency will have to find some way to allow me to do a one-time grant of access.
And why on Earth would someone conduct private business on a company email account.
Some companies are blocking the common webmail providers. It's done for IP security (makes it a little more difficult to send out company confidential information), and also to block the main portal for entry of malware. If a person feels they must absolutely must communicate with family/friends/commie spys/etc, they can use the phone. Also, there's always dingbats that get confused and will use both the company email and google, yahoo, etc for business mail which leads to all kinds of problems.
anything larger that 8x8 isn't a chess board - problem solved, where's my money?
Not only that, but if an 8-queen solution works on an 8x8 board, it'll work just as well on a 1000x1000 or a 10k x 10k board, etc. board. Move it over, put it in the same relative location in the 8x8 group at the corner of the larger board, done. So solve for 8x8 and move.
So you'll need to split that money with me, pal.:)
Of course, it's just slightly possible that TFS is not an accurate summary of the actual article / problem, but...
Nah. Besides, everyone knows that reading TFA is un-American. Even reading the summary raises red flags with Homeland Security, and may result in a National Security Letter (which you can read, but can't discuss.)
You are correct, the article and the summary are misleading/wrong. Here's those guys explaining the problem and prize again. https://www.claymath.org/event...
I gotta say this is interesting, but maybe not workable. Is there a simple algorithm for locating the solved 8x8 into a 10x10 and then placing the remaining 2 queens into the open squares? We can't know ahead of time what the new location of the solved puzzle will be in the larger puzzle. We'll have to try all the possible new locations. I doubt it can be guaranteed that if a solution for n exists, then there will be guaranteed a solution for n+1 in which that n solution can be embedded, and that is a requirement for using the extending an existing solution method. It's possible that for the queens problem that any n solution can be embedded in a solved n+1, but I know that's not true for some other of these P != NP problems.
And we have to consider that there are many unique solutions for 8x8, so which one of these do we choose for placing in the 10x10? If the algorithm has to try them all, we're getting back into NP solution time. At best all we can do is solve the exponential time problem quicker, but it won't become solved in P time because we are basically using the same algorithm as the original problem (That is, try a solution and test to see if it works)
For example, placing the solved 8x8 (first one shown in the wiki article) into a 10x10's corner cannot be solved (as will most other locations), so your placing algorithm to find the location that will work will essentially be the same as the placing of 8 queens in the original problem. (That is, try a solution and test to see if it works)
Also, such an algorithm (using a solved puzzle to be extended into a larger n) results in our having to solve all the puzzles from n=8 to n=999 to find n=1000 solution. That's will only change the NP problem into P if the algorithm to extend the solution is P time, but I'm not seeing that in this case.
Besides, as you observed before, the prize is not for the Queens problem anyway.
I tend to not buy the item with the most reviews, but it's not directly due to the number of reviews, not in the sense of a causal relationship. It's because I check tend to be buying the newer product, and the product with the most reviews is usually the older product.
But it depends on the product. If we are talking about restaurants, a place with many reviews can be because it's a successful restaurant. I mostly tend to go with professional reviewers that have a column in the newspaper. Yelp restaurant reviews seem to be either revenge because the waitress would not sit in someone's lap, or glowing praise from someone who had the waitress sit in their lap. Or reviews like "I don't like fish, but I ordered it anyway. It tasted like fish to me, so I give it one star."
For hotel reviews only the negative 1-2 rating matter. They often will have some very significant information about the upkeep and condition of the carpet, cleaning, etc. The exception is when the recent good reviews mention a recent remodeling.
The worst are reviews of doctors. They are almost all comically deranged. Maybe that's because they're written by sick people.
Slashdot Mirror
Really? So what's negative equity about, then?
Plus anyone who lived in a in-city neighborhood during the days of white flight knows that the arrival of just one of the "filthy other" can make your entire neighborhood's home values plummet even though the market as a whole is rising.
And entire neighborhoods have had their value plummet when old toxic waste dumps were found underneath, coal seam fires, and rising methane deposits.
I had an uncle whose farm got cut into two pieces by a new interstate highway - it left a 30 acre piece stranded that's now 6 miles from the nearest exit with no paved road to it. What's that worth now?
The annual ozone hole is a natural phenomenon, but historically the hole was a small fraction of the size than what we have had since the 1980's.
https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.g...
Compare the 1979-1982 ozone hole size and Antarctica ozone levels before 1983 to after.
That the ozone depletion/ozone hole continued to grow after the Montreal agreement was predicted.
The problem we faced is that the rate of production of CFCs vastly exceeded the rate of degradation of CFCs in the atmosphere so we were facing an accelerating rate of ozone depletion. The ozone hole was growing rapidly in size every year, and the global ozone levels were decreasing.
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/...
The problem CFCs and related compounds have a very long lifetime in the lower atmosphere, on the order of a century, and on the order of decades in the stratosphere. Once a CFC is degraded by UV and releases a free chlorine or bromine, the free Cl or Br atom can continue to catalyze ozone to O2 for a few years before the free atom binds with hydrogen and falls back down to the lower atmosphere and get washed out.
Here's a document with graphs showing the continuing post-Montreal increase and subsequent drop-off in atmospheric concentrations.
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/...
Here's an executive summary of the situation in 2014.
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/...
Actions taken under the Montreal Protocol have led to decreases in the atmospheric abundance of controlled ozone-depleting substances (ODSs), and are enabling the return of the ozone layer toward 1980 levels.
The sum of the measured tropospheric abundances of substances controlled under the Montreal Protocol continues to decrease. Most of the major controlled ODSs are decreasing largely as projected, and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and halon-1301 are still increasing. Unknown or unreported sources of carbon tetrachloride are needed to explain its abundance.
Measured stratospheric abundances of chlorine- and bromine-containing substances originating from the degradation of ODSs are decreasing. By 2012, combined chlorine and bromine levels (as estimated by Equivalent Effective Stratospheric Chlorine, EESC) had declined by about 10–15% from the peak values of ten to fifteen years ago. Decreases in atmospheric abundances of methyl chloroform (CH3CCl3), methyl bromide (CH3Br), and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) contributed approximately equally to these reductions.
Total column ozone declined over most of the globe during the 1980s and early 1990s (by about 2.5% averaged over 60S to 60N). It has remained relatively unchanged since 2000, with indications of a small increase in total column ozone in recent years, as expected. In the upper stratosphere there is a clear recent ozone increase, which climate models suggest can be explained by comparable contributions from declining ODS abundances and upper stratospheric cooling caused by carbon dioxide increases.
The Antarctic ozone hole continues to occur each spring, as expected for the current ODS abundances. The Arctic stratosphere in winter/spring 2011 was particularly cold, which led to large ozone depletion as expected under these conditions.
Total column ozone will recover toward the 1980 benchmark levels over most of the globe under full compliance with the Montreal Protocol. This recovery is expected to occur before midcentury in midlatitudes and the Arctic, and somewhat later for the Antarctic ozone hole.
And if the people of "English-speaking North America" are knuckle dragging idiots who have ensconced an outdated time-adjustment designed to support agrarian needs in some sort of money-making church of the dollar (you would not believe how much money goes into supporting the bullshite), then rest of the world can just suck it... right?
So, you don't know any farmers. They pretty much all hate DST.
DST has never been favored by any agrarian interests. It's a city thing and always has been.
Think about it. Do plants and animals give adjust their schedule according to the sun or to the farmer's clock?
The farmer's work cycle depends (to some extent) upon the animal's circadian rhythms. Animal behavior patterns depend on the sun, not our clocks.
I wish we did get to choose between having sociopaths or having Aspies take over the asylum.
They gave me a coin to flip for choosing, but both sides say "sociopath".
I was always a proponent of Daylight Saving Time. Moving all the clocks ahead or back an hour was always a lot of fun.
This, though, ruins it for me. I think we should ban DST altogether.
They tell me I'm doing DST wrong.
Back when they said "move your clocks ahead or back an hour", I put all my clocks in the car and drove into Alabama.
All my clocks were then right, but then they told me I can't return to Georgia for half a year.
This is fun. Here's one from 1998. https://slashdot.org/story/98/...
Follow the sfgate link to see the future as it was known by executives at Netscape and AOL.
Most people go online because "they want to communicate and get quick content and information," said Wendy Brown, vice president of electronic commerce at AOL, which has 12 million subscribers. "They don't necessarily go online to buy. A lot of purchases come from impulse buying."
Although Microsoft's Start -- combined with its lucrative e-commerce sites and its control of the desktop -- pose a serious threat to Internet companies that combine content, e-commerce and searching -- such as AOL, Netscape, Yahoo and Excite -- those companies are not about to disappear, said Adam Schoenfeld, an e-commerce analyst at Jupiter Communications in New York.
It wasn't necessarily a professor's account that got compromised from the lecture hall.
If it's like most places, there's a computer at the lectern in the lecture hall that is used to drive a large display/projector screen. Those things require constant support, and a keylogger would soon pick up the login of some IT support person. And even if that support person had no access to the grading system servers, the account could be used to compromise other computers of people with higher access.
It's a classic move. Put a keylogger on a user's PC, then damage it in some way that will require a visit from desktop support who will no doubt have local admin access. In many places, once you have an account and password with local admin rights for one desktop computer, you have access to them all.
"According to court documents obtained by Bleeping Computer, Grupe asked management to resign..." What was management's answer when asked to resign? Did they?
It seems to me that the original article was written in Canadian and then run through Google translate to produce Slashdot English.
Suppose you somehow survive the cataclysm. The last time we had a super volcano blow up the survivors wound up infected with numerous body thetans of the ones that got blown up. As you know the excess thetans are quite expensive to get shed of. How will we ever achieve OT if this keeps happening?
If half the population dies the first day that food reserve can go for 146 days.
You didn't include the 3 billion units of long pig jerky.
The story sounds like a PSA for what happens if you do drugs.
So here is someone making a boatload of money from a criminal enterprise, but nonetheless decides it would be a good idea to fly to the USA carrying almost as much incriminating evidence as possible. And in a world that has an Internet with every photo app imaginable, he does it so people can look at his beard in person. In the USA.
This is your brain on drugs.
What you said. However, I don't see why the debt must be written off.
Consider that Puerto Rico's entire debt is less than one month of the Federal Reserve's Quantitative Easing at it's height that went on for 4.5 trillion of printing money for the New York banks and Wall Street.
So the USA can pay for this with change from under the sofa cushions.
zzzzzzzzz what? Am I to late?
Get off my lawn!
Sounds like another attempt at a national ID. I am sure it will go as well as all the past efforts.
One problem isn't that the details of your identity are not a secret and actually can't be a secret or it would be pointless to maintain. The problem is that the institutions that ask for your identification, SSN, phone number etc, are getting that information from whoever is making the application and the institution really has no way to verify that the you are the person you claim to be holding the documents for.
What I want to do is indeed have something like a national ID, and in an accessible database that has a series of photos taken during your lifetime such as your driver's license photo, State ID, Student ID and so on. When you show your identification documents to the bank, or other major entity that matters, and that has an ID to be doing that, they go to the governments database using their ID. your name and SSN, and can see from the photo history that "Clovis" looks like a meth head from a South Ga trailer park (this is almost true, btw) and the person applying for credit as "Clovis" looks like Michael Moore. So, they say no.
And access to your identity on the national database can be frozen and unlocked in the same way that your credit bureau data can be frozen to prevent snooping.
Various government agencies already have your photo and other identity data, so it's not like you'll be giving them anything.
So, what about setting up an account at online-only banks, or initial Social Security on-line account, or IRS web site?
I don't know.
My first thought is that physical banks, social security offices, post office, or such can offer identification services to people. You go to the bank/office, pay a fee, they verify it's you and give you a one-time code that you use for whatever online account you are trying to setup.
It's not every day, or even every year that you need a mortgage or new bank account.
My second thought was to use skype or webcam for the initial account setup and the inevitable lost password reset requests.
If you don't have internet access, then you won't often be setting up online accounts anyway.
And it should be voluntary for banks or financial institutions to participate, but mandatory for government agencies.
I'll admit it. I fart much much more when flying than when not. Can't help it and no I'm not going to hold it for the 8 hour flight.
That's why I always fly with my emotional support dog. So I'll have someone to blame.
Which horrible Pixar-country do you live in where that happens?
Do you live in North Korea? Perhaps in a time-warped East Germany?
You seriously live in a place where if you can't post anonymously on blogs they will take away your house?
Yes, that place is Slashdot.
And if we ever find out who that Anonymous Coward person is that is always posting here, then, yeah, he/she/it is probably gonna lose the house and get executed.
The groups say the feature also hurts user experience by making advertising more "generic and less timely and useful."
If timely and useful advertising is so valuable to us users, then why are they giving it away for free?
They should make us pay a subscription fee to get timely and useful ads.
And seeing what percentage of the population that signs up to pay for "timely and useful" ads would indicate whether the advertisers are full of shit or not.
Most important fact, you can't trust any thing a slashdot user with a 4 digit UID says.
Liar! What you just said is a cold hard irrefutable fact!
In order of how much I liked them:
"News of the World" by Paulette Jiles.
excellent
"All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
excellent
"The Fifth Season" by N. K. Jemisin
good
Also, I recently re-read the "The Death Gate cycle" by Weis and Hickman
fun read. dumb fun, but fun
I bet that the accounts of congressmen and major celebrities are not only flagged to throw an alert if touched, but that such accounts are stored separately from the hoi polloi.
In my dream world I would have Congress make a law to have the credit reporting agencies, financial institutions, or any business holding certain types of information by default to place a freeze on exporting/sharing that information.
Something like this:
For example, if a company collects social security numbers or driver's licenses numbers, then that company must by law place a freeze by default on all accounts and ANY information in that file can only be revealed by the owner of the SSN giving specific permission.
No contract to do business will be allowed that makes data sharing a condition.
The data-sharing permission can only be asked for after a period of some time, say, 90 days, and the default will be to not grant permission.
If a business needs to pull a credit report in order to grant me credit, write an insurance policy, or whatever, then the reporting agency will have to find some way to allow me to do a one-time grant of access.
+1 ...
And why on Earth would someone conduct private business on a company email account.
Some companies are blocking the common webmail providers.
It's done for IP security (makes it a little more difficult to send out company confidential information), and also to block the main portal for entry of malware.
If a person feels they must absolutely must communicate with family/friends/commie spys/etc, they can use the phone.
Also, there's always dingbats that get confused and will use both the company email and google, yahoo, etc for business mail which leads to all kinds of problems.
Not only that, but if an 8-queen solution works on an 8x8 board, it'll work just as well on a 1000x1000 or a 10k x 10k board, etc. board. Move it over, put it in the same relative location in the 8x8 group at the corner of the larger board, done. So solve for 8x8 and move.
So you'll need to split that money with me, pal. :)
Of course, it's just slightly possible that TFS is not an accurate summary of the actual article / problem, but...
Nah. Besides, everyone knows that reading TFA is un-American. Even reading the summary raises red flags with Homeland Security, and may result in a National Security Letter (which you can read, but can't discuss.)
You are correct, the article and the summary are misleading/wrong.
Here's those guys explaining the problem and prize again.
https://www.claymath.org/event...
I gotta say this is interesting, but maybe not workable.
Is there a simple algorithm for locating the solved 8x8 into a 10x10 and then placing the remaining 2 queens into the open squares?
We can't know ahead of time what the new location of the solved puzzle will be in the larger puzzle.
We'll have to try all the possible new locations. I doubt it can be guaranteed that if a solution for n exists, then there will be guaranteed a solution for n+1 in which that n solution can be embedded, and that is a requirement for using the extending an existing solution method.
It's possible that for the queens problem that any n solution can be embedded in a solved n+1,
but I know that's not true for some other of these P != NP problems.
And we have to consider that there are many unique solutions for 8x8, so which one of these do we choose for placing in the 10x10? If the algorithm has to try them all, we're getting back into NP solution time. At best all we can do is solve the exponential time problem quicker, but it won't become solved in P time because we are basically using the same algorithm as the original problem (That is, try a solution and test to see if it works)
For example, placing the solved 8x8 (first one shown in the wiki article) into a 10x10's corner cannot be solved (as will most other locations), so your placing algorithm to find the location that will work will essentially be the same as the placing of 8 queens in the original problem. (That is, try a solution and test to see if it works)
Also, such an algorithm (using a solved puzzle to be extended into a larger n) results in our having to solve all the puzzles from n=8 to n=999 to find n=1000 solution. That's will only change the NP problem into P if the algorithm to extend the solution is P time, but I'm not seeing that in this case.
Besides, as you observed before, the prize is not for the Queens problem anyway.
I tend to not buy the item with the most reviews, but it's not directly due to the number of reviews, not in the sense of a causal relationship. It's because I check tend to be buying the newer product, and the product with the most reviews is usually the older product.
But it depends on the product. If we are talking about restaurants, a place with many reviews can be because it's a successful restaurant.
I mostly tend to go with professional reviewers that have a column in the newspaper.
Yelp restaurant reviews seem to be either revenge because the waitress would not sit in someone's lap, or glowing praise from someone who had the waitress sit in their lap. Or reviews like "I don't like fish, but I ordered it anyway. It tasted like fish to me, so I give it one star."
For hotel reviews only the negative 1-2 rating matter. They often will have some very significant information about the upkeep and condition of the carpet, cleaning, etc. The exception is when the recent good reviews mention a recent remodeling.
The worst are reviews of doctors. They are almost all comically deranged. Maybe that's because they're written by sick people.