The Duke lacrosse team will do for college sports what Janet Jackson did for network TV. Nobody should be surprised that college sports don't want any more such negative publicity, and anyone who has used Facebook knows that its users are almost as dumb as Myspace users when it comes to posting incriminating pictures and other details of their lives. (Almost. Not quite. At least these are college students instead of pedophiles, adolescents, and aspiring criminals).
When I was little, I had all the computer games like Operation Neptune, Super Solvers Midnight Rescue, Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego, Number Munchers, and so on. Those were totally awesome. I'd play them again if I had them. When I was even younger (like maybe 4), I had an awesome baseball game where at each at-bat, you choose a level of difficulty and they give you an appropriate arithmetic problem. You get it right, you get a hit. You get it wrong, you're out./No point to this post, just waxing nostalgic...
My high school chemistry textbook said that the atmosphere was 80% nitrogen and 23% oxygen, and that didn't need to be thrown away. So we'll just blame this shape-of-the-galaxy thing on sig figs.
He's been in space more than two full years (24 months). So at an average loss of 1.5% per month, he now would be expected to have less than (1-0.015)^24 = 69.577614% of his original bone mass. That's not insignificant. So how much has he actually lost, and how has he been beating this?
There have been tons of studies by MS-funded companies (like Gartner) claiming that Windows beats Linux in all sorts of ways, but the open source community is always quick to show that they're extremely biased. Would you trust or support any studies comparing Microsoft to Linux if they were done by Red Hat-funded (or funded by any other Linux supporters) companies to level the playing field?
I know the value of comments, so I always try to use them except in the smallest of personal utility programs. But I don't comment as I'm writing code. Instead, I write significant chunks of code, then go back and comment each piece of the chunk. In doing so, I have to think, "Okay, what is this code supposed to do?" and in the process, since I hadn't just finished writing the code, I tend to catch more typos and bugs. Seriously, I've saved myself a lot of time debugging by commenting this way.
1. Current != power. Power = I^2 R, or any equivalent formula.
2. They did this on Earth, so it was actually only 80% of the electrical power (or insert appropriate noun here, see point 1) on Earth. Assuming it was four times the normal power levels without this extra current.
If Microsoft Hotmail starts blocking all messages without valid Sender ID, this will indeed stop most of the spam on the internet! After all, once everyone closes their Hotmail accounts, all that spam will merely bounce.
/wonders how much of the internet's spam actually does go through hotmail
Yeah, maybe we all don't think he pirated, but couldn't this still be aiding / abetting? He was encouraging other people to pirate music, and giving them the means to do so.
This sort of thing has been tried before with spam. It invariably doesn't work. The problem is that you need someone to maintain the list, and they may start out with only good intentions -- hmm, what was it that the road to hell was paved with? -- and eventually they get power-hungry, adding sites to the list because of minor personal annoyances and refusing to remove them.
~sigh~ At least they're still bothering to detect it. But seriously, there isn't a "WTF" big enough to describe this, since it's probably only the tip of the iceberg...
It has been a long time since I used AOL. I seem to recall they had problems such as employees stealing entire databases of info and selling it to spammers. How are their spam filters now, and how likely are you to receive spam just for being a member?
It's also a bit amusing that all these large portal companies like AOL are trying to compete with services like Gmail that don't even provide anything other than email. Google is still not an ISP as far as I know...
Have you tried asking the national theater chains themselves? If you can convince them that this is something that will greatly benefit them and all their branches, they could very well be your best sponsors.
If I get everyone in the world to switch from MSIE to Firefox, then web developers will stop developing webpages for MSIE and only make ones that work (and work well) in Firefox. Similarly, if everyone uses OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Word, I'll stop getting documents via email that break in my word processor.
(And then there's all that other stuff about improving the products I use more as a result of a broader user base.)
I agree that there are many shortcomings in Microsoft's grammar checker. However, to what extent should we bother trying to improve it? English is an extraordinarily complex language and it should be easy to construct "twisted" examples which any grammar checker would miss; any standard intro AI course will warn of the dangers of overfitting data anyway. On the other end of the spectrum, I'm sure it's easy to construct examples which the grammar checker will never allow but which are often perfectly acceptable under certain circumstances. English grammar simply isn't as black and white as, say, C syntax, no matter what we geeks would like.:-)
I've heard digital photos are often inadmissible as evidence in court because of how easy they are to modify. This sounds like rather intentional automatic digital editing, which would just make picture reliability / integrity worse. IANAL, but can someone else fill in the legal issues here?
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During one of the 2004 presidential debates: "We increased federal wetlands by 3 million!" -- GWB
Yes, admittedly some people need to learn the most basic of skills, such as how to use a mouse. But the people at this basic level should not then be expected to know how to keep their computer completely up-to-date and patched, or even why that's important! Given how many problems have come out of MSIE recently and how most new users primarily want to use this magical 'internet' thing, this is a huge risk.
There's really nothing more reliable for support than having a friend who knows what he/she is doing anyway.
Given the problems we already have feeding humans, why would we possibly want to feed robots (other than necessary fuel/energy)? Not to mention that eating is relatively inefficient, requiring a decent amount of energy simply to process the food. We should in general be looking for as much efficiency and as little waste as possible.
Given how long it will be before we're likely to see anything that could even resemble a humanoid robot, I don't know if these questions are relevant anyway.
Actually, it took a lot less. The first story posted in the 21st century set that record, even if it has been broken many times since then. It only took 3 or 4 years, plus 11 days, to set the record to 15 links.
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The Duke lacrosse team will do for college sports what Janet Jackson did for network TV. Nobody should be surprised that college sports don't want any more such negative publicity, and anyone who has used Facebook knows that its users are almost as dumb as Myspace users when it comes to posting incriminating pictures and other details of their lives. (Almost. Not quite. At least these are college students instead of pedophiles, adolescents, and aspiring criminals).
As a college senior, I must say that reading this article really confused me. What was it about? Damn technical schools that don't teach me to read!
When I was little, I had all the computer games like Operation Neptune, Super Solvers Midnight Rescue, Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego, Number Munchers, and so on. Those were totally awesome. I'd play them again if I had them. When I was even younger (like maybe 4), I had an awesome baseball game where at each at-bat, you choose a level of difficulty and they give you an appropriate arithmetic problem. You get it right, you get a hit. You get it wrong, you're out. /No point to this post, just waxing nostalgic...
My high school chemistry textbook said that the atmosphere was 80% nitrogen and 23% oxygen, and that didn't need to be thrown away. So we'll just blame this shape-of-the-galaxy thing on sig figs.
Now that they have Knoppix running on their iPods and are running x86 virtual machines, they could run all sorts of neat software like mpg321!
He's been in space more than two full years (24 months). So at an average loss of 1.5% per month, he now would be expected to have less than (1-0.015)^24 = 69.577614% of his original bone mass. That's not insignificant. So how much has he actually lost, and how has he been beating this?
Hey, their job got them posted on Slashdot! Probably kicks your job's ass any day. :-)
There already is one such key. It's the Verisign private key for signing certificates. Yet so far no compromises have occurred.
Not that I'm saying I'm in favor of this idea, but it may not be quite as dangerous as everyone thinks.
There have been tons of studies by MS-funded companies (like Gartner) claiming that Windows beats Linux in all sorts of ways, but the open source community is always quick to show that they're extremely biased. Would you trust or support any studies comparing Microsoft to Linux if they were done by Red Hat-funded (or funded by any other Linux supporters) companies to level the playing field?
I know the value of comments, so I always try to use them except in the smallest of personal utility programs. But I don't comment as I'm writing code. Instead, I write significant chunks of code, then go back and comment each piece of the chunk. In doing so, I have to think, "Okay, what is this code supposed to do?" and in the process, since I hadn't just finished writing the code, I tend to catch more typos and bugs. Seriously, I've saved myself a lot of time debugging by commenting this way.
1. Current != power. Power = I^2 R, or any equivalent formula.
2. They did this on Earth, so it was actually only 80% of the electrical power (or insert appropriate noun here, see point 1) on Earth. Assuming it was four times the normal power levels without this extra current.
If Microsoft Hotmail starts blocking all messages without valid Sender ID, this will indeed stop most of the spam on the internet! After all, once everyone closes their Hotmail accounts, all that spam will merely bounce.
/wonders how much of the internet's spam actually does go through hotmail
Yeah, maybe we all don't think he pirated, but couldn't this still be aiding / abetting? He was encouraging other people to pirate music, and giving them the means to do so.
This sort of thing has been tried before with spam. It invariably doesn't work. The problem is that you need someone to maintain the list, and they may start out with only good intentions -- hmm, what was it that the road to hell was paved with? -- and eventually they get power-hungry, adding sites to the list because of minor personal annoyances and refusing to remove them.
~sigh~ At least they're still bothering to detect it. But seriously, there isn't a "WTF" big enough to describe this, since it's probably only the tip of the iceberg...
Which are better, apples or oranges?
It has been a long time since I used AOL. I seem to recall they had problems such as employees stealing entire databases of info and selling it to spammers. How are their spam filters now, and how likely are you to receive spam just for being a member?
It's also a bit amusing that all these large portal companies like AOL are trying to compete with services like Gmail that don't even provide anything other than email. Google is still not an ISP as far as I know...
Have you tried asking the national theater chains themselves? If you can convince them that this is something that will greatly benefit them and all their branches, they could very well be your best sponsors.
If I get everyone in the world to switch from MSIE to Firefox, then web developers will stop developing webpages for MSIE and only make ones that work (and work well) in Firefox. Similarly, if everyone uses OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Word, I'll stop getting documents via email that break in my word processor.
(And then there's all that other stuff about improving the products I use more as a result of a broader user base.)
I agree that there are many shortcomings in Microsoft's grammar checker. However, to what extent should we bother trying to improve it? English is an extraordinarily complex language and it should be easy to construct "twisted" examples which any grammar checker would miss; any standard intro AI course will warn of the dangers of overfitting data anyway. On the other end of the spectrum, I'm sure it's easy to construct examples which the grammar checker will never allow but which are often perfectly acceptable under certain circumstances. English grammar simply isn't as black and white as, say, C syntax, no matter what we geeks would like. :-)
I've heard digital photos are often inadmissible as evidence in court because of how easy they are to modify. This sounds like rather intentional automatic digital editing, which would just make picture reliability / integrity worse. IANAL, but can someone else fill in the legal issues here?
During one of the 2004 presidential debates: "We increased federal wetlands by 3 million!" -- GWB
I'm still not really sure what that means.
Yes, admittedly some people need to learn the most basic of skills, such as how to use a mouse. But the people at this basic level should not then be expected to know how to keep their computer completely up-to-date and patched, or even why that's important! Given how many problems have come out of MSIE recently and how most new users primarily want to use this magical 'internet' thing, this is a huge risk.
There's really nothing more reliable for support than having a friend who knows what he/she is doing anyway.
Given the problems we already have feeding humans, why would we possibly want to feed robots (other than necessary fuel/energy)? Not to mention that eating is relatively inefficient, requiring a decent amount of energy simply to process the food. We should in general be looking for as much efficiency and as little waste as possible.
Given how long it will be before we're likely to see anything that could even resemble a humanoid robot, I don't know if these questions are relevant anyway.
Actually, it took a lot less. The first story posted in the 21st century set that record, even if it has been broken many times since then. It only took 3 or 4 years, plus 11 days, to set the record to 15 links.