The problem with using that ~14 year statistic is that it includes people whose sentence ended by death, and the number of people who died in prison during their terms is not insignificant. That means we can really infer a whole lot about murder sentences from that statistic. If say it's a bit less meaningless than the 40 year average sentence statistic but still it's not that useful. Even then, around 15 years for your average murder makes sense to me. Realize that most of the murders are going to be second-degree, not first. In other words, these are mostly spur-of-the-moment murders and not planned out ahead of time. That is, most of these murderers aren't likely to do it again, so there's no need to lock them up forever. Fifteen years seems about right.
dy/dx doesn't represent instantaneous rate of change. That would be nonsense. The d in dx and dy means "small difference that will eventually go to zero". This is why dy/dx is a fraction. It represents the limit of a small change in y divided by small change in x, as the changes go to zero. This is why we teach students about the limit definition of the derivative as being what the derivative really is. As far dy and dx being tricks of notation, they're really not. They really are small changes. There's no instantaneous rate of change. dy and dx are always finite real numbers. They never actually become zero. dy/dx is the ratio that is approached as they get smaller and smaller.
As far as this guy's new version of the second derivative, I call bullshit. I seriously doubt that this is correct. And the notation d^2y/dx^2 actually makes sense when you think about. It's really just d(dy/dx)/dx, that is, a small change in dy/dx divided by a small change in x, where dy/dx is a small change in y divided by a small change in x. Writing it in the other way is just a good way of doing it. If you draw out what this means graphically, is becomes clear that it's really a small change between two consecutive small changes in y divided by two small changes in x, that is d(dy)/dx^2, hence d^2y/dx^2.
This guy's new version, on the other hand, doesn't make sense at all. I mean, how do you get that from taking the derivative of the first derivative. Let's take a pretty standard function: x=1/2*t^2+2*t+12. x'=t+2; x''=1, whereas his version would be x''=1-t, which doesn't make any sense, unless he has completely redefined everything. I mean, d^2y/dx^2 would have to be something like 2t+5 and d^2x/dx^2 would have to be something like 2, and then we get x''=2t+5-(t+2)*2. I didn't read the paper so I don't know what it would actually be, but there's no doubt that x''=1, so if his method is to make any sense at all it would have to give the same results in the end. I just don't see how it could.
It is first-degree murder under the felony murder rule, which is recognized in some form or another by all fifty states, the federal government and just about every other government in the world. It works like this: If you plan to commit a felony, then commit that felony and, in the process of committing that felony or as a result of that felony, someone dies, you have committed first-degree murder. If you commit a felony on a whim (that is, you didn't plan to commit it ahead of time), and someone dies during the commission of the felony or as a result, then you have committed second-degree murder. That's how it works.
Now, let's look at the Tyler Barriss SWATting: Barriss talked with other people about making a fraudulent 911 call and then made that fraudulent 911 call. Making a fraudulent 911 call is a crime, and can be a felony under federal anti-terrorism laws. Since the 911 call-center was in Kansas, and Barriss was in California, federal law applies. Talking about it ahead of time is also called planning and is, of and in itself, a crime called conspiracy, which can be a felony. Since Barriss has been convicted of these crimes before*, they can and should be charged as felonies, and Barriss committed those felonies. Someone died as a result of those felonies. Thus, under the felony murder rule, Barriss has committed first-degree murder. Thought I'd let you know,
* Crimes which can be charged as either a felony or a misdemeanor, with no difference between elements of the crime, such as conspiracy, misuse of emergency systems, retail fraud, simple assault, etc, are typically charged as misdemeanors on the first (and sometimes, second) offense, and as felonies on subsequent offenses. This is how people get charged with felonies for minor things like shoplifting (aka retail fraud).
Around here, a lot of the bug poison sprays are "All natural" and shit, which means that they're mostly menthol and orange oil. It smells nice, but bugs couldn't care less even if you spray them directly. Case in point: One time, my cats started taking shits behind my toilet and I didn't realize it until there were like 500 flies in my house. That All-Natural Fly Killer was less than worthless. I ended up using flypaper and a vacuum. It turns out that flies are relatively easy to suck up with a vacuum when they land, and they land often.
You (and a huge part of the Slashdot community) seem to be slightly misinformed about US law on these matters. Under US law (which is what matters for most of the big Internet companies, being that they're US based), ISP's are immune to suit and from liability as long as they meet certain, quite minimal, requirements. When I say, ISP, I'm talking about anyone which provides some kind of service over the Internet, not just providers of Internet service. So Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc. Anyway, those requirements are as follows: 1. You allow users to post material without inspecting or curating it first. 2. You take action to remove illegal content within a reasonable amount of time. That's it. You do that and no one can sue you for what was posted on your website in the US. Most of the rest of the Western world have similar laws. It's called safe harbor. This is why Facebook, Youtube, etc, all removed Alex Jones' crap at roughly the same time. They realized that some of what he posted was possbily/probably illegal (specifically, his libel and incitement to violence) because it hit the news. They heard about it and said, "Oh, shit, he might be posting illegal shit on my site too! And now I know about it. I must take action to maintain my safe harbor. To the banhammer room!" So, anyway, they aren't really worried about lawsuits any more now than they were a while ago. And they're acting like this to keep it that way. I suppose that's sort of a bankshot "worry about lawsuits" kind of thing, but I don't really think that it counts. Making sure you keep your safe harbor status isn't the same as worrying about liability and lawsuits the way people usually mean when they talk about worrying about liability and lawsuits.
That's bullshit. A CONVICTION should be an issue for certain job types. Being arrested should mean precisely dick. Otherwise, we don't have a society where one is innocent until proven guilty, and that's not a society I'd like to live in.
Most electronics use switching supplies for the base power rails. Switching supplies have capacitors, some of which may be charged and discharged at a frequency in the audible range. Those capacitors can be quite loud. You can even use them as speakers. Nowadays most switching supplies use higher frequencies to cut down on audible noise, but noisy caps are still a thing. Furthermore, there are almost always caps that smooth out the AC input. 50/60hz is audible, so those caps will always hum.
It would be illegal in most countries to totally disable emergency calling. So your never going to get that. The closest you'll get is airplane mode (which virtually every phone has) , which really does turn off all the radios. When you try to make an emergency call, it turns the radio back on.
Unrelated but why does slashdot not keep me logged in anymore? Wtf?
In English, when 'America' is used by itself, it refers to the USA. In America, most people speak English. Just thought I'd let you know.
Also, (for the G.?P) Despacito was number one for months on the Hot 100. If you haven't heard of it, get out of your cave once in a while. It's nice outside.
Real, manly, neckbearded men browse at -1, although we recognize that the higher pointed posts are usually better. We don't have any problems with seeing absolute drivel and garbage in the hope of finding gold that goes against the grain. It happens all the time. If you want a walled garden approach, I say, "Grow up and grow a pair."
Besides, on this site, there aren't enough posts, generally, to need to cull the shit.
The word piracy now refers to certain types of copyright infringement, in addition to theft of vessels and cargo on the high seas. Get over it. Language changes over time. That's the way of the world.
No, actually you are wrong. Absolutely wrong. Sour is the taste of acid in your mouth. Bitter is the taste of alkaline (although alkaloids are far more bitter than actual bases, one should note that alkaloid literally means alkaline-like, so color me surprised). Note that those things are completely opposite. While it is possible to taste both sour and bitter at the same time through the use of alkaloids mixed with acid, using ordinary basic substances, it is not. Acids and alkalines react together to make salts, which is something altogether different tasting. The thing is that ordinary vinegar doesn't contain any alkaloids and is acidic, therefore, it tastes sour. It's the definition of sour. Strong vinegar is as sour as sour gets.
Some of the darker vinegars may have some small amounts of bitter substances in them, but acid will be the overriding taste. You'd need to make up some coffee vinegar or some shit to have a "bitter" vinegar. But even if you did, the acid is going to be the thing you taste most. Vinegar is like 5% acetic acid, so you're definitely going to taste it. And, even if your crappy coffee vinegar was bitter, it'd still be sour, because, you know, 5% acetic acid is pretty damn sour. So, yes, you are wrong. A minority of people agree with you. That's makes them wrong too. Just like the flat-earth retards. As far as bitter vinegar and flat earth being things goes, you're all fucking retards.
(Don't take my rant too seriously, I'm just in a bad mood. I feel much better now that I've gotten that out of my system. LOL, I was going to delete the text and not post it, since it's so vitriolic, but fuck it, I'll post it anyway, If I have to be angry, so do you.)
No they don't. Natural gas doesn't produce particulates. Natural gas is methane and hydrogen. Methane, when burnt, produces carbon monoxide and water. Carbon monoxide, when burnt, produces carbon dioxide. There's a bit of a small hydrocarbon produced as well but it's a gas and, when burnt, produces carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and water. Natural gas also contains small amounts of ethane, but that also burns to gases. There are no carbon chains produced, like there would be with larger hydrocarbons, which means no particulates, since particulates are carbon chains with little to no hydrogen on them. The only particles that are produced are a small amount of single and dual atom carbon, which is gaseous and highly reactive, which means they're not really particles and they don't last long anyway.
Let's just use a basic "dictionary" definition. Harassment is contacting another person after being asked to stop. One caveat is that politicians cannot ask people to stop contacting them regarding political issues. Another is that people can't ask the general public not to contact them regarding their conduct or speech made in public. To be clear, one has to ask for the particular contact to cease, and then have the contact continue for it to be harassment. Also, harassment can only exist on a person-to-person basis. That is, asking person A and person B to stop contacting you about X does not obligate person C. You cannot blanket tell people to leave you alone about certain topics. You must ask each individual person to stop. Also, the content with which they are contacted is not material.
I'll second that. I once tried to understand what was going on in get_iplayer. It was completely opaque. Regexes can suck my ass. I spent several days trying to figure something out (I don't remember what I was trying to do) to no avail. I ended up giving up. To be fair, I'm not a professional programmer, but I don't often struggle that much with source code. I swear, every time I have trouble like that it's been with perl or with c++ when someone gets creative.
I can't even tell the difference. I actually had to use a color comparison tool to compare them side-by-side to see any difference at all. It's amazing that anyone noticed, let alone got angry.
USB-C and micro USB both suck as sockets in my book. I've had several microUSB ports and a USB-C port fail on me (on my Nexus 5X). Sometimes they can be repaired, but other times, such as with my N900 years ago, no such luck. I've had a number of headphone jacks fail on me as well, but only once on a phone, and the failure wasn't in the ability to transmit an audio signal, but in that jiggling the cord would convince the phone that I had a full-out headset with a button and would trigger the voice control shit, even though the headphones were just regular headphones. I'm not sure how that worked, but it sucked ass.
Dongles increase the amount of torque applied to the headphone jack. This will eventually cause the jack to delaminate from the phone's PCB. Very bad. This is why headphone cables have a 90degree bend on the plug. It reduces the force applied to the jack.
Use potassium permanganate. Just buy some of the powder off ebay (whatever size you buy will last the rest of your life). Put a small amount in some warm water. When I say small amount, I mean small. Like the amount that you can get on the end of a house key. You want enough water to cover your feet, and enough potassium permanganate to dye the water a light pink. If it's purple, you used too much. If it's dark, you went way, way too far. Anyway, you can also add some epsom salt to the water. Make sure it's nice and warm, and soak your feet for a half-hour every couple of days until it clears up. Trust me, it will. In order for it to work, you'll need to treat your shoes with boric acid (again, ebay. Get a big bag.). A good dusting is all you need. Also, wash your socks in hot water, and keep your socks on around the house. Bleach your shower and bathroom floor daily. It's all easy stuff. Follow the protocol and your athlete's foot will be gone.
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The problem with using that ~14 year statistic is that it includes people whose sentence ended by death, and the number of people who died in prison during their terms is not insignificant. That means we can really infer a whole lot about murder sentences from that statistic. If say it's a bit less meaningless than the 40 year average sentence statistic but still it's not that useful. Even then, around 15 years for your average murder makes sense to me. Realize that most of the murders are going to be second-degree, not first. In other words, these are mostly spur-of-the-moment murders and not planned out ahead of time. That is, most of these murderers aren't likely to do it again, so there's no need to lock them up forever. Fifteen years seems about right.
dy/dx doesn't represent instantaneous rate of change. That would be nonsense. The d in dx and dy means "small difference that will eventually go to zero". This is why dy/dx is a fraction. It represents the limit of a small change in y divided by small change in x, as the changes go to zero. This is why we teach students about the limit definition of the derivative as being what the derivative really is. As far dy and dx being tricks of notation, they're really not. They really are small changes. There's no instantaneous rate of change. dy and dx are always finite real numbers. They never actually become zero. dy/dx is the ratio that is approached as they get smaller and smaller.
As far as this guy's new version of the second derivative, I call bullshit. I seriously doubt that this is correct. And the notation d^2y/dx^2 actually makes sense when you think about. It's really just d(dy/dx)/dx, that is, a small change in dy/dx divided by a small change in x, where dy/dx is a small change in y divided by a small change in x. Writing it in the other way is just a good way of doing it. If you draw out what this means graphically, is becomes clear that it's really a small change between two consecutive small changes in y divided by two small changes in x, that is d(dy)/dx^2, hence d^2y/dx^2.
This guy's new version, on the other hand, doesn't make sense at all. I mean, how do you get that from taking the derivative of the first derivative. Let's take a pretty standard function: x=1/2*t^2+2*t+12. x'=t+2; x''=1, whereas his version would be x''=1-t, which doesn't make any sense, unless he has completely redefined everything. I mean, d^2y/dx^2 would have to be something like 2t+5 and d^2x/dx^2 would have to be something like 2, and then we get x''=2t+5-(t+2)*2. I didn't read the paper so I don't know what it would actually be, but there's no doubt that x''=1, so if his method is to make any sense at all it would have to give the same results in the end. I just don't see how it could.
Are you dense? You don't know what the thing that makes sound when someone calls you on the phone is called? Seriously?
It is first-degree murder under the felony murder rule, which is recognized in some form or another by all fifty states, the federal government and just about every other government in the world. It works like this: If you plan to commit a felony, then commit that felony and, in the process of committing that felony or as a result of that felony, someone dies, you have committed first-degree murder. If you commit a felony on a whim (that is, you didn't plan to commit it ahead of time), and someone dies during the commission of the felony or as a result, then you have committed second-degree murder. That's how it works.
Now, let's look at the Tyler Barriss SWATting: Barriss talked with other people about making a fraudulent 911 call and then made that fraudulent 911 call. Making a fraudulent 911 call is a crime, and can be a felony under federal anti-terrorism laws. Since the 911 call-center was in Kansas, and Barriss was in California, federal law applies. Talking about it ahead of time is also called planning and is, of and in itself, a crime called conspiracy, which can be a felony. Since Barriss has been convicted of these crimes before*, they can and should be charged as felonies, and Barriss committed those felonies. Someone died as a result of those felonies. Thus, under the felony murder rule, Barriss has committed first-degree murder. Thought I'd let you know,
* Crimes which can be charged as either a felony or a misdemeanor, with no difference between elements of the crime, such as conspiracy, misuse of emergency systems, retail fraud, simple assault, etc, are typically charged as misdemeanors on the first (and sometimes, second) offense, and as felonies on subsequent offenses. This is how people get charged with felonies for minor things like shoplifting (aka retail fraud).
Around here, a lot of the bug poison sprays are "All natural" and shit, which means that they're mostly menthol and orange oil. It smells nice, but bugs couldn't care less even if you spray them directly. Case in point: One time, my cats started taking shits behind my toilet and I didn't realize it until there were like 500 flies in my house. That All-Natural Fly Killer was less than worthless. I ended up using flypaper and a vacuum. It turns out that flies are relatively easy to suck up with a vacuum when they land, and they land often.
You (and a huge part of the Slashdot community) seem to be slightly misinformed about US law on these matters. Under US law (which is what matters for most of the big Internet companies, being that they're US based), ISP's are immune to suit and from liability as long as they meet certain, quite minimal, requirements. When I say, ISP, I'm talking about anyone which provides some kind of service over the Internet, not just providers of Internet service. So Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc. Anyway, those requirements are as follows:
1. You allow users to post material without inspecting or curating it first.
2. You take action to remove illegal content within a reasonable amount of time.
That's it. You do that and no one can sue you for what was posted on your website in the US. Most of the rest of the Western world have similar laws. It's called safe harbor. This is why Facebook, Youtube, etc, all removed Alex Jones' crap at roughly the same time. They realized that some of what he posted was possbily/probably illegal (specifically, his libel and incitement to violence) because it hit the news. They heard about it and said, "Oh, shit, he might be posting illegal shit on my site too! And now I know about it. I must take action to maintain my safe harbor. To the banhammer room!"
So, anyway, they aren't really worried about lawsuits any more now than they were a while ago. And they're acting like this to keep it that way. I suppose that's sort of a bankshot "worry about lawsuits" kind of thing, but I don't really think that it counts. Making sure you keep your safe harbor status isn't the same as worrying about liability and lawsuits the way people usually mean when they talk about worrying about liability and lawsuits.
There's video of the event. The cops were still on the street, easily thirty yards away.
That's bullshit. A CONVICTION should be an issue for certain job types. Being arrested should mean precisely dick. Otherwise, we don't have a society where one is innocent until proven guilty, and that's not a society I'd like to live in.
Most electronics use switching supplies for the base power rails. Switching supplies have capacitors, some of which may be charged and discharged at a frequency in the audible range. Those capacitors can be quite loud. You can even use them as speakers. Nowadays most switching supplies use higher frequencies to cut down on audible noise, but noisy caps are still a thing. Furthermore, there are almost always caps that smooth out the AC input. 50/60hz is audible, so those caps will always hum.
It would be illegal in most countries to totally disable emergency calling. So your never going to get that. The closest you'll get is airplane mode (which virtually every phone has) , which really does turn off all the radios. When you try to make an emergency call, it turns the radio back on.
Unrelated but why does slashdot not keep me logged in anymore? Wtf?
In English, when 'America' is used by itself, it refers to the USA. In America, most people speak English. Just thought I'd let you know.
Also, (for the G.?P) Despacito was number one for months on the Hot 100. If you haven't heard of it, get out of your cave once in a while. It's nice outside.
If I had mod points, you'd get one lol
That's great. I literally loled
I wouldn't be surprised if I was the only person to get that joke. Lol
Real, manly, neckbearded men browse at -1, although we recognize that the higher pointed posts are usually better. We don't have any problems with seeing absolute drivel and garbage in the hope of finding gold that goes against the grain. It happens all the time. If you want a walled garden approach, I say, "Grow up and grow a pair."
Besides, on this site, there aren't enough posts, generally, to need to cull the shit.
The word piracy now refers to certain types of copyright infringement, in addition to theft of vessels and cargo on the high seas. Get over it. Language changes over time. That's the way of the world.
No, actually you are wrong. Absolutely wrong. Sour is the taste of acid in your mouth. Bitter is the taste of alkaline (although alkaloids are far more bitter than actual bases, one should note that alkaloid literally means alkaline-like, so color me surprised). Note that those things are completely opposite. While it is possible to taste both sour and bitter at the same time through the use of alkaloids mixed with acid, using ordinary basic substances, it is not. Acids and alkalines react together to make salts, which is something altogether different tasting. The thing is that ordinary vinegar doesn't contain any alkaloids and is acidic, therefore, it tastes sour. It's the definition of sour. Strong vinegar is as sour as sour gets.
Some of the darker vinegars may have some small amounts of bitter substances in them, but acid will be the overriding taste. You'd need to make up some coffee vinegar or some shit to have a "bitter" vinegar. But even if you did, the acid is going to be the thing you taste most. Vinegar is like 5% acetic acid, so you're definitely going to taste it. And, even if your crappy coffee vinegar was bitter, it'd still be sour, because, you know, 5% acetic acid is pretty damn sour. So, yes, you are wrong. A minority of people agree with you. That's makes them wrong too. Just like the flat-earth retards. As far as bitter vinegar and flat earth being things goes, you're all fucking retards.
(Don't take my rant too seriously, I'm just in a bad mood. I feel much better now that I've gotten that out of my system. LOL, I was going to delete the text and not post it, since it's so vitriolic, but fuck it, I'll post it anyway, If I have to be angry, so do you.)
No they don't. Natural gas doesn't produce particulates. Natural gas is methane and hydrogen. Methane, when burnt, produces carbon monoxide and water. Carbon monoxide, when burnt, produces carbon dioxide. There's a bit of a small hydrocarbon produced as well but it's a gas and, when burnt, produces carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and water. Natural gas also contains small amounts of ethane, but that also burns to gases. There are no carbon chains produced, like there would be with larger hydrocarbons, which means no particulates, since particulates are carbon chains with little to no hydrogen on them. The only particles that are produced are a small amount of single and dual atom carbon, which is gaseous and highly reactive, which means they're not really particles and they don't last long anyway.
Let's just use a basic "dictionary" definition. Harassment is contacting another person after being asked to stop. One caveat is that politicians cannot ask people to stop contacting them regarding political issues. Another is that people can't ask the general public not to contact them regarding their conduct or speech made in public. To be clear, one has to ask for the particular contact to cease, and then have the contact continue for it to be harassment. Also, harassment can only exist on a person-to-person basis. That is, asking person A and person B to stop contacting you about X does not obligate person C. You cannot blanket tell people to leave you alone about certain topics. You must ask each individual person to stop. Also, the content with which they are contacted is not material.
Uh, no. Zuck was born in 1984. You only need to be 35 to be elected POTUS. That means he can run in 2020.
I'll second that. I once tried to understand what was going on in get_iplayer. It was completely opaque. Regexes can suck my ass. I spent several days trying to figure something out (I don't remember what I was trying to do) to no avail. I ended up giving up. To be fair, I'm not a professional programmer, but I don't often struggle that much with source code. I swear, every time I have trouble like that it's been with perl or with c++ when someone gets creative.
I can't even tell the difference. I actually had to use a color comparison tool to compare them side-by-side to see any difference at all. It's amazing that anyone noticed, let alone got angry.
USB-C and micro USB both suck as sockets in my book. I've had several microUSB ports and a USB-C port fail on me (on my Nexus 5X). Sometimes they can be repaired, but other times, such as with my N900 years ago, no such luck. I've had a number of headphone jacks fail on me as well, but only once on a phone, and the failure wasn't in the ability to transmit an audio signal, but in that jiggling the cord would convince the phone that I had a full-out headset with a button and would trigger the voice control shit, even though the headphones were just regular headphones. I'm not sure how that worked, but it sucked ass.
Dongles increase the amount of torque applied to the headphone jack. This will eventually cause the jack to delaminate from the phone's PCB. Very bad. This is why headphone cables have a 90degree bend on the plug. It reduces the force applied to the jack.
Use potassium permanganate. Just buy some of the powder off ebay (whatever size you buy will last the rest of your life). Put a small amount in some warm water. When I say small amount, I mean small. Like the amount that you can get on the end of a house key. You want enough water to cover your feet, and enough potassium permanganate to dye the water a light pink. If it's purple, you used too much. If it's dark, you went way, way too far. Anyway, you can also add some epsom salt to the water. Make sure it's nice and warm, and soak your feet for a half-hour every couple of days until it clears up. Trust me, it will. In order for it to work, you'll need to treat your shoes with boric acid (again, ebay. Get a big bag.). A good dusting is all you need. Also, wash your socks in hot water, and keep your socks on around the house. Bleach your shower and bathroom floor daily. It's all easy stuff. Follow the protocol and your athlete's foot will be gone.