Don't knock it, my six year old son thinks lava surfing Lego Bionicles are cool. I mean it would be nice if the film rose above the level of Bionicles, but unsurprising if it doesn't.
> some countries will have more customers getting electricity from solar than from a central grid.
Wouldn't surprise me at all for somewhere like Sudan, Niger, or Chad.
But even if everyone has solar, having a grid as well can be valuable. Rather than everyone have enough batteries, you can also use things like pumped storage schemes. And you can connect wind farms, and hydroelectric plants, and geothermal plants, and tidal barrages, and wave powered generators, and whatever non-renewable sources you still have.
Yes and no - the person making it generally has an unusual definition for "atheist" that makes it a tautology, counting anyone who doesn't hold the non-existence of any sort of god as a matter of faith as merely an agnostic. It's a common enough claim that Google will find plenty more detail in places where it's on topic (and where it isn't). "strong" and "weak" are useful terms to add to the search.
Even further off topic, but that reminds me of a story I heard from a teacher. A parent complained that her child was learning bad language at school - "He doesn't fucking learn it at home, I can fucking well tell you that".
Arrowheads and axes made of flint or obsidian don't decay, and we don't find them with dinosaur aged fossils. So unless they went straight to 1900s technology without a stone age earlier, it seems unlikely.
In principle you can have machine voting that does have independant eyeball verifiable ballots. You can either use the human readable form as a backup to be used in the event of a dispute, or use a sample of them to check they agree with the machine's count (and then move to the "in the event of a dispute" procedure if any disagreement is found). (At the extreme, the "sample" is every single vote and the machine count is only a preliminary estimate, not the real count, but then you don't really have machine voting.) It's not easy to do right though. (It's easy to either make checking votes were recorded properly easy, or to make voting anonymous in such a way that no voter can prove how they voted to anyone else, but difficult to do both at once. The "no voter can prove how they voted to anyone else" means no one can reliably buy your vote or intimidate you into voting for someone you don't want.)
> That's an intresting way of looking at it, considering that those building materials last practically forever, where as wood most certinally does not.
I've lived in a 400 year old timber framed house. That might not be "practically forever", but it's longer than any steel building has lasted so far:-) (Concrete goes back to the Romans though.)
Cool. So not only do I have a constitutionally protected right to drive without a licence, but, since the purpose of flying is also to travel, I can also fly anywhere I want without any of that tedious qualifying as a pilot and obeying air traffic control stuff. Well, either that or you're full of shit.
My children enjoyed the books (first) and the films. I think the films did a reasonable job of showing the spirit of the books. I think the fact that the movies will have to shorten the longer later books might be a good thing though. (But while my reaction to the ending of Goblet of Fire was "Voldemort badly needs to read the Evil Overlord list", my children (aged 5 and 7 at the time) didn't point out how easily he could have skipped most of the book, so it can't be that bad.)
Have you come across C--, which is actually designed as a portable compiler target language?
Lower level than C in some ways (since it doesn't bother with things that the higher level language should be handling), but supports other things that C doesn't, like exceptions, and optimized tail recursion.
Still experimental, but interesting.
One of the things that it isn't is a virtual machine like Parrot.
> Are you saying there's a difference between "was known" and "appears"?
No. (There might be, if you mean "was known to Microsoft" and "appears publically" but that's got nothing to do with my point.)
> it seems quite clear that what they're saying is that most exploits come after the hackers have had a chance to compare patched VS unpatched systems to see what the changes are
Right. Which isn't the same thing as "is never vulnerable until a patch appears". How the fuck does someone get +5 Informative for a post saying they don't understand? I was quite pleased with a +5 Funny, but that kind of cheapens it.
> the specific (never had vulnerabilities exploited before the patch was known) is probably hyperbole
Since he says he can think of (only) one instance when a vulnerability was exploited beforehand, "never" is definitely at least slight exaggeration. But even if it was strictly true, it wouldn't be the same thing as "is never vulnerable until a patch appears"
There are cars where the battery isn't under the hood (my Audi, for example, it's under the rear seat). There are chargers that plug into the cigarette lighter socket (not sure I'd like to be restricted to one myself, but they exist). If this wasn't just a concept car, I hope they'd provide access to the battery one way or another.
You take it to the dealer, who _can_ remove the hood. Personally I think there's a clear market - if someone can't even read a linked article before asking a question that's answered there, how the hell do you expect them to be able to change their own oil?
About as smart as advertising that you carry around over $1000 in cash in your back pocket? He'd better hope local pickpockets don't read Slashdot and aren't conspiracy nuts.
> Other ridiculous statements that have also been proven false.
Slashdot stories always accurately summarize the content of the linked story, and wouldn't ever misrepresent vulnerabilities are hardly ever exploited before patches are released as "is never vulnerable until a patch appears".
> Of course, even better would be a system based on, say, 128 units
Only if you only ever want to divide by powers of 2. The 60 minutes in an hour divides by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (and 10, 12, 15, and 20). 120 would be better than 128. But since we use a decimal system for numbers generally, using it for most measurements too makes a lot of sense (time is a special case because we want to keep days, and some reasonable subdivision of them, and seconds). Changing _everything_ to use base-12 would be too much, even if we do have dozens and gross in relatively common use. (UK currency used to have 12 pennies in a shilling, 12 shillings in a pound, but we've been decimal for years.)
I've long thought something like page ranking would work well for finding porn. Porn sites tend to link to other porn sites, non-porn sites tend not to link to porn sites. Mark a few well known sites as porn to start things off, and how linked a random new site is to them gives the chance of it being a porn site (of course you can use keywords and so on too). Weight heavily for number and size of images that _aren't_ links to other sites and there's your (free, since the search engine won't be filling out any credit card forms) porn. At least until someone fills a link farm with boring images that get spidered by search engined but not shown to normal users because they only exist to boost the rating, which will be seconds after the scheme starts being used:-(
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> lava surfboards?
Don't knock it, my six year old son thinks lava surfing Lego Bionicles are cool. I mean it would be nice if the film rose above the level of Bionicles, but unsurprising if it doesn't.
> some countries will have more customers getting electricity from solar than from a central grid.
Wouldn't surprise me at all for somewhere like Sudan, Niger, or Chad.
But even if everyone has solar, having a grid as well can be valuable. Rather than everyone have enough batteries, you can also use things like pumped storage schemes. And you can connect wind farms, and hydroelectric plants, and geothermal plants, and tidal barrages, and wave powered generators, and whatever non-renewable sources you still have.
Yes and no - the person making it generally has an unusual definition for "atheist" that makes it a tautology, counting anyone who doesn't hold the non-existence of any sort of god as a matter of faith as merely an agnostic.
It's a common enough claim that Google will find plenty more detail in places where it's on topic (and where it isn't). "strong" and "weak" are useful terms to add to the search.
Even further off topic, but that reminds me of a story I heard from a teacher. A parent complained that her child was learning bad language at school - "He doesn't fucking learn it at home, I can fucking well tell you that".
Arrowheads and axes made of flint or obsidian don't decay, and we don't find them with dinosaur aged fossils. So unless they went straight to 1900s technology without a stone age earlier, it seems unlikely.
It counts if you were doing it 30 years ago :-)
But as other people have said, it's not really the same, like cybersex isn't real sex.
> TiVo's only non-USA market is the UK.
For small values of market - the service is supported, but they aren't on sale any more.
In principle you can have machine voting that does have independant eyeball verifiable ballots. You can either use the human readable form as a backup to be used in the event of a dispute, or use a sample of them to check they agree with the machine's count (and then move to the "in the event of a dispute" procedure if any disagreement is found). (At the extreme, the "sample" is every single vote and the machine count is only a preliminary estimate, not the real count, but then you don't really have machine voting.)
It's not easy to do right though. (It's easy to either make checking votes were recorded properly easy, or to make voting anonymous in such a way that no voter can prove how they voted to anyone else, but difficult to do both at once. The "no voter can prove how they voted to anyone else" means no one can reliably buy your vote or intimidate you into voting for someone you don't want.)
> That's an intresting way of looking at it, considering that those building materials last practically forever, where as wood most certinally does not.
:-)
I've lived in a 400 year old timber framed house. That might not be "practically forever", but it's longer than any steel building has lasted so far
(Concrete goes back to the Romans though.)
Cool. So not only do I have a constitutionally protected right to drive without a licence, but, since the purpose of flying is also to travel, I can also fly anywhere I want without any of that tedious qualifying as a pilot and obeying air traffic control stuff.
Well, either that or you're full of shit.
> And, unlike a car, a computer system can have both the GUI and the power tools in the same box.
Nitpick: that should "unlike a car, other than a few expensive ones with Tiptronic transmission that can be used as an automatic or as a manual,"
> I used to love my old Chopper - the new Chopper looks shit
Huh? It's the same bloody stupid bike design it always was, they've just moved the gear lever.
Or aren't we talking about the same thing?
My children enjoyed the books (first) and the films. I think the films did a reasonable job of showing the spirit of the books. I think the fact that the movies will have to shorten the longer later books might be a good thing though.
(But while my reaction to the ending of Goblet of Fire was "Voldemort badly needs to read the Evil Overlord list", my children (aged 5 and 7 at the time) didn't point out how easily he could have skipped most of the book, so it can't be that bad.)
> unless you wanna ride that bike the entire time the radio is on.
One of the many things you could run is a battery charger.
> a hand crank battery replacement... oops. I would think that a battery would be a better choice
So your plan is to replace a battery with - a battery. Not exactly a "hand crank battery replacement" is it?
> A typical cap isn't going to do much to keep something running if you step off the bike, right?
No, it will help smooth the rectifier output while you are on the bike. Like the parent said.
Have you come across C--, which is actually designed as a portable compiler target language?
Lower level than C in some ways (since it doesn't bother with things that the higher level language should be handling), but supports other things that C doesn't, like exceptions, and optimized tail recursion.
Still experimental, but interesting.
One of the things that it isn't is a virtual machine like Parrot.
> Are you saying there's a difference between "was known" and "appears"?
No. (There might be, if you mean "was known to Microsoft" and "appears publically" but that's got nothing to do with my point.)
> it seems quite clear that what they're saying is that most exploits come after the hackers have had a chance to compare patched VS unpatched systems to see what the changes are
Right. Which isn't the same thing as "is never vulnerable until a patch appears". How the fuck does someone get +5 Informative for a post saying they don't understand? I was quite pleased with a +5 Funny, but that kind of cheapens it.
> the specific (never had vulnerabilities exploited before the patch was known) is probably hyperbole
Since he says he can think of (only) one instance when a vulnerability was exploited beforehand, "never" is definitely at least slight exaggeration. But even if it was strictly true, it wouldn't be the same thing as "is never vulnerable until a patch appears"
There are cars where the battery isn't under the hood (my Audi, for example, it's under the rear seat). There are chargers that plug into the cigarette lighter socket (not sure I'd like to be restricted to one myself, but they exist). If this wasn't just a concept car, I hope they'd provide access to the battery one way or another.
> If it breaks under the hood how do you fix it?
You take it to the dealer, who _can_ remove the hood. Personally I think there's a clear market - if someone can't even read a linked article before asking a question that's answered there, how the hell do you expect them to be able to change their own oil?
> 20 shillings to the pound.
Damn. So it was. Told you it was years.
> 1 shilling (or 1 bob) is 5 new pence.
Until they shrunk the coins, at least.
About as smart as advertising that you carry around over $1000 in cash in your back pocket? He'd better hope local pickpockets don't read Slashdot and aren't conspiracy nuts.
> use wget ... if you're not on a Windows machine.
/usr/bin/wget
Or even if you are:
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-4.0 XXX 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown
$ type wget
wget is
> Other ridiculous statements that have also been proven false.
Slashdot stories always accurately summarize the content of the linked story, and wouldn't ever misrepresent vulnerabilities are hardly ever exploited before patches are released as "is never vulnerable until a patch appears".
> Of course, even better would be a system based on, say, 128 units
Only if you only ever want to divide by powers of 2. The 60 minutes in an hour divides by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (and 10, 12, 15, and 20). 120 would be better than 128.
But since we use a decimal system for numbers generally, using it for most measurements too makes a lot of sense (time is a special case because we want to keep days, and some reasonable subdivision of them, and seconds). Changing _everything_ to use base-12 would be too much, even if we do have dozens and gross in relatively common use.
(UK currency used to have 12 pennies in a shilling, 12 shillings in a pound, but we've been decimal for years.)
> guess who owns googleporn.com...
:-(
I've long thought something like page ranking would work well for finding porn. Porn sites tend to link to other porn sites, non-porn sites tend not to link to porn sites. Mark a few well known sites as porn to start things off, and how linked a random new site is to them gives the chance of it being a porn site (of course you can use keywords and so on too). Weight heavily for number and size of images that _aren't_ links to other sites and there's your (free, since the search engine won't be filling out any credit card forms) porn.
At least until someone fills a link farm with boring images that get spidered by search engined but not shown to normal users because they only exist to boost the rating, which will be seconds after the scheme starts being used
> Sounds vaguely similar to sudo.
r v/
Maybe more like userv
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/use