Well, for one thing, they should eliminate his balance owed for staying in prison. They don't just hold you there, they charge you rent and for supplies.
Next, they should pay him a lump sum for all of the money he would probably have earned if he hadn't been prosecuted and imprisoned.
Next, they should refund him lawyer fees.
Unfortunately, I've never heard of the federal government having to pay punitive damages. I'm not even sure they've ever had to compensate the wrongly imprisoned.
That might actually be interesting to think about when we get printing devices that make objects rather than paper printouts. (I'm talking about depositing materials, not cutting away as in a lathe.)
Anyone know of any good discussions on atomic-level object imaging?
I wonder what happens when VoIP becomes VoMAC, where addresses are based on MAC addresses (or equivalent per-hardware instance address). (or equivalent.) You could then have a privately held list of addresses used by telemarketers. They'd have to buy new hardware (or be issued new unique numbers) in order to get out from under it.
The natural behavior of a democracy or republic is to pass legislation against unpopular behaviors. The American constitution, and more specifically, the bill of rights, is there to prevent tyranny by the majority.
I suppose its easier to pump more money into the FBI and justice department in order to enforce laws, than to fund programs educating parents on proper parenting behavior. (Especially considering many, many parents are sensitive about being told how to raise their children.)
With conservative appointees, you need to mention the conservative viewpoint. (Not that this viewpoint isn't shared by both liberals and conservatives, but conservative appointees are more likely to be influenced by it.)
I've never heard of a Supreme Court appointee being set aside (presumably for "lack of good behavior") for disagreeing with the popular viewpoint, but I imagine it could happen if enough pressure was applied.
I wonder if they're including things like access permissions. From the university's financial perspective, students shouldn't be able to get the material for classes they're not paying for.
From the perspective of the US executive branch, even United States citizens are eligible for Guantanamo bay. Regardless, I should have included "terrorist" in the list with "spy" and "enemy combatant."
The problem is that averages don't matter. The average child is never injured by firearms. But "Every year, 500 children die gun-related deaths." gets legislation passed.
Even in journalism, only information that supports the journalist's side (or doesn't harm it considerably) gets included. That's where "out of context" quotes and "sound bytes" come in.
I imagine it'd be more useful for things like statistical analysis, or maybe even the occasional early report. An increase in a given type of behavior, for example, could signify a number of things.
The way I read it, the network is about collecting information about the government. I guess the legal question is, does that make the participant a spy, or an enemy combatant?
With any paper, you can't do as much effective research as would be ideal. You'll get conflicting reports and anomolous data. ESPECIALLY with papers that have political repercussions.
Indeed. However, a lot of it comes from your code design and your network layout. If your model is written well enough, you'll be maxing out CPU just before you max out network bandwidth. Else, the whole idea behind having a massive number of CPUs goes down the drain with dropped packets.
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The average user thinks their computer runs "Microsoft."
Take that from a guy in tech support.
Well, for one thing, they should eliminate his balance owed for staying in prison. They don't just hold you there, they charge you rent and for supplies.
Next, they should pay him a lump sum for all of the money he would probably have earned if he hadn't been prosecuted and imprisoned.
Next, they should refund him lawyer fees.
Unfortunately, I've never heard of the federal government having to pay punitive damages. I'm not even sure they've ever had to compensate the wrongly imprisoned.
Why not build a massive raid array into the vehicle to be read and written with 10GbE?
Packing and unpacking wouldn't be a problem.
Figure an 1800-drive array of 300GB drives. 527TB/14.3 hrs ~= 11.3GB/s
That might actually be interesting to think about when we get printing devices that make objects rather than paper printouts. (I'm talking about depositing materials, not cutting away as in a lathe.)
Anyone know of any good discussions on atomic-level object imaging?
You have to wonder, did they actually store the data to disk, or did they dump it to /dev/null after checking the md5sum of each chunk?
RLE compressed? What's the fewest number of bits that could be fit into?
Hm. Not including headers, you'd have to have a 43-bit integer representing the number of bytes, then a single bit representing the data.
So 44-bits?
What's the most data that could be transmitted in a single UDP packet this way?
I wonder what happens when VoIP becomes VoMAC, where addresses are based on MAC addresses (or equivalent per-hardware instance address). (or equivalent.) You could then have a privately held list of addresses used by telemarketers. They'd have to buy new hardware (or be issued new unique numbers) in order to get out from under it.
I can really see VoIP being combined with 802.11 mesh networks.
Wouldn't that be something to see? Almost like walkie-talkies or cell phones, but more advanced than both, and cell towers not required.
Hear, hear.
The natural behavior of a democracy or republic is to pass legislation against unpopular behaviors. The American constitution, and more specifically, the bill of rights, is there to prevent tyranny by the majority.
I suppose its easier to pump more money into the FBI and justice department in order to enforce laws, than to fund programs educating parents on proper parenting behavior. (Especially considering many, many parents are sensitive about being told how to raise their children.)
With conservative appointees, you need to mention the conservative viewpoint. (Not that this viewpoint isn't shared by both liberals and conservatives, but conservative appointees are more likely to be influenced by it.)
I've never heard of a Supreme Court appointee being set aside (presumably for "lack of good behavior") for disagreeing with the popular viewpoint, but I imagine it could happen if enough pressure was applied.
But the original content would still survive, wouldn't it? I guess that's the most important thing.
Reading other comments, it looks like the system's intended for broader insertion priviledges than just a few central administrators, though.
I get 170K/s from a measly T1 to a Debian mirror on the other side of the state.
I take it URI's connection was already under high load at the time?
I wonder if they're including things like access permissions. From the university's financial perspective, students shouldn't be able to get the material for classes they're not paying for.
From the perspective of the US executive branch, even United States citizens are eligible for Guantanamo bay. Regardless, I should have included "terrorist" in the list with "spy" and "enemy combatant."
The problem is that averages don't matter. The average child is never injured by firearms. But "Every year, 500 children die gun-related deaths." gets legislation passed.
Even in journalism, only information that supports the journalist's side (or doesn't harm it considerably) gets included. That's where "out of context" quotes and "sound bytes" come in.
I imagine it'd be more useful for things like statistical analysis, or maybe even the occasional early report. An increase in a given type of behavior, for example, could signify a number of things.
The way I read it, the network is about collecting information about the government. I guess the legal question is, does that make the participant a spy, or an enemy combatant?
With any paper, you can't do as much effective research as would be ideal. You'll get conflicting reports and anomolous data. ESPECIALLY with papers that have political repercussions.
They're just covering their ass.
Unless it's administered centrally. A few key individuals decide what goes in, but anyone can read it.
So anyone running the client is giving the researchers access to a minimum portion of their computer?
What if one of the researchers goes rogue?
Indeed. However, a lot of it comes from your code design and your network layout. If your model is written well enough, you'll be maxing out CPU just before you max out network bandwidth. Else, the whole idea behind having a massive number of CPUs goes down the drain with dropped packets.
Ohh...I can feel the legal pain already.
I told you Macs were cheaper!
Seriously, though: How?
That's one of the goals behind the BSD license anyway. That you can make your changes, and not have to share.
They've got a feedback mechanism...
I wonder what would happen if it got 4000 uses in five minutes.
Please, limit yourself to an "educated" vocabulary and grammar only.