So if I use Benson's Law with base 100, does that mean I can predict the first 100 primes? Or will it just effectively give me the distribution of primes (ie. the number of primes in 100) without placement?
I should really just rtfa...
Everyone who does anything technical in China (I'm talking of Chinese people here), knows to use a VPN to tunnel out to Japan or somewhere similar. If it's "illegal" you certainly wouldn't know it.
I recently returned from 6 months in Beijing where I reliably used my OpenVPN connection to an Amazon EC2 server whenever I needed something "special". Don't get me wrong, the great firewall is a pain in the ass, and they don't have the infrastructure (intentionally) to support that much traffic flowing in and out, but it's the same intarwebs we all use.
The parent has it all wrong. Like many things in China, to the untrained eye it looks like some direct attempt to refrain free speech. In reality it's completely economic...
China Mobile _could_ allow anyone to send for free on their network, but frankly, very few people (relatively speaking) care. In a country so big and self-dependent, international texting doesn't matter.
Opening up free internet based SMSs does little other than open up a HUGE hole for people to commercialize on China Mobile's service. China Mobile, being a government owned corporation, wants to ensure that it holds a monopoly on innovation on its network. This is largely why you see very little new things in terms of SMS happening in China, because if someone attempted anything, China Unicom would simply block their service and duplicate it.
It's not about rights, it's all about money
PS: Skype can send to Chinese phones (I'm in China so I've looked into this)
Yeah, but they don't. I'm surfing this right from behind the Great Chinese Firewall.
The Great Chinese Firewall recently has been quite erratic. Surprisingly searching for a lot of open source software will set off Google, and lock me out for a few minutes. Maybe it's got something to do with being 'free'
"Poking" people on Facebook is found to be a secret form of communication used by Al-Qaeda
Congress held a hearing today on the action of poking, a "feature" in the Facebook social network. According to accounts from industry proffesionals, Al-Qaeda has used such "pokes" as a medium for a system of communication not unlike Morse Code. More details after the break.
Sure public APIs initially sound like a gift from god, but from a business viewpoint there's a lot more to it than just "granting your lesser competitors access to your data." In an altruistic world it would only be used to suck off a users data when the user definetively makes the switch. But what happens when they go back? You have a competitor with access to their data who now my endlessly refresh the users data and taunt them to come back because "It's easy your data is already here!" Clearly that's a privacy violation and an abuse on the original company's (Flickr in this article) bandwidth.
What would be a fool proof system is exporting it all to a user-owned file (say a.zip for photo archives). This file could then be uploaded to any number of services and they would parse it automatically. Unfortunately, photo's aren't exactly low-bandwidth so that would be incredibly inconvenient to the end user.
So, I guess we come to the conclusion that what Flickr is doing is okay, as long as competitors also open up their platforms. That way, if one company scrapes too much, they can do it right back.
It all comes down to business...
Wouldn't suprise me really... telecom secret wiring rooms, all those supercomputers to crack strong encryption. At first I was scared of the NSA, then learned to accept it as a debatibly-necessary evil. But I mean, it's the government, they're bound to have secrets. However, coming from a public company Google's slow drift towards this is rather disturbing.
Simply put, secret supercomputers are nothing new in govt, but from a publicly traded company is really temping me to wonder, when will the principles of the matrix become not just a plot element in a sci-fi flick?
Nothing like suspicious curiosity (ie. paranoia) haha...
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"The culture there is such that they love the latest thing, so I could imagine that there would also be a tendency for people to install software off the net that has malware in it as well."
I second that. The personal computers I have looked at are so loaded with "download managers" and "toolbars" it makes me sick. Piracy is big here too, so everyone has the standard ISO mounting software, strange p2p network applications, compression tools. Piracy can get you on some sketchy sites and convince you to install some sketchy software. Botnets anyone?
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I believe the main issue is that broadband here is pretty much monopolized by Hinet. If you have a phone (landline), chances are you have a Hinet e-mail address. For some reason Hinet never, ever, authenticates their e-mail servers allowing them to be used from anywhere for any purpose. As a result a lot of companies (like AOL possibly) have just banned the whole entire Hinet domain, which often results in e-mails going outside of Taiwan never getting to their intended recipient.
Hinet is a mess, I don't why they're so bloody awful at maintaining their servers responsibly, but its providing to be a huge problem both worldwide and for Taiwanese people themselves.
Wired's top 50 Robots
If you want a more thorough review of robots check out Wired's article. Maybe I'm baised because Stanford has 3 bots in the top ten (Stanley is #1!). But, it has pretty pictures too, and everybody loves pictures.
Couldn't someone at Slashdot just whip up a fast Dupe Detector that gives a warning if the articles share too many words or links? I don't think it'd be that hard. Maybe once SATs are done I could attempt, unless someone beats me to it!
I grew up playing with RCX 1.0 and Wired seems to have somehow portrayed it as a failure...
(From one of the images, I'm guessing of a magazine spread)
"Building Blocks" - "Two-by-four" lego blocks vs. Technic Blocks a.k.a. Studless legos -Okay, firstly "Technic" was a brand of lego's geared towards the technological kids like me who liked to play with motors and buttons. Second, the RCX had 4 holes that could be used with studless legos anyway, all they did with this new thing was add a few more and take off the studs.
"User Interface" - "Non-intuitive interface, RCX Code Commands, PC Only" vs "Intuitive GUI, drag-and-drop icons, PC and Mac" -Whoever said RCX 1.0 wasn't intuitive is crazy, programming with the RCX was about the most basic type of programming I've ever done in my life. You dragged little blocks around to configure the order of the program. You would drag, for example a "Wait Ten Seconds" green block over someplace and then put a "Turn the motor on" purple block right below it. Then you'd download it to your brick (okay, this was a little sketchy at times with IR) then turn it on, select the number of the program and press play. How much simpler could you get? Not to mention it had tutorials that showed everything down to animating how to put in the batteries.
"Power" - "Two Motors" vs. "Three motors, redesigned for smoother operation" -Uh, actually the RCX could power up to three motors too, it just typically came with two.
"Connectors" - "Two-wire analog cables" vs "Six-wire digital cables" -Well yeah, the more the better, but I'd imagine homebrew stuff is simpler than digital, I've never done any so correct me if I'm wrong
I've always heard about Wired being sketchy about their reporting, grr...
Nevertheless, it seems like a cool device, especially with bluetooth
my family and i was hiking around in Arizona I think and we were on this trail that led to some ancient indian ruins.
well anyways, so we were looking around in the caves and we saw some creatures... and we were oOoOoOh! and then one moved... it looked like a mouse but it walked like a lizard, it was the weirdest thing... actually it looked a lot like the thing in this report. we called it a lizard mice. and then my dad went screaming ahh you'll get the plaugue!! so then we had to quickly get going...
I only heard this secondhand, but, i heard that the more clicks the lesser the clicks are valued at? (to prevent exploitation), so he'll still make a fair amount of money, just not anything too crazy
"I mean, in order to know there is infringement, you'd have to have already figured out what part of the code was "stolen", right?"
Not according to the same logic that, you can be 100% sure there are WMDs Iraq, just have zero idea of where they are - which apparently was a good enough argument to invade Iraq, so why can't it be used to rob all those linux-source-code-copying-terrorists?
Okay, so i'm guessing the price won't be as high as anticipated... the Korean market is extremely inflated and it's common for Korean based MP3 players seem extremely expensive due to the conversion of their price to US Dollars. Im predicting maybe $275 if not $250
From what I can deduct from all of these 3D desktops is that they want to be able to show more things on a desktop. however just shrinking things and cramming them together isnt gonna work. i think the real limitation on "showing more stuff" is hardware... you need a bigger, higher resolution monitor= no development, no hassle (unles you get like a 75 pound CRT haha).
Downloaded it and its pretty cool lookin... it's neat to see the pre-processed raw images. They even have a 3d model of the rover and its surroundings (however the rendering process makes everything EXTREMELY dissying). What puzzled me though is that Maestro is written in Java and a java application can be run on any virtual machine that has the necessary files therefore preventing seperate OS editions, but for some reason this has separate douwnloads for Linux/Solaris, Windows, and OSX. Hmm... anyway looking forward to the next data pack!
Slashdot Mirror
until someone gets sued.
...that's how it goes, right?
So if I use Benson's Law with base 100, does that mean I can predict the first 100 primes? Or will it just effectively give me the distribution of primes (ie. the number of primes in 100) without placement?
I should really just rtfa...
Everyone who does anything technical in China (I'm talking of Chinese people here), knows to use a VPN to tunnel out to Japan or somewhere similar. If it's "illegal" you certainly wouldn't know it.
I recently returned from 6 months in Beijing where I reliably used my OpenVPN connection to an Amazon EC2 server whenever I needed something "special". Don't get me wrong, the great firewall is a pain in the ass, and they don't have the infrastructure (intentionally) to support that much traffic flowing in and out, but it's the same intarwebs we all use.
The title has to be the farthest I've seen "Web" away from "two-point-oh" in a long time... a whole three words!
The parent has it all wrong. Like many things in China, to the untrained eye it looks like some direct attempt to refrain free speech. In reality it's completely economic...
China Mobile _could_ allow anyone to send for free on their network, but frankly, very few people (relatively speaking) care. In a country so big and self-dependent, international texting doesn't matter.
Opening up free internet based SMSs does little other than open up a HUGE hole for people to commercialize on China Mobile's service. China Mobile, being a government owned corporation, wants to ensure that it holds a monopoly on innovation on its network. This is largely why you see very little new things in terms of SMS happening in China, because if someone attempted anything, China Unicom would simply block their service and duplicate it.
It's not about rights, it's all about money
PS: Skype can send to Chinese phones (I'm in China so I've looked into this)
Yeah, but they don't. I'm surfing this right from behind the Great Chinese Firewall.
The Great Chinese Firewall recently has been quite erratic. Surprisingly searching for a lot of open source software will set off Google, and lock me out for a few minutes. Maybe it's got something to do with being 'free'
The actual paper is at http://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/publications/nipsRecognitionBySceneAlignment.pdf
From what I can tell, it's basically, "blur the image down to only a few hundred pixels and then you have less data to comb through!"
The Scientologists were right all along!
"Poking" people on Facebook is found to be a secret form of communication used by Al-Qaeda
Congress held a hearing today on the action of poking, a "feature" in the Facebook social network. According to accounts from industry proffesionals, Al-Qaeda has used such "pokes" as a medium for a system of communication not unlike Morse Code. More details after the break.
Sure public APIs initially sound like a gift from god, but from a business viewpoint there's a lot more to it than just "granting your lesser competitors access to your data." In an altruistic world it would only be used to suck off a users data when the user definetively makes the switch. But what happens when they go back? You have a competitor with access to their data who now my endlessly refresh the users data and taunt them to come back because "It's easy your data is already here!" Clearly that's a privacy violation and an abuse on the original company's (Flickr in this article) bandwidth. What would be a fool proof system is exporting it all to a user-owned file (say a .zip for photo archives). This file could then be uploaded to any number of services and they would parse it automatically. Unfortunately, photo's aren't exactly low-bandwidth so that would be incredibly inconvenient to the end user.
So, I guess we come to the conclusion that what Flickr is doing is okay, as long as competitors also open up their platforms. That way, if one company scrapes too much, they can do it right back.
It all comes down to business...
Wouldn't suprise me really... telecom secret wiring rooms, all those supercomputers to crack strong encryption. At first I was scared of the NSA, then learned to accept it as a debatibly-necessary evil. But I mean, it's the government, they're bound to have secrets. However, coming from a public company Google's slow drift towards this is rather disturbing.
Simply put, secret supercomputers are nothing new in govt, but from a publicly traded company is really temping me to wonder, when will the principles of the matrix become not just a plot element in a sci-fi flick?
Nothing like suspicious curiosity (ie. paranoia) haha...
"The culture there is such that they love the latest thing, so I could imagine that there would also be a tendency for people to install software off the net that has malware in it as well."
I second that. The personal computers I have looked at are so loaded with "download managers" and "toolbars" it makes me sick. Piracy is big here too, so everyone has the standard ISO mounting software, strange p2p network applications, compression tools. Piracy can get you on some sketchy sites and convince you to install some sketchy software. Botnets anyone?
I believe the main issue is that broadband here is pretty much monopolized by Hinet. If you have a phone (landline), chances are you have a Hinet e-mail address. For some reason Hinet never, ever, authenticates their e-mail servers allowing them to be used from anywhere for any purpose. As a result a lot of companies (like AOL possibly) have just banned the whole entire Hinet domain, which often results in e-mails going outside of Taiwan never getting to their intended recipient. Hinet is a mess, I don't why they're so bloody awful at maintaining their servers responsibly, but its providing to be a huge problem both worldwide and for Taiwanese people themselves.
Wired's top 50 Robots If you want a more thorough review of robots check out Wired's article. Maybe I'm baised because Stanford has 3 bots in the top ten (Stanley is #1!). But, it has pretty pictures too, and everybody loves pictures.
Couldn't someone at Slashdot just whip up a fast Dupe Detector that gives a warning if the articles share too many words or links? I don't think it'd be that hard. Maybe once SATs are done I could attempt, unless someone beats me to it!
I grew up playing with RCX 1.0 and Wired seems to have somehow portrayed it as a failure...
(From one of the images, I'm guessing of a magazine spread)
"Building Blocks" - "Two-by-four" lego blocks vs. Technic Blocks a.k.a. Studless legos
-Okay, firstly "Technic" was a brand of lego's geared towards the technological kids like me who liked to play with motors and buttons. Second, the RCX had 4 holes that could be used with studless legos anyway, all they did with this new thing was add a few more and take off the studs.
"User Interface" - "Non-intuitive interface, RCX Code Commands, PC Only" vs "Intuitive GUI, drag-and-drop icons, PC and Mac"
-Whoever said RCX 1.0 wasn't intuitive is crazy, programming with the RCX was about the most basic type of programming I've ever done in my life. You dragged little blocks around to configure the order of the program. You would drag, for example a "Wait Ten Seconds" green block over someplace and then put a "Turn the motor on" purple block right below it. Then you'd download it to your brick (okay, this was a little sketchy at times with IR) then turn it on, select the number of the program and press play. How much simpler could you get? Not to mention it had tutorials that showed everything down to animating how to put in the batteries.
"Power" - "Two Motors" vs. "Three motors, redesigned for smoother operation"
-Uh, actually the RCX could power up to three motors too, it just typically came with two.
"Connectors" - "Two-wire analog cables" vs "Six-wire digital cables"
-Well yeah, the more the better, but I'd imagine homebrew stuff is simpler than digital, I've never done any so correct me if I'm wrong
I've always heard about Wired being sketchy about their reporting, grr...
Nevertheless, it seems like a cool device, especially with bluetooth
my family and i was hiking around in Arizona I think and we were on this trail that led to some ancient indian ruins.
well anyways, so we were looking around in the caves and we saw some creatures... and we were oOoOoOh! and then one moved... it looked like a mouse but it walked like a lizard, it was the weirdest thing... actually it looked a lot like the thing in this report. we called it a lizard mice. and then my dad went screaming ahh you'll get the plaugue!! so then we had to quickly get going...
haha end of story
Theres been countless /. stories on how so and so is going to provide free WiFi across a certain land area...
...but has anyone actually been successful in doing this?
I only heard this secondhand, but, i heard that the more clicks the lesser the clicks are valued at? (to prevent exploitation), so he'll still make a fair amount of money, just not anything too crazy
Okay so this is really offtopic...
"I mean, in order to know there is infringement, you'd have to have already figured out what part of the code was "stolen", right?"
Not according to the same logic that, you can be 100% sure there are WMDs Iraq, just have zero idea of where they are - which apparently was a good enough argument to invade Iraq, so why can't it be used to rob all those linux-source-code-copying-terrorists?
Okay, so i'm guessing the price won't be as high as anticipated... the Korean market is extremely inflated and it's common for Korean based MP3 players seem extremely expensive due to the conversion of their price to US Dollars. Im predicting maybe $275 if not $250
Wow, it's like they are running on some cheap 419'ers box. Some of the images are not working... does anybody have a mirror?
lol i hope im not the only one who finds this abbreviation funny...
From what I can deduct from all of these 3D desktops is that they want to be able to show more things on a desktop. however just shrinking things and cramming them together isnt gonna work. i think the real limitation on "showing more stuff" is hardware... you need a bigger, higher resolution monitor= no development, no hassle (unles you get like a 75 pound CRT haha).
:P
just my two cents
Downloaded it and its pretty cool lookin... it's neat to see the pre-processed raw images. They even have a 3d model of the rover and its surroundings (however the rendering process makes everything EXTREMELY dissying). What puzzled me though is that Maestro is written in Java and a java application can be run on any virtual machine that has the necessary files therefore preventing seperate OS editions, but for some reason this has separate douwnloads for Linux/Solaris, Windows, and OSX. Hmm... anyway looking forward to the next data pack!