You never, ever use a well-established principle to determine what will happen under conditions which have never been tested??? What the fuck?
When you get into a new car, do you start pushing buttons randomly because it could work like all other cars do, but hey, who knows? When you read a page of text, do you use deductive reasoning to figure out what the language means because it could be in English, but how can you be sure? If you were designing and building an airplane, would you do extensive tests on each component to insure that F=ma held true for that particular object?
The programmers at Microsoft are surely aware of these sorts of issues. It might be a good idea to wait until the product is complete before deciding that it's terribly insecure.
Why the fuck is this "interesting"?? It's all wrong
A link to the Nature article has been posted, and the linked article includes the supposedly non-existent quote. Furthermore, the quote does turn up on google--try it yourself.
The article is titled "Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wide-angle temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background," and the dodecahedral topology they're referring to is Poincare dodecahedral space, so I guess the conjecture has relevance after all.
I think a lot of people have fallen for a troll, one named James A.C. Joyce.
Mathematical induction does work in all branches of math, but is not applicable to this situation. Two things are needed for mathematical induction:
A base case, i.e. it works when n=1
and a proof that the n-1 case implies the n case.
The reason that induction does not work for the poincare conjecture is that the situation being true in n-1 dimensions does not necessarily mean that it's true in n dimensions. Well, technically it does, if this proof is correct, but there's no simple way to prove that the n-1 case implies the n case.
The Poincare conjecture implies that Poincare dodecahedral space(the topic of the article as it applies to the universe) is not simply-connected.
If you play the game of "maybe he isn't who he says he is," any contribution from the many experts who browse slashdot becomes suspect. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but his reply is entirely correct so why does it matter either way?
Maybe before condemning him as a "troll," you losers should actually look into what he's talking about.
"Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wide-angle temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background" did appear in Nature, as a quick search will show.
You have to remember that not everyone is a "hardcore gamer" who considers his or her PC to be a $1000 gaming machine. Many people buy their PCs for more serious reasons, with games being just an added bonus. To someone who bought a computer for movie editing and picked up some games as a diversion, arguments that they should "switch" to a console are meaningless, and will come off somewhat like an argument that they should switch from a car to a bike because it offers the same horn-blowing capability at lower cost.
No, they won't. genes are too abstract for people to develop an irrational hatred based on them. More likely, this will allow people to concentrate therapy and social services more effectively.
The problem with the article's method is getting rid of the CO2. The harvested CO2 is removed from the earth's carbon cycle. This is not a valid long-term way of dealing with the problem.
Carbon in fossil fuels is removed from the earth's carbon cycle when the plants and animals are fossilized. Then we burn it, and produce a bunch of CO2. Then we remove that CO2. What's the problem?
lack of obeying authority.
I don't think that many people find this undesirable. It would be screened out only if the government was in control, which would mean a totalitarianism anyway.
Anyway, do you really think that the world would be a worse place if everyone were smart, good looking and free of disease? It's not as if we aren't already improving ourselves--plastic surgery and medicine have accomplished much in the way of your evil totalitarian playing god. It is no longer considered appropriate to let someone with a terrible disease die. Maybe tomorrow these 'doctors' will be controlling our thoughts!
You know, the great thing about binary is it can be represented with anything that can be in two positions. Such as, for instance, your fingers. By representing binary series of 1s and 0s on your fingers(100110 becomes left thumb up, right pinky down, right ring finger down, right middle finger up, right index finger up, right thumb down), you can count up to 1023. This method of counting uses every possible combination of up and down fingers.
Of course, a person with 8 fingers per hand could count to 65535, but withing reasonable limits of counting your 5 fingers are more than sufficient.
Re:A page as wide as CowboiKneel
on
Disinformation.com
·
· Score: 0, Troll
Why are you afraid to tell us who you are, AC? Are you afraid we'll find out you're a Jew?
Prominent phrenologists all agree that negroids have a much more ape-like skull than Caucasoids, probably the cause of their ape-like behavior and intelligence
>100 years into their journey, faster than light >travel was worked out by the techies back home.
>Never seen that idea before.
A.E. Van Vogt had this in his book, Quest for the Future. The main character and a couple other people spent about 300 years in stasis travelling between Earth and Alpha Centauri, then spent a few hours travelling back to Earth.
The Windows operating system is proprietary. If this 'Lindows' is able to run Windows programs, it has illegally reverse-engineered proprietary Windows code.
A lot of these 'myths' seem to be subjective. For instance, he disagrees with a statement about Microsoft making excellent software. While many people would agree with him, this seems less a case of misinformed kids and more a case of a biased teacher.
It seems to me that cutting back on astronauts now would be like buying a Porsche, then only driving it a few times in order to save on gas. The US has already committed huge amounts of money to this project, and cutting back now could severely limit the usefulness of the space station, making it a complete waste of money.
Slashdot Mirror
You never, ever use a well-established principle to determine what will happen under conditions which have never been tested??? What the fuck?
When you get into a new car, do you start pushing buttons randomly because it could work like all other cars do, but hey, who knows? When you read a page of text, do you use deductive reasoning to figure out what the language means because it could be in English, but how can you be sure? If you were designing and building an airplane, would you do extensive tests on each component to insure that F=ma held true for that particular object?
It is a TV show.
Hahahaha
What the hell is a VPN
The programmers at Microsoft are surely aware of these sorts of issues. It might be a good idea to wait until the product is complete before deciding that it's terribly insecure.
Guys I just noticed that the date is April first!!! That's also April Fool's day!! LOL LOL LOL I'm so witty.
By arresting them, or suing them. Violation of copyrights or patents or whatever this is covered under, is a crime.
Why the fuck is this "interesting"?? It's all wrong
A link to the Nature article has been posted, and the linked article includes the supposedly non-existent quote. Furthermore, the quote does turn up on google--try it yourself.
The article is titled "Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wide-angle temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background," and the dodecahedral topology they're referring to is Poincare dodecahedral space, so I guess the conjecture has relevance after all.
I think a lot of people have fallen for a troll, one named James A.C. Joyce.
Mathematical induction does work in all branches of math, but is not applicable to this situation. Two things are needed for mathematical induction:
A base case, i.e. it works when n=1
and a proof that the n-1 case implies the n case.
The reason that induction does not work for the poincare conjecture is that the situation being true in n-1 dimensions does not necessarily mean that it's true in n dimensions. Well, technically it does, if this proof is correct, but there's no simple way to prove that the n-1 case implies the n case.
The Poincare conjecture implies that Poincare dodecahedral space(the topic of the article as it applies to the universe) is not simply-connected.
If you play the game of "maybe he isn't who he says he is," any contribution from the many experts who browse slashdot becomes suspect. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but his reply is entirely correct so why does it matter either way?
Maybe before condemning him as a "troll," you losers should actually look into what he's talking about.
"Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wide-angle temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background" did appear in Nature, as a quick search will show.
Drawing on my legal education, I think there may be a solution: take a real class instead.
You have to remember that not everyone is a "hardcore gamer" who considers his or her PC to be a $1000 gaming machine. Many people buy their PCs for more serious reasons, with games being just an added bonus. To someone who bought a computer for movie editing and picked up some games as a diversion, arguments that they should "switch" to a console are meaningless, and will come off somewhat like an argument that they should switch from a car to a bike because it offers the same horn-blowing capability at lower cost.
No, they won't. genes are too abstract for people to develop an irrational hatred based on them. More likely, this will allow people to concentrate therapy and social services more effectively.
Well, either that or I'm just too optomistic.
lack of obeying authority.
I don't think that many people find this undesirable. It would be screened out only if the government was in control, which would mean a totalitarianism anyway.
Anyway, do you really think that the world would be a worse place if everyone were smart, good looking and free of disease? It's not as if we aren't already improving ourselves--plastic surgery and medicine have accomplished much in the way of your evil totalitarian playing god. It is no longer considered appropriate to let someone with a terrible disease die. Maybe tomorrow these 'doctors' will be controlling our thoughts!
You know, the great thing about binary is it can be represented with anything that can be in two positions. Such as, for instance, your fingers. By representing binary series of 1s and 0s on your fingers(100110 becomes left thumb up, right pinky down, right ring finger down, right middle finger up, right index finger up, right thumb down), you can count up to 1023. This method of counting uses every possible combination of up and down fingers. Of course, a person with 8 fingers per hand could count to 65535, but withing reasonable limits of counting your 5 fingers are more than sufficient.
Why are you afraid to tell us who you are, AC? Are you afraid we'll find out you're a Jew?
Prominent phrenologists all agree that negroids have a much more ape-like skull than Caucasoids, probably the cause of their ape-like behavior and intelligence
>100 years into their journey, faster than light >travel was worked out by the techies back home. >Never seen that idea before. A.E. Van Vogt had this in his book, Quest for the Future. The main character and a couple other people spent about 300 years in stasis travelling between Earth and Alpha Centauri, then spent a few hours travelling back to Earth.
Actually, although he was born on December 25th according to the calendars in use at the time, he was born on January 4th by current standards.
The Windows operating system is proprietary. If this 'Lindows' is able to run Windows programs, it has illegally reverse-engineered proprietary Windows code.
A lot of these 'myths' seem to be subjective. For instance, he disagrees with a statement about Microsoft making excellent software. While many people would agree with him, this seems less a case of misinformed kids and more a case of a biased teacher.
It seems to me that cutting back on astronauts now would be like buying a Porsche, then only driving it a few times in order to save on gas. The US has already committed huge amounts of money to this project, and cutting back now could severely limit the usefulness of the space station, making it a complete waste of money.