Stop wasting your time and build a personalised rail network when I can get into a "pod" or something, enter my destination and it would take me there on good, solid, metal rails and a bit of signalling.
Indeed. A packet-switched transport system. Broadcast your destination via Bluetooth, "routers" can receive that and direct you the best way. The pods would be unpowered, but pushed/blown along - possibly compressed air?
If you had a system of tubes under the ground, and some sort of decent bearings, you could make it work. You could also have large "trunk"/"backbone" roads, which smaller roads joined. Basically, model it on the Internet. But without the packet loss, or routing loops. Or collisions.
I really want to see the aurora borealis in my lifetime - and there are apparently occasions when it is visible as far south as 51 degrees north - the Southern UK. Failing that, I'll go to Norway and rent a special igloo.
There was one of these solar storms in the 1850s, I think, and it set telegraph wires alight, causing fires. Imagine what it would do today.
Fat is just efficiently stored energy. Eating 400 cals of fat (a small amount), or 400 cals of lower carb-dense food (a larger amount) is the same.
You can either lose weight with exercise, diet, or both. You need to burn 3500 calories to lose a pound of fat (7700 for a kg). An hours running is about 600. Or you can diet, which is what I've chosen.
I've lost 10 kg (22lbs) in 40 days, and that's with no exercising at all.
Ketosis is your friend. When you're in it, your body breaks down fat, and turns it to ketones which are used to give you energy. It's natures way of getting you through a famine. I'm sure the Chilean miners were in it until they were rescued.
By the way, there's a guy over here in the UK who seems to have made it his life's work to identify poor science. Bad Science. He has a book by the same name, which is very interesting.
Point made, and understood.
However, don't you think that some things (healthcare, fire, police, transport infrastructure, etc) are such basic needs that everyone should be taxed to pay for them?
You're the kind of person who doesn't want a phone with a camera, internet access etc, aren't you? "I can't see why people need to do more than make phone calls".
1. Telephone companies can and do routinely trangulate from towers or use GPS-enabled smartphones to establish the position of a cellular phone. It's not rocket science to integrate those measurements over time and obtain the velocity of a cellular phone.
I used to work in the R+D department of a large mobile phone company. Most of you will have heard of it.
I had access to the internal location API system, and I wrote various experimental projects using the data. Had some very good ideas there, but the business wasn't interested in taking any of them up.
I'm not saying it's purely because I had a Subaru Impreza at the time, but I was curious to know if the cell triangulation data was good enough to be able to work out what speed someone was traveling at, so I wrote a system that logged my location every 15 minutes, and tried to determine it.
Basically, it's not possible. The accuracy of the triangulation methods isn't good enough, you don't switch triangulated points often enough, and roads have bends in them, so you travel less in a straight line in 15 mins than you traveled in reality.
It's possible, if you drove on a straight road at 100mph for a hour, obviously, but what with roadworks, traffic jams, bends, cameras and the size of the UK, it's not likely.:)
I don't have access to those systems any more, so I've had to resort to GPS tracking myself now - and that is accurate enough. Lucky I take the bus to work now, and am hence relaxed enough when I'm driving to just potter along.
But cell tower triangulation - no, not really. If you're worried, worry about carrying round a transmitter with built in GPS - I would be very surprised if the phone companies/manufacturers didn't have back-doors to remotely activate anything on your phone - GPS, microphone, etc.
I finally bit the bullet and signed up for netflix last night.
Meh.
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There's a spot I know of ~100 miles north of me where a highway marked at 65 off-ramps onto another highway marked at 60. The change in speed isn't marked at the top of the ramp, however, but 3 miles down the road instead. Local sheriffs LOVE to sit at the top of the hill and watch for people doing 65-70, who don't know about the speed change, and then cite them tickets.
So you appeal, go to court, and get it overturned?
Great. Good for you. However, you're still relating things that you don't know are related. It might just be that it would have all gone away at the same time even if you hadn't gone to a chiropractor. Your story is good news. But you need to ask a lot of people who had the same symptoms, and went to a chiropractor, and find a significantly larger number to start suggesting one is the cause of the other.
That's fine until someone asks you an unstructured question for which a two-dimensional array cannot contain the answer.
Like, for example, 'Here's an ordered DOM tree of nodes each containing tags, subtrees and/or chunks of CDATA'.
Or 'Here is a set of objects each of which contain their own custom properties not found in others.'
Questions usually ask something, not state something:)
With Microsoft, however, you see the heavy thudding of a big corporation. You see a complex inner working of management slow things down. Somebody might ask for an estimate on how much money this is going to cost and that estimate comes back a week later. Senior management starts shredding documents
Honestly? Really? You don't think they have high/critical priority bugs, which get instant visibility right up the escalation tree, managers pushing the rest of the people to get a fix quickly? I've worked for some "big corporations", and when the shit hits the fan, the pressure from above increases immensely. Everyone mucks in, works long hours, gets stuff done.
Big companies can sometimes take a long time to change direction, or "get it" - but when it's something as fundamental as a very large security hole, all the machinery will click into place.
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Stop wasting your time and build a personalised rail network when I can get into a "pod" or something, enter my destination and it would take me there on good, solid, metal rails and a bit of signalling.
Indeed. A packet-switched transport system. Broadcast your destination via Bluetooth, "routers" can receive that and direct you the best way. The pods would be unpowered, but pushed/blown along - possibly compressed air?
If you had a system of tubes under the ground, and some sort of decent bearings, you could make it work. You could also have large "trunk"/"backbone" roads, which smaller roads joined. Basically, model it on the Internet. But without the packet loss, or routing loops. Or collisions.
Oh the luminosity!
:)
Your site is quite amusing, btw.
Sure - look at a map, find the UK on there, and go up and right, and you're in Finland.
Norway, Finland..... Anywhere "up and to the right" of me. :)
I should take this opportunity to link to the solar storms I was talking about
I really want to see the aurora borealis in my lifetime - and there are apparently occasions when it is visible as far south as 51 degrees north - the Southern UK. Failing that, I'll go to Norway and rent a special igloo.
There was one of these solar storms in the 1850s, I think, and it set telegraph wires alight, causing fires. Imagine what it would do today.
Fat is just efficiently stored energy. Eating 400 cals of fat (a small amount), or 400 cals of lower carb-dense food (a larger amount) is the same.
You can either lose weight with exercise, diet, or both.
You need to burn 3500 calories to lose a pound of fat (7700 for a kg). An hours running is about 600.
Or you can diet, which is what I've chosen.
I've lost 10 kg (22lbs) in 40 days, and that's with no exercising at all.
Ketosis is your friend. When you're in it, your body breaks down fat, and turns it to ketones which are used to give you energy. It's natures way of getting you through a famine. I'm sure the Chilean miners were in it until they were rescued.
By the way, there's a guy over here in the UK who seems to have made it his life's work to identify poor science. Bad Science. He has a book by the same name, which is very interesting.
I don't share my password with anyone, and my girlfriend finds it very suspicious. "What are you hiding?", she'll ask.
Point made, and understood. However, don't you think that some things (healthcare, fire, police, transport infrastructure, etc) are such basic needs that everyone should be taxed to pay for them?
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing, and mean your mother.
assuming a very generous 350 miles per tank of gas
Bless you, you crazy cousins of ours over the Atlantic. 350 miles to a tank - that's almost impossible, right?
Tomcat has a pretty tight security model (which is usually disabled :) ). It shouldn't be hard to emulate something like that for Android, should it?
desktops have antivirus, antimalware and firewalls.
Antivirus? No.
Antimalware? No.
Firewalls? Well, yes, iptables.
Try using a decent OS.
You're the kind of person who doesn't want a phone with a camera, internet access etc, aren't you? "I can't see why people need to do more than make phone calls".
I actually work quite closely with 2 of the authors of the paper that reports these results.
And a new meme is born?!
1. Telephone companies can and do routinely trangulate from towers or use GPS-enabled smartphones to establish the position of a cellular phone. It's not rocket science to integrate those measurements over time and obtain the velocity of a cellular phone.
I used to work in the R+D department of a large mobile phone company. Most of you will have heard of it.
:)
I don't have access to those systems any more, so I've had to resort to GPS tracking myself now - and that is accurate enough. Lucky I take the bus to work now, and am hence relaxed enough when I'm driving to just potter along.
I had access to the internal location API system, and I wrote various experimental projects using the data. Had some very good ideas there, but the business wasn't interested in taking any of them up.
I'm not saying it's purely because I had a Subaru Impreza at the time, but I was curious to know if the cell triangulation data was good enough to be able to work out what speed someone was traveling at, so I wrote a system that logged my location every 15 minutes, and tried to determine it.
Basically, it's not possible. The accuracy of the triangulation methods isn't good enough, you don't switch triangulated points often enough, and roads have bends in them, so you travel less in a straight line in 15 mins than you traveled in reality.
It's possible, if you drove on a straight road at 100mph for a hour, obviously, but what with roadworks, traffic jams, bends, cameras and the size of the UK, it's not likely.
But cell tower triangulation - no, not really. If you're worried, worry about carrying round a transmitter with built in GPS - I would be very surprised if the phone companies/manufacturers didn't have back-doors to remotely activate anything on your phone - GPS, microphone, etc.
I finally bit the bullet and signed up for netflix last night.
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Its capital is Bern, and they are famous for cuckoo clocks and Hitler.
There's a spot I know of ~100 miles north of me where a highway marked at 65 off-ramps onto another highway marked at 60. The change in speed isn't marked at the top of the ramp, however, but 3 miles down the road instead. Local sheriffs LOVE to sit at the top of the hill and watch for people doing 65-70, who don't know about the speed change, and then cite them tickets.
So you appeal, go to court, and get it overturned?
Just hiding outside of the US?
Wow. Just wow. What an amazing view of the world you have.
That's virtually like saying Bin Laden is hiding outside your house.
Great. Good for you. However, you're still relating things that you don't know are related. It might just be that it would have all gone away at the same time even if you hadn't gone to a chiropractor. Your story is good news. But you need to ask a lot of people who had the same symptoms, and went to a chiropractor, and find a significantly larger number to start suggesting one is the cause of the other.
please teach the Ozzies
(pronounced with nasal Texan accent)
Go on. I give up. What am I missing here?
That's fine until someone asks you an unstructured question for which a two-dimensional array cannot contain the answer. Like, for example, 'Here's an ordered DOM tree of nodes each containing tags, subtrees and/or chunks of CDATA'. Or 'Here is a set of objects each of which contain their own custom properties not found in others.'
Questions usually ask something, not state something :)
(this week or last week, i'm getting this second hand)
To demonstrate how many news outlets do zero confirmatory investigation before running stories
Oh, the irony. :)
With Microsoft, however, you see the heavy thudding of a big corporation. You see a complex inner working of management slow things down. Somebody might ask for an estimate on how much money this is going to cost and that estimate comes back a week later. Senior management starts shredding documents
Honestly? Really? You don't think they have high/critical priority bugs, which get instant visibility right up the escalation tree, managers pushing the rest of the people to get a fix quickly? I've worked for some "big corporations", and when the shit hits the fan, the pressure from above increases immensely. Everyone mucks in, works long hours, gets stuff done.
Big companies can sometimes take a long time to change direction, or "get it" - but when it's something as fundamental as a very large security hole, all the machinery will click into place.
Touch the middle of the antenna, it effects the sound quality. Now touch the tip of the antenna. It effects quality much more drastically.
Sorry. Once is enough, twice is too much. Affects. It affects the sound quality. It has an effect on the sound quality.