Case Law: Interstate commerce regulation
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Case LAW: wichams's wheat
wicham owned his own land, consumed his own food, raised his own seed and even made his own farming implements. Yet when he grew a federally banned crop they cracked down. Wicham went to court saying the feds had no jurisdiction since he was not in interstate commerece. he lost. logic was he "could" have engaged in interstate commerce and just because he did not take up the opportinity does not me he evaded the laws.
nearly all laws congress makes that seem to have no authority to to do so, are based on this precedent. The intra-state activity could effect inter-state commerce. But this has been streteched to the breaking point. For example, why is it a federal crime to use a hand gun near a school, or to commit a "hate" crime. there is nothing in the constitution that seems to permit this.
I worked on the mars viking lander project. The viking lander used a high tech variation of core memory for ram and for storage it used a steel tape used in a tape recorder. You are probably wondering why they did not use ordinary magnetic tape and silicon RAM. well in addition to radiation concerns there was a bigger issue.
NASA was very worried about contaminating mars so the entire lander had to be autoclaved on earth. the high temperatures of the autoclave would destroy ordinary magnetic tape. and the core memoery was low power since it is non-volatile.
For you kids who dont know what "core" memory is (or why for example you get files called "core" dumps on your computer when a program crashes) gramps will explain. Core origiginally was a donut shaped peice of ferrite. Next imagine set of 100 parallel wires spaced 1cm appart. on top of this is laying another set of 100 parallel wires running at right angles to the first set. At every crossing point in this grid a small ferrite disk is threaded by these two wires. and voila random access memory. each core is a single bit. to program it you run a current equal to half the hysterisis level down one of the wires in the first set and an equivalent current down one of the second set of wires. Only one core, at the insterescion, gets the double dose of current that exceeds the hysterisis value. this flips the magnetic polarization of the donut. To read it out one simply monitors the inductance: if you flip the bit the voltage is higher than if you are not flipping it. turn off the power and the magnetic memory stays. It is impervious to cosmic rays. the donuts are called "cores". why these are called cores is a different topic
Core memory on the viking lander was a bit more sophisticated. the magnetic material was coated/evaporated directly onto the wires so the whole thing could be very dense.
Silicon memory was available back then but it was not deemed relaible in the face of unknown radiation levels, and thermal stress. It was a great sacrifice to have such a small amount of ram (core has low bit density compared to silicon). But it was the only way to solve the problems.
This is like saying "oh no officer I haven't been drinking, I've just been using an experimental hallucinogen that isn't listed as an illegal drug". There is a reason cell phones are banned, merely escaping on a technicality is not solving the problem. The problem is lack of driver attention. Hands free sets dont solve that either.
it should just be a crime to drive inattentively or to create diversions for yourself.
it's a convenient way to transfer money from an account to another or to pay off a credit card bill. Not all credit cards offer online payment. And if the credit card is not in your name you cant even begin. Not all banks offer online banking and even if they did you might not want to set them up when you already have pay pal. In the early days pay pal did not have fees so this was a very handy meta-banking system.
nope. because you can get 48 P3 blade processors in a 3U rack sharing power supplies and swithces. And most importantly it works without thermal problems. Lower speed cpus also mean lower speed everthing else so costs go down dramtically. Cooling costs especially. You can make up for slow speed with more cheap blades. for many web type applications cpu speed is not too big a deal. for many industrial and scientific apps the they are easy to effieciently parallelize. And for many server applications the disk acess is what limits you anyhow.
transmeta and its applications
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Los Alamos has a large transmeta processor cluster on blades. It is so low power that The entire 200 blade system does not need any special cooling. It sits in an open room with offices and occupies just one ordinary rack. There are 24 blades per 3U of space sharing redundant powersupplies and built in network switches.
The really interesting thing is that as it is used it appears to be faster than the same clock speed pentium. What? you say. How can this be, since transmeta has a rep for being slow.
Well it truns out that for scientific applications, ones where you tend to sit in tight loops a lot the thing is faster. It's meta chips compile the intel instruructions into its internal processor code. Once the overhead of compiling is over its faster internally than a pentium 3
The reason it got a bad rep for being slow is that for GUI type applications where the code is running all over the place and never doing the same thing for very long, it loses out.
given the incredible stability (120 days no reboot), the increacing speed of the transmeta chips (1.2 Ghz), and the extreme low power, high density and no need for special cooling these things may revolutionize scientific and industrial computuing. But they may not dent the desktop market for raw power in GUI applications.
It seems to me that if you wanted to overclock something the logical choice of CPU would be a G4 not an intel or athalon. Seems like one would have more head room for potential improvements since these things run cooler to begin with. THey are also smaller chips and thus would respond better to advanced cooling techniques like this that can focus the cooling capacity into a small area.
Can someone explain to me why it makes more sense to do this with pentiums for piddly improvements in performance.
How come no one seems to be using heatpipe technology to cool things? THis would seem to me the natural way to extend the cooling range of passive systems. It probably wont ever have the massive effects like these acively chilled systesm but it would cheaper than thus more worth while.
the idea is simple. on top of the chip one places a vertical tube with the same crossection as the chip. The tub is filled with alcohol or propane or freon or other low boiling point liquid. The sides to the tall(!) tube are lines with air-cooled heatsinks.
when the liquid boils then the (VERY LARGE) heat of varorization is extracted from the liquid. the expelled gas molecule rapidly transferes its energy to other gas molecules and then distibutes that over then entire face of the heatpipe which condences the gas back to liquid.
the processor can never warmer than the boilingpoint of the liquid. the average cooling capacity is determeined by the requirment that the cooling rate of the heatsinks equal the heat input rate on average. One of the nice things about this as opposed to a fan or refregeration system is that although the average heat load is the same, the peak heat load can be as high as you want. the liquid has almost infinite reserve cooling capacity up until it boils dry. Thus the temperature of the processor fluctuates less than any fan cooled or refrigerated system.
So what is the heat load capacity. It should be the significantly larger than any refrigerated system with the same area of heat sink!!!
I think maybe it would take two ingredients. The first ingredient is that code needs to act less like a sequence of instructions, but a set of routines all acting simultanouesly. That is sort of like multi-threaded object oriented coding where each object has its own thread and they send messages to each other. This would emulate the freeform communication and expression of DNA in cells.
On top of this layer we add "digital DNA." which now is mereley a new object which adds new functionality both throught its own code and through the interactions it has with other objects. Some objects might even "delete" other objects from the DNA. Other objects would act as vectors ('installers') for installing more dna. Some would act as export objects, sending copies of object "DNA" to other viruses.
The current problem is that you cant just overwite code with new code and expect it to work. Basically by setting up an object competion model new code that is flakey does not kill the virus. this allows adaptation.
real viruses often cut chunks of dna out of their hosts, put their own wrappers (i,e, objects) around it and try it out and see what happens. if its useless it evenutally dies out in some generation. if it's useful you have some interesting new dna.
Your discussion considers the "equilibrium" virus. In the real world viruses are dynamic. Both in the sense of adapting to new hosts where they tend to be lethal, and in the sense of adapting to new host defenses. Thus as I said, dynamically, viruses tend to become more virulent and then later less virulent as they gain a footing and then evlove to the new host.
On the otherhand, there are plenty of bugs (but not viruses--they require a living host) that look at you as a large sack of purina bacteria kibble. All these thing want to do is kill you and digest your tasty bits at their leisure. These bugs dont require a host to live.
to a certain extent the current crop of computer viruses seem to define success as mortally wounding the host. Self preservations and adapting to their hosts are not the goals of most computer viruses.
Commnication is a prerequisite to "genetic" evolution . After all how do you think sexual evolution came about.
The real difference in the analogy is the sophistication of the host. In the real world hosts and parasites co-evolved. An early parasite did not have to be a very clever bug. just be one step ahead of its equally dim host; each co-evolving to exploit each other's weaknesses. Now we have some really complex or really simple but tricky bugs that have a level of sophistication that seems miraculous.
That is to say, if you were to create a man-made virus today without stealling the existing machinery from natural bug, you would find it patheticly incompetent to deal with modern hosts. Likewise, current computer virsuses are going up not just against sophisticated computers systems, but also against the human minds that are activley hunting them. Thus it's going to be a while before computer viruses can survive and mutate on their own. they will need human help to combat the humans trying to kill them.
On the otherhand in china it appears there is a fertile breeding area when humans are not aggressively hunting bugs. this would be a good breeding ground for a simple bug to evolve to somthing actually AI quality.
Commnication is a prerequisite to "genetic" evolution . After all how do you think sexual evolution came about.
The real difference in the analogy is the sophistication of the host. In the real world hosts and parasites co-evolved. An early parasite did not have to be a very clever bug. just be one step ahead of its equally dim host. each co-evolving to exploit each other's weaknesses. Now we have some really complex or really simple but tricky bugs that have a level of sophistication that seems miraculous.
That is to say, if you were to create a man-made virus today without stealling the existing machinery from natural bug, you would find it patheticly incompetent to deal with modern hosts. Likewise, current computer virsuses are going up not just against sophisticated computers systems, but also against the human minds that are activley hunting them. Thus it's going to be a while before computer viruses can survive and mutate on their own. they will need human help to combat the humans trying to kill them.
On the otherhand in china it appears there is a fertile breeding area when humans are not aggressively hunting bugs. this would be a good breeding ground for a simple bug to evolve to somthing actually AI quality.
There are any number of real virii and bacteria (like Tuberculosis) that use a quorum sensing mechanism before becoming hostile to their host. The bugs grow but in a mostly benign fashion, concentrating on infecting but not harvesting or killing their host. When their numbers reach a critical level they switch over and become massively virulent, making an all out assualt on the host, overwhelming the defenses.
the interesting thing here is the communication aspect. It's different than say a pre-progogrammed computer virus that does its thing on say jan 1 2000. Here the thing is adaptive and self organizing.
lets take this a step further. China is a breeding ground for both real and computer viruses. Real viruses like flu live in ducks, where they are harmless and mutate rapidly, transfer to pigs where they adapt to mammalian systems, then onto humans when they are ready. THe chinese computers, as discussed in slashdot have become 80% exposed/infected to viruses.
currently these virii (computer) do not actually "breed" in the sense of evolving by themsleves. But why not? Bacteria evolve during their own lifetimes by communicating (by exchange of circular DNA known as plasmids). If we start having computer-virus to computer virus communication we will soon have the cpabaility for viruses that breed and like a genetic algorithm "learn" new ways of infecting a host, learn to tune their rates of infection, and develop new and better communication protocols.
A question emerges then of what happens next. Most virus's follow the pattern of being at first increasingly virulent and deadly to their hosts. Then over time as they begin to kill too manyhosts and the evolve to become less virulent as a survival strategy. at the same time the surviving hosts have become better at killing them. A truce ensues where the bugs are too hard to completely kill because they mutate quickly.
Current viruses have the ability to replicate but not to evolve. The first step in evolving sexual reproductionis communication with another virus. later will come information sharing and controlled mutation.
Terminator here we come, but not the same way as the movie.
Qwest offers a single number that rings both landline and cell phone and can be forwarded anywhere you like. it costs $5 extra per month. Buy one and answer your own question.
as for benefits, I really dont want to make it easier for people to reach me. So no thanks!
What do you mean "wrong!"? you just agreed with my point that you have to cart around two files and somehow keep them associated with each other. That's what I was saying. and it's an unnesseccary pain in the ass. Sure you might have a way of keeing them ogranized, but now say you want to send the image to a defense attourney, or to another jourisdiction. Now they have to have some way of keeping them organized, and mybe their image storage software is different. (maybe they use iPhoto or Adobe Photoshops gallery program)
Lots of people have suggested digitally signing the image. you that would work. But is it simpler? no. now I have to cart around two images, one people can look at in a computer browser and one "signed one" for evidence. I have to make sure I keep one associated with the other at all times. Yes of course I could decode the signed image when I wanted to view it but that's not a general purpose solution. If I make it act and smell like a jpeg or gif then I can easilty treat it as a single file that all existing image viewers can view. Only when I really want the perfect images and the signature do I have to use my special program.
In fairness I will note that any image format, e.g. jpeg, that has the capabilit to associated additional infomation with an image, also would make a sutiable means of taking care of this. Though possibly not in a robust manner since some programs tinker with the text info in jpegs.
Now as for whether the camera should do the embedding or embedding should be done afterwards, it makes more sense to let the camera do the embedding if it can. A simple Jpeg pops out and were done.
Now about information theory not allowing this. that's piffle. proof by construction. First assume that all uncompressed real world images are compressible. compress it how you wish, lossy or losslessly. there is now room informationwise to squeeze in a small watermark.
It seems to me that the computers that participated in the DOS should be punished. Yes I'm sure they were mostly victims of hackers. But tough luck. if your security sucks and you let someone use your machine for this you need to be taught a lesson so you will pay attention to security whether you do it yourself or pay someone else to do it
Likewise the ISPs who carried these people should also be punished.
one possible punishment is to have your IP blacklisted for a month. Or maybe just have your Domain Name removed from the top level DNS for a month.
Sure that would suck, but punishment is supposed to suck.
If counter earth were there it would bash into it. And of course the counter-brother planet would bash into us at the same time. So no bizaro world. Bummer.
Its widely agreed that most flu come from asia, china specifically. Indeed this is what deterimes which flu you get vaccinated for each winter: they look at china and see what they've caught in the precedding month. Some beleive the new flus arise out of livestock practices of mixing ducks, pigs and humans in close proximity creating a host (duck) where the flu mutates quickly without harming the host, a stepping stone where it adapts (pigs) which are similar to humans, and then a final host (human) that can easily deliver it to humans.
so now we have a computer virus incubator too.
which leads to an interesting thought. maybe some days viruses will be created by computers and breed like flu does. They will gather strenght in a compliant population (china) before emerging to the real world.
The apparently you aren't using many of the now depricated libs or have never tried to use java on multiple platforms and get all the different vms working correctly or done any even management or worried about when garbage collection occurs. In short you are not really doing anything that requires java.
After my first set of java 1.0 text went obsolete and then my second set of java 1.5 texts went obsolete, I realized that most of what I knew about java was obsolete. And I felt bewildered by all the new libraries and ways of doing things. The books I could buy around the time swing was coming out were a hodge podge of old and new ways of doing things. I decided to give up on java for at least 5 years. Maybe then it will shake out.
Have not read that one. However I have seen similar concepts on line like "python for perl programmers." And generally these are not filled with examples of pithy worked translations. THe cook book contains the true idioms of a language hence i'd like to see a true cookbook-cookbook cookoff.
for example, consider an indexed sort. in both perl and python you could do this by writing a loop to add an index field to each value then sort it then loop to gather the ordered indices. The only difference is the loops and indexing and sorting would have different grammar.
But in perl one would probably instead do a map-sort-map idiom on a single line operation. And in python I suspect there is probably some simmilar idiom using iterators.
its the idioms, not the formal grmammar crossovers that are important to learning to learning a new language.
Obligatory Monty python Hungrarian phrase book
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My hovercraft is full of eels
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nearly all laws congress makes that seem to have no authority to to do so, are based on this precedent. The intra-state activity could effect inter-state commerce. But this has been streteched to the breaking point. For example, why is it a federal crime to use a hand gun near a school, or to commit a "hate" crime. there is nothing in the constitution that seems to permit this.
scooby snacks all around!
NASA was very worried about contaminating mars so the entire lander had to be autoclaved on earth. the high temperatures of the autoclave would destroy ordinary magnetic tape. and the core memoery was low power since it is non-volatile.
For you kids who dont know what "core" memory is (or why for example you get files called "core" dumps on your computer when a program crashes) gramps will explain. Core origiginally was a donut shaped peice of ferrite. Next imagine set of 100 parallel wires spaced 1cm appart. on top of this is laying another set of 100 parallel wires running at right angles to the first set. At every crossing point in this grid a small ferrite disk is threaded by these two wires. and voila random access memory. each core is a single bit. to program it you run a current equal to half the hysterisis level down one of the wires in the first set and an equivalent current down one of the second set of wires. Only one core, at the insterescion, gets the double dose of current that exceeds the hysterisis value. this flips the magnetic polarization of the donut. To read it out one simply monitors the inductance: if you flip the bit the voltage is higher than if you are not flipping it. turn off the power and the magnetic memory stays. It is impervious to cosmic rays. the donuts are called "cores". why these are called cores is a different topic
Core memory on the viking lander was a bit more sophisticated. the magnetic material was coated/evaporated directly onto the wires so the whole thing could be very dense.
Silicon memory was available back then but it was not deemed relaible in the face of unknown radiation levels, and thermal stress. It was a great sacrifice to have such a small amount of ram (core has low bit density compared to silicon). But it was the only way to solve the problems.
it should just be a crime to drive inattentively or to create diversions for yourself.
it's a convenient way to transfer money from an account to another or to pay off a credit card bill. Not all credit cards offer online payment. And if the credit card is not in your name you cant even begin. Not all banks offer online banking and even if they did you might not want to set them up when you already have pay pal. In the early days pay pal did not have fees so this was a very handy meta-banking system.
nope. because you can get 48 P3 blade processors in a 3U rack sharing power supplies and swithces. And most importantly it works without thermal problems. Lower speed cpus also mean lower speed everthing else so costs go down dramtically. Cooling costs especially. You can make up for slow speed with more cheap blades. for many web type applications cpu speed is not too big a deal. for many industrial and scientific apps the they are easy to effieciently parallelize. And for many server applications the disk acess is what limits you anyhow.
The really interesting thing is that as it is used it appears to be faster than the same clock speed pentium. What? you say. How can this be, since transmeta has a rep for being slow.
Well it truns out that for scientific applications, ones where you tend to sit in tight loops a lot the thing is faster. It's meta chips compile the intel instruructions into its internal processor code. Once the overhead of compiling is over its faster internally than a pentium 3
The reason it got a bad rep for being slow is that for GUI type applications where the code is running all over the place and never doing the same thing for very long, it loses out.
given the incredible stability (120 days no reboot), the increacing speed of the transmeta chips (1.2 Ghz), and the extreme low power, high density and no need for special cooling these things may revolutionize scientific and industrial computuing. But they may not dent the desktop market for raw power in GUI applications.
Can someone explain to me why it makes more sense to do this with pentiums for piddly improvements in performance.
the idea is simple. on top of the chip one places a vertical tube with the same crossection as the chip. The tub is filled with alcohol or propane or freon or other low boiling point liquid. The sides to the tall(!) tube are lines with air-cooled heatsinks.
when the liquid boils then the (VERY LARGE) heat of varorization is extracted from the liquid. the expelled gas molecule rapidly transferes its energy to other gas molecules and then distibutes that over then entire face of the heatpipe which condences the gas back to liquid.
the processor can never warmer than the boilingpoint of the liquid. the average cooling capacity is determeined by the requirment that the cooling rate of the heatsinks equal the heat input rate on average. One of the nice things about this as opposed to a fan or refregeration system is that although the average heat load is the same, the peak heat load can be as high as you want. the liquid has almost infinite reserve cooling capacity up until it boils dry. Thus the temperature of the processor fluctuates less than any fan cooled or refrigerated system.
So what is the heat load capacity. It should be the significantly larger than any refrigerated system with the same area of heat sink!!!
On top of this layer we add "digital DNA." which now is mereley a new object which adds new functionality both throught its own code and through the interactions it has with other objects. Some objects might even "delete" other objects from the DNA. Other objects would act as vectors ('installers') for installing more dna. Some would act as export objects, sending copies of object "DNA" to other viruses.
The current problem is that you cant just overwite code with new code and expect it to work. Basically by setting up an object competion model new code that is flakey does not kill the virus. this allows adaptation.
real viruses often cut chunks of dna out of their hosts, put their own wrappers (i,e, objects) around it and try it out and see what happens. if its useless it evenutally dies out in some generation. if it's useful you have some interesting new dna.
On the otherhand, there are plenty of bugs (but not viruses--they require a living host) that look at you as a large sack of purina bacteria kibble. All these thing want to do is kill you and digest your tasty bits at their leisure. These bugs dont require a host to live.
to a certain extent the current crop of computer viruses seem to define success as mortally wounding the host. Self preservations and adapting to their hosts are not the goals of most computer viruses.
Commnication is a prerequisite to "genetic" evolution . After all how do you think sexual evolution came about. The real difference in the analogy is the sophistication of the host. In the real world hosts and parasites co-evolved. An early parasite did not have to be a very clever bug. just be one step ahead of its equally dim host; each co-evolving to exploit each other's weaknesses. Now we have some really complex or really simple but tricky bugs that have a level of sophistication that seems miraculous. That is to say, if you were to create a man-made virus today without stealling the existing machinery from natural bug, you would find it patheticly incompetent to deal with modern hosts. Likewise, current computer virsuses are going up not just against sophisticated computers systems, but also against the human minds that are activley hunting them. Thus it's going to be a while before computer viruses can survive and mutate on their own. they will need human help to combat the humans trying to kill them. On the otherhand in china it appears there is a fertile breeding area when humans are not aggressively hunting bugs. this would be a good breeding ground for a simple bug to evolve to somthing actually AI quality.
The real difference in the analogy is the sophistication of the host. In the real world hosts and parasites co-evolved. An early parasite did not have to be a very clever bug. just be one step ahead of its equally dim host. each co-evolving to exploit each other's weaknesses. Now we have some really complex or really simple but tricky bugs that have a level of sophistication that seems miraculous.
That is to say, if you were to create a man-made virus today without stealling the existing machinery from natural bug, you would find it patheticly incompetent to deal with modern hosts. Likewise, current computer virsuses are going up not just against sophisticated computers systems, but also against the human minds that are activley hunting them. Thus it's going to be a while before computer viruses can survive and mutate on their own. they will need human help to combat the humans trying to kill them.
On the otherhand in china it appears there is a fertile breeding area when humans are not aggressively hunting bugs. this would be a good breeding ground for a simple bug to evolve to somthing actually AI quality.
the interesting thing here is the communication aspect. It's different than say a pre-progogrammed computer virus that does its thing on say jan 1 2000. Here the thing is adaptive and self organizing.
lets take this a step further. China is a breeding ground for both real and computer viruses. Real viruses like flu live in ducks, where they are harmless and mutate rapidly, transfer to pigs where they adapt to mammalian systems, then onto humans when they are ready. THe chinese computers, as discussed in slashdot have become 80% exposed/infected to viruses.
currently these virii (computer) do not actually "breed" in the sense of evolving by themsleves. But why not? Bacteria evolve during their own lifetimes by communicating (by exchange of circular DNA known as plasmids). If we start having computer-virus to computer virus communication we will soon have the cpabaility for viruses that breed and like a genetic algorithm "learn" new ways of infecting a host, learn to tune their rates of infection, and develop new and better communication protocols.
A question emerges then of what happens next. Most virus's follow the pattern of being at first increasingly virulent and deadly to their hosts. Then over time as they begin to kill too manyhosts and the evolve to become less virulent as a survival strategy. at the same time the surviving hosts have become better at killing them. A truce ensues where the bugs are too hard to completely kill because they mutate quickly.
Current viruses have the ability to replicate but not to evolve. The first step in evolving sexual reproductionis communication with another virus. later will come information sharing and controlled mutation. Terminator here we come, but not the same way as the movie.
as for benefits, I really dont want to make it easier for people to reach me. So no thanks!
Maybe this will discourage telephone solicitors from calling cell phones? that would be reason enough to make my main phone a cell-phone.
What do you mean "wrong!"? you just agreed with my point that you have to cart around two files and somehow keep them associated with each other. That's what I was saying. and it's an unnesseccary pain in the ass. Sure you might have a way of keeing them ogranized, but now say you want to send the image to a defense attourney, or to another jourisdiction. Now they have to have some way of keeping them organized, and mybe their image storage software is different. (maybe they use iPhoto or Adobe Photoshops gallery program)
Lots of people have suggested digitally signing the image. you that would work. But is it simpler? no. now I have to cart around two images, one people can look at in a computer browser and one "signed one" for evidence. I have to make sure I keep one associated with the other at all times. Yes of course I could decode the signed image when I wanted to view it but that's not a general purpose solution. If I make it act and smell like a jpeg or gif then I can easilty treat it as a single file that all existing image viewers can view. Only when I really want the perfect images and the signature do I have to use my special program.
In fairness I will note that any image format, e.g. jpeg, that has the capabilit to associated additional infomation with an image, also would make a sutiable means of taking care of this. Though possibly not in a robust manner since some programs tinker with the text info in jpegs.
Now as for whether the camera should do the embedding or embedding should be done afterwards, it makes more sense to let the camera do the embedding if it can. A simple Jpeg pops out and were done.
Now about information theory not allowing this. that's piffle. proof by construction. First assume that all uncompressed real world images are compressible. compress it how you wish, lossy or losslessly. there is now room informationwise to squeeze in a small watermark.
Likewise the ISPs who carried these people should also be punished.
one possible punishment is to have your IP blacklisted for a month. Or maybe just have your Domain Name removed from the top level DNS for a month.
Sure that would suck, but punishment is supposed to suck.
If counter earth were there it would bash into it. And of course the counter-brother planet would bash into us at the same time. So no bizaro world. Bummer.
so now we have a computer virus incubator too.
which leads to an interesting thought. maybe some days viruses will be created by computers and breed like flu does. They will gather strenght in a compliant population (china) before emerging to the real world.
The apparently you aren't using many of the now depricated libs or have never tried to use java on multiple platforms and get all the different vms working correctly or done any even management or worried about when garbage collection occurs. In short you are not really doing anything that requires java.
That is a great resource. Now one needs the inverese (perl version of python cookbook) and to roll them into one.
for example, consider an indexed sort. in both perl and python you could do this by writing a loop to add an index field to each value then sort it then loop to gather the ordered indices. The only difference is the loops and indexing and sorting would have different grammar.
But in perl one would probably instead do a map-sort-map idiom on a single line operation. And in python I suspect there is probably some simmilar idiom using iterators.
its the idioms, not the formal grmammar crossovers that are important to learning to learning a new language.
My hovercraft is full of eels
May I please fondle your bum