they should bury it so it can be a straight line tube cutting into the earth's curvature. Then you can just "fall" from Los Angeles to SF with no propulsion needed. The theoretical transit time, ignoring the friction, is 43 minutes. the energy you need to supply is to overcome the friction. Since gravity will be both accelerating this and decelerating this there's no need for a complex propulsion system, decelleration system with energy reclamation. Less to go wrong, and less abrupt acceleration of the passengers, and probably greater safety. Of course the hard part of this is you have to tunnel underground to make a straight line cutting in to the earth. Since LA to SF is about 400 miles along the surface and the earth's circumference is about 25000 miles this means arc length is about 0.016 radians. thus 25000/2/pi*(1-cos(0.016/2)) = 0.127 miles. so the center of this would be roughly 1/8th of a mile buried or 672 feet at the deepest point (ignoring the mountains). This doesn't seem radically crazy as a depth for boring a hole.
this is the first actual proof of evilness in my mind. Others were dubious but this is a bright line they just crossed. Just changed my mail address over to apple, and my browser to duckduck.
from wikipedia Netscape Communications created HTTPS in 1994 for its Netscape Navigator web browser.[41] Originally, HTTPS was used with the SSL protocol. As SSL evolved into Transport Layer Security (TLS), the current version of HTTPS was formally specified by RFC 2818 in May 2000.
so HTTPS itself does predate the patent filing and patent. The current version of HTTPS implementation is after the patent filing and before the patent grant in 1997.
Not sure what that adds up to. But if a specific method covered in the patent is implemented in the TLS then they might have a case.
It seeming more and more like Android is repeating all of microsofts mistakes about security. What's worse, andorid is getting embedded everywhere. Windows CE didn't have that sort of penetration.
What I'd like is ad-capper instead of an ad-blocker. I'm very happy to get some ads. But if the ad-content is more than 50% of the bandwidth to load the page then it's time to block the ad's above that limit. A lot below that then it won't change the page load time.
Replacing antibiotics with proteins and possibly phage is a doomed proposition if done as a simple substitution. The advantage that antibiotics have that proteins can never match is they are low molecular weight chemicals. thus you don't have to give someone a high mass dose, it can be absorbed in the gut or membranes, and it can get into cells. Furthermore proteins are relatively easy to decompose without inventing any custom hardware, they are also easy to recognize specifically (which is also why they can provoke an immune response if not properly humanized). Thus proteins are not substitutes and start out with many many orders of magnitude handicap in molecular weight and accessibility. Therefore to overcome that one needs to exploit protein therapies in different ways. proteins are good at things like catalysis. The intital activity of a chemical is stochiometric in which one chemical binds one receptor. But an enzyme can turn over many many reactions, so one can, if used right, have a manyfold activity. (on the otherhand, this advanage is not clear cut, since the receptors bound by standard chemicals may amplify the signal as well, and many desired targets medical for proteins will be stochiometric binders not catalytic enzymes). A big big advantage of proteins is their potential for specificity which will both diminish their side effects and could concentrate them into a specific target area. Imagine for instance protein therapeutic which only affected a certain pathogen and left the other bacteria in your gut alone. Finally, if the protein is large enough then it can remain in the circulatory system longer before the body removes it. But that also means higher molecular weight which can be bad.
Phage are even higher molecular weight. But they can reproduce. And presumably they might be tailored to only infect the bad bacteria as their host for reproduction. But they also might become antigens and your own body would clear them.
Both of these therapies have killer applications and are not to be dismissed. Their extreme specificty will completely change medicine even more than antibiotics did. But they are not in the near future any sort of replacement for antibiotics.
I watched the video and it seems clear to me he misheard the questions. He never uses the word Muslim himself. the reported just put it out there and it seems clear he thought the question is do we register immigrants.
They should also ban selling religious information on the web or in books directly to people and leave that to in person consultations by clergy. People trying to interpret religion on their own leads to unnecessary misery and large costs to the country.
I bought this book for my kids and it was total mission accomplished in getting the excited about what programs can do: Adventures in Minecraft by David Whale, Martin O'Hanlon http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/...
that book was created in the pre-microsoft era of minecraft. I suspect it wasn't even mojang sanctioned.
they have a less than complete version of minecraft with a python API exposed. It's amazingly simple to use it so other than unzipping the file it's easy for beginners to use. Works great on a raspberry pi. What you can do is somewhat limited. mainly on the input side of only being able to know where steve is not what he's doing. But by the time you are actually wishing for more you have a great understanding of basic programming in python. So it''s a fantastic first introduction to API programming in python. Kids might want to try scratch first since it's fully self contained without the need to couple to minecraft and thus simpler. But programming in minecraft with python is a very very very engaging experience for kids.
Uh isn't this a toy version of the entire field Estimation of Distribution Algorithms for parameter optimization??? Anyone want to point out what is new here since the MIT article sure didn't point it out.
Imagine for a moment that instead of going from point A to point B, you instead Zigged at 45 degrees then half way you Zagged back on the slant path to point B. Clearly then your total trip is sqrt(2) times the straigtline distance. But you went needlessly off the path. Instead we shall imagine that we can detect when we have deviated by 1 foot from the straight path. So we now execute a zig zag (45 degree) path turning each time we deviate by 1 foot from the true path. How far did we go? Oh my, it's still sqrt(2) times the straight line. We work hard and improve the duidance system so we now can detect when we are 1 micron from the straightline path. How far? still sqrt(2) times the straight line.
Indeed no matter how accurate we can detect the deviation so that the true path is beyond the capacity of any instrument to measure the deviation, say 1/100th of angstrom the same logic holds.
ergo all paths between A and B including the straight path are 1.41 times the straighpath distance.
I wonder how the gov't proposes that ISPs deal with proxy sites. Can't just ban the proxy site... or maybe they will? Proxy sites may be out of their jursidiction.
I don't think you understand what a government is. The primary function of government is to an entity that can provide Utilities and grant monopolies. Seriously, that is the primary function. Utilities are for cases where it's in each (or collectively most) persons advantage for the service to exist as deemed by the government but that no one would individually pay for given a choice. e.g. the armed forces or the highway system. The other is to monopolize certain powers such as the power to imprison. Monopolies are useful when many prviders would create chaos but there is no market force that would correct that. In the early days the buildout of rural phone and electric services and train service was aided by monopoly grants to bussinesses.
When governments do something other than offer utilities or monopolies this should be questioned. But those two things are it's purpose.
This sounds like an ideal job for homomorphic encryption. Compare a sample to a fingerprint without ever revealing the sample or the fingerprint to a third party.
Proposals are gambling. When you write a white paper at a company it goes through layers of managerial review if it would be worth the companies time to have you complete a full proposal. Then the Government review panel looks at and decides if they want to invest in that. Peer review informs on the odds foliding in many predictors of success, such as past performance.
Finally the reviews are parimutual gambling. Your odds of winning are not strictly the value of your proposal but the relative odds amongst a group of competitors.
that actually seems reasonable to me something over half a pound going 30 miles an hour could do some damage. Simply having to register heavier drones seems like threshold to encourage less hazards in the sky.,
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I'm the inventor of the scroll lock key but everytime I ad this to my Wikipedia profile it gets deleted.
they should bury it so it can be a straight line tube cutting into the earth's curvature. Then you can just "fall" from Los Angeles to SF with no propulsion needed. The theoretical transit time, ignoring the friction, is 43 minutes. the energy you need to supply is to overcome the friction. Since gravity will be both accelerating this and decelerating this there's no need for a complex propulsion system, decelleration system with energy reclamation. Less to go wrong, and less abrupt acceleration of the passengers, and probably greater safety.
Of course the hard part of this is you have to tunnel underground to make a straight line cutting in to the earth. Since LA to SF is about 400 miles along the surface and the earth's circumference is about 25000 miles this means arc length is about 0.016 radians. thus 25000/2/pi*(1-cos(0.016/2)) = 0.127 miles.
so the center of this would be roughly 1/8th of a mile buried or 672 feet at the deepest point (ignoring the mountains). This doesn't seem radically crazy as a depth for boring a hole.
this is the first actual proof of evilness in my mind. Others were dubious but this is a bright line they just crossed. Just changed my mail address over to apple, and my browser to duckduck.
from wikipedia
Netscape Communications created HTTPS in 1994 for its Netscape Navigator web browser.[41] Originally, HTTPS was used with the SSL protocol. As SSL evolved into Transport Layer Security (TLS), the current version of HTTPS was formally specified by RFC 2818 in May 2000.
so HTTPS itself does predate the patent filing and patent. The current version of HTTPS implementation is after the patent filing and before the patent grant in 1997.
Not sure what that adds up to. But if a specific method covered in the patent is implemented in the TLS then they might have a case.
The future of TV is locked/bricked TVs sitting out in the garage or curb.
http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
It seeming more and more like Android is repeating all of microsofts mistakes about security. What's worse, andorid is getting embedded everywhere. Windows CE didn't have that sort of penetration.
What I'd like is ad-capper instead of an ad-blocker. I'm very happy to get some ads. But if the ad-content is more than 50% of the bandwidth to load the page then it's time to block the ad's above that limit. A lot below that then it won't change the page load time.
Would that be Darth Mall where I do my holiday shopping for medical truth extraction bots? What changes are they making?
Replacing antibiotics with proteins and possibly phage is a doomed proposition if done as a simple substitution. The advantage that antibiotics have that proteins can never match is they are low molecular weight chemicals. thus you don't have to give someone a high mass dose, it can be absorbed in the gut or membranes, and it can get into cells. Furthermore proteins are relatively easy to decompose without inventing any custom hardware, they are also easy to recognize specifically (which is also why they can provoke an immune response if not properly humanized). Thus proteins are not substitutes and start out with many many orders of magnitude handicap in molecular weight and accessibility. Therefore to overcome that one needs to exploit protein therapies in different ways. proteins are good at things like catalysis. The intital activity of a chemical is stochiometric in which one chemical binds one receptor. But an enzyme can turn over many many reactions, so one can, if used right, have a manyfold activity. (on the otherhand, this advanage is not clear cut, since the receptors bound by standard chemicals may amplify the signal as well, and many desired targets medical for proteins will be stochiometric binders not catalytic enzymes). A big big advantage of proteins is their potential for specificity which will both diminish their side effects and could concentrate them into a specific target area. Imagine for instance protein therapeutic which only affected a certain pathogen and left the other bacteria in your gut alone. Finally, if the protein is large enough then it can remain in the circulatory system longer before the body removes it. But that also means higher molecular weight which can be bad.
Phage are even higher molecular weight. But they can reproduce. And presumably they might be tailored to only infect the bad bacteria as their host for reproduction. But they also might become antigens and your own body would clear them.
Both of these therapies have killer applications and are not to be dismissed. Their extreme specificty will completely change medicine even more than antibiotics did. But they are not in the near future any sort of replacement for antibiotics.
No brainer. Kinect is the future.
nice self-godwinning
I watched the video and it seems clear to me he misheard the questions. He never uses the word Muslim himself. the reported just put it out there and it seems clear he thought the question is do we register immigrants.
That's what Poland said
Or it's like how the star wars missile defense project was supposed to work, billions spent and nothing happend.
They should also ban selling religious information on the web or in books directly to people and leave that to in person consultations by clergy. People trying to interpret religion on their own leads to unnecessary misery and large costs to the country.
I though the internet was supposed to route around damage. Something is too centralized.
I bought this book for my kids and it was total mission accomplished in getting the excited about what programs can do:
Adventures in Minecraft
by David Whale, Martin O'Hanlon
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/...
that book was created in the pre-microsoft era of minecraft. I suspect it wasn't even mojang sanctioned.
they have a less than complete version of minecraft with a python API exposed. It's amazingly simple to use it so other than unzipping the file it's easy for beginners to use. Works great on a raspberry pi. What you can do is somewhat limited. mainly on the input side of only being able to know where steve is not what he's doing. But by the time you are actually wishing for more you have a great understanding of basic programming in python. So it''s a fantastic first introduction to API programming in python. Kids might want to try scratch first since it's fully self contained without the need to couple to minecraft and thus simpler. But programming in minecraft with python is a very very very engaging experience for kids.
Uh isn't this a toy version of the entire field Estimation of Distribution Algorithms for parameter optimization??? Anyone want to point out what is new here since the MIT article sure didn't point it out.
Imagine for a moment that instead of going from point A to point B, you instead Zigged at 45 degrees then half way you Zagged back on the slant path to point B. Clearly then your total trip is sqrt(2) times the straigtline distance. But you went needlessly off the path. Instead we shall imagine that we can detect when we have deviated by 1 foot from the straight path. So we now execute a zig zag (45 degree) path turning each time we deviate by 1 foot from the true path. How far did we go? Oh my, it's still sqrt(2) times the straight line. We work hard and improve the duidance system so we now can detect when we are 1 micron from the straightline path. How far? still sqrt(2) times the straight line.
Indeed no matter how accurate we can detect the deviation so that the true path is beyond the capacity of any instrument to measure the deviation, say 1/100th of angstrom the same logic holds.
ergo all paths between A and B including the straight path are 1.41 times the straighpath distance.
Fractal hamburger.
I wonder how the gov't proposes that ISPs deal with proxy sites. Can't just ban the proxy site... or maybe they will? Proxy sites may be out of their jursidiction.
I don't think you understand what a government is. The primary function of government is to an entity that can provide Utilities and grant monopolies. Seriously, that is the primary function. Utilities are for cases where it's in each (or collectively most) persons advantage for the service to exist as deemed by the government but that no one would individually pay for given a choice. e.g. the armed forces or the highway system. The other is to monopolize certain powers such as the power to imprison. Monopolies are useful when many prviders would create chaos but there is no market force that would correct that. In the early days the buildout of rural phone and electric services and train service was aided by monopoly grants to bussinesses.
When governments do something other than offer utilities or monopolies this should be questioned. But those two things are it's purpose.
This sounds like an ideal job for homomorphic encryption. Compare a sample to a fingerprint without ever revealing the sample or the fingerprint to a third party.
Proposals are gambling. When you write a white paper at a company it goes through layers of managerial review if it would be worth the companies time to have you complete a full proposal. Then the Government review panel looks at and decides if they want to invest in that. Peer review informs on the odds foliding in many predictors of success, such as past performance.
Finally the reviews are parimutual gambling. Your odds of winning are not strictly the value of your proposal but the relative odds amongst a group of competitors.
the net effect however is that the proliferation of heacy dornes will be reduced even iff there are scofflaws. And that's the desired outcome.
that actually seems reasonable to me something over half a pound going 30 miles an hour could do some damage. Simply having to register heavier drones seems like threshold to encourage less hazards in the sky.,