Let me get this straight: I can't drive 65 or turn up the heat without having to worry about getting stranded?
If your petrol vehicle had a very accurate range finder, you'd notice the range going down when you sped up or turned up the heat.
You don't have an accurate range finder, so you assume that those things make no difference; and if you even do notice that your vehicle varies a bit in how many miles you get to each tank, you just put it down to randomness because you don't understand the actual factors that go into vehicle range.
We know the facts in this case and can see how far the news article diverges.
Think of all the times you read a news article about some topic you don't know much about besides what the article tells you - and yet we tend to take those articles at face value.
The handful of times I have known people involved in an event which got reported on in a newspaper, the article often diverged wildly from reality. One time, a murderer was reported as "having been tracked down after a 3-day manhunt" when in reality once he came off his meth high he walked to the nearest police station and handed himself in.
That's a phenomena specific to diesel engines. Diesel's don't use a spark to ignite the fuel mixture like gasoline engines do, they use the heat from piston compression. Thus, so long as vacuum pressure and fuel supply is maintained, a diesel can continue running without electrical power.
Fuel pumps are driven electronically too (for the last N decades) , normally turning the key off will also kill power to the fuel pump. In fact I once owned a car where the owner had installed a hidden switch under the seat to turn the fuel pump on and off, purely as an anti-theft measure - although I'm sure this French driver wishes his car had one of those.
Also (I'm sure you know this but some readers may not, judging by the number of "why didn't he just use the handbrake" comments), petrol engines continue to run without the battery being connected - the engine's mechanical output drives the alternator which powers the spark plugs. Turning the key off normally interrupts the flow from battery/alternator to relevant part(s) of the ingition system.
That your kids make you happier than anything else you have now DOES NOT imply that you would not be happier without them. IIRC there are studies that have shown people without children are in fact happier than those with children.
You don't know what true happiness is until you have children.
Extremely minor nitpick, but converting an out-of-range value to a signed integral type causes implementation-defined behaviour (which could include raising a signal).
It's pretty safe to say that Microsoft will never release a compiler that breaks this, but portability could be maximised by making 'testdata' be 'unsigned char' and removing the cast in the quoted code (out-of-range conversions of unsigned integral types causes the value to be reduced using modular arithmetic - no cast is required or desired).
Man walks out of a gay bar. Has picture taken by anti-gay vigilanties. Facial recognition allows them to find him on Facebook and show the picture to his family, forcing him to be "outed" and ending in a Tyler Clementi situation.
Any facial recognition software could do this. Maybe the government already does this. I have pictures of myself on my Facebook page. The CIA could already have crawled over Facebook building a DB of everyone's name and photo.
Also, people being accused of things they didn't do (as another poster suggested) is hardly anything new. I sympathize with American posters not having faith in their justice system to sort out the facts though, as it seems that whoever can hire the most expensive lawyers wins over there.
It's sad that you have to resort to trying to avoid attention in the first place in case you are accused of something (and also sad that nobody really seems to see the problem with this). The guy ranting about privacy violation in East Germany should be looking at that angle of it.
Thanks for ignoring my question.. I understand the issues of privacy. I don't see how this Facebook move invades my privacy. This has nothing to do with the bullet points you listed.
Like many of you, I was skeptical that it was cheating at first, but after watching this interesting analysis I am convinced.
Bumping this as it was posted by AC so may have been missed by anyone who filters AC:)
Hour-long comparison of the accusee with computer suggestions. (Note that professional computer-detection systems do a lot more than just what you see in this video). If you don't want to watch the whole thing, one clear example is at 58:30 where he plays Rec1 (pretty much every human, if deciding to play a rook to c1 there, would move the other rook).
Most games are 1-minute per player (so up to 2.5mins for the whole game including lag, often much shorter).
ICC has a stat that shows you the percentage of life you've been online (since signing up). Mine was 41% until I got a fulltime job, after which it steadied out to 27%. Then I got engaged and it fell right away..:)
"Full-time chess professionals" don't play a large number of games online - they spend their time studying (or doing non-chess activities).
(Hm, posted this already then post disappeared..weird)
Anyway - parent post is very good. I have played half a million games online, and hundreds of STC games in real life, so I have taken an interest in computer detection, if only to bust people that use computers against me online:)
I can confirm that it is extremely obvious that the player in question is cheating. The statistical analysis in the original article is a bit like a proof of the Jordan Curve Theorem. The result is obvious but the proof is just there to satisfy rigour, and perhaps be usable in a courtroom, or to convince non-chessplayers.
I wouldn't normally know whether to trust a review, but a steganographic kitten photo placement service? I think we can safely assume that the author of the review is a legitimate geek whose opinion can be trusted.
I guess you did not inspect the link to his steganographic kitten service (unless you're on a deeper level than I am:)
It's probably going to be along the lines of evidence that there might have been some specific trace element at one point which may indicate the existence of water or microbacterial life at one point>
Sounds about right. Last time NASA hyped a big discovery it turned out just to be the some bugs had arsenic in their DNA. (woot?)
+1 for Google Groups, it removes A LOT of the hassle of managing forum for a site, especially for spam management (spam prevention logic is global across all the forums they host, if someone is detected spamming in one forum it can be nuked from everywhere at once).
I was going to post saying that in my experience Google Groups is full of spam, there's often a lot more spam threads than content threads.
Going to check this: if you use the "new interface" then the spam threads are blocked, but on the "old interface" they are not blocked. But sadly the new interface is horrible and the old interface is great (in my opinion of course). I'm going to request old interface with spam protection:)
This has to be some of the worst versioning ever - it's been decades(?) and we're still on sub-letters of 802.11 . When does it go to 802.12 (or heaven forbid, 803?)
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But Tyson's pomposity sort of makes it hard for me to "like" him..
They're fine as long as they don't get uppity, eh?
Throw them both in jail until one confesses. If they want to act like children they can be treated like children..
Let me get this straight: I can't drive 65 or turn up the heat without having to worry about getting stranded?
If your petrol vehicle had a very accurate range finder, you'd notice the range going down when you sped up or turned up the heat.
You don't have an accurate range finder, so you assume that those things make no difference; and if you even do notice that your vehicle varies a bit in how many miles you get to each tank, you just put it down to randomness because you don't understand the actual factors that go into vehicle range.
We know the facts in this case and can see how far the news article diverges.
Think of all the times you read a news article about some topic you don't know much about besides what the article tells you - and yet we tend to take those articles at face value.
The handful of times I have known people involved in an event which got reported on in a newspaper, the article often diverged wildly from reality. One time, a murderer was reported as "having been tracked down after a 3-day manhunt" when in reality once he came off his meth high he walked to the nearest police station and handed himself in.
That's a phenomena specific to diesel engines. Diesel's don't use a spark to ignite the fuel mixture like gasoline engines do, they use the heat from piston compression. Thus, so long as vacuum pressure and fuel supply is maintained, a diesel can continue running without electrical power.
Fuel pumps are driven electronically too (for the last N decades) , normally turning the key off will also kill power to the fuel pump. In fact I once owned a car where the owner had installed a hidden switch under the seat to turn the fuel pump on and off, purely as an anti-theft measure - although I'm sure this French driver wishes his car had one of those.
Also (I'm sure you know this but some readers may not, judging by the number of "why didn't he just use the handbrake" comments), petrol engines continue to run without the battery being connected - the engine's mechanical output drives the alternator which powers the spark plugs. Turning the key off normally interrupts the flow from battery/alternator to relevant part(s) of the ingition system.
That your kids make you happier than anything else you have now DOES NOT imply that you would not be happier without them. IIRC there are studies that have shown people without children are in fact happier than those with children.
You don't know what true happiness is until you have children.
(char)rand();
Extremely minor nitpick, but converting an out-of-range value to a signed integral type causes implementation-defined behaviour (which could include raising a signal).
It's pretty safe to say that Microsoft will never release a compiler that breaks this, but portability could be maximised by making 'testdata' be 'unsigned char' and removing the cast in the quoted code (out-of-range conversions of unsigned integral types causes the value to be reduced using modular arithmetic - no cast is required or desired).
Man walks out of a gay bar. Has picture taken by anti-gay vigilanties. Facial recognition allows them to find him on Facebook and show the picture to his family, forcing him to be "outed" and ending in a Tyler Clementi situation.
Any facial recognition software could do this. Maybe the government already does this. I have pictures of myself on my Facebook page. The CIA could already have crawled over Facebook building a DB of everyone's name and photo.
Also, people being accused of things they didn't do (as another poster suggested) is hardly anything new. I sympathize with American posters not having faith in their justice system to sort out the facts though, as it seems that whoever can hire the most expensive lawyers wins over there.
It's sad that you have to resort to trying to avoid attention in the first place in case you are accused of something (and also sad that nobody really seems to see the problem with this). The guy ranting about privacy violation in East Germany should be looking at that angle of it.
Thanks for ignoring my question.. I understand the issues of privacy. I don't see how this Facebook move invades my privacy. This has nothing to do with the bullet points you listed.
So, what's wrong with face recognition on Facebook? How does this violate my privacy?
Maybe watch an ASMR video to relax before going to sleep.
Wow .. I have had ASMR's all my life but didn't know that it had a name, or that other people didn't get it. Thanks for the tip!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jr0J8SPENjM
Like many of you, I was skeptical that it was cheating at first, but after watching this interesting analysis I am convinced.
Bumping this as it was posted by AC so may have been missed by anyone who filters AC :)
Hour-long comparison of the accusee with computer suggestions. (Note that professional computer-detection systems do a lot more than just what you see in this video). If you don't want to watch the whole thing, one clear example is at 58:30 where he plays Rec1 (pretty much every human, if deciding to play a rook to c1 there, would move the other rook).
Most games are 1-minute per player (so up to 2.5mins for the whole game including lag, often much shorter).
ICC has a stat that shows you the percentage of life you've been online (since signing up). Mine was 41% until I got a fulltime job, after which it steadied out to 27%. Then I got engaged and it fell right away..:)
"Full-time chess professionals" don't play a large number of games online - they spend their time studying (or doing non-chess activities).
(Hm, posted this already then post disappeared..weird)
Anyway - parent post is very good. I have played half a million games online, and hundreds of STC games in real life, so I have taken an interest in computer detection, if only to bust people that use computers against me online :)
I can confirm that it is extremely obvious that the player in question is cheating. The statistical analysis in the original article is a bit like a proof of the Jordan Curve Theorem. The result is obvious but the proof is just there to satisfy rigour, and perhaps be usable in a courtroom, or to convince non-chessplayers.
M = mega (1 million)
m = milli (1 thousandth)
If you're going to correct others, at least move into the current millennium
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/Toutatis-Revealed-by-Chinese-Spacecraft-183673171.html
This has been popping up while I'm browsing porn and it's making me extremely nervous.
So you're saying that the Cox outage was already happening?
I wouldn't normally know whether to trust a review, but a steganographic kitten photo placement service? I think we can safely assume that the author of the review is a legitimate geek whose opinion can be trusted.
I guess you did not inspect the link to his steganographic kitten service (unless you're on a deeper level than I am :)
I have no idea how git works on the inside, and make great use of it. It is such a massive time-saver coming from CVS.
The reviewer has clearly read the book he is writing a review for.. what is the world coming to
It's probably going to be along the lines of evidence that there might have been some specific trace element at one point which may indicate the existence of water or microbacterial life at one point>
Sounds about right. Last time NASA hyped a big discovery it turned out just to be the some bugs had arsenic in their DNA. (woot?)
+1 for Google Groups, it removes A LOT of the hassle of managing forum for a site, especially for spam management (spam prevention logic is global across all the forums they host, if someone is detected spamming in one forum it can be nuked from everywhere at once).
I was going to post saying that in my experience Google Groups is full of spam, there's often a lot more spam threads than content threads.
Going to check this: if you use the "new interface" then the spam threads are blocked, but on the "old interface" they are not blocked. But sadly the new interface is horrible and the old interface is great (in my opinion of course). I'm going to request old interface with spam protection :)
This has to be some of the worst versioning ever - it's been decades(?) and we're still on sub-letters of 802.11 . When does it go to 802.12 (or heaven forbid, 803?)
Maybe Romney bet KK into Torvalds' trup QQ?