(devil's advocate): maybe everyone will -use- open source projects (cutting costs), but nobody talented would contribute to them without compensation (again, cutting costs).
Depending on how they go about it, you can probably fool facial recognition by wearing an eye patch (and if it's a skin-colored eye patch, they probably wouldn't even recognize your face as a face).
Also, distance between eyes indicates proportions of other facial features---hide that distance, etc.
all the software you write has a fair market value, even if you GPL it
We're talking about the IRS here: unless there's actual money involved (at some point), it has no value. Hypothetical dollars (money you could've made doing other things) don't count.
i think you mean e^n [or 10^n] computers, depending on one's definition of log(n)
To factor N, at worst (stupid algorithm) you need to check sqrt(N) numbers, not exp(N) numbers. ie: N=1000000, you only need to check factors upto 1000, etc.
GP's lg(N) algorithm would factor a 1000bit number in ~1000 steps (depending on base). If GP meant N to be number of digits, then lg(N) (to factor 1000bit number in 10 steps?) would be impressive indeed---not even quantum computers are -that- fast---unless you use 2^N of them:-)
No, lets ground everything until it is fixed. Really, it would be cheaper to make all devices so they are rated for air travel...you do know your PEDs are not license for use in the air, don't you? No, of course you don't.
If my laptop/cellphone/ipod can bring down an airplane, it's not a problem with my laptop/cellphone/ipod, it's a problem with the airplane.
Nah. Some MS's PHB probably read ``1.5 billion for Lehman data center,'' and realized he could turn a killer profit by setting up a few hundred bucks worth of tents.
Best of all, it's always installed on all unix boxes (including macs!)
The only thing that's lacking is automatic palatalization across many cores for map{} operations, but I'm sure I can write a custom iterator to bucket things into N-threads on N-core CPUs if such a need arises.
I've seen wall st data centers... and it's essentially a floor packed with racks of computers and cooling equipment---most of which are 5 years out of date. Not sure -that- is worth 1.5 BILLION dollars---even if each rack costs $1 million, that's still a pretty outrageous amount to pay for what essentially amounts to used hardware and aging infrastructure (ie: these things weren't built last week).
What the "tax the rich" crowd doesn't realize is that the tax bracket applies to -earnings-. You have to be -working-. Most ``rich'' (what I'd consider rich) folks don't really ``earn'' anything at all. For example, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and just about every other `rich' person who ``works'', makes exactly $100,000 per year. They'd actually benefit under most tax plans.
Warren Buffet jokes that he pays -less- taxes than his secretary!
Now, if you're "earning" >$200k a year (highest tax braket), you're not ``rich''---you're just well off (probably thanks to luck, brains and good education; in that order). You likely have a boss and work Monday through Friday just like the rest of us.
What the tax brackets do is create a "bump" in taxes around $200k mark. Taxes increase upto that point---and beyond it (once you learn to invest and not put cash into savings account as income), they drop.
I liked this quote: ``Unfortunately, the alternative to the guy who promises to pillage my wallet is a lukewarm cadaver. I'm in trouble either way.'':-)
As for socialism---how is the Fed and their control of the ``free market'' not socialism?
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(devil's advocate): maybe everyone will -use- open source projects (cutting costs), but nobody talented would contribute to them without compensation (again, cutting costs).
Depending on how they go about it, you can probably fool facial recognition by wearing an eye patch (and if it's a skin-colored eye patch, they probably wouldn't even recognize your face as a face).
Also, distance between eyes indicates proportions of other facial features---hide that distance, etc.
Posted @04:33PM. Indeed.
all the software you write has a fair market value, even if you GPL it
We're talking about the IRS here: unless there's actual money involved (at some point), it has no value. Hypothetical dollars (money you could've made doing other things) don't count.
i think you mean e^n [or 10^n] computers, depending on one's definition of log(n)
To factor N, at worst (stupid algorithm) you need to check sqrt(N) numbers, not exp(N) numbers. ie: N=1000000, you only need to check factors upto 1000, etc.
GP's lg(N) algorithm would factor a 1000bit number in ~1000 steps (depending on base). If GP meant N to be number of digits, then lg(N) (to factor 1000bit number in 10 steps?) would be impressive indeed---not even quantum computers are -that- fast---unless you use 2^N of them :-)
factors the products of large prime numbers in log(n) time
That's easy, just use sqrt(n) computers.
We do not want a catch-22 situation where police can lock you up indefinitely just because...
Unless that's precisely their goal...
Indeed.
ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the Adobe Flash Player installer.
...someone is the "czar" of something? What the hell does that actually mean, and what can they actually do?
In my mind, that conjures up images of someone a throne, saying ``it's good to be the czar!''
Would anyone care to estimate the percentage chance of each response?
We can't... we learned Math the stupid way.
No, lets ground everything until it is fixed. Really, it would be cheaper to make all devices so they are rated for air travel...you do know your PEDs are not license for use in the air, don't you? No, of course you don't.
If my laptop/cellphone/ipod can bring down an airplane, it's not a problem with my laptop/cellphone/ipod, it's a problem with the airplane.
moved in the direction of socialism.
Yeah, socialism for corporations!
...spent all my money...secure in the knowledge that the world would come to an end this October
Yeah, you and all the banks!
Don't worry, there will be another delay, then another, then another, until it goes live in 2012.
Did the Chinese government move themselves to outer space?
Nop. They've enabled NAT on their national firewall.
Yes, but no-name DVDs have a low smug factor.
Nah. Some MS's PHB probably read ``1.5 billion for Lehman data center,'' and realized he could turn a killer profit by setting up a few hundred bucks worth of tents.
...one day a language more like haskell and less like C will end up being the most popular.
Welcome Perl. Read Higher-Order Perl ( http://hop.perl.plover.com/ ) if you don't believe me.
Best of all, it's always installed on all unix boxes (including macs!)
The only thing that's lacking is automatic palatalization across many cores for map{} operations, but I'm sure I can write a custom iterator to bucket things into N-threads on N-core CPUs if such a need arises.
...would capture more energy than the sun puts out...violates the laws of physics
Are you also the one covering up cold fusion?
I've seen wall st data centers... and it's essentially a floor packed with racks of computers and cooling equipment---most of which are 5 years out of date. Not sure -that- is worth 1.5 BILLION dollars---even if each rack costs $1 million, that's still a pretty outrageous amount to pay for what essentially amounts to used hardware and aging infrastructure (ie: these things weren't built last week).
What the "tax the rich" crowd doesn't realize is that the tax bracket applies to -earnings-. You have to be -working-. Most ``rich'' (what I'd consider rich) folks don't really ``earn'' anything at all. For example, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and just about every other `rich' person who ``works'', makes exactly $100,000 per year. They'd actually benefit under most tax plans.
Warren Buffet jokes that he pays -less- taxes than his secretary!
Now, if you're "earning" >$200k a year (highest tax braket), you're not ``rich''---you're just well off (probably thanks to luck, brains and good education; in that order). You likely have a boss and work Monday through Friday just like the rest of us.
What the tax brackets do is create a "bump" in taxes around $200k mark. Taxes increase upto that point---and beyond it (once you learn to invest and not put cash into savings account as income), they drop.
I liked this quote: ``Unfortunately, the alternative to the guy who promises to pillage my wallet is a lukewarm cadaver. I'm in trouble either way.'' :-)
As for socialism---how is the Fed and their control of the ``free market'' not socialism?
Maybe it's another Alien civilization that just annihilated itself
...via their own LHC! Uh, oh!
...or we are seeing space-time reflection of us!
And the stated goal of these journals: to make research -more- available.
Insightful? How the fuck is this insightful? NO company big or small should be getting ANY sort of help from the government.
I was going for Funny, but, eh, I guess some folks took it for real. Scarry.