Matthew 5:28. "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
Hooray for thought crime.
Well, adultery implies that either the one looking or the one looked at is married, right? Therefore if both the one looking and the one looked at are unmarried, it should be OK.
And BTW, it doesn't say anything about women looking at men lustfully, does it? So pictures of naked men should be OK, too.
Ultimately the carriers are being wasteful at times, but not nearly to the degree that Citi says they are.
The government shouldn't have sold spectrum, it should have leased it, with lease renewal fees gradually increasing over time like we do with property taxes. One of the purposes of commercial property taxes is to encourage efficient use of land. If you own land in a major city's downtown area, the temptation is to sit on that land as it appreciates in value. After all, it costs you no more to hold onto that land than it does to hold onto land in the middle of the desert. That's good for you, but bad for society overall. By charging you high property tax on that valuable piece of land, it gives you two choices: Develop the land into something useful for society which generates enough revenue for you to offset the high property tax, or sell the land to someone who will develop it.
That's what the government should have done with spectrum. Recurring and increasing annual lease fees would've forced spectrum owners to use it, or sell it off to someone who would use it. By selling the spectrum instead of leasing it, we've got a bunch of companies now suspected of wastefully sitting on spectrum simply because they can.
Given that property is owned and still can be taxed, I don't see why they couldn't also introduce a spectrum tax.
Child porn charges without a mens rea requirement are just an incredibly easy way to frame somebody for a felony if you've got some reason for wanting them sent to prison.
Indeed. For example, if you are able to manipulate his internet connection, you might insert a hidden image of child porn (since it's hidden, he won't see it, but it will probably end up in his cache anyway), and then tell the police that he likes to look at child porn. The police will seize his computers, find child porn in his cache, game over.
Where does the bible say "you shall not make pictures of breasts..."? Well, OK, the bible says you shall not make pictures of anything and this therefore would also apply for breasts, but then, where does the bible say that pictures of breasts are worse than pictures of faces, or pictures of trees for that matter?
I've worked for a web host and the more money they threw at their backup solution (this one is shiny, this one is integrated with your management platform, this one gives control to your customers, this one gives blowjobs,...)
Which one gives blowjobs? Is it suitable to be installed at home?:-)
I can't use it anymore though. Every time I've tried to read from it, my cat dies.
Something must be wrong with your drive. Your cat should only die half the time.
Actually, on average only every 18th time the cat should die. Yes, half the time the cat will lose its life. However, everyone knows that cats have nine lives.
Quantum, or more specifically quantum mechanics will be the next Major human revolution.
Actually quantum mechanics already is the previous revolution. Lasers are quantum. Semiconductors are quantum. Without quantum mechanics, our computers would still be big monsters of tubes with the power of a pocket calculator. The giant magnetoresistance, which is the base of our high-density hard disks, is a quantum effect. Without quantum mechanics, the whole information technology revolution could not have taken place.
That's not to say that quantum information wouldn't be a huge step from that. It's applying quantum mechanics to the information itself, instead of "only" using it to improve the handling of classical information. However, reducing the impact of quantum mechanics to quantum information vastly underestimates its importance. Even if the quantum computer should turn out to be impossible for some reason, quantum mechanics will not become useless. Almost all of our modern technology is based on it.
Let's have this post as a placeholder for all the Heisenberg and Schrodinger superposition jokes that show up in every single quantum computer story. Thanks!
Do you want the jokes or not? You can't have it both ways.
In quantum mechanics, you can. But only as long as you don't look.
"use is restricted to top-secret level communications" This article contradicts it self, SIPR is only up to secret.
Ah, that explains the statement "Lange wants a smartphone that is inter-operable and presumably trusted to deal with even more sensitive information." I already wondered what information would be more sensitive than top secret.
The solution to this is of course to have the phone only show encrypted information, and installing a crypto chip into the visual cortex of NSA agents for decryption.;-)
Light always travels at the same speed even near black holes. Even at the horizon. It's just that, as seen from outside, time goes slower near the black hole, and comes to a standstill at the horizon. Of course even with the speed of light you can't move out if no time elapses.
Now what would be interesting would be if he had used not a random algorithm, but an evolutionary algorithm, with a fitness function which tells how close the work is to Shakespeare, and would have tested how long that takes.
Aren't the fingers there to avoid reflection of the inside radiation? In that case, they would be counter productive for microwave ovens; you definitely do not want the internal radiation to be absorbed by the walls.
If you can think up some reason microwaves are more likely to cause cancer than infrared, visibile light, and radio waves, Im sure the listening scientific community would love to hear it.
Microwaves enable you to prepare food, which may contain carcinogens. I doubt that you can do that with infrared, visible light or radio waves. SCNR
Doesn't work. All you'll get out of it will look like random noise. It's not until you received the key via normal transmission that you can decode the message.
That higher risk only exists if the price can change at such a small time scale. Higher trading frequency decreases the time scale at which the price can change, and therefore does not give the high frequency trader a lower risk, but instead increases the risk for any non-high-frequency trader. Basically, it doesn't matter at which frequency you clock your market, as long as that frequency is higher than the relevant real economic frequencies. Which are certainly not measured in milliseconds. However, the faster your market works, the less time you have to react as soon as something goes wrong.
1) C is speed of light in vacuum, fiber is not vacuum, hence speed of light in this case is not necessarily C
Have you actually looked at his link? The only c he entered was part of the word "distance". And the number he wrote in his comment is (rounded) twice the number Wolfram Alpha gives for the travel time of light in fiber (light in vacuum has a travel time of only 32.2 ms, according to WA, so the round trip calculated with that would only be 64.4 ms.
2) No routing equipment can do calculations faster than C (unless you had the perfect parelel processor and OS), so you have packet, then A -> D conversion, then OSI model parsing, then protocol-specific filtering, then routing, then route-based filtering, then D -> A conversion, then send packet back out 3) Repeat step 2 for each hop 4) Last hop, repeat step 2, but add "request/response" processing there somewhere, such as ICMP ping for the most low-level test.
Obviously you didn't even read his comment, because there he states:
I'm rather impressed that it takes less than twice that to do the trip in reality, what with all of the additional routing delays and non-ideal paths that the data must take.
And BTW, "doing calculations faster than c" is a nonsensical term anyway.
But the less-full ones might go longer routes. For example, you have to ship-loads of containers from A to B, and half a shipload of containers from B to C. With standard containers, this might mean: Send two ships of containers from A to B. One immediately returns with one ship-load of empty containers to A, while the other one goes to C with half of the containers full, and the other half empty. From C, it then returns with all the containers empty.
With folding containers, the first ship cannot only return its own now empty containers, but also the non-empty containers from the second ship. Therefore 1.5 ship-loads of containers return directly to A, so that the second ship goes to C with only full containers, and then back to A also with only half of its original containers empty.
Assuming that the needed energy is a fixed amount plus an amount proportional to weight, and for simplicity assuming equal distances between all three ports, we get an empty container cost of 1+0.5+1 = 2.5 units for the non-folding containers vs. 1.5+0+0.5 = 2 units for the folding containers (only considering the weight-dependent part because the fixed part is the same for both scenarios). Thus 0.5 units of energy are saved, where 1 unit is the energy difference between an empty ship and a ship filled with empty containers going between those ports.
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Matthew 5:28. "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
Hooray for thought crime.
Well, adultery implies that either the one looking or the one looked at is married, right? Therefore if both the one looking and the one looked at are unmarried, it should be OK.
And BTW, it doesn't say anything about women looking at men lustfully, does it? So pictures of naked men should be OK, too.
The government shouldn't have sold spectrum, it should have leased it, with lease renewal fees gradually increasing over time like we do with property taxes. One of the purposes of commercial property taxes is to encourage efficient use of land. If you own land in a major city's downtown area, the temptation is to sit on that land as it appreciates in value. After all, it costs you no more to hold onto that land than it does to hold onto land in the middle of the desert. That's good for you, but bad for society overall. By charging you high property tax on that valuable piece of land, it gives you two choices: Develop the land into something useful for society which generates enough revenue for you to offset the high property tax, or sell the land to someone who will develop it.
That's what the government should have done with spectrum. Recurring and increasing annual lease fees would've forced spectrum owners to use it, or sell it off to someone who would use it. By selling the spectrum instead of leasing it, we've got a bunch of companies now suspected of wastefully sitting on spectrum simply because they can.
Given that property is owned and still can be taxed, I don't see why they couldn't also introduce a spectrum tax.
Sieg.
das Sieg = Victory. That's all Sieg means, on its own. Nothing to see here.
It's "der Sieg", not "das Sieg".
But the combination "Sieg Heil" is decidedly Nazi. Basically it's the putting of "Heil" on it which makes it typical Nazi.
But then, the Stasi was not in Nazi Germany (there you might have reported to the Gestapo), but in communist East Germany.
Indeed. For example, if you are able to manipulate his internet connection, you might insert a hidden image of child porn (since it's hidden, he won't see it, but it will probably end up in his cache anyway), and then tell the police that he likes to look at child porn. The police will seize his computers, find child porn in his cache, game over.
Where does the bible say "you shall not make pictures of breasts ..."? Well, OK, the bible says you shall not make pictures of anything and this therefore would also apply for breasts, but then, where does the bible say that pictures of breasts are worse than pictures of faces, or pictures of trees for that matter?
The receiver is only free of charge if he reports it. That's the opposite of common sense.
Which one gives blowjobs? Is it suitable to be installed at home? :-)
I can't use it anymore though. Every time I've tried to read from it, my cat dies.
Something must be wrong with your drive. Your cat should only die half the time.
Actually, on average only every 18th time the cat should die. Yes, half the time the cat will lose its life. However, everyone knows that cats have nine lives.
Actually quantum mechanics already is the previous revolution. Lasers are quantum. Semiconductors are quantum. Without quantum mechanics, our computers would still be big monsters of tubes with the power of a pocket calculator. The giant magnetoresistance, which is the base of our high-density hard disks, is a quantum effect. Without quantum mechanics, the whole information technology revolution could not have taken place.
That's not to say that quantum information wouldn't be a huge step from that. It's applying quantum mechanics to the information itself, instead of "only" using it to improve the handling of classical information. However, reducing the impact of quantum mechanics to quantum information vastly underestimates its importance. Even if the quantum computer should turn out to be impossible for some reason, quantum mechanics will not become useless. Almost all of our modern technology is based on it.
Let's have this post as a placeholder for all the Heisenberg and Schrodinger superposition jokes that show up in every single quantum computer story. Thanks!
Do you want the jokes or not? You can't have it both ways.
In quantum mechanics, you can. But only as long as you don't look.
So you think they should have continuously broadcasted their information about where Osama was hiding? :-)
Well, I guess Osama would have liked it.
"Secret Internet Protocol Router Network"
"use is restricted to top-secret level communications"
This article contradicts it self, SIPR is only up to secret.
Ah, that explains the statement "Lange wants a smartphone that is inter-operable and presumably trusted to deal with even more sensitive information." I already wondered what information would be more sensitive than top secret.
The solution to this is of course to have the phone only show encrypted information, and installing a crypto chip into the visual cortex of NSA agents for decryption. ;-)
Light always travels at the same speed even near black holes. Even at the horizon. It's just that, as seen from outside, time goes slower near the black hole, and comes to a standstill at the horizon. Of course even with the speed of light you can't move out if no time elapses.
Well, what about a Shakespeare@Home client for that? ;-)
Now what would be interesting would be if he had used not a random algorithm, but an evolutionary algorithm, with a fitness function which tells how close the work is to Shakespeare, and would have tested how long that takes.
Must be a reconfiguration of the Matrix.
What about you?
Aren't the fingers there to avoid reflection of the inside radiation? In that case, they would be counter productive for microwave ovens; you definitely do not want the internal radiation to be absorbed by the walls.
Microwaves enable you to prepare food, which may contain carcinogens. I doubt that you can do that with infrared, visible light or radio waves.
SCNR
Doesn't work. All you'll get out of it will look like random noise. It's not until you received the key via normal transmission that you can decode the message.
That higher risk only exists if the price can change at such a small time scale. Higher trading frequency decreases the time scale at which the price can change, and therefore does not give the high frequency trader a lower risk, but instead increases the risk for any non-high-frequency trader. Basically, it doesn't matter at which frequency you clock your market, as long as that frequency is higher than the relevant real economic frequencies. Which are certainly not measured in milliseconds. However, the faster your market works, the less time you have to react as soon as something goes wrong.
Have you actually looked at his link? The only c he entered was part of the word "distance". And the number he wrote in his comment is (rounded) twice the number Wolfram Alpha gives for the travel time of light in fiber (light in vacuum has a travel time of only 32.2 ms, according to WA, so the round trip calculated with that would only be 64.4 ms.
Obviously you didn't even read his comment, because there he states:
I'm rather impressed that it takes less than twice that to do the trip in reality, what with all of the additional routing delays and non-ideal paths that the data must take.
And BTW, "doing calculations faster than c" is a nonsensical term anyway.
But the less-full ones might go longer routes. For example, you have to ship-loads of containers from A to B, and half a shipload of containers from B to C. With standard containers, this might mean: Send two ships of containers from A to B. One immediately returns with one ship-load of empty containers to A, while the other one goes to C with half of the containers full, and the other half empty. From C, it then returns with all the containers empty.
With folding containers, the first ship cannot only return its own now empty containers, but also the non-empty containers from the second ship. Therefore 1.5 ship-loads of containers return directly to A, so that the second ship goes to C with only full containers, and then back to A also with only half of its original containers empty.
Assuming that the needed energy is a fixed amount plus an amount proportional to weight, and for simplicity assuming equal distances between all three ports, we get an empty container cost of 1+0.5+1 = 2.5 units for the non-folding containers vs. 1.5+0+0.5 = 2 units for the folding containers (only considering the weight-dependent part because the fixed part is the same for both scenarios). Thus 0.5 units of energy are saved, where 1 unit is the energy difference between an empty ship and a ship filled with empty containers going between those ports.
What is a "bike"? Is that like a type of car?
Yeah, it's a 2-wheeled cabriolet with muscle motor. :-)