Obviously it's really hard to pin down why this rule went into effect in the first place, but a flight instructor of mine said that the rule was put into place on behest of cell phone carriers to protect cell phone towers from getting overwhelmed. He argued that the signal from a single cell phone in the air would propagate much further than one on land, and thus put an undue burden on cell towers within line of sight of the plane, especially when we are talking about planes full of people taking off from major metropolitan airports.
I'm not sure if this is true or is bullshit, but I thought I would throw it out there as a possible reason.
So basically we are saying that someone with highly specialized skills and the right hardware is able to open an electronic lock? Back in the present, people with a lockpick set and the skills to use one are able to open millions of regular locks, and nobody was freaking out about that. Locks aren't meant to keep out resourceful intelligent people, they are meant to keep out stupid opportunistic criminals. Nothing has changed.
Don't worry, kids are pretty tech savvy these days. Just get him an electron microscope and he'll be able to figure it out in a jiffy. Plus he'll think you're the best dad ever!
The problem with a cloud solution is that you can't use it offline. What if I want to surf the web away from any WiFi access points or the cellular network?
The 10% of wrong answers it gives, however, are pretty bloody stupid. Obviously, there is really no reasoning involved here.
The problem is that Watson uses a form of reasoning which is very different from our own form of reasoning. When it gets things wrong, it gets things wrong in a way that doesn't make sense to us. This doesn't prove that Watson isn't reasoning, it just proves that we have a bias in judging wrong answers based on how our own reasoning works.
Wake me up when it does something they didn't program it to do.
Just you wait, I have a feeling that half way through the broadcast, Watson will bludgeon the two human opponents to death and declare himself victor. The IBM programmers will deny ever having programmed Watson to do this.
As a practical joke, they should relocate the capsule to some desert that resembles Mars, put a fake Mars rover nearby, open the hatch of the capsule, and watch the men stumble out going "WTF?"
Even though punch card readers are obsolete, punch cards are still better for archival than other technologies because it's not hard to read the original message just by looking at the punch pattern. Hence, unlike floppies and SD cards, punch cards are human-readable and recoverable even without the original reader hardware.
I came online to post a link to this, as I've had a dragon sitting on my kitchen counter for several years now. Wikipedia has a nice video of the dragon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-Face_illusion
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> SCO isn't much of an option.
Why not? Just buy them out. By now you can probably buy the company for a few hundred bucks...
Obviously it's really hard to pin down why this rule went into effect in the first place, but a flight instructor of mine said that the rule was put into place on behest of cell phone carriers to protect cell phone towers from getting overwhelmed. He argued that the signal from a single cell phone in the air would propagate much further than one on land, and thus put an undue burden on cell towers within line of sight of the plane, especially when we are talking about planes full of people taking off from major metropolitan airports.
I'm not sure if this is true or is bullshit, but I thought I would throw it out there as a possible reason.
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Crap! I knew it was only a matter of time before these new fanged quantum computers cracked my 4 bit RSA encryption key!
So basically we are saying that someone with highly specialized skills and the right hardware is able to open an electronic lock? Back in the present, people with a lockpick set and the skills to use one are able to open millions of regular locks, and nobody was freaking out about that. Locks aren't meant to keep out resourceful intelligent people, they are meant to keep out stupid opportunistic criminals. Nothing has changed.
...DO NOT break a window.
Isn't graphene the same stuff that pencil lead is made out of? Have they written off the possibility of lead poisoning?
Oh please. For just about everything a person or company can do, there is *someone* out there who is going to be offended. I say, screw 'em.
Don't worry, kids are pretty tech savvy these days. Just get him an electron microscope and he'll be able to figure it out in a jiffy. Plus he'll think you're the best dad ever!
He begins by saying "Microsoft, in his infinite wisdom", then ends by "these features should be very welcome on the desktop, too"
So wait, does think Microsoft did the right thing or not?
The problem with a cloud solution is that you can't use it offline. What if I want to surf the web away from any WiFi access points or the cellular network?
The 10% of wrong answers it gives, however, are pretty bloody stupid. Obviously, there is really no reasoning involved here.
The problem is that Watson uses a form of reasoning which is very different from our own form of reasoning. When it gets things wrong, it gets things wrong in a way that doesn't make sense to us. This doesn't prove that Watson isn't reasoning, it just proves that we have a bias in judging wrong answers based on how our own reasoning works.
Wake me up when it does something they didn't program it to do.
Just you wait, I have a feeling that half way through the broadcast, Watson will bludgeon the two human opponents to death and declare himself victor. The IBM programmers will deny ever having programmed Watson to do this.
The GPS manufacturers and 4G companies are colluding to get us all to buy new GPS devices and GPS-enabled phones with better band-pass filters!
Was it invented by Tony Stark?
As a practical joke, they should relocate the capsule to some desert that resembles Mars, put a fake Mars rover nearby, open the hatch of the capsule, and watch the men stumble out going "WTF?"
A diode is the triode's retarded brother.
> 80 million gallons of Blue Lake water will soon be siphoned into the kind of tankers normally reserved for oil
Ah, so that's what's causing the oily aftertaste.
Cius> enable t
...
Password:
Cius# conf t
Cius(configure)# addressbook
Cius(configure-addressbook)# phone bob 222-4343
^Z
Cius>dial bob
Cius>no dial bob
Even though punch card readers are obsolete, punch cards are still better for archival than other technologies because it's not hard to read the original message just by looking at the punch pattern. Hence, unlike floppies and SD cards, punch cards are human-readable and recoverable even without the original reader hardware.
Qualifications: Must not be squeamish about seeing blood and be willing to play the odds.
I came online to post a link to this, as I've had a dragon sitting on my kitchen counter for several years now. Wikipedia has a nice video of the dragon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-Face_illusion
A Pentium 4 powering ten web browsers? I hope everyone doesn't go to YouTube at once.
Nothing new here. They've been enabling botnets for *years*...
Correct. I meant hypoglycemic. My bad.
Argh. I mean, I meant hyperglycemic. Darn it. I made the same mistake twice.
Correct. I meant hypoglycemic. My bad.