Not really - it was rejected because she couldn't show damage to commercial interests, not because it was bat-crap insane. If this ruling is followed through to its logical conclusion, anyone who DOES run a small business (or a large business) will be able to bring a sucessful claim against a search engine because their algorithm leaves unsavoury results near legitimate information about that person.
Not really, the logical conclusion is that if you have a business interest the court will listen to your case. She can incorporate and sue again, but that doesn't mean she's going to get any compensation.
Personally, I think employment is a commercial interest. It's a contracted business activity that includes work exchanged for money, done for profit not fun, but the government has special-cased it so it's not considered commercial. She also owns her likeness - it's her property, but it's still not commercial until she trades it. This law sounds like it was custom written not to protect people, their property, and their businesses and commercial interests, but to indemnify corporations with no regard given to anything else. On the other hand, people shouldn't expect privacy on the Internet.
If all information in universe-a was being used to simulate universe-b either:
1) Overhead from the simulation would cause the limitation effect.
2) There is no overhead, universe-a perfectly simulates universe-b with no overhead. In this case, they are equivalent and the same.
The problem is the universe is a special place where things like the uncertainty principle apply. This makes life difficult for Turing Machines. The UP makes it clear that not only can't we obtain perfect state information (it's limited to a certain granularity) - but furthermore that it's unknowable. There are a number of physical experiments that a computer couldn't simulate without going back in time to avoid an impossible result.
Any computer can represent problems for which there are no solution, as well as problems for which the representation is wrong, including a Turing machine (it just takes longer.)
Undecidable problems have no (TM) solution in finite time. Hence the halting problem.
The more cores you have, the more state information is needed for a thread and the more possible permutations the scheduler must consider in order to be efficient.
You mean they're thrashing on scheduler state? THIS can be solved by getting rid of the HZ scheduler tick. Either a thread is blocked until time X, is blocked indefinitely, or is running. Either way, there is no need for a regular tick; its known in advance when the next thread needs to wake up, when the next thread for a given core (execution unit) needs to wake up, and when the next thread on a given execution thread/CPU thread needs to wake up. ALL computers these days have programmable timers and there is absolutely no need to soft time anything. Simply set a timer to the next wake point, with whatever N-nanosecond precision the timer can handle, and keep rolling. Just like Solaris does.
Can somebody please explain what the fuck they are actually talking about?
I was wondering the same. Some sort of "counter" is a rather useless description. Page ref counts? Shared TLB lockout? Cache aliasing? Mutex wait counts? Interrupt thread concurrency? Something else entirely???
Idiot cowboy cop racks up tens of thousands of dollars in damages to be paid by taxpayers to issue a $125 traffic citation. Where do they even find inept morons like this?
A cipher is basically just a random sequence generator seeded with the key and an initialization vector (so the same key can generate different sequences), so the answer is no; you can't differentiate a data stream that has been XORed with a random sequence, from a random sequence. In practice though, if you see a random sequence it's a safe bet that it's either encrypted or a decoy. In some cases you can detect handshakes and key/iv exchanges (like diffie-hellman).
I was under the impression that the lower end models were in some ways defective, that is - maybe part of the cache does not work, maybe the chip does not work right at high frequencies, in which case they could throw it out, or disable access to the non-working parts and sell the chip for cheaper.
It's certainly possible that an i7 with a defect can be sold as an i5, but that doesn't mean all i5's are defective i7's, or that a Core 2 Duo is a crippled i7, or that a defective i7 can be sold as a mobile i7. Nor are Atoms defective i3's; Atoms are fabbed by TSMC so even if this were even electrically possible the logistic complexity would soon consume any benefit.
Protecting people from eating and making a spectacle. Bravo.
This is utterly ridiculous. The PIPA is several years old now and isn't closed to fishing by people who live on the islands - it's closed to fishing by industrial scale harvesting operations, none of which are owned and operated by locals. Its government previously made half its revenue by selling fishing rights to international operators; this decision simply affirms that THE PEOPLE OF THESE ISLANDS think it's more important to maintain a healthy marine life and stock for their own uses than to raise government revenue by selling fishing rights. To them and their sensibilities it's like the U.S. government were to make money by exporting child porn; no matter how practical it's an affront and unseemly to have giant floating factory ships suck large swaths of their sea clean. They may also realize that the people who buy these rights don't give a flying f*ck about them and their well-being, that they're exposed - and that building out tourism may be a better alternative. Because people (unlike corporations) DO give a shit about other people. Selling commercial rights is a political dead end, while the alternatives allow forging of political alliances; while politicians in places like the U.S. and Australia would happily throw them under the bus at first opportunity, the voters in those places (having say been there on a dive vacation) may be of a differing opinion.
The ratio of Fructose to Glucose generated by our digestive system while digesting Sucrose is almost identical to the contents of HFCS.
Table sugar is not a syrup; syrup is created through hydrolysis. Hydrolysis of cane sugar produces cane syrup. Eating any kind of syrup is different from eating granulated sugar. When cane sugar is used in a drink it's hydrolyzed into syrup, or the product wouldn't be commercially viable - the sugar would crystalize in the bottle while on the shelf and add a granular texture to the drink. It's only the lemonade or whatever you whip up at home for instant consumption that actually contains sucrose. While some hydrolysis occurs in the gut after eating granular sugar, it's a limited process. The presence of syrups in the blood produces an insulin response, but fat cells are unable to store it. So they absorb all other glucose from the bloodstream, lowering blood sugar. It's not until the liver has metabolised the syrup that fat cells can absorb it and insulin levels return to normal. As a result the insulin response is longer and the non-syrup blood sugar drops lower than if you ate plain sugar. Apart from making you fatter this also has the effect of reducing insulin sensitivity and inducing fatigue. Over time you get fat, lazy, and diabetic.
Each bulb contains about 5 milligrams (mg) of mercury
This really means nothing. Pure mercury is pretty harmless and occurs naturally in high concentrations (depending on where you look). There are lots of places where you can dig a hole, then come back in a few weeks and find little pools of mercury at the bottom. Liquid mercury won't really penetrate your skin or get absorbed by plants - which is why it collects in soil. Heating it up and inhaling the vapors is highly detrimental to your health though, as is eating it. But 5mg of mercury in either liquid or amalgam form is really pretty darn harmless to handle. It came from soil and when thrown in a landfill it goes back to it. We all carry around small amounts of mercury we pick over our lifetime from our natural environment, and a few broken CFLs isn't going to affect that.
The main mercury problem is release of that previously sequestered in oil and gas. This adds to the mercury cycle, which adds to the system concentration and hence to the amount we pick up over a lifetime. Also, our taste for top of the foodchain ocean predators (whereas we don't tend to eat land predators) and the ease with which we can harvest them on an industrial scale (rather than a once in a blue moon treat) doesn't help.
Even the EPA says that if you break a CFL then you should send everyone out of the room, open the windows for 15 minutes, shut down any forced air systems so that the mercury vapor doesn't spread around the house, and throw away any material that comes into contact with the bulb fragments. Not only that, but to remain within the law you may have to make special arrangements for disposal of the debris.
You should see what they recommend should you, say, get a few drops of gasoline on your hands. Quick - sanitize using this 200 point check list or your hands will develop necrotic hand cancer and fall off!!!
As mentioned in the article it costs 50% more to make them locally. Personally I don't think that 1st world economies should have to compete against 3rd world labor laws, non existent environmental standards, and be forced to collude with the government to get subsidies and manipulate the currency exchange just to be competitive. So until things change for the better, no we shouldn't encourage more jobs to go overseas by legislating light bulb usage.
It'll go overseas no matter what, it's just a matter of time until GE has to reinvest in its incandescent manufacturing anyway. It would be better to legislate minimum product standards in terms of manufacturing and labor standards. If you manufacture using standards that aren't acceptable here, then you can't sell your products here. Problem solved.
So use an incandescent reading light. Use cheap Costco megapack CFLs (the cheap filtered or even marginally unfiltered) for things you don't terribly care about, like a porch or back stairs light, or garage light. These often get left burning long hours or people keep them on timers. Use more expensive (broad-spectrum fluorescing) lights for room lights you tend to leave on while in the room. At least one or two of these are kept burning equal to your wake time in the house with some attenuation for daylight. With four people in a house, especially kids, a lot of lights will be on for hours on end even with the best of habits. Then use incandescent bulbs where they make sense, like appliances (ovens, fridges, instruments, etc) and reading lights.
Personally, I use very few incandescent bulbs; it's mainly for reading, and then because of size considerations. I prefer broad-spectrum daylight CFLs while working (so my office/lab room is all daylight balanced).
Why the focus on efficiency standards, though, when usage patterns make a bigger difference? If I choose to use incandescent bulbs, and my neighbor chooses to use 5x as many CFLs which they leave on 24/7, that's a-ok by government efficiency standards, but is not saving any electricity.
You'd rather they left 5x as many incandescents on 24x7? Because that's what they'd do. You should be happy your neighbors use less power, because it reduces demand and your own prices.
I wonder if forcing every single human being to read George Orwell's 1984 would prevent this sort of thing from happening.
Security bureaucrats aren't the type of people who read books, other than maybe Stephen King and the latest spy/military novels. And if they were to read 1984 they wouldn't get it, anyway. Politicians do read, but they're impermeable read-only-minds and don't give a sh*t, so will continue to lie, deceive, throw both you and me under the bus, and make up pretexts and stories to get whatever it is they have their mind locked onto. A politician would read 1984 only for the purpose of figuring out how to tweak appearances to avoid similarity.
Virtualization is a required skill nowadays(as I unfortunately found out during a 9 month unemployment period), and to go with that required skill, in order to be certified by VMWare(which regardless of what people feel about them/the product they are a market leader), you need to take their required courses to qualify. The required courses cost $3500.
So you bit the bullet and invested $3500 in yourself, right? Use a credit card or borrow from friends. It's is okay to borrow for business purposes - it's not frivolous spending to buy work tools, books, and take classes. That's an investment in your ability to make or living, do a better job, and work more efficiently (if not effectively). If you get a job just a month earlier you've earned that money right back with margin.
Often, it's a role they have someone lined up for internally, but are forced to send out to advertisement due to policy (especially the case in the public sector).
Correct. These are generally referred to as "ghost reqs".
Shouldn't any decently designed DAC have whatever technical measures are necessary to ensure that analog noise coming in on the digital line does not get passed out in the analog output of the DAC?
Best practices dictates you put digital in its own "dirty" block. You drive it with a switching PSU (which is also dirty). Analog circuitry goes in a "clean" block. You drive it with a clean PSU. Between them you have an EMI barrier. Optical PWM (analog mode binary) is a good barrier. Each block has its own ground plane and shielding.
Look inside a computer and realize it's not built for critical analog performance. There are some pretty massive compromises. Mixed-mode ICs are common, board space is at a premium, audio isn't a priority so is usually stuck wherever it fits. It may have its own ground plane but EMI isolation is so-so at best. It's driven with the same noisy switching PSU, albeit perhaps with some filtering. If you're lucky. Most likely the board designer picked whatever audio chip meets spec at lowest cost, slaps it on there, plays a little audio to make sure his ears don't bleed, and then turns his attention to something more pressing.
It's not surprising that replacing cables can make an audible difference. Switch the PSU might make a difference too, as might the choice of cooling fan and the speed it's running at.
Trying to solve the problem with the cable seems to me to be the wrong way to attack such a problem - the playback device which generates the final analog signal should take care of that problem
An outboard USB DAC would be a better choice. It offers extremely low jitter at the cost of high buffering and protocol latency. If he needs to maintain critical lip sync with video he should go with a SPDIF or toslink DAC. It has higher jitter but very low latency.
I didn't read the entire article, but my quick skim didn't indicate he actually solved a problem, only that it sounded better. It's not that outlandish.
More likely he's using crappy onboard DACs that are massively noise and DC polluted from a common ground shared with digital circuitry. Nothing is as noisy as transceivers, and getting them properly impedance matched can make a huge difference. More fundamentally, for playing stored digital audio he should get himself an external USB DAC.
You need to realize Denon doesn't expect to sell that cable. It exists only because some custom integrators absolutely demanded a Denon-qualified interconnect between components. They needed something to a-b test their own configurations against to make sure they don't regress. That's why it exists. You're not expected to buy it. It's really just a plain ethernet cable and Denon themselves don't claim otherwise.
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Clearly it's fair use if the clips are short enough. They should dispute the notice.
Not really - it was rejected because she couldn't show damage to commercial interests, not because it was bat-crap insane. If this ruling is followed through to its logical conclusion, anyone who DOES run a small business (or a large business) will be able to bring a sucessful claim against a search engine because their algorithm leaves unsavoury results near legitimate information about that person.
Not really, the logical conclusion is that if you have a business interest the court will listen to your case. She can incorporate and sue again, but that doesn't mean she's going to get any compensation.
Personally, I think employment is a commercial interest. It's a contracted business activity that includes work exchanged for money, done for profit not fun, but the government has special-cased it so it's not considered commercial. She also owns her likeness - it's her property, but it's still not commercial until she trades it. This law sounds like it was custom written not to protect people, their property, and their businesses and commercial interests, but to indemnify corporations with no regard given to anything else. On the other hand, people shouldn't expect privacy on the Internet.
If all information in universe-a was being used to simulate universe-b either: 1) Overhead from the simulation would cause the limitation effect. 2) There is no overhead, universe-a perfectly simulates universe-b with no overhead. In this case, they are equivalent and the same.
The problem is the universe is a special place where things like the uncertainty principle apply. This makes life difficult for Turing Machines. The UP makes it clear that not only can't we obtain perfect state information (it's limited to a certain granularity) - but furthermore that it's unknowable. There are a number of physical experiments that a computer couldn't simulate without going back in time to avoid an impossible result.
Any computer can represent problems for which there are no solution, as well as problems for which the representation is wrong, including a Turing machine (it just takes longer.)
Undecidable problems have no (TM) solution in finite time. Hence the halting problem.
The more cores you have, the more state information is needed for a thread and the more possible permutations the scheduler must consider in order to be efficient.
You mean they're thrashing on scheduler state? THIS can be solved by getting rid of the HZ scheduler tick. Either a thread is blocked until time X, is blocked indefinitely, or is running. Either way, there is no need for a regular tick; its known in advance when the next thread needs to wake up, when the next thread for a given core (execution unit) needs to wake up, and when the next thread on a given execution thread/CPU thread needs to wake up. ALL computers these days have programmable timers and there is absolutely no need to soft time anything. Simply set a timer to the next wake point, with whatever N-nanosecond precision the timer can handle, and keep rolling. Just like Solaris does.
Can somebody please explain what the fuck they are actually talking about?
I was wondering the same. Some sort of "counter" is a rather useless description. Page ref counts? Shared TLB lockout? Cache aliasing? Mutex wait counts? Interrupt thread concurrency? Something else entirely???
Idiot cowboy cop racks up tens of thousands of dollars in damages to be paid by taxpayers to issue a $125 traffic citation. Where do they even find inept morons like this?
A cipher is basically just a random sequence generator seeded with the key and an initialization vector (so the same key can generate different sequences), so the answer is no; you can't differentiate a data stream that has been XORed with a random sequence, from a random sequence. In practice though, if you see a random sequence it's a safe bet that it's either encrypted or a decoy. In some cases you can detect handshakes and key/iv exchanges (like diffie-hellman).
I was under the impression that the lower end models were in some ways defective, that is - maybe part of the cache does not work, maybe the chip does not work right at high frequencies, in which case they could throw it out, or disable access to the non-working parts and sell the chip for cheaper.
It's certainly possible that an i7 with a defect can be sold as an i5, but that doesn't mean all i5's are defective i7's, or that a Core 2 Duo is a crippled i7, or that a defective i7 can be sold as a mobile i7. Nor are Atoms defective i3's; Atoms are fabbed by TSMC so even if this were even electrically possible the logistic complexity would soon consume any benefit.
Protecting people from eating and making a spectacle. Bravo.
This is utterly ridiculous. The PIPA is several years old now and isn't closed to fishing by people who live on the islands - it's closed to fishing by industrial scale harvesting operations, none of which are owned and operated by locals. Its government previously made half its revenue by selling fishing rights to international operators; this decision simply affirms that THE PEOPLE OF THESE ISLANDS think it's more important to maintain a healthy marine life and stock for their own uses than to raise government revenue by selling fishing rights. To them and their sensibilities it's like the U.S. government were to make money by exporting child porn; no matter how practical it's an affront and unseemly to have giant floating factory ships suck large swaths of their sea clean. They may also realize that the people who buy these rights don't give a flying f*ck about them and their well-being, that they're exposed - and that building out tourism may be a better alternative. Because people (unlike corporations) DO give a shit about other people. Selling commercial rights is a political dead end, while the alternatives allow forging of political alliances; while politicians in places like the U.S. and Australia would happily throw them under the bus at first opportunity, the voters in those places (having say been there on a dive vacation) may be of a differing opinion.
I just sent an email with my bid and I can say it was well over $100. Hope I win!
The ratio of Fructose to Glucose generated by our digestive system while digesting Sucrose is almost identical to the contents of HFCS.
Table sugar is not a syrup; syrup is created through hydrolysis. Hydrolysis of cane sugar produces cane syrup. Eating any kind of syrup is different from eating granulated sugar. When cane sugar is used in a drink it's hydrolyzed into syrup, or the product wouldn't be commercially viable - the sugar would crystalize in the bottle while on the shelf and add a granular texture to the drink. It's only the lemonade or whatever you whip up at home for instant consumption that actually contains sucrose. While some hydrolysis occurs in the gut after eating granular sugar, it's a limited process. The presence of syrups in the blood produces an insulin response, but fat cells are unable to store it. So they absorb all other glucose from the bloodstream, lowering blood sugar. It's not until the liver has metabolised the syrup that fat cells can absorb it and insulin levels return to normal. As a result the insulin response is longer and the non-syrup blood sugar drops lower than if you ate plain sugar. Apart from making you fatter this also has the effect of reducing insulin sensitivity and inducing fatigue. Over time you get fat, lazy, and diabetic.
Each bulb contains about 5 milligrams (mg) of mercury
This really means nothing. Pure mercury is pretty harmless and occurs naturally in high concentrations (depending on where you look). There are lots of places where you can dig a hole, then come back in a few weeks and find little pools of mercury at the bottom. Liquid mercury won't really penetrate your skin or get absorbed by plants - which is why it collects in soil. Heating it up and inhaling the vapors is highly detrimental to your health though, as is eating it. But 5mg of mercury in either liquid or amalgam form is really pretty darn harmless to handle. It came from soil and when thrown in a landfill it goes back to it. We all carry around small amounts of mercury we pick over our lifetime from our natural environment, and a few broken CFLs isn't going to affect that.
The main mercury problem is release of that previously sequestered in oil and gas. This adds to the mercury cycle, which adds to the system concentration and hence to the amount we pick up over a lifetime. Also, our taste for top of the foodchain ocean predators (whereas we don't tend to eat land predators) and the ease with which we can harvest them on an industrial scale (rather than a once in a blue moon treat) doesn't help.
Even the EPA says that if you break a CFL then you should send everyone out of the room, open the windows for 15 minutes, shut down any forced air systems so that the mercury vapor doesn't spread around the house, and throw away any material that comes into contact with the bulb fragments. Not only that, but to remain within the law you may have to make special arrangements for disposal of the debris.
You should see what they recommend should you, say, get a few drops of gasoline on your hands. Quick - sanitize using this 200 point check list or your hands will develop necrotic hand cancer and fall off!!!
As mentioned in the article it costs 50% more to make them locally. Personally I don't think that 1st world economies should have to compete against 3rd world labor laws, non existent environmental standards, and be forced to collude with the government to get subsidies and manipulate the currency exchange just to be competitive. So until things change for the better, no we shouldn't encourage more jobs to go overseas by legislating light bulb usage.
It'll go overseas no matter what, it's just a matter of time until GE has to reinvest in its incandescent manufacturing anyway. It would be better to legislate minimum product standards in terms of manufacturing and labor standards. If you manufacture using standards that aren't acceptable here, then you can't sell your products here. Problem solved.
So use an incandescent reading light. Use cheap Costco megapack CFLs (the cheap filtered or even marginally unfiltered) for things you don't terribly care about, like a porch or back stairs light, or garage light. These often get left burning long hours or people keep them on timers. Use more expensive (broad-spectrum fluorescing) lights for room lights you tend to leave on while in the room. At least one or two of these are kept burning equal to your wake time in the house with some attenuation for daylight. With four people in a house, especially kids, a lot of lights will be on for hours on end even with the best of habits. Then use incandescent bulbs where they make sense, like appliances (ovens, fridges, instruments, etc) and reading lights.
Personally, I use very few incandescent bulbs; it's mainly for reading, and then because of size considerations. I prefer broad-spectrum daylight CFLs while working (so my office/lab room is all daylight balanced).
Horses for courses.
Why the focus on efficiency standards, though, when usage patterns make a bigger difference? If I choose to use incandescent bulbs, and my neighbor chooses to use 5x as many CFLs which they leave on 24/7, that's a-ok by government efficiency standards, but is not saving any electricity.
You'd rather they left 5x as many incandescents on 24x7? Because that's what they'd do. You should be happy your neighbors use less power, because it reduces demand and your own prices.
I wonder if forcing every single human being to read George Orwell's 1984 would prevent this sort of thing from happening.
Security bureaucrats aren't the type of people who read books, other than maybe Stephen King and the latest spy/military novels. And if they were to read 1984 they wouldn't get it, anyway. Politicians do read, but they're impermeable read-only-minds and don't give a sh*t, so will continue to lie, deceive, throw both you and me under the bus, and make up pretexts and stories to get whatever it is they have their mind locked onto. A politician would read 1984 only for the purpose of figuring out how to tweak appearances to avoid similarity.
The Humbee is too big and its wings too small to fly.
Not a single one, per the article you cite. Not even just the aircraft, without spares, etc.
But you could get several hours of Iraq war funding!
Virtualization is a required skill nowadays(as I unfortunately found out during a 9 month unemployment period), and to go with that required skill, in order to be certified by VMWare(which regardless of what people feel about them/the product they are a market leader), you need to take their required courses to qualify. The required courses cost $3500.
So you bit the bullet and invested $3500 in yourself, right? Use a credit card or borrow from friends. It's is okay to borrow for business purposes - it's not frivolous spending to buy work tools, books, and take classes. That's an investment in your ability to make or living, do a better job, and work more efficiently (if not effectively). If you get a job just a month earlier you've earned that money right back with margin.
Often, it's a role they have someone lined up for internally, but are forced to send out to advertisement due to policy (especially the case in the public sector).
Correct. These are generally referred to as "ghost reqs".
Shouldn't any decently designed DAC have whatever technical measures are necessary to ensure that analog noise coming in on the digital line does not get passed out in the analog output of the DAC?
Best practices dictates you put digital in its own "dirty" block. You drive it with a switching PSU (which is also dirty). Analog circuitry goes in a "clean" block. You drive it with a clean PSU. Between them you have an EMI barrier. Optical PWM (analog mode binary) is a good barrier. Each block has its own ground plane and shielding.
Look inside a computer and realize it's not built for critical analog performance. There are some pretty massive compromises. Mixed-mode ICs are common, board space is at a premium, audio isn't a priority so is usually stuck wherever it fits. It may have its own ground plane but EMI isolation is so-so at best. It's driven with the same noisy switching PSU, albeit perhaps with some filtering. If you're lucky. Most likely the board designer picked whatever audio chip meets spec at lowest cost, slaps it on there, plays a little audio to make sure his ears don't bleed, and then turns his attention to something more pressing .
It's not surprising that replacing cables can make an audible difference. Switch the PSU might make a difference too, as might the choice of cooling fan and the speed it's running at.
Trying to solve the problem with the cable seems to me to be the wrong way to attack such a problem - the playback device which generates the final analog signal should take care of that problem
An outboard USB DAC would be a better choice. It offers extremely low jitter at the cost of high buffering and protocol latency. If he needs to maintain critical lip sync with video he should go with a SPDIF or toslink DAC. It has higher jitter but very low latency.
I didn't read the entire article, but my quick skim didn't indicate he actually solved a problem, only that it sounded better. It's not that outlandish.
More likely he's using crappy onboard DACs that are massively noise and DC polluted from a common ground shared with digital circuitry. Nothing is as noisy as transceivers, and getting them properly impedance matched can make a huge difference. More fundamentally, for playing stored digital audio he should get himself an external USB DAC.
You need to realize Denon doesn't expect to sell that cable. It exists only because some custom integrators absolutely demanded a Denon-qualified interconnect between components. They needed something to a-b test their own configurations against to make sure they don't regress. That's why it exists. You're not expected to buy it. It's really just a plain ethernet cable and Denon themselves don't claim otherwise.