This device is very exciting to me. One possible application is to put a web server on the embedded device, store the data on its disk, and let people access their data with more organization than a hierarchical filesystem. More ambitious is to implement common applications via Web 2.0 on this web server and let the owner of the device modify the data without needing to use anything more than a browser on the host side. This is very exciting to me.
Remember that any finite sequence of bytes can be encoded, uniquely, into an integer (abeit a large one). If numbers do not belong to anybody, then one can (rather easily) encode any copyrighted work as an integer and distribute it.
What if all sites that are potentially liable simply delist all Georgia based ISP originating IPs from logging in? This would be technically feasible and eliminate any legal liability they have. Such potentially liable sites include Google (for their Groups), MSN (for their Groups), and Yahoo (for their, uh, Groups). This would probably be detrimental to the Georgia economy and the ad revenues of Google, MSN, and Yahoo. However, the potential liability might outweight it for the liable sites and therefore, the may give the burden of this law to the Georgia state residents.
Isn't this how Earth aracnids manage to enter space and mutate. Once we have interstellar travel, we might reencounter another space faring species from Earth.
The police serve me. For example I have every right to demand police officers to enter a location of my chosing, by a 911 call. In the unfortunate event that they are endangered and perhaps killed, other police task forces should be more vigilant about accepting 911 calls. Say that multiple events occur where I dial 911 to demand (my tax money paid) police officers to enter into a stategically questionable location. If by some turn of bad luck, every one of these units happen to be ambushed, then it would be pretty sad for the citizens of this country, as they can no longer expect dependable police service.
So, if the police does second guess the validity of 911 calls, ask yourself, whose fault is it? Perhaps it is the police's fault for holding their own well being above those they have been sworn to serve.
There are two major obstacles to my plan but I'll give my plan anyway. One can argue that stock trading is gambling. Also, Microsoft's headquarters are in Washington State. One can hope that Microsoft will be held criminally liable for gambling in Washington.
The two obstacles involve the amount of money that Microsoft has. Given sufficient funds, the entire commercial sector can effectively (and literally) burn down the law firm that proposes to illegalize stock trading. Also, given sufficient funds, Microsoft can buy immunity if stock trading is ruled to be gambling.
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Read "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" to enlighten yourself.
If you make something, it is clearly your's if it is a physical object. However, you have absolutely no natural right to exclude anyone from using their physical property.
However, copyright holders are forcing me at the point of a gun to not use my physical property to do certain things that could cost them money. In the United States of America, I am not allowed to perform certain songs, such as the Birthday Song, unless I buy the rights to perform it for a certain number of times.
The system should be changed because people do not have the right to perpetual or long term copyright. If you say that property rights should not be taken away, an also the system should not be changed in any way that could take away property rights, then you should be ashamed of yourself.
Once, slaves were property in this country. It was a crime to steal a slave from a master. However, no one who advocates any sense of morality can say that anyone should be allowed to own slaves. If you think that one should not take away property rights from an individual regardless of the reason, then you are promoting the slavery of women and children in certain countries this day.
Knowing that it is illegal to copy certain information does not make it immoral. If legality implies morality, then many atrocities are moral and just.
For "intellectual property" in general, it is atrocious to say that companies have exclusive rights to information and ideas. One factor that attributes to the HIV epidemic in Africa is the persistence of drug makers to assert their "property rights" and force all organizations to either pay obscene royalties or shut down operations that attempt to take money away from these drug companies.
I will refrain from name calling and simply state that you should "cut the arrogance" and "quit whining", as well as advise that you review your posts before submitting.
Perhaps it would be nice if Google started their own communications network to directly compete with the likes of Verizon. That is not a stretch since Google is expanding to all sorts of endevours. If "Google utopianism" actually works, and Verizon gets pounded by a 10^100 pound garilla, I wonder what other companies would do in response.
I believe it is prudent for more an information war to be raged against the intelligence community. For example, I will compile publically available information regarding law enforcement personel and their next of kin. Then I will sell this information.
I will also sell police jammers. These devices are necessary in most efforts to hinder communication between officers.
zliu2@student.gsu.edu
I will also encourage defendents to plead not guity and also to generate as much paperwork as possible during the trial. It is beneficial to them because errors in the system generally favor them. The more paperwork, the greater the probability of an error.
The most important thing I can do is to encourage people to act. It is imperative that everyone knows that if the police wants you to die, you have nothing to lose by killing the police. The scenerio where the police does kill you involves you being labeled as a criminal and your family being stigmatized. If you do not die, you will be charged with a crime and, since the police can create evidence, will also be convicted. In the scenerio where you do kill the police, you can either be captured, in which case the most likely event is that you will be executed. But before capture, the situation becomes the same as before, when the police wants to kill you. Finally, if you evade capture, you are a free man.
Finally, I must make sure that everyone can organize in a manner that does not comprimise the security of efforts. This entails the creation of a darknet that allows heirarchical communication between cells. Also, since the government is a concentrated entity, guerrila tactics will work against them more effectively than them against us.
In closing, it is your civic duty to take responsibility for your own sovereignty. Do not allow corruption to exist when it is within your power to destroy it.
To those who deride conspiracy theorists, consider why you do so. Is it because you do not have faith in investigation or do you have too much faith in your peaceful world? The discussion about printer tracking has already had several highly moderated posts that criticize those who are worried about that disturbing news. Perhaps if more concrete evidence of an Anti-OSS movement comes about, there will be many who will need either more evidence or will argue that Open Source Software deserves to be retaliated against. Again, it is a matter of faith regarding how much evidence one needs to come to a conclusion, and which conclusion. It is also faith that is responsible for most human misery without much gain in the end. So, is it worth it to discard evidence in the name of faith and peace?
There was a paper presented in SIGGRAPH 2004 about two High Dynamic Range Display Systems (PDF*). One system was a projector shining into a LCD. It is theoretically possible to have a contrast ratio of c*d:1 where the projector has a ratio of c:1 and the LCD has a ratio of d:1. I have found a projector that has a ratio 7000:1 and a LCD television with a ratio of 900:1. Combining them could possibly give a contrast ratio of 6,300,000:1. I believe there is some merit in having c and d be close to each other, so this theoretical 6.3 million to one ratio should be taken with a mountain of salt.
It should be duely noted that the projector-LCD system presented in the link has a measured ratio of about 54,000:1 as opposed to the theoretical 200,000:1 ratio. However, I plan to build a $3000 display with a ratio of about 70,000:1. The projector-LCD systems have the advantage of being able to take high precision illumination values. You effectively double the amount of information that can be fed into the display by having two "screens" (the projector and the LCD). Perhaps those who want to experiment with HDR imaging and do not mind a bit of bluring should consider building one of these $1500-$5000 setups, as opposed to those 100,000:1 or 1,000,000:1 displays.
For those who have sunglasses, happy hacking.
*I would have given a HTML link if the Authors' links were functional.
The last step does look like a Newton iteration. For example,
x^{-2} - a = 0; y = x - (x^{-2} - a) / (- 2 x^{-3}); y = x^2 + x (x - a x^3)/2; y = (2 x^2 + x^2 - a x^3)/2 y = x (3 x - a x^2) / 2; y = x (3/2 - (a/2) x x);
where the last line is exactly what Carmack had. I would assume that the magic number line somehow performs \yet another\ iteration somehow. If $x$ was initially equal to unity, then
y = (3/2 - a/2).
If the integer value |i| is what I think it is (a number that does not cross floating point number field boundaries), then the right shift would effectively halve it. The subtraction would be similar to a subtraction of a/2 from 3/2.
1.) Many Christians are not moral at all. This is because they act according to doctrine just so that they can avoid punishment. This punishment can either come from their community, institutions, and what they believe to be supernatural forces. Morality is not a bartering system where one can obtain favors for actions. Since many Christians believe the contrary, they are immoral. 2.) Christians are against Capitalism at its core. Capitalism is superior to systems such as Merchantilism, Fascism, and Communism because it assumes certain forces that can not be controlled by intelligent beings. For example, the dynamics of a three party trading system can become chaotic and can not be described by finite and exacting sequences of statements. Christians are of the belief that either chaos is evil or that it is possible for an intelligent being to control the forces of a system. For those who believe that chaos is evil, not much can be said for them besides the fact that they are wrong. For the second group, these people are the proponents of managed systems that require intelligent beings to control it. Such systems have been proven to be ineffective (at best). No Christian can believe in a chaos driven system and any God at the same time and call themselves followers of logic. 3.) Christians tend to perform more poorly than Atheists, Agnostics, and Jews in academic settings. Even though the main reason for this is the population of Christians is rather diverse, as compared to the other three groups mentioned, it must be noted still. 4.) Christians are fundamentally against progress. This can be seen in such acts as the current debate on evolutionary theory, the burning of Rome, and the persecution of Galileo. The argument that Christians are against evolutionary theory has been established in this thread already. The burning of Rome, originally attributed to Nero, was actually initiated by Christian terrorists. This act was by far the most successful terrorist action in the history of mankind. Not only did it discredit the leader at that time, it also gave tremendeous backing toward the Christian cause. Because Nero persecuted the Christians after the burning, many backed the Christians when public opinion swayed toward the belief that Nero caused the burning. As for Galileo, that was yet another example of the adversion toward truth that Christians have. Galileo only wanted to publish a paper that there were moons orbiting Jupiter, a rather beneign topic. But because of the ramifications of such an assertion, the Christians persecuted Galileo to the same degree that their martyr was persecuted. This goes to show that Christians are not morally, intellectually, or spiritually superior to any other group. Since Christians are not superior, there should be no reason why they should be given any credence.
Does anyone have the home addresses of the Judge(s) responsible for this ruling? I believe that there are concerned persons are willing to express their opinions of this matter to these Judge(s).
The other side to deterrence is that it makes the perpetrators have less to lose. If crackers know that they will be detained indefinitely or killed, perhaps they will do something far more malicious than they would normally do. Deterrence can be saturated and the results are usually far more devastating than not having deterrents in the first place.
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This device is very exciting to me. One possible application is to put a web server on the embedded device, store the data on its disk, and let people access their data with more organization than a hierarchical filesystem. More ambitious is to implement common applications via Web 2.0 on this web server and let the owner of the device modify the data without needing to use anything more than a browser on the host side. This is very exciting to me.
Even if Hans is guilty, he would serve society better if he can work on his filesystem instead of idling in prison.
I wonder if this robot is related to a certain movie arthropod.
Well, there is evidence that the Black Sea spilled into the Mediterranean basin. That is one possible souce for the great flood story.
Black Sea Deluge TheoryRemember that any finite sequence of bytes can be encoded, uniquely, into an integer (abeit a large one). If numbers do not belong to anybody, then one can (rather easily) encode any copyrighted work as an integer and distribute it.
... is what one can say when looking at our moon-base with a decent telescope.
What if all sites that are potentially liable simply delist all Georgia based ISP originating IPs from logging in? This would be technically feasible and eliminate any legal liability they have. Such potentially liable sites include Google (for their Groups), MSN (for their Groups), and Yahoo (for their, uh, Groups). This would probably be detrimental to the Georgia economy and the ad revenues of Google, MSN, and Yahoo. However, the potential liability might outweight it for the liable sites and therefore, the may give the burden of this law to the Georgia state residents.
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By the way, I'm a Georgia state resident.
Isn't this how Earth aracnids manage to enter space and mutate. Once we have interstellar travel, we might reencounter another space faring species from Earth.
Going on a "bender" and waking up in some futuristic setting? That sounds a little like Futurama. Even Bender was mentioned.
The police serve me. For example I have every right to demand police officers to enter a location of my chosing, by a 911 call. In the unfortunate event that they are endangered and perhaps killed, other police task forces should be more vigilant about accepting 911 calls. Say that multiple events occur where I dial 911 to demand (my tax money paid) police officers to enter into a stategically questionable location. If by some turn of bad luck, every one of these units happen to be ambushed, then it would be pretty sad for the citizens of this country, as they can no longer expect dependable police service. So, if the police does second guess the validity of 911 calls, ask yourself, whose fault is it? Perhaps it is the police's fault for holding their own well being above those they have been sworn to serve.
There are two major obstacles to my plan but I'll give my plan anyway. One can argue that stock trading is gambling. Also, Microsoft's headquarters are in Washington State. One can hope that Microsoft will be held criminally liable for gambling in Washington.
The two obstacles involve the amount of money that Microsoft has. Given sufficient funds, the entire commercial sector can effectively (and literally) burn down the law firm that proposes to illegalize stock trading. Also, given sufficient funds, Microsoft can buy immunity if stock trading is ruled to be gambling.
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Read "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" to enlighten yourself.
Well, for the record, 2006_05_31.pdf.
Here is a copy of the videos on a school server. Cheers.
Also, if Islam descended (partially) from Christianity, why do we still have Christians?
If you make something, it is clearly your's if it is a physical object. However, you have absolutely no natural right to exclude anyone from using their physical property.
However, copyright holders are forcing me at the point of a gun to not use my physical property to do certain things that could cost them money. In the United States of America, I am not allowed to perform certain songs, such as the Birthday Song, unless I buy the rights to perform it for a certain number of times.
The system should be changed because people do not have the right to perpetual or long term copyright. If you say that property rights should not be taken away, an also the system should not be changed in any way that could take away property rights, then you should be ashamed of yourself.
Once, slaves were property in this country. It was a crime to steal a slave from a master. However, no one who advocates any sense of morality can say that anyone should be allowed to own slaves. If you think that one should not take away property rights from an individual regardless of the reason, then you are promoting the slavery of women and children in certain countries this day.
Knowing that it is illegal to copy certain information does not make it immoral. If legality implies morality, then many atrocities are moral and just.
For "intellectual property" in general, it is atrocious to say that companies have exclusive rights to information and ideas. One factor that attributes to the HIV epidemic in Africa is the persistence of drug makers to assert their "property rights" and force all organizations to either pay obscene royalties or shut down operations that attempt to take money away from these drug companies.
I will refrain from name calling and simply state that you should "cut the arrogance" and "quit whining", as well as advise that you review your posts before submitting.
Perhaps it would be nice if Google started their own communications network to directly compete with the likes of Verizon. That is not a stretch since Google is expanding to all sorts of endevours. If "Google utopianism" actually works, and Verizon gets pounded by a 10^100 pound garilla, I wonder what other companies would do in response.
I will also sell police jammers. These devices are necessary in most efforts to hinder communication between officers.
zliu2@student.gsu.edu
I will also encourage defendents to plead not guity and also to generate as much paperwork as possible during the trial. It is beneficial to them because errors in the system generally favor them. The more paperwork, the greater the probability of an error.
The most important thing I can do is to encourage people to act. It is imperative that everyone knows that if the police wants you to die, you have nothing to lose by killing the police. The scenerio where the police does kill you involves you being labeled as a criminal and your family being stigmatized. If you do not die, you will be charged with a crime and, since the police can create evidence, will also be convicted. In the scenerio where you do kill the police, you can either be captured, in which case the most likely event is that you will be executed. But before capture, the situation becomes the same as before, when the police wants to kill you. Finally, if you evade capture, you are a free man.
Finally, I must make sure that everyone can organize in a manner that does not comprimise the security of efforts. This entails the creation of a darknet that allows heirarchical communication between cells. Also, since the government is a concentrated entity, guerrila tactics will work against them more effectively than them against us.
In closing, it is your civic duty to take responsibility for your own sovereignty. Do not allow corruption to exist when it is within your power to destroy it.
zliu2@student.gsu.edu
To those who deride conspiracy theorists, consider why you do so. Is it because you do not have faith in investigation or do you have too much faith in your peaceful world? The discussion about printer tracking has already had several highly moderated posts that criticize those who are worried about that disturbing news. Perhaps if more concrete evidence of an Anti-OSS movement comes about, there will be many who will need either more evidence or will argue that Open Source Software deserves to be retaliated against. Again, it is a matter of faith regarding how much evidence one needs to come to a conclusion, and which conclusion. It is also faith that is responsible for most human misery without much gain in the end. So, is it worth it to discard evidence in the name of faith and peace?
It should be duely noted that the projector-LCD system presented in the link has a measured ratio of about 54,000:1 as opposed to the theoretical 200,000:1 ratio. However, I plan to build a $3000 display with a ratio of about 70,000:1. The projector-LCD systems have the advantage of being able to take high precision illumination values. You effectively double the amount of information that can be fed into the display by having two "screens" (the projector and the LCD). Perhaps those who want to experiment with HDR imaging and do not mind a bit of bluring should consider building one of these $1500-$5000 setups, as opposed to those 100,000:1 or 1,000,000:1 displays.
For those who have sunglasses, happy hacking.
*I would have given a HTML link if the Authors' links were functional.
If you believe in the existance of a deity, I hope that you meet your deity soon.
The last step does look like a Newton iteration. For example,
x^{-2} - a = 0;
y = x - (x^{-2} - a) / (- 2 x^{-3});
y = x^2 + x (x - a x^3)/2;
y = (2 x^2 + x^2 - a x^3)/2
y = x (3 x - a x^2) / 2;
y = x (3/2 - (a/2) x x);
where the last line is exactly what Carmack had. I would assume that the magic number line somehow performs \yet another\ iteration somehow. If $x$ was initially equal to unity, then
y = (3/2 - a/2).
If the integer value |i| is what I think it is (a number that does not cross floating point number field boundaries), then the right shift would effectively halve it. The subtraction would be similar to a subtraction of a/2 from 3/2.
Again, just my guess.
ftp://131.96.244.6/pub/
ftp://lab753-09.cs.gsu.edu/pub/
ftp://131.96.244.6/pub/quake3-1.32b-source.zip
Note that it only allows about 25 connections since it is an 700MHz Athlon.
1.) Many Christians are not moral at all. This is because they act according to doctrine just so that they can avoid punishment. This punishment can either come from their community, institutions, and what they believe to be supernatural forces. Morality is not a bartering system where one can obtain favors for actions. Since many Christians believe the contrary, they are immoral.
2.) Christians are against Capitalism at its core. Capitalism is superior to systems such as Merchantilism, Fascism, and Communism because it assumes certain forces that can not be controlled by intelligent beings. For example, the dynamics of a three party trading system can become chaotic and can not be described by finite and exacting sequences of statements. Christians are of the belief that either chaos is evil or that it is possible for an intelligent being to control the forces of a system. For those who believe that chaos is evil, not much can be said for them besides the fact that they are wrong. For the second group, these people are the proponents of managed systems that require intelligent beings to control it. Such systems have been proven to be ineffective (at best). No Christian can believe in a chaos driven system and any God at the same time and call themselves followers of logic.
3.) Christians tend to perform more poorly than Atheists, Agnostics, and Jews in academic settings. Even though the main reason for this is the population of Christians is rather diverse, as compared to the other three groups mentioned, it must be noted still.
4.) Christians are fundamentally against progress. This can be seen in such acts as the current debate on evolutionary theory, the burning of Rome, and the persecution of Galileo. The argument that Christians are against evolutionary theory has been established in this thread already. The burning of Rome, originally attributed to Nero, was actually initiated by Christian terrorists. This act was by far the most successful terrorist action in the history of mankind. Not only did it discredit the leader at that time, it also gave tremendeous backing toward the Christian cause. Because Nero persecuted the Christians after the burning, many backed the Christians when public opinion swayed toward the belief that Nero caused the burning. As for Galileo, that was yet another example of the adversion toward truth that Christians have. Galileo only wanted to publish a paper that there were moons orbiting Jupiter, a rather beneign topic. But because of the ramifications of such an assertion, the Christians persecuted Galileo to the same degree that their martyr was persecuted. This goes to show that Christians are not morally, intellectually, or spiritually superior to any other group. Since Christians are not superior, there should be no reason why they should be given any credence.
Does anyone have the home addresses of the Judge(s) responsible for this ruling? I believe that there are concerned persons are willing to express their opinions of this matter to these Judge(s).
The other side to deterrence is that it makes the perpetrators have less to lose. If crackers know that they will be detained indefinitely or killed, perhaps they will do something far more malicious than they would normally do. Deterrence can be saturated and the results are usually far more devastating than not having deterrents in the first place.