For sufficiently abused definitions of "random," perhaps.
Anyone besides me ever do the high-school biology experiment where you zap some fruit flies with Xrays and observe well-known malformations in their offspring? While there are random mutations, some are far more likely than others under any specified conditions.
You don't seem to understand what worms are useful for. They have specific uses, you're knocking them for not being useful for all types of research. That's like saying a hammer is useless because it can't fuse fiber optic cables very well.
You're using it wrong. I have these highly classified papers courtesy of an anonymous person with the initials "E.S." which shows how to use a hammer to fuse fiber optics just fine!
There are statistics and then there are useful statistics. If an AV product is capable of catching 95% of all the viruses ever written, you should A) use it B) be really worried because you don't know what good it's actually doing.
Remember, 99% (a made-up stat) of all malware is no longer used at all because it's either blocked by every tool in existence or doesn't do something actually useful, like bringing cash to the distributor of said malware. What matters is what percentage of currently active (and dangerous) malware the AV tool can catch, and further, whether the types of malware it can't catch pose a danger to your personal types of computer usage. As a contrived example, all Flash-based malware is irrelevant if you never visit any Flash-enabled web page (and don't run Flash modules locally either).
really, 9 BILLION PEOPLE? Heck, just eating the dead would not only provide a lot of protein-rich meat but dramatically reduce the acreage wasted on gravesites! Once we get over that taboo, it'll be easy to accept the concept of eating a few of the living as well. 5 or 6 billion people-sized dinners later and problem solved.
I would have thought the "Look and Feel" --type patent suits were dead and buried after Microsoft won vs. Apple back in the Win3.1 days. I can't see how anyone would agree that, e.g., patenting the 'swipe-to-scroll' designs should be valid. So what the heck should be patentable? An Apple patent on a smart phone that doesn't have a microSD slot? (sarcasm). Voice-activation using a fake name (Siri) vs. a company name (Hi Samsung; OK Google)? Production of Gorilla glass I might understand being patentable, but any phone mfr could purchase that material (and I doubt any of these patent suits were related to anything so mundane and realistic as materials science). I just don't get it.
Why do silver bullets always get all the love? Gold bullets would be awesome.
In case you really don't know the reason, it's 'cause only silver has the ethereal purity to stop vampires. Heck, gold barely stops the Dane, and not for very long.
Would you really want to live in Venezuela? Hitler made a lot of improvements in Nazi Germany before he became the man we love to hate. Somehow I'm not sure that making the trains run on time by making it so people no longer want to ride them is a good thing.
If you're going to make massively fallacious analogies to history, you might at least want to get your basic facts straight. Hitler was not the leader of Italy.
The third option is the safest one as long as he's smart enough to find a way to not leave a trace about the contract.
The problem with the thrid option is that the bully is highly unlikely to know that it was from you. Part of revenge is you want the person you are getting revenge on to know you have got your revenge. Looking down the barrel of your gun just before you pull the trigger fulfils that. Especially if you just blew off the head of the person next to him. Adds a lot of gravitas to the whole situation.
No problem, just teach the illegal immigrant the following sentence, to be repeated at each shooting: "The Kingslayer sends his regards."
I found this somewhere recently: # let us consider the point c=(-0.75,X) of the complex plane, that is a point straight over the "neck" of the Mandelbrot set. # Let n be the number of iterations from which the characteristic quadratic sequence of the Mandelbrot set Z(n+1)=Zn^2+c with Z0=-0 diverges (Zn2). With X being smaller and smaller we have: lim(X * n) = pi
So, I guess we have to figure out how to do recursive relations with a shotgun. (speaking of rednecks and relations... wedding...)
How unsurprising you posted as AC, given the complete falsehood of everything you wrote.
Aside from that minor observation (!!)), maybe you could try taking a look at the current, large, polio outbreaks in certain Middle East and African regions due to a lack of innoculations there, for starters.
Canada is even worse. We have winter driving for 3+ months out of the year yet no winter driving tests are mandatory. Fucking ridiculous. So many people don't realize that slamming on your brakes when you are about to lose control on an ice covered road is the WORST thing to do.
So, no requirement for ABS in Canada? (eh?) But I agree in principle w/ your sentiment, seeing as Boston-area drivers seem to believe that 4-wheel drive means your braking system has a 1.5 g-factor even in slush and ice. And from what we see regularly on the news, Florida and LA drivers believe it's safer to speed up during a torrential downpour.
Screw credit monitoring: what we need is some CongressSockPuppets with enough nerve to pass restrictions on the credit bureaus. For starters, they could require all negatory information to be redacted upon receipt of a notarized sworn statement from the account holder (until the credit bureau can provide proof to the contrary, said proof not being based on random letters from banks or collection agencies, etc). The current situation, which is essentially "prove a negative," is worthy of the Courtroom of the King&Queen of Hearts.
After that, there are plenty of smaller things to fix. One example: I lost a few points because my monthly spending on one credit card was over 75% of my limit *on that card* . Never mind I always pay on time and in full, or that I happen to have another card with 5 times the credit limit. The lack of logic in the ratings algorithms is appalling.
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Most recently, check out the May 15 Colbert Report. He skewers the concept of military morality pretty well.
Then, take a trip in the wayback machine to another machine-orchestrated conflict .
The oft-repeated engineering mantra is "quality, reliability, cost - pick two".
Make that the "oft-misremembered..."
The proper 3 ingredients are
1) quality
2) time to develop/deliver
3)Cost
(obligatory)
4)...
5) Profit!
But those mil-specs were defunked but were picked up by Parachute Industry Association
To be sure, most MIL-SPEC docs are pretty dang funky (White Boy....).
Dare I ask: did autocorrect spell-bomb you or have you never seen the correct word in print?
Mutation is random.
For sufficiently abused definitions of "random," perhaps.
Anyone besides me ever do the high-school biology experiment where you zap some fruit flies with Xrays and observe well-known malformations in their offspring? While there are random mutations, some are far more likely than others under any specified conditions.
You don't seem to understand what worms are useful for. They have specific uses, you're knocking them for not being useful for all types of research. That's like saying a hammer is useless because it can't fuse fiber optic cables very well.
You're using it wrong. I have these highly classified papers courtesy of an anonymous person with the initials "E.S." which shows how to use a hammer to fuse fiber optics just fine!
are you experiencing deja vi
Well, better that than deja emacs.
There are statistics and then there are useful statistics. If an AV product is capable of catching 95% of all the viruses ever written, you should
A) use it
B) be really worried because you don't know what good it's actually doing.
Remember, 99% (a made-up stat) of all malware is no longer used at all because it's either blocked by every tool in existence or doesn't do something actually useful, like bringing cash to the distributor of said malware.
What matters is what percentage of currently active (and dangerous) malware the AV tool can catch, and further, whether the types of malware it can't catch pose a danger to your personal types of computer usage. As a contrived example, all Flash-based malware is irrelevant if you never visit any Flash-enabled web page (and don't run Flash modules locally either).
really, 9 BILLION PEOPLE? Heck, just eating the dead would not only provide a lot of protein-rich meat but dramatically reduce the acreage wasted on gravesites!
Once we get over that taboo, it'll be easy to accept the concept of eating a few of the living as well. 5 or 6 billion people-sized dinners later and problem solved.
Well, that'll teach me not to preview, Let's try that again
Airplane_altitude := min(reported_alt , 35 kft)
(note to self: do not use R-language syntax at /. )
First tell them that airspace is 3D :-), then make sure they stop putting a hard clamp of the type
Airplane_altitude
(Yes, I'm joking. I hope.)
I would have thought the "Look and Feel" --type patent suits were dead and buried after Microsoft won vs. Apple back in the Win3.1 days. I can't see how anyone would agree that, e.g., patenting the 'swipe-to-scroll' designs should be valid. So what the heck should be patentable? An Apple patent on a smart phone that doesn't have a microSD slot? (sarcasm). Voice-activation using a fake name (Siri) vs. a company name (Hi Samsung; OK Google)? Production of Gorilla glass I might understand being patentable, but any phone mfr could purchase that material (and I doubt any of these patent suits were related to anything so mundane and realistic as materials science). I just don't get it.
If graphene threads are as thin and strong as stated, would they not present an extreme cutting hazard?
As in slice your arm off before you notice?
Been reading RingWorld recently, eh?
Why do silver bullets always get all the love? Gold bullets would be awesome.
In case you really don't know the reason, it's 'cause only silver has the ethereal purity to stop vampires. Heck, gold barely stops the Dane, and not for very long.
I would shut closed my brain, much like when posting to /. I shudder to think what the world would be like without grammar nazi's.
Not to mention the Apostrophe Hunters.
I think he likes beer. Just look at an aardvark, that's a morning-after-the-night-before job if ever I saw one.
Hey, I'm an aardvark,you insensitive clod. (ok,you saw that one coming. So maybe god's real joke was inventing beer?)
Would you really want to live in Venezuela? Hitler made a lot of improvements in Nazi Germany before he became the man we love to hate. Somehow I'm not sure that making the trains run on time by making it so people no longer want to ride them is a good thing.
If you're going to make massively fallacious analogies to history, you might at least want to get your basic facts straight. Hitler was not the leader of Italy.
Unknown back doors - as opposed to those backdoors known by secret-government-types?
Well, you know, there's known backdoors, unknown backdoors, and known unknown backdoors,...
We'll have to invade TOR.
The third option is the safest one as long as he's smart enough to find a way to not leave a trace about the contract.
The problem with the thrid option is that the bully is highly unlikely to know that it was from you. Part of revenge is you want the person you are getting revenge on to know you have got your revenge. Looking down the barrel of your gun just before you pull the trigger fulfils that. Especially if you just blew off the head of the person next to him. Adds a lot of gravitas to the whole situation.
No problem, just teach the illegal immigrant the following sentence, to be repeated at each shooting: "The Kingslayer sends his regards."
I found this somewhere recently:
# let us consider the point c=(-0.75,X) of the complex plane, that is a point straight over the "neck" of the Mandelbrot set.
# Let n be the number of iterations from which the characteristic quadratic sequence of the Mandelbrot set Z(n+1)=Zn^2+c with Z0=-0 diverges (Zn2). With X being smaller and smaller we have: lim(X * n) = pi
So, I guess we have to figure out how to do recursive relations with a shotgun. (speaking of rednecks and relations... wedding...)
How unsurprising you posted as AC, given the complete falsehood of everything you wrote.
Aside from that minor observation (!!)), maybe you could try taking a look at the current, large, polio outbreaks in certain Middle East and African regions due to a lack of innoculations there, for starters.
Canada is even worse. We have winter driving for 3+ months out of the year yet no winter driving tests are mandatory. Fucking ridiculous. So many people don't realize that slamming on your brakes when you are about to lose control on an ice covered road is the WORST thing to do.
So, no requirement for ABS in Canada? (eh?) But I agree in principle w/ your sentiment, seeing as Boston-area drivers seem to believe that 4-wheel drive means your braking system has a 1.5 g-factor even in slush and ice. And from what we see regularly on the news, Florida and LA drivers believe it's safer to speed up during a torrential downpour.
There's plenty of stuff in a computer that looks useless once booting is finished.
Like, say, Windows? //rim shot
The crow shrieked "Corn! Corn! Corn!" until the researcher, one J. Snow, Wall Cmdr, tossed some corn its way.
Screw credit monitoring: what we need is some CongressSockPuppets with enough nerve to pass restrictions on the credit bureaus. For starters, they could require all negatory information to be redacted upon receipt of a notarized sworn statement from the account holder (until the credit bureau can provide proof to the contrary, said proof not being based on random letters from banks or collection agencies, etc). The current situation, which is essentially "prove a negative," is worthy of the Courtroom of the King&Queen of Hearts.
After that, there are plenty of smaller things to fix. One example: I lost a few points because my monthly spending on one credit card was over 75% of my limit *on that card* . Never mind I always pay on time and in full, or that I happen to have another card with 5 times the credit limit. The lack of logic in the ratings algorithms is appalling.
39C is a common temperature out in the sun on a southern California golf course.
I think we've beaten this dead horse enough, haven't we?
Did you beat the horse with a wood, steel, or Cesium club? And does a horse carcass throw sparks?
"Hey, we were going to *use* that horse head!" -- The Godfather.