Thermal energy is enough to change the equilibrium of the gases into one where they are mixed. But out of equilibrium (most importantly when there is any temperature gradient), things are way more complex.
Also, you can separate gases in a series of tubes just by their weight difference, it is just way more complex than separating liquids or solids, because they'll mix a lot more.
That is why science (or at least the serious variety of it) looks for causation before going out and measuring a correlation.
Try that simple game that way. Ask the crowd what variables should be related, and then measure the correlation. If you get some hard enough variables (for the crowd not having a valid model of them), you'll hardly get something different from random noise. If you get something different from random noise, well, I'd recommend that you listen to the crowd theories, because some may be right.
Yeah, that what they are saying they'll do. Either we have some aliens pretending to be people (and failing) at Redmond, or Microsoft is lying to us. I can't decide what is more likely...
Yes, and a couple of non-legit free licenses with names that are not exactly equal, but similar enough that they can claim you misunderstood after they claim something was in a free license.
There is always the other option, of offering a whitelisted of so many applications that they won't want to install anything else, and then letting their install anything else if they want, making it clear that it's on their own risk.
And what do you expect that software to do on Linux after the user clicks one of the buttons? On most distros' default configuration, on either gecko or khtml based browsers, it can't launch a process, can't do any priviledge escalation, and can't choose where to write any file.What attack vector are you expecting the malware to use to infect the computer? Displaying instructions on how to set the downloaded file executable (a hightly distro and DE dependent proccess) and ask the user to install? How many stupid users can follow three step instalation isntructions? And how many smart ones can follow those instructions without realizing they are being fooled?
Well, ok that isn't clear, but no interpretation is much good.
1 - If you just disable port forwarding, you simply can't access your machines from the Internet. Removing functionality just because you are being attacked? Was it a DoS atempt? Next you may want to power the computer down, and not power it on again. That'll ensure they'll never get attacked.
2 - If you disabled ssh forwarding, like a literal reading of your post implies... What good do you think will come from that? Are those atacks against ssh fowrarding? If so you are the first victim of such attacks I've ever heard about. Normaly the atacks are against password authentication.
Now, if you are curious about what to do, the real way to stop those attacks is to disable password based authentication at the ssh server. You can make sure they won't succed by only having good passwords on your machine, but that won't stop them from trying.
Either move is risky. If Intel changes its focus to low power it may lose its strengt at the hight speed market, and may, or may not open another market for itself. If Intel doesn't change its focus it may have their market reduced under their feet, and in a couple of generations power consuption may become more important than speed even at the datacenters.
But then, you are quite too far out there...
"Their economies of scale and vertical efficiencies are not something that the ARM world can stay ahead of for very long."
They have almost no market right now, how can the entire market not compete with them on economies of scale? Also, vertical efficiencies means that their customers won't be able to fine tune the processors to their needs, that is ok if you have a little power to spend on circuitry you won't use, but we are talking about mobile.
"How the #&$! are schools going to copy, but then have tough as nails plagiarism policies?"
You seem a bit confused here. Plagiarism and copying are two completely different acts, with completely different consequences. The only common atribute to them is probably that both are illegal.
Yes, that is dependent of frequency. Most planets' atmospheres are transparent to radio (that means, microwaves or longer waves), but not to IR. Microwave is line-of-sight, but on those distances you don't really care about refraction, everything is line-of-sight. It is still a broad frequency band, and any kind of broadcast. And all that SETI is looking for is inside that band.
Hoarding, that means having something that you don't put to any use, is a requirement before any investment. If everything you have is being used, you have nothing to invest.
Also, having no rentability on those milions you say people are hoarding is enough punishment. That is the main reason people don't hoard. Putting taxes over it will mostly tax people that are investing in ways that are different (that means, inovators) from what the tax code dictates, people that want to invest a lot more than they earn, and peole saving for retirement. Are those classes really that harmfull?
"(4) Introduce a hoarding tax, again sliding, being a proportion taken from assets which are not being put to work."
What is wrong with hoarding? That is what people do to guarantee they won't be hungry tomorrow, or that they have enough money to invest or to buy something that they want. Why penalize it (even more, since hoarding is penalizing by itself)?
"their transmisions would have to be able to penetrate both their atmosphere and ours"
As radio does, even if their athmosphere is quite thick.
"and they would have to be broadcasting in our direction"
"Broadcasting" means they are sending signals to a quite wide solid angle, probably the entire sphere. If it was any other situation, it wouldn't be called "broadcasting". Of course, they must have a hellish strong signal for we to detect their broadcast, but direction is not the problem, and they may not be broadcasting, but I guess that constrain is already implicit.
No, they are of coal extraction and oil extraction. Try running a power plant without extraction. Also, try finding something about uranium extraction.
"While other technologies have the potential for much destruction, none of them are able to render large areas permanently inhabitable for a few decades or centuries in a matter of hours or days."
Except for hydro plants, and the entire chemical industry, yes, you are right.
"The Japanese will be able to rebuild the damage caused by the earthquake and tsunami in a few years."
Glad to know that they'll be able to recolonize all the land they lost after earthquake made it lower than the sea level... And that all the people that died because of it will be back in only a few years. Not as zombies, I hope.
And for decades it has worked for the companies, despite the free-loaders. So, they keep doing it, and people keep free-loading, and nobody is complaining, except for the GP...
"The "software architecture" hoax is somewhat more limited to corporate software development, but it has probably been one of the most costly hoaxes.... It took probably billions of dollars of waste before people figured it out."
You mean... People did find that out? Where?
But I kind of disagree about the object orientation. The idea is useful, it is that people give it too much importance, and too try to use it too much, even when it doesn't make any sense.
But patterns, and may I add, all the cost estimating technologies (with a big trophy for function point counting - estimating the cost of software by the complexity of the interface! True AI will cost just a couple hundred dollars to build!), yeah, those are clearly hoaxes.
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Thermal energy is enough to change the equilibrium of the gases into one where they are mixed. But out of equilibrium (most importantly when there is any temperature gradient), things are way more complex.
Also, you can separate gases in a series of tubes just by their weight difference, it is just way more complex than separating liquids or solids, because they'll mix a lot more.
That is why science (or at least the serious variety of it) looks for causation before going out and measuring a correlation.
Try that simple game that way. Ask the crowd what variables should be related, and then measure the correlation. If you get some hard enough variables (for the crowd not having a valid model of them), you'll hardly get something different from random noise. If you get something different from random noise, well, I'd recommend that you listen to the crowd theories, because some may be right.
Maybe he was dictating... For somebody on a different time-zone.
Try "reset".
Yeah, that what they are saying they'll do. Either we have some aliens pretending to be people (and failing) at Redmond, or Microsoft is lying to us. I can't decide what is more likely...
Yes, and a couple of non-legit free licenses with names that are not exactly equal, but similar enough that they can claim you misunderstood after they claim something was in a free license.
There is always the other option, of offering a whitelisted of so many applications that they won't want to install anything else, and then letting their install anything else if they want, making it clear that it's on their own risk.
And what do you expect that software to do on Linux after the user clicks one of the buttons? On most distros' default configuration, on either gecko or khtml based browsers, it can't launch a process, can't do any priviledge escalation, and can't choose where to write any file.What attack vector are you expecting the malware to use to infect the computer? Displaying instructions on how to set the downloaded file executable (a hightly distro and DE dependent proccess) and ask the user to install? How many stupid users can follow three step instalation isntructions? And how many smart ones can follow those instructions without realizing they are being fooled?
Well, ok that isn't clear, but no interpretation is much good.
1 - If you just disable port forwarding, you simply can't access your machines from the Internet. Removing functionality just because you are being attacked? Was it a DoS atempt? Next you may want to power the computer down, and not power it on again. That'll ensure they'll never get attacked.
2 - If you disabled ssh forwarding, like a literal reading of your post implies... What good do you think will come from that? Are those atacks against ssh fowrarding? If so you are the first victim of such attacks I've ever heard about. Normaly the atacks are against password authentication.
Now, if you are curious about what to do, the real way to stop those attacks is to disable password based authentication at the ssh server. You can make sure they won't succed by only having good passwords on your machine, but that won't stop them from trying.
Either move is risky. If Intel changes its focus to low power it may lose its strengt at the hight speed market, and may, or may not open another market for itself. If Intel doesn't change its focus it may have their market reduced under their feet, and in a couple of generations power consuption may become more important than speed even at the datacenters.
But then, you are quite too far out there...
They have almost no market right now, how can the entire market not compete with them on economies of scale? Also, vertical efficiencies means that their customers won't be able to fine tune the processors to their needs, that is ok if you have a little power to spend on circuitry you won't use, but we are talking about mobile.
You seem a bit confused here. Plagiarism and copying are two completely different acts, with completely different consequences. The only common atribute to them is probably that both are illegal.
So, please define hoarding, because I'm really really something different from what you write.
Yes, that is dependent of frequency. Most planets' atmospheres are transparent to radio (that means, microwaves or longer waves), but not to IR. Microwave is line-of-sight, but on those distances you don't really care about refraction, everything is line-of-sight. It is still a broad frequency band, and any kind of broadcast. And all that SETI is looking for is inside that band.
Hoarding, that means having something that you don't put to any use, is a requirement before any investment. If everything you have is being used, you have nothing to invest.
Also, having no rentability on those milions you say people are hoarding is enough punishment. That is the main reason people don't hoard. Putting taxes over it will mostly tax people that are investing in ways that are different (that means, inovators) from what the tax code dictates, people that want to invest a lot more than they earn, and peole saving for retirement. Are those classes really that harmfull?
What is wrong with hoarding? That is what people do to guarantee they won't be hungry tomorrow, or that they have enough money to invest or to buy something that they want. Why penalize it (even more, since hoarding is penalizing by itself)?
If you are patient enough to wait for some 3 to 4 bilion of years...
Two less contrainsts for you to care about...
As radio does, even if their athmosphere is quite thick.
"Broadcasting" means they are sending signals to a quite wide solid angle, probably the entire sphere. If it was any other situation, it wouldn't be called "broadcasting". Of course, they must have a hellish strong signal for we to detect their broadcast, but direction is not the problem, and they may not be broadcasting, but I guess that constrain is already implicit.
No, they are of coal extraction and oil extraction. Try running a power plant without extraction. Also, try finding something about uranium extraction.
Er, did you care to look it before asking? After quick google search the answer would be plenty.
I guess the "You said it is bad, now stop doing it" defense aplies better.
When was the last time you downloaded a coded from a random site and installed it on a Linux machine?
Except for hydro plants, and the entire chemical industry, yes, you are right.
Glad to know that they'll be able to recolonize all the land they lost after earthquake made it lower than the sea level... And that all the people that died because of it will be back in only a few years. Not as zombies, I hope.
And for decades it has worked for the companies, despite the free-loaders. So, they keep doing it, and people keep free-loading, and nobody is complaining, except for the GP...
Yeah, but there is any advantage on 50Hz? Or any disadvantage? Or any kind network effect?
You mean... People did find that out? Where?
But I kind of disagree about the object orientation. The idea is useful, it is that people give it too much importance, and too try to use it too much, even when it doesn't make any sense.
But patterns, and may I add, all the cost estimating technologies (with a big trophy for function point counting - estimating the cost of software by the complexity of the interface! True AI will cost just a couple hundred dollars to build!), yeah, those are clearly hoaxes.