Implosion is a non-issue because anyone who's taken basic physics or calculus can figure out that all gravitational forces cancel out inside a uniform hollow sphere.
No.
While the gravitational forces will cancel out at the very inside edge, that doesn't actually matter... that inside layer is still being squeezed by the weight of all the other layers above it, and the whole thing will collapse if it can't handle the pressure.
That's basically what he said, but with the extra note that the not wanting to comes mostly from external influences rather than innate predispositions. Which fits with what I vaguely recall hearing about how gender ratios tend to be very different in different countries.
Much like how I have no desire to run around wearing only underpants, but probably wouldn't mind (and might even prefer it) if I'd grown up somewhere more tropical and less bible-belt-ish.
More software developers should ask themselves "What's the worst that could happen if my customers could modify and redistribute this software"? For proprietary software, it means you can no longer hold customers to ransom and insist on yearly revenue generating "updates".
Just letting them modify (but not redistribute) the software would also accomplish that. Letting them redistribute it means that suddenly it becomes much harder to find paying customers in the first place.
For developers who get paid for hours worked doing actual development and support, this is no problem. I prefer the latter - getting paid for actual work just seems more honest.
I kinda think so too, but it's interesting... end uses don't care about your time, they care about how useful the results of that time are. What you're selling (time) isn't really the same thing that your customers are buying (useful software).
bigotry is discriminating against people for things they cannot change.
Such as how I'm assuming UPS and FedEx refuse to hire blind people as delivery drivers, or how Hooters won't hire male waiters (really, some guy sued them over this)?
for instance, persecuting someone because of their sexual orientation--that is bigotry.
This is because it tends to be completely irrelevant, rather than because people can't control their own thoughts.
Patents are really only relevant if you are intending to profit from your invention, which is why I like Open Source. If something is released to the public freely, and is allowed to grow and expand on its own merit, no patent can stop it. If no money is gained, no patent holder can sue for money gained.
But that's not the only thing having a patent lets them do, there are other things they can sue you for.
No patent holder can sue to prevent Open Source, because their act of downloading the software to examine it constitutes agreement with the license.
BS. Uploading it (ie, engaging in distribution) would require that they agreed with the license. Downloading it and even using it doesn't, since those don't require permission from the copyright holder.
Even worse case scenario, if some asshat managed to convince a judge that their patent was valid and that an Open Source project was in violation, there really is no recourse.
Maybe, that really depends on where the main contributors are. If a court said that Linux (the kernel) violated some patent and was talked into granting an injunction I imagine that having Linus and Red Hat and IBM be forced to stop work would be a rather major setback, even if non-US contributors were still active.
You can turn around and sell this product to a game store or friend, but if you consume the key, the product is nearly valueless.
Keys don't get "consumed" naturally the way food does. It's an unnatural engineered-in limitation, which I would expect people to be seriously pissed off about if they weren't clearly informed prior to paying for it.
If you're going to (permanently) break the 12pm = sun overhead, 12am = midnight relation, why not just ignore timezones and use UTC instead? The problem is how the time you start and stop work relates to the time that the sun rises and sets... what name you give those times doesn't matter.
TFA is not saying that warm-ups are bad, it actually says that they're good. What it does say, is that just stretching is not a proper warm-up. A proper warm-up has light exercise to make you, well, warm. It also says that "stretch and hold" is bad, but exaggerated movements ("dynamic stretching") are good.
Stretching might be bad for performance, but it does reduce injury.
From TFA:
Controversy remains about the extent to which dynamic warm-ups prevent injury. But studies have been increasingly clear that static stretching alone before exercise does little or nothing to help. The largest study has been done on military recruits; results showed that an almost equal number of subjects developed lower-limb injuries (shin splints, stress fractures, etc.), regardless of whether they had performed static stretches before training sessions.
There was a story a while back about some company differentiating their normal and absurdly-expensive hardware pretty much entirely by having crippled drivers for the normal version. (the story was about them attacking some guy who published tweaks to make the drivers for the expensive version work on the normal version.) I think I recall that being the Creative X-Fi, if that's correct it could probably explain the closedness but not why they suddenly changed their minds.
...oops. Too much avoiding those incessant annoying campaigns and everything related, filtered out something that would actually have been useful.:-/
Or, throw all the candidates in a pool, tied up. If they float, they'll enlarge the federal government and should be burned at the stake. If they sink, they probably would have been OK.
Third party, since I don't like either main candidate. This happened to be Barr, since I figured he probably has the best (but unfortunately still very small) chance of getting enough votes to scare some sense into the duopoly.
And also what about your actual experience voting today?
I got there at almost exactly 7am (when the polls opened), and the line was almost exactly 1 hour (I finished voting and left at 8:05). There were 10 Diebold voting machines lined up along one wall with no privacy screens, just little flaps on the sides.
Did Diebold eat your vote or did everything go off without flaw?
Well, that's kinda hard to know, isn't it? (Some might say that's kinda the point of buying from Diebold.)
What actually caused the banks to break is their imaginary security market trading worthless crap they managed to get rated as AAA, aka, the 'big shitpile'.
Yes.
It didn't have anything to do with price fixing, or even lending money at all.
The reason the crap was rated so high was that pretty much everyone was making the same flawed assumptions (mortgage defaults aren't correlated across large areas). Low interest rates tend to entice people to spend money and credit (including on things like, say, housing) instead of saving/investing, but this hits a wall when people run out of money and credit to spend.
Then all your assumptions that were based on the effects of the low interest rate suddenly stop working, and stuff starts to hit the fan.
The difference is that every office has a different set of people voting for it. Therefore, the distribution of parties in sitting in Congress is roughly equal to the distribution of parties that the people voted for.
Only if the different parties are very well segregated out. If instead every district has 53% party A and 47% party B you end up only electing people from party A, which isn't even close to the 53/47 split in who people voted for.
there is nothing laughable or overly ambitious about say, creating and implementing your own supersecure protocol,
What's wrong with using SSH or TLS with pre-distributed keys?
But I'm not sure that's even what they're talking about here, it almost sounds like they want to kill the Internet's extensibility and anonymity for everyone else. Which is really quite different from just making up a new protocol for your own use.
Ron Paul's beliefs about the Federal Reserve, and his imaginary idea that it caused the current meltdown, are demonstratively false, so, yeah, Obama would crush him.
The Fed has been fixing prices in the credit markets. How could this not cause those markets to break?
An expert who examined it for The Mail on Sunday said it contained confidential passwords, security software and the technical blueprint to the system known as the 'source code'. The memory stick is now in the hands of the police.
I love the little quote marks around "source code". Oh my god, it's the Source Code! Anyway... from that, I daresay that the USB stick wasn't meant to provide access to the database. Probably more as a copy of the gateway system software.
...maybe the source code got lost because they forgot to stamp the destination code on it, and nobody knew where it was supposed to go?
I had thought that traffic to/from your neighbor would be peering, but traffic to/from the rest of the internet by way of your neighbor's connection would be transit, and that the two were entirely separate. Is this not the case?
But these agreements almost always come with the term that you must give as much as you receive (so you need to have a balance between hosted sites and end users.) Cogent didn't have end users, they had servers.
This seems odd to me, from the "takes two to tango" perspective. Barring things like a (D)DoS, both ends of a connection are just as responsible for any data transferred, regardless of which direction that data happens to be going. Is it just that incoming vs. outgoing traffic is the easiest thing to measure, like evaluating programmer performance by lines of code written per day?
Seems fairly common at the ones I've been to. I think it used to be an advertising point, before it got to where they pretty much all had it. Occasionally you'll have to get a card at the front desk with the password, but more often its wide open with just a click-thru "don't sue us" page that shows up once a day.
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Implosion is a non-issue because anyone who's taken basic physics or calculus can figure out that all gravitational forces cancel out inside a uniform hollow sphere.
No.
While the gravitational forces will cancel out at the very inside edge, that doesn't actually matter... that inside layer is still being squeezed by the weight of all the other layers above it, and the whole thing will collapse if it can't handle the pressure.
Ever thought that maybe they just didn't want to?
That's basically what he said, but with the extra note that the not wanting to comes mostly from external influences rather than innate predispositions. Which fits with what I vaguely recall hearing about how gender ratios tend to be very different in different countries.
Much like how I have no desire to run around wearing only underpants, but probably wouldn't mind (and might even prefer it) if I'd grown up somewhere more tropical and less bible-belt-ish.
Information wants to be free, man. He was just freeing it from its cruel imprisonment by the US government.
Especially impressive is that he's apparently willing to take its place in order to do so.
More software developers should ask themselves "What's the worst that could happen if my customers could modify and redistribute this software"? For proprietary software, it means you can no longer hold customers to ransom and insist on yearly revenue generating "updates".
Just letting them modify (but not redistribute) the software would also accomplish that. Letting them redistribute it means that suddenly it becomes much harder to find paying customers in the first place.
For developers who get paid for hours worked doing actual development and support, this is no problem. I prefer the latter - getting paid for actual work just seems more honest.
I kinda think so too, but it's interesting... end uses don't care about your time, they care about how useful the results of that time are. What you're selling (time) isn't really the same thing that your customers are buying (useful software).
Is a kilocomment 1000 or 1024 comments ?!?
Metric or Imperial?
bigotry is discriminating against people for things they cannot change.
Such as how I'm assuming UPS and FedEx refuse to hire blind people as delivery drivers, or how Hooters won't hire male waiters (really, some guy sued them over this)?
for instance, persecuting someone because of their sexual orientation--that is bigotry.
This is because it tends to be completely irrelevant, rather than because people can't control their own thoughts.
Patents are really only relevant if you are intending to profit from your invention, which is why I like Open Source. If something is released to the public freely, and is allowed to grow and expand on its own merit, no patent can stop it. If no money is gained, no patent holder can sue for money gained.
But that's not the only thing having a patent lets them do, there are other things they can sue you for.
No patent holder can sue to prevent Open Source, because their act of downloading the software to examine it constitutes agreement with the license.
BS. Uploading it (ie, engaging in distribution) would require that they agreed with the license. Downloading it and even using it doesn't, since those don't require permission from the copyright holder.
Even worse case scenario, if some asshat managed to convince a judge that their patent was valid and that an Open Source project was in violation, there really is no recourse.
Maybe, that really depends on where the main contributors are. If a court said that Linux (the kernel) violated some patent and was talked into granting an injunction I imagine that having Linus and Red Hat and IBM be forced to stop work would be a rather major setback, even if non-US contributors were still active.
You can turn around and sell this product to a game store or friend, but if you consume the key, the product is nearly valueless.
Keys don't get "consumed" naturally the way food does. It's an unnatural engineered-in limitation, which I would expect people to be seriously pissed off about if they weren't clearly informed prior to paying for it.
If you're going to (permanently) break the 12pm = sun overhead, 12am = midnight relation, why not just ignore timezones and use UTC instead? The problem is how the time you start and stop work relates to the time that the sun rises and sets... what name you give those times doesn't matter.
TFA is not saying that warm-ups are bad, it actually says that they're good. What it does say, is that just stretching is not a proper warm-up. A proper warm-up has light exercise to make you, well, warm. It also says that "stretch and hold" is bad, but exaggerated movements ("dynamic stretching") are good.
Stretching might be bad for performance, but it does reduce injury.
From TFA:
Are the *BSD and Linux driver models similar enough for sharing drivers to even be possible?
There was a story a while back about some company differentiating their normal and absurdly-expensive hardware pretty much entirely by having crippled drivers for the normal version. (the story was about them attacking some guy who published tweaks to make the drivers for the expensive version work on the normal version.) I think I recall that being the Creative X-Fi, if that's correct it could probably explain the closedness but not why they suddenly changed their minds.
Supposedly there are some companies that will put their own root cert on all of their machines, and then use that to mitm all ssl connections.
...oops. Too much avoiding those incessant annoying campaigns and everything related, filtered out something that would actually have been useful. :-/
Or, throw all the candidates in a pool, tied up. If they float, they'll enlarge the federal government and should be burned at the stake. If they sink, they probably would have been OK.
Not for president, but I did vote Cthulhu for one of the other (unopposed) races. Because somethimes, Cthulhu is the lesser evil.
Who are your picks and why.
Third party, since I don't like either main candidate. This happened to be Barr, since I figured he probably has the best (but unfortunately still very small) chance of getting enough votes to scare some sense into the duopoly.
And also what about your actual experience voting today?
I got there at almost exactly 7am (when the polls opened), and the line was almost exactly 1 hour (I finished voting and left at 8:05). There were 10 Diebold voting machines lined up along one wall with no privacy screens, just little flaps on the sides.
Did Diebold eat your vote or did everything go off without flaw?
Well, that's kinda hard to know, isn't it? (Some might say that's kinda the point of buying from Diebold.)
What actually caused the banks to break is their imaginary security market trading worthless crap they managed to get rated as AAA, aka, the 'big shitpile'.
Yes.
It didn't have anything to do with price fixing, or even lending money at all.
The reason the crap was rated so high was that pretty much everyone was making the same flawed assumptions (mortgage defaults aren't correlated across large areas). Low interest rates tend to entice people to spend money and credit (including on things like, say, housing) instead of saving/investing, but this hits a wall when people run out of money and credit to spend.
Then all your assumptions that were based on the effects of the low interest rate suddenly stop working, and stuff starts to hit the fan.
The difference is that every office has a different set of people voting for it. Therefore, the distribution of parties in sitting in Congress is roughly equal to the distribution of parties that the people voted for.
Only if the different parties are very well segregated out. If instead every district has 53% party A and 47% party B you end up only electing people from party A, which isn't even close to the 53/47 split in who people voted for.
there is nothing laughable or overly ambitious about say, creating and implementing your own supersecure protocol,
What's wrong with using SSH or TLS with pre-distributed keys?
But I'm not sure that's even what they're talking about here, it almost sounds like they want to kill the Internet's extensibility and anonymity for everyone else. Which is really quite different from just making up a new protocol for your own use.
Ron Paul's beliefs about the Federal Reserve, and his imaginary idea that it caused the current meltdown, are demonstratively false, so, yeah, Obama would crush him.
The Fed has been fixing prices in the credit markets. How could this not cause those markets to break?
From TFA:
I love the little quote marks around "source code". Oh my god, it's the Source Code! Anyway... from that, I daresay that the USB stick wasn't meant to provide access to the database. Probably more as a copy of the gateway system software.
...maybe the source code got lost because they forgot to stamp the destination code on it, and nobody knew where it was supposed to go?
I had thought that traffic to/from your neighbor would be peering, but traffic to/from the rest of the internet by way of your neighbor's connection would be transit, and that the two were entirely separate. Is this not the case?
But these agreements almost always come with the term that you must give as much as you receive (so you need to have a balance between hosted sites and end users.) Cogent didn't have end users, they had servers.
This seems odd to me, from the "takes two to tango" perspective. Barring things like a (D)DoS, both ends of a connection are just as responsible for any data transferred, regardless of which direction that data happens to be going. Is it just that incoming vs. outgoing traffic is the easiest thing to measure, like evaluating programmer performance by lines of code written per day?
Seems fairly common at the ones I've been to. I think it used to be an advertising point, before it got to where they pretty much all had it. Occasionally you'll have to get a card at the front desk with the password, but more often its wide open with just a click-thru "don't sue us" page that shows up once a day.