Probability is actually an obvious result of a multiverse. Take a die and throw it. The future universes have a roughly uniform distribution of rolling a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. Throw a second die, and the 6^2 possible sequences are all represented. So each copy of you may see a different outcome, but each copy performing repeated experiments will still see the expected probability distribution. One out of 6^n of you will see all 6s in a row, for any n. Everyone wins the lottery, but only in 1/100,000,000 of their future universes (for appropriate values of 1/100,000,000).
Respect QoS flags on my packets, and the ISP can drop the low priority/high latency packets first. So long as they treat each user's connection separately, it'll be fair.
How are you supposed to traffic shape your "best effort" cable modem? The maximum bandwidth is rarely what will be available, and the busy bandwidth will be far below average. A set of scripts to automatically determine the current bandwidth and adjust your traffic shaping percentage appropriately? Oh wait, that's just the TCP congestion avoidance algorithm!
So essentially what you are saying is that if he restricts his bandwidth so that he never buffers packets at the ISP (eliminates the bufferbloat), he won't have any problems? Wouldn't getting rid of the bufferbloat have the same effect without artificially restricting his bandwidth?
So what do you do when your friend on the same connection is already performing an rsync? Call him and agree to split the available bandwidth in half and supply the appropriate parameters to rsync? And when a third person starts a download?
Incidentally, if anyone out there has suggestions on how to reliably test for race conditions, please speak up.
The foolproof way is to write your software as a state machine that has well defined atomic transitions between states. If that's not an option, put mutexes on all shared objects and use a deadlock detection algorithm like the Linux kernel has for proving the (in)correctness of the locking operations.
Just like not serving black people in your restaurant isn't racism. It's just a business decision if some of your customers or community leaders don't like to eat with black people, after all.
The very laws the gp is talking about provide for extra criminal charges for copyright violation. Have you taken a cell phone with a camera into a theater lately? The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 deputizes movie theaters (they can detain you with legal indemnity until police arrive if they suspect you recorded a movie) and criminalizes recording movies in a theater or leaking unreleased movies. This is in addition to existing civil and criminal penalties.
This took out 5 power poles and a fairly large area was without power for a week (around 10K people without power from one tree). No one would have been able to make calls in an emergency without POTS.
Unless, of course, their POTS lines were on those poles too...
What's needed is somebody, like Allison, to dig in their heels and push it and push it, until it gets to the Supreme Court, where he will win.
Gee, I liked the (nonexistent) good old days when you just elected your legislators and paid taxes for fair government instead of having to contribute to a private legal defense fund for a slim chance to see justice achieved if the supreme court decides on a whim to hear the case.
Science gets results. Prayer gets... whatever it is that god happens to desire at any given time, which looks suspiciously like what science predicts would happen if no one did anything.
Civilians dying is just collateral damage, remember? And if some soldiers or operatives lose their lives, they'll just die serving their country like the thousands of others who've done so before them.
What wikileaks is doing is clearly less harmful than anything the U.S. has done recently.
(Of course, the mechanism was badly implemented - you should never be able to run unsigned modules on a consumer build of Windows. The bypass should only be possible in a developer Windows install, which is only available to registered developers).
Maybe you haven't read the "debuggers will be illegal in the future!" RMS rant...
Russia provided a lot of the nuclear technology to Iran, so they would probably have the knowledge to write stuxnet, but where would the motivation be? More likely a Russian agent/worker turned by another intelligence agency and used for the information.
Or this was an anti-missile launch. A sea-based missile shield would dramatically improve our ability to counter launches from other countries. Park some missile shield subs off the coast of North Korea and turn any of their launches into shrapnel right over Pyongyang.
It might be focus strain in your eyes. The parralax used to simulate 3D images creates a virtual focal plane at a distance where your eyes try to focus. If you are 10 feet from the TV but it is presenting a virtual image that your eyes think is 5 or 15 feet away, you will constantly attempt to focus at those other distances causing the actual image (which is on a real plane 10 feet away) to become blurry, and your eyes will continually try to adjust. Additionally, if whatever being viewed on the 3D is rendered with a depth of field that leaves parts of the image out of focus, trying to look at those areas will be even worse for your eyes because you'll never be able to focus on a clear image in that area despite parralax clues that there is something far away or very close to focus on.
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Probability is actually an obvious result of a multiverse. Take a die and throw it. The future universes have a roughly uniform distribution of rolling a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. Throw a second die, and the 6^2 possible sequences are all represented. So each copy of you may see a different outcome, but each copy performing repeated experiments will still see the expected probability distribution. One out of 6^n of you will see all 6s in a row, for any n. Everyone wins the lottery, but only in 1/100,000,000 of their future universes (for appropriate values of 1/100,000,000).
Respect QoS flags on my packets, and the ISP can drop the low priority/high latency packets first. So long as they treat each user's connection separately, it'll be fair.
"pinch" to zoom, indeed...
How are you supposed to traffic shape your "best effort" cable modem? The maximum bandwidth is rarely what will be available, and the busy bandwidth will be far below average. A set of scripts to automatically determine the current bandwidth and adjust your traffic shaping percentage appropriately? Oh wait, that's just the TCP congestion avoidance algorithm!
So essentially what you are saying is that if he restricts his bandwidth so that he never buffers packets at the ISP (eliminates the bufferbloat), he won't have any problems? Wouldn't getting rid of the bufferbloat have the same effect without artificially restricting his bandwidth?
So what do you do when your friend on the same connection is already performing an rsync? Call him and agree to split the available bandwidth in half and supply the appropriate parameters to rsync? And when a third person starts a download?
That's okay, once they're done fucking over the lives of patriots and freedom lovers, they'll get around to fucking yours over when it's convenient.
Incidentally, if anyone out there has suggestions on how to reliably test for race conditions, please speak up.
The foolproof way is to write your software as a state machine that has well defined atomic transitions between states. If that's not an option, put mutexes on all shared objects and use a deadlock detection algorithm like the Linux kernel has for proving the (in)correctness of the locking operations.
Just like not serving black people in your restaurant isn't racism. It's just a business decision if some of your customers or community leaders don't like to eat with black people, after all.
The very laws the gp is talking about provide for extra criminal charges for copyright violation. Have you taken a cell phone with a camera into a theater lately? The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 deputizes movie theaters (they can detain you with legal indemnity until police arrive if they suspect you recorded a movie) and criminalizes recording movies in a theater or leaking unreleased movies. This is in addition to existing civil and criminal penalties.
I think having him kiss lots of green folks first might have helped.
This took out 5 power poles and a fairly large area was without power for a week (around 10K people without power from one tree). No one would have been able to make calls in an emergency without POTS.
Unless, of course, their POTS lines were on those poles too...
And the best part:
Most users ever online was 137 on 09 Feb 2010, 18:07
I don't know what BoA is worried about.
What's needed is somebody, like Allison, to dig in their heels and push it and push it, until it gets to the Supreme Court, where he will win.
Gee, I liked the (nonexistent) good old days when you just elected your legislators and paid taxes for fair government instead of having to contribute to a private legal defense fund for a slim chance to see justice achieved if the supreme court decides on a whim to hear the case.
Science gets results. Prayer gets... whatever it is that god happens to desire at any given time, which looks suspiciously like what science predicts would happen if no one did anything.
Unless, of course, the embryo doesn't implant for any number of reasons. Making sex reckless endangerment at best and downright murder in many cases.
Civilians dying is just collateral damage, remember? And if some soldiers or operatives lose their lives, they'll just die serving their country like the thousands of others who've done so before them.
What wikileaks is doing is clearly less harmful than anything the U.S. has done recently.
(Of course, the mechanism was badly implemented - you should never be able to run unsigned modules on a consumer build of Windows. The bypass should only be possible in a developer Windows install, which is only available to registered developers).
Maybe you haven't read the "debuggers will be illegal in the future!" RMS rant...
Russia provided a lot of the nuclear technology to Iran, so they would probably have the knowledge to write stuxnet, but where would the motivation be? More likely a Russian agent/worker turned by another intelligence agency and used for the information.
Thousands of years of human history also say no to powered flight, internal combustion engines, semiconductors, and modern medicine.
cocaine, lsd, and plenty of other drugs suppress fear (and many of the other senses...)
Or this was an anti-missile launch. A sea-based missile shield would dramatically improve our ability to counter launches from other countries. Park some missile shield subs off the coast of North Korea and turn any of their launches into shrapnel right over Pyongyang.
So issue tasers. You could put them under the seats with the flotation devices.
"In case of a hijacking, retrieve your taser and incapacitate the motherfuckers."
Sadly? Doesn't that work out in our favor?
It might be focus strain in your eyes. The parralax used to simulate 3D images creates a virtual focal plane at a distance where your eyes try to focus. If you are 10 feet from the TV but it is presenting a virtual image that your eyes think is 5 or 15 feet away, you will constantly attempt to focus at those other distances causing the actual image (which is on a real plane 10 feet away) to become blurry, and your eyes will continually try to adjust. Additionally, if whatever being viewed on the 3D is rendered with a depth of field that leaves parts of the image out of focus, trying to look at those areas will be even worse for your eyes because you'll never be able to focus on a clear image in that area despite parralax clues that there is something far away or very close to focus on.