I hate to spoil the party, but this was news around April, 2003. This isn't really a source, but if you think about it, it's about as infallible as you can get. Behold, a Google Cache of a weblog I wrote at that time, the server of which doesn't really exist anymore. It was back in the time of Chimera before it became Camino, back when RSS was cool. But of course don't take my word, I'm sure someone else can furnish a true news source to back this up...
I can assure you that in any hypothetical situation in which a government monitors the communications of its citizens, a message whose contents the author has encrypted stands out as interesting and worty of scrutiny in a sea of plain text transmissions. If you're looking to lay low, the best way to do so is to simply blend in.
What an insightful comment. But not in the manner one would typically expect. Here folks, is a typical narcissist: "schild," instead of joining in the spirit of giving thoughtful and meaningful gifts, the facilitation of which the article assists perfectly well, rather thinks only of receiving what is most useful to him: money. Guess what buddy: if Christmas was just about what you wanted, everyone would just give each other checks. Marry Christmas, here's $20 from Dad.
15 seconds is rather insane. Yes, I know there are tricks and that there is a technique that will produce a solution. But they require quite a number of steps, all of which take time. Not to mention the need to recognize, store and process the locations of 27 color/point pairs for the win. Just... wow.
We all realize the purpose of the space station is to provide scientific research...
Bullshit.
The reason it's a good move though isn't safety or anything like that. The cost of the experiments they run is nothing compared with maintaining the station, and the experiments the astronauts are performing are not dangerous at all. The reason it's a good move is because it's the next best thing to scrapping the whole thing and letting the station fall from the sky (which is what they really want to do, but can't because of contractual agreements, international relations, public backlash, embarrassment, Bush,...)
Sorry for the confusion. Let R be the field of real numbers. R is unbounded, but infinity is not an element of R, so any finite subset of R is bounded.
Um no. Brightness values do not have to be bounded on finite hardware. Since you're only storing a finite number of elements in an unbounded space, and since each of those elements are themselves bounded, the subset that you're in is itself bounded.
Brightness values should have NEVER been bounded above in the first place (and now that I think of it, bounded below, either). The video card should be charged with computing everthing and only then "flattening" the image into something the monitor can display. It could even add some bloom automatically. HDR and motion blur will do wonders for realism...
Right, but in this sitution, we can assume circularity, or even linearity for that matter. What counts is the speed of rotation vs. the speeds of the two planets relative to each other.
Right, but anywhere you are in the world, at 11:25, you'll be facing more or less towards the outside of the solar system. The closest you would ever get to mars, assuming perfectly circular orbits would be at 12:00 midnight with mars directly along the vector perpendicular to the tangent of Earth's path. So at 11:25 no matter where you are in the world, you could be the closest to mars. Now it might be that lateral distance is much more important than the distance gained by being on the correct side of the earth, but then again it might not. Plug the numbers into a computer and find out.
If A and B are correlated, either A causes B or B causes A. Since there's no way in hell global warming is causing us to build more factories, it's a pretty safe bet things are the other way around.
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Less power outages. People in California know what I'm talking about...
With the added fudge factors of dark matter and dark energy, of course.
I hate to spoil the party, but this was news around April, 2003. This isn't really a source, but if you think about it, it's about as infallible as you can get. Behold, a Google Cache of a weblog I wrote at that time, the server of which doesn't really exist anymore. It was back in the time of Chimera before it became Camino, back when RSS was cool. But of course don't take my word, I'm sure someone else can furnish a true news source to back this up...
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I can assure you that in any hypothetical situation in which a government monitors the communications of its citizens, a message whose contents the author has encrypted stands out as interesting and worty of scrutiny in a sea of plain text transmissions. If you're looking to lay low, the best way to do so is to simply blend in.
*ahem*
Hmmmm.... I bet this bot has a wicked underarm turn.
A small price to pay for four more years. Go ahead and mod me troll, but you know it's true.
"I am inVINcible!"
What an insightful comment. But not in the manner one would typically expect. Here folks, is a typical narcissist: "schild," instead of joining in the spirit of giving thoughtful and meaningful gifts, the facilitation of which the article assists perfectly well, rather thinks only of receiving what is most useful to him: money. Guess what buddy: if Christmas was just about what you wanted, everyone would just give each other checks. Marry Christmas, here's $20 from Dad.
Right, but I'm not from New York, and I know all the districts in Manhattan, from SoHo to Tribeca to Harlem.
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15 seconds is rather insane. Yes, I know there are tricks and that there is a technique that will produce a solution. But they require quite a number of steps, all of which take time. Not to mention the need to recognize, store and process the locations of 27 color/point pairs for the win. Just... wow.
Bullshit.
The reason it's a good move though isn't safety or anything like that. The cost of the experiments they run is nothing compared with maintaining the station, and the experiments the astronauts are performing are not dangerous at all. The reason it's a good move is because it's the next best thing to scrapping the whole thing and letting the station fall from the sky (which is what they really want to do, but can't because of contractual agreements, international relations, public backlash, embarrassment, Bush, ...)
Sorry for the confusion. Let R be the field of real numbers. R is unbounded, but infinity is not an element of R, so any finite subset of R is bounded.
Um no. Brightness values do not have to be bounded on finite hardware. Since you're only storing a finite number of elements in an unbounded space, and since each of those elements are themselves bounded, the subset that you're in is itself bounded.
Why exactly is it not possible to make truly unbounded color brigthtness levels?
Brightness values should have NEVER been bounded above in the first place (and now that I think of it, bounded below, either). The video card should be charged with computing everthing and only then "flattening" the image into something the monitor can display. It could even add some bloom automatically. HDR and motion blur will do wonders for realism...
Right, but in this sitution, we can assume circularity, or even linearity for that matter. What counts is the speed of rotation vs. the speeds of the two planets relative to each other.
Right, but anywhere you are in the world, at 11:25, you'll be facing more or less towards the outside of the solar system. The closest you would ever get to mars, assuming perfectly circular orbits would be at 12:00 midnight with mars directly along the vector perpendicular to the tangent of Earth's path. So at 11:25 no matter where you are in the world, you could be the closest to mars. Now it might be that lateral distance is much more important than the distance gained by being on the correct side of the earth, but then again it might not. Plug the numbers into a computer and find out.
I suppose you hate Hemmingway then. (well, *ahem*, that's not the reason you should hate him...)
Could it be that the motivation was... root?
If A and B are correlated, either A causes B or B causes A. Since there's no way in hell global warming is causing us to build more factories, it's a pretty safe bet things are the other way around.
hahahahaha oh that's rich.
Is this because they've been perfecting technology (no doubt they have) or because DARPA has chosen an easier route?