Don't cut government spending. At least not right now. Sure, redirect that spending to the people who need it. But if the government cuts spending at the same time that the private sector cuts borrowing, the economy collapses. Doesn't anyone study history any more?
Most of the wifi security standards suck. So don't use them. Leave the wifi layer as is, let the guy connect to it, but only use it as a transport layer for a vpn connection and firewall everything else.
At a philosophical level, all science is an unprovable philosophical discussion. The set of theories that are considered scientific is effectively based on consensus. Idea X is science because a significant group of scientists with a trusted reputation have examined the processes involved and the reasoning applied. In many, but not all cases they have also repeated those processes and obtained consistent results. And so these scientists agree that the idea is sound. But that doesn't mean that the idea can be proven.
Having an untested or untestable assumption in a scientific theory isn't fatal. So long as the rest of the idea is consistent and the predictions of the theory match the observed data, such a theory can be accepted. I'd even say that every scientific theory contains at least one untestable assumption, and that this is considered normal.
So what is science then? Do the different untestable assumptions that there [is / is not] an intelligent designer implicitly make either of these positions unscientific?
Does the scientific community agree on a viable model for the origin of the first living cell? Does this model have less problems than the untestable assumption that the first living cell was designed?
Assuming that the first living cell was designed, is it unscientific to explore what predictions could be made from that starting assumption?
But that's not *A* cyberspace. That's a bunch of separate virtual worlds that are implemented on a relatively small number of servers (or P2P between users obviously).
People have used the term cyberspace to invoke imagery similar to hyper-space, like you can send your avatar to observe a router somewhere and "see" all of the traffic passing through it. Or chase someone from router to router as their avatar moves around.
That has nothing to do with how the internet actually works.
I'm working for the Serval Project, our main focus is offering phone calls, text messaging, file transfer and other communication services over whatever network is available. While a phone call requires a usable realtime path between the end points, we're trying to build other services that use a Delay Tolerant Networking protocol.
The services we're building will attempt to use any available network to discover other devices running our software and relay data. We've also been experimenting with using 915Mhz ISM band radios that could be attached to a small openWRT router running on battery power.
While we do attempt to get adhoc wifi working on android, the approach we're using obviously only works with root permission. And since google have removed adhoc support completely at the kernel level, our approach only really works on handsets running older android versions. In future, I think the best approach is going to be getting adhoc support into every custom android rom we can.
We've been talking to the SPAN project and would like to build a one-stop-shop app / web site with an automated process or manual instructions for how to get an adhoc wifi network working on any android device. That might entail the approaches we've been using on older hardware, or instructions on building a replacement kernel or a custom rom that is known to work.
That's definitely a resource leak that I've hit before. It doesn't seem to be cleaned up completely by closing the offending process. Sure you can prolong the reboot for a while. But eventually you can only keep a couple of application windows open before hitting the limit and you'll need to reboot anyway to actually get some work done.
... has had some reasonable success lately. While I don't know what his long term track record is, he was one of 12 economists recognised as having a mathematical model that predicted the oncoming recession.
I thought it was a limitation of the lens diameter, not the sensor chip. It doesn't really matter what size the other lenses and sensor is behind that if you are capturing each ray that came in the front.
It's not hard to find Coles & Woolworths gift cards for sale at 5% less than the stored value (AU's biggest grocery chains), probably for similar reasons. We make most of our grocery and petrol purchases using cards we've bought at a discount.
Honestly what we need is either a company that is openly hostile to the US government or, ironically, a company hosted in a government openly hostile to the US government to protect US citizen's privacy.
Or a protocol that doesn't rely on centralised trust of any kind...
Coincidentally, I'm right in the middle of preparing the final build of the Serval Mesh 0.90 app for android. While it doesn't currently include support for calling via the internet, we just need to add a distributed hash table or similar. All of the building blocks are pretty much there already.
In Australia we gave $1,000 to practically every person in 2008. Has our currency massively devalued as a result? No. But then $1,000 is chicken feed compared to the amount of currency created or destroyed every day by banks issuing loans.
You think the government issued all of those dollars you have in your bank account? Do you pay for your day to day living expenses by swiping a credit card?
While a bank is solvent, depositors are backed by the assets of the bank. If a bank's asset value drops and they declare bankruptcy, most depositors are guaranteed to get their money from insurance or the government. No you can't directly swap your cash for a fraction of a banks assets, but you can be guaranteed to get more of the same fiat currency. So what is the currency backed by? The bank's assets, and the governments ability to issue more currency. That's not quite the same as saying that the currency isn't backed by anything at all.
Most of the currency that is circulating is really just accounting entries at banks, backed by the securities the banks hold for the loans they have issued. What's the most common security? Houses, or the land they are built on.
So don't make the fee based on usage. Add a flat fee to the annual vehicle registration. Want to be registered in the state of Oregon? Help to pay your part for their road maintenance.
I have never seen anyone use the search bar from the start menu unless following directions from the helpdesk
Really? I use it all the time. If I want to open an application or control panel applet that isn't in my N most recently used apps, I'll start typing its name. Much quicker than browsing the All Programs menu.
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Only if they attempt to take down the video again.
Don't cut government spending. At least not right now. Sure, redirect that spending to the people who need it. But if the government cuts spending at the same time that the private sector cuts borrowing, the economy collapses. Doesn't anyone study history any more?
Most of the wifi security standards suck. So don't use them. Leave the wifi layer as is, let the guy connect to it, but only use it as a transport layer for a vpn connection and firewall everything else.
Too much hassle? Run cables everywhere instead.
The log should be a recording of the value that was displayed on the speedometer. So one of them is clearly misrepresenting the truth.
And of course the prevalence of petrol stations.
Don't get me wrong, it ain't science
At a philosophical level, all science is an unprovable philosophical discussion. The set of theories that are considered scientific is effectively based on consensus. Idea X is science because a significant group of scientists with a trusted reputation have examined the processes involved and the reasoning applied. In many, but not all cases they have also repeated those processes and obtained consistent results. And so these scientists agree that the idea is sound. But that doesn't mean that the idea can be proven.
Having an untested or untestable assumption in a scientific theory isn't fatal. So long as the rest of the idea is consistent and the predictions of the theory match the observed data, such a theory can be accepted. I'd even say that every scientific theory contains at least one untestable assumption, and that this is considered normal.
So what is science then? Do the different untestable assumptions that there [is / is not] an intelligent designer implicitly make either of these positions unscientific?
Does the scientific community agree on a viable model for the origin of the first living cell? Does this model have less problems than the untestable assumption that the first living cell was designed?
Assuming that the first living cell was designed, is it unscientific to explore what predictions could be made from that starting assumption?
But that's not *A* cyberspace. That's a bunch of separate virtual worlds that are implemented on a relatively small number of servers (or P2P between users obviously).
People have used the term cyberspace to invoke imagery similar to hyper-space, like you can send your avatar to observe a router somewhere and "see" all of the traffic passing through it. Or chase someone from router to router as their avatar moves around.
That has nothing to do with how the internet actually works.
The services we're building will attempt to use any available network to discover other devices running our software and relay data. We've also been experimenting with using 915Mhz ISM band radios that could be attached to a small openWRT router running on battery power.
While we do attempt to get adhoc wifi working on android, the approach we're using obviously only works with root permission. And since google have removed adhoc support completely at the kernel level, our approach only really works on handsets running older android versions. In future, I think the best approach is going to be getting adhoc support into every custom android rom we can.
We've been talking to the SPAN project and would like to build a one-stop-shop app / web site with an automated process or manual instructions for how to get an adhoc wifi network working on any android device. That might entail the approaches we've been using on older hardware, or instructions on building a replacement kernel or a custom rom that is known to work.
cellular can be turned off so it can be used as a WiFi only device
On android, put the phone in flight mode, then turn wifi back on.
That's definitely a resource leak that I've hit before. It doesn't seem to be cleaned up completely by closing the offending process. Sure you can prolong the reboot for a while. But eventually you can only keep a couple of application windows open before hitting the limit and you'll need to reboot anyway to actually get some work done.
... has had some reasonable success lately. While I don't know what his long term track record is, he was one of 12 economists recognised as having a mathematical model that predicted the oncoming recession.
I thought it was a limitation of the lens diameter, not the sensor chip. It doesn't really matter what size the other lenses and sensor is behind that if you are capturing each ray that came in the front.
AFAIK only boot loaders like shim have actually been signed by Microsoft. But, you may be right...
It's not hard to find Coles & Woolworths gift cards for sale at 5% less than the stored value (AU's biggest grocery chains), probably for similar reasons. We make most of our grocery and petrol purchases using cards we've bought at a discount.
Honestly what we need is either a company that is openly hostile to the US government or, ironically, a company hosted in a government openly hostile to the US government to protect US citizen's privacy.
Or a protocol that doesn't rely on centralised trust of any kind...
Coincidentally, I'm right in the middle of preparing the final build of the Serval Mesh 0.90 app for android. While it doesn't currently include support for calling via the internet, we just need to add a distributed hash table or similar. All of the building blocks are pretty much there already.
In Australia we gave $1,000 to practically every person in 2008. Has our currency massively devalued as a result? No. But then $1,000 is chicken feed compared to the amount of currency created or destroyed every day by banks issuing loans.
You think the government issued all of those dollars you have in your bank account? Do you pay for your day to day living expenses by swiping a credit card?
While a bank is solvent, depositors are backed by the assets of the bank. If a bank's asset value drops and they declare bankruptcy, most depositors are guaranteed to get their money from insurance or the government. No you can't directly swap your cash for a fraction of a banks assets, but you can be guaranteed to get more of the same fiat currency. So what is the currency backed by? The bank's assets, and the governments ability to issue more currency. That's not quite the same as saying that the currency isn't backed by anything at all.
Most of the currency that is circulating is really just accounting entries at banks, backed by the securities the banks hold for the loans they have issued. What's the most common security? Houses, or the land they are built on.
Wait, not 62,012. It was 6,212. On windows 7.
So don't make the fee based on usage. Add a flat fee to the annual vehicle registration. Want to be registered in the state of Oregon? Help to pay your part for their road maintenance.
My wife's PC once booted up in the year 62,012. Since every single ssl cert was out of date, from her point of view the entire internet was broken.
I have never seen anyone use the search bar from the start menu unless following directions from the helpdesk
Really? I use it all the time. If I want to open an application or control panel applet that isn't in my N most recently used apps, I'll start typing its name. Much quicker than browsing the All Programs menu.
Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no
Whoosh.
When Writing, How Anonymous Can You Be, Really?
No.