Yes, but this isn't social engineering, no matter what Mitnick tells you. This is lying and conniving.
Social engineering is when the Bush administration convinces all Americans to live in a state of irrational fear so the administration can quash any attempt to prevent it from feathering its nest.
Yeah, something like that. When I read the headline in my RSS reader, I thought "Cool! I've always wanted to write a search engine!" but then it turns out that it's just about making your site more popular.
Here's a way to make your site more popular: Ambiguous article titles:)
I seriously doubt that the computer:student ratio is better than that.
Not nessesaraly, and it doesn't need to be. Take for example Somalia, where *complete* deregulation (that is, no central government whatsoever) has lead to a telecomunications boom. The warlords may burn the books, but nobody burns the computers, because they are important to everybody.
First, you should look up the meaning of the word 'theory'. There you will see that in the pure and natural sciences (but not in maths) a theory cannot be proven. No theory can therefore be the 'end all, be all'.
Second, there are currently no scientific theories that explain the development of life as well as evolution does. It is the most widely accepted theory by a huge margin.
Thirdly, the issue here is that they want to teach religion in a science class to further their ideological goals. Inteligent Design should not be given 'fair weight' in a scientific context, as it has nothing but the slimmest scientific backing.
Oops, my bad. I somehow thought your response was to this comment:
I have a g400 at home. You might call it a bad card, but the OSS drivers are great. I'm happy I haven't blown money on a better one with closed source drivers.
My next purchase will likely be a radeon 9250. I hear the OSS drivers for it are good.
There you go, spouting the same recycled 'knowledge' that has been passed around so long, you thing its the answer to every question to do with graphics cards.
If you took a second to read the original post, the guy wasn't talking about using CLOSED SOURCE drivers on an open source operating system, he was talking about OPEN SOURCE DRIVERS.
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Oops, that must have been why the filter kicked in:)
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But the blue-eyed people aren't blind! They know that there are at least 99 blue-eyed people on the island. Thus, they know that nobody will consider leaving on the first night, and nobody will then leave on any other night.
This problem is misleading, because it looks and feels like what you describe is correct, but it tempts people to make an invalid leap of logic. 39700000 + 30000 != 40000000
That is pretty much the conclusion I have come to. The guru's statement is a hint that you should try solve this one by induction. The problem here is that it doesn't work.
For n = 1, the person would leave the first night, for he has been told an eye colour that nobody else has, so it must be his.
For n = 2, both would leave on the second night, as they can see there is one other person with that eye colour. If he didn't leave, it means the they also have that eye colour.
The problem falls over at n = 3. There is no compulsion for anybody to leave on the first night. Everybody can see at least two other people that have the eye colour. Because there is no compulsion to leave on the first night, there is no compulsion to leave on the second night, or any night after that.
Okay, I think I have worked this one out. It wasn't mentioned in the problem, but I assumed that each islander knew that each other islander is a perfect logician.
What I don't understand is why there are still any people on the island (except for the Guru.) Surely they all already know that the Guru can already see a person with blue eyes, as they can see a person with blue eyes, and the Guru isn't blind?
Your argument is like say that your dad's LPs are digital: They are either playing or they aren't.
Also, digital != binary ~= boolean. Digital refers to the expression of information using a finite, discrete set of gradations (as opposed to analogue, with a continuous range.) Binary refers to the base-2 number system. Boolean refers to the work of Charles Boole (sp), who worked with the enumeration of logical problems to either 'true' or 'false'.
Okay, it has been a while since my course in neurophysiology, but I think you are misunderstanding a little. Although each individual can be considered to fire or not fire, the strength of the action potential that is propagated along the axon varies based on numerous factors, most noticably the concentration of calcium ions around the neuron. It is thus an analogue system
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"buzzword" is a term used by cynical people trying to sound important.
I agree.
A real PC tech costs more than $175.
That's because modern Windows ignores the BIOS, too.
Haiku:
Bad axe in apple tree
Please do not steal our fucking
OS you bastards
as there are 20 different meanings of speciation
No, there is one meaning: Speciation occurs when when two populations with a common ancestor can no longer reproduce with each other.
You are missing LastFMProxy:
http://vidar.gimp.org/lastfmproxy/
It's a python script that redirects the stream into a player of your choice.
That may be because it is a cover.
Seriously, social enginering is nothing new.
Yes, but this isn't social engineering, no matter what Mitnick tells you. This is lying and conniving.
Social engineering is when the Bush administration convinces all Americans to live in a state of irrational fear so the administration can quash any attempt to prevent it from feathering its nest.
The cynic in me says that you are right, but so is the grandparent post. :(
Yeah, something like that. When I read the headline in my RSS reader, I thought "Cool! I've always wanted to write a search engine!" but then it turns out that it's just about making your site more popular.
:)
Here's a way to make your site more popular: Ambiguous article titles
I seriously doubt that the computer:student ratio is better than that.
Not nessesaraly, and it doesn't need to be. Take for example Somalia, where *complete* deregulation (that is, no central government whatsoever) has lead to a telecomunications boom. The warlords may burn the books, but nobody burns the computers, because they are important to everybody.
So much so, that the BBC maintains a Somali language website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/somali
In fact, I am writing this message from (*gasp*) Africa! And how do you think all those internet scammers operate if they don't have Internet access?
end all, be all
First, you should look up the meaning of the word 'theory'. There you will see that in the pure and natural sciences (but not in maths) a theory cannot be proven. No theory can therefore be the 'end all, be all'.
Second, there are currently no scientific theories that explain the development of life as well as evolution does. It is the most widely accepted theory by a huge margin.
Thirdly, the issue here is that they want to teach religion in a science class to further their ideological goals. Inteligent Design should not be given 'fair weight' in a scientific context, as it has nothing but the slimmest scientific backing.
Oops, my bad. I somehow thought your response was to this comment:
I have a g400 at home. You might call it a bad card, but the OSS drivers are great. I'm happy I haven't blown money on a better one with closed source drivers.
My next purchase will likely be a radeon 9250. I hear the OSS drivers for it are good.
Ignore my previous comment. I am an idiot.
There you go, spouting the same recycled 'knowledge' that has been passed around so long, you thing its the answer to every question to do with graphics cards.
If you took a second to read the original post, the guy wasn't talking about using CLOSED SOURCE drivers on an open source operating system, he was talking about OPEN SOURCE DRIVERS.
Oops, that must have been why the filter kicked in :)
2001: 0 NSA Patents Blocked
2002: 0 NSA Patents Blocked
2003: 0 NSA Patents Blocked
2004: 5 NSA Patents Blocked
2005: 9 NSA Patents Blocked (up to March 2005)
From TFA:
2000: 0 NSA Patents Blocked
2000: 0 NSA Patents Blocked
2000: 0 NSA Patents Blocked
2000: 5 NSA Patents Blocked
2000: 9 NSA Patents Blocked
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If you have the raw video data, why do you need the screener?
They already know that nobody's going to leave
and
If there were fewer, they would have left by then
How do you reconcile these two statements?
But the blue-eyed people aren't blind! They know that there are at least 99 blue-eyed people on the island. Thus, they know that nobody will consider leaving on the first night, and nobody will then leave on any other night.
This problem is misleading, because it looks and feels like what you describe is correct, but it tempts people to make an invalid leap of logic. 39700000 + 30000 != 40000000
That is pretty much the conclusion I have come to. The guru's statement is a hint that you should try solve this one by induction. The problem here is that it doesn't work.
For n = 1, the person would leave the first night, for he has been told an eye colour that nobody else has, so it must be his.
For n = 2, both would leave on the second night, as they can see there is one other person with that eye colour. If he didn't leave, it means the they also have that eye colour.
The problem falls over at n = 3. There is no compulsion for anybody to leave on the first night. Everybody can see at least two other people that have the eye colour. Because there is no compulsion to leave on the first night, there is no compulsion to leave on the second night, or any night after that.
But then again, I could be wrong.
Okay, I think I have worked this one out. It wasn't mentioned in the problem, but I assumed that each islander knew that each other islander is a perfect logician.
What I don't understand is why there are still any people on the island (except for the Guru.) Surely they all already know that the Guru can already see a person with blue eyes, as they can see a person with blue eyes, and the Guru isn't blind?
Your argument is like say that your dad's LPs are digital: They are either playing or they aren't.
Also, digital != binary ~= boolean. Digital refers to the expression of information using a finite, discrete set of gradations (as opposed to analogue, with a continuous range.) Binary refers to the base-2 number system. Boolean refers to the work of Charles Boole (sp), who worked with the enumeration of logical problems to either 'true' or 'false'.
Okay, it has been a while since my course in neurophysiology, but I think you are misunderstanding a little. Although each individual can be considered to fire or not fire, the strength of the action potential that is propagated along the axon varies based on numerous factors, most noticably the concentration of calcium ions around the neuron. It is thus an analogue system