"People with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test"
You mean the double-X chromosome?
Although I'm a man, I'd have to admit I've seen some pretty bad driving from people with a Y chromosome too. In fact, very smart people can be very bad drivers (e.g. von Neumann's corner was named after a notoriously bad driver, John von Neumann who you might have heard about).
Yes. That is also why jurors are not supposed to reach decisions on matters of law, only matters of fact. If the jury members need to understand the legalese someone is doing something wrong.
Actually, Juries CAN decide the matters of law, it is just frowned upon. It is called Jury Nullification, where a jury, despite of the facts, simply ignores the law.
Honestly, a lot of our really bad laws can be and should be nullified by juries, and until we get widespread informed juries, bad laws will continue to be enforced.
Jury Nullification is powerful, however it isn't always a good thing when it was used, consider for example the Emmet Till case where a (presumably) racist jury acquitted obviously guilty murderers for a racially motivated killing.
I occasionally need to call friends and family who are out of the country, international calling on cell phones is prohibitively expensive (to say Mexico) so we use the land line, which keeps costs down (we can get a deeply discounted rate from Verizon).
Perhaps the parent comment should have been rated funny, the zombie simulator at kevan.org is a model of a city where humans are getting infected. However, the work by Kephart and White is prior art which wasn't cited. However, the models used in this paper are pretty standard fare for population dynamics and epidemiological modeling, and use the classical simplifying modeling by treating the population as continuous (i.e. they aren't using a discrete individual based modeling approach). Additionally, these are homogeneous mixing models (every host can reach every other host with equal intensity). I'll need to look closer, they did ask an interesting question about how to model a system where some of the infected machines are repaired, I'm not sure that this is truly novel
(Bilogists have Susceptible Infective, Susceptible Infective Removed models and Susceptible Infective Removed Susceptible models) so this may be old hat.
The majority of the US income (taxes) *comes* from these "evil" corporations. How d you plan to support the welfare needs that are already over0burdening our tax system if these corporations no longer operate in the US?
I'm not sure that is true, if we look at the U.S. government's budget we could see that in Fiscal Year 2008, the income from Corporate Income Taxes was $304B, but individual income taxes were $1146B so individuals paid 3.76 times what corporations paid in income tax. Please present your numbers and analysis for consideration, thanks.
As mentioned in one of the other replies most likely Livingood, since he works for the House of Representatives, who voted on contempt today. If I understand, there are 2 forms of contempt of congress, typically congress uses a variant that goes through the executive branch for enforcement, but there is also a variant called inherent contempt that is enforced directly by congress, via the sargeant at arms. However Gainer's web page has an interesting quote (maybe a hint?).
The Sergeant at Arms is authorized to arrest and detain any person violating Senate rules, including the President of the United States.
I'm not sure about that. I can recall in the 1980's (back when dinosaurs ruled the earth) a friend and I
got to be 2nd in line for a local concert and were psyched. The people in front of us got 1st row tickets.
We couldn't score better than 10th row (which was nice but not commensurate with the effort we went to).
I seriously doubt that the remaining 9 rows and other 1st row seats went in that very short time.
My guess is that scalpers had inside help at that concert. It kind of soured me.
I'm not sure if this is a contributing factor, but Liedtke (L4's chief architect) passed away
a few years ago (I think in 2001). As far as I know Shapiro (Coyotos' chief architect) is
very much alive and kicking.
That seems to match my undestanding too, along with using handshaking for parts operating at different time scales,
and clock gating for components not operating at the full clock speed. Mike Flynn mentioned similar techniques in a talk I saw a few years ago. Wikipedia describes some clock rate concerns in processor design..
The parent post was good, but there are a few ponits I would like to make:
Clockless logic has been around for a long time, in fact Ivan Sutherland's Turing Award Lecture (I'm not sure this link points to the lecture, but the forum, topic and timeframe are right). was about this very topic.
With the very high clock rates currently in fashion, it is hard (perhaps impossible) to get the clock signal to propagate
through the chip before too much of the cycle has elapsed.
I'm curious as wto what the markup is on the transaction fee.
Does anyone have an estimate of what the bank's transaction fees are to service a debit card transaction?
I'm curious.
This is shown to be one of the enduring themes of the story of cryptography, leading right through to the 1970s where credit for developing the RSA cryptographic technique went to Diffie, Hellman and Merkle in 1975, despite being developed in 1969 at GCHQ, a fact that was only publicly admitted in 1997
I though Diffie, Hellman and Merkle were credited with inventing the first public key encryption approaches (with Diffie and Hellman working together and Merkle working independently). RSA is a kind of public key encryption but uses a different approach from
the Diffie-Hellman approach.
Microsoft produced a product that a whole bunch of people thought was worth spending money on instead of its competitors, and thus made its founders rich.
What competitors?
CP/M by Digital Research should have been a very stuanch competitor of the early MS-Dos versions. I've heard several different stories of
IBM's treatment of Gary Kildall and Digital Research, so I'm not sure what happened and why they got excluded.
The parent's link was broken, NTP's Wikipedia Entry has links to several patents.
Interestingly, many of the ones I looked at were filed in the 1997-1999 time frame. Wikipedia's entry indicates the patents
that are rejected, but does not give the reasons why.
In the original article it quotes Newton and interprets his remarks as follows.
Sir Isaac Newton once said that if he had achieved anything with his work, such as his laws of motion and gravity, it was "by standing on the shoulders of giants."
The scientific vision and achievements of those before brought Newton metaphorically to a higher ground that allowed him to "see" further into the nature of the physical world.
Thanks for the interesting post. As a lay person in this area, I'm curious, what hard problems have prevented viable fusion power generation, since you seem to indicate that safety issues appear resolvable with current technology.
Perhaps the number of pending submissions should also figure in. If the editorial system had a way to treat "contenders" (submissions for breaking stories that are not published due to an earlier submission), maybe that could be designed in (say a lesser penalty for a legitimate article).
As mentioned by the other posters, the system is vulnerable to submitters creating many aliases.
However, what about the following:
New accounts cannot post a story or comment until they log a minimum duration of slashdot reading time (say 1 hour) that must be done on the same day as the account creation. Would this slow down account creation and prevent rapid aliasing to spam the submission queue?
After the initial probation, the accounts could be permitted to post stories in a rate limited fashion. The throttling could be done using a function that monotonically increases with the number of rejected stories, perhaps with some form of exponential smoothing so that users that hit the limit can eventually become eligible to post again.
I'm not sure if this is wise, but perhaps (advisory) story moderation might help. I don't have a well defined approach to this.
I think XFS supports caced block access (using DMAPI if I recall. This helps with low level access, so that
the dump utility can operate on a live file system (although write activity during the dump could still cause
inconsitency if a snapshot is not used). Ext2FS/Ext3FS don't have such support as far as I know.
Interesting post. As a developer, I sometimes kludge things (reluctantly) to make things work,
but I try to avoid this in production environments. I'd like to solicit advice on fixing a (minor)
but annoying problem.
In my lab, a colleague and I started playing around with subversion, and set up a repository.
Using ssh to access the repostory, we created it where one of us owned it and we are both members of a
group, svnusers created for the repository.
So far it works great, except, that when one of us owns the repository, say the owner is me with the
svnusers group and rwx for me and group, the remote berkely db access barfs on a permissions error.
Any idea how we can get out of sudo'ing chown commands on the repository directory to fix this?
Also, can I force ssh to set the group for files I update to svnusers?
of course the conventional way to sink a fleet of ships would be to use greek fire tipped arrows
The use of flaming arrows makes sense. However,
while the Greeks of that time likely had some flamable liquids, the Greek Fire is a Byzantine era invention used sort of like a flame thrower (around 673 A.D.) and was not around during the Roman Siege of Syracuse which happened during the 2nd Punic war (I think it
was around 214-213 B.C. or so).
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You may be referring to work done by Dr. Winnifred Cutler.
"People with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test" You mean the double-X chromosome?
Although I'm a man, I'd have to admit I've seen some pretty bad driving from people with a Y chromosome too. In fact, very smart people can be very bad drivers (e.g. von Neumann's corner was named after a notoriously bad driver, John von Neumann who you might have heard about).
Yes. That is also why jurors are not supposed to reach decisions on matters of law, only matters of fact. If the jury members need to understand the legalese someone is doing something wrong.
Actually, Juries CAN decide the matters of law, it is just frowned upon. It is called Jury Nullification, where a jury, despite of the facts, simply ignores the law.
Honestly, a lot of our really bad laws can be and should be nullified by juries, and until we get widespread informed juries, bad laws will continue to be enforced.
Jury Nullification is powerful, however it isn't always a good thing when it was used, consider for example the Emmet Till case where a (presumably) racist jury acquitted obviously guilty murderers for a racially motivated killing.
I occasionally need to call friends and family who are out of the country, international calling on cell phones is prohibitively expensive (to say Mexico) so we use the land line, which keeps costs down (we can get a deeply discounted rate from Verizon).
Perhaps the parent comment should have been rated funny, the zombie simulator at kevan.org is a model of a city where humans are getting infected. However, the work by Kephart and White is prior art which wasn't cited. However, the models used in this paper are pretty standard fare for population dynamics and epidemiological modeling, and use the classical simplifying modeling by treating the population as continuous (i.e. they aren't using a discrete individual based modeling approach). Additionally, these are homogeneous mixing models (every host can reach every other host with equal intensity). I'll need to look closer, they did ask an interesting question about how to model a system where some of the infected machines are repaired, I'm not sure that this is truly novel (Bilogists have Susceptible Infective, Susceptible Infective Removed models and Susceptible Infective Removed Susceptible models) so this may be old hat.
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The majority of the US income (taxes) *comes* from these "evil" corporations. How d you plan to support the welfare needs that are already over0burdening our tax system if these corporations no longer operate in the US?
I'm not sure that is true, if we look at the U.S. government's budget we could see that in Fiscal Year 2008, the income from Corporate Income Taxes was $304B, but individual income taxes were $1146B so individuals paid 3.76 times what corporations paid in income tax. Please present your numbers and analysis for consideration, thanks.
Science has an uncanny similarity to a lottery game, in many ways.
I'm not sure about that. I can recall in the 1980's (back when dinosaurs ruled the earth) a friend and I got to be 2nd in line for a local concert and were psyched. The people in front of us got 1st row tickets. We couldn't score better than 10th row (which was nice but not commensurate with the effort we went to). I seriously doubt that the remaining 9 rows and other 1st row seats went in that very short time. My guess is that scalpers had inside help at that concert. It kind of soured me.
I'm not sure if this is a contributing factor, but Liedtke (L4's chief architect) passed away a few years ago (I think in 2001). As far as I know Shapiro (Coyotos' chief architect) is very much alive and kicking.
That seems to match my undestanding too, along with using handshaking for parts operating at different time scales, and clock gating for components not operating at the full clock speed. Mike Flynn mentioned similar techniques in a talk I saw a few years ago. Wikipedia describes some clock rate concerns in processor design..
I'm curious as wto what the markup is on the transaction fee. Does anyone have an estimate of what the bank's transaction fees are to service a debit card transaction? I'm curious.
Wikipedia describes the case and links to the patents..
The parent's link was broken, NTP's Wikipedia Entry has links to several patents. Interestingly, many of the ones I looked at were filed in the 1997-1999 time frame. Wikipedia's entry indicates the patents that are rejected, but does not give the reasons why.
Thanks for the interesting post. As a lay person in this area, I'm curious, what hard problems have prevented viable fusion power generation, since you seem to indicate that safety issues appear resolvable with current technology.
Perhaps the number of pending submissions should also figure in. If the editorial system had a way to treat "contenders" (submissions for breaking stories that are not published due to an earlier submission), maybe that could be designed in (say a lesser penalty for a legitimate article).
I think XFS supports caced block access (using DMAPI if I recall. This helps with low level access, so that the dump utility can operate on a live file system (although write activity during the dump could still cause inconsitency if a snapshot is not used). Ext2FS/Ext3FS don't have such support as far as I know.
In my lab, a colleague and I started playing around with subversion, and set up a repository. Using ssh to access the repostory, we created it where one of us owned it and we are both members of a group, svnusers created for the repository.
So far it works great, except, that when one of us owns the repository, say the owner is me with the svnusers group and rwx for me and group, the remote berkely db access barfs on a permissions error.
Any idea how we can get out of sudo'ing chown commands on the repository directory to fix this? Also, can I force ssh to set the group for files I update to svnusers?