Take someone who is attracted to children and willing to channel that into fucking a childlike doll (robotic or otherwise) and ban their only harmless outlet. Oh yeah, that's thinking of the children all right.
Re-burning exhaust gases isn't why two-strokes are nasty, it's the fact that they have no lubrication system and have to mix oil into the fuel to keep the piston rings from seizing. This oil gets burned, with much more black soot than the fuel itself.
If you wanted the freedom to ride whatever stink-bombs you wanted without government interference, you should have thought more carefully about which side you were fighting for a few decades ago.
Most of the people riding around on "stinkbombs" today weren't even born yet when the current government took control, and had no say in the matter. They still have no say in the matter, but are they supposed to accept "sorry, your parents and grandparents sold you down the river, so suck it" as a final answer?
After the changing of administrations, the new president promptly shelved these plans. As a goodwill gesture towards Russia, or possibly a way of saying thanks for the help.
Or he said he did, with the same intentions but not the cost. I think it's more likely those plans are perhaps de-emphasized, but not completely abandoned. I don't think his Not Invented Here syndrome runs that deep.
Just because it's on Ars Technica, that doesn't mean it's "News For Nerds, Stuff That Matters".
Also, fat pets have more health problems, but it's not exactly a major crisis. A cat dying at the age of 10 instead of 15 is unfortunate for one cat and one family, but it has exceptionally little effect on the world at large or even on the family's next door neighbors.
Document files, and just about anything else with an internal header section, could be quickly checked simply to see if they are valid files. No matter how much you change a document, it should remain valid. If it doesn't, you probably want to know about it regardless of whether the cause is ransomware or simple file system errors. Now if ransomware evolves to scramble document contents without breaking the container, then this will stop working -- but we're not there right now.
As for checking files continuously, it doesn't have to be done at a high rate. Checking files only when the machine is idle will help too. Even when there's someone at the console, there are plenty of times the computer is sitting around waiting for a response to something, and it could be checking the validity of files. If it starts seeing changes, it should increase the priority of the checking process until it can determine with reasonable confidence whether the changes are legitimate or malicious.
It is the nature of cryptocurrency mining that the more people mine, the less each one gets in actual value. Making the hardware cheaper will let more people in, but will also reduce the payoff.
I understand why nVidia would want to "protect" its graphics cards from being snapped up for off-label uses, and I imagine AMD would like to do the same, and this should work -- for them. But for the miners (especially the ones who already bought hardware), it's going to dilute the value of mining significantly.
Have you even watched a Browns game in the last couple decades? They were decent exactly once in that entire period and the rest may be regarded as slow torture.
Front license plates are not required in 19 states. Two of those, Pennsylvania and Delaware, are likely to be sending a non-negligible amount of traffic in the direction of Rhode Island.
Pigs and dogs do seem to be able to either speak each others' languages, or are at least mutually intelligible to each other. I've had friends with pot-bellied pigs, and one of them also had three dogs. The pig (literally) ran with their pack all the time. We were both in agreement that it believed it was a dog, right up to wagging its tail. This story makes me wonder if it wasn't confused at all, but rather was simply speaking the common language -- dog.
I see a big problem here: just like with red light cameras, license plates don't tell you who is driving. That plate can tell you if the owner of the vehicle is insured, but liability insurance attaches to drivers, not to vehicles. That means you can lend someone your uninsured car, if they have a liability policy of their own. You won't have any property coverage if they bring it back broken or crashed though.
In the case of a red light camera, they expect the owner to know who was driving, and someone ran the light (presuming the camera isn't rigged to fire early). In the case of insurance, you can't even be sure an infraction is taking place -- unless the state thinks it can recognize drivers too, in realtime, which is a more frightening thought.
Your solar panel problem can be sidestepped. Send a rudimentary fission reactor and fuel. Put it far enough away that a lack of shielding won't affect the colony itself. Solar panels can be manufactured on site later.
Also, who said this has to all fit in one ship? Frankly, supplies should be getting sent out years before the first humans leave Earth.
Fusion power is also what will break us of dependence on solar energy, even if it is abstracted away in the natural world. Plants need photons, but they don't really care how they're produced so long as they're at the right wavelengths. Fusion would be great for this planet, and for leaving it.
Test films don't have to be identical, they just have to be equal. Chopping up the video and mashing it back together in a random order would keep things fair, while making it harder to detect. There are other tricks that could be done to make sure that the test videos are all equal, without being the same. Also they would be run multiple times and averaged (which I believe is already the standard procedure) so that small differences induced by sudden brightness changes would tend to even out. (It's not like real films go out of their way to avoid such changes.)
I'm not saying every retailer would opt for no WiFi over sniffed WiFi. Just Amazon. In-store kiosks were very common ten years ago, they could easily make a comeback.
All regulation would do is make them turn off the WiFi entirely, so you have to do all price-checking on their oh so helpful store terminals, which they know everything about. At least with WiFi, you can use HTTPS to keep them from seeing what you're checking, even if they know where you're checking.
I don't think there's much dispute that Japan has a problem with xenophobia in general, but I'm surprised to hear that the employees from Japan had any more problem with you than with any other gaijin.
I asked a doctor friend what the harm was in smoking a total of one cigarette, spread out over a week or two. I have used nicotine to temporarily ward off headaches on many occasions. It doesn't stop them, but it slows them down enough that I can take something else (like aspirin) and it can kick in before the pain does. This only takes a couple hits, so one cigarette can easily last two weeks. I have to store partially used smokes in a plastic tube because so much time passes in between. A vape designed for occasional use would probably be a really good idea for me.
In any case, he said there essentially is no harm, so long as the person is in reasonably good condition. Such activities are well below the body's ability to deal with damage as it arrives. It basically gets lost in the background noise. He said also that this could change depending on other things happening at the same time. An adventure like filming downwind of a nuke test probably qualifies as "other things happening", and in John Wayne's case almost certainly amplified the effects of what he was already doing to himself. That's not to say he got cancer from the radiation and fallout, but it means he almost certainly got it faster than he otherwise would have.
I've been using cgMusic as a source of compositions for a couple years now. I don't turn to it often, but it's good when I need something that doesn't fall into my own tropes. (It has its own limited set of tropes though.) I then handle the arrangement and the engineering, and do a bit of editing to the composition itself, all of which is simple because the program outputs MIDI files.
I've also used other procedural generators to take existing music and re-mix it, such as this. I had to do quite a lot to get a useful song out of this though, as the original procedural output was more of a joke than a finished product.
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Seriously, in the future, we may wish to require AP equipped cars for elderly, as well as those with a DUI.
It's bad enough that old folks and drunks mix up the pedals and crash cars. Now you want them to be armor piercing too?
(Yes, sarcasm. But I have no idea what "AP equipped" means in an automotive context.)
Now they think they can just throw some machine learning on top of it to fix everything right as rain. We can all guess how well that will go!
Actually, fixing misspellings that are close to one valid title and far from any others is something machine learning is pretty good at.
Take someone who is attracted to children and willing to channel that into fucking a childlike doll (robotic or otherwise) and ban their only harmless outlet. Oh yeah, that's thinking of the children all right.
Re-burning exhaust gases isn't why two-strokes are nasty, it's the fact that they have no lubrication system and have to mix oil into the fuel to keep the piston rings from seizing. This oil gets burned, with much more black soot than the fuel itself.
If you wanted the freedom to ride whatever stink-bombs you wanted without government interference, you should have thought more carefully about which side you were fighting for a few decades ago.
Most of the people riding around on "stinkbombs" today weren't even born yet when the current government took control, and had no say in the matter. They still have no say in the matter, but are they supposed to accept "sorry, your parents and grandparents sold you down the river, so suck it" as a final answer?
These chuckleheads deserve to be flooded by demands to "teach the controversy" of Time Cube, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Discordianism, Gorean philosophy, Ebolism, and even Baneposting. How dare anyone make a value judgement that contradicts anyone else's? Feels, not facts!
After the changing of administrations, the new president promptly shelved these plans. As a goodwill gesture towards Russia, or possibly a way of saying thanks for the help.
Or he said he did, with the same intentions but not the cost. I think it's more likely those plans are perhaps de-emphasized, but not completely abandoned. I don't think his Not Invented Here syndrome runs that deep.
Just because it's on Ars Technica, that doesn't mean it's "News For Nerds, Stuff That Matters".
Also, fat pets have more health problems, but it's not exactly a major crisis. A cat dying at the age of 10 instead of 15 is unfortunate for one cat and one family, but it has exceptionally little effect on the world at large or even on the family's next door neighbors.
Document files, and just about anything else with an internal header section, could be quickly checked simply to see if they are valid files. No matter how much you change a document, it should remain valid. If it doesn't, you probably want to know about it regardless of whether the cause is ransomware or simple file system errors. Now if ransomware evolves to scramble document contents without breaking the container, then this will stop working -- but we're not there right now.
As for checking files continuously, it doesn't have to be done at a high rate. Checking files only when the machine is idle will help too. Even when there's someone at the console, there are plenty of times the computer is sitting around waiting for a response to something, and it could be checking the validity of files. If it starts seeing changes, it should increase the priority of the checking process until it can determine with reasonable confidence whether the changes are legitimate or malicious.
It is the nature of cryptocurrency mining that the more people mine, the less each one gets in actual value. Making the hardware cheaper will let more people in, but will also reduce the payoff.
I understand why nVidia would want to "protect" its graphics cards from being snapped up for off-label uses, and I imagine AMD would like to do the same, and this should work -- for them. But for the miners (especially the ones who already bought hardware), it's going to dilute the value of mining significantly.
Better, make hashes of all or most of the files on the disk, and if the hashes start not matching you know you have a problem.
Have you even watched a Browns game in the last couple decades? They were decent exactly once in that entire period and the rest may be regarded as slow torture.
Front license plates are not required in 19 states. Two of those, Pennsylvania and Delaware, are likely to be sending a non-negligible amount of traffic in the direction of Rhode Island.
Pigs and dogs do seem to be able to either speak each others' languages, or are at least mutually intelligible to each other. I've had friends with pot-bellied pigs, and one of them also had three dogs. The pig (literally) ran with their pack all the time. We were both in agreement that it believed it was a dog, right up to wagging its tail. This story makes me wonder if it wasn't confused at all, but rather was simply speaking the common language -- dog.
I see a big problem here: just like with red light cameras, license plates don't tell you who is driving. That plate can tell you if the owner of the vehicle is insured, but liability insurance attaches to drivers, not to vehicles. That means you can lend someone your uninsured car, if they have a liability policy of their own. You won't have any property coverage if they bring it back broken or crashed though.
In the case of a red light camera, they expect the owner to know who was driving, and someone ran the light (presuming the camera isn't rigged to fire early). In the case of insurance, you can't even be sure an infraction is taking place -- unless the state thinks it can recognize drivers too, in realtime, which is a more frightening thought.
Your solar panel problem can be sidestepped. Send a rudimentary fission reactor and fuel. Put it far enough away that a lack of shielding won't affect the colony itself. Solar panels can be manufactured on site later.
Also, who said this has to all fit in one ship? Frankly, supplies should be getting sent out years before the first humans leave Earth.
Fusion power is also what will break us of dependence on solar energy, even if it is abstracted away in the natural world. Plants need photons, but they don't really care how they're produced so long as they're at the right wavelengths. Fusion would be great for this planet, and for leaving it.
Test films don't have to be identical, they just have to be equal. Chopping up the video and mashing it back together in a random order would keep things fair, while making it harder to detect. There are other tricks that could be done to make sure that the test videos are all equal, without being the same. Also they would be run multiple times and averaged (which I believe is already the standard procedure) so that small differences induced by sudden brightness changes would tend to even out. (It's not like real films go out of their way to avoid such changes.)
I'm not saying every retailer would opt for no WiFi over sniffed WiFi. Just Amazon. In-store kiosks were very common ten years ago, they could easily make a comeback.
All regulation would do is make them turn off the WiFi entirely, so you have to do all price-checking on their oh so helpful store terminals, which they know everything about. At least with WiFi, you can use HTTPS to keep them from seeing what you're checking, even if they know where you're checking.
I don't think there's much dispute that Japan has a problem with xenophobia in general, but I'm surprised to hear that the employees from Japan had any more problem with you than with any other gaijin.
The friends are real, not imaginary, although the friendship may be imaginary. There's a difference.
So is dihydrogen monoxide.
I asked a doctor friend what the harm was in smoking a total of one cigarette, spread out over a week or two. I have used nicotine to temporarily ward off headaches on many occasions. It doesn't stop them, but it slows them down enough that I can take something else (like aspirin) and it can kick in before the pain does. This only takes a couple hits, so one cigarette can easily last two weeks. I have to store partially used smokes in a plastic tube because so much time passes in between. A vape designed for occasional use would probably be a really good idea for me.
In any case, he said there essentially is no harm, so long as the person is in reasonably good condition. Such activities are well below the body's ability to deal with damage as it arrives. It basically gets lost in the background noise. He said also that this could change depending on other things happening at the same time. An adventure like filming downwind of a nuke test probably qualifies as "other things happening", and in John Wayne's case almost certainly amplified the effects of what he was already doing to himself. That's not to say he got cancer from the radiation and fallout, but it means he almost certainly got it faster than he otherwise would have.
I've been using cgMusic as a source of compositions for a couple years now. I don't turn to it often, but it's good when I need something that doesn't fall into my own tropes. (It has its own limited set of tropes though.) I then handle the arrangement and the engineering, and do a bit of editing to the composition itself, all of which is simple because the program outputs MIDI files.
Here are three examples.
I've also used other procedural generators to take existing music and re-mix it, such as this. I had to do quite a lot to get a useful song out of this though, as the original procedural output was more of a joke than a finished product.