Lets just call it 'Method 538' and be done with it. All cyphers fail against this method because the sender and/or recipient are known, or easily discoverable. Until we solve that problem it doesn't matter how good the cypher is.
Sorry to post a second reply.. but something just occurred to me. The section of the Congo that overlaps the Pan's range doesn't behave like a river so much as a big lake. I wonder if typical river behavior applies for that section of the Congo and relatedly, how long that section of the river as been swollen.
An additional question on that front would be what has the Pan's home range over the last 2 million years. Did they extend into ranges where the Congo is less of a barrier, and how long ago was that? Such questions might relate to how much mixing has occurred, if any. The way things are at present social differences between the two make it highly unlikely that they could interbreed in the wild even though it is biologically possible, and has been recorded under artificial situations.
The Congo is clearly a somewhat porous barrier, for the reasons you have given. However, it appears to have been effective enough to isolate the Pans long enough to create the cultural and biological differences. Which was my point.
More interesting questions for me are: a) Why did Chimps become aggressive, and Bonobos (relatively) docile. b) Which social pattern did the Pans start with? c) How long have their social patterns been divergent?
1.5 to 2 million years ago a big fucking river formed in their neighborhood. Pans do not swim well enough to cross that river. And they are not quite smart enough to make boats or bridges.
The isolation between them is most likely not perfect, on the time scale of 2My... but it appears to have been effective.
Some of the non-coding DNA is structural. Without it the strands would not fold correctly, and that would have dire consequences for transcription and protein assembly. To the degree that non-coding sequences function as desired, their exact sequence appears to be (mostly) irrelevant. The noise in those sequences makes perfect sense in that there is very little selection pressure for them to have an exact 'spelling.'
12000 years is not even close to long enough for speciation. In order for this to happen you would be looking at timelines on the order of millions of years. At the very least you would be looking at minimums of many hundreds of thousands of years.
Yes, Apple has a solution for you. It's about time you upgraded those aging parents for new shiney Apple iParents(TM)! Your children are likely due for a parent upgrade as well.
I don't think Cialdini's example was addressing Velben Goods. Customers presented with the under priced goods seemed to be suspicious of their provenance. The goods from the example were not of a type that would be considered 'bling', in the sense Velben refers to.
However, Velben goods are another good example of exemptions to general pricing rules.
In a nutshell, the lower the price of something the more demand there will be. It's not necessarily a linear graph (i.e. 10 people will pay $100 but 100 people will pay $10) and it varies depending on the product, what time of year it is, the market in general etc. but the principal is always the same.
Robert Cialdini gives an interesting counter example to the assumption inherent in price elasticity.
In his book, 'Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion' he presents an example, where through a communications error with a sales manager, a retail business owner increased the price of a product that had not been selling, causing it to sell out very quickly. The erroneous raising of the price increased the products perceived value.
Some qualifications: the product in question was high quality Native American silver and Turquoise jewelry that had been purchased from local artisans at a very low wholesale price. The resulting retail markup apparently did not raise the price enough to convince customers that the product was of high quality. The communication error with the retail manager apparently pushed the product price into a range where it was perceived as being a reasonable price for high quality products of this type.
I present this as an example of how the rules of price elasticity can be confounded by customer perception. I'm sure there are other examples where elasticity breaks down.
If we're down to the 'several thousand' of a particular injury per year then we're in the territory of injuries due to contact with spacecraft (ICD 10 code WX849OXA), initial turtle attacks (W5921XA) or repetitive turtle attacks (W5921XD) and other similarly major dangers to civilization.
Granted, this up-and-coming-viral-meme(tm) wrt ICD 10 codes is amusing. However, it shows a complete ignorance of how the codes are intended to be used.
Any fool can string together a stream of endless nonsense from this coding system because of its flexibility. Much the same can be said for natural languages too. i.e.: Waffles, because ice cream has no bones.
Stop thinking of ICD 10 as a hash table and recognize that it is a domain specific language with associated (but simple) grammar rules.
You want to have fun? Try writing some poetry with it./rant
TFS looks like a typical project posting on Guru,com. I see stuff like this all the time... some asshat trying to trick a programer to work on their harebrained project to start the NeXT, BeOS, or some stupid shit -- for $100 bucks. Or worse yet a poorly veiled attempt to employ someone to do something blatantly illegal/unethical -- for $100 bucks.
It did not work on the//e & later... but those machines had a VBLANK flag in $C0xx space. I'm surprised it did not work on the Apple II. The video multiplexer is nearly identical on the II and II+.
And one trick he missed that could have been done cheaply... if the video vertical sync pulse had been made available someplace in the I/O space as a bit you could test, then it would have been trivial to know when you were in the vertical blanking interval so that you could flip video buffers cleanly.
Actually there was a clean way to sync the video on the Apple II/II+. All you had to do is READ the $C0XX switch address. The read contained the most recent byte written to the video shift register due to a slight timing overlap between the 6502 read cycle and the video mux. This only appeared in the $C0XX space because the data lines were left undriven in that address space. (technically a read from any unused address block would work)
Thus all you needed to do is watch for a unique sequence stored at the right end of the last line of the video display buffer. An easy way to make this unnoticeable was to leave the last line 0x00 black, and write a handful 0x80 black bytes at the end of the line. This trick could also be used to generate mixed mode graphic displays, and some neat looking demo tricks.
When I lived in the city... or while traveling... the fundamental safety rule is display no wealth. Better yet, display poverty, especially when carrying a $2500 laptop and a $800 DSLR in your ratty-ass day pack while traveling someplace where such items would net a thief enough money to live on for half a year... such as (for example) central Russia.
[...]Myst did a lot to make the world see computers as the goto source of information and media[...]
Myst was a Mac product that was ported to Windows. Myst was designed and implemented on the concepts developed by Bill Atkinson derived from Hypercard. The demo versions of Myst were implemented in Hypercard.
Cinemania, Encarta, MS Wineguide, Office, Excel, Word, Paint etc were all implemented in a C++ framework that was designed (from the get go) to be PC/Mac compatible.
I know this because I worked for Apple and M$ during the transition-to-internet years as a senior test engineer working on these key projects.
WfW was years behind MacOS 6 and 7 for internet integration.
Apple had "evangelist" as a job title at least as early as 1984. I was there, and wondering WTF they did for a living other than spew marketing slang.
In 93 to 96 I worked for M$ and found the role was well established their as well, usually as an organ sewn to a Product Manager... like a colostomy bag. Or like Siamese twins... one starts a sentence and the other finishes it.
Oh come on... $150m was M$ picking up the tab on a friday night sports-bar binge. It had no impact on Apple, other than smoothing Steve's ruffled plumage after drunken scuffle Bill & Steve had in the parking lot when they went out for a smoke.
"Sorry about the misunderstanding bro'... I'll pick up the tab. We cool?"
maybe sports are a way to channel certain instincts without the massive damage of war
Mounting AA missile batteries over the proceedings kind of obviates a distinction. "A war by other means," does not parse true when primary means of making war are fielded along side the proxies.
Really wish the modern laptop could run from batteries longer. It's sad that a 30 year old PC is still competitive with regards to battery life.
In 1994 I stumbled across a model 100 that someone had thrown out. Apparently it had suffered a fresh water immersion at some point, and a few traces on the mobo were damaged. After looking it over a bit and seeing that the damage was really not all that bad. I green-wired the bad traces, replaced a few passives that looked larfy, and was rewarded with a fully functional "toy computer."
At first I was not terribly impressed with it. Slow. Not very rechargeable. (NiMH was still way to expensive to justify going that route) No sane backup system. No backlight. etc. I messed around with it a bit, scrounged up the manuals, and even found a memory mod for it. However it was a real good icebreaker in the coffee shops. Eventually, it ended up moth-balled in the closet.
In 1996 I took a break from the tech world and did a stint as a back-country ranger in Olympic National Park. Many of the duties that a ranger does involves writing small field reports. After a ten day stint in the back country, the reports were entered into a clunky DB maintained at HQ that had a dial-up interface. All the other rangers kept a logbook or even just a spiral notepad in a ziplock bag for this, but they get trashed, lost, rained on, mouse chewed, folded, spindled, mutilated.
At first I tried using a Powerbook 100 for this(my first laptop), but though it had decent battery life, I was really uncomfortable about having it damaged, or stolen. Then I remembered the Model 100....
It was perfect for this: light, rugged, solid-state, redundant memory backup, nearly full-sized keys, fits perfectly in a large zip-lock freezer bag, it can the same batteries as the park issued radio I carried(AA niCad), and it has a built in DBMS, and text editor. With a bit more work I wrote a program that would upload all my reports directly to HQ's database. Posting my tour reports took all of 10 minutes, and I didn't have to wait for the PC in the ranger station to get freed up to do it. I just dialed in directly to HQ's clunky mainframe from the bunk-house.
OTHO I think the ranger community wanted to see me burned at the stake for practicing sorcery. Something about my solution to the documentation requirements for the job deeply unnerved them. I was constantly getting grumbly jabs about being some slick, rich(?!) city kid who "doesn't get it."
Get your tin foil hat ready. What computer program are *we* running? Make the rich richer 2.0?
I'm thinking the USians are running Collapse of the Republic - Release 2 revision 3 build 118 (build 119 is due out in Nov, and may have a new Executive Module)
On a related note, someone at my local post office posted a rather clever graphic hack on the community bulletin board (in meatspace). The graphic depicts the sinking of the Titanic, nosing down into the ocean. The superstructure of the ship has been replaced by an image of the US Capitol building. In the foreground two longboats are depicted. One of them is from the painting. "Washington Crossing the Delaware" ~Metaforest
My family had the '77 edition of the WBE. We had update volumes until '82.
I used to go on excursions through it regularly, as a kid. Start with a subject that was in the moment and follow ref-links until my eyes crossed.
The few kids I knew and respected, as "scholars" when I was a kid also had encyclopedia sets in their homes. We were all computer literate long before it was fashionable, and also skilled in making any damned thing we could find parts to assemble.
How many 14 year old kids do you know who can reverse engineer a Pioneer LDV1000 to extract the laser, PSU, and the optical focusing system, to end up with a useful light-show at the end of it all?... I was one of those wonder-brats.
By the time I was in high school I had read just about every page in the WBE set. I think that such reading had a lot to do with my advanced abilities as a kid.
funneh... these elves you expand upon... I never see their posts(or this APK person you reference.) I see just your posts. I begin to question your sanity.
Stay out of it? Nah. You posted on a very public thread. How could you NOT expect comment?
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Lets just call it 'Method 538' and be done with it.
All cyphers fail against this method because the sender and/or recipient are known, or easily discoverable. Until we solve that problem it doesn't matter how good the cypher is.
Sorry to post a second reply.. but something just occurred to me. The section of the Congo that overlaps the Pan's range doesn't behave like a river so much as a big lake. I wonder if typical river behavior applies for that section of the Congo and relatedly, how long that section of the river as been swollen.
An additional question on that front would be what has the Pan's home range over the last 2 million years. Did they extend into ranges where the Congo is less of a barrier, and how long ago was that?
Such questions might relate to how much mixing has occurred, if any. The way things are at present social differences between the two make it highly unlikely that they could interbreed in the wild even though it is biologically possible, and has been recorded under artificial situations.
The Congo is clearly a somewhat porous barrier, for the reasons you have given. However, it appears to have been effective enough to isolate the Pans long enough to create the cultural and biological differences. Which was my point.
More interesting questions for me are:
a) Why did Chimps become aggressive, and Bonobos (relatively) docile.
b) Which social pattern did the Pans start with?
c) How long have their social patterns been divergent?
1.5 to 2 million years ago a big fucking river formed in their neighborhood. Pans do not swim well enough to cross that river. And they are not quite smart enough to make boats or bridges.
The isolation between them is most likely not perfect, on the time scale of 2My... but it appears to have been effective.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo
Some of the non-coding DNA is structural. Without it the strands would not fold correctly, and that would have dire consequences for transcription and protein assembly. To the degree that non-coding sequences function as desired, their exact sequence appears to be (mostly) irrelevant. The noise in those sequences makes perfect sense in that there is very little selection pressure for them to have an exact 'spelling.'
12000 years is not even close to long enough for speciation. In order for this to happen you would be looking at timelines on the order of millions of years.
At the very least you would be looking at minimums of many hundreds of thousands of years.
Homo Sapiens have not been around long enough.
Yes, Apple has a solution for you. It's about time you upgraded those aging parents for new shiney Apple iParents(TM)! Your children are likely due for a parent upgrade as well.
FTFY :P
I don't think Cialdini's example was addressing Velben Goods. Customers presented with the under priced goods seemed to be suspicious of their provenance.
The goods from the example were not of a type that would be considered 'bling', in the sense Velben refers to.
However, Velben goods are another good example of exemptions to general pricing rules.
In a nutshell, the lower the price of something the more demand there will be. It's not necessarily a linear graph (i.e. 10 people will pay $100 but 100 people will pay $10) and it varies depending on the product, what time of year it is, the market in general etc. but the principal is always the same.
Robert Cialdini gives an interesting counter example to the assumption inherent in price elasticity.
In his book, 'Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion' he presents an example, where through a communications error with a sales manager, a retail business owner increased the price of a product that had not been selling, causing it to sell out very quickly. The erroneous raising of the price increased the products perceived value.
Some qualifications: the product in question was high quality Native American silver and Turquoise jewelry that had been purchased from local artisans at a very low wholesale price. The resulting retail markup apparently did not raise the price enough to convince customers that the product was of high quality. The communication error with the retail manager apparently pushed the product price into a range where it was perceived as being a reasonable price for high quality products of this type.
I present this as an example of how the rules of price elasticity can be confounded by customer perception. I'm sure there are other examples where elasticity breaks down.
If we're down to the 'several thousand' of a particular injury per year then we're in the territory of injuries due to contact with spacecraft (ICD 10 code WX849OXA), initial turtle attacks (W5921XA) or repetitive turtle attacks (W5921XD) and other similarly major dangers to civilization.
Granted, this up-and-coming-viral-meme(tm) wrt ICD 10 codes is amusing. However, it shows a complete ignorance of how the codes are intended to be used.
Any fool can string together a stream of endless nonsense from this coding system because of its flexibility. Much the same can be said for natural languages too.
i.e.: Waffles, because ice cream has no bones.
Stop thinking of ICD 10 as a hash table and recognize that it is a domain specific language with associated (but simple) grammar rules.
You want to have fun? Try writing some poetry with it. /rant
R-Pi will run Android just fine...
And it generates goodwill when Google indirectly supports a FOSH/S project that is positively influencing STEM education.
TFS looks like a typical project posting on Guru,com.
I see stuff like this all the time... some asshat trying to trick a programer to work on their harebrained project to start the NeXT, BeOS, or some stupid shit -- for $100 bucks.
Or worse yet a poorly veiled attempt to employ someone to do something blatantly illegal/unethical -- for $100 bucks.
Or do their C++ homework for $50 bucks.
It did not work on the //e & later... but those machines had a VBLANK flag in $C0xx space. I'm surprised it did not work on the Apple II. The video multiplexer is nearly identical on the II and II+.
And one trick he missed that could have been done cheaply... if the video vertical sync pulse had been made available someplace in the I/O space as a bit you could test, then it would have been trivial to know when you were in the vertical blanking interval so that you could flip video buffers cleanly.
Actually there was a clean way to sync the video on the Apple II/II+. All you had to do is READ the $C0XX switch address. The read contained the most recent byte written to the video shift register due to a slight timing overlap between the 6502 read cycle and the video mux. This only appeared in the $C0XX space because the data lines were left undriven in that address space. (technically a read from any unused address block would work)
Thus all you needed to do is watch for a unique sequence stored at the right end of the last line of the video display buffer. An easy way to make this unnoticeable was to leave the last line 0x00 black, and write a handful 0x80 black bytes at the end of the line. This trick could also be used to generate mixed mode graphic displays, and some neat looking demo tricks.
Mod up.
When I lived in the city... or while traveling... the fundamental safety rule is display no wealth. Better yet, display poverty, especially when carrying a $2500 laptop and a $800 DSLR in your ratty-ass day pack while traveling someplace where such items would net a thief enough money to live on for half a year... such as (for example) central Russia.
Interestingly once the MPAA lost the argument over VCR enabled piracy they discovered a new business model. Video sales and rentals.
I think he should have said "...down with your wife!"
Michelle would have beat Barak bloody and castrated him, right there in full view of congress, with her nail file, if he'd said that.
[...]Myst did a lot to make the world see computers as the goto source of information and media[...]
Myst was a Mac product that was ported to Windows. Myst was designed and implemented on the concepts developed by Bill Atkinson derived from Hypercard. The demo versions of Myst were implemented in Hypercard.
Cinemania, Encarta, MS Wineguide, Office, Excel, Word, Paint etc were all implemented in a C++ framework that was designed (from the get go) to be PC/Mac compatible.
I know this because I worked for Apple and M$ during the transition-to-internet years as a senior test engineer working on these key projects.
WfW was years behind MacOS 6 and 7 for internet integration.
Apple had "evangelist" as a job title at least as early as 1984. I was there, and wondering WTF they did for a living other than spew marketing slang.
In 93 to 96 I worked for M$ and found the role was well established their as well, usually as an organ sewn to a Product Manager... like a colostomy bag. Or like Siamese twins... one starts a sentence and the other finishes it.
Apple?
Oh come on... $150m was M$ picking up the tab on a friday night sports-bar binge. It had no impact on Apple, other than smoothing Steve's ruffled plumage after drunken scuffle Bill & Steve had in the parking lot when they went out for a smoke.
"Sorry about the misunderstanding bro'... I'll pick up the tab. We cool?"
maybe sports are a way to channel certain instincts without the massive damage of war
Mounting AA missile batteries over the proceedings kind of obviates a distinction. "A war by other means," does not parse true when primary means of making war are fielded along side the proxies.
Really wish the modern laptop could run from batteries longer. It's sad that a 30 year old PC is still competitive with regards to battery life.
In 1994 I stumbled across a model 100 that someone had thrown out. Apparently it had suffered a fresh water immersion at some point, and a few traces on the mobo were damaged. After looking it over a bit and seeing that the damage was really not all that bad. I green-wired the bad traces, replaced a few passives that looked larfy, and was rewarded with a fully functional "toy computer."
At first I was not terribly impressed with it. Slow. Not very rechargeable. (NiMH was still way to expensive to justify going that route) No sane backup system. No backlight. etc. I messed around with it a bit, scrounged up the manuals, and even found a memory mod for it. However it was a real good icebreaker in the coffee shops. Eventually, it ended up moth-balled in the closet.
In 1996 I took a break from the tech world and did a stint as a back-country ranger in Olympic National Park.
Many of the duties that a ranger does involves writing small field reports. After a ten day stint in the back country, the reports were entered into a clunky DB maintained at HQ that had a dial-up interface. All the other rangers kept a logbook or even just a spiral notepad in a ziplock bag for this, but they get trashed, lost, rained on, mouse chewed, folded, spindled, mutilated.
At first I tried using a Powerbook 100 for this(my first laptop), but though it had decent battery life, I was really uncomfortable about having it damaged, or stolen. Then I remembered the Model 100....
It was perfect for this: light, rugged, solid-state, redundant memory backup, nearly full-sized keys, fits perfectly in a large zip-lock freezer bag, it can the same batteries as the park issued radio I carried(AA niCad), and it has a built in DBMS, and text editor. With a bit more work I wrote a program that would upload all my reports directly to HQ's database. Posting my tour reports took all of 10 minutes, and I didn't have to wait for the PC in the ranger station to get freed up to do it. I just dialed in directly to HQ's clunky mainframe from the bunk-house.
OTHO I think the ranger community wanted to see me burned at the stake for practicing sorcery. Something about my solution to the documentation requirements for the job deeply unnerved them. I was constantly getting grumbly jabs about being some slick, rich(?!) city kid who "doesn't get it."
Get your tin foil hat ready. What computer program are *we* running? Make the rich richer 2.0?
I'm thinking the USians are running Collapse of the Republic - Release 2 revision 3 build 118
(build 119 is due out in Nov, and may have a new Executive Module)
On a related note, someone at my local post office posted a rather clever graphic hack on the community bulletin board (in meatspace). The graphic depicts the sinking of the Titanic, nosing down into the ocean. The superstructure of the ship has been replaced by an image of the US Capitol building. In the foreground two longboats are depicted. One of them is from the painting. "Washington Crossing the Delaware"
~Metaforest
My family had the '77 edition of the WBE. We had update volumes until '82.
I used to go on excursions through it regularly, as a kid. Start with a subject that was in the moment and follow ref-links until my eyes crossed.
The few kids I knew and respected, as "scholars" when I was a kid also had encyclopedia sets in their homes. We were all computer literate long before it was fashionable, and also skilled in making any damned thing we could find parts to assemble.
How many 14 year old kids do you know who can reverse engineer a Pioneer LDV1000 to extract the laser, PSU, and the optical focusing system, to end up with a useful light-show at the end of it all?... I was one of those wonder-brats.
By the time I was in high school I had read just about every page in the WBE set. I think that such reading had a lot to do with my advanced abilities as a kid.
funneh... these elves you expand upon... I never see their posts(or this APK person you reference.) I see just your posts. I begin to question your sanity.
Stay out of it? Nah. You posted on a very public thread. How could you NOT expect comment?
Seems like you need to unplug for a bit, buddy.