The notion of businesses too big to fail probably applies players like Akamai, Google, Amazon, et. al. Pull the big plug on them and you'll have angry billionaires in addition to hundreds of millions of people unhappy with you. As long as the shutdown is localized, these companies will be able to shrug off the disruption and so will their customers.
Well, if you're using one of the big providers like Amazon, who have multiple datacenters, you just start new server instances and carry on. I don't think the FBI is going to shut down Amazon.
There couldn't be a better advertisement for dispersed compute and storage services like Amazon's S3 and EC2, which presumably are too large for the FBI to sit on in this fashion. Unless you're the droids they're looking for, you just launch new instances for your services and keep running.
The guy who starts with a hog and a big knife and ends up with sausage, him I'll grant artistic integrity. A floor manager at Gwaltney? Not so much. And don't get me wrong--- I like sausage.
I also hold the very unpopular viewpoint that it's basically a slap in the face to an artist to view their work before they're done with it.
I would agree with you about most artistic endeavors but not about the sausageworks that is big studio moviemaking. Artistic integrity left that building long ago. I wouldn't be surprised if this were an intentional leak, done to generate more interest in the movie. I didn't even know there was a Wolverine movie being made, but I do now. News = free publicity. And there's no downside. Nobody who wants to see the real movie is going to be satisfied by a work print with missing effects, sound editing and God knows what else.
No joke. I think most people when faced with a lumbar puncture would choose to not to know, or to just start taking Aricept blind. A needle in the arm or the ass is bad enough, a needle in the spine is a whole other level of terror.
Now you boot back up.. you're ext3, so you only journal metadata, so that's the only thing you can revert, unfortunately, there's really nothing to rollback, since you haven't written any metadata yet.
Instead of having a 0 byte file, you have a file that appears to be the size it was before you truncated it, but the contents are silently corrupt, and contain other-program-B's data
If this can happen, then a big data security hole (privacy) has been introduced into the system.
The people walking down the street talking via bluetooth seem odd to you because they prefer the conversation with a distant person to dealing with you. If your need for attention weren't so acute this wouldn't bother you at all.
No, they look odd because they look like they are talking to themselves or an invisible friend. This "poke your tongue out" iPod interface would be even worse. Ever seen tardive dyskinesia? That's what people are going to look like trying to select the right playlist on their iPods.
I've always wondered why the movie studios care about catching these people. These bootlegs are the worst quality you can find and anyone who would knowingly buy them would never be a customer anyway.
In all fairness, I have to wonder why anyone would be using a 17" notebook on a transoceanic flight. As far as I remember, the 13" and 15" models do have easily swappable batteries, and those things are a lot more conducive to travel than the 17" model.
The usability trade-off equation is different when you're legally blind.
I'm not sure the "solve CAPTCHAs for free porn" idea would really work. There's so much free porn on the net already (available as gateway drugs for pay services) why would anyone jump through mental hoops for it?
It is a much better book if you skip the Achilles, Tortoise, etc. stories. Read them only if you can't understand the math without the analogies the stories provide. GEB was a huge help in understanding what Godel was talking about for me.
What I was left wondering after finishing the book is whether there are any interesting truths that lie outside those provable by Peano arithmetic about Peano arithmetic.
Look, I don't claim to understand nuclear physics but when I read that a) we don't really understand what caused the Big Bang, and b) we're trying to recreate conditions that existed shortly after the Big Bang, I get nervous. It doesn't seem like you have to be all that wrong about your assumptions to make a really big mess of things. This combined with my lack of interest whether this Higgs boson exists or not makes me wonder why we need to screw around with this. I don't think I'm alone in this line of reasoning.
Diffidently I point out that while Cassandra was not believed, she was correct in her doom filled predictions.
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I don't understand the whole "miniature black hole" thing. I think the naysayers have just been reading too much sci-fi. Microscopic black holes would evaporate in a very small amount of time due to Hawking radiation.
Yes, if Hawking is right about the radiation. But suppose he's wrong? Or worse, suppose in our attempt to recreate conditions similar to those around the time of the Big Bang, we actually recreate the Big Bang? That's one answer to the Fermi Paradox.
So trying to fix CO2 through global methods is a wasted effort to begin with. The best that mankind can do is reduce CO2.
A chaotic system can't be completely controlled forever, but parts of it can be controlled for a while. Nonlinear dynamic systems are everywhere. Controlling small aspects of these systems is the essence of technologically driven change. We'll get a new problem after the ships are deployed, but unintended consequences have been occurring all along with every change we make. Our descendants will do what every generation has done before them, take the planet as they receive it and carve out the best life they can for themselves. It's not up to us to solve their problems for them, but rather to give them good tools and knowledge to fight for themselves.
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The notion of businesses too big to fail probably applies players like Akamai, Google, Amazon, et. al. Pull the big plug on them and you'll have angry billionaires in addition to hundreds of millions of people unhappy with you. As long as the shutdown is localized, these companies will be able to shrug off the disruption and so will their customers.
Well, if you're using one of the big providers like Amazon, who have multiple datacenters, you just start new server instances and carry on. I don't think the FBI is going to shut down Amazon.
There couldn't be a better advertisement for dispersed compute and storage services like Amazon's S3 and EC2, which presumably are too large for the FBI to sit on in this fashion. Unless you're the droids they're looking for, you just launch new instances for your services and keep running.
The guy who starts with a hog and a big knife and ends up with sausage, him I'll grant artistic integrity. A floor manager at Gwaltney? Not so much. And don't get me wrong--- I like sausage.
I also hold the very unpopular viewpoint that it's basically a slap in the face to an artist to view their work before they're done with it.
I would agree with you about most artistic endeavors but not about the sausageworks that is big studio moviemaking. Artistic integrity left that building long ago. I wouldn't be surprised if this were an intentional leak, done to generate more interest in the movie. I didn't even know there was a Wolverine movie being made, but I do now. News = free publicity. And there's no downside. Nobody who wants to see the real movie is going to be satisfied by a work print with missing effects, sound editing and God knows what else.
No joke. I think most people when faced with a lumbar puncture would choose to not to know, or to just start taking Aricept blind. A needle in the arm or the ass is bad enough, a needle in the spine is a whole other level of terror.
Are there any programming languages that have non-English reserved words?
Now you boot back up.. you're ext3, so you only journal metadata, so that's the only thing you can revert, unfortunately, there's really nothing to rollback, since you haven't written any metadata yet. Instead of having a 0 byte file, you have a file that appears to be the size it was before you truncated it, but the contents are silently corrupt, and contain other-program-B's data
If this can happen, then a big data security hole (privacy) has been introduced into the system.
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The fact that chimpanzees are so close to us is a strong argument for us to defend them.
It's also a strong argument to destroy them utterly as prophylaxis to prevent other HIV-like disease crossovers into our population.
The people walking down the street talking via bluetooth seem odd to you because they prefer the conversation with a distant person to dealing with you. If your need for attention weren't so acute this wouldn't bother you at all.
No, they look odd because they look like they are talking to themselves or an invisible friend. This "poke your tongue out" iPod interface would be even worse. Ever seen tardive dyskinesia? That's what people are going to look like trying to select the right playlist on their iPods.
I've always wondered why the movie studios care about catching these people. These bootlegs are the worst quality you can find and anyone who would knowingly buy them would never be a customer anyway.
In all fairness, I have to wonder why anyone would be using a 17" notebook on a transoceanic flight. As far as I remember, the 13" and 15" models do have easily swappable batteries, and those things are a lot more conducive to travel than the 17" model.
The usability trade-off equation is different when you're legally blind.
How about we call it "timesharing". There are a bunch of servers running your jobs instead of big iron, but the concept is the same.
But... what happens if you refuse to put the water in after the page renders?
The category 3 hurricane that was already headed your way turns into a category 5 storm, brushes you aside and adds the water for you.
... they paid two hundred and fifty million dollars?!
Revised Code of Washington 46.61.630 is one example.
With, lo, 1 minute to impact it occurs to me to wonder how they are so sure of the size of this rock.
Basically, I'm wondering if it's possible that a pea-sized meteorite could go flying through my head like a bullet.
Only if you try to change the past.
I'm not sure the "solve CAPTCHAs for free porn" idea would really work. There's so much free porn on the net already (available as gateway drugs for pay services) why would anyone jump through mental hoops for it?
It is a much better book if you skip the Achilles, Tortoise, etc. stories. Read them only if you can't understand the math without the analogies the stories provide. GEB was a huge help in understanding what Godel was talking about for me.
What I was left wondering after finishing the book is whether there are any interesting truths that lie outside those provable by Peano arithmetic about Peano arithmetic.
Look, I don't claim to understand nuclear physics but when I read that a) we don't really understand what caused the Big Bang, and b) we're trying to recreate conditions that existed shortly after the Big Bang, I get nervous. It doesn't seem like you have to be all that wrong about your assumptions to make a really big mess of things. This combined with my lack of interest whether this Higgs boson exists or not makes me wonder why we need to screw around with this. I don't think I'm alone in this line of reasoning.
Diffidently I point out that while Cassandra was not believed, she was correct in her doom filled predictions.
Yes, if Hawking is right about the radiation. But suppose he's wrong? Or worse, suppose in our attempt to recreate conditions similar to those around the time of the Big Bang, we actually recreate the Big Bang? That's one answer to the Fermi Paradox.
A chaotic system can't be completely controlled forever, but parts of it can be controlled for a while. Nonlinear dynamic systems are everywhere. Controlling small aspects of these systems is the essence of technologically driven change. We'll get a new problem after the ships are deployed, but unintended consequences have been occurring all along with every change we make. Our descendants will do what every generation has done before them, take the planet as they receive it and carve out the best life they can for themselves. It's not up to us to solve their problems for them, but rather to give them good tools and knowledge to fight for themselves.