Because, if you assume that they continue to make 3B/year in profit, the time value of that annuity is over 70 Billion (assuming a discount rate of 4%).
If you see even moderate growth, imagining that annuity having a net present value of a 120 billion isn't unreasonable.
Re:Choises are always good....
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Ubuntu Eee Goes Gold
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· Score: 4, Informative
I'll bet dollars to dimes you do have a rogue DHCP server up somewhere.
You should have a second machine sniff packets in promiscuous mode while your EEE attaches to the network to figure out what is going on.
There does seem to be a link between viewing child porn and abusing children. At best, there may be a correlation there, and even that I'm not sure about.
There have been many studies that show that all pron can have a very bad effect.
Now you're just lying. I challenge you to find one serious study that shows anything of the sort.
I've been meaning to clean it up and release the source (maybe a screencast intro to Lisp?) for a while now.
The main problem with mine is that the DB server and Web server are far apart, so it takes forever to get any data
in terms of planck mass. The planck constants are (to the best of our current knowledge) invariant since they are all based off universal constants (like the speed of light or the gravitational constant).
The planck mass is defined as the mass for which the Schwarzschild radius is equal to the Compton wavelength over Pi.
The Schwarzchild radius is 2Gm/c^2, while the Compton wavelength = h/mc = 2*pi * dirac's constant/(mc). (I'll refer to dirac's constant as d, since I don't know how to type the proper character).
Setting the two equal yields 2Gm/c^2 = 2d/mc => m= sqrt(dc/G). Then, we could define 1 kg as 45940892.447777 planck masses. The only thing's we're assuming as constant are the speed of light, the universal gravitational constant, and planck's constant.
The DA refused to prosecute, and I talked to a few lawyers, but none would take the case on a contingency (and said it would be 10K-20K).
I had called a cop, who also asked me for my DL. I complied (I think I'm still a little brainwashed into doing whatever an officer asks, just because they can make your life miserable at their discretion). She ordered the store to let me go, but refused to arrest.
According to the actual article it says 8-9 other people claim to have voted for Wooten (the canidate who had 0 votes registered. Out of a town w/ a population of 80 (and with less than 50 people actually voting) that's over 20% error. Completely unacceptable
The 'open letter' is just from a bitter failure ..
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Friendster's Rise and Fall
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Specifically, it says:
Remember that web site you signed up for at Harvard two days before we met in January 2004, called houseSYSTEM - the one I made with the Universal Face Book that pre-dated your site by four months? (You left it out of your speech at Stanford, which is why I ask.) Well, I've re-launched it as CommonRoom (http://www.commonroom.com), and just like its predecessor, it has all sorts of features that might seem familiar: birthday reminders, an event calendar, RSVPs...After all, when you saw all of those features in houseSYSTEM three years ago, you called them "too useful," but I stood by them as valuable.
The open letter isn't advice, it's taking cheap shots because he's pissed off facebook succeeded while his social networking sites all failed.
The basic gist is that their are far more possible pairs than we'd intuitively imagine. For example, with 20 albums of 20 songs each, the chance of two songs in a row being from the same album is actually:
400/400 * 20/400 = 1/20
Which makes a lot of sense once you sit down and think about it, but is a lot higher than an uneducated guess.
This is the same reason that collision/timing attacks are feasible.
"One computer may be better than a hundred ordinary men but one extraordinary man is better than a million computers"
And we're no where near strong A.I. No one is seriously pursuing it anywhere cause it's impossible for a variety of reasons (the most obvious being it only works if consciousness is purely deterministic, which means humans have no free will). Instead, we now research more managable 'ai' problems like smart regression analysis (i.e. neural nets), artificial vision, expert systems, genetic algorithms, etc.
It says so right here:
"Plans call for the missing children's center to collect known child-porn images and create a unique mathematical signature for each one based on a common formula. Each participating company would scan its users' images for matches."
just far too hard for anyone with a two year degree (and for most people with bachelors degrees)
At the bare minimum, to be able design even a relatively simple chip you need the following classes:
1.5 years physics (mechanics, em/wave, and quantum)
3 years math (calc 1, calc 2, multivariable calc, diff eq, linear algebra, stats)
3 years electronics (intro to electronics, digital logic, basic design i.e. intro to hdl, analog signal processing, solid state devices, advanced design)
1 year CS (CSI/II)
Anyone capable of covering that much material, in addition to general school requirements, in two years destroyed their college admission exams and already has a good scholarship to a 4 year school (where they can get the degree in 2 years if they really want).
but as a private entity, they can (morally, maybe not legally) discriminate for any reason that they want.
A simple litmus test to see if an action is *ist is to imagine the response if an arbitrary decision was reveresed. Would people be mad if Gnome was hiring only men for a position?
is available here:
http://code.google.com/soc/
And I'm happy to note that my proposal (A Lisp Proof Checker) was accepted by PlanetMath!
Overall, Google Spent about $3,000,000 funding over 600 Open Source projects!
Thanks Google!!!
Relatively few people have heard of them, but it is by far the best antivirus software I've ever used (and most reviews agree).
Uses even fewer resources than AVG (they claim to work with Pentium Is, but I've never used with anything lower than a 500 MHz P3), and far better at actually stopping viruses.
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Because, if you assume that they continue to make 3B/year in profit, the time value of that annuity is over 70 Billion (assuming a discount rate of 4%). If you see even moderate growth, imagining that annuity having a net present value of a 120 billion isn't unreasonable.
I'll bet dollars to dimes you do have a rogue DHCP server up somewhere.
You should have a second machine sniff packets in promiscuous mode while your EEE attaches to the network to figure out what is going on.
There does seem to be a link between viewing child porn and abusing children.
At best, there may be a correlation there, and even that I'm not sure about.
There have been many studies that show that all pron can have a very bad effect.
Now you're just lying. I challenge you to find one serious study that shows anything of the sort.
Do you have any evidence to suggest that viewing child porn (or, more specifically, cg child porn) increases crimes against children?
That reminds me of Ken Thompson's argument that video game violence increases real-world violence.
I thought the purpose of child-porn laws were to ensure that no children were hurt (a fairly noble goal).
As long as no children are hurt in the production of these images, why does it matter how real they look?
I wrote something kind of similar as a proof of concept (in common lisp) a little while back: http://icarus.maneks.net:4242/
There's a few technical details at http://icarus.maneks.net:4242/static/readme.txt
I've been meaning to clean it up and release the source (maybe a screencast intro to Lisp?) for a while now. The main problem with mine is that the DB server and Web server are far apart, so it takes forever to get any data
in terms of planck mass. The planck constants are (to the best of our current knowledge) invariant since they are all based off universal constants (like the speed of light or the gravitational constant).
The planck mass is defined as the mass for which the Schwarzschild radius is equal to the Compton wavelength over Pi.
The Schwarzchild radius is 2Gm/c^2, while the Compton wavelength = h/mc = 2*pi * dirac's constant/(mc). (I'll refer to dirac's constant as d, since I don't know how to type the proper character).
Setting the two equal yields 2Gm/c^2 = 2d/mc => m= sqrt(dc/G). Then, we could define 1 kg as 45940892.447777 planck masses. The only thing's we're assuming as constant are the speed of light, the universal gravitational constant, and planck's constant.
I posted the story up here:r direct-unlawfully-restrains-and-verbally-abuses-cu stomer-for-not-submitting-to-receipt+showing-deman ds-292688.php
http://consumerist.com/consumer/civil-rights/tige
The DA refused to prosecute, and I talked to a few lawyers, but none would take the case on a contingency (and said it would be 10K-20K).
I had called a cop, who also asked me for my DL. I complied (I think I'm still a little brainwashed into doing whatever an officer asks, just because they can make your life miserable at their discretion). She ordered the store to let me go, but refused to arrest.
According to the actual article it says 8-9 other people claim to have voted for Wooten (the canidate who had 0 votes registered. Out of a town w/ a population of 80 (and with less than 50 people actually voting) that's over 20% error. Completely unacceptable
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2646802&CMP
I was curious, so i figure some of you will probably be too.
e n.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPA_personality_theory+NPA+pe rsonality+theory&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&lr=lang_ en&client=firefox-a
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:UZxn8h7HkXcJ:
Specifically, it says:
Remember that web site you signed up for at Harvard two days before we met in January 2004, called houseSYSTEM - the one I made with the Universal Face Book that pre-dated your site by four months? (You left it out of your speech at Stanford, which is why I ask.) Well, I've re-launched it as CommonRoom (http://www.commonroom.com), and just like its predecessor, it has all sorts of features that might seem familiar: birthday reminders, an event calendar, RSVPs...After all, when you saw all of those features in houseSYSTEM three years ago, you called them "too useful," but I stood by them as valuable.
The open letter isn't advice, it's taking cheap shots because he's pissed off facebook succeeded while his social networking sites all failed.
You can get the technical details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox/
The basic gist is that their are far more possible pairs than we'd intuitively imagine. For example, with 20 albums of 20 songs each, the chance of two songs in a row being from the same album is actually:
400/400 * 20/400 = 1/20
Which makes a lot of sense once you sit down and think about it, but is a lot higher than an uneducated guess.
This is the same reason that collision/timing attacks are feasible.
http://www.gizmag.com/linktous/6247/
Good timing on the article, btw. i'm looking into getting a new wallet now since my current leather one is starting to get torn up pretty badly.
"One computer may be better than a hundred ordinary men but one extraordinary man is better than a million computers"
And we're no where near strong A.I. No one is seriously pursuing it anywhere cause it's impossible for a variety of reasons (the most obvious being it only works if consciousness is purely deterministic, which means humans have no free will). Instead, we now research more managable 'ai' problems like smart regression analysis (i.e. neural nets), artificial vision, expert systems, genetic algorithms, etc.
It really shows how far you can go in life on pure unmitigated genius ;-)
Also, turing, babbage, ada lovelace, and aristotle are some interesting ones that you might not already have.
please. 3,000,000?
We'd be lucky for 3 slashdotters to rtfa on any given topic
It says so right here: "Plans call for the missing children's center to collect known child-porn images and create a unique mathematical signature for each one based on a common formula. Each participating company would scan its users' images for matches."
Fine, they won't keep the actual images in their databases, but instead keep a hash/signature of images.
/ MilaneseCherbuliezPun_icapr98.pdf
or even more flexible (kind of like a visual version of musicbrainz) so the signature would be invariant to minor changes in the image. Not really my field, but it seems relatively trivial.
Use a signature generation method like http://vision.unige.ch/publications/postscript/98
Facebook says I have over 300 friends!
just far too hard for anyone with a two year degree (and for most people with bachelors degrees)
At the bare minimum, to be able design even a relatively simple chip you need the following classes:
1.5 years physics (mechanics, em/wave, and quantum)
3 years math (calc 1, calc 2, multivariable calc, diff eq, linear algebra, stats)
3 years electronics (intro to electronics, digital logic, basic design i.e. intro to hdl, analog signal processing, solid state devices, advanced design) 1 year CS (CSI/II)
Anyone capable of covering that much material, in addition to general school requirements, in two years destroyed their college admission exams and already has a good scholarship to a 4 year school (where they can get the degree in 2 years if they really want).
but as a private entity, they can (morally, maybe not legally) discriminate for any reason that they want.
A simple litmus test to see if an action is *ist is to imagine the response if an arbitrary decision was reveresed. Would people be mad if Gnome was hiring only men for a position?
is available here: http://code.google.com/soc/ And I'm happy to note that my proposal (A Lisp Proof Checker) was accepted by PlanetMath! Overall, Google Spent about $3,000,000 funding over 600 Open Source projects! Thanks Google!!!
Relatively few people have heard of them, but it is by far the best antivirus software I've ever used (and most reviews agree).
Uses even fewer resources than AVG (they claim to work with Pentium Is, but I've never used with anything lower than a 500 MHz P3), and far better at actually stopping viruses.
Their info can be found here: http://www.kaspersky.com/kav6
human name in the bible? I mean from what I understand, Eve was made out of his rib ...
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