After all, it's not like the pictures somehow snuck onto the interwebs without the users knowledge, the photographs actively put them there. Beyond that, I really don't care if someone knows my name, and where I was standing when I took a picture.
Say I was taking pictures of last summer's police beating of a protester. I'd want to post the pictures immediately, not waiting until I get home and have a chance to remove the metadata, but at the same time, I'd want to post them anonymously until I'm sure I won't be subject to retaliation.
(And yes, the police did attempt to retaliate against the people who posted video of the incident.)
And there are no prequels, and there is no way to ever make any. Any possible existence of Star Wars prequels have been curiously eliminated in the space time continuum.
I've heard that George Lucas made some big-budget fanfiction, though. Any idea how that turned out?
So I did better than random.org. Anecdote, data, etc, etc. My sequence: 514321345112365412356125124545312635142354611236656416235412 My die rolls: 134616625343623215212135142224622164432515642111622264345232 Random.org: 165433336162363432153514436154465154564615544632166142512651
I ran your results through the Kendall-Smith tests for randomness. You pass the frequency test (you've got an adequate distribution of each digit), but fail the series test (you don't have anywhere near enough pairs) and the gap test (you've got too many short gaps between "1"s, and not enough long gaps). There's not enough data to run more sophisticated tests, but I expect you'd fail most of those, too (I expect you'll pass the planes test. That one's really only a gotcha for algorithmic generation.)
At least part of today's 10% unemployment rate stems from the fact that we use machines to do what people used to do. Imagine how many of us will be unemployed when we don't need any human beings who can think. How will you earn a living then?
The world has seen at least two major shifts in employment. The first was mechanized agriculture: over the course of a few decades, the portion of the population involved in farming dropped from 95% to 1%. The second is mechanized industry: the portion of the population working in mines and factories has dropped from around 80% to well under 50%, and is still declining. I don't know how we'll handle the next major shift, but the last two haven't been disasters.
It is really easy to make fun of translate.google.com based on how it translates Chinese to English...
A better example would be say Dutch.
Dutch and English are strongly related and almost mutually intelligible. You can generate a 99% understandable translation simply by substituting one word for another. That's why people use languages such as Japanese, Chinese, or Korean for demonstrating the problem with machine translation: since the languages are about as different from English as you can get, it will highlight weaknesses in the system.
Naturally, they're banned in the US, because they're atomic.
The keyfobs are banned in the US because they're considered "novelties". Tritium-powered safety equipment (eg. exit signs) and tools (eg. gunsights) are legal.
If you already have an expensive condition, the concept of insurance no longer applies to you. It is no longer possible to pool your risk. At that point, you are looking for a SUBSIDY.
Let's say I get in an auto accident requiring a quarter-million dollars of treatment. Let's say further that I don't have insurance. What I'm looking for is a LOAN secured against my expected future earnings, but no bank in the world offers that. That's where insurance should come in: I get the treatment I need, and the insurance company spreads the risk that I'll die before repaying the "loan" among all the people they cover.
I wonder if you could iterate through all possible files/paths inside My Documents and brute-force a listing.
It's possible but not practical. A decade ago I did this as part of a proof-of-concept virus; iterating through all possible 8.3 filenames would have taken just under a century.
Microsoft wont just agree to support ARM as is. It will have conditions attached to it. It won't be something so explicit as a requirement to stop supporting the other systems. It will be more insidious.
I don't think you realize how big ARM is. Hint: they're bigger than Intel -- almost every embedded CPU out there is an ARM design. For every x86-compatible CPU shipped, hundreds of ARM CPUs are. They've got a sufficiently large install base that if anything, they will be the ones dictating terms to Microsoft.
How do we juggle around the House of Reps if we don't have the consitutionally required head count correct?
From the Fourteenth Amendment:
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.
Note that that's the count of residents, not the count of citizens. Removing a question about citizenship from the census will reduce the amount of data collected, but it won't change how seats in the House of Representatives are allocated. The Constitution originally specified that a slave only counts as three-fifths of a person for allocating representatives, but again it didn't distinguish between citizens and non-citizens:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
Most people who speed will go the socially-acceptable 4mph over the speed limit, while almost everyone considers going 60mph in a 25mph zone to be dangerous and unacceptable. The problem right now is that driving while talking is socially considered the equivalent of going 4mph over, rather than the equivalent of going 35 over.
1. It will kill the car, not merely create a carefully programmed disabling like the Onstar system. Most likely this leads to a car crash and quite likely require complete replacement of all electronics.
Have you ever driven a car where the engine failed at speed? I have -- all that happens is the steering goes stiff and the car starts to slow down. You've got plenty of time to make your way out of the traffic lanes.
Forget social engineering: I could get 75% of the password by entering the building and grabbing the Post-It notes from under everyone's keyboard. Requiring passwords to change monthly doesn't increase security, it just encourages people to write their passwords down.
Exactly. I got a good laugh out of that claimed 122 hours of runtime. Not with the screen showing anything it won't. Yes OLED has some important advantages over LCD but not that great. Unless it is going to have a huge ass battery pack sticking out current battery tech won't light up the screen for a hundred hours. Can't avoid the reality that emitting light consumes power. Of course there are ways to cheat the spec. Only light a small percentage of the pixels at less than full brightness and you might get that battery life but that is basically a rigged demo.
It's an ebook reader. If the default color scheme is grey text on black (think pre-Windows monitor), then yes, only a small percentage of the pixels will be lit at less than full brightness. Since that's the normal operating mode of the screen, I wouldn't call it a "rigged demo".
Disease did most of the work you attribute to men.
Disease weakened them. Men destroyed them.
Second to that was the total devastation of their main game, the North American buffalo, which the new immigrants hunted (for fun, not food) to near extinction.
Read up on the Buffalo Wars sometime. As part of the effort to move the Plains Indians on to reservations, the US Army organized extermination hunts of buffalo.
How many civilizations can you count that have been destroyed by another for their food supplies?
Right off the top of my head? Egypt (repeatedly) and most of the Mesopotamian civilizations have been conquered for their food. The areas now known as Poland and the Ukraine have also been popular, and there's evidence that the fall of Rome was caused by Germanic tribes looking for food. In the Americas, most of the native civilizations were destroyed to gain either farmland or ranchland -- the Great Plains tribes in particular were pushed out (and the buffalo that fed them were exterminated) to gain room for cattle to feed the cities of the East Coast.
Ships carrying grain from newly-conquered provinces aren't as glamorous as ones carrying gold, so historians don't write about them as often, but the grain fleets outnumbered the treasure fleets by several orders of magnitude.
i've been hit by a car before because even though my bike had lights and I was wearing reflective clothing, the driver was only looking for the large twin headlights of a car.
To be fair, bicycle lights are hard to see even if you're expecting them. My daily commute is on a route that's also frequently used by bicyclists, and I've only ever seen two who I'd describe as "adequately visible". One of them was wearing a construction worker's reflective vest (bright yellow, with a huge reflective area), and the other had put a motorcycle's headlight and tail-light on his bike. Normal bicycle headlights are at best only marginally more visible than simple retroreflectors, and white clothing is only visible in comparison to dark clothing.
To fire it from a cannon the G force is going to be astronomically high.
5000 G. That's about the equivalent of dropping something out a third-story window onto a concrete surface. Your laptop won't survive it, but bulk supplies (food, water, oxygen) will. Properly-designed equipment will as well: when your laptop hits the ground, it's not the computer chips themselves that break, but the joints -- electronic fuses in artillery shells don't have any trouble. You could even put entire satellites into orbit this way. The packaging and testing you mention is a result of the high cost of launching things right now: to keep the total weight down, the average satellite is very fragile. Build one with volume being the limiting factor rather than weight, and you'll get a much more durable object.
Given the opportunity, I'd make everyone ignore a half dozen warnings.
Fixed that for you. Warning overload is one of the biggest problems facing computer security today. Since so many of the warnings the average user is bombarded with are meaningless, the genuine threats get lost in the noise and are ignored.
I have nystagmus, which means that my eyes constantly wiggle though I perceive an unmoving image. I bet that an onscreen pointer calculated by my gaze vector would be in constant motion and therefore unusable or at least very difficult for me.
Everybody's eyes wiggle. Yours just wiggle more than most. It's why nobody who's done serious research on the subject expects eye tracking to replace the mouse.
You can avoid any whirr by tuning the speeds of the scanning mirrors. Make the vertical-scan mirror a ten-sided mirror, and you can spin it at 6 Hz for a 60Hz refresh rate, too low-pitched to hear. Make the horizontal-scan mirror two-sided, and you'll be spinning it faster than 20KHz (the actual speed depends on the refresh rate and resolutions, but it'll always be too high-pitched to hear).
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"dd if=/dev/dvd of=/mydvd.iso conv=noerror" and wait a day. Bad-sector copy protection doesn't make a DVD uncopyable, it just makes it slower.
Say I was taking pictures of last summer's police beating of a protester. I'd want to post the pictures immediately, not waiting until I get home and have a chance to remove the metadata, but at the same time, I'd want to post them anonymously until I'm sure I won't be subject to retaliation.
(And yes, the police did attempt to retaliate against the people who posted video of the incident.)
I've heard that George Lucas made some big-budget fanfiction, though. Any idea how that turned out?
I ran your results through the Kendall-Smith tests for randomness. You pass the frequency test (you've got an adequate distribution of each digit), but fail the series test (you don't have anywhere near enough pairs) and the gap test (you've got too many short gaps between "1"s, and not enough long gaps). There's not enough data to run more sophisticated tests, but I expect you'd fail most of those, too (I expect you'll pass the planes test. That one's really only a gotcha for algorithmic generation.)
The world has seen at least two major shifts in employment. The first was mechanized agriculture: over the course of a few decades, the portion of the population involved in farming dropped from 95% to 1%. The second is mechanized industry: the portion of the population working in mines and factories has dropped from around 80% to well under 50%, and is still declining. I don't know how we'll handle the next major shift, but the last two haven't been disasters.
Dutch and English are strongly related and almost mutually intelligible. You can generate a 99% understandable translation simply by substituting one word for another. That's why people use languages such as Japanese, Chinese, or Korean for demonstrating the problem with machine translation: since the languages are about as different from English as you can get, it will highlight weaknesses in the system.
The keyfobs are banned in the US because they're considered "novelties". Tritium-powered safety equipment (eg. exit signs) and tools (eg. gunsights) are legal.
Let's say I get in an auto accident requiring a quarter-million dollars of treatment. Let's say further that I don't have insurance. What I'm looking for is a LOAN secured against my expected future earnings, but no bank in the world offers that. That's where insurance should come in: I get the treatment I need, and the insurance company spreads the risk that I'll die before repaying the "loan" among all the people they cover.
It's possible but not practical. A decade ago I did this as part of a proof-of-concept virus; iterating through all possible 8.3 filenames would have taken just under a century.
I don't think you realize how big ARM is. Hint: they're bigger than Intel -- almost every embedded CPU out there is an ARM design. For every x86-compatible CPU shipped, hundreds of ARM CPUs are. They've got a sufficiently large install base that if anything, they will be the ones dictating terms to Microsoft.
From the Fourteenth Amendment:
Note that that's the count of residents, not the count of citizens. Removing a question about citizenship from the census will reduce the amount of data collected, but it won't change how seats in the House of Representatives are allocated. The Constitution originally specified that a slave only counts as three-fifths of a person for allocating representatives, but again it didn't distinguish between citizens and non-citizens:
Most people who speed will go the socially-acceptable 4mph over the speed limit, while almost everyone considers going 60mph in a 25mph zone to be dangerous and unacceptable. The problem right now is that driving while talking is socially considered the equivalent of going 4mph over, rather than the equivalent of going 35 over.
Have you ever driven a car where the engine failed at speed? I have -- all that happens is the steering goes stiff and the car starts to slow down. You've got plenty of time to make your way out of the traffic lanes.
Forget social engineering: I could get 75% of the password by entering the building and grabbing the Post-It notes from under everyone's keyboard. Requiring passwords to change monthly doesn't increase security, it just encourages people to write their passwords down.
That's impossible. A password's strength is related to its Kolmogorov complexity, and Kolmogorov complexity is incomputable.
On Linux, you simply read the HTTP_PROXY environment variable. There's not even a special API needed to access it.
It's an ebook reader. If the default color scheme is grey text on black (think pre-Windows monitor), then yes, only a small percentage of the pixels will be lit at less than full brightness. Since that's the normal operating mode of the screen, I wouldn't call it a "rigged demo".
Disease weakened them. Men destroyed them.
Read up on the Buffalo Wars sometime. As part of the effort to move the Plains Indians on to reservations, the US Army organized extermination hunts of buffalo.
Right off the top of my head? Egypt (repeatedly) and most of the Mesopotamian civilizations have been conquered for their food. The areas now known as Poland and the Ukraine have also been popular, and there's evidence that the fall of Rome was caused by Germanic tribes looking for food. In the Americas, most of the native civilizations were destroyed to gain either farmland or ranchland -- the Great Plains tribes in particular were pushed out (and the buffalo that fed them were exterminated) to gain room for cattle to feed the cities of the East Coast.
Ships carrying grain from newly-conquered provinces aren't as glamorous as ones carrying gold, so historians don't write about them as often, but the grain fleets outnumbered the treasure fleets by several orders of magnitude.
I think food has done a better job of maintaining value -- you can't eat gold.
To be fair, bicycle lights are hard to see even if you're expecting them. My daily commute is on a route that's also frequently used by bicyclists, and I've only ever seen two who I'd describe as "adequately visible". One of them was wearing a construction worker's reflective vest (bright yellow, with a huge reflective area), and the other had put a motorcycle's headlight and tail-light on his bike. Normal bicycle headlights are at best only marginally more visible than simple retroreflectors, and white clothing is only visible in comparison to dark clothing.
5000 G. That's about the equivalent of dropping something out a third-story window onto a concrete surface. Your laptop won't survive it, but bulk supplies (food, water, oxygen) will. Properly-designed equipment will as well: when your laptop hits the ground, it's not the computer chips themselves that break, but the joints -- electronic fuses in artillery shells don't have any trouble. You could even put entire satellites into orbit this way. The packaging and testing you mention is a result of the high cost of launching things right now: to keep the total weight down, the average satellite is very fragile. Build one with volume being the limiting factor rather than weight, and you'll get a much more durable object.
Fixed that for you. Warning overload is one of the biggest problems facing computer security today. Since so many of the warnings the average user is bombarded with are meaningless, the genuine threats get lost in the noise and are ignored.
See also: The boy who cried "wolf".
Everybody's eyes wiggle. Yours just wiggle more than most. It's why nobody who's done serious research on the subject expects eye tracking to replace the mouse.
You can avoid any whirr by tuning the speeds of the scanning mirrors. Make the vertical-scan mirror a ten-sided mirror, and you can spin it at 6 Hz for a 60Hz refresh rate, too low-pitched to hear. Make the horizontal-scan mirror two-sided, and you'll be spinning it faster than 20KHz (the actual speed depends on the refresh rate and resolutions, but it'll always be too high-pitched to hear).