The second law of thermodynamics is just that-- a law. Current observations predict that the universe will die from entropy stemming from unrestrained expansion, and that eventually all protons in the universe will decay.
An expanding universe is never going to reach maximum entropy ("heat death"), because the amount of entropy any area can contain increases with its size. And protons may or may not decay; so far, not a single one has been seen doing so.
f you instead say that you only want to extend your life some degree, you still ultimately must accept the inevitability of death. If you are going to do that, why not accept the lifespan you are allready afforded?
Given that you are going to die anyway, why bother treating any disease? Or, for that matter, why bother eating?
Voila-- We have reached my position.
I sincerely doubt your position is actually based on such insane troll logic. What your actual motivator here might be is anyone's guess. I'd put my money on "a confused mess of half-absorbed and badly understood religious memes with a flavoring of naturalistic fallacy".
All this rhetoric about giving what you expect to get leaves out the very important fact that a worker and his boss are NOT equals in the first place.
Yes, we are. I do work that directly contributes to the bottom line and he takes care of the logistics to direct my efford to get the maximum benefit from them. It takes good people in both positions to achieve success.
Your boss is not obliged to give you the same respect he himself is due, simply because he's the boss and you are not.
I think you are confusing "boss" and "feudal lord". A "boss" is a task, not a title of nobility. Do not confuse the two.
As a prospective employer, I can and will judge you by how your previous boss thinks of you, because if I hire you, I will take his place, and it's reasonable to assume you will treat me the same way you treated your previous boss.
I treat my boss as a valuable member of the team. Should he not do the same, well, he'll still retain the underlings he deserves. As for you, you need to decide between people who're desperate enough to put up with being treated disrespectfully and professionals. It's one or the other, you can't have both no matter what the field. Should be an easy choice: do the wrong thing or be succesful. But then again, I guess I can't really know what kind of complexes might drive your behaviour.
Also that rote memorization basically kills any semblance of a social life.
Well, isn't that what "being responsible" means: when you aren't sleeping, you should be working to pay for whatever charges your betters care to impose on you? Idle hands are the tool of the devil, they tempt you to use money on anything not strictly required for survival. And that makes you a horrible looter who should die off, least the Randian ubermenschen be tempted to show pity and let you have their refuse for dinner at discount price.
College is not free in Europe. The people's taxes pay for it.
And since college-educated people earn more money and thus pay more taxes, you're entirely right: tax-funded education is not free, it's a net earner.
There is no such thing as free except for the breaths you take. Someone, somewhere, pays for everything, whether they want to or not.
European countries are democratic. If their governments pay for college out of tax money it's because the citizens who pay said taxes are okay with it.
The media can, however, convince people that when George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin, it wasn't self-defense.
It wasn't. Zimmerman went after Martin, Martin stood his ground, Zimmerman may or may not have been beaten up and shot Martin. The aggressor doesn't get to claim self-defence even if his intended victim has the nerve to fight back. Except in America, of course, the land of secret laws and home of anonymous cowards.
Truly mind boggling, something the US would have mocked and derided just thirty odd years ago coming out of the Soviet Union is something these shit heads now take pride in, their lack of shame, hides from the the true public feelings about the sickness on display.
It's only mind boggling if you belive such mockery and derision was ever genuine. Even when the US made noises about freedom, it's own cloak and dagger department toppled democratically elected governments left and right (mostly left) and installed its own puppet dictators in their place. It persecuted its own citizens for their political opinions, just like Soviet Union did. And since the latter no longer exists, there's no reason to pretend anymore.
Let this be a lesson to everyone: those who wave the flags rarely believe in or even look at what's in them. And that's what freedom ever was to United States: a meaningless sequence of letters to use as a tribal identifier, just like communism was for the Soviet Union. Talk is cheap, actions matter, and US had Joseph McCarthy at home and the CIA abroad.
someone who is willing to sell out their previous boss to jump on board your ship
Loyalty is a two-way street. Do you want people to give you a two-week notice when they leave? Then you'd better give them one too, rather than simply have them escorted out. And when the latter becomes an industry standard, can you really talk about people "selling out" their bosses, when they're just returning what was given them?
To determine if you're eligible to vote. Or have kids. Or be allowed outside your cage.
One says innocent people should be disenfranchised, sterilized and imprisoned if they fail an IQ test, and others think it's +5 Insightful rather than -5 So Hitler's Still Alive After All.
The next time you wonder why things are going to Hell and your government is flirting with fascism, that's why.
What the conversation is about is whether a new regulatory framework needs to be set up to deal with Bitcoin.
And what the article is about is applying existing regulatory frameworks to Bitcoin, since it looks like something they were meant to cover. So what's the problem?
You could for example have your own 20 byte random seed which you concatenate with 21 bytes from the system random number generator and 14 bytes from other sources (the later don't need to be high entropy, every extra bit helps). Now send the entire 55 bytes through SHA1 and store the output as seed for the next iteration.
And since SHA1 has a fixed length, the 20 bytes with zero entropy you fed into it forced out some of whatever entropy the other 35 bytes contained. Luckily, in this case you only force out some of SHA1's chunk padding, but you still aren't accomplishing anything useful by adding compile-time constants either.
Cryptography is something that really, really, really should be left for the experts rather than just hacked together on gut feeling.
It's ridiculous in this day and age that an OS can fail to make random numbers properly. That's one of the most basic operations.
But also one of the most difficult ones, since computers are by design deterministic and we would ideally have each bit be independent of anything else in existence. So you either need specialized hardware or rely on some kludgy workaround, such as timing system events. But of course if you do use specialized hardware, you not only get more costs but are now trusting a black box to not contain any nasty surprises.
How lazy/incompetent are the Google programmers?
Probably neither, just not absolutely perfect. And that's all it takes to break a cryptosystem.
This isn't the first time that random number generation has turned out to be a weak spot.
Virtually no crime, pretty much nonexistent unemployment, lots of free space, no environmental issues, no civil unrest or wars anywhere on the horizon...
And the reason why a Mars base won't have unemployment is the exact same reason why military submarines don't have unemployment. There's also about as much free space. Unless you exit through the hatch, in which case the consequences will be the same too.
We are not talking about a settlement, we're talking about a base. Well, actually we're almost certainly talking about a scam, but we're definitely not talking about a base.
The end result is a dependent and needy adult who cannot make their own way in the world without government assistance and with absolutely no clue about how the economy works or why nobody wants to pay them a "living wage" as a reward for their "enlightened" way of thinking.
No employer wants to pay a living wage, or any other kind of wage, or for assistance, for the same reason no one wants to pay for anything: they have less money that way. On the other hand, if these dependent and needy adults get neither a living wage nor assistance, they face the choice of lying down and dying, or simply taking what they need to live, quickly learning the skills necessary for doing that. And at that point things tend to get... unpleasant. And that's why I advocate both rising minimum wage and assistance programs: I don't need them to feed myself, but I need them to avoid becoming food.
I understand this is a difficult concept to comprehend, after all it requires emphasising with other people enough to understand they will break your rules rather than die, so take your time and don't be ashamed if the subtleties of the situation evade you at first. You can also try googling "let them eat cake" for a more detailed explanation. Or the Russian revolution.
Holding yourself to a high standard of professionalism will work out better in the long run than putting "staying employed" ahead of everything else in your life. It may cost you in the immediate short-term, but the total returns over time far outweigh the immediate costs.
Possibly. Or it could end up triggering a vicious circle of permanent unemployability, driving you to a personal bankruptcy, followed by spending the rest of your life on the street as a hobo. In which case you won't be posting about it on Slashdot, resulting in a confirmation bias.
"High standards" are for people who can afford them: the people who don't have to work for a living.
What if you found out about this but had no proof?
Why should you get to examine my private info, my stuff, or anything of mine just because you made an unsubstantiated accusation? Just who the Hell do you think you are?
Lots of people have pointed out how much of their hot new computer power winds up being wasted on fancy-frosted-translucent-glass GUI effects which don't actually achieve anything. Not only is that a waste of my CPU time,
Aren't the GUI effects done by the GPU? Which doesn't really use any more power for frosted glass translucent blitting than just regular blitting.
Growing market share absolutely does NOT improve shareholder returns.
Selling more stuff can never make more profit? That's an interesting economic claim you have there.
Microsoft could start charging nothing for Windows tomorrow and see their (legitimate licensed) market share explode. It would in NO WAY improve shareholder returns.
Itmight, it might not. Google and Red Hat both make nice profits with free products.
If you want tens of thousands of video cards, you are going to have to make a deal with a manufacturer.. contracts are involved.. delivery dates of more than a few months will apply..
Or you can have tens of thousands of agents walk into tens of thousands of shops and get one each, then send it to your headquarters.
You know, one thing you can't blame the old communist block for was being overly concerned for environment. But nice boogeyman-flavored word salad anyway.
If he caused $600,000 worth of damage, didn't he destroy his life himself?
Perhaps. Then again, seeing how the victim is Sony, I can't help but remember the parable of the unmerciful servant. But I guess personal responsibility is just for peons.
6. NSA sends 300 number theorists into space on a near-light-speed ship, to return in 60 earth-days (40 local-frame years) with a crack to GPG.
Accelerating a thing makes time go slower for it, not faster. So you would need to accelerate the Earth, not the ship. And besides, if you can accelerate an object at least as massive as a human body into near-lightspeed, you already have a Death Star, so why do you need a software crack? Just get to your new starship and hold Earth hostage.
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An expanding universe is never going to reach maximum entropy ("heat death"), because the amount of entropy any area can contain increases with its size. And protons may or may not decay; so far, not a single one has been seen doing so.
Given that you are going to die anyway, why bother treating any disease? Or, for that matter, why bother eating?
I sincerely doubt your position is actually based on such insane troll logic. What your actual motivator here might be is anyone's guess. I'd put my money on "a confused mess of half-absorbed and badly understood religious memes with a flavoring of naturalistic fallacy".
Yes, we are. I do work that directly contributes to the bottom line and he takes care of the logistics to direct my efford to get the maximum benefit from them. It takes good people in both positions to achieve success.
I think you are confusing "boss" and "feudal lord". A "boss" is a task, not a title of nobility. Do not confuse the two.
I treat my boss as a valuable member of the team. Should he not do the same, well, he'll still retain the underlings he deserves. As for you, you need to decide between people who're desperate enough to put up with being treated disrespectfully and professionals. It's one or the other, you can't have both no matter what the field. Should be an easy choice: do the wrong thing or be succesful. But then again, I guess I can't really know what kind of complexes might drive your behaviour.
Well, isn't that what "being responsible" means: when you aren't sleeping, you should be working to pay for whatever charges your betters care to impose on you? Idle hands are the tool of the devil, they tempt you to use money on anything not strictly required for survival. And that makes you a horrible looter who should die off, least the Randian ubermenschen be tempted to show pity and let you have their refuse for dinner at discount price.
And since college-educated people earn more money and thus pay more taxes, you're entirely right: tax-funded education is not free, it's a net earner.
European countries are democratic. If their governments pay for college out of tax money it's because the citizens who pay said taxes are okay with it.
It wasn't. Zimmerman went after Martin, Martin stood his ground, Zimmerman may or may not have been beaten up and shot Martin. The aggressor doesn't get to claim self-defence even if his intended victim has the nerve to fight back. Except in America, of course, the land of secret laws and home of anonymous cowards.
It's only mind boggling if you belive such mockery and derision was ever genuine. Even when the US made noises about freedom, it's own cloak and dagger department toppled democratically elected governments left and right (mostly left) and installed its own puppet dictators in their place. It persecuted its own citizens for their political opinions, just like Soviet Union did. And since the latter no longer exists, there's no reason to pretend anymore.
Let this be a lesson to everyone: those who wave the flags rarely believe in or even look at what's in them. And that's what freedom ever was to United States: a meaningless sequence of letters to use as a tribal identifier, just like communism was for the Soviet Union. Talk is cheap, actions matter, and US had Joseph McCarthy at home and the CIA abroad.
tl;dr Business as usual.
Loyalty is a two-way street. Do you want people to give you a two-week notice when they leave? Then you'd better give them one too, rather than simply have them escorted out. And when the latter becomes an industry standard, can you really talk about people "selling out" their bosses, when they're just returning what was given them?
IPO happened. A publicly traded company is not allowed to have any values besides greed, and thus can not avoid being evil.
Why the heck did we ever create a situation where the most powerful entities in our society are by law required to be monsters is another matter.
One says innocent people should be disenfranchised, sterilized and imprisoned if they fail an IQ test, and others think it's +5 Insightful rather than -5 So Hitler's Still Alive After All.
The next time you wonder why things are going to Hell and your government is flirting with fascism, that's why.
And what the article is about is applying existing regulatory frameworks to Bitcoin, since it looks like something they were meant to cover. So what's the problem?
And since SHA1 has a fixed length, the 20 bytes with zero entropy you fed into it forced out some of whatever entropy the other 35 bytes contained. Luckily, in this case you only force out some of SHA1's chunk padding, but you still aren't accomplishing anything useful by adding compile-time constants either.
Cryptography is something that really, really, really should be left for the experts rather than just hacked together on gut feeling.
But also one of the most difficult ones, since computers are by design deterministic and we would ideally have each bit be independent of anything else in existence. So you either need specialized hardware or rely on some kludgy workaround, such as timing system events. But of course if you do use specialized hardware, you not only get more costs but are now trusting a black box to not contain any nasty surprises.
Probably neither, just not absolutely perfect. And that's all it takes to break a cryptosystem.
This isn't the first time that random number generation has turned out to be a weak spot.
And the reason why a Mars base won't have unemployment is the exact same reason why military submarines don't have unemployment. There's also about as much free space. Unless you exit through the hatch, in which case the consequences will be the same too.
We are not talking about a settlement, we're talking about a base. Well, actually we're almost certainly talking about a scam, but we're definitely not talking about a base.
No employer wants to pay a living wage, or any other kind of wage, or for assistance, for the same reason no one wants to pay for anything: they have less money that way. On the other hand, if these dependent and needy adults get neither a living wage nor assistance, they face the choice of lying down and dying, or simply taking what they need to live, quickly learning the skills necessary for doing that. And at that point things tend to get... unpleasant. And that's why I advocate both rising minimum wage and assistance programs: I don't need them to feed myself, but I need them to avoid becoming food.
I understand this is a difficult concept to comprehend, after all it requires emphasising with other people enough to understand they will break your rules rather than die, so take your time and don't be ashamed if the subtleties of the situation evade you at first. You can also try googling "let them eat cake" for a more detailed explanation. Or the Russian revolution.
Possibly. Or it could end up triggering a vicious circle of permanent unemployability, driving you to a personal bankruptcy, followed by spending the rest of your life on the street as a hobo. In which case you won't be posting about it on Slashdot, resulting in a confirmation bias.
"High standards" are for people who can afford them: the people who don't have to work for a living.
Why should you get to examine my private info, my stuff, or anything of mine just because you made an unsubstantiated accusation? Just who the Hell do you think you are?
Aren't the GUI effects done by the GPU? Which doesn't really use any more power for frosted glass translucent blitting than just regular blitting.
Selling more stuff can never make more profit? That's an interesting economic claim you have there.
It might, it might not. Google and Red Hat both make nice profits with free products.
Or you can have tens of thousands of agents walk into tens of thousands of shops and get one each, then send it to your headquarters.
You know, one thing you can't blame the old communist block for was being overly concerned for environment. But nice boogeyman-flavored word salad anyway.
Stars get brighter as they advance through the main sequence.
So the grandparent's claim (that there is nothing to worry about, since it was warmer then and nothing happened) is utterly baseless, then?
An Anonymous Coward making a speech about personal responsibility is beyond hilarious.
Perhaps. Then again, seeing how the victim is Sony, I can't help but remember the parable of the unmerciful servant. But I guess personal responsibility is just for peons.
Accelerating a thing makes time go slower for it, not faster. So you would need to accelerate the Earth, not the ship. And besides, if you can accelerate an object at least as massive as a human body into near-lightspeed, you already have a Death Star, so why do you need a software crack? Just get to your new starship and hold Earth hostage.