Hmm, moderated down to zero. I know that the stereotypical geek is small and weak, but this is ridiculous. The combined weight of your clothes is likely to exceed 4.5 kg.
Until you prove that disease comes from external agents
That was proven, and so science moved forward.
There are plenty of diseases, such as arthritis, which do not come from external agents, but rather from your body malfunctioning on its own, and several, such as high blood pressure due to obesity, which the patient very likely caused by mistreating his own body. So no, it was not and cannot be proven, since it is untrue.
Now, if you were to say that it is proven that some diseases come from external agents, you'd be quite correct.
If you wanted to try and apply this to more than two bodies you'd need a formula which took account of the forces being vector quantities. Which would be several times more complex a formula in the first place...
No you don't. Nothing stops you from calculating the force as three component vectors, aligned with the axis of the carthesian coordinate grid in the first place. Something like xforce = (x1pos - x2pos) / distance and repeat for the other two coordinate axes. Then, after calculating all the forces between each object pair this way, sum them up by coordinate axis and object to get the final component forces affecting each object.
However, one thing concerns me. The weights are moved up to the top by human power, which is fine, but according to the picture on the designer's website, the weights are 5 10 pound weights in each lamp, so either I'm having to lift 10 pounds 5 times every time I want to light the lamp, or I'm lifting 50 pounds.
No, but she isn't big on limiting access - hell, that's the name of her little sister. However, as a result she has worms, bugs, and viruses. Use virus protection if you want to mess with her, and remember: she charges for the "fun", unless you meet her at a shady BitTorrent server somewhere.
Yet, I haven't seen any job openings for people writing programs in machine code, while the Java market is rich.
Assembly guys don't search for job openings. Assembly guys have teams of agents managing their job offers.
Seriously speaking, if you need assembly coders, it is likely that you have an embedded device, a runtime, low-level kernel issue, or some other kind of problem where whatever is written must work and work well from the beginning, since failure to do so would take the whole system down - and in the case of embedded devices, updating might be impossible, so the only way to fix bugs is to exchange the faulty devices to new ones.
Would you hire Joe Random who happened to answer a newspaper add for such a job ? Of course not, you want someone who you have some reason to think actually knows his stuff. So you hire a headhunter to find someone for the job. So assembly guys don't look for jobs, assembly guys have jobs looking for them.
They didn't forget, it's just a niche skill. Assembly is obsolete for most purposes. You don't see it in application programming. You rarely see it in systems programming. You never see it in web programming. Even games don't use it anymore.
Niche ? JIT compilers depend on it - to nitpick, they propably product opcodes, but it's not like there's much difference. In fact all compilers which produce machine code depend on it. All systems programming depend on someone writing the assembler routines to actually manipulate the hardware.
Assembler is a niche skill to a programmer in the same way that knowing how to build foundations is a niche skill to a house builder: you can make do without, but only as long as you get someone else to do the groundwork for you.
It was nice to hear them acknowledge 3.5E as a mistake - that alone might get me to consider 4E.
Hypothethically speaking, if I admitted that selling you the Golden Gate bridge was a mistake, would you be interested in some beachfront property in Tibet ?
You've had a great idea, but the Finnish government haven't.
The Finnish government is a sad parody of what it once was. Once it dealt with both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia and came up on top and turned the country from an economically abused agricultural colony (located at the arctic circle, as an icing on the cake) suffering from a civil war into a peaceful, democratic, industrial first-world country. The current version, on the other hand, falls all over itself trying to bow down to Russia, EU and the USA simultaneously while passing one bad, freedom-removing law after another. The new finnish copyright law, the so-called "Lex Karpela", is a perfect example: even the government which passed it itself admitted it doesn't know what it actually forbids or allows, but passed it anyway.
The Finnish list is an arguably erroneous list (it contains many sites that are seem to be perfectly legal), foisted on ISPs who are supposed to "voluntarily" ensure their paying customers can't access the sites on the list.
I assure you, the list contains exactly the entries it's supposed to: specifically, it already contains sites which merely criticize censorship. It was perfectly obvious from the beginning that this was the true purpose of the list. If these creeps actually thought of children, they wouldn't be constantly cutting funds from education to finance rising their own pay.
Is it just me, or does every country have at its helm the most disgusting subhuman slimemolds it manages to produce ? I'm starting to wonder if those medieval theories about incubi and succubi producing demonic half-human children actually have some merit; it is kinda hard to explain the origin of our Great Leaders otherwise.
BitTorrent, as implemented today, is also relatively decentralized. No one torrent is, but BitTorrent itself is as decentralized as the Web -- anyone can throw up a tracker, or put a torrent on an existing tracker and seed.
BitTorrent, as it exists today, isn't a network. Each torrent is in theory completely separate. As such it doesn't really make sense to talk about "BitTorrent itself", since there is no such entity, just a protocol used in numerous separate and unconnected transmissions. Each torrent fomrs its own mini-network, usually with a central server (tracker), altought trackerless torrent works pretty well too; and these mini-networks have nothing to do with each other. Consequently, BitTorrent doesn't support searching for files, since there is no network to search them from.
Gnutella, on the other hand, is both a protocol and a network. All Gnutella clients in the world cooperate to form a single connected network for the purposes of searching for files. And the Gnutella network is completely decentralized.
BitTorrent and Gnutella are thus fundamentally different. Gnutella is self-contained, since it supports searching the Gnutella network; you don't need any other program besides the Gnutella client to use it (not counting the OS, of course). BitTorrent, on the other hand, requires an out-of-band method of getting the torrent file in the first place; a BitTorrent client is useless on its own. In this way, BitTorrent is basically a replacement for GetRight and such programs: you click on a link in a webpage, and BitTorrent downloads the file.
In a way this is like the difference between FTP and the Web: FTP servers are unconnected from each other, while Web servers form a greater entity, the Web itself.
If you own a four stroke, spark ignited, internal combustion engine, you have one now. The conversion to run on hydrogen gas instead of liquid gasoline is quite trivial.
The conversion to have the fuel tank to store hydrogen is anything but. The damn thing has a habit of oozing straight through metal, due to the small molecule size. You can't store the gas under pressure, since the gas tank in your car is not designed to hold any pressure (and in fact is open to air, since otherwise the gas wouldn't flow), and storing hydrogen as liquid requires both extremely cold temperatures and very large volume.
Anyway, what would be really useful: a solar cell which pulls hydrogen from water (water vapor, preferably), carbon from carbon dioxide, and combines these to form hydrocarbons (oil). It would help combat global warming, mitigate the peak oil crisis, and save you a lot in fuel costs - and work with the current infrastructure with no changes needed. Heck, you could install it on all the outside surfaces of your car and have the generated fuel trickle straight to the tank. Any eggheads out there working on this already ?-)
Black absorbs sunlight. The satellite would overheat.
Take two blocks of metal. Paint one black and leave the other shiny. Connect the black one to the hot and the shiny one to the cold reservoir of a heat engine and send the whole thing to orbit. Do we now have a perpetual motion engine ? Remember, the universe is full of background radiation, so such an engine could still keep operating even after each and every star has burned out and the universe has suffered heat death.
Of course what really happens is that black surfaces also radiate energy more easily than shiny ones. Consequently, in the vacuum of space where electromagnetic radiation is the only way to get rid of heat, a black object will be at the exact same temperature as a shiny one. Otherwise the laws of thermodynamics would be broken.
On Earth, on the other hand, the atmosphere allows conduction and convection, which are independent of the color of the surface; consequently, a black object tends to get hotter in direct sunlight.
So, in short: no, the satellite would not overheat. It wouldn't be any hotter than a shiny one.
Imagine intelligent people amongst cavemen, where strength is primary goal in life.
No it isn't. Raw strength would be at secundary usefulness at best to a caveman. Being good with your hands to make tools, having keen senses and intelligence to help you track pray and other resources, being agile and coordinated enough to use a spear well and being good at coordinating a hunting party would all be far more important than raw strength.
Sounds exactly like the old Napster. The RIAA struck it down, and it has returned as BitTorrent, more powerful than the RIAA could possibly imagine.
No, it returned as Gnutella and other fully decentralized P2P networks. BitTorrent is like a turbocharged nitroglycerin-burning download accelerator, a conceptual descendant of GetRight and other programs which allowed you to download the same file from multiple hosts simultaneously in days past.
Then again, Gnutella also uses the download mesh technology nowadays. Best features get recombined with small variations in endless new combinations, and the best combinations serve as models and inspiration for the next generation. That's evolution in action. Intelligent (to be generous) Design of the RIAA is hopelessly outmatched by it.
Linux is copyrighted under something
called the GPL, or the Gnu Protective License.
It's "General Public License", actually.
Part of this license states that any changes to the kernel are to be made freely available. Unfortunately for us, this meant that the great deal of time and money we spent "touching up" Linux to work for this investment firm would now be available at no cost to our competitors.
First: GPL control distribution, not use. You are free to modify GPL'd programs and use them internally; only if you distribute them to outsiders, either as programs or as part of a device, do you need to provide the source code to the receiver of such products.
Second: Why on Earth did you need to modify the kernel for an "investment firm" usage ? What did you think that would accomplish, especially when you are apparently unable to even use the configuration program to enable Token Ring support ?
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released. This was simply unacceptable.
It is also untrue. Fire your lawyers and hire better ones.
Nothing but lies; you are either a troll or an astroturfer, possibly both.
Considering that the internet is becoming an absolute necessity to actually live, communicate etc, cutting of access is like saying you can't walk on the roads... to me it's starting to sound like a human rights violation.
You are a consumer, not a human, so you have no human rights. That's global capitalism and its multinational corporations for you.
It's a necessity. In 20 years, nothing works without it. Imagine losing your bank account, having no phone, no home address... it would create a vast criminal class without ability to live a proper public life.
That, of course, is the whole point. The purpose of such laws is to give a de facto death penalty: your life is over, so you either kill yourself, starve to death, or commit other crimes for which you may then be killed.
It's simply the "though on crime" crowd using the legal system to indulge in their sadistic tendencies.
If every single one of us was cashing in on the same opportunity, then nobody would have the advantage. As a result, the profit to be made would eventually average to 0.
Except the "us" referred to computer geeks, not to every actor in the stock market.
What do you suggest for the 'fine-tuning' protocol?
Natural selection. People who stay in good shape even when eating mainly junk food are more likely to find a mate and pass their genes on than the ones who turn into human balloons while their arteries jam.
and why in hell should we adapt to require less excercise to stay in shape?(that *could* be translated into what the gp problary ment, but im betting thats not your point.)
Because we aren't getting much excercise nowadays, so requiring less of it is an advantageus feature.
The gp suggested that we'd evolve to tolerate the effects of being fat; I suggest it more likely that we evolve to not get fat in the first place, since that would require much less changes to our biochemistry (fine-tuning) than the ones required to support useless (in a post-industrial civilization) fat.
Japan has a law forbidding showing of genitals in art; consequently, the local porn is usually censored. However, Japan also has a thriwing industry for drawn (cartoon) porn; this combined with a pre-existing disposal towards octopuses and the tentacled horror from beyond -concept of Lovecraft and formed the modern-day Japanse tentacle porn scene.
Anyone care to make a doctorate thesis about memetics using this as an example ?-)
Well, now we have other environmental factors to contend with. Too much junk food, carcinogens, ultraviolet radiation, etc. Eventually we'll probably evolve into really fat people with hearts that don't mind cholesterol and skin that doesn't get cancer.
Um, no. Fat is stored energy. The whole reason we get fat is that our bodies are adapted to make do with as little energy as possible; and the way to do that is to make sure that any extra gets stored for later consumption. Consequently, as we adapt to live in an industrial society, the overweight epidemic should pass as our bodies are fine-tuned for the new energy input/output levels; also, we should adapt to require less excercise to stay in shape.
What I gut from the summary was that they were using anomaly detection to see for example that 25 hosts all started sending mass data after having a communication with one ip.
Unless, of course, they got their instructions in an e-mail. Spam is already semi-randomized to get past filters, so it wouldn't be hard to have it carry encoded instructions too.
Or have them use instant messaging. The zombie worm should detect which IM program the user uses, and send a message to the control (or one of various fake identities) using that, so the control knows to send messages back using it as well.
Heck, you could have a two-part worm which infects both Web servers and desktops. An infected desktop infects any server it contacts, and an infected server infects any desktop which contacts it. If the server and desktop are both already infected, they pass whatever new messages (commands) they have to each other.
You can get around anomaly detection by not causing any anomalies. Piggypack your messages on already existing connections rather than starting new ones. Basic spy stuff, really.
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Hmm, moderated down to zero. I know that the stereotypical geek is small and weak, but this is ridiculous. The combined weight of your clothes is likely to exceed 4.5 kg.
There are plenty of diseases, such as arthritis, which do not come from external agents, but rather from your body malfunctioning on its own, and several, such as high blood pressure due to obesity, which the patient very likely caused by mistreating his own body. So no, it was not and cannot be proven, since it is untrue.
Now, if you were to say that it is proven that some diseases come from external agents, you'd be quite correct.
No you don't. Nothing stops you from calculating the force as three component vectors, aligned with the axis of the carthesian coordinate grid in the first place. Something like xforce = (x1pos - x2pos) / distance and repeat for the other two coordinate axes. Then, after calculating all the forces between each object pair this way, sum them up by coordinate axis and object to get the final component forces affecting each object.
Very useful if you're doing computer simulation.
Intelligent Design by Cthulhu ?-)
10 pounds is 4.5 kilograms. What's the problem ?
And once the radioactive cloud drifts over your midwest and destroyes the agriculture there, you'll feel really stupid for doing so.
No, but she isn't big on limiting access - hell, that's the name of her little sister. However, as a result she has worms, bugs, and viruses. Use virus protection if you want to mess with her, and remember: she charges for the "fun", unless you meet her at a shady BitTorrent server somewhere.
Assembly guys don't search for job openings. Assembly guys have teams of agents managing their job offers.
Seriously speaking, if you need assembly coders, it is likely that you have an embedded device, a runtime, low-level kernel issue, or some other kind of problem where whatever is written must work and work well from the beginning, since failure to do so would take the whole system down - and in the case of embedded devices, updating might be impossible, so the only way to fix bugs is to exchange the faulty devices to new ones.
Would you hire Joe Random who happened to answer a newspaper add for such a job ? Of course not, you want someone who you have some reason to think actually knows his stuff. So you hire a headhunter to find someone for the job. So assembly guys don't look for jobs, assembly guys have jobs looking for them.
Niche ? JIT compilers depend on it - to nitpick, they propably product opcodes, but it's not like there's much difference. In fact all compilers which produce machine code depend on it. All systems programming depend on someone writing the assembler routines to actually manipulate the hardware.
Assembler is a niche skill to a programmer in the same way that knowing how to build foundations is a niche skill to a house builder: you can make do without, but only as long as you get someone else to do the groundwork for you.
Hypothethically speaking, if I admitted that selling you the Golden Gate bridge was a mistake, would you be interested in some beachfront property in Tibet ?
That can't be right. From your description, it sounds like a genuinely good and beneficial to the user idea. Where's the catch ?
The Finnish government is a sad parody of what it once was. Once it dealt with both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia and came up on top and turned the country from an economically abused agricultural colony (located at the arctic circle, as an icing on the cake) suffering from a civil war into a peaceful, democratic, industrial first-world country. The current version, on the other hand, falls all over itself trying to bow down to Russia, EU and the USA simultaneously while passing one bad, freedom-removing law after another. The new finnish copyright law, the so-called "Lex Karpela", is a perfect example: even the government which passed it itself admitted it doesn't know what it actually forbids or allows, but passed it anyway.
I assure you, the list contains exactly the entries it's supposed to: specifically, it already contains sites which merely criticize censorship. It was perfectly obvious from the beginning that this was the true purpose of the list. If these creeps actually thought of children, they wouldn't be constantly cutting funds from education to finance rising their own pay.
Is it just me, or does every country have at its helm the most disgusting subhuman slimemolds it manages to produce ? I'm starting to wonder if those medieval theories about incubi and succubi producing demonic half-human children actually have some merit; it is kinda hard to explain the origin of our Great Leaders otherwise.
BitTorrent, as it exists today, isn't a network. Each torrent is in theory completely separate. As such it doesn't really make sense to talk about "BitTorrent itself", since there is no such entity, just a protocol used in numerous separate and unconnected transmissions. Each torrent fomrs its own mini-network, usually with a central server (tracker), altought trackerless torrent works pretty well too; and these mini-networks have nothing to do with each other. Consequently, BitTorrent doesn't support searching for files, since there is no network to search them from.
Gnutella, on the other hand, is both a protocol and a network. All Gnutella clients in the world cooperate to form a single connected network for the purposes of searching for files. And the Gnutella network is completely decentralized.
BitTorrent and Gnutella are thus fundamentally different. Gnutella is self-contained, since it supports searching the Gnutella network; you don't need any other program besides the Gnutella client to use it (not counting the OS, of course). BitTorrent, on the other hand, requires an out-of-band method of getting the torrent file in the first place; a BitTorrent client is useless on its own. In this way, BitTorrent is basically a replacement for GetRight and such programs: you click on a link in a webpage, and BitTorrent downloads the file.
In a way this is like the difference between FTP and the Web: FTP servers are unconnected from each other, while Web servers form a greater entity, the Web itself.
The conversion to have the fuel tank to store hydrogen is anything but. The damn thing has a habit of oozing straight through metal, due to the small molecule size. You can't store the gas under pressure, since the gas tank in your car is not designed to hold any pressure (and in fact is open to air, since otherwise the gas wouldn't flow), and storing hydrogen as liquid requires both extremely cold temperatures and very large volume.
Anyway, what would be really useful: a solar cell which pulls hydrogen from water (water vapor, preferably), carbon from carbon dioxide, and combines these to form hydrocarbons (oil). It would help combat global warming, mitigate the peak oil crisis, and save you a lot in fuel costs - and work with the current infrastructure with no changes needed. Heck, you could install it on all the outside surfaces of your car and have the generated fuel trickle straight to the tank. Any eggheads out there working on this already ?-)
Take two blocks of metal. Paint one black and leave the other shiny. Connect the black one to the hot and the shiny one to the cold reservoir of a heat engine and send the whole thing to orbit. Do we now have a perpetual motion engine ? Remember, the universe is full of background radiation, so such an engine could still keep operating even after each and every star has burned out and the universe has suffered heat death.
Of course what really happens is that black surfaces also radiate energy more easily than shiny ones. Consequently, in the vacuum of space where electromagnetic radiation is the only way to get rid of heat, a black object will be at the exact same temperature as a shiny one. Otherwise the laws of thermodynamics would be broken.
On Earth, on the other hand, the atmosphere allows conduction and convection, which are independent of the color of the surface; consequently, a black object tends to get hotter in direct sunlight.
So, in short: no, the satellite would not overheat. It wouldn't be any hotter than a shiny one.
No it isn't. Raw strength would be at secundary usefulness at best to a caveman. Being good with your hands to make tools, having keen senses and intelligence to help you track pray and other resources, being agile and coordinated enough to use a spear well and being good at coordinating a hunting party would all be far more important than raw strength.
No, it returned as Gnutella and other fully decentralized P2P networks. BitTorrent is like a turbocharged nitroglycerin-burning download accelerator, a conceptual descendant of GetRight and other programs which allowed you to download the same file from multiple hosts simultaneously in days past.
Then again, Gnutella also uses the download mesh technology nowadays. Best features get recombined with small variations in endless new combinations, and the best combinations serve as models and inspiration for the next generation. That's evolution in action. Intelligent (to be generous) Design of the RIAA is hopelessly outmatched by it.
Linux has Token Ring support.
It's "General Public License", actually.
First: GPL control distribution, not use. You are free to modify GPL'd programs and use them internally; only if you distribute them to outsiders, either as programs or as part of a device, do you need to provide the source code to the receiver of such products.
Second: Why on Earth did you need to modify the kernel for an "investment firm" usage ? What did you think that would accomplish, especially when you are apparently unable to even use the configuration program to enable Token Ring support ?
It is also untrue. Fire your lawyers and hire better ones.
Nothing but lies; you are either a troll or an astroturfer, possibly both.
And eats brains as well.
You are a consumer, not a human, so you have no human rights. That's global capitalism and its multinational corporations for you.
That, of course, is the whole point. The purpose of such laws is to give a de facto death penalty: your life is over, so you either kill yourself, starve to death, or commit other crimes for which you may then be killed.
It's simply the "though on crime" crowd using the legal system to indulge in their sadistic tendencies.
Except the "us" referred to computer geeks, not to every actor in the stock market.
Um, no :p.
Natural selection. People who stay in good shape even when eating mainly junk food are more likely to find a mate and pass their genes on than the ones who turn into human balloons while their arteries jam.
Because we aren't getting much excercise nowadays, so requiring less of it is an advantageus feature.
The gp suggested that we'd evolve to tolerate the effects of being fat; I suggest it more likely that we evolve to not get fat in the first place, since that would require much less changes to our biochemistry (fine-tuning) than the ones required to support useless (in a post-industrial civilization) fat.
Japan has a law forbidding showing of genitals in art; consequently, the local porn is usually censored. However, Japan also has a thriwing industry for drawn (cartoon) porn; this combined with a pre-existing disposal towards octopuses and the tentacled horror from beyond -concept of Lovecraft and formed the modern-day Japanse tentacle porn scene.
Anyone care to make a doctorate thesis about memetics using this as an example ?-)
Um, no. Fat is stored energy. The whole reason we get fat is that our bodies are adapted to make do with as little energy as possible; and the way to do that is to make sure that any extra gets stored for later consumption. Consequently, as we adapt to live in an industrial society, the overweight epidemic should pass as our bodies are fine-tuned for the new energy input/output levels; also, we should adapt to require less excercise to stay in shape.
Unless, of course, they got their instructions in an e-mail. Spam is already semi-randomized to get past filters, so it wouldn't be hard to have it carry encoded instructions too.
Or have them use instant messaging. The zombie worm should detect which IM program the user uses, and send a message to the control (or one of various fake identities) using that, so the control knows to send messages back using it as well.
Heck, you could have a two-part worm which infects both Web servers and desktops. An infected desktop infects any server it contacts, and an infected server infects any desktop which contacts it. If the server and desktop are both already infected, they pass whatever new messages (commands) they have to each other.
You can get around anomaly detection by not causing any anomalies. Piggypack your messages on already existing connections rather than starting new ones. Basic spy stuff, really.