Technically, since Pi is infinitely long and never repeats, any finite series of digits must appear at some point.
Not necessarily. Determining whether pi is normal number - one that contains all digits with probability tending to 1/10, all 2-digit sequences with probability tending to 1/100, etc. has been quite difficult to the various number theorists who have looked at it.
"Never repeats" implies that you never repeat the entire string forever - not that substrings aren't repeated. It's obvious that 3.14159 1 14159 2 14159 3 14159 42 14159 1337 14 14159 8675309 etc. can be extended infinitely and still would never repeat. It's not so obvious that it contains every possible substring (and this result would directly depend on how you choose the numbers between the 14159s).
Technically, since Pi is infinitely long and never repeats, any finite series of digits must appear at some point.
Not necessarily. Determining whether pi is normal number - one that contains all digits with probability tending to 1/10, all 2-digit sequences with probability tending to 1/100, etc. has been quite difficult to the various number theorists who have looked at it.
"Never repeats" implies that you never repeat the entire string forever - not that substrings aren't repeated. It's obvious that 3.14159 1 14159 2 14159 3 14159 42 14159 1337 14 14159 8675309 etc. can be extended infinitely and still would never repeat. It's not so obvious that it contains every possible substring (and this result would directly depend on how you choose the numbers between the 14159s).
Is spying on your kids OK? Do you read their letters (remember when people wrote letters) or diary?
Well there's a difference between reading letters they're exchanging with people you know and those they're exchanging with people you don't know (or know but don't trust for some reason). I don't think that logging kids' IMs means going each night and reading through the whole conversation, but if there's an odd pattern or something that catches your eye when skimming it occasionally, it's probably worth looking into.
The other side of my point was, do you overprotect your kids? (thus in my opinion lessening their coping skills with what remains at times a brutal world)
Overwatch and overprotect are different. You should let them free with whatever they can cope, as far as possible, but it's an absolute failure of the primary role as a parent if you aren't there to help them when they are unable to handle the brutal world. There's a reason that kids have parents.
I try to talk everyone I know into switching to Linux. They always say "What is Linux?" After I explain this, they say "What is an operating system?"
You didn't say "It's an alternative to Windows that's a lot stabler but can do most of the same things - and it's free, often easier to use, and has more free support available on the web"? You don't need any more explanation than that.
A lot of university networks use Linux or another POSIXy system as a base. If freshman can learn this in a few weeks, the general public can. (And no, I'm not talking about MIT. I'm talking about places like the University of Louisiana.)
As far as rm -rf/, I dearly hope you're not encouraging them to run as root. Because that defeats one of the main purposes of having Linux.
You can't have it both ways. If you put up a blog, on the Internet, for the public to read, and submit your blog to a blog-search site....you expect the public to read it. And Microsoft is part of the public.
So either you say something about Microsoft to the world, and allow anyone (including Microsoft) to reply....or you don't say it to the world.
I quite often post as an AC to protect my precious karma. I want mod points, I haven't had any in weeks - I have excellent karma. I don't get it. Celardore.
Well what do you expect if you never post? I have excellent karma. I don't often get modded up (because I post a lot) but I haven't gotten modded down in months. But the mere fact that I do post, and I get the occasional +3, and I maintain excellent karma, gave me what felt like perpetual mod points for a few weeks.
Go post and contribute to Slashdot and see if the algorithm will think better of you. Why give mod points to an inactive user?
we should outfit them with a camera, GPS device and listening post. Never know what those kids are up to. We should rigidly protect them from all outside evils real and imaginary and then at age 18 turn the poor unsuspecting souls loose. See what happens.
You skipped a step. Or in terms Slashdotters will understand:
1. Attach monitoring device 2. ??? 3. Use protecting mechanisms
There's a huge difference between "no Johnny, the Internet is an evil place, you can't go out there" -> "you're 18, have fun" and "Johnny, we saw you were visiting such and such sites, is that really the best thing to do" -> "you're 18, we've guided you while you were a minor, now you're leaving and we trust that you'll remember what we taught you". The latter gets Johnny to realize, for himself, why he shouldn't visit kinky porn sites*, and won't lead to an inevitable "what's this? oo." or worse "why did mom and dad prevent me from going here? let me see what it is".
So although you are building a straw man, outfitting them with a camera (one way), GPS device (one way), and listening post (one way) is perfectly fine, if you want to go back at some later point and say "why did you go here?" or be able to know where they are and possibly go get them right before they get into serious trouble (e.g., running off with a stranger, committing a crime...). Outfitting them with an electric shock collar, loudspeaker, and security guards trailing at a safe distance would never let them learn. (Of course most kids don't need this much monitoring, but your straw man is stronger than you think.)
*And if the morality that you taught your kids doesn't forbid kinky porn, why are you worried?
Wouldn't you have really liked a (select gender based on sexual preference) about ten years older than you (someone in their 20s), to fuck? As illegal and "wrong" as that is, it's what we've evolved to desire.
So are you advocating that teens should be allowed to have sex with such people?
Because if you're not, then I don't really see the difference between watching porn involving such people and not having any sexual activity/viewing/etc.
So, we've got kids being trained for a test, which is certainly not an "education."
Fallacy of the excluded middle. A well-designed test can and should test for education, not random teachable facts. It is entirely possible to write such a test. School teachers and college professors do so every day. If the state's board of education can't do the same, the fault lies with the test writers, not the good concept of giving tests and the good concept of testing everyone on the same basic material.
If your test is written correctly, the only way you can train kids for the test is by giving them an education and a true understanding of the concepts.
If you really think that accusing the administration of appointing an underqualified black female National Security Advisor in a cynical bid to improve their image in those demographics is in itself racist or sexist
Accusing the administration of appointing a black female to be a black female in a top job is unhelpful. Accusing the administration of appointing an underqualified person (for whatever reason) is completely valid. Insinuating that a black female is by nature underqualified is completely racist and sexist, and blinds you from acknowledging any qualified black female in that office.
How do you know that a white American Yalie descended from the signers of a Constitution would not have blundered equally? How do you know that a blunder is a sign of her being underqualified, and not just an honest blunder?
Looking at people's races and sexes blinds you to the more important questions.
You know, it takes less effort to type "sued" and "hired" instead of "sewed" and "highered". I would understand if your misspellings were shorter than the real words, but....
Hmmm...people get pissed and stop using the browser and then stop using Debian cause the browser sucks.
and they don't restart using Firefox. That's the problem.
Either Debian distributes the same Firefox you'd get from getfirefox.com or./configure --without-anything-weird && make && sudo make install...or they don't call it "Firefox". "Debian Edition Firefox" would probably suffice IMO but that's not how trademark law works.
Something "Debifire" with the pink spiral on a globe would probably be close enough for people to see that it's Firefox, yet removed enough that people see it's something different. That's the point - if Firefox on Debian breaks random stuff, people should know that Firefox on Fedora or Windows or BeOS isn't going to do the same thing.
It is a violation of personal liberty for the State to forceably intervene in citizen's lives in this way.
Gambling is a personal activity which, when not abused, harms no one else.
Indeed. You are perfectly free to go and gamble online and transfer money via PayPal, e-gold, Swiss banks, money orders, hawala, cash in a white sheet of paper in the mail, etc. after the game is over.
What was passed was "a measure that makes it illegal for banks in the US to handle online gambling transactions". Not "a measure that makes it illegal for US citizens to gamble online".
Actually, it's because Firefox is arguably the most popular and most visible Open Source product (practically all current Linux machines have Firefox installed, and a sizable number of Windows and Mac machines do too). You don't see this discussion about the GIMP, Apache, even Emacs, because the user base is smaller and is familiar enough with the product and where it comes from that branding isn't an issue.
Replacing a bad capacitor? (You know, the ones that were bought from a company that stole part of the electrolyte recipe, and thus the capacitors will eventually leak and cause random errors?)
Soldering back a loose contact of any sort - like a loose serial port, a loose PS2 cable, loose contact on the IDE connector on the motherboard, a torn wire between the power switch and the motherboard, etc.?
"Failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted"? I'm fairly sure that the RIAA quitting its frivolous and overbroad lawsuits would be granting much-needed relief.
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See GIMP's scripting where you can do everything you'd normally do from a GUI, without the overhead.
What's really fun is booting into single-user mode, running mount -uw/ if you feel like it, and calling open -a "System Preferences" or any other GUI app. It launches a bare GUI background (kinda like the Installer CD) and runs your application - with root privileges. (It doesn't shut down easily...unless you run the Finder as your application.)
I know this because I was trying to copy the LDAP settings off a Mac that I only had unprivileged access to (but console access, of course, and in a lab where nobody bothers going at midnight). Running Directory Access this way got me exactly what I needed. And it leaves essentially no tracks, if you don't mount read-write until you need to, and you uncleanly shut down the machine so.bash_history and the like are disposed in the next journal replay.
But now, Apple has "installation", where install programs put stuff all over the place, and maybe change the state of the system. Just like Windows. Big step backwards.
A whole lot of programs can still be installed with drag and drop. Never downloaded a disk image that has its background set to "Drag this --> to your Applications folder"?
The installers do things like installing configuration files, prebinding, etc.
The design flaw is apparently in allowing lusers to run as admin and then complain that they were given admin access. Solution: don't give your main user account admin access.
Admin access and root access are two different things. In Unix-y terms, admin just means you're a sudoer. You need to type your password in a dialog if you're sudoing anything that requires admin access. If said "lusers" know not to type their password into sketchy places, then there's no problem.
And if you're not an admin but know an admin password (e.g., running as a nonprivileged user on a personal machine), then you just need to type any admin's password into the same dialog.
If you had read even the summary, you'd know the problem was that the Installer package bypassing the password dialog.
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Technically, since Pi is infinitely long and never repeats, any finite series of digits must appear at some point.
Not necessarily. Determining whether pi is normal number - one that contains all digits with probability tending to 1/10, all 2-digit sequences with probability tending to 1/100, etc. has been quite difficult to the various number theorists who have looked at it.
"Never repeats" implies that you never repeat the entire string forever - not that substrings aren't repeated. It's obvious that 3.14159 1 14159 2 14159 3 14159 42 14159 1337 14 14159 8675309 etc. can be extended infinitely and still would never repeat. It's not so obvious that it contains every possible substring (and this result would directly depend on how you choose the numbers between the 14159s).
Technically, since Pi is infinitely long and never repeats, any finite series of digits must appear at some point.
Not necessarily. Determining whether pi is normal number - one that contains all digits with probability tending to 1/10, all 2-digit sequences with probability tending to 1/100, etc. has been quite difficult to the various number theorists who have looked at it.
"Never repeats" implies that you never repeat the entire string forever - not that substrings aren't repeated. It's obvious that 3.14159 1 14159 2 14159 3 14159 42 14159 1337 14 14159 8675309 etc. can be extended infinitely and still would never repeat. It's not so obvious that it contains every possible substring (and this result would directly depend on how you choose the numbers between the 14159s).
And you didn't complain about "dorra" being misspelled?
Is spying on your kids OK? Do you read their letters (remember when people wrote letters) or diary?
Well there's a difference between reading letters they're exchanging with people you know and those they're exchanging with people you don't know (or know but don't trust for some reason). I don't think that logging kids' IMs means going each night and reading through the whole conversation, but if there's an odd pattern or something that catches your eye when skimming it occasionally, it's probably worth looking into.
The other side of my point was, do you overprotect your kids? (thus in my opinion lessening their coping skills with what remains at times a brutal world)
Overwatch and overprotect are different. You should let them free with whatever they can cope, as far as possible, but it's an absolute failure of the primary role as a parent if you aren't there to help them when they are unable to handle the brutal world. There's a reason that kids have parents.
I try to talk everyone I know into switching to Linux. They always say "What is Linux?" After I explain this, they say "What is an operating system?"
/, I dearly hope you're not encouraging them to run as root. Because that defeats one of the main purposes of having Linux.
You didn't say "It's an alternative to Windows that's a lot stabler but can do most of the same things - and it's free, often easier to use, and has more free support available on the web"? You don't need any more explanation than that.
A lot of university networks use Linux or another POSIXy system as a base. If freshman can learn this in a few weeks, the general public can. (And no, I'm not talking about MIT. I'm talking about places like the University of Louisiana.)
As far as rm -rf
You can't have it both ways. If you put up a blog, on the Internet, for the public to read, and submit your blog to a blog-search site....you expect the public to read it. And Microsoft is part of the public.
So either you say something about Microsoft to the world, and allow anyone (including Microsoft) to reply....or you don't say it to the world.
I quite often post as an AC to protect my precious karma. I want mod points, I haven't had any in weeks - I have excellent karma. I don't get it. Celardore.
Well what do you expect if you never post? I have excellent karma. I don't often get modded up (because I post a lot) but I haven't gotten modded down in months. But the mere fact that I do post, and I get the occasional +3, and I maintain excellent karma, gave me what felt like perpetual mod points for a few weeks.
Go post and contribute to Slashdot and see if the algorithm will think better of you. Why give mod points to an inactive user?
we should outfit them with a camera, GPS device and listening post. Never know what those kids are up to. We should rigidly protect them from all outside evils real and imaginary and then at age 18 turn the poor unsuspecting souls loose. See what happens.
You skipped a step. Or in terms Slashdotters will understand:
1. Attach monitoring device
2. ???
3. Use protecting mechanisms
There's a huge difference between "no Johnny, the Internet is an evil place, you can't go out there" -> "you're 18, have fun" and "Johnny, we saw you were visiting such and such sites, is that really the best thing to do" -> "you're 18, we've guided you while you were a minor, now you're leaving and we trust that you'll remember what we taught you". The latter gets Johnny to realize, for himself, why he shouldn't visit kinky porn sites*, and won't lead to an inevitable "what's this? oo." or worse "why did mom and dad prevent me from going here? let me see what it is".
So although you are building a straw man, outfitting them with a camera (one way), GPS device (one way), and listening post (one way) is perfectly fine, if you want to go back at some later point and say "why did you go here?" or be able to know where they are and possibly go get them right before they get into serious trouble (e.g., running off with a stranger, committing a crime...). Outfitting them with an electric shock collar, loudspeaker, and security guards trailing at a safe distance would never let them learn. (Of course most kids don't need this much monitoring, but your straw man is stronger than you think.)
*And if the morality that you taught your kids doesn't forbid kinky porn, why are you worried?
Does nobody remember the landmark Sony vs. Connectix case?
And the landmark Sony purchase of VGS and its sudden disappearance from the market?
Wouldn't you have really liked a (select gender based on sexual preference) about ten years older than you (someone in their 20s), to fuck? As illegal and "wrong" as that is, it's what we've evolved to desire.
So are you advocating that teens should be allowed to have sex with such people?
Because if you're not, then I don't really see the difference between watching porn involving such people and not having any sexual activity/viewing/etc.
So, we've got kids being trained for a test, which is certainly not an "education."
Fallacy of the excluded middle. A well-designed test can and should test for education, not random teachable facts. It is entirely possible to write such a test. School teachers and college professors do so every day. If the state's board of education can't do the same, the fault lies with the test writers, not the good concept of giving tests and the good concept of testing everyone on the same basic material.
If your test is written correctly, the only way you can train kids for the test is by giving them an education and a true understanding of the concepts.
If you really think that accusing the administration of appointing an underqualified black female National Security Advisor in a cynical bid to improve their image in those demographics is in itself racist or sexist
Accusing the administration of appointing a black female to be a black female in a top job is unhelpful. Accusing the administration of appointing an underqualified person (for whatever reason) is completely valid. Insinuating that a black female is by nature underqualified is completely racist and sexist, and blinds you from acknowledging any qualified black female in that office.
How do you know that a white American Yalie descended from the signers of a Constitution would not have blundered equally? How do you know that a blunder is a sign of her being underqualified, and not just an honest blunder?
Looking at people's races and sexes blinds you to the more important questions.
You know, it takes less effort to type "sued" and "hired" instead of "sewed" and "highered". I would understand if your misspellings were shorter than the real words, but....
Hmmm...people get pissed and stop using the browser and then stop using Debian cause the browser sucks.
./configure --without-anything-weird && make && sudo make install...or they don't call it "Firefox". "Debian Edition Firefox" would probably suffice IMO but that's not how trademark law works.
and they don't restart using Firefox. That's the problem.
Either Debian distributes the same Firefox you'd get from getfirefox.com or
Something "Debifire" with the pink spiral on a globe would probably be close enough for people to see that it's Firefox, yet removed enough that people see it's something different. That's the point - if Firefox on Debian breaks random stuff, people should know that Firefox on Fedora or Windows or BeOS isn't going to do the same thing.
It is a violation of personal liberty for the State to forceably intervene in citizen's lives in this way.
Gambling is a personal activity which, when not abused, harms no one else.
Indeed. You are perfectly free to go and gamble online and transfer money via PayPal, e-gold, Swiss banks, money orders, hawala, cash in a white sheet of paper in the mail, etc. after the game is over.
What was passed was "a measure that makes it illegal for banks in the US to handle online gambling transactions". Not "a measure that makes it illegal for US citizens to gamble online".
the stakes are so low
Actually, it's because Firefox is arguably the most popular and most visible Open Source product (practically all current Linux machines have Firefox installed, and a sizable number of Windows and Mac machines do too). You don't see this discussion about the GIMP, Apache, even Emacs, because the user base is smaller and is familiar enough with the product and where it comes from that branding isn't an issue.
Nope, you'd buy 1600 points for $19.99, which comes out to 98.700625 cents.
Replacing a bad capacitor? (You know, the ones that were bought from a company that stole part of the electrolyte recipe, and thus the capacitors will eventually leak and cause random errors?)
Soldering back a loose contact of any sort - like a loose serial port, a loose PS2 cable, loose contact on the IDE connector on the motherboard, a torn wire between the power switch and the motherboard, etc.?
MuNiX would be closer to the right pronunciation.
"Failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted"? I'm fairly sure that the RIAA quitting its frivolous and overbroad lawsuits would be granting much-needed relief.
See GIMP's scripting where you can do everything you'd normally do from a GUI, without the overhead.
GIMP's scripting can draw pictures from scratch?
What's really fun is booting into single-user mode, running mount -uw / if you feel like it, and calling open -a "System Preferences" or any other GUI app. It launches a bare GUI background (kinda like the Installer CD) and runs your application - with root privileges. (It doesn't shut down easily...unless you run the Finder as your application.)
.bash_history and the like are disposed in the next journal replay.
I know this because I was trying to copy the LDAP settings off a Mac that I only had unprivileged access to (but console access, of course, and in a lab where nobody bothers going at midnight). Running Directory Access this way got me exactly what I needed. And it leaves essentially no tracks, if you don't mount read-write until you need to, and you uncleanly shut down the machine so
But now, Apple has "installation", where install programs put stuff all over the place, and maybe change the state of the system. Just like Windows. Big step backwards.
A whole lot of programs can still be installed with drag and drop. Never downloaded a disk image that has its background set to "Drag this --> to your Applications folder"?
The installers do things like installing configuration files, prebinding, etc.
The design flaw is apparently in allowing lusers to run as admin and then complain that they were given admin access. Solution: don't give your main user account admin access.
Admin access and root access are two different things. In Unix-y terms, admin just means you're a sudoer. You need to type your password in a dialog if you're sudoing anything that requires admin access. If said "lusers" know not to type their password into sketchy places, then there's no problem.
And if you're not an admin but know an admin password (e.g., running as a nonprivileged user on a personal machine), then you just need to type any admin's password into the same dialog.
If you had read even the summary, you'd know the problem was that the Installer package bypassing the password dialog.
Did you hear about the pirate navigator who couldn't find his position in rectangular coordinates?
He decided to change dx dy into ARRR dARRR d theta!