I had completely forgotten Knol existed until right now. I promptly did a quick search for a popular video game's title and was given this.
Chilling the circuits is still not efficient if you are using more electricity to do it... But chilling the circuits in outer space could be done efficiently by using the cold environment of space itself to chill them...
It looks like they've basically reinvented Geocities.
If they'd measured pagefaults, they could've reported pagefaults. They didn't. RAM usage appears to be the total basis for the article, so his concern is a genuine one. We don't know enough about the study at this stage to dismiss it.
To complete the circle, many of the technologies behind the original space race likely wouldn't have been funded if they didn't have nuclear weapons applications. Big-ticket science has, historically, hitched a ride on military expendature. Whether that's desirable is a whole other question, but there you go.
I'm not sure it'd be such a pain. Windows already demands to restart after critical updates anyway. Couldn't it throw a flag to boot from a secondary, encrypted, trusted "update partition" that only the Windows root can edit, and only during shutdown, then use that to mount the disk as read-only and install updates? You could call it Microsoft SafeUpdate, part of the Trusted Computing Initiative. Heck, make the secondary partition an SSD, give the hardware manufacturers a reason to get behind it.
Of course, it depends upon the premise that countermeasure development by wholly compliant powers would reach such a magnitude as to outstrip weapons development by the noncompliant powers, to such an extent that weapons development becomes pointless for the latter. If that's not the case, then it falls right over. It's not a serious proposal, just an odd thought.
Along those lines I would argue that a solution is to ban nuclear weapons development (and redevelopment) point blank but permit nuclear countermeasure development. Knowing that they can't boost their capacity for offense any more, a countermeasure arms race will ensue amounst the nuke-holding powers until the entire world's nuclear arsenal is literally useless. It can then be decommissioned.
Depends on how good the mirror coating is. No mirror is perfect, so it will absorb some of the energy. If the coating starts to degrade, then you get a runaway reduction in effectiveness until the coating's vapourised. Whether that's on a short enough timescale for the laser to score a hit is the real question.
Wow, I wonder if everyone can "respectfully decline to accept" the court's agreed-upon settlement in a civil case. "No, we're going to keep coming back until Walmart pays me one trillion dollars to replace this faulty TV."
No, it's like saying that if a county dairy poisons its milk, it's worse because it adversely affects more people, but if a solitary farmer does it, it's not as bad because it affects fewer people. It's not the status of the offender, it's the consequences of their actions.
Hence "if". I'm pointing out that identical actions do not lead to identical repurcussions and should not necessarily be treated equally, and probably won't be by the courts.
They're not wasting valuable Opera Mobile time on porting Mini, because Mini doesn't need to be ported. It's a Java app, it goes where the virtual machines are.
The current Mini beta is in many respects as good as Mobile (the interfaces are indistinguishable for starters), you should give it a shot.
It's not the same thing in practice, though. The actions of a corporation with a near monopoly on the market have different repurcussions than the same actions performed by a minority player. I mean, if Apple's locked down the iPhone browser, they've removed browser developers' ability to compete, and customers' browser choice, but only on the iPhone. They're a minority player in a competitive market, so the remaining 85% of smartphone owners are unaffected, and the 15% with iPhones can switch easily. If Microsoft locks down the Windows browser, they've removed browser developers' ability to reach the overwhelming majority of computer users, and thanks to Windows' near-monopoly, there's precious little to switch to.
It doesn't say that it's mandatory, just that it's available. XBox Live and Steam both have an online presence in singleplayer games, it didn't stop you starting the software offline.
No matter how quick the method gets, having to work with hydrofluoric acid with the target machine means it's a risky procedure, as in "do you like having bones in your fingers?". It's not something you can reduce to a script and rattle out. It's not going to scale well to multiple machines, either.
That in itself is an argument against obscuring this exploit, of course. No script kiddies were going to suddenly run out and apply this opportunistically, so the risk of releasing it is low to nonexistent. Frankly if you're going to encase the component in epoxy, the possibility of an eavesdropping hack is implicit.
Someone is calling him, may have sent something, some mentions of calling back. It's better than nothing, although obviously it's of no use in actually archiving and searching message content.
"Hi, Stephen, it’s Natasha from BBC Newsnight in London. Just to say I’ve sent you two texts. One is to say that we could do it at eleven am your time after the launch, or any time sooner after the launch, or we could do it at midday as we suggested earlier. I, er, if you could text me back about that, and I’ve sent you the details of Skype that you need to do too. If you could give me a call back. Enjoy the launch and I’ll speak to you after that. Thank you Bye."
I’ve transcribed it from the voicemail sound file that resides online on my inbox on the Google Voice site. All fine. I have also ticked the option for Google Voice to send me a text transcript of any voicemail. Below is their interpretation of Natasha’s message it’s rather endearing how hopelessly wrong the largest company on earth gets it.
"Hi Stephen. It’s Jeff from BBC needs in nuns. And just to say I sent 80 tax, one, if to say we could do it. I left in i a m your time off to go into any time soon, or the court and full we could grab me today as we suggested at. A. F. I. If you could text me back byebye. I’ve sent you the details of skylights that you need to 3 T if you could give me a call. Bye. Enjoy the loans. I’ll speak to you after that. Thank you. Bye"
On a more serious note, such transcripts at least allow you to get an idea of the rough content and tone of a message without having to stop and listen to it, a much more concentration-intensive task.
This meta-analysis found that there was a statistically reliable link between internet use and depression, but one so small as to be insignificant. In fact, it found that internet was responsible for between 0.02% and 0.03% of total changes in mood (stats geeks: the variance was not reported directly but I calculated it from the r by the coefficient of determination).
In other words, internet use explains so little of a person's depression that it's irrelevant. It's like knowing that hypothermia is a serious medical condition and that drinking a glass of water reliably lowers the body temperature, but by such a small amount as to be medically unimportant.
To be fair, the government can't be expected to make a policy change on the basis of every pilot study that turns into a media circus. Nothing would get done and many would suffer.
What staggers me is that Wakefield is being lofted as some sort of rebel hero by the alt-med community. Let's look at what he did:
* Allegedly obtained a patent on a new single vaccine * Was paid hundreds of thousands of pounds by lawyers interested in finding dangerous side-effects in the existing treatment * Used child patients as experimental subjects without oversight or approval or competence * Concealed or directly lied about the above in his publication of the results
He's a dangerous maverick out to make money and notoreity by exploiting autistic children.
What are you talking about? Ten of his co-authors retracted part of the paper. That section:
"Interpretation. We identified associated gastrointestinal disease and developmental regression in a group of previously normal children, which was generally associated in time with possible environmental triggers."
The retraction:
"We wish to make it clear that in this paper no causal link was established between (the) vaccine and autism, as the data were insufficient. However the possibility of such a link was raised, and consequent events have had major implications for public health. In view of this, we consider now is the appropriate time that we should together formally retract the interpretation placed upon these findings in the paper, according to precedent."
Furthermore the "threats" you refer to simply do not exist, and you have invented them out of whole cloth.
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I had completely forgotten Knol existed until right now. I promptly did a quick search for a popular video game's title and was given this.
Chilling the circuits is still not efficient if you are using more electricity to do it... But chilling the circuits in outer space could be done efficiently by using the cold environment of space itself to chill them...
It looks like they've basically reinvented Geocities.
If they'd measured pagefaults, they could've reported pagefaults. They didn't. RAM usage appears to be the total basis for the article, so his concern is a genuine one. We don't know enough about the study at this stage to dismiss it.
To complete the circle, many of the technologies behind the original space race likely wouldn't have been funded if they didn't have nuclear weapons applications. Big-ticket science has, historically, hitched a ride on military expendature. Whether that's desirable is a whole other question, but there you go.
A standard SIM is 25mm by 15mm. 1/4 wavelength at that frequency is about... 25mm.
Nokia is already working on that, albeit opt-in.
I'm not sure it'd be such a pain. Windows already demands to restart after critical updates anyway. Couldn't it throw a flag to boot from a secondary, encrypted, trusted "update partition" that only the Windows root can edit, and only during shutdown, then use that to mount the disk as read-only and install updates? You could call it Microsoft SafeUpdate, part of the Trusted Computing Initiative. Heck, make the secondary partition an SSD, give the hardware manufacturers a reason to get behind it.
Of course, it depends upon the premise that countermeasure development by wholly compliant powers would reach such a magnitude as to outstrip weapons development by the noncompliant powers, to such an extent that weapons development becomes pointless for the latter. If that's not the case, then it falls right over. It's not a serious proposal, just an odd thought.
Along those lines I would argue that a solution is to ban nuclear weapons development (and redevelopment) point blank but permit nuclear countermeasure development. Knowing that they can't boost their capacity for offense any more, a countermeasure arms race will ensue amounst the nuke-holding powers until the entire world's nuclear arsenal is literally useless. It can then be decommissioned.
Depends on how good the mirror coating is. No mirror is perfect, so it will absorb some of the energy. If the coating starts to degrade, then you get a runaway reduction in effectiveness until the coating's vapourised. Whether that's on a short enough timescale for the laser to score a hit is the real question.
Wow, I wonder if everyone can "respectfully decline to accept" the court's agreed-upon settlement in a civil case. "No, we're going to keep coming back until Walmart pays me one trillion dollars to replace this faulty TV."
No, it's like saying that if a county dairy poisons its milk, it's worse because it adversely affects more people, but if a solitary farmer does it, it's not as bad because it affects fewer people. It's not the status of the offender, it's the consequences of their actions.
Hence "if". I'm pointing out that identical actions do not lead to identical repurcussions and should not necessarily be treated equally, and probably won't be by the courts.
They're not wasting valuable Opera Mobile time on porting Mini, because Mini doesn't need to be ported. It's a Java app, it goes where the virtual machines are.
The current Mini beta is in many respects as good as Mobile (the interfaces are indistinguishable for starters), you should give it a shot.
It's not the same thing in practice, though. The actions of a corporation with a near monopoly on the market have different repurcussions than the same actions performed by a minority player. I mean, if Apple's locked down the iPhone browser, they've removed browser developers' ability to compete, and customers' browser choice, but only on the iPhone. They're a minority player in a competitive market, so the remaining 85% of smartphone owners are unaffected, and the 15% with iPhones can switch easily. If Microsoft locks down the Windows browser, they've removed browser developers' ability to reach the overwhelming majority of computer users, and thanks to Windows' near-monopoly, there's precious little to switch to.
It doesn't say that it's mandatory, just that it's available. XBox Live and Steam both have an online presence in singleplayer games, it didn't stop you starting the software offline.
No matter how quick the method gets, having to work with hydrofluoric acid with the target machine means it's a risky procedure, as in "do you like having bones in your fingers?". It's not something you can reduce to a script and rattle out. It's not going to scale well to multiple machines, either.
That in itself is an argument against obscuring this exploit, of course. No script kiddies were going to suddenly run out and apply this opportunistically, so the risk of releasing it is low to nonexistent. Frankly if you're going to encase the component in epoxy, the possibility of an eavesdropping hack is implicit.
Someone is calling him, may have sent something, some mentions of calling back. It's better than nothing, although obviously it's of no use in actually archiving and searching message content.
That reminded me of:
Mu...Murphy... You, you are an elf... uncontrollably... I think!
Stephen Fry offers...
"Hi, Stephen, it’s Natasha from BBC Newsnight in London. Just to say I’ve sent you two texts. One is to say that we could do it at eleven am your time after the launch, or any time sooner after the launch, or we could do it at midday as we suggested earlier. I, er, if you could text me back about that, and I’ve sent you the details of Skype that you need to do too. If you could give me a call back. Enjoy the launch and I’ll speak to you after that. Thank you Bye."
I’ve transcribed it from the voicemail sound file that resides online on my inbox on the Google Voice site. All fine. I have also ticked the option for Google Voice to send me a text transcript of any voicemail. Below is their interpretation of Natasha’s message it’s rather endearing how hopelessly wrong the largest company on earth gets it.
"Hi Stephen. It’s Jeff from BBC needs in nuns. And just to say I sent 80 tax, one, if to say we could do it. I left in i a m your time off to go into any time soon, or the court and full we could grab me today as we suggested at. A. F. I. If you could text me back byebye. I’ve sent you the details of skylights that you need to 3 T if you could give me a call. Bye. Enjoy the loans. I’ll speak to you after that. Thank you. Bye"
On a more serious note, such transcripts at least allow you to get an idea of the rough content and tone of a message without having to stop and listen to it, a much more concentration-intensive task.
Not right now. They're still taking...
*sunglasses*
Baby steps.
Mind Hacks, the author of which was misquoted when the BBC ran the original story, notes:
This meta-analysis found that there was a statistically reliable link between internet use and depression, but one so small as to be insignificant. In fact, it found that internet was responsible for between 0.02% and 0.03% of total changes in mood (stats geeks: the variance was not reported directly but I calculated it from the r by the coefficient of determination).
In other words, internet use explains so little of a person's depression that it's irrelevant. It's like knowing that hypothermia is a serious medical condition and that drinking a glass of water reliably lowers the body temperature, but by such a small amount as to be medically unimportant.
It's not that our science reporting is bad, it's that our newspapers are awful, full stop.
To be fair, the government can't be expected to make a policy change on the basis of every pilot study that turns into a media circus. Nothing would get done and many would suffer.
What staggers me is that Wakefield is being lofted as some sort of rebel hero by the alt-med community. Let's look at what he did:
* Allegedly obtained a patent on a new single vaccine
* Was paid hundreds of thousands of pounds by lawyers interested in finding dangerous side-effects in the existing treatment
* Used child patients as experimental subjects without oversight or approval or competence
* Concealed or directly lied about the above in his publication of the results
He's a dangerous maverick out to make money and notoreity by exploiting autistic children.
What are you talking about? Ten of his co-authors retracted part of the paper. That section:
"Interpretation. We identified associated gastrointestinal disease and developmental regression in a group of previously normal children, which was generally associated in time with possible environmental triggers."
The retraction:
"We wish to make it clear that in this paper no causal link was established between (the) vaccine and autism, as the data were insufficient. However the possibility of such a link was raised, and consequent events have had major implications for public health. In view of this, we consider now is the appropriate time that we should together formally retract the interpretation placed upon these findings in the paper, according to precedent."
Furthermore the "threats" you refer to simply do not exist, and you have invented them out of whole cloth.