I failed too. I got a display that looked like there were horses in each picture. Apparantly they were mice. (I've never seen anybody ride a mouse before.)
Like the post mentioned, the spam interceptor captcha was a really easy one. In fact you could hardly get any simpler. I suspect there are ones that are very difficult to break, or have not yet been broken. (We're talking strictly by a computer algorithm, this excludes posting the captcha to some site).
Some more challenging captchas would involve a bit of artificial intelligence. For instance you could show a picture of some sort of animal and ask one of a number of questions about the picture (like where does this animal normally live, does this animal have wings, what direction is this animal facing, etc. ) This could easily be made more difficult by having several different animals appear and directing the question to one of them in particular.
Go out some night after it's just snowed a few inches of light, dry snow. Late (like 2:00 am).
Yes, caves can be silent as well. I've been in several along the Wyoming/Mt border that fit the bill. But at that location, even outdoors is pretty quiet, if there's no wind.
The situation at TMI was pretty serious. Although
no one died, the fuel rods in the core of the
reactor did melt. That's how hot it was. There was a lot of contamination inside of the containment building (it served its designed purpose) and it
took a long time to clean it up.
Yes, not too many people know about this one. That must have been quite something for that worker to get impaled to the roof of the containment building with a control rod.
3) It is my opinion that the worst part of Chernobyl was the way the communist regime tried to keep it a secret, until they found out that it was just so big they simply couldn't keep it a secret anymore.
Yes, their attempts to keep it under cover were truely appalling. The news about this first came
from sources that were monitoring sensors Outside of the USSR. These sensors had detected abnormally high levels of radiation. Even then they didn't admit to the seriousness of the accident for a while. This was mentioned in
another post as well.
The eye is only sensitive to visible light. Its just that the light was so intense that it actually shone through her hands. You can see this effect with some of those little 3mw red lasers you can buy. They can shine right through your hand as well.
I'm not the final authority on this, but from what I've read from articles & books here's how I understand it.
Imagine mars, several billion years ago, being a planet somewhat like earth. It has a reasonable atmosphere, surface water, and a magnetic field encompassing the planet.
The magnetic field around the planet deflects the solar wind, a stream of high energy, ionized particles eminating from the sun. This prevents most of these high energy particles from hitting the atmosphere of the planet. The molecules in the upper regions of the atmosphere do not have enough energy to escape the gravitational field of mars, thus they remain in the atmosphere of the planet.
The magnetic field is generated by liquid metal that forms the center of the planet (here on earth it's mostly iron, I expect that would be the case for mars as well).
The metal is still hot and liquid from the heat that was left over from the rocks, asteroids and whatnot that violently slammed together to form the planet. The liquid metal is in motion and the currents in the center of the planet generate the magnetic field.
Now overtime the core of liquid metal in mars gradually cools. The
liquid metal solidifies and stops moving. The magnetic field dies away. The solar wind bombards the atmosphere. The molecules in the upper part of the atmosphere now are knocked about with sufficient energy to overcome the gravitation pull of the planet. They are dragged along outward from the sun by the solar wind.
Eventually the atmosphere thins out. The atmospheric pressure on the surface of the planet becomes so low that water from the planets oceans and lakes vaporizes into the thin atmosphere. These particles, as well are hit by the solar wind and gain enough energy so that they are stripped away to the outer regions of the solar system.
Eventually the surface water has all evaporated and mars is left as it is today.
Why hasn't the same thing happened to earth?
Two words: It's bigger (more massive).
The core of the planet is still mostly molten iron. We still have a magnetic field around the planet to protect the atmosphere. The gravitational force between the molecules and atmosphere is somewhat larger as well. The amount of energy that a molecule needs to gain to
reach escape velocity is more than it would be on mars.
Even more eye-opening is the fact that literal interpretations of the Bible are extremely new. Such intellectual hobbling wasn't popular until the 19th or 20th century
The reason major manufacturers only ship machines with MS software installed, is that their agreements with MS prohibit them from shipping anything but MS operating system software, unless they want to pay normal price for the MS software (i.e. add $100 - $200 to the price of their machines with MS software on it).
The pavement looks like an earthquake zone, of course, but as a motorcyclist, I can confirm that without the proper weight, some lights will *never* change. (I've put on a few pounds. Still, nothing.)
That sounds familiar. One of those sensor activated lights at an intersection near where I used to live didn't activate for my Jeep (high clearance). This was in a left turn lane. I would just go whenever the traffic was safe, right on through the red light.
In downtown Minneapolis they seem to have solved the problem with pedestrians & traffic. They're called skyways. But who'ld want to be waiting on the corner for 5 minutes for a 'walk' signal in -10 degree (Farenheit) weather anyway.
The US patent law is based on the concept of first-to-discover.
The Japanese patent law is based on first-to-file.
This is incorrect. U.S. Issues the patent to the first person to file as well. I was reading a book the other day about the invention of the telephone. The guy who invented it first, by several months, (not Mr. Bell) got his patent application into the office two hours later than Mr. Bell. We all know who received the patent.
I wish I could remember the name of the book, right now.
I don't have to write a C compiler, because many excellent enough ones are already available. (Thanks, compiler writers.)
That was precisely the point of the grandparent. Because you do not see the pain involved with using the x86 architecture, you have no incentive to change to a different one.
Intel would like you to change, however, because it makes their job of designing better chips (and compilers that support them) easier.
The pain of a wacky instruction set is isolated in the translation part of the chip, and doesn't significantly hold back the chip in other ways.
Actually it does. The extra translation stage leads to longer pipeline delays, which tend to slow down the chip when has to branch. Most of these delays are mitigated by branch prediction logic in the processor. This branch prediction logic adds considerably to the complexity of the chip (hence size and cost). It costs intel lots of development bucks to keep this compatibility and while trying to increase processor performance.
Intel is seeing the end of the road for the x86 architecture and wants to start down a new path with the IA64 architecture.
Unless you build a filter that can fully understand the text (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, world knowledge, the whole shebang), an adversary can always construct spam to defeat your filter.
An automated filter may not ever be 100% accurate, but I find even if they're only 95% accurate at recognizing spam, it's useful for me.
I'm sure some filters can place mail into categories such as "amost definitely spam", "probably spam", "might be spam", and "not spam". That would be helpful as well.
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Probably mostly Baccus -- The god of alcaholic drink .
Remember to replace the nanofluid every three years or 36,000 minutes.
I failed too. I got a display that looked like there were horses in each picture. Apparantly they were mice. (I've never seen anybody ride a mouse before.)
Some more challenging captchas would involve a bit of artificial intelligence. For instance you could show a picture of some sort of animal and ask one of a number of questions about the picture (like where does this animal normally live, does this animal have wings, what direction is this animal facing, etc. ) This could easily be made more difficult by having several different animals appear and directing the question to one of them in particular.
Is this what they mean when they advertise a blade server?
Galaxies evolved so quickly in the universe that their most important changes happened within a billion years of the big bang. "
Only a cosmologist would call one billion years quick.
Go out some night after it's just snowed a few inches of light, dry snow. Late (like 2:00 am). Yes, caves can be silent as well. I've been in several along the Wyoming/Mt border that fit the bill. But at that location, even outdoors is pretty quiet, if there's no wind.
The situation at TMI was pretty serious. Although no one died, the fuel rods in the core of the reactor did melt. That's how hot it was. There was a lot of contamination inside of the containment building (it served its designed purpose) and it took a long time to clean it up.
Yes, not too many people know about this one. That must have been quite something for that worker to get impaled to the roof of the containment building with a control rod.
Yes, their attempts to keep it under cover were truely appalling. The news about this first came from sources that were monitoring sensors Outside of the USSR. These sensors had detected abnormally high levels of radiation. Even then they didn't admit to the seriousness of the accident for a while. This was mentioned in another post as well.
The eye is only sensitive to visible light. Its just that the light was so intense that it actually shone through her hands. You can see this effect with some of those little 3mw red lasers you can buy. They can shine right through your hand as well.
Are you implying that CowboyNeal has committed a crime?
I'm not the final authority on this, but from what I've read from articles & books here's how I understand it.
Imagine mars, several billion years ago, being a planet somewhat like earth. It has a reasonable atmosphere, surface water, and a magnetic field encompassing the planet.
The magnetic field around the planet deflects the solar wind, a stream of high energy, ionized particles eminating from the sun. This prevents most of these high energy particles from hitting the atmosphere of the planet. The molecules in the upper regions of the atmosphere do not have enough energy to escape the gravitational field of mars, thus they remain in the atmosphere of the planet.
The magnetic field is generated by liquid metal that forms the center of the planet (here on earth it's mostly iron, I expect that would be the case for mars as well). The metal is still hot and liquid from the heat that was left over from the rocks, asteroids and whatnot that violently slammed together to form the planet. The liquid metal is in motion and the currents in the center of the planet generate the magnetic field.
Now overtime the core of liquid metal in mars gradually cools. The liquid metal solidifies and stops moving. The magnetic field dies away. The solar wind bombards the atmosphere. The molecules in the upper part of the atmosphere now are knocked about with sufficient energy to overcome the gravitation pull of the planet. They are dragged along outward from the sun by the solar wind.
Eventually the atmosphere thins out. The atmospheric pressure on the surface of the planet becomes so low that water from the planets oceans and lakes vaporizes into the thin atmosphere. These particles, as well are hit by the solar wind and gain enough energy so that they are stripped away to the outer regions of the solar system.
Eventually the surface water has all evaporated and mars is left as it is today.
Why hasn't the same thing happened to earth? Two words: It's bigger (more massive). The core of the planet is still mostly molten iron. We still have a magnetic field around the planet to protect the atmosphere. The gravitational force between the molecules and atmosphere is somewhat larger as well. The amount of energy that a molecule needs to gain to reach escape velocity is more than it would be on mars.
Me thinks Galeleo would disagree.
Oh, they're just being Darl'ings.
The reason major manufacturers only ship machines with MS software installed, is that their agreements with MS prohibit them from shipping anything but MS operating system software, unless they want to pay normal price for the MS software (i.e. add $100 - $200 to the price of their machines with MS software on it).
I wonder if he was referring to his own security, being that there seems to be so many dissatified microsoft customers.
That sounds familiar. One of those sensor activated lights at an intersection near where I used to live didn't activate for my Jeep (high clearance). This was in a left turn lane. I would just go whenever the traffic was safe, right on through the red light.
In downtown Minneapolis they seem to have solved the problem with pedestrians & traffic. They're called skyways. But who'ld want to be waiting on the corner for 5 minutes for a 'walk' signal in -10 degree (Farenheit) weather anyway.
You mean there are people in this world who actually wait for a 'walk' signal?
This is incorrect. U.S. Issues the patent to the first person to file as well. I was reading a book the other day about the invention of the telephone. The guy who invented it first, by several months, (not Mr. Bell) got his patent application into the office two hours later than Mr. Bell. We all know who received the patent.
I wish I could remember the name of the book, right now.
I can see it now: Vatican installs Pope Penquin I as successor to ...
I betcha the big guys at Microsquishy are getting preety esteemed with all the news of government agencies and corporations migrating to Linux.
That was precisely the point of the grandparent. Because you do not see the pain involved with using the x86 architecture, you have no incentive to change to a different one.
Intel would like you to change, however, because it makes their job of designing better chips (and compilers that support them) easier.
The pain of a wacky instruction set is isolated in the translation part of the chip, and doesn't significantly hold back the chip in other ways.
Actually it does. The extra translation stage leads to longer pipeline delays, which tend to slow down the chip when has to branch. Most of these delays are mitigated by branch prediction logic in the processor. This branch prediction logic adds considerably to the complexity of the chip (hence size and cost). It costs intel lots of development bucks to keep this compatibility and while trying to increase processor performance.
Intel is seeing the end of the road for the x86 architecture and wants to start down a new path with the IA64 architecture.
An automated filter may not ever be 100% accurate, but I find even if they're only 95% accurate at recognizing spam, it's useful for me.
I'm sure some filters can place mail into categories such as "amost definitely spam", "probably spam", "might be spam", and "not spam". That would be helpful as well.