Goodness, you did watch the last 2 presidential elections in the US, didn't you? There was more than enough organized voter fraud and illegal behavior to cause a bunch of UN observers to show up in any current colony of the US or the European Union. Even Cuba and Libya offered to send observers to help straighten out the vote counting, which I thought was amazingly funny.
That's basically correct. There are numerous papers on how human vision, and much of animal vision, is based on edge detection. This allows an easy way to "average" an image and detect its color, or shape, by noticing those edges and comparing it to colors around it.
Amusingly, the detailed knowledge of this is quite old, and goes back to papers by Jerry Lettvin and other researchers in the 1960's. It's fascinating work.
It won't bother them anyway. Many of them steal services, both from ISP's and from zombified Windows clients. It might help slow those few semi-legitimate advertisers who are on the edge of spamming, and would definitely interfere with mailing lists. It's also death to anonymity in email.
Is anyone else conjuring images of a bunch of singing nuns, priests, and children cavorting through the streets singing "Every verb, is s-a-a-a-c-r-e-e-d-d-d! Every verb, is g-g-o-o-o-o-d-d!"
Loss of languages is a natural result of the improved global communications of modern times, just as giving up on measuring apprentices in making buggy whips. Keep a few museums and language centers around for historical preservation, and let's move on.
My goodness. Do I have to smiley caption jokes about lawyers for the humor impaired?
I do, in fact, campaign and vote and fight dangerous laws and even try to get some good ones passed. But go take a look at copyright law for what "rule by lawyers", rather than "rule of law", can lead to.
Your expectation does not match mine. Entire school districts, and especially people looking for educational assistance, take IQ tests as part of their testing procedures. In a number of ways, slow kids are more likely to be tested, although not necessarily likely to be shown the IQ ratings. The games schools and psychologiests play to sculpt the results to make sure the kids get the treatment or resources the schools have, and not resources the schools can't afford or consider awkward to provide, are pretty amazing.
This is partly how the IQ tests wound up skewed so high in their rankings. No one liked to hear that a kid had a 98, but that's not so bad. So instead they've renormalized the tests at, say, 117, they say the kid has a 112 and that's reasonable.
Actually, the tests have been seriously skewed for many, many years. The median the last time I looked was about 117: I think the test creators inflate them deliberately to make their clients feel better, like publishing a "suggested retail price" that is 33% over what anyone actually charges so stores can mark it as "25% off" and actually match everyone else's price. We've certainly seen "re-normalization" of tests as well, which make comparing them between years difficult.
That's interesting. My experience of New York is admittedly in the high rent districts, Manhattan and Wall Street, and among technical people supporting the businesses there. I'll accept that it is skewed that way: the rents are outlandish near their workplaces and within easy commutes of them. I'll even accept that the numerical definition of "lower middle class" matches your numbers, you've provided reasonable cites.
But a spouse in those neighborhoods bringing in $10,000/year isn't even enough to pay for day care and baby sitters for 1 kid for them to work part time, much less 2. Figure child care with a well equipped Manhattan day care at roughly $50/day/kid, figure 2 days of work a week, that's $100/week or easily $5,000/year. And that's after taxes, not counting food and transportation and medical and the extra bedroom. Have a second kid, and there are some economies, but it's still a lot of money.
> SMB was originally invented by Barry Feigenbaum at IBM to turn DOS "Interrupt 33" local file access into a networked file system, but the most common version is modified heavily by Microsoft. Microsoft merged the SMB protocol with the LAN Manager product they had been developing with 3Com, and continued to add features to the protocol in Windows for Workgroups and later versions of Windows.
Your experience with Microsoft documentation and API's also clearly differs from mine. Their LDAP documentation is a sad and fraudulent joke, as is their DNS and SMTP handling. They claim that their API is the Internet standard, then proceed to violate both in both their interfaces and their internal communications among their own software. It's extremely painful, in my experience, if you actually get into the interfaces rather than merely taking their word and using their plugins, and you pay a performance that Microsoft's internal applications don't pay because of their use of secret API's.
> The thug method is better, because the lawyer method encourages lawyers.
Here, I fixed that for you.
While thuggery can be worse, I suggest that you watch some of the nastiness out of the thuggery that is the US court system to see where sending a battle of champions might be faster and cleaner.
Well, yes, but *whose* naughty bits? How many of us could recognize our former sweethearts by their groin bits? At least without reading tattoes or piercings with nametags on them?
So now the thugs wear gray suits with bad ties and fight a battle of attrition in the court room, to see who can wear out the judge first? This is better how? At least with the hired thugs, you knew the results before the end of the day.
New York, San Francisco, LA, and many cities have a monthly rent of more than $1200 for a decent one-bedroom apartment within commuting distance of downtown, or for a cheap small house (if you can find one!). Add a small family, and it becomes unaffordable for someone even making $60,000/year.
Yes, I'm afraid it's lower middle class in those urban areas.
Goodness. I really don't think so. Porn reconstruction is easy: nipples are nipples, groin bits are groin bits. They're generally soft tissue that is easily deformed, they're not that recognizable as belonging to a specific to individual, and no one cares if they're a bit distorted in reconstruction.
Faces: oh, my goodness, faces are a different story. Facial recognition is deeply wired into the human brain and human behavior, one of the first skills an infant learns is whom their parent's faces belong to and what their expressions mean. Blurring them, then restoring them in a reliable enough way to recognize them reliably seems quite awkward, and computationally quite expensive.
The corporate suit has been conditioned to do this. It's partly the "sooper traid sekrits", but the reason the engineers go along with it to hide the bad code. This is particularly true of lower level project managers, who are often engineers who have been "kicked upstairs" to get them out of technical leadership and were never great engineers. They are people who will protect their own flawed efforts, wrapped around the sterling efforts of their more tecnically astute underlings, to avoid embarassment.
Don't forget when "New Coke" came out, which tasted more like Pepsi, then they realized people liked Pepsi in taste tests but actually preferred to buy the old Coke, and came out with "Classic Coke". But in the process they stopped using cane sugar and switched to corn syrup, at least in the US.
Try the Coke that's kosher for Passover and notice the taste difference: the kosher stuff has cane sugar. (I'm an engineer: I've drunk enough of the stuff on late night work sessions to be a connoisseur: yeah, there's a taste difference.)
Nahhh, they stopped it when someone redirected the email address to submit CPAN modules to this project, and the next 3 modules submitted won first, second, and fourth place.
You don't actually write much open source software, do you?
The result with better open source is that the patches contributed by your customers, and partners, and sometimes even by your computers, allow you to evolve the code far faster, more reliably, and flexibly than if you keep it internal. If your work is good, it allows your developers to spend time adding features and integrating into new environments, instead of fixing debris that they hadn't noticed. It does force you to evolve your software and your codebase, but it protects us from you going out of business for other reasons and losing the ability to continue our work.
And that protects you, too, with open source development tools, testing environments, libraries, and toolkits.
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Oh my, no. That would be littering!
Use them for bio-diesel. (Let's see if I can get any mileage out of that joke.)
Goodness, you did watch the last 2 presidential elections in the US, didn't you? There was more than enough organized voter fraud and illegal behavior to cause a bunch of UN observers to show up in any current colony of the US or the European Union. Even Cuba and Libya offered to send observers to help straighten out the vote counting, which I thought was amazingly funny.
That's basically correct. There are numerous papers on how human vision, and much of animal vision, is based on edge detection. This allows an easy way to "average" an image and detect its color, or shape, by noticing those edges and comparing it to colors around it.
Amusingly, the detailed knowledge of this is quite old, and goes back to papers by Jerry Lettvin and other researchers in the 1960's. It's fascinating work.
It won't bother them anyway. Many of them steal services, both from ISP's and from zombified Windows clients. It might help slow those few semi-legitimate advertisers who are on the edge of spamming, and would definitely interfere with mailing lists. It's also death to anonymity in email.
And they would fight it just as effectively. I would expect spam to triple, much like terrorism has been growing.
Is anyone else conjuring images of a bunch of singing nuns, priests, and children cavorting through the streets singing "Every verb, is s-a-a-a-c-r-e-e-d-d-d! Every verb, is g-g-o-o-o-o-d-d!"
Loss of languages is a natural result of the improved global communications of modern times, just as giving up on measuring apprentices in making buggy whips. Keep a few museums and language centers around for historical preservation, and let's move on.
My goodness. Do I have to smiley caption jokes about lawyers for the humor impaired?
I do, in fact, campaign and vote and fight dangerous laws and even try to get some good ones passed. But go take a look at copyright law for what "rule by lawyers", rather than "rule of law", can lead to.
Your expectation does not match mine. Entire school districts, and especially people looking for educational assistance, take IQ tests as part of their testing procedures. In a number of ways, slow kids are more likely to be tested, although not necessarily likely to be shown the IQ ratings. The games schools and psychologiests play to sculpt the results to make sure the kids get the treatment or resources the schools have, and not resources the schools can't afford or consider awkward to provide, are pretty amazing.
This is partly how the IQ tests wound up skewed so high in their rankings. No one liked to hear that a kid had a 98, but that's not so bad. So instead they've renormalized the tests at, say, 117, they say the kid has a 112 and that's reasonable.
Welcome to zombie-land, where Windows boxes worldwide have their CPU time rented to spammers. It's a business, it continues to be profitable.
VD is a social problem. Social changes are only part of the solution, some technology to protect the innocent is useful as well.
Actually, the tests have been seriously skewed for many, many years. The median the last time I looked was about 117: I think the test creators inflate them deliberately to make their clients feel better, like publishing a "suggested retail price" that is 33% over what anyone actually charges so stores can mark it as "25% off" and actually match everyone else's price. We've certainly seen "re-normalization" of tests as well, which make comparing them between years difficult.
That's interesting. My experience of New York is admittedly in the high rent districts, Manhattan and Wall Street, and among technical people supporting the businesses there. I'll accept that it is skewed that way: the rents are outlandish near their workplaces and within easy commutes of them. I'll even accept that the numerical definition of "lower middle class" matches your numbers, you've provided reasonable cites.
But a spouse in those neighborhoods bringing in $10,000/year isn't even enough to pay for day care and baby sitters for 1 kid for them to work part time, much less 2. Figure child care with a well equipped Manhattan day care at roughly $50/day/kid, figure 2 days of work a week, that's $100/week or easily $5,000/year. And that's after taxes, not counting food and transportation and medical and the extra bedroom. Have a second kid, and there are some economies, but it's still a lot of money.
Try again. From Wikipedia:
> SMB was originally invented by Barry Feigenbaum at IBM to turn DOS "Interrupt 33" local file access into a networked file system, but the most common version is modified heavily by Microsoft. Microsoft merged the SMB protocol with the LAN Manager product they had been developing with 3Com, and continued to add features to the protocol in Windows for Workgroups and later versions of Windows.
Your experience with Microsoft documentation and API's also clearly differs from mine. Their LDAP documentation is a sad and fraudulent joke, as is their DNS and SMTP handling. They claim that their API is the Internet standard, then proceed to violate both in both their interfaces and their internal communications among their own software. It's extremely painful, in my experience, if you actually get into the interfaces rather than merely taking their word and using their plugins, and you pay a performance that Microsoft's internal applications don't pay because of their use of secret API's.
> The thug method is better, because the lawyer method encourages lawyers.
Here, I fixed that for you.
While thuggery can be worse, I suggest that you watch some of the nastiness out of the thuggery that is the US court system to see where sending a battle of champions might be faster and cleaner.
Well, yes, but *whose* naughty bits? How many of us could recognize our former sweethearts by their groin bits? At least without reading tattoes or piercings with nametags on them?
There's no space after that colon, it's spewing a solid stream!
Thanks, I'll be here until Thursday. Try the veal.
So now the thugs wear gray suits with bad ties and fight a battle of attrition in the court room, to see who can wear out the judge first? This is better how? At least with the hired thugs, you knew the results before the end of the day.
This lawyer is a divorce attorney, right?
New York, San Francisco, LA, and many cities have a monthly rent of more than $1200 for a decent one-bedroom apartment within commuting distance of downtown, or for a cheap small house (if you can find one!). Add a small family, and it becomes unaffordable for someone even making $60,000/year.
Yes, I'm afraid it's lower middle class in those urban areas.
Goodness. I really don't think so. Porn reconstruction is easy: nipples are nipples, groin bits are groin bits. They're generally soft tissue that is easily deformed, they're not that recognizable as belonging to a specific to individual, and no one cares if they're a bit distorted in reconstruction.
Faces: oh, my goodness, faces are a different story. Facial recognition is deeply wired into the human brain and human behavior, one of the first skills an infant learns is whom their parent's faces belong to and what their expressions mean. Blurring them, then restoring them in a reliable enough way to recognize them reliably seems quite awkward, and computationally quite expensive.
The corporate suit has been conditioned to do this. It's partly the "sooper traid sekrits", but the reason the engineers go along with it to hide the bad code. This is particularly true of lower level project managers, who are often engineers who have been "kicked upstairs" to get them out of technical leadership and were never great engineers. They are people who will protect their own flawed efforts, wrapped around the sterling efforts of their more tecnically astute underlings, to avoid embarassment.
Don't forget when "New Coke" came out, which tasted more like Pepsi, then they realized people liked Pepsi in taste tests but actually preferred to buy the old Coke, and came out with "Classic Coke". But in the process they stopped using cane sugar and switched to corn syrup, at least in the US.
Try the Coke that's kosher for Passover and notice the taste difference: the kosher stuff has cane sugar. (I'm an engineer: I've drunk enough of the stuff on late night work sessions to be a connoisseur: yeah, there's a taste difference.)
Nothing, if it's a BSD license. GPL stops it in a legal sense, though not a technical one.
Nahhh, they stopped it when someone redirected the email address to submit CPAN modules to this project, and the next 3 modules submitted won first, second, and fourth place.
You don't actually write much open source software, do you?
The result with better open source is that the patches contributed by your customers, and partners, and sometimes even by your computers, allow you to evolve the code far faster, more reliably, and flexibly than if you keep it internal. If your work is good, it allows your developers to spend time adding features and integrating into new environments, instead of fixing debris that they hadn't noticed. It does force you to evolve your software and your codebase, but it protects us from you going out of business for other reasons and losing the ability to continue our work.
And that protects you, too, with open source development tools, testing environments, libraries, and toolkits.