Vehicle speed is like ping times. Road capacity (vehicles per hour) is like network capacity (mbps). When a site gets slashdotted, ping times go way up. During rush hour, it takes forever to drive anywhere. Same idea, basically.
As for effect of speed or speed limits on road capacity: if you want to download your mp3s faster, you don't look for an isp with better ping times. You get a higher capacity connection. Similarly, if you want to get more cars into the city per hour, you don't raise the speed limit. You add more lanes to the highway.
I wouldn't mind playing against a player like that. If he's that focused on the mathematical odds, he's probably not paying much attention to his opponents. Also, experienced poker players can figure out odds just fine without a program. Experienced players also know what a "dead out" is.
Depending on how orgainized these criminal gangs are, I wouldn't be surprised if the criminals were getting jobs at UPS so they could get access to stuff. Kind of like how someone brought up the possibility of Al Qaeda members getting airport jobs so they could bypass the security, or Soviet spies getting jobs in the CIA.
You can't, but you can make the things that tend to lead to accidents illegal. You'll notice there's no law against getting into a car crash, but there are lots of laws about driving too fast, running red lights, driving drunk, unsafe lane changes, etc etcet c.
Same idea here. If I can be fined for driving 100mph because it might cause an accident, Citibank should be able to be fined for sending unencrypted data via UPS because it might cause an accident.
In the year 3 billion A.D., after the Martian microbes have had a chance to evolve into an intelligent life form and invented a Martian internet, they will have a discussion on whether or not life exists or ever existed on Earth. Some probe will go there and find evidence of a large number of nuclear explosions having occurred 3 billion years in the past and killing all the life that was present on the planet. Some martian will then write a science fiction novel about an evil leader, known only as "W", who built up a massive stockpile of fission-based weapons, then used them against all the other people of Earth, which he considered "threats to security" but ironically he ended up killing everyone including himself and his own people. Nobody will take his story seriously because it will be seen as being too absurd to have any chance of being true, and the Martians will go on believing that asteroids triggered the explosions, or something.
Hopefully, this incident will remind MSN of the importance of always making sure they have applied the latest patches, updates, and service packs from Microsoft's Windows Update site.
If someone has come up with a way to "print out" bacteria, how long will it be before this capability is present in everyday printers, perhaps without the printer companies intending to allow such a thing? Imagine what could happen if someone spread a virus/worm that would print out billions of deadly (in real life, not just to your mp3 collection) bacteria. Up until now, I have always laughed at people who suggest that Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups would unleash a computer virus. After all, they're interested in killing people, not fucking up people's windows boxen. Perhaps now it's time to stop laughing and start preparing our defenses.
I just hope they don't decide to merge NASA with the Department of Homeland Security, because then they'd be forced to buy all their rocket parts from expensive American suppliers, and then they'd REALLY have to cancel a lot of missions.
Speaking of Jeopardy, you just gave me a really cool idea. What if there were another version of Cellphedia where you gave it an answer and it responded with a question, like on Jeopardy? Just give it one question to start it off, then the two systems could talk to each other...
Q: How old is the Pope? A: 78. Q: How many friends do I have to refer to get a free iPod? A: Get free iPods at freeipodsource.com. Q: What is spam? A: A processed meat product. Q: What are hotdogs? A: Get Viagra for just $5.99 at viagra1source.com. Q: What is your favorite number? A: 42. Q: (core dump)
If you use this, how do you have any assurance that the answers you get are actually accurate? Given the number of uninformed people walking around, not to mention people who think it's funny to hand out deliberate misinformation, wouldn't this be practically useless? And you can completely forget about any questions that would attract commercially motivated answers (e.g. Where is the nearest gas station?)
Hold down the A button while you press start to get levels 10-19. For example if you select level 5 and hold A while you press start, you'll start at level 15.
Also, you can advance in the levels past level 19, even though 19 is the highest level you can start at.
This is for the NES version by the way, the gameboy had "heart levels" or something but the result was the same.
Ok so there were more fatalities on the freeways. What about the back roads? When the speed limit was 55 people would drive on back roads because they had fewer cops than the freeways. Needless to say these mickey mouse 2 lane highways are more dangerous especially if you're speeding and being aggressive. When they raised the limits, people went back to using the freeways, and of course more cars == more accidents (in absolute terms not percentage). Yes more people started getting killed on the freeways, but a lot FEWER people were dying on the back roads. You have to look at all of the results.
Oops -- I meant COLD weather clothes. Deer season is usually late fall, and you'll need to dress warm if you're hunting in northern/mountainous states.
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Not sure about the index finger, but I'll certainly be giving Disney a chance to "scan" my middle finger after reading about this one.
Vehicle speed is like ping times. Road capacity (vehicles per hour) is like network capacity (mbps). When a site gets slashdotted, ping times go way up. During rush hour, it takes forever to drive anywhere. Same idea, basically.
As for effect of speed or speed limits on road capacity: if you want to download your mp3s faster, you don't look for an isp with better ping times. You get a higher capacity connection. Similarly, if you want to get more cars into the city per hour, you don't raise the speed limit. You add more lanes to the highway.
I couldn't find the WMD's, but I found the source of Saddam's WMD's:
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http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.870863,-77.0559
I wouldn't mind playing against a player like that. If he's that focused on the mathematical odds, he's probably not paying much attention to his opponents. Also, experienced poker players can figure out odds just fine without a program. Experienced players also know what a "dead out" is.
This is Slashdot, not MichaelMoore.com. My first thought was *BSD.
Depending on how orgainized these criminal gangs are, I wouldn't be surprised if the criminals were getting jobs at UPS so they could get access to stuff. Kind of like how someone brought up the possibility of Al Qaeda members getting airport jobs so they could bypass the security, or Soviet spies getting jobs in the CIA.
How can you make an accident illegal ?
You can't, but you can make the things that tend to lead to accidents illegal. You'll notice there's no law against getting into a car crash, but there are lots of laws about driving too fast, running red lights, driving drunk, unsafe lane changes, etc etcet c.
Same idea here. If I can be fined for driving 100mph because it might cause an accident, Citibank should be able to be fined for sending unencrypted data via UPS because it might cause an accident.
another stupid /. political joke:
In the year 3 billion A.D., after the Martian microbes have had a chance to evolve into an intelligent life form and invented a Martian internet, they will have a discussion on whether or not life exists or ever existed on Earth. Some probe will go there and find evidence of a large number of nuclear explosions having occurred 3 billion years in the past and killing all the life that was present on the planet. Some martian will then write a science fiction novel about an evil leader, known only as "W", who built up a massive stockpile of fission-based weapons, then used them against all the other people of Earth, which he considered "threats to security" but ironically he ended up killing everyone including himself and his own people. Nobody will take his story seriously because it will be seen as being too absurd to have any chance of being true, and the Martians will go on believing that asteroids triggered the explosions, or something.
In other words, North Carolina is a Southern state, while South Dakota is not.
Hopefully, this incident will remind MSN of the importance of always making sure they have applied the latest patches, updates, and service packs from Microsoft's Windows Update site.
If someone has come up with a way to "print out" bacteria, how long will it be before this capability is present in everyday printers, perhaps without the printer companies intending to allow such a thing? Imagine what could happen if someone spread a virus/worm that would print out billions of deadly (in real life, not just to your mp3 collection) bacteria. Up until now, I have always laughed at people who suggest that Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups would unleash a computer virus. After all, they're interested in killing people, not fucking up people's windows boxen. Perhaps now it's time to stop laughing and start preparing our defenses.
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Given the high gas prices lately, they probably didn't save any money compared to the "expensive" CGI techniques anyway.
I just hope they don't decide to merge NASA with the Department of Homeland Security, because then they'd be forced to buy all their rocket parts from expensive American suppliers, and then they'd REALLY have to cancel a lot of missions.
The Bush Administration agrees with you.
Speaking of Jeopardy, you just gave me a really cool idea. What if there were another version of Cellphedia where you gave it an answer and it responded with a question, like on Jeopardy? Just give it one question to start it off, then the two systems could talk to each other...
Q: How old is the Pope?
A: 78.
Q: How many friends do I have to refer to get a free iPod?
A: Get free iPods at freeipodsource.com.
Q: What is spam?
A: A processed meat product.
Q: What are hotdogs?
A: Get Viagra for just $5.99 at viagra1source.com.
Q: What is your favorite number?
A: 42.
Q: (core dump)
If you use this, how do you have any assurance that the answers you get are actually accurate? Given the number of uninformed people walking around, not to mention people who think it's funny to hand out deliberate misinformation, wouldn't this be practically useless? And you can completely forget about any questions that would attract commercially motivated answers (e.g. Where is the nearest gas station?)
This also dims the magic of the movies. 2.3 stars. Pathetic. Even Gayniggers from Outer Space managed to get 5.9 stars, and The Wizard got 5.4.
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Does anyone know of a simulator for velocities above c? I'd like to see someone do that.
Hold down the A button while you press start to get levels 10-19. For example if you select level 5 and hold A while you press start, you'll start at level 15.
Also, you can advance in the levels past level 19, even though 19 is the highest level you can start at.
This is for the NES version by the way, the gameboy had "heart levels" or something but the result was the same.
Ok so there were more fatalities on the freeways. What about the back roads? When the speed limit was 55 people would drive on back roads because they had fewer cops than the freeways. Needless to say these mickey mouse 2 lane highways are more dangerous especially if you're speeding and being aggressive. When they raised the limits, people went back to using the freeways, and of course more cars == more accidents (in absolute terms not percentage). Yes more people started getting killed on the freeways, but a lot FEWER people were dying on the back roads. You have to look at all of the results.
That's easy. Just go to the road between my dad's house and his school and put the car in reverse.
Oops -- I meant COLD weather clothes. Deer season is usually late fall, and you'll need to dress warm if you're hunting in northern/mountainous states.