Definitely. Whenever I see/. stories like this one, I feel kind of left out. Sort of like the kid whose parents don't let him watch TV, when the other kids are talking about their favorite shows.
When an intruder enters the area of protection, it automatically begins barking like an angry dog. From outside, it sounds like you have a very unfriendly dog inside.
It's basically a decentralized barter exchange, using electronic signatures to validate the currency. I see no reason this would be preferable to any number of already-available systems for valuing goods (like, say, US dollars), unless you're an anti-government paranoid.
Good luck getting those 30 other websites to bet their future on Google. While I admire your optimism, my take is that now you'll have 31 websites to check instead of 30.
The car accident death rate for teen male drivers and passengers is more than one and a half times female teen driver (19.4 killed per 100,000 male drivers compared with 11.1 killed per 100,000 female drivers.
Yes, I too have often thought about climbing the Murderhorn and sledding down on the frozen body of the guy my Grandpa cannibalized. Gee, I thought it was just me...
The speedup comes from using a memory-allocation library (PHKMalloc) that does extensive and expensive checking to avoid programmer errors, then basically hides most of its overhead in the second thread (so that the allocation thread would be mostly doing sanity checking). For most programs, this probably won't help performance any. It's an old trick in parallel processing research: pick a slow algorithm, then speed it up via parallelism, rather than starting out with an efficient solution.
I once submitted an April Fool's joke to this effect to a moderated website; I claimed superlinear speedup for sorting by starting with a bubble sort, then "modifying it for parallelism" until it morphed into a quicksort. Alas, the moderator rejected it...
similar studies show that driving about 5-10 mph faster than posted is actually about the safest speed you can go.
Wrongo. Here's a quote from the study that motorists.org article relies on:
Several studies have demonstrated that drivers who travel either slower or faster than the 85th percentile speed of the traffic stream have a higher accident involvement rate than those drivers whose speed is close to the 85th percentile speed.
Since the speed limits are generally set to the 85th percentile, this means that speeders are more likely to be involved in accidents, not less, and the safest speed is the speed limit.
I've been online long enough to remember when you could assume (perhaps wishfully) that nearly anyone obviously misbehaving badly on it could be identified with a couple e-mails or phone calls to the right sysadmins, and the notion of banning a user or cutting off a rogue node was plausible.
Me too. We were all so naive and trusting back then, eh? I actually sent a couple of emails to the Green Card Lottery Usenet spammers, believing that it might help convince them not to do it again.
On the other hand, it would be good to have an email system where the sender could be positively identified. (And don't bother posting that checklist thingy in response, I've seen it.)
There are, more or less, 100 people per birthday per zip code in the US (300 million people, a bit less than 100 thousand zip codes), so sex+birthday+zip would identify 50 people, on average. Odds are good that they have a few year collision, but most would be in separate years. 87% sounds about right. The real question is: who cares? How often will somebody have those identifiers tagged to a single person's data?
What happened in the 1950s doesn't have much (if any) relevance to our day to day lives now... What happened even ten years ago now has only limited importance.
In my experience, most people don't care about anything that happened before they were born. This includes my age group when I was a teen (in the 70's). I doubt if anything fundamental has changed; old people remember the 50's and 60's because they experienced it.
How are they going to know that they need to deploy their "gravity tractor", if NASA's program to inform them is shut down? And are they going to hire Bruce Willis to drive it?
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Definitely. Whenever I see /. stories like this one, I feel kind of left out. Sort of like the kid whose parents don't let him watch TV, when the other kids are talking about their favorite shows.
That's not the real Kurzwiel; it's just some joker.
Or maybe it's a simulation of his brain.
When an intruder enters the area of protection, it automatically begins barking like an angry dog. From outside, it sounds like you have a very unfriendly dog inside.
It's basically a decentralized barter exchange, using electronic signatures to validate the currency. I see no reason this would be preferable to any number of already-available systems for valuing goods (like, say, US dollars), unless you're an anti-government paranoid.
Good luck getting those 30 other websites to bet their future on Google. While I admire your optimism, my take is that now you'll have 31 websites to check instead of 30.
The car accident death rate for teen male drivers and passengers is more than one and a half times female teen driver (19.4 killed per 100,000 male drivers compared with 11.1 killed per 100,000 female drivers.
Furthermore, this is a survey of Eclipse users, not all database users. Developers using a free framework prefer a free database. Surprise!
Yes, I too have often thought about climbing the Murderhorn and sledding down on the frozen body of the guy my Grandpa cannibalized. Gee, I thought it was just me...
What happens when a deer runs onto the shoulder of the road in front of you? Most people would probably look at the deer, not away from it.
In fact that's such a horrible image, I think my karma might take a hit just by pointing out that people would not react well to something like that.
Don't worry, karma is a Buddhist thing. But you are going to Hell.
I once submitted an April Fool's joke to this effect to a moderated website; I claimed superlinear speedup for sorting by starting with a bubble sort, then "modifying it for parallelism" until it morphed into a quicksort. Alas, the moderator rejected it...
similar studies show that driving about 5-10 mph faster than posted is actually about the safest speed you can go.
Wrongo. Here's a quote from the study that motorists.org article relies on:
Several studies have demonstrated that drivers who travel either slower or faster than the 85th percentile speed of the traffic stream have a higher accident involvement rate than those drivers whose speed is close to the 85th percentile speed.
Since the speed limits are generally set to the 85th percentile, this means that speeders are more likely to be involved in accidents, not less, and the safest speed is the speed limit.
I guess slashdot submitters aren't that good at reading "article language".
Has the flow and importance of information really become this prolific in our daily lives?
No, they're just making up big numbers to get attention. Apparently, it's working.
Consider how many "gigabytes" you "consume" just by watching TV for a few hours. Nothing new here...
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- Taking big bonuses to keep their mouth shut.
$60,000 to keep quiet about a $65 billion fraud? Those guys should have either turned informant or held out for more money.
I've been online long enough to remember when you could assume (perhaps wishfully) that nearly anyone obviously misbehaving badly on it could be identified with a couple e-mails or phone calls to the right sysadmins, and the notion of banning a user or cutting off a rogue node was plausible.
Me too. We were all so naive and trusting back then, eh? I actually sent a couple of emails to the Green Card Lottery Usenet spammers, believing that it might help convince them not to do it again.
On the other hand, it would be good to have an email system where the sender could be positively identified. (And don't bother posting that checklist thingy in response, I've seen it.)
OK, figured it out. He took a five-day leave of absence when the story first broke in March. Old news.
Odd that no other major news reports are mentioning this "leave of absence". Smells like libel?
the SKA is unlikely to use ... a cloud-based approach
Well, duh. You can't see anything when it's cloudy.
There are, more or less, 100 people per birthday per zip code in the US (300 million people, a bit less than 100 thousand zip codes), so sex+birthday+zip would identify 50 people, on average. Odds are good that they have a few year collision, but most would be in separate years. 87% sounds about right. The real question is: who cares? How often will somebody have those identifiers tagged to a single person's data?
What happened in the 1950s doesn't have much (if any) relevance to our day to day lives now... What happened even ten years ago now has only limited importance.
In my experience, most people don't care about anything that happened before they were born. This includes my age group when I was a teen (in the 70's). I doubt if anything fundamental has changed; old people remember the 50's and 60's because they experienced it.
How are they going to know that they need to deploy their "gravity tractor", if NASA's program to inform them is shut down? And are they going to hire Bruce Willis to drive it?