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An interesting idea, but it requires somebody to identify patents that are attempts to abuse the system. The USPTO should do this at the moment but they don't (if they did there wouldn't be much need for your suggestion).
AFAICR, the article actually talked about US vs The Euro Area (not the EU). Although a subtle difference to some, the fact that the UK is part of the latter, but not the former is important. The UK is a big part of the EU economy, but the shorter hours/more money trade-off probably doesn't work in quite the same way as in the Euro Area or America.
Also, if you have a setup where the buttons and toolbars aren't in the standard positions, you'll notice that something's wrong straight away. I have my navigation buttons, menu bar, address box and google box all on one line so the spoof looks nothing like my setup.
The W3C Markup Validation Service lists 141 errors in the HTML of the slashdot homepage. Interestingly, the Firefox website fails to give a doctype and has 8 errors (if it's meant to be HTML 4.01 Transitional).
Algorithms exist to find out solutions to NP problems, so it is known how hard it is to find a solution from scratch. On the subject of programs being easily verified, I think you'd find it fairly difficult to check the following program, especially as a general case (i.e. not running a compiled version because that brings in limitations specific to the system).
int main(i,j,k){for(i=j=k=1;--j||k;k=j?i%j?k:k-j:(j=i+ =2));}
Calling coding an NP problem seems a little odd. It's not a decision problem really and some aspects are trivial whereas others may have no solution (e.g. the halting problem).
If email was still charged at $50 (32USD ATM) per megabyte the spam problem might be sorted very quickly (or it would never have happened in the first place).
Trying not to be a pedant but... you've got his name muddled up. The current leader of North Korea is Kim Jong-il, and his father was Kim Il Sung (who AFAIK is still head of state even though he died just over 10 years ago).
Infinite series can sum to different numbers if you add them in different orders. I didn't actually ignore any of the terms, but rearrangements in infinite series can act differently to those in a finite series so contradictions can occur. You are correct that if 2x = x then x = 0, but the 'proof' I give is a nice way to get people thinking a bit more carefully than one that shows 0 = 1 using division by zero.
I was aware that my 'proof' was as useful as one that relies on division by zero, I just wanted to give something a bit more subtle than what you'd normally get on/.
Yes, but would those costs also exceed the money for 10,000 domain names + $3.95million. Also, they have to be the right 10,000 domain names. If they miss just one that's close enough to the real thing, a scam site could still be set up and the lawsuit option would be required. How much does it cost to work out the thousands you need to register and be confident you haven't left any out? You get customers who will be tricked into getting their 'updates' from fortunecity.com/members/microsoft/ or 80.123.45.67, their good will will be lost and lawsuits will be required.
Expense isn't necessarily that only factor MS would consider with something like this. $50,000 would go on a budget somewhere each year as a cost that doesn't give any returns. However legal fees can be recovered if a case is successful (depending on where the case is decided and specific details of the case) so they could a make a profit going down that lawsuit route. The profit would be small compared to MS's total revenues and profits, but a small profit is still better than a loss.
Most companies probably don't want to go down the route of registering all the keywords related to their business to stop third parties abusing the fact that the words are well known and recognised. If they did then scammers would use mispellings and 1337 variations, it could cost quite a bit to register all of them. For MS it's possibly easier to take just to take legal action when abuses do occur.
Hydrogen bonds are the dominant force holding water molecules together, not van der Waals forces. That's why its MP and BP are much higher than similar chemicals (e.g. H2S, MP: -86C, BP: -60C).
I thought a decrease in density led to a decrease in the speed of sound. For example the speed of sound in water is higher than in air because the molecules are more closely packed. Also if the speed of sound is 340ms^-1 at sea level and effectively 0ms^-1 at a high enough altitude (i.e. space) you would think that at the altitudes in between the speed is less than 340ms^-1.
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An interesting idea, but it requires somebody to identify patents that are attempts to abuse the system. The USPTO should do this at the moment but they don't (if they did there wouldn't be much need for your suggestion).
"If the capsule were to descend all the way to the ground, [the wafers used to trap the particles] might fracture or break away from their mountings; hence, the midair retrieval by helicopter ..."
RMS's answer to the question "Why did the chicken cross the road?" "Because the GPL (General Poultry License) gave it the freedom to do so."
It is very dark... You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
To access WAP sites using GSM you have to dialup.
However, the self reference in **This a sig of relief.** is appropriate for a slashdot sig.
DAldredge's partial list of 'evils'(from sig):
ruby
python
I wonder if people pay him to fight these 'evils'
AFAICR, the article actually talked about US vs The Euro Area (not the EU). Although a subtle difference to some, the fact that the UK is part of the latter, but not the former is important. The UK is a big part of the EU economy, but the shorter hours/more money trade-off probably doesn't work in quite the same way as in the Euro Area or America.
Perhaps you're meant to add rocks/sucks depending on what period you're talking about: eg.
Past: IBM SUCKS!!!!
Present: IBM ROCKS!!!1
Also, if you have a setup where the buttons and toolbars aren't in the standard positions, you'll notice that something's wrong straight away. I have my navigation buttons, menu bar, address box and google box all on one line so the spoof looks nothing like my setup.
The W3C Markup Validation Service lists 141 errors in the HTML of the slashdot homepage. Interestingly, the Firefox website fails to give a doctype and has 8 errors (if it's meant to be HTML 4.01 Transitional).
Calling coding an NP problem seems a little odd. It's not a decision problem really and some aspects are trivial whereas others may have no solution (e.g. the halting problem).
You mean normal people avoid sunlight and have had more computers than SOs?
If email was still charged at $50 (32USD ATM) per megabyte the spam problem might be sorted very quickly (or it would never have happened in the first place).
Trying not to be a pedant but ... you've got his name muddled up. The current leader of North Korea is Kim Jong-il, and his father was Kim Il Sung (who AFAIK is still head of state even though he died just over 10 years ago).
Infinite series can sum to different numbers if you add them in different orders. I didn't actually ignore any of the terms, but rearrangements in infinite series can act differently to those in a finite series so contradictions can occur. You are correct that if 2x = x then x = 0, but the 'proof' I give is a nice way to get people thinking a bit more carefully than one that shows 0 = 1 using division by zero.
I was aware that my 'proof' was as useful as one that relies on division by zero, I just wanted to give something a bit more subtle than what you'd normally get on /.
Where is the division by zero? x is non-zero.
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...
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x = (1/2)[1 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4 + 1/5 -
The part in the square brackets simplifies to
1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4 + 1/5 - 1/6 + 1/7 - 1/8
= 1/2 + (1/3 - 1/4) + (1/5 - 1/6) + (1/7 - 1/8)
Resolving the brackets gives 1/2 + an infinitely long list of positive numbers, so how can x = 0? It actually tends to log(2).
Okay,
... (i.e. the sum of an infinite series)
...
...
...]
:)
x = 1 - 1/2 - 1/4 + 1/3 - 1/6 - 1/8 + 1/5 - 1/10 -
Add some brackets:
x = (1 - 1/2) - 1/4 + (1/3 - 1/6) - 1/8 + (1/5 - 1/10) -
Resolve the brackets:
x = (1/2) - 1/4 + (1/6) - 1/8 + (1/10)
x = (1/2)[1 - 1/2 + 1/3 - 1/4 + 1/5 -
x = x/2
Multiply by 2:
2x = x
Divide by x:
2 = 1
Subtract 1:
1 = 0
Therefore maths is a sport.
Hopefully I haven't made any mistakes
Yes, but would those costs also exceed the money for 10,000 domain names + $3.95million. Also, they have to be the right 10,000 domain names. If they miss just one that's close enough to the real thing, a scam site could still be set up and the lawsuit option would be required. How much does it cost to work out the thousands you need to register and be confident you haven't left any out? You get customers who will be tricked into getting their 'updates' from fortunecity.com/members/microsoft/ or 80.123.45.67, their good will will be lost and lawsuits will be required.
Expense isn't necessarily that only factor MS would consider with something like this. $50,000 would go on a budget somewhere each year as a cost that doesn't give any returns. However legal fees can be recovered if a case is successful (depending on where the case is decided and specific details of the case) so they could a make a profit going down that lawsuit route. The profit would be small compared to MS's total revenues and profits, but a small profit is still better than a loss.
Most companies probably don't want to go down the route of registering all the keywords related to their business to stop third parties abusing the fact that the words are well known and recognised. If they did then scammers would use mispellings and 1337 variations, it could cost quite a bit to register all of them. For MS it's possibly easier to take just to take legal action when abuses do occur.
Hydrogen bonds are the dominant force holding water molecules together, not van der Waals forces. That's why its MP and BP are much higher than similar chemicals (e.g. H2S, MP: -86C, BP: -60C).
I thought a decrease in density led to a decrease in the speed of sound. For example the speed of sound in water is higher than in air because the molecules are more closely packed. Also if the speed of sound is 340ms^-1 at sea level and effectively 0ms^-1 at a high enough altitude (i.e. space) you would think that at the altitudes in between the speed is less than 340ms^-1.