I hypothesize that the rats lack the ability to effectively dissipate heat from a highly active brain,
That's probably a pretty poor hypothesis. Heat rejection depends in part on the surface area to volume ratio. It's easier to reject heat from something small than something big. In fact, small mammals have a hard time just keeping their temperatures UP.
I'd guess it costs energy that could be used for reproduction or maturing faster or just getting away from predators. But that is just a wild guess, too.
The problem is that people make the mistaken assumption that the easy-to-remember passwords have to be the same length as the ideal password.
It's true that nonsense words generated by markov chain do not use all of the bits available in their given output, but there is no need to limit pronounceable passwords to eight or ten characters. If they're easy enough to remember, you can go almost arbitrarily high.
A little back of the envelope calculation shows that adding characters on the end is almost linearly equivalent to adding characters to the depth, especially where your character depth is already greater than your password length.
I can tell you which one is easier to remember, though.
If using a cloud, where you pay by CPU-Hour, wouldn't it make sense to use as many VMs as it takes to get it done in.. an hour? (if that many are available)
If I'm understanding right, there's no cost difference, but you get your results right away, instead of waiting half a year
It's only in trials by indictment that the defendant has the right to choose either a trial by judge and jury, or judge alone, so there are definitely options for how to proceed, for both the prosecution and the defence, and there's just as much bargaining going on as in the US. Bargaining, for example, to being charged via summation rather than indictment, in return for a guilty plea, and a lesser range of penalties (summary convictions are like "punishment lite"). Same as plea bargaining anywhere else.
And suits at common law where the amount in dispute exceeds twenty dollars.
They should be, but is not by default. You have to enable it in the filesystem options, which kind of makes no sense.
The compare is pretty cheap: when you digest a block that has a hash match it'll be waiting in memory so you only need to read the target block to do the compare.
It really makes no sense that they'd use an expensive hash that has "really, really low chance of collision" instead of cheap hash and direct compare that has no algorithmic chance of collision.
Dear other viewers.
Please stop paying attention to commercials when they play with the volume. It hurts my ears because I'm not quick enough with the mute button, and sometimes I miss the first part of the show I'm trying to watch. And it wouldn't happen if you weren't such mindless dolts that that kind of crap actually works on you....
Dear network execubot
In consideration of your viewer's eardrums, and in recognition of the efficacy of your sleazy advertising policy of killing the show's volume in favor of the commercials' volume, please ramp up the comercial volume over a period of several seconds, so I have time to adjust the volume or move to a different room (which is what I suspect you were trying to overcome in the first place.)
I'd like to remind you that the channel flip button on my remote is easier to find than the mute button and the results are immediate. In addition, this makes me aware of other networks' offerings in your time slot.
Yes, but subsidizing an "insurer of last resort" for even fifteen million people is a lot less drastic than just taking over the entire industry.
Now, what's interesting is that there are a number of people who want to insure the uninsured with other people's money. If they really wanted to help the uninsured, they could create a fund right now with their own money to cover the costs of people who can't afford it.
People vote with their dollars for the things they really care about. Most people apparently don't really care about the plight of the uninsured, even if it means they're dying.
Even robots aren't quintessentially part of the american zeitgeist. I think our gig is probably space aliens. I'm not sure what they represent, though. Also, I feel a little dirty for using the words 'quintessentially' and 'zeitgeist', probably incorrectly, too.
No, they just need more bits of entropy. You specify a password of any size character set and it's easy to figure out how many characters a password of equivalent strength would be using only lowercase characters.
I'll even give you the formula:
N_lowercase = N_full*log(C)/log(26)
If C (the size of the character set) is bigger than N*log(N) (and it usually is. upper plus lower plus digits is already 62 characters. My longest password currently is only 17 characters.), then the benefit of increasing C by one is less than the benefit of increasing the length by one.
Without delving into unicode, there just isn't any reason to learn alt codes when you could just add another letter or two. With delving into unicode, there isn't any functional difference between one 16 bit character and two 8 bit characters. Except that one might be easier to remember.
It's actually better not to have the "expectation of privacy" in some ways. At least on information in transit.
Information in transit -- voice calls, emails, letters, etc.-- may have an "expectation of privacy" but it's a pretty flimsy expectation in all unencrypted cases. At least if you're up front about the channel's likely compromise, you can convince people to encrypt their data, or at the very least, obscure it (a la CDMA).
One of the most annoying things with respect to communications to come out of congress was banning you from listening to the 800 mhz range because cell phone companies for some reason didn't want to bother with any crypto at all, and felt that completely unobscured, bog-standard FM (AM in some cases even, iirc) could be secured by legislative and not technical measures.
Banning you from interpreting light that passes through your own personal space. You could rectify them with a transistor, some caps, and a coil of wire if you'd wanted to. Except that it was illegal. As if that would stop people who wanted to listen to your conversation. (actually, I think it was only the sale of receivers capable of tuning in that range that was illegal, and not even ownership. So the goal was just to keep evesdropping "on the DL." Still quite a stretch of the FCC's mandate to regulate radio transmission)
Use a.7 mm or bigger pencil (forces you to write a little bigger which for me is also slightly faster and easier to read) on engineering paper. (one of those green ruled pads with the lines on the *back* of the page). When class is done, take your notes to the auto-feeding scanner/copier and scan them into a pdf.
That handles equations, diagrams, and regular notes. Bonus: OCR on those things is usually good enough that you might be able to search for notes if there is enough actual text. You can probably tag pages by inserting hidden text directly into the pdf somewhere, too. PDF is a programming language, so I'm sure there are comment delimiters.
At the end you'll have a complete digital record with time-stamped files organized by class (I'm assuming you drop the files into a directory for each class).
You can always typeset the important stuff for pretty-printing later, and as a bonus you won't piss off your instructor with the steady clacking of laptop keys.
the 10th applies to the federal government, and IMO is the most important and revolutionary feature in there. It does not, by extension specifically apply to the states. However its inclusion in the BoR implies that it was one of those fundamental principles that the founders basically took for granted, before realizing that stuff that "goes without saying" probably should be said anyway.
So, it was a guiding principle of the founding of the nation, one of the key values of the republic (like rugged individualism) Not necessarily a binding contract on the state itself, just a "the character of this nation is such that holds this principle dear, unlike other nations which hold other principles dear."
It disturbs me a little that it had to be done by the city; they didn't just enable the citizens to form an ISP by making the easements.. easier. They proposed to actually use city funds to build the thing out.
The only way I can see for the parents to have so many genetic disorders in common that it would raise the rate significantly above what others pay would be for the parents to be identical siblings.
Maybe in the future if there is one "super expensive" defect, we'll have to tweak the plan, but other than that, knowing the genetic information about the parents shouldn't give so much information that insurnace would be affordable for some and outrageous for others.
And as is the nature of probabilities, the most outrageous fees would apply to the smallest set of patients. Taking care of them "out of band" as it were, should not require completely changing the nature an entire industry.
Go to your grocery store or pharmacy and look at the prices of things. 70x the price of crude works out to ~$1 per oz. Toothpaste costs more than that. Hell, cereal is only a third of that.
It is surprising, I think, to find that blood is less expensive than grape nuts, in addition to finding that printer ink should be more valuable than vital liquids.
Assuming the graph is correct, of course. I'm just commenting on someone else's graph. My back-of-the-envelope calculation of HP 15 ink comes to a factor of about 2500.
And not just system config files, but user config too.
If it was just a matter of '# genisofs -o/dev/dvd ~ ', reinstalling, and then copying back in, then it would be a snap. But there are config files even in the user directories that may not be compatible with newer versions of programs, or have options specified that are no longer optimal.
This is a problem with upgrading any OS, and I wish that more thought was put into properly translating configurations between versions. There needs to be some kind of semi-automated way of reconciling *all* config files. Ideally transparently for things the user doesn't want do deal with, and with a walk-through for settings the user might want to fiddle with if the menu system has changed. I'm sure that's quite a difficult problem to solve, though.
This is the US. The guiding principle is supposed to be that if it's not specifically authorized by the chartering document, the government is prohibited from it.
It used to be that the papers weren't paid for by the issue price. That was just there because they had to charge something so that advertisers could be convinced that people are actually reading the rag rather than just printing a whole bunch and burning it or something. For some reason, people who pay to read the paper's eyes are more valuable because of it.
In general, I'd agree with you. But somehow a bunch of them and Paul Harvey still got suckered into being part of that scam to sell electric space heaters with fancy wood frames a while back.
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I hypothesize that the rats lack the ability to effectively dissipate heat from a highly active brain,
That's probably a pretty poor hypothesis. Heat rejection depends in part on the surface area to volume ratio. It's easier to reject heat from something small than something big. In fact, small mammals have a hard time just keeping their temperatures UP.
I'd guess it costs energy that could be used for reproduction or maturing faster or just getting away from predators. But that is just a wild guess, too.
The problem is that people make the mistaken assumption that the easy-to-remember passwords have to be the same length as the ideal password.
It's true that nonsense words generated by markov chain do not use all of the bits available in their given output, but there is no need to limit pronounceable passwords to eight or ten characters. If they're easy enough to remember, you can go almost arbitrarily high.
A little back of the envelope calculation shows that adding characters on the end is almost linearly equivalent to adding characters to the depth, especially where your character depth is already greater than your password length.
I can tell you which one is easier to remember, though.
What systems aren't salting hashes any more?
If using a cloud, where you pay by CPU-Hour, wouldn't it make sense to use as many VMs as it takes to get it done in.. an hour? (if that many are available)
If I'm understanding right, there's no cost difference, but you get your results right away, instead of waiting half a year
You take one of each letter, put it them in a bag, jiggle the bag and pull out a single tile. Drop the tile back in the bag and repeat.
You can even get 52 characters out of it: if your thumb covers the letter when you draw it out, capital. If it covers the blank side, lowercase.
It's only in trials by indictment that the defendant has the right to choose either a trial by judge and jury, or judge alone, so there are definitely options for how to proceed, for both the prosecution and the defence, and there's just as much bargaining going on as in the US. Bargaining, for example, to being charged via summation rather than indictment, in return for a guilty plea, and a lesser range of penalties (summary convictions are like "punishment lite"). Same as plea bargaining anywhere else.
And suits at common law where the amount in dispute exceeds twenty dollars.
They should be, but is not by default. You have to enable it in the filesystem options, which kind of makes no sense.
The compare is pretty cheap: when you digest a block that has a hash match it'll be waiting in memory so you only need to read the target block to do the compare.
It really makes no sense that they'd use an expensive hash that has "really, really low chance of collision" instead of cheap hash and direct compare that has no algorithmic chance of collision.
Good point.
Dear other viewers. ...
Please stop paying attention to commercials when they play with the volume. It hurts my ears because I'm not quick enough with the mute button, and sometimes I miss the first part of the show I'm trying to watch. And it wouldn't happen if you weren't such mindless dolts that that kind of crap actually works on you.
Dear network execubot
In consideration of your viewer's eardrums, and in recognition of the efficacy of your sleazy advertising policy of killing the show's volume in favor of the commercials' volume, please ramp up the comercial volume over a period of several seconds, so I have time to adjust the volume or move to a different room (which is what I suspect you were trying to overcome in the first place.)
I'd like to remind you that the channel flip button on my remote is easier to find than the mute button and the results are immediate. In addition, this makes me aware of other networks' offerings in your time slot.
Yes, but subsidizing an "insurer of last resort" for even fifteen million people is a lot less drastic than just taking over the entire industry.
Now, what's interesting is that there are a number of people who want to insure the uninsured with other people's money. If they really wanted to help the uninsured, they could create a fund right now with their own money to cover the costs of people who can't afford it.
People vote with their dollars for the things they really care about. Most people apparently don't really care about the plight of the uninsured, even if it means they're dying.
Oh geez. instead of alt+numbers, you could just type the numbers. I can't believe I didn't see that.
Even robots aren't quintessentially part of the american zeitgeist. I think our gig is probably space aliens. I'm not sure what they represent, though. Also, I feel a little dirty for using the words 'quintessentially' and 'zeitgeist', probably incorrectly, too.
So, we're afraid of the zombies, but at the same time, we kind of want to be one?
No, they just need more bits of entropy. You specify a password of any size character set and it's easy to figure out how many characters a password of equivalent strength would be using only lowercase characters.
I'll even give you the formula:
N_lowercase = N_full*log(C)/log(26)
If C (the size of the character set) is bigger than N*log(N) (and it usually is. upper plus lower plus digits is already 62 characters. My longest password currently is only 17 characters.), then the benefit of increasing C by one is less than the benefit of increasing the length by one.
Without delving into unicode, there just isn't any reason to learn alt codes when you could just add another letter or two. With delving into unicode, there isn't any functional difference between one 16 bit character and two 8 bit characters. Except that one might be easier to remember.
So did you vote for McCain or Obama?
What's the difference?
It's actually better not to have the "expectation of privacy" in some ways. At least on information in transit.
Information in transit -- voice calls, emails, letters, etc.-- may have an "expectation of privacy" but it's a pretty flimsy expectation in all unencrypted cases. At least if you're up front about the channel's likely compromise, you can convince people to encrypt their data, or at the very least, obscure it (a la CDMA).
One of the most annoying things with respect to communications to come out of congress was banning you from listening to the 800 mhz range because cell phone companies for some reason didn't want to bother with any crypto at all, and felt that completely unobscured, bog-standard FM (AM in some cases even, iirc) could be secured by legislative and not technical measures.
Banning you from interpreting light that passes through your own personal space. You could rectify them with a transistor, some caps, and a coil of wire if you'd wanted to. Except that it was illegal. As if that would stop people who wanted to listen to your conversation. (actually, I think it was only the sale of receivers capable of tuning in that range that was illegal, and not even ownership. So the goal was just to keep evesdropping "on the DL." Still quite a stretch of the FCC's mandate to regulate radio transmission)
As a congressman, his ultimate act was to vote "yes" on the appropriations bill which resulted in it eventually being signed into being.
I suppose you could say he "push-button'd" it into being. If they were using push-button vote tallying at the time...
Use a .7 mm or bigger pencil (forces you to write a little bigger which for me is also slightly faster and easier to read) on engineering paper. (one of those green ruled pads with the lines on the *back* of the page). When class is done, take your notes to the auto-feeding scanner/copier and scan them into a pdf.
That handles equations, diagrams, and regular notes. Bonus: OCR on those things is usually good enough that you might be able to search for notes if there is enough actual text. You can probably tag pages by inserting hidden text directly into the pdf somewhere, too. PDF is a programming language, so I'm sure there are comment delimiters.
At the end you'll have a complete digital record with time-stamped files organized by class (I'm assuming you drop the files into a directory for each class).
You can always typeset the important stuff for pretty-printing later, and as a bonus you won't piss off your instructor with the steady clacking of laptop keys.
the 10th applies to the federal government, and IMO is the most important and revolutionary feature in there. It does not, by extension specifically apply to the states. However its inclusion in the BoR implies that it was one of those fundamental principles that the founders basically took for granted, before realizing that stuff that "goes without saying" probably should be said anyway.
So, it was a guiding principle of the founding of the nation, one of the key values of the republic (like rugged individualism) Not necessarily a binding contract on the state itself, just a "the character of this nation is such that holds this principle dear, unlike other nations which hold other principles dear."
It disturbs me a little that it had to be done by the city; they didn't just enable the citizens to form an ISP by making the easements.. easier. They proposed to actually use city funds to build the thing out.
The only way I can see for the parents to have so many genetic disorders in common that it would raise the rate significantly above what others pay would be for the parents to be identical siblings.
Maybe in the future if there is one "super expensive" defect, we'll have to tweak the plan, but other than that, knowing the genetic information about the parents shouldn't give so much information that insurnace would be affordable for some and outrageous for others.
And as is the nature of probabilities, the most outrageous fees would apply to the smallest set of patients. Taking care of them "out of band" as it were, should not require completely changing the nature an entire industry.
Go to your grocery store or pharmacy and look at the prices of things. 70x the price of crude works out to ~$1 per oz. Toothpaste costs more than that. Hell, cereal is only a third of that.
It is surprising, I think, to find that blood is less expensive than grape nuts, in addition to finding that printer ink should be more valuable than vital liquids.
Assuming the graph is correct, of course. I'm just commenting on someone else's graph. My back-of-the-envelope calculation of HP 15 ink comes to a factor of about 2500.
And not just system config files, but user config too.
If it was just a matter of '# genisofs -o /dev/dvd ~ ', reinstalling, and then copying back in, then it would be a snap. But there are config files even in the user directories that may not be compatible with newer versions of programs, or have options specified that are no longer optimal.
This is a problem with upgrading any OS, and I wish that more thought was put into properly translating configurations between versions. There needs to be some kind of semi-automated way of reconciling *all* config files. Ideally transparently for things the user doesn't want do deal with, and with a walk-through for settings the user might want to fiddle with if the menu system has changed. I'm sure that's quite a difficult problem to solve, though.
This is the US. The guiding principle is supposed to be that if it's not specifically authorized by the chartering document, the government is prohibited from it.
Lots of stuff costs 70x more than crude oil. What was surprising about that link was that HP ink costs twice as much as human blood.
It used to be that the papers weren't paid for by the issue price. That was just there because they had to charge something so that advertisers could be convinced that people are actually reading the rag rather than just printing a whole bunch and burning it or something. For some reason, people who pay to read the paper's eyes are more valuable because of it.
In general, I'd agree with you. But somehow a bunch of them and Paul Harvey still got suckered into being part of that scam to sell electric space heaters with fancy wood frames a while back.