There are a lot of people who confuse money for wealth, Who will see all the money that has changed hands here, and think that useful economic activity has occurrred.
Anyway, that gold can still be used in electronics, so it might as well spend some time as art until needed. The only thing wasted here is the time of the people who gathered and assembled it and the energy expended, which has a value of far less than $50e6 AUD.
Is this because you're speeding up the playback speed? If you're adjusting the reading-speed parameter for the voice, the higher-pitched voices should be better for fast-reading because the higher frequency should allow higher frequency modulation to be discernible.
I've listened to a couple of librevoice recordings from gutenberg, and I think that the real reason is that women, generally, like to read books more than men, so they get the idea that they would like volunteer to read for an audio book as well.
But, they're volunteers, not professional voice actors, so everything comes out as some kind of sing-songy poem read for kids. It's not that women are worse at voice acting than men, it's just that in the amateur reading department there are more of them. The male volunteers have been just as bad. To the point that I prefer my computer's voice to the volunteer readers.
Of the professional recordings I've heard, there haven't been any done by women, so I guess that would be potential flaw in my logic. They've all been superior to machine-readings though. I suspect if I listen to enough, the professional women will do just as well. Now, I just need to figure out how to get the Overdrive app to not get pre-empted by iTunes when I plug my iPod into my car's iPod link....
In the US, we only recognize ONE austrian accent. And only a few phrases, at that: "It's not a tumor, Vote for me if you want to live" "I'll be back a la vista," and "Ha, ha, ha. You have strucked Hercules."
Perhaps they're comparing the voice to the voices that already exist for Mac OSX speech-to-text? If the siri voice is more "mechanical" sounding than, say, "Alex" or "Victoria" then it's certainly within the realm of speculation that they chose to have it be that way as a design decision rather than a technical constraint.
I'm not planning on buying an iPhone soon, so I don't know when I'll find out, if ever....
Maybe, but typing is even more efficient than any of those. If you want to keep everything else the same, it makes more sense to drop cursive and teach typing. Further, touch typing is easier to learn than cursive, so you can use the remaining time to drill other kinds of typing as well.
Thrust is only critical when you're trying to get off a planet. If you're already in orbit, you don't care about thrust as much as Isp, which translates to your delta-v budget...
That said, this sounds like a pretty stupid idea. The expense of getting the robot miner/factory to the retired satellite is as much as putting a whole new satellite in place, one produced using the full resources of planet-bound manufacturing, not some ad-hock remote-controlled business, and I strongly suspect that each robot would have to be specifically tailored to modify each existing satellite...
The most valuable resource a retired GEO satellite has is not the stuff in the satellite, but the position it occupies. The best solution is to build an attachable thruster as a secondary payload, and use it to nudge the satellite into interplanetary orbit so the new satellite can take it's place....
You don't come up with it using your imagination. No password you pull out of "head entropy" is random. Nor likely to be particularly secure.
You use a pair of dice and a scrabble dictionary, or dice and a printout of 2k (or some other number of selected words so you can use an integer number of dice rolls per word).
Or you take your 2k words, and chomp off 11 bits at a time from/dev/random to pick, for however long you want your password to be.
If you hand select the 2k words, you can make sure that there aren't any corner cases in there (there are way more than 2k words with 5-8 letters...)
There is no reason to EVER use complicated symbols, or even numbers and capitals if you don't feel like it. In almost every password generation scheme, there's a length that has whatever level of security you want. And some things are easier to remember, even if they're long.
The hidden problem is that you shouldn't let users pick their own passwords. Passwords should be generated automatically (dice roll can be considered automatic for the purposes. It doesn't have to be a computer program) from random sources.
Allowing users to even so much as pick something they think they'll remember easily from a list of passwords destroys confidence in your protocol by artificially limiting the number of actual possibilities to a mere subset of what you think it is.
Better to come up with a protocol in which every possible password in the password space is not too hard to remember, and always use a password generated entirely from randomness.
No, the XKCD analysis isn't based on the presumed strength of the letters in that passphrase, but instead on the *words*. He's estimating 11 bits of entropy per word, which means that the dictionary he's using has a mere 2048 words in it. If using every word in the/usr/dict/words (/usr/share/dict/words on a mac), that would be anywhere from 15 to 17 bits of per word:
The default dictionary for Ubuntu was circa 100k words the last time I counted.
2048 is a very restricted dictionary, but it was *already* accounted for in the password strength comparison. "Correct horse battery staple," without any punctuation or capitalization really is a stronger password than "Tr0ub4dor." Or, at least, it WAS, until it was published. Now they're both presumably in all the password cracking dictionaries out there....
I got one of my relatives an iPad, and while she was showing it off to her friends, the Microsoft surface came up, so I had them watch the youtube parody using the iPad
They thought the table was a great idea. Despite watching an unflattering parody video about it, on a device that already has a fairly large screen and a multi-touch interface and which fits in a backpack.
Banned, but not enforced. The main goal was revenue, not safety.
The purpose of traffic laws in the developed world is essentially as an extra tax. Therefore no road laws will ever be sufficiently enforced to significantly discourage the activity they purport to prohibit.
Neither, if the wiki article is correct: No mention of how Touring's mentor died (probably not hemlock poisoning at the behest of the city council, though), and Touring himself was apparently poisoned entirely without a trial of any kind, public or private.
Clever with the cyanide in the apple trick, though, considering that apples *naturally* contain it (though usually inaccessibly in the seeds, rather than the pulp..)
Further, wouldn't changing the name necessitate a potentially costly update of all the signage? Surely that's money better spent doing, I don't know, something useful?
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There are a lot of people who confuse money for wealth, Who will see all the money that has changed hands here, and think that useful economic activity has occurrred.
Anyway, that gold can still be used in electronics, so it might as well spend some time as art until needed. The only thing wasted here is the time of the people who gathered and assembled it and the energy expended, which has a value of far less than $50e6 AUD.
What's the maximum allowed volume for an olympic-size pool? 3.4 would seem to be the upper bound on the number of olympic pools needed.
If p is the chance, given no difference, of obtaining a result that is larger, what would you interpret (1-p) to mean?
Is this because you're speeding up the playback speed? If you're adjusting the reading-speed parameter for the voice, the higher-pitched voices should be better for fast-reading because the higher frequency should allow higher frequency modulation to be discernible.
I've listened to a couple of librevoice recordings from gutenberg, and I think that the real reason is that women, generally, like to read books more than men, so they get the idea that they would like volunteer to read for an audio book as well.
But, they're volunteers, not professional voice actors, so everything comes out as some kind of sing-songy poem read for kids. It's not that women are worse at voice acting than men, it's just that in the amateur reading department there are more of them. The male volunteers have been just as bad. To the point that I prefer my computer's voice to the volunteer readers.
Of the professional recordings I've heard, there haven't been any done by women, so I guess that would be potential flaw in my logic. They've all been superior to machine-readings though. I suspect if I listen to enough, the professional women will do just as well. Now, I just need to figure out how to get the Overdrive app to not get pre-empted by iTunes when I plug my iPod into my car's iPod link....
In the US, we only recognize ONE austrian accent. And only a few phrases, at that: "It's not a tumor, Vote for me if you want to live" "I'll be back a la vista," and "Ha, ha, ha. You have strucked Hercules."
Perhaps they're comparing the voice to the voices that already exist for Mac OSX speech-to-text? If the siri voice is more "mechanical" sounding than, say, "Alex" or "Victoria" then it's certainly within the realm of speculation that they chose to have it be that way as a design decision rather than a technical constraint.
I'm not planning on buying an iPhone soon, so I don't know when I'll find out, if ever....
And after you've owned the futuristic iPhone for two seasons, it inexplicably turns into two tin-cans and a string??? No thanks....
Maybe, but typing is even more efficient than any of those. If you want to keep everything else the same, it makes more sense to drop cursive and teach typing. Further, touch typing is easier to learn than cursive, so you can use the remaining time to drill other kinds of typing as well.
Capriciously enforcing unjust laws does NOT justify keeping around the mechanism by which bad laws are produced....
Weird Al DOES get approval before every song he does. But he doesn't claim he needs it. He's just being polite.
Thrust is only critical when you're trying to get off a planet. If you're already in orbit, you don't care about thrust as much as Isp, which translates to your delta-v budget...
That said, this sounds like a pretty stupid idea. The expense of getting the robot miner/factory to the retired satellite is as much as putting a whole new satellite in place, one produced using the full resources of planet-bound manufacturing, not some ad-hock remote-controlled business, and I strongly suspect that each robot would have to be specifically tailored to modify each existing satellite...
The most valuable resource a retired GEO satellite has is not the stuff in the satellite, but the position it occupies. The best solution is to build an attachable thruster as a secondary payload, and use it to nudge the satellite into interplanetary orbit so the new satellite can take it's place....
You don't come up with it using your imagination. No password you pull out of "head entropy" is random. Nor likely to be particularly secure.
You use a pair of dice and a scrabble dictionary, or dice and a printout of 2k (or some other number of selected words so you can use an integer number of dice rolls per word).
Or you take your 2k words, and chomp off 11 bits at a time from /dev/random to pick, for however long you want your password to be.
If you hand select the 2k words, you can make sure that there aren't any corner cases in there (there are way more than 2k words with 5-8 letters...)
There is no reason to EVER use complicated symbols, or even numbers and capitals if you don't feel like it. In almost every password generation scheme, there's a length that has whatever level of security you want. And some things are easier to remember, even if they're long.
The hidden problem is that you shouldn't let users pick their own passwords. Passwords should be generated automatically (dice roll can be considered automatic for the purposes. It doesn't have to be a computer program) from random sources.
Allowing users to even so much as pick something they think they'll remember easily from a list of passwords destroys confidence in your protocol by artificially limiting the number of actual possibilities to a mere subset of what you think it is.
Better to come up with a protocol in which every possible password in the password space is not too hard to remember, and always use a password generated entirely from randomness.
No, the XKCD analysis isn't based on the presumed strength of the letters in that passphrase, but instead on the *words*. He's estimating 11 bits of entropy per word, which means that the dictionary he's using has a mere 2048 words in it. If using every word in the /usr/dict/words (/usr/share/dict/words on a mac), that would be anywhere from 15 to 17 bits of per word:
The default dictionary for Ubuntu was circa 100k words the last time I counted.
2048 is a very restricted dictionary, but it was *already* accounted for in the password strength comparison. "Correct horse battery staple," without any punctuation or capitalization really is a stronger password than "Tr0ub4dor." Or, at least, it WAS, until it was published. Now they're both presumably in all the password cracking dictionaries out there....
Especially if they've been sitting around all day watching' stuff...
Woah..
That is a great way for a musician to build brand recognition...
I got one of my relatives an iPad, and while she was showing it off to her friends, the Microsoft surface came up, so I had them watch the youtube parody using the iPad
They thought the table was a great idea. Despite watching an unflattering parody video about it, on a device that already has a fairly large screen and a multi-touch interface and which fits in a backpack.
Your example of Perl is Slashcode? I'm not sure that has the desired affect on the audience...
Forget banning talking while driving. Where is my g'dang self-driving car, already...
Banned, but not enforced. The main goal was revenue, not safety.
The purpose of traffic laws in the developed world is essentially as an extra tax. Therefore no road laws will ever be sufficiently enforced to significantly discourage the activity they purport to prohibit.
Neither, if the wiki article is correct: No mention of how Touring's mentor died (probably not hemlock poisoning at the behest of the city council, though), and Touring himself was apparently poisoned entirely without a trial of any kind, public or private.
Clever with the cyanide in the apple trick, though, considering that apples *naturally* contain it (though usually inaccessibly in the seeds, rather than the pulp..)
Except they'll really play up the homosexuality angle and turn off the vast majority of potential viewers.
Further, wouldn't changing the name necessitate a potentially costly update of all the signage? Surely that's money better spent doing, I don't know, something useful?
If you have both sftp and scp, then why would you use sftp... ever...
You don't have ssh enabled, then? If you did, then you could run it from the terminal. What does logmein let you do?