Eureka! You've found the solution! It's not about storing data on the paper, it's about storing data by removing paper! Less data == Fewer holes. More data == More holes. More holes == Less paper. So, More data == Less paper!
I wonder what would happen if you just cut away all the paper to make one big hole.
I can say that's true, from my own experience of the reverse. In my town a large roundabout was replaced by a complex hodge-podge of multiple interlocking crossings which causes acute traffic infarction during rush hour. In the days of the roundabout, traffic would flow quite smoothly with only the occasional pause when a group of cyclists were coursing the roundabout (where they had right of way). Now, all traffic has to stop at lights multiple times, with a severe penalty for cyclists and pedestrians, where the waiting can add up to several minutes.
Essentially the less you know about something, the more possibilities of what it MIGHT do there are.
Exactly. That is why I made the point about the K factor. If all you know about a process is the fact that it might 'run away', this should be a fair warning not to mess with it without a controlled environment.
It doesn't really matter what else you know about the process, the risk of (currently) unknown and irreversible damage from runaway processes remains. There are enough examples to prove that, ranging in scale from the introduction of rabbits in Australia (we're never going to get rid of them again) to depletion of the ozone layer (we're lucky we have stopped manufacturing CFCs and haven't 'engineered' a self-replicating CFC-releasing agent yet) all the way to (replicating) prions in the food chain to computer viruses in relation to strong AI (yeah, keep those 'SkyNet became aware today' jokes coming).
Exactly where is all the energy going to come from to turn everything into "grey goo"?
Well, there's this great ball of fire up in the sky. Plants and some other critters with chlorophyll use it to create carbohydrates out of thin air (think CO2) and water. Also, there's a big furnace burning below ground, enough to supply the activation energy for many chemical reactions. Not exactly nano stuff, but just imagine hooking up nano and bio together (they're working on that) and yes, I think you could have your 'grey goo' alright... Other prime candidates for the stuff are generically engineered bacteria (think about 'oil-eating' bacteria running amok) and viruses (think about an Ebola from Hell that attacks all living things).
The key factor in all of this is the K factor. Same as with nuclear chain reactions, when K > 1 you get a chain reaction. When there is enough source material and you cannot control it so K becomes < 1 again, it just keeps on going. This is what we have to worry about in all these scenarios.
Don't think you're safe from being spotted when you use a 'dumb' phone. Coarse positioning by triangulation of your phones' signal using cell towers has been possible for quite some (web) time. Identifying you (provided it is indeed you using the phone) is then only a matter of querying your IMEI (on GSM networks) or caller code in your providers' customer database.
Well, either the poster is just SOL or it was just a little SNAFU. Anyway, tracking down some problems can be a major PITA. Also, a major release means a lot of work and MSFT isn't just working on a new browser but also have to put a new OS on the market and bugs don't magically fix themselves. TANSTAAFL. Maybe Google will see reason to sue over this, but IANAL. Maybe the poster could try other browsers, but all have their pro's and cons. YMMV.
To add my spoonful to the word soup brewing in this thread: no, it's not an exploit and it's not phishing, except perhaps in the moral sense. What this site is probably doing is called cloaking, which means that Web sites return different content depending on whether they detect a search engine indexing the site or a visit by a regular user. It used to be (and maybe still is) somewhat popular among webmasters trying to improve their sites' ranking in search results.
'Inevitable' is a very strong word. I would say (with deep sorrow) 'very likely'.
Oxidation and reduction ideally should form a balanced equation with the point of equilibrium within the range that Gaia will tolerate. An obvious solution to the problem therefore is to control (probably reduce then reverse) the growth of organisms and activities that oxidize hydrocarbons in favor of those that release oxygen. Less man-made emissions, possibly fewer humans overall; more algae, plants and trees.
Not exactly. First, affected people all over the world may have friends in the US who are sympathetic to their cause and who may find means to 'bring the message home'.
As for your example of Niger, just skip on over to Nigeria and consider the massive harm done to the (oil) economy by a few oil thieves just by setting fire to a pipeline.
...As an added bonus you could quite probably receive a specialized form of your friend's affection (at least in Irish cities), which you may or may not wish to experience.
In a certain city in England that might very well be a Liverpool kiss...
Since when has there been any difficulty changing IE once released? It's just a matter of releasing eleventy-one quadruple bazillion 'security updates' until it is deemed 'just barely functional'...
Has any major IE update been anything else but the last major version with the last bazillion security patches rolled into it, then dotted with fresh new bloat, eyecandy and bugs?
The next step in evolution (the evolution of evolution, if you will) is for the process itself to enjoy the fruits of its own labor, in other words for intelligence to figure out how to create smarter intelligence.
(re: stock market and Brownian motion) Which is exactly why, every time one of those "Get rich on the stock market, we'll tell you how" commercials starts blaring out the radio, I shout: "Somebody please turn that NOISE down will you?!"
If you're interested in random large-spread stock trading, hire a monkey. Several independent experiments have shown monkeys to be quite succesful in comparison to market analysts. Maybe that's because they're more in tune with Nature?/me hides behind large Gaia Tuning crystal pyramid...
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Eureka! You've found the solution! It's not about storing data on the paper, it's about storing data by removing paper!
Less data == Fewer holes. More data == More holes.
More holes == Less paper.
So, More data == Less paper!
I wonder what would happen if you just cut away all the paper to make one big hole.
<chuckle>
...and he always does a 'make clean' when going to the bathroom...
I wonder what information would result from decoding the American Flag using his algorithm...
Google sez:
Sainul Abideen rainbow: 646 hits
sainul Abideen rainbow shannon: 3 hits
If anyone is wondering what (Claude) Shannon has to do with all this, look him up.
Don't promise me a rainbow, cry me a river instead.
Better yet, you would be able to scan and digitize the printout, then 'compress' it again. Lather, rinse, repeat, and you would end up with one pixel.
Shannon entropy rules!
How long before we will hear something like:
"John Spartan, you are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute."
blaring from a camera unit?
(from the movie "Demolition Man"
ObWikipediaLink: Al Herpin, the "Man Who Never Slept."
I can say that's true, from my own experience of the reverse. In my town a large roundabout was replaced by a complex hodge-podge of multiple interlocking crossings which causes acute traffic infarction during rush hour.
In the days of the roundabout, traffic would flow quite smoothly with only the occasional pause when a group of cyclists were coursing the roundabout (where they had right of way). Now, all traffic has to stop at lights multiple times, with a severe penalty for cyclists and pedestrians, where the waiting can add up to several minutes.
Pax Redmonda
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10 PRINT "Developers, developers, developers, developers, ";
20 GOTO 10
Essentially the less you know about something, the more possibilities of what it MIGHT do there are.
Exactly. That is why I made the point about the K factor. If all you know about a process is the fact that it might 'run away', this should be a fair warning not to mess with it without a controlled environment.
It doesn't really matter what else you know about the process, the risk of (currently) unknown and irreversible damage from runaway processes remains. There are enough examples to prove that, ranging in scale from the introduction of rabbits in Australia (we're never going to get rid of them again) to depletion of the ozone layer (we're lucky we have stopped manufacturing CFCs and haven't 'engineered' a self-replicating CFC-releasing agent yet) all the way to (replicating) prions in the food chain to computer viruses in relation to strong AI (yeah, keep those 'SkyNet became aware today' jokes coming).
Neo-who?
Neo = One. You, Me, Everybody.
He said it best. The problem is Choice.
Exactly where is all the energy going to come from to turn everything into "grey goo"?
Well, there's this great ball of fire up in the sky. Plants and some other critters with chlorophyll use it to create carbohydrates out of thin air (think CO2) and water. Also, there's a big furnace burning below ground, enough to supply the activation energy for many chemical reactions. Not exactly nano stuff, but just imagine hooking up nano and bio together (they're working on that) and yes, I think you could have your 'grey goo' alright...
Other prime candidates for the stuff are generically engineered bacteria (think about 'oil-eating' bacteria running amok) and viruses (think about an Ebola from Hell that attacks all living things).
The key factor in all of this is the K factor. Same as with nuclear chain reactions, when K > 1 you get a chain reaction. When there is enough source material and you cannot control it so K becomes < 1 again, it just keeps on going. This is what we have to worry about in all these scenarios.
Don't think you're safe from being spotted when you use a 'dumb' phone.
Coarse positioning by triangulation of your phones' signal using cell towers has been possible for quite some (web) time. Identifying you (provided it is indeed you using the phone) is then only a matter of querying your IMEI (on GSM networks) or caller code in your providers' customer database.
Well, either the poster is just SOL or it was just a little SNAFU. Anyway, tracking down some problems can be a major PITA. Also, a major release means a lot of work and MSFT isn't just working on a new browser but also have to put a new OS on the market and bugs don't magically fix themselves. TANSTAAFL. Maybe Google will see reason to sue over this, but IANAL. Maybe the poster could try other browsers, but all have their pro's and cons. YMMV.
To add my spoonful to the word soup brewing in this thread: no, it's not an exploit and it's not phishing, except perhaps in the moral sense. What this site is probably doing is called cloaking, which means that Web sites return different content depending on whether they detect a search engine indexing the site or a visit by a regular user. It used to be (and maybe still is) somewhat popular among webmasters trying to improve their sites' ranking in search results.
FWIW FLAS*
YMMV
* Four Letter Acronyms Suck
I always thought that it was the mice. Didn't they commission the construction of the Earth in order to perform some massive computation task?
'Inevitable' is a very strong word. I would say (with deep sorrow) 'very likely'.
Oxidation and reduction ideally should form a balanced equation with the point of equilibrium within the range that Gaia will tolerate. An obvious solution to the problem therefore is to control (probably reduce then reverse) the growth of organisms and activities that oxidize hydrocarbons in favor of those that release oxygen.
Less man-made emissions, possibly fewer humans overall; more algae, plants and trees.
"Save the trees or face Koyaanisqatsi..."
Not exactly. First, affected people all over the world may have friends in the US who are sympathetic to their cause and who may find means to 'bring the message home'.
As for your example of Niger, just skip on over to Nigeria and consider the massive harm done to the (oil) economy by a few oil thieves just by setting fire to a pipeline.
...As an added bonus you could quite probably receive a specialized form of your friend's affection (at least in Irish cities), which you may or may not wish to experience.
In a certain city in England that might very well be a Liverpool kiss...
IE7 is harder to change once released
Say again?
Since when has there been any difficulty changing IE once released?
It's just a matter of releasing eleventy-one quadruple bazillion 'security updates' until it is deemed 'just barely functional'...
Has any major IE update been anything else but the last major version with the last bazillion security patches rolled into it, then dotted with fresh new bloat, eyecandy and bugs?
...but I want to port NetBSD to it, you insensitive clod!
This just in: Duke Nukem Forever will be released for this platform first...in Japan! NetCraft confirms it!
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, CAMERA BUGS YOU!
That's because it's more like Rock Surgery!
(if your teeth have hard enamel, that is...)
(re: stock market and Brownian motion)
/me hides behind large Gaia Tuning crystal pyramid...
Which is exactly why, every time one of those "Get rich on the stock market, we'll tell you how" commercials starts blaring out the radio, I shout: "Somebody please turn that NOISE down will you?!"
If you're interested in random large-spread stock trading, hire a monkey. Several independent experiments have shown monkeys to be quite succesful in comparison to market analysts. Maybe that's because they're more in tune with Nature?