Still, you've got to actually eat it. No doggy bags. No preparing your lunch picnic at the breakfast buffet. And no leaving unreasonable quantities of leftovers on your plate, that they'd have to throw away. We have a Chinese buffet place around here where they post that they can charge you extra if they notice that you waste food.
What they lack in physical defenses, they make up in a cocktail of disgusting bodily juices. A colleague once tried to put a flatworm in his mouth, Justine recounted. The man still describes it as “one of the worst experiences of his life.”
Nope, there should have been a pound sign after the colon.
If you're not getting a pound sign, you're doing it wrong: £ :-)
Or did you mean hash? #
The Unicode support seems to be extremely selective.
The funny thing is that FunkSoulBrother's initial sentence didn't contain any non-Latin9 characters and neither was it supposed to. Or which non-ASCII Unicode character was supposed to be in there?
Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Wasn't this basically what Ford did with the Pinto?
In order to send a stern signal to other companies which might be tempted to use the same reasoning, the courts' solution was to greatly increase C (damages awarded)...
Similar to how Google's neural net tagged the picture for 2 black guys as gorillas.
Why the past tense? While the picture with two black guys (and no gorilla) might already be removed, there's still one with one black guy and one gorilla that appears on the second page when image-searching for gorillas
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The balls can be manipulated in a lot more ways than loading them. Imperfect roundness, surface tension, expandability with temperature changes, vibration when exposed to ultrasounds
More difficult to do discretely. Even if you work in a position where you have access to the drawing machine and the balls, it's a lot more likely that some coworker notices you swapping balls with doctored balls. Not to mention the need to have them manufactured in such a way that they look exactly like the real balls. No off color, off smell, off sound when they bump, etc. And don't think about going to the same manufacturer as the original balls, he'd likely mention the strange order to your employer.
- there are so many ways that are very hard to detect that may skew the odds of some balls being picked more often than others.
... and this will show up on some simple statistical analysis.
Whereas by manipulating a computer-based PRNG, you could manipulate the numbers in such a way that not one number is more frequent than others, but that you could still calculate it if you knew the right formula.
The idea behind this research is that an attacker could (1) print an entirely new poster and overlay it over an existing sign, or [...]While scenario (1) will trick even human observers and there's little chance of stopping it
Nope, it won't in the case of the stop sign. It's octogonal, the only street sign that has this shape. So it will be recognizable whether clear, covered in a weird poster, or in snow. Btw, possibility of snow cover was the reason why the street sign design committee decided to give it this shape. The importance of the stop sign is so that it must not be confused with something else, even if for whatever reason it becomes unreadable.
The real question is: what if the wallet had, say, $100,000 in it. I think I might just leave it where I found it. But the real test comes if I ever find myself in that situation.
... or no cash at all. In which case it might not have been lost, but stolen, emptied and discarded.
The owner might then assume you stole the contents...
However the smart gun can prevent the person from taking someones gun and then shooting the owner with his own weapon.
Actually these guns described in the summary don't use the owner's fingerprint on the trigger, but just check whether the owner's bluetooth-enabled watch is nearby. Which will be the case whether the owner shoots or is shot at...
So, does this mean you leave one in every room? So what if the burglar picks up the kitchen's gun before going to see you in your bedroom, and shoot you before you're awake enough to pick up the bedroom's gun?
No, not really. The ones with cables have a counterweight, so they tend to stay put, unless the cable snaps - that's when you need emergency brakes. The hydraulic ones will descend if there is a leak or power fail, but still at a relatively safe pace.
There's more than one emergency break system on elevators. One is a wheel break on the pulley, which engages in the case of power loss (or in normal operation, while elevator is at a floor).
The other is the track break, which engages in the event where the rope snaps (clamps on the cabin that seize the metal tracks that guide the cabin).
Both would be difficult to put in place on a Maglev system.
Seriously? Do you think that wouldn't happen with conventional elevators if they had no emergency braking system?
Exactly.... but how would you install an emergency breaking system on a (contactless!) Maglev system without seriously restricting the the directions in which this can move? (diagonally...)
Maybe they do have a solution, but the article is entirely silent on the subject...
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Still, you've got to actually eat it. No doggy bags. No preparing your lunch picnic at the breakfast buffet. And no leaving unreasonable quantities of leftovers on your plate, that they'd have to throw away. We have a Chinese buffet place around here where they post that they can charge you extra if they notice that you waste food.
Giant predatory worms invaded France, but scientists just noticed them:
What they lack in physical defenses, they make up in a cocktail of disgusting bodily juices. A colleague once tried to put a flatworm in his mouth, Justine recounted. The man still describes it as “one of the worst experiences of his life.”
Yeah, less spam!
Wouldn't it be easier if they just did service apache2 stop? Or even easier: pull the web server's power cord?
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Nope, there should have been a pound sign after the colon.
If you're not getting a pound sign, you're doing it wrong: £
:-)
Or did you mean hash? #
The Unicode support seems to be extremely selective.
The funny thing is that FunkSoulBrother's initial sentence didn't contain any non-Latin9 characters and neither was it supposed to. Or which non-ASCII Unicode character was supposed to be in there?
Slashdot supports Unicode just fine: € , what are you talking about?
Indeed, robots, even disgruntled ones, won't jack into the box...
What are they thinking?
banana split
Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Wasn't this basically what Ford did with the Pinto?
In order to send a stern signal to other companies which might be tempted to use the same reasoning, the courts' solution was to greatly increase C (damages awarded)...
I doubt it because nothing of historical significance is communicated using modern emoticons.
We need an emoticon for "orange finger on red button"...
No there isn't. A yellow-haired weasel is still a weasel.
Similar to how Google's neural net tagged the picture for 2 black guys as gorillas.
Why the past tense? While the picture with two black guys (and no gorilla) might already be removed, there's still one with one black guy and one gorilla that appears on the second page when image-searching for gorillas
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Morons!
Tell that to the President.
Tell that to the Mexicans. When will they pay the wall?!
The balls can be manipulated in a lot more ways than loading them. Imperfect roundness, surface tension, expandability with temperature changes, vibration when exposed to ultrasounds
More difficult to do discretely. Even if you work in a position where you have access to the drawing machine and the balls, it's a lot more likely that some coworker notices you swapping balls with doctored balls. Not to mention the need to have them manufactured in such a way that they look exactly like the real balls. No off color, off smell, off sound when they bump, etc. And don't think about going to the same manufacturer as the original balls, he'd likely mention the strange order to your employer.
- there are so many ways that are very hard to detect that may skew the odds of some balls being picked more often than others.
... and this will show up on some simple statistical analysis.
Whereas by manipulating a computer-based PRNG, you could manipulate the numbers in such a way that not one number is more frequent than others, but that you could still calculate it if you knew the right formula.
A red car has the property of being red; it cannot claim that it is blue or red.
But it can claim to be green, unless it's a Volkswagen...
The idea behind this research is that an attacker could (1) print an entirely new poster and overlay it over an existing sign, or [...]While scenario (1) will trick even human observers and there's little chance of stopping it
Nope, it won't in the case of the stop sign. It's octogonal, the only street sign that has this shape. So it will be recognizable whether clear, covered in a weird poster, or in snow. Btw, possibility of snow cover was the reason why the street sign design committee decided to give it this shape. The importance of the stop sign is so that it must not be confused with something else, even if for whatever reason it becomes unreadable.
The real question is: what if the wallet had, say, $100,000 in it. I think I might just leave it where I found it. But the real test comes if I ever find myself in that situation.
... or no cash at all. In which case it might not have been lost, but stolen, emptied and discarded.
The owner might then assume you stole the contents...
However the smart gun can prevent the person from taking someones gun and then shooting the owner with his own weapon.
Actually these guns described in the summary don't use the owner's fingerprint on the trigger, but just check whether the owner's bluetooth-enabled watch is nearby. Which will be the case whether the owner shoots or is shot at...
I pick it up whatever room I'm in...
So, does this mean you leave one in every room? So what if the burglar picks up the kitchen's gun before going to see you in your bedroom, and shoot you before you're awake enough to pick up the bedroom's gun?
No, not really. The ones with cables have a counterweight, so they tend to stay put, unless the cable snaps - that's when you need emergency brakes. The hydraulic ones will descend if there is a leak or power fail, but still at a relatively safe pace.
There's more than one emergency break system on elevators. One is a wheel break on the pulley, which engages in the case of power loss (or in normal operation, while elevator is at a floor).
The other is the track break, which engages in the event where the rope snaps (clamps on the cabin that seize the metal tracks that guide the cabin).
Both would be difficult to put in place on a Maglev system.
Seriously? Do you think that wouldn't happen with conventional elevators if they had no emergency braking system?
Exactly. ... but how would you install an emergency breaking system on a (contactless!) Maglev system without seriously restricting the the directions in which this can move? (diagonally...)
Maybe they do have a solution, but the article is entirely silent on the subject...
BREAKING NEWS: Some things that weren't possible in 1919 are possible in 2017.
... whereas other things were possible in 1919, but are no longer now. Such as reading comprehension.
but sure you're not using it as a laptop simply because it sucks balls as a laptop
Yeah, why o why did they put the fan's opening underneath the surface, rather than the top?
even with the keyboard cover.
hmmm, maybe if you put the keyboard cover under it, rather than use it as a keyboard? Na, then it'll just fry balls instead :-)