Just because something doesn't involve digits doesn't mean it's not math. I suggest you look up analogue computers, because that's what you just described - a neural net acting as an analogue computer.
After years of Not believing movies where the CCTV was so easily manipulated, you are telling me I was ignoring a training course in burglary?
It's been this way for 10 years or more. Seriously, I forgot the first time I found a list of these. It's been this way ever since they put apache web servers on "CCTV" cameras and stuck them on the Internet. With PNP settings on your router turned on, you don't even have to open the port manually.
This is a non-story and is obvious to fucking everyone who has so much opened a quckstart guide to a CCTV camera.
Just over a year ago, I posted (by request) some truths - was quickly lynched by several thousand users, branded a liar and a troll and forced out of the community.
"Have you ever used a transit or other surveying tool? I doubt it."
The fact that you keep on harping on "transit" as in "transit and tape" means you, yourself, have not touched a piece of surveying equipment in 25 years if ever, since the electronics revolution that cut surveying crews from 5 members to 3 max and usually two. And yes, I do mean the middle of the fucking 80s when Total Stations like Topcon, Wild, and Zeiss fucking changed everything.
Goddamn.
You are a nutcase. Say hello to your new status, asshole.
What part of that is congruent with my "is not good enough in an urban setting"?
Since when is land surveying restricted to urban settings?
A transit is quick to set up and get working within a minute or so, doesn't "get more accurate as you wait for more satellites to pass overhead", etc. Also, a transit will work fine in a warehouse or other strutural building where the steel walls and shielding would cause problems with GPS, as well as underground, where GPS absolutely cannot work. Or do you have a neutrino-powered GPS?
You're talking to someone who used to get paid to do this shit.
Land surveyors are involved in land disputes and building. All the way from your 100x100 lot to nuclear reactors, bridges and roads, etc.
There are tools in the toolbox spanning from clapping your hands at 90 degrees, wooden beenies and stakes, handheld levels and stadia rods, to steel tape, to total stations to GPS. Just like a programmer has more than one language under his belt, the toolbox of a land surveyor has more stuff in it than most people think, especially undergrad engineering students.
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Stupid land surveyor and orienteering trick. Take your watch: Aim the hour hand at the Sun. Halfway between that and 12 is South. Voila, instant crude compass. Obviously in the Southern Hemisphere, directions are switched around slightly.
>Last I looked, (a week ago, but hey, maybe it's changed in the last 7 days) surveyors used transits and lasers, not GPS
You would be wrong.
Surveyors were using GPS before the "fuzzing" and after the fuzzing, surveyors were using Differential GPS (google this). Because the fuzzing was in one magnitude and direction it was trivial to correct for. Set up on a known point, correct for it, bam, your GPS now works like it did before the fuzzing.
Now that the charade of fuzzing is over, everybody uses GPS. Everyone. Especially now.
What you are also ignoring is the fact that the longer an antenna is left in one position and more satellites fly over, you get better and better resolution. Swinging a machete and cutting line takes time and costs money. If you can get a location by setting up on a point and gathering data for half a day instead of cutting line and running a traverse to get to it for two days, then you've come out way ahead.
The ultimate goal of land surveying is to be able to reconstruct a piece of land and who owns it even if it is vaporized by a nuclear explosion. GPS gives you this cheaply.
Most people just see the GPS side of this fight, afraid of losing GPS in the continental U.S. In rreality it would have mostly affected those who needed extreme precision,
You mean like land surveyors and engineers. Yeah, people whose livelihoods depend on accurate GPS, because they build useless things like highways, bridges, airports, power plants, and other useless shit like that.
You can *always* push off a restart in Ubuntu and other Linux distros. This is by design. The system doesn't suddenly say "herp, restarting now! HAHAHAH" like Windows can. Especially when Windows has this nasty habit of stealing focus, you hit return while thinking you're in some other window and *bam* restart.
In sane systems, you can do the update and then do the restart when you get around to it. And in sane systems, only kernel updates truly require a restart of the whole computer.
And in sane systems, there are ways of doing a "restart" without doing a restart even with a kernel update.
Slashdot Mirror
The Providence Mafia is a pale shadow of what it used to be.
Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio, the head of the mob, got sentenced to 66 months in prison last Friday. He's 84.
Nobody knows what "Baby Shacks" actually means, btw.
All the old ones that more or less knew what they were doing are dying out. The younger ones...not so bright.
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BMO
An you know what the real irony is here?
Curt Schilling is a full-blown teabagger.
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BMO
This is what it looks like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BZ_6PkeO_g8
"It's like you're running away."
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BMO
Curt Schilling.
Mr. Bloody Sock himself.
You need to get out of your basement once in a while.
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BMO
I replied to the message. I'm not replying to the whole thread. It's not my fault if the person I replied to has anal-cranial-inversion syndrome.
He claimed that the wetware in your head is not a computer when you are guesstimating distances and speeds. That is flat out wrong.
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BMO
You forgot the adverb.
You get 1 person doing 3 people's work badly.
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BMO
Which is... math.
Just because something doesn't involve digits doesn't mean it's not math. I suggest you look up analogue computers, because that's what you just described - a neural net acting as an analogue computer.
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BMO
Indeed.
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BMO
So what's the condition?
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BMO
After years of Not believing movies where the CCTV was so easily manipulated, you are telling me I was ignoring a training course in burglary?
It's been this way for 10 years or more. Seriously, I forgot the first time I found a list of these. It's been this way ever since they put apache web servers on "CCTV" cameras and stuck them on the Internet. With PNP settings on your router turned on, you don't even have to open the port manually.
This is a non-story and is obvious to fucking everyone who has so much opened a quckstart guide to a CCTV camera.
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BMO
>Who uses this word?
Plenty of people.
Look out for the anthropophage behind you.
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BMO
>asked for proof or even just an assertion.
>crickets.wav
Trollboy.
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BMO
Just over a year ago, I posted (by request) some truths - was quickly lynched by several thousand users, branded a liar and a troll and forced out of the community.
What were the truths?
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BMO
>modded into the basement
Don't feel bad, some people have no sense of humor, OP.
5 dollar footlongs forever.
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BMO
... after seeing that Godwinning was too easy, I asked the Oracle of Bacon how many links to Jesus Christ.
The Oracle cannot find "Jesus Christ."
Won't someone Save this Oracle?
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BMO
FTFS "Microsoft haters gleefully have latched on to the latest scoop"
Microsoft investors have known for a decade.
It's only the "true believers" that haven't seen it.
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BMO
Despite some of his awful policy positions, I like Ron Paul.
So
Much
This.
And I have been following him on-and-off ever since I heard him on WBZ on David Brudnoy's show in the very early 90s/late 80s.
>Rand Paul
He takes his first name too seriously.
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BMO
"Have you ever used a transit or other surveying tool? I doubt it."
The fact that you keep on harping on "transit" as in "transit and tape" means you, yourself, have not touched a piece of surveying equipment in 25 years if ever, since the electronics revolution that cut surveying crews from 5 members to 3 max and usually two. And yes, I do mean the middle of the fucking 80s when Total Stations like Topcon, Wild, and Zeiss fucking changed everything.
Goddamn.
You are a nutcase. Say hello to your new status, asshole.
Yes, I'm mad. Fuck you.
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BMO
What part of that is congruent with my "is not good enough in an urban setting"?
Since when is land surveying restricted to urban settings?
A transit is quick to set up and get working within a minute or so, doesn't "get more accurate as you wait for more satellites to pass overhead", etc. Also, a transit will work fine in a warehouse or other strutural building where the steel walls and shielding would cause problems with GPS, as well as underground, where GPS absolutely cannot work. Or do you have a neutrino-powered GPS?
You're talking to someone who used to get paid to do this shit.
You are talking out of your ass.
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BMO
>Desktop search was introduced in Windows 95
No, it wasn't and you are full of it.
Don't bullshit me.
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BMO
Thank you.
>3mm
About the width of a tack.
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In order to reply to myself as a follow up
Land surveyors are involved in land disputes and building. All the way from your 100x100 lot to nuclear reactors, bridges and roads, etc.
There are tools in the toolbox spanning from clapping your hands at 90 degrees, wooden beenies and stakes, handheld levels and stadia rods, to steel tape, to total stations to GPS. Just like a programmer has more than one language under his belt, the toolbox of a land surveyor has more stuff in it than most people think, especially undergrad engineering students.
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BMO
Stupid land surveyor and orienteering trick. Take your watch: Aim the hour hand at the Sun. Halfway between that and 12 is South. Voila, instant crude compass. Obviously in the Southern Hemisphere, directions are switched around slightly.
>Last I looked, (a week ago, but hey, maybe it's changed in the last 7 days) surveyors used transits and lasers, not GPS
You would be wrong.
Surveyors were using GPS before the "fuzzing" and after the fuzzing, surveyors were using Differential GPS (google this). Because the fuzzing was in one magnitude and direction it was trivial to correct for. Set up on a known point, correct for it, bam, your GPS now works like it did before the fuzzing.
Now that the charade of fuzzing is over, everybody uses GPS. Everyone. Especially now.
What you are also ignoring is the fact that the longer an antenna is left in one position and more satellites fly over, you get better and better resolution. Swinging a machete and cutting line takes time and costs money. If you can get a location by setting up on a point and gathering data for half a day instead of cutting line and running a traverse to get to it for two days, then you've come out way ahead.
The ultimate goal of land surveying is to be able to reconstruct a piece of land and who owns it even if it is vaporized by a nuclear explosion. GPS gives you this cheaply.
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BMO
Most people just see the GPS side of this fight, afraid of losing GPS in the continental U.S. In rreality it would have mostly affected those who needed extreme precision,
You mean like land surveyors and engineers. Yeah, people whose livelihoods depend on accurate GPS, because they build useless things like highways, bridges, airports, power plants, and other useless shit like that.
Get the fuck off of Slashdot.
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BMO
You are confusing surprise restarts and updates.
You can *always* push off a restart in Ubuntu and other Linux distros. This is by design. The system doesn't suddenly say "herp, restarting now! HAHAHAH" like Windows can. Especially when Windows has this nasty habit of stealing focus, you hit return while thinking you're in some other window and *bam* restart.
In sane systems, you can do the update and then do the restart when you get around to it. And in sane systems, only kernel updates truly require a restart of the whole computer.
And in sane systems, there are ways of doing a "restart" without doing a restart even with a kernel update.
http://www.ksplice.com/uptrack/download-ubuntu
There is no excuse for a *surprise* restart.
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BMO