Well, that assumes the original movie was filmed in widescreen. A 4:3 aspect ratio movie on a 16:9 screen will end up letterboxed on the sides, and a 16:9 movie will end up letterboxed top and bottom (or cropped). You're right though, you definitely want to watch a movie in the same aspect ratio is was filmed in, and movies are mostly widescreen.
Reverse shells. Hackers use them all the time: you pwn a computer, then install a little script to open up a connection to an IP you already control. It looks like an outward bound connection, and should be allowed through by the router.
Just add a backdoor you can SSL into if you need to. At that point you can do whatever (downloading illegal materials, sending bomb threats, activating the webcam...) The problem being still that anyone with any sense will wipe the laptop before connecting it to the internet, or even booting off anything other than a LiveCD.
But you can describe an awful lot of phenomena using entirely classical (ie non-quantum) physics. Behaviors that can only be explained through quantum mechanics are interesting, and we rarely see them having effects on the macroscopic world except in carefully designed experiments.
Slashdot had a story about how plants seem to be using quantum physics in photosynthesis- specifically, the electron transport chain is so efficient because of quantum effects. Pretty cool, and if true all oxygen-requiring life on the planet is down to quantum mechanics.
There's like 15 firefox add-ons that spoof referrer headers. If a piece of data is available over the internet, even through a mediated interface like Flash, it can be saved in a useful format. Wireshark pretty much catches everything, except for real streaming video (.flv files don't count!).
I read an article about a small town in the Middle East- Israel? Anyway, it was so isolated that a particular trait for deafness is much more prevalent than in the wider population. Everyone in the down, deaf or not, can use a sign language that is pretty much entirely novel.
I've read somewhere that the main thing about human brains and language is the ability to produce metaphor and simile; this allows for a far greater range of thought and expression. Imagine Shakespeare with no metaphors.
The problem is that it's circular: if anything I do to influence myself was done on my own initiative then (if my actions are predetermined) any results of said actions are also predetermined. Oh well. Off to go read Slaughter House Five, the Trafalmadorians have a lot to say on the matter.
My self certainly is, I don't know about yours. Experiences I've had, how I was raised, people I've met, random accidents... I am under no delusion that I can determine who I am. Influence, sure, but not determine.
Hey, you just said what I was going to say, until I scrolled down. It'll be cool if/when we can prove the nonexistence of nonlocal hidden variables. Wouldn't that (more or less) prove the lack of a perfectly omniscient god? If even God doesn't know what's happening in a quantum particle, then he can't read our quantum-encrypted messages (well, while they're in transit). Ergo, God doesn't know everything and is a lot less impressive.
I thought so, but you said you could do "a lot without any input from the brain whatsoever" which isn't, strictly speaking, true. Lots of things happen without input from the conscious areas of the brain.
The weird thing about this study is that what looks like a conscious choice (a reflex doesn't feel like a decision), made practically instantaneously "I shall press this button *PRESSED*" is actually chosen up to seven seconds before we _subjectively_ decide to press the button. This is strange. I wonder what happens in the brain if subjects are asked "Please hit a button, but you have two seconds to choose which. Go!"
Conscious parts. Your muscles can't pull a trigger at the right moment without having input from your eyes. It may bypass conscious "areas" of the brain entirely, but something has to happen in the brain for you to do anything (even breathe).
GRAVITY IS AN ILLUSION! GEORGE BUSH IS AN ALIEN/ILLUMINATUS/THE ANTICHRIST/JESUS! Those are lies, pretty big ones, and you don't believe them because they're not true.
Your argument is tautological: if we disagree, you claim it proves your argument. If I say "mice are actually 7-dimensional aliens who are controlling your brain" and you say "WTF, that's impossible." I can just say "See?! The mice are controlling you! QED." It's just not a solid basis for an argument.
The Game of Life (and cellular automata in general) can produce very complex behavior from a very small set of rules. If I run through a set of random live/die rules (one cell dies if it's surrounded by 4, not surrounded by four, surrounded by 3 or 5, etc) I'll eventually come up with one that does something interesting. It could be totally automated and random, but leaving each cellular automata to run and then checking on it and looking for complexity will produce some patterns that/look/ "designed" but are actually produced by a totally random set of rules.
Computing did start with binary programming: a mainframe would have a series of on/off switches you would set to represent a space in memory, and another set with the data you want to stick there. Data would be read out with a series of lights that would flash on and off based on binary digits.
You're right, the one overwhelmingly important ability of the human species is to collect data and pass it along to the next generation. If all our computers went up in smoke we could rebuild them with what we have written down; if our records went up too, we'd be back at counting on our fingers for a long time.
Funny, I seem immune but only because my router's default config ip address is different. Still pops up the DNS entry form with example.com filled in if I put in the right ip address, rather scary.
I wish my school had a CS class. That would be sweet, I didn't even know there was an AP Computer Science test. We barely even have an AP Calculus BC class, because there's just not much interest.
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Well, that assumes the original movie was filmed in widescreen. A 4:3 aspect ratio movie on a 16:9 screen will end up letterboxed on the sides, and a 16:9 movie will end up letterboxed top and bottom (or cropped). You're right though, you definitely want to watch a movie in the same aspect ratio is was filmed in, and movies are mostly widescreen.
... as well as every other Facebook app you add.
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Hidden container of thermite. *click* WHOOOOMPH!!
Reverse shells. Hackers use them all the time: you pwn a computer, then install a little script to open up a connection to an IP you already control. It looks like an outward bound connection, and should be allowed through by the router.
Just add a backdoor you can SSL into if you need to. At that point you can do whatever (downloading illegal materials, sending bomb threats, activating the webcam...) The problem being still that anyone with any sense will wipe the laptop before connecting it to the internet, or even booting off anything other than a LiveCD.
But you can describe an awful lot of phenomena using entirely classical (ie non-quantum) physics. Behaviors that can only be explained through quantum mechanics are interesting, and we rarely see them having effects on the macroscopic world except in carefully designed experiments.
Slashdot had a story about how plants seem to be using quantum physics in photosynthesis- specifically, the electron transport chain is so efficient because of quantum effects. Pretty cool, and if true all oxygen-requiring life on the planet is down to quantum mechanics.
There's like 15 firefox add-ons that spoof referrer headers. If a piece of data is available over the internet, even through a mediated interface like Flash, it can be saved in a useful format. Wireshark pretty much catches everything, except for real streaming video (.flv files don't count!).
I read an article about a small town in the Middle East- Israel? Anyway, it was so isolated that a particular trait for deafness is much more prevalent than in the wider population. Everyone in the down, deaf or not, can use a sign language that is pretty much entirely novel.
I've read somewhere that the main thing about human brains and language is the ability to produce metaphor and simile; this allows for a far greater range of thought and expression. Imagine Shakespeare with no metaphors.
Or, rather, inside the box if we're talking TARDIS here.
The problem is that it's circular: if anything I do to influence myself was done on my own initiative then (if my actions are predetermined) any results of said actions are also predetermined. Oh well. Off to go read Slaughter House Five, the Trafalmadorians have a lot to say on the matter.
My self certainly is, I don't know about yours. Experiences I've had, how I was raised, people I've met, random accidents... I am under no delusion that I can determine who I am. Influence, sure, but not determine.
Hey, you just said what I was going to say, until I scrolled down. It'll be cool if/when we can prove the nonexistence of nonlocal hidden variables. Wouldn't that (more or less) prove the lack of a perfectly omniscient god? If even God doesn't know what's happening in a quantum particle, then he can't read our quantum-encrypted messages (well, while they're in transit). Ergo, God doesn't know everything and is a lot less impressive.
I thought so, but you said you could do "a lot without any input from the brain whatsoever" which isn't, strictly speaking, true. Lots of things happen without input from the conscious areas of the brain.
The weird thing about this study is that what looks like a conscious choice (a reflex doesn't feel like a decision), made practically instantaneously "I shall press this button *PRESSED*" is actually chosen up to seven seconds before we _subjectively_ decide to press the button. This is strange. I wonder what happens in the brain if subjects are asked "Please hit a button, but you have two seconds to choose which. Go!"
Conscious parts. Your muscles can't pull a trigger at the right moment without having input from your eyes. It may bypass conscious "areas" of the brain entirely, but something has to happen in the brain for you to do anything (even breathe).
GRAVITY IS AN ILLUSION! GEORGE BUSH IS AN ALIEN/ILLUMINATUS/THE ANTICHRIST/JESUS! Those are lies, pretty big ones, and you don't believe them because they're not true.
Your argument is tautological: if we disagree, you claim it proves your argument. If I say "mice are actually 7-dimensional aliens who are controlling your brain" and you say "WTF, that's impossible." I can just say "See?! The mice are controlling you! QED." It's just not a solid basis for an argument.
Wait, does India even have an FDA? I don't think he cares much about the American FDA, to be honest.
The Game of Life (and cellular automata in general) can produce very complex behavior from a very small set of rules. If I run through a set of random live/die rules (one cell dies if it's surrounded by 4, not surrounded by four, surrounded by 3 or 5, etc) I'll eventually come up with one that does something interesting. It could be totally automated and random, but leaving each cellular automata to run and then checking on it and looking for complexity will produce some patterns that /look/ "designed" but are actually produced by a totally random set of rules.
Computing did start with binary programming: a mainframe would have a series of on/off switches you would set to represent a space in memory, and another set with the data you want to stick there. Data would be read out with a series of lights that would flash on and off based on binary digits.
You're right, the one overwhelmingly important ability of the human species is to collect data and pass it along to the next generation. If all our computers went up in smoke we could rebuild them with what we have written down; if our records went up too, we'd be back at counting on our fingers for a long time.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html
A plurality (more than any single other source), not a majority (ie more than 50%). There is a difference.
Funny, I seem immune but only because my router's default config ip address is different. Still pops up the DNS entry form with example.com filled in if I put in the right ip address, rather scary.
I wish my school had a CS class. That would be sweet, I didn't even know there was an AP Computer Science test. We barely even have an AP Calculus BC class, because there's just not much interest.
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