You managed to get the values for both 3 sigma, and 5 sigma wrong +/- 3 sigma = 1 in 370 (which is what clued me into them being wrong, 1/81 + 0.997 isn't close to 1) +/- 5 sigma = 1 in 1,744,278
People basically had bots (or a bunch of their friends) play their songs over and over allow them to rack up large play numbers.
I believe Amazon charges a significant fee to use their borrowing service (IIRC you need Amazon Prime) and puts limits on the number of books you can take out in a given period of time, so this shouldn't be an issue with them.
Maybe if you want to know what the invention is you should look at the part of the patent where they tell you what the invention is, rather then reading the abstract?
By the classical definition of work, if the intended goal is to move the object, the initial push's energy continues to perform an infinite amount of that work, unless the energy is diffused or negated.
Or are you trying to redefine work?
You seem to be the one who is trying to redefine work. Work = Force * Distance. One the "initial push" is over, Force becomes zero, and any further movement results in zero work.
(as an aside, I have to admit that if I was on the Apollo 10 mission and everything was working out, I'd be tempted to yell "Fuck you, Neil!" into my radio and land on the Moon. What's NASA gonna do?)
Watch as you die on the moon because the ascent stage lacked the fuel needed to return the Lunar Module to the Command Module from the surface of the moon.
Yeah, because more supply in the market for batteries that weigh tens or hundreds of pounds will have all sorts of influence on the market for sub-1 pound batteries used in laptops, cameras, tablets and phones.
The thing that gets glossed over is that the "moneyball" draft of 2002 wasn't very good. Oakland had several first round picks and only the first two (Nick Swisher, and Joe Blanton) did anything significant in majors. Add to that the fact that a number of good players who had the sabermetric stats to suggest they were good were ignored, often for some really stupid reasons.
If Beane had really stopped looking at the human equation he would have drafted Prince Fielder.
You know, people keep saying that these guys are geniuses and would spot trivial errors but I can only think of two things when I read that:
1) I work in research with some incredibly smart people, and see them make the occasional really dumb mistake. All it takes is one stupid error made by some guy years ago that never rechecked to mess things up.
2) I can still very vividly remember when Lyne, Bailes & Shemar announced they detected a planet around a pulsar by detecting the pulsars timing changing and in the end it turned out they didn't account for the movement of the Earth correctly.
Where in update New York? National Grid offers "SC1C Residential Optional Time of Use" service, which has three different rates (peak, off-peak and shoulder) and also a "Market Rate Service".
I'm surprised. Where I live (north-east US) they replaced all the analog meters several years ago with digital ones that included a short-range radio so they could fire most of the meter readers .
Once you give your ipod to the kids, there are no controls to restrict what they can or cannot do. Maybe you should set it up correctly before handing it over to the kids.
-- Separate password for downloading free stuff: Why do I have to give my password tied to my credit card to download free stuff? I can give that password when doing in game purchases if I want to. You don't have to. I don't have a credit card tied to my app store account and I download things all the time.
-- Password restriction on apps: Apple provides restrictions on pre-insalled apps such as youtube. But not for downloaded apps. You can disable apps based on ratings, but AFAIK that's it. So no real help there.
-- Disable in-game purchases: No, you can't do that So what does turning "In-App Purchases" off in the settings do?
-- 15 minute window to purchase all you want without password: Fixed only recently. You can disable both in-app purchases, installing apps, and accessing itunes (buying music) in the settings menu. What's left to purchase?
It's only illegal if the law says it's illegal. A lot of the "anti-hacking" laws have provisions that basically say "This law not applicable to Law Enforcement and the US Government". So "It's illegal if the gov't does it too" isn't always true.
WTF, NewScientist? The error's in the original article too, but this is the sort of mistake I expect from the mainstream media. A pop scientist publication should be smarter than this.
Unlike you the "pop scientist publication" knows the difference between "per day" and "in total", and can do the elementary school math required to convert between the two.
Do you know how involved was McCarthy with HUAC? Here's a hint: McCarthy was a senator, and the 'H' in HUAC stands for "House", as in the "US House of Representatives".
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that He-3 and He-4 aren't distributed uniformly across the various helium reservoirs on earth. In particular most of the deep reservoirs of helium are the byproducts of nuclear (alpha) decay, and so are very rich in He-4. On the other hand cosmic rays generate a lot of tritium (and therefor He-3) in earths oceans and earths atmosphere.
With some information picking your own numbers in the 6/49 could give you an advantage (i.e. increase your expected rate of return). If there were some numbers that were more common then others you could avoid those to minimized the odds that you would share a jackpot.
I'm pretty sure that in the US in criminal cases the prosecution is required to reveal all evidence that they have to the defense regardless of who it helps. So if the DA came across something on Facebook that would help the defense and didn't reveal it they could be in serious trouble.
Most of what you say is true however you've moved the 'goal posts' so far that I don't think there is an argument anymore. The original statement was "The TMI incedednt was caused by nothing more then incorrect data" with "bad" being used in place of "incorrect" later in the discussion. I would say this has been demonstrated to be completely false.
A poor UI design isn't the same thing as incorrect data. Uninformative data isn't the same thing as incorrect data. Presenting the data in a bad way doesn't make the data incorrect. If I correctly expressed the population density of the US as 1/54ths of a person per 1.98989 square miles the lousy presentation wouldn't make my number incorrect.
Also: Is your current position really relevant to the original issue? The original concern was with systems being hacked over the internet. Are we really concerned that hackers are going to re-arrange indicators on control boards to make them more confusing?
The Union congress does indeed have the power to close the post office, but they do NOT have the power to forbid a Member State (example: Virginia) from setting-up its own post office for its own citizens.
Says who? I'm only familiar with Article 4 which enumerates the states powers and doesn't include post offices, and the 10th amendment which reserves to the states respectively any powers the Constitution did not delegate to the United States. Establishing a post office is clearly delegated to the United States.
Nor do they have the power to prevent private entrepreneurs like FedEx or UPS to fill the gap left behind by the USPS's extinction.
Article I - Section 8 - Clause 3 (aka the interstate commerce clause) Even if you ignore the above it's going to be hard to replace the USPS with FedEx or UPS if the congress says "you can't carry mail between states".
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You managed to get the values for both 3 sigma, and 5 sigma wrong
+/- 3 sigma = 1 in 370 (which is what clued me into them being wrong, 1/81 + 0.997 isn't close to 1)
+/- 5 sigma = 1 in 1,744,278
People basically had bots (or a bunch of their friends) play their songs over and over allow them to rack up large play numbers.
I believe Amazon charges a significant fee to use their borrowing service (IIRC you need Amazon Prime) and puts limits on the number of books you can take out in a given period of time, so this shouldn't be an issue with them.
So what is the invention here?
Maybe if you want to know what the invention is you should look at the part of the patent where they tell you what the invention is, rather then reading the abstract?
Except the hacker didn't create the holes in the network,
How do you know that?
More specially, how do you that once he had access the hacker didn't introduce new vulnerabilities into the system?
By the classical definition of work, if the intended goal is to move the object, the initial push's energy continues to perform an infinite amount of that work, unless the energy is diffused or negated.
Or are you trying to redefine work?
You seem to be the one who is trying to redefine work. Work = Force * Distance. One the "initial push" is over, Force becomes zero, and any further movement results in zero work.
(as an aside, I have to admit that if I was on the Apollo 10 mission and everything was working out, I'd be tempted to yell "Fuck you, Neil!" into my radio and land on the Moon. What's NASA gonna do?)
Watch as you die on the moon because the ascent stage lacked the fuel needed to return the Lunar Module to the Command Module from the surface of the moon.
It's supposed to be 40,000 square meters (check the press release) which would be >400,000 square feet.
Yeah, because more supply in the market for batteries that weigh tens or hundreds of pounds will have all sorts of influence on the market for sub-1 pound batteries used in laptops, cameras, tablets and phones.
The thing that gets glossed over is that the "moneyball" draft of 2002 wasn't very good. Oakland had several first round picks and only the first two (Nick Swisher, and Joe Blanton) did anything significant in majors. Add to that the fact that a number of good players who had the sabermetric stats to suggest they were good were ignored, often for some really stupid reasons.
If Beane had really stopped looking at the human equation he would have drafted Prince Fielder.
Those are "Young Adult" novels so they were probably actively cut from the list if they were present.
I imagine Dr. Baden might be a little insulted to be referred to as an "armchair physicist"...
Then maybe he shouldn't be a physicist with the word "chair" in his title.
You know, people keep saying that these guys are geniuses and would spot trivial errors but I can only think of two things when I read that:
1) I work in research with some incredibly smart people, and see them make the occasional really dumb mistake. All it takes is one stupid error made by some guy years ago that never rechecked to mess things up.
2) I can still very vividly remember when Lyne, Bailes & Shemar announced they detected a planet around a pulsar by detecting the pulsars timing changing and in the end it turned out they didn't account for the movement of the Earth correctly.
Apparently part of your job isn't basic math. 100,000 / 300 is about 333, about a factor of ten off from your 3000 number.
Where in update New York? National Grid offers "SC1C Residential Optional Time of Use" service, which has three different rates (peak, off-peak and shoulder) and also a "Market Rate Service".
http://www.nationalgridus.com/niagaramohawk/home/rates/3_service.asp
I'm surprised. Where I live (north-east US) they replaced all the analog meters several years ago with digital ones that included a short-range radio so they could fire most of the meter readers .
Once you give your ipod to the kids, there are no controls to restrict what they can or cannot do.
Maybe you should set it up correctly before handing it over to the kids.
-- Separate password for downloading free stuff: Why do I have to give my password tied to my credit card to download free stuff? I can give that password when doing in game purchases if I want to.
You don't have to. I don't have a credit card tied to my app store account and I download things all the time.
-- Password restriction on apps: Apple provides restrictions on pre-insalled apps such as youtube. But not for downloaded apps.
You can disable apps based on ratings, but AFAIK that's it. So no real help there.
-- Disable in-game purchases: No, you can't do that
So what does turning "In-App Purchases" off in the settings do?
-- 15 minute window to purchase all you want without password: Fixed only recently.
You can disable both in-app purchases, installing apps, and accessing itunes (buying music) in the settings menu. What's left to purchase?
It's only illegal if the law says it's illegal. A lot of the "anti-hacking" laws have provisions that basically say "This law not applicable to Law Enforcement and the US Government". So "It's illegal if the gov't does it too" isn't always true.
WTF, NewScientist? The error's in the original article too, but this is the sort of mistake I expect from the mainstream media. A pop scientist publication should be smarter than this.
Unlike you the "pop scientist publication" knows the difference between "per day" and "in total", and can do the elementary school math required to convert between the two.
Do you know how involved was McCarthy with HUAC? Here's a hint: McCarthy was a senator, and the 'H' in HUAC stands for "House", as in the "US House of Representatives".
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that He-3 and He-4 aren't distributed uniformly across the various helium reservoirs on earth. In particular most of the deep reservoirs of helium are the byproducts of nuclear (alpha) decay, and so are very rich in He-4. On the other hand cosmic rays generate a lot of tritium (and therefor He-3) in earths oceans and earths atmosphere.
Because on an SSD the data goes with the PCB.
With some information picking your own numbers in the 6/49 could give you an advantage (i.e. increase your expected rate of return). If there were some numbers that were more common then others you could avoid those to minimized the odds that you would share a jackpot.
I'm pretty sure that in the US in criminal cases the prosecution is required to reveal all evidence that they have to the defense regardless of who it helps. So if the DA came across something on Facebook that would help the defense and didn't reveal it they could be in serious trouble.
I have no idea how civil cases work.
Most of what you say is true however you've moved the 'goal posts' so far that I don't think there is an argument anymore. The original statement was "The TMI incedednt was caused by nothing more then incorrect data" with "bad" being used in place of "incorrect" later in the discussion. I would say this has been demonstrated to be completely false.
A poor UI design isn't the same thing as incorrect data. Uninformative data isn't the same thing as incorrect data. Presenting the data in a bad way doesn't make the data incorrect. If I correctly expressed the population density of the US as 1/54ths of a person per 1.98989 square miles the lousy presentation wouldn't make my number incorrect.
Also: Is your current position really relevant to the original issue? The original concern was with systems being hacked over the internet. Are we really concerned that hackers are going to re-arrange indicators on control boards to make them more confusing?
The Union congress does indeed have the power to close the post office, but they do NOT have the power to forbid a Member State (example: Virginia) from setting-up its own post office for its own citizens.
Says who? I'm only familiar with Article 4 which enumerates the states powers and doesn't include post offices, and the 10th amendment which reserves to the states respectively any powers the Constitution did not delegate to the United States. Establishing a post office is clearly delegated to the United States.
Nor do they have the power to prevent private entrepreneurs like FedEx or UPS to fill the gap left behind by the USPS's extinction.
Article I - Section 8 - Clause 3 (aka the interstate commerce clause)
Even if you ignore the above it's going to be hard to replace the USPS with FedEx or UPS if the congress says "you can't carry mail between states".