Child molesters could lookup schools or daycare centers in phonebooks and just drive right up and snatch them off the street. Oh wait... that already happens.
Well what else can we demonize? High school bake sale notices in the supermarket? Yeah, thats that one's golden, and car washes too, with those young high school girls.
But here's a brain teaser. Try to think of anything that isn't terrorist bait nowdays.
The ratio of IT workers to rest of company depends on the business. A corporate farm might have 1 or 2 IT workers and depending on season, 5 to 500 non-IT workers. A furniture factory might have 1 IT worker for every 1000 production employees. A food processing company might need a higher ratio because of the seasonal and perishable nature of the business. A shipping business would also need a robust IT staff to track its shipments and scheduling.
I'm quite sure that General Mills or Nestle corprations have large IT staffs in the hundreds, approaching thousands, but they have hundreds of thousands just working in the farms, factories, logistics, (people that manage physical stuff, like factories and storage), transport and shipping, and so on. For large corporations like that, the IT ratio is actually quite small because a lot of it is done by other smaller entities with little or no IT staff, like the independent farmer or rancher that does all his bookeeping the old fashioned way. on paper, except for bribes.
So the final answer is that some businesses, like server co-locating service require about 1-1 IT to non-IT and some, like low tech manufacturing require 0-infinity IT to non-IT ratio.
Are you telling me that somebody actually looked at win/loss records and margin of victory and strength of opponents to figure out which team might win? How can this be? Why did nobody ever figure out this simple algorithm before? [slaps forehead with hand] DOH!
Oh wait, sorry it was patented years ago, and multiple times with minute variations such as going back to strength of opponents opponents, and margin of victory of opponents against common opponents, and strength of opponents opponents opponents, and....
But if you add in what they ate for breakfast, then you might have a new patentable algorithm.
It was a cartoon show, "The Jetsons." And the main character's job was to just push buttons all day long. Come to think about it, thats pretty much what I do all day long on a keyboard. But aside from auto-deposit, auto-billing, and web based commerce, pretty much everything else in the article won't be reality before Duke Nukem Forever is finally released.
Oh, that's not you? Well it's about a million others, so who cares. Botnets aren't looking for you anal password types, they're looking for everybody else, and the non-anal-retentive password people outnumber everybody else by thousands to one or maybe even worse.
It was a cold blustery winter day in Chicago, the kind of cold that chills McDonalds coffee from "blistering shreds of dangling skin" hot to merely blistering hot. I downed the last gulp of coffee in my office on the 39th floor of the Acme building when she walked in the door. A sultry gorgeous dame, with long billowing blonde hair, and deep green eyes that burned with angst, and a figure that could pop out eyeballs in a gay bar. I tried to look her in the eyes but she had a mystique about her, something that told a man to lower his gaze. I complied with my gut feeling and I wasn't disappointed. She was to cleavage what Mount Rushmore is to monuments, and in that second before she spoke, I forgot all about lab reports, stake-out schedules, and my lost suit at Kim Speedee Dry Cleaning. Her dress was so tight I could read the J.C. Penny's label on her underware, and I was damned glad for that.
After an awkward moment she spoke. "Mr. Noir, I have a laptop here. I think my husband has been using the built in web cam to spy on me when he's out of town...." I had to stop her there. "Just a minute Miss, I don't even know who you are." And she had the perfect answer when she replied with "I'm the widow of the late Johann Marstad, owner of Marstad Industries LTD. I'm Elenor Marstad. Will you look at this computer and tell me what you find?"
Of course I had to know more. "Where and when do you normally use this computer?" I asked inquiringly, and once again she didn't disappoint. "Mostly late at night, in my bedroom." she unhesitatingly answered. My mission was rather clear. Find the pictures of a stunning beauty, on a laptop, showing her using it late at night in her bedroom. I'm a licensed PI so I have the right to do that. It's right there on the license, just after the part that gives us the right to spy on ordinary Americans, just before the section that reads "License to argue with Chief of Police."
I was about to take the laptop when my secretary Sally came in...
"Even if you come up with a clever test that would pierce the illusion, one would have to assume whoever maintains the illusion would simply fix it so that didn't work a second time. Nothing would be repeatable."
Actaully, only things that "would pierce the illusion" would be non-repreatable. Things like ESP, psychokinesis, precognition, remote viewing and the other paranormal effects. And guess what? They are all non-repeatable, just as your thoery predicts.
"Yep it's bricked alright. Nothin but a boat anchor now. It'll probably cost you 50 dollars to dispose of it, but I'll take it off your hands for 20 dollars. Uhh... thats cash only."
Aww c'mon, cut them some slack guys. It's not easy porting from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 in mid-development. On the bright side, when it's finally released, DNF will support the new VGA graphics standard with 640x480 resolution and up to 256 colors.
I've actually tried this experiment. If the flywheels, in my case bycycle tires filled with water, are held horizontal to the plane of the earths gravity there is no problem whatsoever. All you have to do is turn in one direction or the other and they spin a minute fraction of a percent faster or slower depending on the direction. If you want to suddenly veer upwards into space you have a slight problem, but thats what most land vehicle want to avoid most. Flywheels really do wonders for stabilizing a vehicle without affecting turning right or left at all. They only affect turning to another plane, which we normally don't want to do. But even if we have to, such as when going up a hill, the worst they do is hold you flat to it on the upside and gently lower you down on the down side.
This one is beyond me. It's just two different spheres represented in two dimentions with diferent coloring. What's the big deal? I cannot see any optical illusion and I can't see how a computer would not detect the complete differences in pixel encoding. Maybe I'm too stupid to understand, but I see no optical illusion and I can't imagine how any computer program could think there is one if they are comparing ones and zeros.
Maybe I'm missing some higher level context. Please explain what this is about. It's just two pictures which are completely diferent to my comuter.
"Not likely, not here. And any 'Fuck Islam' talk will be quickly moderated down.
'Fuck Christianity' will be just as quickly rewarded.
We can't allow too much tolerance!"
I now ask, what do you call tolerance and why are you so much against it?
I think you mean to say that we are quick to censor any anti-Christianity but slow to censor any anti-Ismlamic posts, or maybe the other way around. But your statement actually says both "will be just as quickly rewarded" I think in the context of being moderated down. Are you saying that any discussion of this topic, regardless of the position of the commenter, will be moderated down?
Whatever your answer, I will just come out and tell you the secret slashdot moderation guidelines. (They will hunt me down and punish me for this, but... Oh well, here goes nothing).
1. Liberal = BAD 2. Conservative = Not so Bad 3. Libertarian = Ultra plus plus double good 4. Islam = Bad Nasty 5. Christianity = WTF! 6. Evolution = Sure, whatever 7. Intelligent Design = Anything's possible, or not 8. Microsoft = Holey Operating System 9. Linux = Holy Operating System 10. BSD = Used to be Holy Operating System but caved in to Libertarians
I'm going to post this exact same text on every article about fuel cells, batteries, bio-fuels, wind power, solar cells, wave energy, geothermal, nuclear, tidal action, and all the other silly articles about imminent energy breakthroughs that never seem to amount to anything substantial in any amount of time. This one won't either.
We're just lucky it was only "Top Secret" data. It could have been "Super Duper Ultra Top Secret" data. Then it would be a security compromise instead of just a security glitch.
I'm going to post this exact same text on every article about fuel cells, batteries, bio-fuels, wind power, solar cells, wave energy, geothermal, nuclear, tidal action, and all the other silly articles about imminent energy breakthroughs that never seem to amount to anything substantial in any amount of time. This one won't either.
Only $14,000,000.00 a night. Sure, thats chump change for most of us, but what about the rest? And their laughable solution to showering? How about a wet rag with some soap rubbed on it, like you use here on earth if you don't have a shower handy? What are you people, stupid or just plain dumb?
Next thing they're going to talk about weightless eating like you have to go after floating morsels in the air like fish or something. How about just holding a hot dog in your hand and eating it? Is that too complicated for you space travel nuts?
Ok, next they make out like pooping is going to be a big deal. Sorry folks, even that is trivial. It just squirts out and you scoop it off with toilette paper, same as you always did. The suction sucks it down just like gravity does here on earth. If you can't make it to the toilette, then you have the same problem you have here in gravityland, poop in your pants. Maybe even an easier problem to deal with in microgravity.
Space travel is ultimately about being weightless and seeing a view. If you like that fine. But if you think it's a big hassle and lots of training to adjust to, I'm sorry, you are beyond help. Go hike in the woods or something.
And ignore the melting glacier behind him. Do not look at the measurements of sea level and ice caps at the poles. Ignore all those measurements. They mean nothing. It is only the heretic who tells you to ignore your common sense that you must listen to. All those scientists with their electronic instruments and historical charts are of no consequence. Listen to the nay-sayer who speaks the truth because he must be trusted as the only truth just because he speaks differently and just because just because. Any declaration by anybody who claims to know from observation and meticulus detailed record keeping is suspect. We need to put our trust in the nay-sayer who has no obsrvations and no scientific method, but just gut instinct to tell us the truth.
Here's the rationale for "slow on the uptake" people. When the laws were originally written, the copywright material was valued in then current dollars. With inflation, those copywrights are worth far more than double their original valuation. So now the penalty must be at least double what it was back then. Similarly with the value of human lives being decreased, the payout for having a relative die in war is reduced. Thats how we can afford to keep killing Americans in Iraq.
Are you starting to get the picture now? What we value increases in value and what we don't care about decreases in value. Punishment for crimes against things we don't care about decreases and punishment for crimes against things we care about increases. Downloading a copy of somthing and decrypting it carries a far harsher penalty than killing a brown skinned person. It's all about value. What's wrong with you people? Don't you understand simple economics?
And the "digital photo of you to music" and the "turtle growth rings to music", and "hair on the barber shop floor to music" and "snail trails on the sidewalk to music" and "sand wavelets on the beach to music" and "fingerprints on a monitor to music" and any other "to music" algorithm I can think of that is perfectly obvious to the skilled or unskilled practitioner. Should I add the words "calculated and converted by a computational device connected to a method of input" to make it sound brainier?
No public key is needed. You just make up something that you can remember, such as "The quick brown fox" or a single letter or anything you can remember. If it's already been used, you have to change it, by making it all caps, or maybe every second letter capital, or adding something to it, ot whatever to make it unique. When you search online the search will simplly return the ten (or whoever many you chose), closest matches to whatever you enter. Then you find one that voted for uncle enzo and you say "That's my ballot!" You don't even have to remember your secret exactly, just close enough for a fuzzy match to find it. But the strength is, that you don't wirte anything down except on the actual ballot, so you actually have to remember your secret, and you can tell vinnie whatever you want about your secret.
The pushscan system only tells what your ballot looked like, not who you voted for or how your vote was counted. It's totally worthless besides, we all know who we voted for because we were there! It's who our vote was counted for that that we want to know. My system shows the world who everybody voted for, but not who they are.
It's then a simple matter to let anybody on earth search for all results by entering an empty search string and count all the votes themselves. It would be like having a million recounts all at the same time. If we really wanted to make it stronger we could risk cousin vinne's wrath by having every voter take a picture of their ballot on instant film. Then if the final count is wonky, all the voters go back to their polling station and turn in their pictures for a recount. You turn your picture into the side you voted for. They verify that your picture belongs in their box, and eventually they count them up. There is then hard incontrovertable evidence on how everybody intended to vote regardless of what the machine did with it. As for cousie vinnie, call the FBI and say "Come quick, there's vote tampering going on here. See you in five to ten vinnnie."
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Child molesters could lookup schools or daycare centers in phonebooks and just drive right up and snatch them off the street. Oh wait... that already happens.
Well what else can we demonize? High school bake sale notices in the supermarket? Yeah, thats that one's golden, and car washes too, with those young high school girls.
But here's a brain teaser. Try to think of anything that isn't terrorist bait nowdays.
The ratio of IT workers to rest of company depends on the business. A corporate farm might have 1 or 2 IT workers and depending on season, 5 to 500 non-IT workers. A furniture factory might have 1 IT worker for every 1000 production employees. A food processing company might need a higher ratio because of the seasonal and perishable nature of the business. A shipping business would also need a robust IT staff to track its shipments and scheduling.
I'm quite sure that General Mills or Nestle corprations have large IT staffs in the hundreds, approaching thousands, but they have hundreds of thousands just working in the farms, factories, logistics, (people that manage physical stuff, like factories and storage), transport and shipping, and so on. For large corporations like that, the IT ratio is actually quite small because a lot of it is done by other smaller entities with little or no IT staff, like the independent farmer or rancher that does all his bookeeping the old fashioned way. on paper, except for bribes.
So the final answer is that some businesses, like server co-locating service require about 1-1 IT to non-IT and some, like low tech manufacturing require 0-infinity IT to non-IT ratio.
In other words, the question is meaningless.
Are you telling me that somebody actually looked at win/loss records and margin of victory and strength of opponents to figure out which team might win? How can this be? Why did nobody ever figure out this simple algorithm before? [slaps forehead with hand] DOH!
....
Oh wait, sorry it was patented years ago, and multiple times with minute variations such as going back to strength of opponents opponents, and margin of victory of opponents against common opponents, and strength of opponents opponents opponents, and
But if you add in what they ate for breakfast, then you might have a new patentable algorithm.
It was a cartoon show, "The Jetsons." And the main character's job was to just push buttons all day long. Come to think about it, thats pretty much what I do all day long on a keyboard. But aside from auto-deposit, auto-billing, and web based commerce, pretty much everything else in the article won't be reality before Duke Nukem Forever is finally released.
Thank you mister...
User: Administrator
Password: Password
Oh, that's not you? Well it's about a million others, so who cares. Botnets aren't looking for you anal password types, they're looking for everybody else, and the non-anal-retentive password people outnumber everybody else by thousands to one or maybe even worse.
And take that pony you rode in on, straight to hell and dance on coals you slimey bastards! That's what we think of our customers.
It was a cold blustery winter day in Chicago, the kind of cold that chills
McDonalds coffee from "blistering shreds of dangling skin" hot to merely
blistering hot. I downed the last gulp of coffee in my office on the 39th
floor of the Acme building when she walked in the door. A sultry gorgeous
dame, with long billowing blonde hair, and deep green eyes that burned with
angst, and a figure that could pop out eyeballs in a gay bar. I tried to look
her in the eyes but she had a mystique about her, something that told a man
to lower his gaze. I complied with my gut feeling and I wasn't disappointed.
She was to cleavage what Mount Rushmore is to monuments, and in that
second before she spoke, I forgot all about lab reports, stake-out schedules,
and my lost suit at Kim Speedee Dry Cleaning. Her dress was so tight I could
read the J.C. Penny's label on her underware, and I was damned glad for that.
After an awkward moment she spoke. "Mr. Noir, I have a laptop here. I think
my husband has been using the built in web cam to spy on me when he's out
of town...." I had to stop her there. "Just a minute Miss, I don't even know
who you are." And she had the perfect answer when she replied with "I'm
the widow of the late Johann Marstad, owner of Marstad Industries LTD.
I'm Elenor Marstad. Will you look at this computer and tell me what you
find?"
Of course I had to know more. "Where and when do you normally use this
computer?" I asked inquiringly, and once again she didn't disappoint.
"Mostly late at night, in my bedroom." she unhesitatingly answered. My
mission was rather clear. Find the pictures of a stunning beauty, on a
laptop, showing her using it late at night in her bedroom. I'm a licensed
PI so I have the right to do that. It's right there on the license, just
after the part that gives us the right to spy on ordinary Americans, just
before the section that reads "License to argue with Chief of Police."
I was about to take the laptop when my secretary Sally came in...
"Even if you come up with a clever test that would pierce the illusion, one would have to assume whoever maintains the illusion would simply fix it so that didn't work a second time. Nothing would be repeatable."
Actaully, only things that "would pierce the illusion" would be non-repreatable. Things like ESP, psychokinesis, precognition, remote viewing and the other paranormal effects. And guess what? They are all non-repeatable, just as your thoery predicts.
I think you're on to something there.
"What's the definition of troll?"
A troll is a poster that spouts inane conspiracy theories to provoke useless heated discussion.
A really good troll is a poster that spouts inane conspiracy theories and still manages to get modded up to "Score: 5, Interesting."
Oh wait, you knew that already, didn't you!
"Yep it's bricked alright. Nothin but a boat anchor now. It'll probably cost you 50 dollars to dispose of it, but I'll take it off your hands for 20 dollars. Uhh... thats cash only."
Only modded 2? Maybe some readers didn't get it.
Except, of course, that 3D Realms (or whoever owns it now) has also announced that it is actually going to make Duke Nukem Forever and ever and ever!
Aww c'mon, cut them some slack guys. It's not easy porting from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 in mid-development. On the bright side, when it's finally released, DNF will support the new VGA graphics standard with 640x480 resolution and up to 256 colors.
Free energy at last! Ydthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would see it the way it isn't.
I've actually tried this experiment. If the flywheels, in my case bycycle tires filled with water, are held horizontal to the plane of the earths gravity there is no problem whatsoever. All you have to do is turn in one direction or the other and they spin a minute fraction of a percent faster or slower depending on the direction. If you want to suddenly veer upwards into space you have a slight problem, but thats what most land vehicle want to avoid most. Flywheels really do wonders for stabilizing a vehicle without affecting turning right or left at all. They only affect turning to another plane, which we normally don't want to do. But even if we have to, such as when going up a hill, the worst they do is hold you flat to it on the upside and gently lower you down on the down side.
This one is beyond me. It's just two different spheres represented in two dimentions with diferent coloring. What's the big deal? I cannot see any optical illusion and I can't see how a computer would not detect the complete differences in pixel encoding. Maybe I'm too stupid to understand, but I see no optical illusion and I can't imagine how any computer program could think there is one if they are comparing ones and zeros.
Maybe I'm missing some higher level context. Please explain what this is about. It's just two pictures which are completely diferent to my comuter.
>> Hey your tinfoil hat is slipping off. Better put it on more securely.
>> It would be rather ironic if tomorrow you got hit by a driver who was drunk behind the wheel.
Tin foil my eye! Everybody knows the measurement is controlled by the police officers thumb pressure on the lower right corner of the device.
You said:
"Not likely, not here. And any 'Fuck Islam' talk will be quickly moderated down.
'Fuck Christianity' will be just as quickly rewarded.
We can't allow too much tolerance!"
I now ask, what do you call tolerance and why are you so much against it?
I think you mean to say that we are quick to censor any anti-Christianity but slow to censor any anti-Ismlamic posts, or maybe the other way around. But your statement actually says both "will be just as quickly rewarded" I think in the context of being moderated down. Are you saying that any discussion of this topic, regardless of the position of the commenter, will be moderated down?
Whatever your answer, I will just come out and tell you the secret slashdot moderation guidelines. (They will hunt me down and punish me for this, but... Oh well, here goes nothing).
1. Liberal = BAD
2. Conservative = Not so Bad
3. Libertarian = Ultra plus plus double good
4. Islam = Bad Nasty
5. Christianity = WTF!
6. Evolution = Sure, whatever
7. Intelligent Design = Anything's possible, or not
8. Microsoft = Holey Operating System
9. Linux = Holy Operating System
10. BSD = Used to be Holy Operating System but caved in to Libertarians
I'm going to post this exact same text on every article about fuel cells, batteries, bio-fuels, wind power, solar cells, wave energy, geothermal, nuclear, tidal action, and all the other silly articles about imminent energy breakthroughs that never seem to amount to anything substantial in any amount of time. This one won't either.
We're just lucky it was only "Top Secret" data. It could have been "Super Duper Ultra Top Secret" data. Then it would be a security compromise instead of just a security glitch.
I'm going to post this exact same text on every article about fuel cells, batteries, bio-fuels, wind power, solar cells, wave energy, geothermal, nuclear, tidal action, and all the other silly articles about imminent energy breakthroughs that never seem to amount to anything substantial in any amount of time. This one won't either.
Only $14,000,000.00 a night. Sure, thats chump change for most of us, but what about the rest? And their laughable solution to showering? How about a wet rag with some soap rubbed on it, like you use here on earth if you don't have a shower handy? What are you people, stupid or just plain dumb?
Next thing they're going to talk about weightless eating like you have to go after floating morsels in the air like fish or something. How about just holding a hot dog in your hand and eating it? Is that too complicated for you space travel nuts?
Ok, next they make out like pooping is going to be a big deal. Sorry folks, even that is trivial. It just squirts out and you scoop it off with toilette paper, same as you always did. The suction sucks it down just like gravity does here on earth. If you can't make it to the toilette, then you have the same problem you have here in gravityland, poop in your pants. Maybe even an easier problem to deal with in microgravity.
Space travel is ultimately about being weightless and seeing a view. If you like that fine. But if you think it's a big hassle and lots of training to adjust to, I'm sorry, you are beyond help. Go hike in the woods or something.
And ignore the melting glacier behind him. Do not look at the measurements of sea level and ice caps at the poles. Ignore all those measurements. They mean nothing. It is only the heretic who tells you to ignore your common sense that you must listen to. All those scientists with their electronic instruments and historical charts are of no consequence. Listen to the nay-sayer who speaks the truth because he must be trusted as the only truth just because he speaks differently and just because just because. Any declaration by anybody who claims to know from observation and meticulus detailed record keeping is suspect. We need to put our trust in the nay-sayer who has no obsrvations and no scientific method, but just gut instinct to tell us the truth.
Follow Brian, he has the shoe!
Here's the rationale for "slow on the uptake" people. When the laws were originally written, the copywright material was valued in then current dollars. With inflation, those copywrights are worth far more than double their original valuation. So now the penalty must be at least double what it was back then. Similarly with the value of human lives being decreased, the payout for having a relative die in war is reduced. Thats how we can afford to keep killing Americans in Iraq. Are you starting to get the picture now? What we value increases in value and what we don't care about decreases in value. Punishment for crimes against things we don't care about decreases and punishment for crimes against things we care about increases. Downloading a copy of somthing and decrypting it carries a far harsher penalty than killing a brown skinned person. It's all about value. What's wrong with you people? Don't you understand simple economics?
And the "digital photo of you to music" and the "turtle growth rings to music", and "hair on the barber shop floor to music" and "snail trails on the sidewalk to music" and "sand wavelets on the beach to music" and "fingerprints on a monitor to music" and any other "to music" algorithm I can think of that is perfectly obvious to the skilled or unskilled practitioner. Should I add the words "calculated and converted by a computational device connected to a method of input" to make it sound brainier?
No public key is needed. You just make up something that you can remember, such as "The quick brown fox" or a single letter or anything you can remember. If it's already been used, you have to change it, by making it all caps, or maybe every second letter capital, or adding something to it, ot whatever to make it unique. When you search online the search will simplly return the ten (or whoever many you chose), closest matches to whatever you enter. Then you find one that voted for uncle enzo and you say "That's my ballot!" You don't even have to remember your secret exactly, just close enough for a fuzzy match to find it. But the strength is, that you don't wirte anything down except on the actual ballot, so you actually have to remember your secret, and you can tell vinnie whatever you want about your secret.
The pushscan system only tells what your ballot looked like, not who you voted for or how your vote was counted. It's totally worthless besides, we all know who we voted for because we were there! It's who our vote was counted for that that we want to know. My system shows the world who everybody voted for, but not who they are.
It's then a simple matter to let anybody on earth search for all results by entering an empty search string and count all the votes themselves. It would be like having a million recounts all at the same time. If we really wanted to make it stronger we could risk cousin vinne's wrath by having every voter take a picture of their ballot on instant film. Then if the final count is wonky, all the voters go back to their polling station and turn in their pictures for a recount. You turn your picture into the side you voted for. They verify that your picture belongs in their box, and eventually they count them up. There is then hard incontrovertable evidence on how everybody intended to vote regardless of what the machine did with it. As for cousie vinnie, call the FBI and say "Come quick, there's vote tampering going on here. See you in five to ten vinnnie."