"A human can only take so much abuse before they crack; juvenille minds even more so."
Take Aaron Swartz for example. In some people, stress can send their neuro-endocrine system (HPA axis) into a tail spin that leads to extreme changes in metal health. The question which I'm asking is should this be considered manslaughter, or even murder if her bullies new she had a predisposition for this type of response?
Lithium, in practically any dosage, would have prevented this tragedy. It's one of the few anti-suicidal agents known to man, and it also acts as sort of a prophylactic buffer in individuals with stress induced HPA axis disregulation.
The test video on youtube is biased against people who have short term memory problems or who are otherwise inattentive, such as kids with ADHD. However the traditional test is likely to be bias against ADHD children as well.
The Pres Is Executive Officer for the Federal government, he can mandate through Executive Orders. Yes only Federal employees and contractors would be required to follow them, but since businesses that bid on goverment contacts are required to abid as well, you've just encompassed most of American business.
"There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough."
i.e. Windows, and why prior versions of Windows are Microsoft biggest competitor and why operating systems as a service (the way Apple puts out frequent / cheap upgrades) is probably the only model that will work over the long term.
The judge is viewing the computer hardware and software as a system, and he is correct in believing that substantive changes to a component create a new machine. Firmware and things like FPGA chips completely blur the line. I had a nee jerk reaction to this judges opinion at first, but if you view a computer as a blank canvas it makes sense. As a systems engineer my primary concern is f(x)=y, so I don't see a distinction between hardware, software, or peopleware that is used between the input of a process and it's output.
*If* everyone picked exactly the same lib version, yes.
In practice, people aren't going to standardize on the same library version.
We have library standardization, it's called Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu LTS. The trouble is that by the time we standardize, the kernel and libraries are already antiquated. Linux is the largest software development project in the world and a very fast moving target. It may end up being better to let the application owners manage this, it works well for Mac OS X. I think if it makes it easier for normal people to install an application it's a huge win for usability. I don't see any reason why you can't implement both static bundling and shared libraries in parallel on a system; perhaps just have core library services like libcrytpo shared, much like the core services available in Mac OS X.
Frankly it is very trivial as you say. Honestly a pipe is all you need to make a zip gun, I remember as a kid taking a 12 gauge shotgun shell, sticking it into a pipe, and then whacking the percussion cap with a nail and hammer. You might crack or split the pipe, but it will work none the less.
If a depressed person feels that "god" has a purpose for them, they're more likely to power through until things get better. Faith in purpose is really what was just correlated...
The system doesn't have to be like this, we can restructure the game to reward cooperative behavior between the parties using game theory. See my sight for details on a new ADR process that utilizes these insights. We're just getting started, donations and other assistance is appreciated.
Hey everyone, the reason for this is real simple. LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling) is limited to a maximum resolution of 1400 × 1050 @ 60Hz. Almost all of the laptop panels today interface with the chipset (i.g. Intel 4500MHD) using LVDS. It saves cost, the fact of the matter is that basically all LCD panels made today are driven using LVDS circuitry. HDMI, DVI, RGB, Component , S-Video, RCA, or whatever are merely device to device interconnects. Even TV's are driven internally using LVDS, it's just that they only need to run at 1080p @ 30 Hz; Linus is effectively asking for 1600p @ 60 Hz. That's well beyond the capabilities of an off the shelf commodity LVDS panel.
Manufactures are listening Linus, and have created a new standard called Embedded DisplayPort (eDB). This is what's driving the panel in the new MacBook Pro actually, and now that Intel's new chipset lines support this technology we simply have to wait for economies of scale to bring the prices down on eDB panels. I'll bet at least half the new laptops sold with have eDB panels in them by this time next year... This would really make retailers happy for Christmas shopping.
If you can prove intent, then yes it should be tried as attempted murder. At a minimum, shining a high powered laser at anyone, regardless of where they are at, is battery. Attempting to blind them with it would be mayhem. Also simple assault for every person in the plane, paticularly if they were not directly exposed to the beam. Mayhem being a felony, and the multiple counts of simple assult and battery cumulating into felony aggravated charge, you can be sure the offender will do time. Pretty much any laser can cause permanent damage to the eyes, and the label on the device says it can cause harm... really it is akin to discharging a weapon.
In Illinois, the law, under strict interpretation, requires the consent of all parties before you can eletronically record or intercept any conversation, it could be pursued as a felony offense otherwise... although current opinion is this only applies to recording conversations that you could not otherwise naturally hear with your ears.
Anyhow, check and know the recording laws in your area beforehand.
Spousal abuse, you mean when your spouse calls the police to abuse you? Maybe we should designate a new number, say 811, for marital emergencies. Then when a spouse calls it, the counselor can tell the other spouse to run away and never look back. I think this service would be a better use of our tax dollars. In fact, maybe a surcharge should be collected with a marriage license to finance a national marital emergencies services system, MESS for short... 1-800-AHH-MESS.
I know this was ment to be a joke, but I would really love to see all of our collective social protocols documented within RFCs. Then possibly developing alternative protocols that are more effectent or less susceptible to malicious manipulation, such as social engeering attacks, blind obedience, etc. At the very least it would be an interesting psychology project.
Oracle does a lot of stupid things, they're your typically corporation who would shoot themselves in the foot if it had an immediate benefit. Everyone in the company is driven hard by what I've heard is a tyrannical executive team, from my vantage point they have a case of PRS (performance review syndrome).
Not knowing otherwise, I'd say they bought Sun just to destroy it. First they kill OpenOffice, then Solaris, then ZFS, and now their working on Java. Very short sighted, but in my opinion not has bad as IBM's failure to see the value in Sun and more importantly the implications of a merger with one of our largest competitors.
A band-aid solution? After that comment, I'll presume that you aren't a depression sufferer of 40 years and multiple failed suicide attempts.
Well, let's be honest. It would only take one successful attempt and you wouldn't have 40 years of depression.
As someone afflicted with bipolar disorder, I got a nice chuckle out of that comment. It's true, suicide is very easy if you don't care about having an open casket or being in pain before you pass. I don't think anyone ever actually wants to die though, in my experience it's a means to an end. Going through these turbulent states is literally hellish torture; one resorts to suicide as a way to end that. I'd hazard to guess that I have PTSD just from that torture, and the act of trying to kill yourself is just as traumatizing. Gabbing a shank into your vain so you can bleed out to end the torture is not something most people will ever experience or relate with. I cried for hours because I thought I was never going to see my family or friends again, and the burden I would cause them in the aftermath; the pain was too much to bare though. In retrospect, I'm thankful that the nurse made rounds sooner than expected, because Lithium was able to calm the storm a few days after that. I had not been on Lithium prior to that, I have to say it's a truly remarkable drug... err.. element.
Sure, works for me. Write a contract in Elvish, if it goes bad revoke the copyright license for the other party who signed the contract. Go to court, the other parties will make illegal copies of your copyrighted documents, as well as the court clerk. Step two, profit by suing everyone for copyright infringement.
I think by natural definition, a language is implicitly unencumbered. It's a commons to facilitate communication between parties. Historically it's been communication between people, but the same applies to communicating are wishes to machines; in that respect programming and human languages, as well as mathematics are one in the same. If it's encumbered to prevent communication then you can't use it to communicate, thus it stops being a language. It is nothing more then a protocol for communication, some are flexible like English while others are rigid like Mathematics. Should Mathematics or English be copyrighted? I'm guessing no, so why would communicating instructions to a machine be any different?
You're only a pervert or creepy if your undesirable to women, when is the last time you've seen an A list celebrity labeled a creep? You don't, in fact the roles are switched and they become the objects of obsession. Bottom line, if your undesirable prepare to be labeled a creep. The good news is that their are billions of women and one of them might find you desirable, keep trying. Don't get married, and dont obsess about someone who doesn't want to be with you. Women can also be more trouble than they're worth sometimes, if your questioning wether to hold or fold, fold.
I thought all stars were metal-poor? I was under the assumption that once nickel-56 decays into iron the star explodes, and all elements after that are created through explosive supernova nucleosynthesis.
Absolutely agree. Basically, if it were possible to bring a plane down merely by using a cellphone, it would already have been done by now. Certain groups have an intense interest in doing just that. They haven't, so they can't. Q.E.D.
Your logic is correct, but I think that isn't really the problem. I think the problem is having 200+ devices transmitting within what amounts to be a faraday cage. Cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth, and other transmissions could have an additive effect of being harmful to the people in the cabin.
Donald Trump, in I forget which TV show, estimated the value of a human body to be worth around $23 million. I for one am not going to give that away when I die, not when my family could benefit from it. Currently the hospitals don't even borther to cover funeral expenses after you give them your extremely valuable organs, which are likely worth more then the life insurance policy your making payments on. Why do we have a system like this?
I think all you would need is some kind of modified durable power of attorney in place, prior to death, that transfers ownership of your cadaver to a beneficiary who can part you out to the highest bidders. I would imagine the cryonics industry would be able to capitalize on this, they have already proven the ability to reanimate individual organs.
Just punch the papparazi in the face and deal with the misdemeanor assault charge.
Trust me, just walk away... sitting in the defendants seat is never a pleasant experience. At the very least you will fork out $2k for a retainer and forever explain why the first hit when someone googles your name is an arrest report.
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"A human can only take so much abuse before they crack; juvenille minds even more so."
Take Aaron Swartz for example. In some people, stress can send their neuro-endocrine system (HPA axis) into a tail spin that leads to extreme changes in metal health. The question which I'm asking is should this be considered manslaughter, or even murder if her bullies new she had a predisposition for this type of response?
Lithium, in practically any dosage, would have prevented this tragedy. It's one of the few anti-suicidal agents known to man, and it also acts as sort of a prophylactic buffer in individuals with stress induced HPA axis disregulation.
The test video on youtube is biased against people who have short term memory problems or who are otherwise inattentive, such as kids with ADHD. However the traditional test is likely to be bias against ADHD children as well.
The Pres Is Executive Officer for the Federal government, he can mandate through Executive Orders. Yes only Federal employees and contractors would be required to follow them, but since businesses that bid on goverment contacts are required to abid as well, you've just encompassed most of American business.
"There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough."
i.e. Windows, and why prior versions of Windows are Microsoft biggest competitor and why operating systems as a service (the way Apple puts out frequent / cheap upgrades) is probably the only model that will work over the long term.
The judge is viewing the computer hardware and software as a system, and he is correct in believing that substantive changes to a component create a new machine. Firmware and things like FPGA chips completely blur the line. I had a nee jerk reaction to this judges opinion at first, but if you view a computer as a blank canvas it makes sense. As a systems engineer my primary concern is f(x)=y, so I don't see a distinction between hardware, software, or peopleware that is used between the input of a process and it's output.
*If* everyone picked exactly the same lib version, yes.
In practice, people aren't going to standardize on the same library version.
We have library standardization, it's called Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu LTS. The trouble is that by the time we standardize, the kernel and libraries are already antiquated. Linux is the largest software development project in the world and a very fast moving target. It may end up being better to let the application owners manage this, it works well for Mac OS X. I think if it makes it easier for normal people to install an application it's a huge win for usability. I don't see any reason why you can't implement both static bundling and shared libraries in parallel on a system; perhaps just have core library services like libcrytpo shared, much like the core services available in Mac OS X.
Frankly it is very trivial as you say. Honestly a pipe is all you need to make a zip gun, I remember as a kid taking a 12 gauge shotgun shell, sticking it into a pipe, and then whacking the percussion cap with a nail and hammer. You might crack or split the pipe, but it will work none the less.
ignore they parts they don't like.
This is exactly what religious individuals do with the bible, I don't see why it would be any different here.
If a depressed person feels that "god" has a purpose for them, they're more likely to power through until things get better. Faith in purpose is really what was just correlated...
The system doesn't have to be like this, we can restructure the game to reward cooperative behavior between the parties using game theory. See my sight for details on a new ADR process that utilizes these insights. We're just getting started, donations and other assistance is appreciated.
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Hey everyone, the reason for this is real simple. LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling) is limited to a maximum resolution of 1400 × 1050 @ 60Hz. Almost all of the laptop panels today interface with the chipset (i.g. Intel 4500MHD) using LVDS. It saves cost, the fact of the matter is that basically all LCD panels made today are driven using LVDS circuitry. HDMI, DVI, RGB, Component , S-Video, RCA, or whatever are merely device to device interconnects. Even TV's are driven internally using LVDS, it's just that they only need to run at 1080p @ 30 Hz; Linus is effectively asking for 1600p @ 60 Hz. That's well beyond the capabilities of an off the shelf commodity LVDS panel.
Manufactures are listening Linus, and have created a new standard called Embedded DisplayPort (eDB). This is what's driving the panel in the new MacBook Pro actually, and now that Intel's new chipset lines support this technology we simply have to wait for economies of scale to bring the prices down on eDB panels. I'll bet at least half the new laptops sold with have eDB panels in them by this time next year... This would really make retailers happy for Christmas shopping.
If you can prove intent, then yes it should be tried as attempted murder. At a minimum, shining a high powered laser at anyone, regardless of where they are at, is battery. Attempting to blind them with it would be mayhem. Also simple assault for every person in the plane, paticularly if they were not directly exposed to the beam. Mayhem being a felony, and the multiple counts of simple assult and battery cumulating into felony aggravated charge, you can be sure the offender will do time. Pretty much any laser can cause permanent damage to the eyes, and the label on the device says it can cause harm... really it is akin to discharging a weapon.
In Illinois, the law, under strict interpretation, requires the consent of all parties before you can eletronically record or intercept any conversation, it could be pursued as a felony offense otherwise... although current opinion is this only applies to recording conversations that you could not otherwise naturally hear with your ears.
Anyhow, check and know the recording laws in your area beforehand.
Maybe he's a south park fan.
Spousal abuse, you mean when your spouse calls the police to abuse you? Maybe we should designate a new number, say 811, for marital emergencies. Then when a spouse calls it, the counselor can tell the other spouse to run away and never look back. I think this service would be a better use of our tax dollars. In fact, maybe a surcharge should be collected with a marriage license to finance a national marital emergencies services system, MESS for short... 1-800-AHH-MESS.
I know this was ment to be a joke, but I would really love to see all of our collective social protocols documented within RFCs. Then possibly developing alternative protocols that are more effectent or less susceptible to malicious manipulation, such as social engeering attacks, blind obedience, etc. At the very least it would be an interesting psychology project.
Oracle does a lot of stupid things, they're your typically corporation who would shoot themselves in the foot if it had an immediate benefit. Everyone in the company is driven hard by what I've heard is a tyrannical executive team, from my vantage point they have a case of PRS (performance review syndrome).
Not knowing otherwise, I'd say they bought Sun just to destroy it. First they kill OpenOffice, then Solaris, then ZFS, and now their working on Java. Very short sighted, but in my opinion not has bad as IBM's failure to see the value in Sun and more importantly the implications of a merger with one of our largest competitors.
A band-aid solution? After that comment, I'll presume that you aren't a depression sufferer of 40 years and multiple failed suicide attempts.
Well, let's be honest. It would only take one successful attempt and you wouldn't have 40 years of depression.
As someone afflicted with bipolar disorder, I got a nice chuckle out of that comment. It's true, suicide is very easy if you don't care about having an open casket or being in pain before you pass. I don't think anyone ever actually wants to die though, in my experience it's a means to an end. Going through these turbulent states is literally hellish torture; one resorts to suicide as a way to end that. I'd hazard to guess that I have PTSD just from that torture, and the act of trying to kill yourself is just as traumatizing. Gabbing a shank into your vain so you can bleed out to end the torture is not something most people will ever experience or relate with. I cried for hours because I thought I was never going to see my family or friends again, and the burden I would cause them in the aftermath; the pain was too much to bare though. In retrospect, I'm thankful that the nurse made rounds sooner than expected, because Lithium was able to calm the storm a few days after that. I had not been on Lithium prior to that, I have to say it's a truly remarkable drug... err.. element.
Sure, works for me. Write a contract in Elvish, if it goes bad revoke the copyright license for the other party who signed the contract. Go to court, the other parties will make illegal copies of your copyrighted documents, as well as the court clerk. Step two, profit by suing everyone for copyright infringement.
I think by natural definition, a language is implicitly unencumbered. It's a commons to facilitate communication between parties. Historically it's been communication between people, but the same applies to communicating are wishes to machines; in that respect programming and human languages, as well as mathematics are one in the same. If it's encumbered to prevent communication then you can't use it to communicate, thus it stops being a language. It is nothing more then a protocol for communication, some are flexible like English while others are rigid like Mathematics. Should Mathematics or English be copyrighted? I'm guessing no, so why would communicating instructions to a machine be any different?
You're only a pervert or creepy if your undesirable to women, when is the last time you've seen an A list celebrity labeled a creep? You don't, in fact the roles are switched and they become the objects of obsession. Bottom line, if your undesirable prepare to be labeled a creep. The good news is that their are billions of women and one of them might find you desirable, keep trying. Don't get married, and dont obsess about someone who doesn't want to be with you. Women can also be more trouble than they're worth sometimes, if your questioning wether to hold or fold, fold.
If you think that's interesting, check out their other project http://hint.fm/projects/touch/ (description) and http://www.fleshmap.com/touch/index.html (direct link) on their site as well. Please note both links are NSFW.
Slashdotters are like lab mice that always seek out cocaine, but instead of cocaine, they're focused on little fluffy clouds.
I thought all stars were metal-poor? I was under the assumption that once nickel-56 decays into iron the star explodes, and all elements after that are created through explosive supernova nucleosynthesis.
Absolutely agree. Basically, if it were possible to bring a plane down merely by using a cellphone, it would already have been done by now. Certain groups have an intense interest in doing just that. They haven't, so they can't. Q.E.D.
Your logic is correct, but I think that isn't really the problem. I think the problem is having 200+ devices transmitting within what amounts to be a faraday cage. Cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth, and other transmissions could have an additive effect of being harmful to the people in the cabin.
Donald Trump, in I forget which TV show, estimated the value of a human body to be worth around $23 million. I for one am not going to give that away when I die, not when my family could benefit from it. Currently the hospitals don't even borther to cover funeral expenses after you give them your extremely valuable organs, which are likely worth more then the life insurance policy your making payments on. Why do we have a system like this?
I think all you would need is some kind of modified durable power of attorney in place, prior to death, that transfers ownership of your cadaver to a beneficiary who can part you out to the highest bidders. I would imagine the cryonics industry would be able to capitalize on this, they have already proven the ability to reanimate individual organs.
Just punch the papparazi in the face and deal with the misdemeanor assault charge.
Trust me, just walk away... sitting in the defendants seat is never a pleasant experience. At the very least you will fork out $2k for a retainer and forever explain why the first hit when someone googles your name is an arrest report.