I agree. It was complex, sure, but somehow unsatisfying as a goldberg machine. It was unclear exactly how each step led to the next, so it felt more like some behind-the-scenes machinery was making the story go.
Troll?
The whole point is that police use tazers as if they were non-lethal, not as a substitute for shooting in the head. As in: "This guy's not enough of a threat to assassinate him, so let's just taze him to get things under control. Oh shit, we just assassinated him."
In all fairness, that kind of stigma is really only about 400 years old. Puritan discomfort with sex is something way more than what existed before it.
So another cycle is beginning to complete, and more functionality that used to be discrete is now to be folded onto the CPU. I can't help but wonder... what will be next?
Next is the JSPU, a dedicated chip to speed up javascript performance. It's the future.
A redundant route doesn't do any good without the intelligence (either human or machine) to determine which routes are up and send traffic through them only.
I guess tend to think of the software that makes redundancy act like redundancy as just a component of the redundancy (nobody says they have redundancy to their data just because they installed a second drive---the redundancy comes from the RAID implementation).
But you're right, there needs to be some algorithmic intelligence there. But the language used in the headline here almost suggests some sort of hyper-consciousness to the internet. I think it's a lot more amazing to think of it as a crazy-complex system of interdependent parts than as some unified being.
What about all the other power sources? It's not simply between petro and nuclear. Even if this kills nuclear there's still hydro, solar, wind, biofuels and good old conservation.
"Net Sees Earthquake Damage"; "[internet] routes around it"; "outages mostly healed themselves"
Why do we insist on speaking of the internet as some mythical being with the ability to observe, act and heal? It's true that there is a remarkable robustness to the network, as shown in this case, but why do we need to attribute it to anything beyond simple 'redundancy and good planning'? It's a network of electronics and fiber-optics, maintained by people --- infrastructure and connections.
The internet doesn't 'see' anything, and information doesn't 'want' anything.
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Yea, but then we have to wait over 1100 years to get to pi day. and until they a fifty-ninth month to the year.
You were lucky. A few posts back somebody explained why no matter what the strategy playing against uniform random will give you and expected outcome 1/3 win, 1/3 lose 1/3 tie.
If an attacker has physical access to a computer(PC, Server, phone, etc...), is there anyway to stop them? Is there really any unbreakable way to encrypt your data?
Yes? Well, not really 'unbreakable', but impractical in a lifetime to crack. In fact, this is exactly what encryption is meant for: keep data secure even if it is publicly viewable.
Such a shame, because it works so well. Screen.
(i'll explain: ctrl-A, ctrl-C in screen would bring up a new blank bash session, effectively hiding the naughty sites you were browsing in lynx)
I definitely agree that Inception was very well directed. I'd also like to point out that there's a whole category called "Best Director."
My biggest complaint about the movie is its plot. While a good story is not sufficient to make something the best movie of the year, it certainly is necessary.
And this emphasizes the Academy's priorities. They care about making a popular TV event much more than awarding great movies. Just because a movie was "the talk of the town" for a long time doesn't make it good.
Inception was fine, but not exactly 'best movie of 2010' material.
Gotta take issue with this. The assertion that 2==2 is getting down to the axiomatic level, which means that yes, it is based on consensus. Or at least it is not too many steps removed from an axiom that is based on consensus.
Do you *not* understand that you haven't contributed a single argument to this thread? Refutation of somebody's point should ideally include some counter-evidence, or at a bare minimum a logical claim. The statements "you're a moron" and "you don't know enough to be talking about this" don't count as refutations. They just make you sound like an angry high-school student arguing with his/her parents.
It seems that Sasha Muller also focusses on the physical attributes of the numbers. FTFA:
"The SATA cable would need to physically alter the sequence of 0s and 1s"
In terms of data size, a 10-minute voice-only phone conversation is absolutely miniscule compared to even a single page load of even a mobile-friendly web site
That can't be true. Loading yahoo.com (by no means a lean page) pulls in about 800kb of data. Voice-specific codecs tend to get about 15kbps, so a 10-minute one-sided conversation weighs in at about 9Mb.
what is really scaring the more ignorant members of the openness clan is that Flash is quickly moving to take over the mobile arena and will almost certainly become the de facto standand for animation on devices, as it has with the browser.
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I agree. It was complex, sure, but somehow unsatisfying as a goldberg machine. It was unclear exactly how each step led to the next, so it felt more like some behind-the-scenes machinery was making the story go.
Thanks! and with this: ")" I can finally stop scanning.
Syntax Error: unmatched "(" in nested parenthetical near line 1.
Troll?
The whole point is that police use tazers as if they were non-lethal, not as a substitute for shooting in the head. As in: "This guy's not enough of a threat to assassinate him, so let's just taze him to get things under control. Oh shit, we just assassinated him."
a stigma based off 2000 year old mythology
In all fairness, that kind of stigma is really only about 400 years old. Puritan discomfort with sex is something way more than what existed before it.
So another cycle is beginning to complete, and more functionality that used to be discrete is now to be folded onto the CPU. I can't help but wonder ... what will be next?
Next is the JSPU, a dedicated chip to speed up javascript performance. It's the future.
A redundant route doesn't do any good without the intelligence (either human or machine) to determine which routes are up and send traffic through them only.
I guess tend to think of the software that makes redundancy act like redundancy as just a component of the redundancy (nobody says they have redundancy to their data just because they installed a second drive---the redundancy comes from the RAID implementation).
But you're right, there needs to be some algorithmic intelligence there. But the language used in the headline here almost suggests some sort of hyper-consciousness to the internet. I think it's a lot more amazing to think of it as a crazy-complex system of interdependent parts than as some unified being.
I guess that's a good point. How are we going to organize a resistance against it if we can't say that it's plotting our demise?
What about all the other power sources? It's not simply between petro and nuclear. Even if this kills nuclear there's still hydro, solar, wind, biofuels and good old conservation.
"Net Sees Earthquake Damage"; "[internet] routes around it"; "outages mostly healed themselves"
Why do we insist on speaking of the internet as some mythical being with the ability to observe, act and heal? It's true that there is a remarkable robustness to the network, as shown in this case, but why do we need to attribute it to anything beyond simple 'redundancy and good planning'? It's a network of electronics and fiber-optics, maintained by people --- infrastructure and connections.
The internet doesn't 'see' anything, and information doesn't 'want' anything.
Yea, but then we have to wait over 1100 years to get to pi day.
and until they a fifty-ninth month to the year.
You were lucky. A few posts back somebody explained why no matter what the strategy playing against uniform random will give you and expected outcome 1/3 win, 1/3 lose 1/3 tie.
If an attacker has physical access to a computer(PC, Server, phone, etc...), is there anyway to stop them? Is there really any unbreakable way to encrypt your data?
Yes? Well, not really 'unbreakable', but impractical in a lifetime to crack. In fact, this is exactly what encryption is meant for: keep data secure even if it is publicly viewable.
Those stats are for visitors to w3schools.com -- probably not a good measure of the 'average' user of the internets.
Such a shame, because it works so well.
Screen.
(i'll explain: ctrl-A, ctrl-C in screen would bring up a new blank bash session, effectively hiding the naughty sites you were browsing in lynx)
I definitely agree that Inception was very well directed. I'd also like to point out that there's a whole category called "Best Director."
My biggest complaint about the movie is its plot. While a good story is not sufficient to make something the best movie of the year, it certainly is necessary.
And this emphasizes the Academy's priorities. They care about making a popular TV event much more than awarding great movies. Just because a movie was "the talk of the town" for a long time doesn't make it good.
Inception was fine, but not exactly 'best movie of 2010' material.
Gotta take issue with this. The assertion that 2==2 is getting down to the axiomatic level, which means that yes, it is based on consensus. Or at least it is not too many steps removed from an axiom that is based on consensus.
no, they could not.
Do you *not* understand that you haven't contributed a single argument to this thread? Refutation of somebody's point should ideally include some counter-evidence, or at a bare minimum a logical claim. The statements "you're a moron" and "you don't know enough to be talking about this" don't count as refutations. They just make you sound like an angry high-school student arguing with his/her parents.
I think you're confused about what USB is.
It seems that Sasha Muller also focusses on the physical attributes of the numbers. FTFA: "The SATA cable would need to physically alter the sequence of 0s and 1s"
Oops, I also mixed up my bits and bytes, AC below does a much better comparison.
In terms of data size, a 10-minute voice-only phone conversation is absolutely miniscule compared to even a single page load of even a mobile-friendly web site
That can't be true. Loading yahoo.com (by no means a lean page) pulls in about 800kb of data. Voice-specific codecs tend to get about 15kbps, so a 10-minute one-sided conversation weighs in at about 9Mb.
what is really scaring the more ignorant members of the openness clan is that Flash is quickly moving to take over the mobile arena and will almost certainly become the de facto standand for animation on devices, as it has with the browser.
Not until it runs on the iphone it won't.