For those born after me, these are an ancient storage media which consist of pieces of paper, on which images have been permeneantly inscribed, bound together in bundles. They are unique in that they require no electricity, no networking, do not crash, may comfortably be rested on one's lap when one is in the bathroom thinking, and contain absolutely no DRM
Here is the methanol safety card. I don't see these on airplanes anytime soon. Anyway, remember those old photocopies from the 70's/early 80's that made pages with blue text? They always smelled a bit and came out a little wet. Yup, methonal was the fluid used in them....
One of the most voiced fears is "I'm afraid I'll hit the wrong button and wipe out everything!".
Years ago('94-ish), I was a total PC kiddie and didn't know anything about Mac's. At one point I had to load a program on a mac, and put a floppy in the computer. We spent forever trying to figure out how to eject the disk. Eventually someone told us to trash it, and my answer was, "are you sure?" Of course, it worked and since then I've realized that Mac's are far too logical for me.
Isn't this a little like those trolls that post obituaries on/. for people who aren't dead yet? Anyway, I sort of agree with him, moving to Linux makes the most sense for traditional UNIX vendors that want to keep up with the market.
You know I just replied to another post derailing the ignorance of Americans and the lies of the American media. Germany and France have huge interests in Iraq and both helped arm Iraq (indirectly):
It is bizarre reading these posts and seeing people quote as fact the propaganda of the American government and media.
What is truely bizarre is that you manage to write so much, but give no examples of this propaganda. While I agree with you that the American media has a tendancy not to question statements by American leadership, this post is another example of ignorance (and arrogance?) toward American media and Americans in general.
The real tragedy here is that many Europeans truely believe that America is a country filled with mindless drones who believe everything they read and that everything they read is a lie. This is simply not true.
Many Americans have differing beliefs, and many (american) media outlets do reflect this heterogenecity. Examples include the 100,000+ people that marched in San Francisco against military action in Iraq. Or last night, Dan Rather's interview with Saddam Hussein. Do you think the Bush administration wanted that aired? Many newspapers have written in editorial pages reservations about the Bush administration stance. Ignorance is everywhere, and perhaps that smell is coming from your own back yard and not your short wave radio...
Maybe it is because you are spouting off rather zealously and aren't totally correct. First, it is X-Ray Crystallography (not, chromatography). This helped solve the structure of DNA, not discover DNA itself (as you correctly point out). That traces back to Haeckel in the 1860's or Altman in the 1880's. Secondly, Franklin likely got screwed. She did not, however, solve the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick did that. She provided the one piece of data that helped them build their model. She may have even suggested that the phosphate backbone was on the outside of a double helix. Watson and Crick built a model with atomic resolution, and they were correct. Although what they did may have been unethical, they still did a lot of work. It isn't as if Dr. Franklin had a molecular model of DNA in her office, and they crept in and stole it. This is just another story of the crappy stuff that goes on in academic science. It just happened that this was a big finding. Hopefully, Franklin's contributions will be remembered appropriately.
That leaves $350,000 for the four band members to split. After $170,000 in taxes, there's $180,000 left. That comes out to $45,000 per person.
Although she does subtly hide the fact that each band member made a salary of $87,500... and acts as if it is a horrible thing. I realize that they may be getting screwed, but an $87K salary is pretty good. I'm pretty sure the taxes she is referring to are personal income taxes and self employment income taxes..... Not to defend the record industry, just to point out that all sides really want one thing, money. And they do this by acting like they are getting screwed.
I think the/. article is a little misleading. After scanning the JPhysChem B article here (You may need to have a license). The articles suggest that removing dissolved gasses allows you to mix oil and water indefinately. I'm pretty sure that this is not true.
They are adding 2 ml of oil and 33 mils of water and after mixing they still have some oil phase (from the picture in the paper). They are reporting an increase in the solubility, not that oil and water in these conditions are completely miscible as implied by the/. article.
As for my questions, I'm not sure I understand their results with respect to the observation that re-exposure to air doesn't immediately reverse the effect. This sort of raises a red flag to me, because (assuming there isn't any covalent chemistry going on) it means that achieving equilibrium is rather slow, and it may be that they are not at equilibrium when the measurements are made. Either way it is an interesting paper. (This would be better phrased as a question than a statement, I might have just missed the answer in the paper....)
This is a question that probably takes a CS PhD to be able answer. So different encryption schemes have different suseptabilities (sp?) to different attacks. For example, if you are using a one-time pad stream cipher using a pad that has never been used before, you are totally SOL as an attacker. It isn't breakable without that pad. Period. If you are using some of the more sophisticated ciphers that have short keys (block ciphers), then there are sophisticated statistical analyses that can be performed to determine the likely method being used.
What you are referring to however is a situation where you don't know the encryption method. This is extra security through obscurity, which we know doesn't work very well. Many encryption schemes are very, very good, and you won't able to attack them easily even with knowledge of what they are. Usually, for example, you need to know a bit of the message, in addition to the cipher to be able to break it. For example, a bunch of emails may start with "From: xxxxx." If you have a lot of emails, encrypted similarly, you may be able to mount a reasonable attack, depending on the method used.
October 23,1995? This is a really old interview. It is nice and old./. History for Nerds. Stuff that mattered. Hmm. At this point, it is difficult to even verify if this interview is even real...
There should be a category for duplicates. It is obvious that they now have a policy to announce duplicates when they are discovered. When a dup is announced, it should be moved to this category and we can all remove (or not remove) that category from our preferred view. Then users don't have to worry, the/. team doesn't have to pull the story and (of course) the editors still won't have to do their jobs...
Actually, I bet it is quite easy. Due to the good statistical data (2e6 data points), I bet that fradulant use sticks out like a sore thumb. Asking "is this specific credit card being used illegally?" is probably harder than asking if there is a trend of fraudulant use in a group many cards.
If I am to take evolution seriously, then this question must first be answered. Forget anything else, lets talk about this.
You imply that the theory of evolution relies on this (For the record, I do not have the expertise to argue, for or against, your points). If you believe that the entire theory of evolution relies on the points you made, you need to understand the theory better. (I might add that these sorts of arguments can be made about the details of the bible as well. Why don't you focus on those also?)
Lady: Oh, God, yes. We're talking about a totally outrageous paradigm.
Writer: Excuse me, but 'proactive' and 'paradigm'? Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that......[pause]..... I'm fired, aren't I?
Myers: Oh, yes! - The rest of you writers start thinking up a name for this funky dog; I dunno, something along the line of say... Poochie, only more proactive.
A clever chess player could try moves that the computer had assigned as not the most likely or beneficial moves, thus putting the computer at a disadvantage.
So your saying that by moving to give the computer an advantage, you have a better chance at winning?
While computer programs that can play chess are quite sophisticated, Go is a really cool game that is very difficult to play well (from a computer's perspective). I think computer vs human Go matches would be much more interesting now,
I personally am not totally convinced that a space elevator will work with todays technology. That said, I think that if the US doesn't do it, someone else will. If it works, the advantage that it gives the that country over the US will lead the US to persue one as well....
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in these, whadayacallem, books. . .
For those born after me, these are an ancient storage media which consist of pieces of paper, on which images have been permeneantly inscribed, bound together in bundles. They are unique in that they require no electricity, no networking, do not crash, may comfortably be rested on one's lap when one is in the bathroom thinking, and contain absolutely no DRM
Wow, can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those?
-Sean (Sorry.....)
import urllib, sysi cs.txt")
f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.noodleroni.com/beerlyr
sys.stdout.write(f.read())
#heh, heh, heh
-Sean
Here is the methanol safety card. I don't see these on airplanes anytime soon. Anyway, remember those old photocopies from the 70's/early 80's that made pages with blue text? They always smelled a bit and came out a little wet. Yup, methonal was the fluid used in them....
-Sean
I never said it was my finest moment :)
We did look all over for a pull down menu with an eject option, we even considered using the paperclip to eject...
-Sean
One of the most voiced fears is "I'm afraid I'll hit the wrong button and wipe out everything!".
Years ago('94-ish), I was a total PC kiddie and didn't know anything about Mac's. At one point I had to load a program on a mac, and put a floppy in the computer. We spent forever trying to figure out how to eject the disk. Eventually someone told us to trash it, and my answer was, "are you sure?" Of course, it worked and since then I've realized that Mac's are far too logical for me.
-Sean
Message: Never believe any predictions from someone who has something to gain ($$) from them becoming true.
-Sean
Isn't this a little like those trolls that post obituaries on /. for people who aren't dead yet? Anyway, I sort of agree with him, moving to Linux makes the most sense for traditional UNIX vendors that want to keep up with the market.
Anyways, so what?
-Sean
Next we can try more difficult tasks, like explaining command mode in vi.
-Sean
Troll? Whatever. A blatant troll (the top parent) gets modded up and a reply (with examples) gets troll?
-Sean
You know I just replied to another post derailing the ignorance of Americans and the lies of the American media. Germany and France have huge interests in Iraq and both helped arm Iraq (indirectly):
France and Germany protect Iraq ties
-Sean
It is bizarre reading these posts and seeing people quote as fact the propaganda of the American government and media.
What is truely bizarre is that you manage to write so much, but give no examples of this propaganda. While I agree with you that the American media has a tendancy not to question statements by American leadership, this post is another example of ignorance (and arrogance?) toward American media and Americans in general.
The real tragedy here is that many Europeans truely believe that America is a country filled with mindless drones who believe everything they read and that everything they read is a lie. This is simply not true.
Many Americans have differing beliefs, and many (american) media outlets do reflect this heterogenecity. Examples include the 100,000+ people that marched in San Francisco against military action in Iraq. Or last night, Dan Rather's interview with Saddam Hussein. Do you think the Bush administration wanted that aired? Many newspapers have written in editorial pages reservations about the Bush administration stance. Ignorance is everywhere, and perhaps that smell is coming from your own back yard and not your short wave radio...
-Sean
This sounds a lot like epinions? They have an item and you can buy it (from external places) and discuss it....
Hmm...
-Sean
Why was I marked as a Troll and as Flamebait?
Maybe it is because you are spouting off rather zealously and aren't totally correct. First, it is X-Ray Crystallography (not, chromatography). This helped solve the structure of DNA, not discover DNA itself (as you correctly point out). That traces back to Haeckel in the 1860's or Altman in the 1880's. Secondly, Franklin likely got screwed. She did not, however, solve the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick did that. She provided the one piece of data that helped them build their model. She may have even suggested that the phosphate backbone was on the outside of a double helix. Watson and Crick built a model with atomic resolution, and they were correct. Although what they did may have been unethical, they still did a lot of work. It isn't as if Dr. Franklin had a molecular model of DNA in her office, and they crept in and stole it. This is just another story of the crappy stuff that goes on in academic science. It just happened that this was a big finding. Hopefully, Franklin's contributions will be remembered appropriately.
-Sean
That leaves $350,000 for the four band members to split. After $170,000 in taxes, there's $180,000 left. That comes out to $45,000 per person.
... and acts as if it is a horrible thing. I realize that they may be getting screwed, but an $87K salary is pretty good. I'm pretty sure the taxes she is referring to are personal income taxes and self employment income taxes..... Not to defend the record industry, just to point out that all sides really want one thing, money. And they do this by acting like they are getting screwed.
Although she does subtly hide the fact that each band member made a salary of $87,500
-Sean
I think the /. article is a little misleading. After scanning the JPhysChem B article here (You may need to have a license). The articles suggest that removing dissolved gasses allows you to mix oil and water indefinately. I'm pretty sure that this is not true.
/. article.
They are adding 2 ml of oil and 33 mils of water and after mixing they still have some oil phase (from the picture in the paper). They are reporting an increase in the solubility, not that oil and water in these conditions are completely miscible as implied by the
As for my questions, I'm not sure I understand their results with respect to the observation that re-exposure to air doesn't immediately reverse the effect. This sort of raises a red flag to me, because (assuming there isn't any covalent chemistry going on) it means that achieving equilibrium is rather slow, and it may be that they are not at equilibrium when the measurements are made. Either way it is an interesting paper. (This would be better phrased as a question than a statement, I might have just missed the answer in the paper....)
-Sean
This is a question that probably takes a CS PhD to be able answer. So different encryption schemes have different suseptabilities (sp?) to different attacks. For example, if you are using a one-time pad stream cipher using a pad that has never been used before, you are totally SOL as an attacker. It isn't breakable without that pad. Period. If you are using some of the more sophisticated ciphers that have short keys (block ciphers), then there are sophisticated statistical analyses that can be performed to determine the likely method being used.
What you are referring to however is a situation where you don't know the encryption method. This is extra security through obscurity, which we know doesn't work very well. Many encryption schemes are very, very good, and you won't able to attack them easily even with knowledge of what they are. Usually, for example, you need to know a bit of the message, in addition to the cipher to be able to break it. For example, a bunch of emails may start with "From: xxxxx." If you have a lot of emails, encrypted similarly, you may be able to mount a reasonable attack, depending on the method used.
-Sean
October 23,1995? This is a really old interview. It is nice and old. /. History for Nerds. Stuff that mattered. Hmm. At this point, it is difficult to even verify if this interview is even real...
-Sean
Assuming you are non-profit, you might try:
/. story about them in the past.
Community Colo in the bay area. They host non-profit servers for free, or by reasonable donation. I think there was a
-Sean
There should be a category for duplicates. It is obvious that they now have a policy to announce duplicates when they are discovered. When a dup is announced, it should be moved to this category and we can all remove (or not remove) that category from our preferred view. Then users don't have to worry, the /. team doesn't have to pull the story and (of course) the editors still won't have to do their jobs...
-Sean
Actually, I bet it is quite easy. Due to the good statistical data (2e6 data points), I bet that fradulant use sticks out like a sore thumb. Asking "is this specific credit card being used illegally?" is probably harder than asking if there is a trend of fraudulant use in a group many cards.
-Sean
If I am to take evolution seriously, then this question must first be answered. Forget anything else, lets talk about this.
You imply that the theory of evolution relies on this (For the record, I do not have the expertise to argue, for or against, your points). If you believe that the entire theory of evolution relies on the points you made, you need to understand the theory better. (I might add that these sorts of arguments can be made about the details of the bible as well. Why don't you focus on those also?)
-Sean
Krusty: So he's proactive, huh?
.....[pause]..... I'm fired, aren't I?
Lady: Oh, God, yes. We're talking about a totally outrageous paradigm.
Writer: Excuse me, but 'proactive' and 'paradigm'? Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that.
Myers: Oh, yes! - The rest of you writers start thinking up a name for this funky dog; I dunno, something along the line of say... Poochie, only more proactive.
-Sean
A clever chess player could try moves that the computer had assigned as not the most likely or beneficial moves, thus putting the computer at a disadvantage.
So your saying that by moving to give the computer an advantage, you have a better chance at winning?
Somehow, I doubt that.
-Sean
While computer programs that can play chess are quite sophisticated, Go is a really cool game that is very difficult to play well (from a computer's perspective). I think computer vs human Go matches would be much more interesting now,
-Sean
I personally am not totally convinced that a space elevator will work with todays technology. That said, I think that if the US doesn't do it, someone else will. If it works, the advantage that it gives the that country over the US will lead the US to persue one as well....
-Sean