Not at all. "very close" in the sense of 1/12,000,000 is very close to zero, and so is 1/(2**127**127) [or whatever probability you want to assign to the "universe presenting me with a wining ticket" ]
I figure that my odds of finding the wining ticket (which was purchased by someone else) while walking the dog, or having it blow onto my windshield and stick while I drive down the freeway on my way to work are very close to me picking the right numbers if I were to purchase the ticket myself, so i don't bother to buy a ticket, I just wait for the universe to provide the winning one...
Two monitors, one 16x9 and one 9x16 is what most people at my work use. I'm pretty happy with the 1920x1080 laptop next to the 2560x1440, but yeah another 160 pixels vertically would be nicer.
You don't need 2-way to do PKI. You can just sign some string with the current time with the private key, and the validator check against the same string with the public key. So, you would need a fairly accurate real time clock, but not 2-way comms.
It depends on whether the metal is ferrous or not. If you've worked in a machine shop they want you to get your eyes x-rayed so they don't extract any filings which might have lodged in there without your knowledge...
The point is, the cost and inefficiency of hauling the generator around all the time, even when I know I won't need it >90% of the time makes it seems like a poor compromise. But maybe they did the math and came up with a sweet spot. Or maybe the possibility of a more efficient system is distorted by human imperfections in the market.
I'd love a full-electric car, with about 50-80 mile range, which could tow a trailer or hook up a hitch mounted rack with a generator in/on it for longer trips. Drive it to work/shopping on a daily basis, rent the gen-trailer when going on a ling trip.
If I buy a fancy new patented electric car, and I leave it in the garage with a pile of metal filings and enough electricity and in the morning I've got 2 cars, don't sue me. If your product will reproduce copies of itself, then your beef is with the product and your R&D department. Now if i disassembled your (my) car and made copies of all the parts and reassembled all the parts and copies into two cars, then I'd be violating your patent.
I wonder about a website which embedded javascript which mined bitcoins as long as you were active on the page. You could burry in the TOS that you were doing it to be on the up and up. Of course you'd want to throttle the JS so the user's fans didn't spin up and alert them, but still if you had a popular enough site, you might be able to make a pretty bit-penny...
Sure, but when I _can't_ write to the drive because it's gone bad, then I don't have the choice of 'overwrite'. I suppose I could use my belt sander or welding torch on the platters, but I think shattering them into little pieces and putting some in one trash cycle and some in another works well enough. I'm paranoid, but not that paranoid.
I use multiple passes of random data in a working drive, but when the controller is bad and I have data on the drives I don't want people to get to, I take it apart, save the magnets and shatter the (now glass) platters.
Editor's note: Connecticut State Police have confirmed that Adam Lanza did, in fact, use a Bushmaster.223 high capacity rifle and two hand guns. As far as we can tell, NBC has not issued a retraction
It's not that there's no inflation, it's that it's very low. Like historic lows. Certain goods have had spikes, mostly due to competition with the emerging world and due to diversion of food to fuel stupidity. Higher inflation would be a _good_ thing because real inflation requires wage inflation, but doesn't inflate the amount you owe in your debts. Inflation is something you should put into calculations when getting a mortgage. If your mortgage takes 30% of your salary now, and there's 5% inflation (but low interest rates like we have now) you'd be crazy to get a 15 year instead of a 30 year. The dollars that you use to pay off the second 15 years would be worth much much less to you than they are now.
The rich, the "rentiers" are the people who cry foul about inflation. People working for a living shouldn't, it raises their wages and ameliorates their debts.
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Not at all. "very close" in the sense of 1/12,000,000 is very close to zero, and so is 1/(2**127**127) [or whatever probability you want to assign to the "universe presenting me with a wining ticket" ]
I posted just this idea on one of the bitcoin stories recently.
I figure that my odds of finding the wining ticket (which was purchased by someone else) while walking the dog, or having it blow onto my windshield and stick while I drive down the freeway on my way to work are very close to me picking the right numbers if I were to purchase the ticket myself, so i don't bother to buy a ticket, I just wait for the universe to provide the winning one...
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Two monitors, one 16x9 and one 9x16 is what most people at my work use. I'm pretty happy with the 1920x1080 laptop next to the 2560x1440, but yeah another 160 pixels vertically would be nicer.
You don't need 2-way to do PKI. You can just sign some string with the current time with the private key, and the validator check against the same string with the public key. So, you would need a fairly accurate real time clock, but not 2-way comms.
It depends on whether the metal is ferrous or not. If you've worked in a machine shop they want you to get your eyes x-rayed so they don't extract any filings which might have lodged in there without your knowledge...
NeXT wasn't a language, it was a computer. Objective-C was the language...
The point is, the cost and inefficiency of hauling the generator around all the time, even when I know I won't need it >90% of the time makes it seems like a poor compromise. But maybe they did the math and came up with a sweet spot. Or maybe the possibility of a more efficient system is distorted by human imperfections in the market.
I'd love a full-electric car, with about 50-80 mile range, which could tow a trailer or hook up a hitch mounted rack with a generator in/on it for longer trips. Drive it to work/shopping on a daily basis, rent the gen-trailer when going on a ling trip.
I should listen to the podcast, but I've got things to do... What about Platinum?
If I buy a fancy new patented electric car, and I leave it in the garage with a pile of metal filings and enough electricity and in the morning I've got 2 cars, don't sue me. If your product will reproduce copies of itself, then your beef is with the product and your R&D department.
Now if i disassembled your (my) car and made copies of all the parts and reassembled all the parts and copies into two cars, then I'd be violating your patent.
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I wonder about a website which embedded javascript which mined bitcoins as long as you were active on the page. You could burry in the TOS that you were doing it to be on the up and up. Of course you'd want to throttle the JS so the user's fans didn't spin up and alert them, but still if you had a popular enough site, you might be able to make a pretty bit-penny...
Intelligence would allow us or aliens to go.
Emotion would lead us or aliens to go.
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Sure, but when I _can't_ write to the drive because it's gone bad, then I don't have the choice of 'overwrite'. I suppose I could use my belt sander or welding torch on the platters, but I think shattering them into little pieces and putting some in one trash cycle and some in another works well enough. I'm paranoid, but not that paranoid.
I use multiple passes of random data in a working drive, but when the controller is bad and I have data on the drives I don't want people to get to, I take it apart, save the magnets and shatter the (now glass) platters.
Crease the platters? These days, they are _GLASS_ coated with metal, and they shatter into _many_ pieces when they break.
From the article you linked:
Editor's note: Connecticut State Police have confirmed that Adam Lanza did, in fact, use a Bushmaster .223 high capacity rifle and two hand guns. As far as we can tell, NBC has not issued a retraction
It's the only way to be sure.
It was the "beer" :-)
It's not that there's no inflation, it's that it's very low. Like historic lows. Certain goods have had spikes, mostly due to competition with the emerging world and due to diversion of food to fuel stupidity. Higher inflation would be a _good_ thing because real inflation requires wage inflation, but doesn't inflate the amount you owe in your debts. Inflation is something you should put into calculations when getting a mortgage. If your mortgage takes 30% of your salary now, and there's 5% inflation (but low interest rates like we have now) you'd be crazy to get a 15 year instead of a 30 year. The dollars that you use to pay off the second 15 years would be worth much much less to you than they are now.
You don't have to trust what the Fed tells you: http://bpp.mit.edu/ and http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/billion-price-update-2/
The rich, the "rentiers" are the people who cry foul about inflation. People working for a living shouldn't, it raises their wages and ameliorates their debts.
One Time Pads are "provably good"
Using them is a PITA though...
Was that addressed to me, or the grand-parent?