Exactly, if we can say "begging the question" means "asking the question" because many people are stupid, then why don't we just revert to pointing and grunts to communicate.
HAS THE WHOLE WORLD GONE CRAZY? AM I THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE RULES? MARK IT ZERO! - Walter Sobchak
Schaeffer, 52, sees that as both obsolete and silly, like an electric company trying to bill its customers more for kilowatts used gets broken down into ones and zeros, all networks serve only one purpose: moving those bits from one place to another.
Can it be set up so that if given a certain "wrong" weak password (I'm thinking birthdate or something simple) it provides access to a honeypot encrypted volume with nothing of interest?
It's called 'moving the goalposts'. It's like the author decided he was going to write about how wrong everyone was about power usage in computers, then found out that the myths were actually correct.
LCDs with LED backlighting rather than fluorescent don't need any warm-up time at all.
Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhhh, LED backlit LCD monitors run in the $1,500+ range. Soooo if I save $10-$40 per year, I'll break even in 30 to 120 years. The mind boggles.
Every MMO from now on is going to look "just like WoW, just done in __________________, without the gryphons on the end of the skillbar." (fill in the blank)
The net radio companies need to pay bandwidth, they have to have some money coming in.
The way I read the agreement, it seems to be 10.5% of gross revenue, so basically for a break-even operation this would essentially be a 10.5% operating tax.
This doesn't appear to affect Pandora though. FTFA:
Limited download services include online stores such as Napster to Go or Rhapsody, where the end user can keep the music he or she downloads - albeit for a "limited" time. Interactive media sites, such as IMEEM and Last.FM, allow the end user to pick and choose the song he or she wishes to listen to. Both these concepts are different from internet radio, where like terrestrial radio, the play list is determined by the radio operator. Unfortunately for sites like Pandora, the agreement leaves their issue unresolved.
If you ever decide to do something as stupid as build an automatic terrorism detector, here's a math lesson you need to learn first. It's called "the paradox of the false positive," and it's a doozy.
Say you have a new disease, called Super-AIDS. Only one in a million people gets Super-AIDS. You develop a test for Super-AIDS that's 99 percent accurate. I mean, 99 percent of the time, it gives the correct result -- true if the subject is infected, and false if the subject is healthy. You give the test to a million people.
One in a million people have Super-AIDS. One in a hundred people that you test will generate a "false positive" -- the test will say he has Super-AIDS even though he doesn't. That's what "99 percent accurate" means: one percent wrong.
What's one percent of one million?
1,000,000/100 = 10,000
One in a million people has Super-AIDS. If you test a million random people, you'll probably only find one case of real Super-AIDS. But your test won't identify *one* person as having Super-AIDS. It will identify *10,000* people as having it.
Your 99 percent accurate test will perform with 99.99 percent *inaccuracy*.
That's the paradox of the false positive. When you try to find something really rare, your test's accuracy has to match the rarity of the thing you're looking for. If you're trying to point at a single pixel on your screen, a sharp pencil is a good pointer: the pencil-tip is a lot smaller (more accurate) than the pixels. But a pencil-tip is no good at pointing at a single *atom* in your screen. For that, you need a pointer -- a test -- that's one atom wide or less at the tip.
This is the paradox of the false positive, and here's how it applies to terrorism:
Terrorists are really rare. In a city of twenty million like New York, there might be one or two terrorists. Maybe ten of them at the outside. 10/20,000,000 = 0.00005 percent. One twenty-thousandth of a percent.
That's pretty rare all right. Now, say you've got some software that can sift through all the bank-records, or toll-pass records, or public transit records, or phone-call records in the city and catch terrorists 99 percent of the time.
In a pool of twenty million people, a 99 percent accurate test will identify two hundred thousand people as being terrorists. But only ten of them are terrorists. To catch ten bad guys, you have to haul in and investigate two hundred thousand innocent people.
Guess what? Terrorism tests aren't anywhere *close* to 99 percent accurate. More like 60 percent accurate. Even 40 percent accurate, sometimes.
What this all meant was that the Department of Homeland Security had set itself up to fail badly. They were trying to spot incredibly rare events -- a person is a terrorist -- with inaccurate systems.
Is it any wonder we were able to make such a mess?
Conversation on the phone went something like this:
LHC: Uh...had a slight transformer malfunction. But, uh,
everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here,
now, thank you. How are you?
AP: We're sending a squad up.
LHC: Uh, uh, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few
minutes to lock it down. Large leak...very dangerous.
Because if not, every male you speak to in an MMO is either 6'2", well muscled, former special forces soldier who is proficient in at least two forms of martial arts.
Unless they're pretending to be a girl for all the attention and free loot.
To add to the reliability part (even more), airlines liked turbines for many reasons, none of which were cited in that retarded study. Faster was not the attraction, smooth operation was.
A piston engine is constantly trying to shake itself apart, a turbine engine doesn't do that. In addition to the mechanical wear issues, the vibration was unpleasant and also contributed to reduced airframe life.
With piston powered airliners it wasn't uncommon to have engine fires and other catastrophic failures. But hey, no biggie right? Still have 3 good engines! With today's turbofans it is just about unheard of.
Commercial FADEC jet engines can be treated essentially like lightbulbs, turn them on and go.
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It competes VERY favorably with an orbital telescope in one key aspect: price.
Exactly, if we can say "begging the question" means "asking the question" because many people are stupid, then why don't we just revert to pointing and grunts to communicate.
HAS THE WHOLE WORLD GONE CRAZY? AM I THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE RULES? MARK IT ZERO! - Walter Sobchak
Please parse this sentence from that article:
Schaeffer, 52, sees that as both obsolete and silly, like an electric company trying to bill its customers more for kilowatts used gets broken down into ones and zeros, all networks serve only one purpose: moving those bits from one place to another.
Quoting a dollar amount is meaningless. Power cost varies WILDLY from location to location. How many kWh is $100?
Where I just moved to I'm paying $0.155/kWh. Where I was before it was $0.065/kWh.
Easy. If the SLAs start to suffer, just increase the frequency of beatings applied to the cattle.
If THAT doesn't work, move to phase two, tazers.
Can it be set up so that if given a certain "wrong" weak password (I'm thinking birthdate or something simple) it provides access to a honeypot encrypted volume with nothing of interest?
Wow, that's a lot of ten-thousands of papers!
It's called 'moving the goalposts'. It's like the author decided he was going to write about how wrong everyone was about power usage in computers, then found out that the myths were actually correct.
Oops.
Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhhh, LED backlit LCD monitors run in the $1,500+ range. Soooo if I save $10-$40 per year, I'll break even in 30 to 120 years. The mind boggles.
In that case:
2-way splitter
100ft RG6 Coaxial Cable
Or do you get dinged with an additional box?
No House M.D. would be a problem in my book. Of course, I pay for HD cable service. Zero reception problems with that.
Every MMO from now on is going to look "just like WoW, just done in __________________, without the gryphons on the end of the skillbar." (fill in the blank)
Look at Warhammer Online's UI as an example.
In your fluffy, shiny little world how does Pandora pay for its bandwidth?
The way I read the agreement, it seems to be 10.5% of gross revenue, so basically for a break-even operation this would essentially be a 10.5% operating tax.
This doesn't appear to affect Pandora though. FTFA:
Not to mention if you use this at an airport all the people who oh, I don't know, have a fear of flying!!
Conversation on the phone went something like this:
LHC: Uh...had a slight transformer malfunction. But, uh, everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?
AP: We're sending a squad up.
LHC: Uh, uh, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak...very dangerous.
Riiiide the snake.
Because if not, every male you speak to in an MMO is either 6'2", well muscled, former special forces soldier who is proficient in at least two forms of martial arts.
Unless they're pretending to be a girl for all the attention and free loot.
To add to the reliability part (even more), airlines liked turbines for many reasons, none of which were cited in that retarded study. Faster was not the attraction, smooth operation was.
A piston engine is constantly trying to shake itself apart, a turbine engine doesn't do that. In addition to the mechanical wear issues, the vibration was unpleasant and also contributed to reduced airframe life.
With piston powered airliners it wasn't uncommon to have engine fires and other catastrophic failures. But hey, no biggie right? Still have 3 good engines! With today's turbofans it is just about unheard of.
Commercial FADEC jet engines can be treated essentially like lightbulbs, turn them on and go.
The same thing that happened to all the OTHER radioactive stuff we left on the Moon.
Apollo ALSEP
It just sits there doing nothing.
Witchcraft! Heresy! BLASPHEMER!
Do you mean GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs?
If you're really serious and upset about something, send a snail-mail letter to the CEO of the company calmly and reasonably stating your complaint.
THAT may actually get some attention. Email is just too easy to shift-delete.
Doesn't take many people to plant and harvest wheat.