Modulation might matter. I doubt it, given the high frequencies of cell phone signals, but things like binaural beats (although audio instead of EM) suggest that the brain does respond differently to certain signals. Theoretically you could do something like TMS via microwaves, although the power needed to set up large enough magnetic fields might also fry the brain directly.
If any property of the signal other than peak or average amplitude were to matter, it would presumably be from a resonant frequency of some subcellular structure causing it to be damaged, but then that should only show up at certain carrier frequencies or with certain modulation schemes, so it would not be universal to all cell phones.
I started taking a foreign language class last night, & the teacher had only gone over certain letters. She started to write a word & then erased it because we had not learned one of the letters, but from past experience (I know the entire alphabet & a handful of words), I figured out what the rest of the word was from just the first 2 letters.
One obvious thing about 999,999,999 is that it is one less than 1 billion. So the most likely choices for divisor are those that are powers of 2 or 5. (3, 9, & 10 are trivial, & others are more tricky.) As for knowing it would be 32 rather than another power of 2 or 5: Powers of 5 are probably marginally more likely to be easier because they are emphasized more (or at least that was my experience in school). Too large or too small a power of 2 would be too easy. I would not necessarily have guessed 32 was the sweet spot (& hindsight is 20/20), but it is not impossible that someone would guess it right.
I think I have found more bugs in other people's programs from staring at disassembled code than from staring at source code. Then again, that is because most of the source code I have access to is from things that tend to do what I want (Linux, etc.), while I mostly tend to disassemble code that is not doing what I want (calculators & other hardware I decided to hack, mostly). As a result, the main thing I find preventing modification is code being in ROM (but that can be worked around, even on Harvard-architecture systems).
Of course, most people who end up trying to fix a bug will probably have access to the source code (or else not bother trying), & many people do not have the time or knowledge to figure out someone else's binary blob, so your point stands.
It makes more sense to say the first 2-3 children or first successful pregnancy, so that people who happen to have quadruplets the first time are not forced to pick which one to give away.
If you are trying to do something the system forbids or makes difficult, it does not matter much whether it is the OS or the CPU doing it, & the workarounds are mostly the same unless you have something like JTAG available.
Likewise, the nature of addiction seems mostly irrelevant unless you have a specific drug that helps.
The analogy breaks down because the brain gets rewired by throughts Maybe a better analogy is a dynamically-reconfigurable FPGA.
I would think it should be easy to estimate by finding the distribution of features, then calculating the effective size of the entire feature space (may not be the full size if some combinations are more common than others), then taking the square root (for the birthday paradox) to figure out how unique the measure is at any given time. Accounting for how variation over time affects the uniqueness is left as an exercise for the reader.
If someone with a Y chromosome is born with a functional vagina & uterus (which does happen occasionally), they could potentially make use of both of those services, yet there are those who insist the Y chromosome means they are a man.
Crochet seems pretty close to manually 3-D printing fabric, although the present lack of true crochet machines is surprising to me (although only mildly so, given my experience with it).
My sound card's preferences allow you to select different I/O configurations, & at least some of the options make the microphone jack be an output, so why not the reverse? Or at the very least, just switch to the stereo+microphone configuration if someone has a 7.1 setup...so you could at least spy on people with too many speakers.
It might not work with sufficiently fancy (powered or filtered or some such) speakers, but I have used a speaker as a microphone in an electronics project before. One schematic actually called for using an earphone as a microphone (because that was all the kit had).
The surface has to be opaque to all frequencies the camera can sense, not just those the user can see. Many cheap webcams can sense near-infrared (try pointing a TV remote at one & pushing a button), & there are black paints & plastics that are IR-transparent. Some webcams are also probably UV-sensitive to varying degrees. Normally, manufacturers try to avoid the IR response because it can make well-lit pictures look slightly off, but a particularly nefarious manufacturer could make an IR-transparent black slide that disables the camera's IR filter when engaged (& activates a firmware mode to report a black image to unauthenticated software).
There are transaction fees...if Bitcoin is still around when the last satoshi is mined, miners will still get transaction fees, & miners will keep at it if it is profitable to do so, just like now.
Others mentioned the D state (uninterruptible sleep), but it is also possible for a process in R state (running) to be unkillable if it gets stuck in certain system calls (that usually finish quickly but can exhibit pathological behavior), which seems a bit worse as it sits there hogging 100% of a CPU core rather than just a process ID & a bit of RAM.
Back when I used Windows, I always wanted to be able to run Geomview, but it was only available for Linux & other Unix-like OSes (& I had never heard of Cygwin).
People complain about Windows stability...running DOS programs in Windows 98 was vastly more stable (at least for the programs I ran) than in Windows 95 (& even more stable in XP for those DOS programs that would still work), although Windows programs brought the system down often enough.
Some should leak into space before recombining with oxygen. H2 is very light. But yeah, probably not enough to lower the oceans appreciably, given that they cover ~75% of the surface.
Even better (from their perspective...), there are multiple-watermarking schemes that are secure against some fixed number of items being aggregated, so that you cannot even hide by doing majority-vote over fewer copies. (Not that it is too terribly difficult to buy 10 or however many discs if you are really determined (ignoring cost, of course), but they could also restrict how many distinct discs of the same movie can be unlocked from the same IP address within a given time frame.)
If you could find the reader/editor software, you could use that. Even if the architecture had been completely forgotten, it could be reverse engineered. Of course, data files could give far fewer clues, especially if compressed, & if executables are compressed there might be too little code to follow for reverse engineering.
I reverse engineered (almost all of) a proprietary instruction set given just a single piece of code (the system ROM, 48 KB) & the ability to play with the system (with no low-level programming capability until I found an exploit from examining the code). If you did not have the system around, it would be harder, but things like Microsoft Word also have much more code.
They say the network would detect the errors, but more likely, an adjacent, more reliable processor would—there is no reason not to double-check the relatively few attempts that would make it through the first stage (as happens already e.g. with pooled mining, where you get credit for things that are not as hard as the official difficulty).
They outnumber heterosexual emoji because there are 2 ways to pair up the same sex & only 1 way to pair up the opposite sexes (assuming exactly 2 sexes & unordered pairs). Which leads to the question: Since the pairs are not visually unordered, why not have separate variants for male-on-the-left & female-on-the-left? Otherwise someone could accuse Unicode of being sexist...or something.
Or, given the presence of other emoji variant selectors (e.g. skin color), why not just have each distinct type of pairing emoji & then sex variant selectors?
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Modulation might matter. I doubt it, given the high frequencies of cell phone signals, but things like binaural beats (although audio instead of EM) suggest that the brain does respond differently to certain signals. Theoretically you could do something like TMS via microwaves, although the power needed to set up large enough magnetic fields might also fry the brain directly.
If any property of the signal other than peak or average amplitude were to matter, it would presumably be from a resonant frequency of some subcellular structure causing it to be damaged, but then that should only show up at certain carrier frequencies or with certain modulation schemes, so it would not be universal to all cell phones.
I started taking a foreign language class last night, & the teacher had only gone over certain letters. She started to write a word & then erased it because we had not learned one of the letters, but from past experience (I know the entire alphabet & a handful of words), I figured out what the rest of the word was from just the first 2 letters.
One obvious thing about 999,999,999 is that it is one less than 1 billion. So the most likely choices for divisor are those that are powers of 2 or 5. (3, 9, & 10 are trivial, & others are more tricky.) As for knowing it would be 32 rather than another power of 2 or 5: Powers of 5 are probably marginally more likely to be easier because they are emphasized more (or at least that was my experience in school). Too large or too small a power of 2 would be too easy. I would not necessarily have guessed 32 was the sweet spot (& hindsight is 20/20), but it is not impossible that someone would guess it right.
I think I have found more bugs in other people's programs from staring at disassembled code than from staring at source code. Then again, that is because most of the source code I have access to is from things that tend to do what I want (Linux, etc.), while I mostly tend to disassemble code that is not doing what I want (calculators & other hardware I decided to hack, mostly). As a result, the main thing I find preventing modification is code being in ROM (but that can be worked around, even on Harvard-architecture systems).
Of course, most people who end up trying to fix a bug will probably have access to the source code (or else not bother trying), & many people do not have the time or knowledge to figure out someone else's binary blob, so your point stands.
It makes more sense to say the first 2-3 children or first successful pregnancy, so that people who happen to have quadruplets the first time are not forced to pick which one to give away.
It is not like he is Voldemort or Hastur.
If you are trying to do something the system forbids or makes difficult, it does not matter much whether it is the OS or the CPU doing it, & the workarounds are mostly the same unless you have something like JTAG available.
Likewise, the nature of addiction seems mostly irrelevant unless you have a specific drug that helps.
The analogy breaks down because the brain gets rewired by throughts Maybe a better analogy is a dynamically-reconfigurable FPGA.
A conspiracy theorist would likely say they fake their incompetence & release documents that do not reveal anything they want to keep secret...
I would think it should be easy to estimate by finding the distribution of features, then calculating the effective size of the entire feature space (may not be the full size if some combinations are more common than others), then taking the square root (for the birthday paradox) to figure out how unique the measure is at any given time. Accounting for how variation over time affects the uniqueness is left as an exercise for the reader.
If someone with a Y chromosome is born with a functional vagina & uterus (which does happen occasionally), they could potentially make use of both of those services, yet there are those who insist the Y chromosome means they are a man.
Crochet seems pretty close to manually 3-D printing fabric, although the present lack of true crochet machines is surprising to me (although only mildly so, given my experience with it).
My sound card's preferences allow you to select different I/O configurations, & at least some of the options make the microphone jack be an output, so why not the reverse? Or at the very least, just switch to the stereo+microphone configuration if someone has a 7.1 setup...so you could at least spy on people with too many speakers.
It might not work with sufficiently fancy (powered or filtered or some such) speakers, but I have used a speaker as a microphone in an electronics project before. One schematic actually called for using an earphone as a microphone (because that was all the kit had).
The surface has to be opaque to all frequencies the camera can sense, not just those the user can see. Many cheap webcams can sense near-infrared (try pointing a TV remote at one & pushing a button), & there are black paints & plastics that are IR-transparent. Some webcams are also probably UV-sensitive to varying degrees. Normally, manufacturers try to avoid the IR response because it can make well-lit pictures look slightly off, but a particularly nefarious manufacturer could make an IR-transparent black slide that disables the camera's IR filter when engaged (& activates a firmware mode to report a black image to unauthenticated software).
There are transaction fees...if Bitcoin is still around when the last satoshi is mined, miners will still get transaction fees, & miners will keep at it if it is profitable to do so, just like now.
Others mentioned the D state (uninterruptible sleep), but it is also possible for a process in R state (running) to be unkillable if it gets stuck in certain system calls (that usually finish quickly but can exhibit pathological behavior), which seems a bit worse as it sits there hogging 100% of a CPU core rather than just a process ID & a bit of RAM.
Back when I used Windows, I always wanted to be able to run Geomview, but it was only available for Linux & other Unix-like OSes (& I had never heard of Cygwin).
People complain about Windows stability...running DOS programs in Windows 98 was vastly more stable (at least for the programs I ran) than in Windows 95 (& even more stable in XP for those DOS programs that would still work), although Windows programs brought the system down often enough.
It was a Necessary Motto, of course.
Some should leak into space before recombining with oxygen. H2 is very light. But yeah, probably not enough to lower the oceans appreciably, given that they cover ~75% of the surface.
Even better (from their perspective...), there are multiple-watermarking schemes that are secure against some fixed number of items being aggregated, so that you cannot even hide by doing majority-vote over fewer copies. (Not that it is too terribly difficult to buy 10 or however many discs if you are really determined (ignoring cost, of course), but they could also restrict how many distinct discs of the same movie can be unlocked from the same IP address within a given time frame.)
If it were really about marketing, laptop manufacturers should have started using 1024 g = 1 kg so they could say their laptops were lighter.
If you could find the reader/editor software, you could use that. Even if the architecture had been completely forgotten, it could be reverse engineered. Of course, data files could give far fewer clues, especially if compressed, & if executables are compressed there might be too little code to follow for reverse engineering.
I reverse engineered (almost all of) a proprietary instruction set given just a single piece of code (the system ROM, 48 KB) & the ability to play with the system (with no low-level programming capability until I found an exploit from examining the code). If you did not have the system around, it would be harder, but things like Microsoft Word also have much more code.
Word.
They say the network would detect the errors, but more likely, an adjacent, more reliable processor would—there is no reason not to double-check the relatively few attempts that would make it through the first stage (as happens already e.g. with pooled mining, where you get credit for things that are not as hard as the official difficulty).
They outnumber heterosexual emoji because there are 2 ways to pair up the same sex & only 1 way to pair up the opposite sexes (assuming exactly 2 sexes & unordered pairs). Which leads to the question: Since the pairs are not visually unordered, why not have separate variants for male-on-the-left & female-on-the-left? Otherwise someone could accuse Unicode of being sexist...or something.
Or, given the presence of other emoji variant selectors (e.g. skin color), why not just have each distinct type of pairing emoji & then sex variant selectors?
I just tried what seemed to be the safest method of verifying the claim, & sure enough:
Host goat.cx not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
In Japanese, at least, while numbers written in words or spoken use groups of 4, numbers written using digits use groups of 3 separated by commas.