A superconductor could be used as a superinductor, & some are—form it into a loop, put electricity in, & it keeps going around indefinitely (or as long as you maintain the superconducting state, anyway).
It would be more like if they could keep living there but could not stop other people from moving in. Well, if all the people living there could not see or interfere each other, that is.
There was an article on Google patenting something vaguely this a little while ago on here. Apparently some companies want it (at least for the employee compliance aspect). Also, as many people pointed out, the better your legal advise, the closer you can get to illegal without technically crossing the line...it would help with "creative accounting" & the like.
I have several computations running right now with around 1GB of state each. I save them periodically for comparison over time/to mitigate power loss/to be able to back up if something goes awry (there is some randomness involved). It is pretty easy to get a few tens of GB of "temporary" state involved in a project, & when I move back & forth between them, it is nice to be able to keep the half-finished things around. (These computations do happen to involve some media (images in this case), but that only accounts for ~100MB of the data which is shared between all instances, the rest being oodles of floats.) & since I have a magnetic disk, saving & reloading the state can take several seconds (especially if I do it in all 6 or so instances at the same time).
I was not suggesting paying the church for everything. I was rather suggesting having contributions to the government be voluntary also. Of course, as has been pointed out, people tend to like their church but not their government, but one might also hope it would lead to the government having to be nice/unobtrusive/manifestly helpful enough to convince people to pay them. It says something that governments feel the need to threaten force to get enough funding.
On the one hand, churches do not force their members to tithe at gunpoint (at least, none in America of which I know). On the other hand, many seem to be doing just fine with their funding being completely from voluntary sources, even when some people make use of their resources without paying tithes. Makes you wonder whether the IRS is needed at all.
I have programs I wrote when I was 7 (at the latest, that is just the last file modification time). Nobody taught me logic beforehand. You internalize logic by playing with it. My dad just gave me a programming book (Getting Started with COLOR BASIC, for the TRS-80), & a while later (a year, a few years, I do not remember) I was to the point where he could no longer help me (despite done some programming in college). I also feel that a significant portion of my worldview has been influenced by learning about programming & computer hardware from an early age.
Even if you do not understand a specific mechanical or electronic device (or even biological mechanism), understanding the general principles of automation helps tremendously both with fixing things when they are broken & not getting taken for a ride by snake-oil salespeople. I wonder what effect teaching most kids programming might have more generally in life, beyond just interacting with computers. It might even help teach kids how to learn new things, rather than just learning what they are explicitly taught (although granted, that might require some pretty good educators).
The relevant number when worrying about non-adversarial hash collisions is the square root of the number of outputs (assuming they are close enough to uniformly distributed), due to the birthday paradox. So in the case of CRC32, more than ~2^16 files makes a collision likely (well, 2^16 gives about 39%), & with 2^22, the probability is nearly indistinguishable from 1 (it being over 99.9% for only 2^18 files).
Well, there are projects to make touchscreens with raised buttons & such for better feedback. If it had good enough resolution (quite possibly not with current prototypes) you could even output braille, & then the same phone (not necessarily the same apps) could be used by sighted & blind people alike.
I have SMS disabled (due to the extra cost, since most people I contact use Facebook or E-mail anyway). Incoming texts appear to be dropped silently without notifying the sender.
I suspect the word "marijuana" has a much higher probability in most people's minds, even among Slashdot readers, than "Majorana." Most people simply have not thought about it enough to make conditioning on "particle" sufficient to change this. Although after this article it should change for many Slashdot readers.
I raytraced a simple scene once where I solved the rendering equation analytically (to see if it was practical), & the result was badly out of focus because I had neglected to include a lens (I did not expect it to be that realistic). Better raytracing does in fact produce non-perfectly-focused images, even with approximate solutions (although it is possible that said improvements to raytracing have different technical names than "raytracing").
When I was younger I separated some water into hydrogen & oxygen & then made it explode (in the kitchen, of course). Next thing they will be outlawing at least one of electricity, conductive objects, & water.
Slashdot Mirror
I actually have seen anti-GMO posts mention genetically modified sugar.
A superconductor could be used as a superinductor, & some are—form it into a loop, put electricity in, & it keeps going around indefinitely (or as long as you maintain the superconducting state, anyway).
Stephen Omohundro's The Basic AI drives (abstract & link to paper itself) outlines what we could expect an AI to do if we give it any goal at all.
I read it as "present self-signed HTTPS connections to the user like plain HTTP is now," rather than "reconnect via HTTP instead."
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I was not aware cats were ever allowed to bear arms in the first place.
Oh, no! Daleks are even worse!
It would be more like if they could keep living there but could not stop other people from moving in. Well, if all the people living there could not see or interfere each other, that is.
Differential fault analysis?
There was an article on Google patenting something vaguely this a little while ago on here. Apparently some companies want it (at least for the employee compliance aspect). Also, as many people pointed out, the better your legal advise, the closer you can get to illegal without technically crossing the line...it would help with "creative accounting" & the like.
I have several computations running right now with around 1GB of state each. I save them periodically for comparison over time/to mitigate power loss/to be able to back up if something goes awry (there is some randomness involved). It is pretty easy to get a few tens of GB of "temporary" state involved in a project, & when I move back & forth between them, it is nice to be able to keep the half-finished things around. (These computations do happen to involve some media (images in this case), but that only accounts for ~100MB of the data which is shared between all instances, the rest being oodles of floats.) & since I have a magnetic disk, saving & reloading the state can take several seconds (especially if I do it in all 6 or so instances at the same time).
I was not suggesting paying the church for everything. I was rather suggesting having contributions to the government be voluntary also. Of course, as has been pointed out, people tend to like their church but not their government, but one might also hope it would lead to the government having to be nice/unobtrusive/manifestly helpful enough to convince people to pay them. It says something that governments feel the need to threaten force to get enough funding.
Why would the byte order mark be at the end of the balloon instead of at the beginning?
On the one hand, churches do not force their members to tithe at gunpoint (at least, none in America of which I know). On the other hand, many seem to be doing just fine with their funding being completely from voluntary sources, even when some people make use of their resources without paying tithes. Makes you wonder whether the IRS is needed at all.
I have programs I wrote when I was 7 (at the latest, that is just the last file modification time). Nobody taught me logic beforehand. You internalize logic by playing with it. My dad just gave me a programming book (Getting Started with COLOR BASIC, for the TRS-80), & a while later (a year, a few years, I do not remember) I was to the point where he could no longer help me (despite done some programming in college). I also feel that a significant portion of my worldview has been influenced by learning about programming & computer hardware from an early age.
Even if you do not understand a specific mechanical or electronic device (or even biological mechanism), understanding the general principles of automation helps tremendously both with fixing things when they are broken & not getting taken for a ride by snake-oil salespeople. I wonder what effect teaching most kids programming might have more generally in life, beyond just interacting with computers. It might even help teach kids how to learn new things, rather than just learning what they are explicitly taught (although granted, that might require some pretty good educators).
The relevant number when worrying about non-adversarial hash collisions is the square root of the number of outputs (assuming they are close enough to uniformly distributed), due to the birthday paradox. So in the case of CRC32, more than ~2^16 files makes a collision likely (well, 2^16 gives about 39%), & with 2^22, the probability is nearly indistinguishable from 1 (it being over 99.9% for only 2^18 files).
If you take the holographic principle into account, it will eventually fill up if it is of finite size. Or do you have a pocket universe?
That way you could tell if someone copied it so you could sue them, of course.
Well, there are projects to make touchscreens with raised buttons & such for better feedback. If it had good enough resolution (quite possibly not with current prototypes) you could even output braille, & then the same phone (not necessarily the same apps) could be used by sighted & blind people alike.
I have SMS disabled (due to the extra cost, since most people I contact use Facebook or E-mail anyway). Incoming texts appear to be dropped silently without notifying the sender.
Doctor Who & the Curse of the Fatal Death
I suspect the word "marijuana" has a much higher probability in most people's minds, even among Slashdot readers, than "Majorana." Most people simply have not thought about it enough to make conditioning on "particle" sufficient to change this. Although after this article it should change for many Slashdot readers.
I raytraced a simple scene once where I solved the rendering equation analytically (to see if it was practical), & the result was badly out of focus because I had neglected to include a lens (I did not expect it to be that realistic). Better raytracing does in fact produce non-perfectly-focused images, even with approximate solutions (although it is possible that said improvements to raytracing have different technical names than "raytracing").
2 that come to mind are the SCP wiki & some groups of entries on Everything2
When I was younger I separated some water into hydrogen & oxygen & then made it explode (in the kitchen, of course). Next thing they will be outlawing at least one of electricity, conductive objects, & water.