The ideal situation by European standards: either you live within walking distance of public transportation, or you're far enough from the city centre that traffic jams are not a problem.
The false-positive and false-negative rates depend on the frequency of the real event. Suppose an accuracy of 78% as stated in the article. Let's imagine two scenarios of 100 bombs each.
Suppose one out of every 10 passengers is carrying a bomb. Out of 1000 passengers, 100 will be carrying bombs. 22 will slip through as false negatives; 78 will be correctly detected, along with 198 false positives. To find the 78 bombs, you must sort out 276 alarms.
Suppose, then, that one out of every million passengers is carrying a bomb. Out of one hundred million passengers, 100 will be carrying bombs. 22 will still slip through as false negatives; 78 will still be correctly detected, but this time with 21999978 others. To find the 78 bombs, you must sort out about 22 million alarms.
The same should go for the story about the breastfeeding mom in the restaurant. It's the same thing as taking off your shirt in a public place. She should have just left and feed her baby at home or somewhere no one cares what's happening around, like a subway:P.
[citation needed] How is it "the same thing?" Has somebody witnessed mothers take their shirts off (both breasts in plain view) in public for nursing? I, being male and all, am no authority on this, but based on the mothers I know and have seen nursing in public, I'd say it's not necessary.
Here's how it happens. In a seated position, fully clothed: 1) Bring baby up to chest. 2) Clear one (1) nipple (e.g. by lifting shirt). 3) Let baby eat. 4) Pull shirt back down. 5) Burp baby. Done. Nobody except the baby can see any exposed part of the mother's anatomy. Nobody even notices that nursing is taking place unless they happen to be close by; it just looks as if the mother were holding the baby. To get disgusted by this takes real effort.
As far as I know, the very reason mothers nurse in public is that postponing the meal is out of the question. So, no way to wait until home.
1. Get a box of dot matrix paper. 2. Feed into typewriter. 3. When at last sheet, make Moebius twist and attach to first sheet. 4. Type away. 5. When the ring is full of text, separate pages. 6. Send to publisher. 7. ??? 8. Profit!!!
A "watt-second" (wattsecond, watt*second) is the same as a joule. Or, rather, one joule is one watt of power consumed for one second.
1 W * 1 s = 1 Ws = 1 J 1 h = 3600 s 1 Wh = 1 W * 3600 s = 3600 Ws = 3600 J = 3.6 kJ 1 kWh = 1000 W * 3600 s = 3.6e6 Ws = 3.6e6 J = 3.6 MJ
so a typical annual consumption of a Finnish residential house, 12000 kWh (12 MWh), would be 43,2 GJ.
Seeing as the nutritional energy content of a typical person's food intake is in the order of 10 MJ/day, the house uses as much energy as about 10 to 11 people...
Aren't most IM systems these days smart enough to tell you "The person you were trying to reach isn't at the computer right now, but will see your message as soon as he/she returns?"
But suspending doesn't drop power demand as much as shutting down; indeed, it could cut your savings in more than half if you have a yum-cha power supply.
You know, your radiator is supposed to have an adjustment knob where you can turn it down. Ask building maintenance. If somebody's broken it off, it should be replaced, because now you're actually wasting fuel at the power plant by heating the outside atmosphere.
Here's my answer: The Electron finds itself full of negativity, despite feeling an attraction toward the Proton; however, the Proton is distant and closely attached to the Neutron, and the Electron uncertain about itself, possibly on account of constant travel. Sometimes an outside influence, which feels like a flash of light, raises it to new spheres, so to speak, and at those times it is full of energy, but the feeling is short-lived and dissipates in a radiant burst of activity, and the usual negativity resumes.
Here are some tools I use regularly, not in any particular order: find, grep, sed, awk, perl (the usual suspects) | `` < > >> (standard tools) && || (boolean operands) [ ] (test for various things; see test(1)) ^Z bg fg %number (job control, although some vendors still ship shells that don't do job control... argh!) killall (or killproc, depending on system; kills processes by name) kill -0 (see if process exists) fuser, lsof (to see who's using what) until something; do sleep interval ; done (try something every interval until successful) set -o vi (when stuck with ksh on a random HP system) ssh, scp, sftp (need I say more?) dd (to copy however many bytes from wherever to wherever else) screen (extremely handy) etc.
Interesting; in Finland we use mostly electronic transfers for moving money between individuals, and cash when it's convenient. Many if not most purchases are paid by debit or credit card, and most bills by electronic transfer. One could go to the branch and pay the bill, but this costs money and takes time, so very few people bother. Checks went out of fashion in the eighties or the early nineties (my guess; I got my first bank account in 1992, and I've never written a check.)
Oh, and another thing about the Finnish banking system: you cannot take money out of a random person's account. If you want money from someone, you have to send them a bill and wait for them to pay. Then again, some fraudsters have been sending bills for nonexistent goods and services in the hope that somebody might accidentally pay...
big circle on the inner page where you're supposed to write the candidate number. Minimal risk of misunderstanding the idea, especially on country with literacy and schooling rate of 100% (at least until now).
What's Finland's rate of people with extremely untidy handwriting? You'll always have some form of human error.
Blank ballots + obvious protest ballots + ballots with invalid numbers (numbers not on the list) + ambiguous ballots = about 0.5% of all ballots. The ballot only requires to write a couple of numbers, and most people understand that the numbers have to be legible. If the election board cannot determine whether the ballot says 50 or 56, they count it as "ambiguous".
Parent isn't exactly offtopic: writing "Kekkonen" (a former president of 25 years, 1956 to 1981; retired in his 4th term) or "Aku Ankka" (Finnish for Donald Duck), or drawing doodles, often of an offensive nature, on the ballot is a traditional way to protest in a pencil-and-paper election. Protest ballots go in the same bin with other informal (blank, unreadable, number-out-of-range, NaN...) ballots.
You say that like it's some divine decree. Everyone in a nation should have their votes counted? Criminals too? The certified insane? Resident non-nations? Transient non-nations just passing through?
It's not a divine decree, but it's a fundamental principle of many modern societies, and one which in my opinion should not be lightly tossed aside.
All Finnish residents over the age of 18 have the right to vote in municipal elections. (Non-EU citizens must have been residents for over 2 years to vote.) Yes, convicted criminals can vote. Yes, the certified insane can vote. They are part of the population.
Only EU citizens have the right to vote in European elections.
Only Finnish citizens have the right to vote in parliamentary and presidential elections.
The right to vote in the municipal elections to be held in the municipality on 26 October 2008 can be exercised by a Finnish citizen as well as by a citizen of another Member State of the European Union, Iceland and Norway, 1) who will reach the age of 18 years no later than on the election day and 2) whose municipality of residence as referred to in the Municipality of Residence Act is the municipality in question on 5 September 2008 at 12.00 midnight according to the information in the population information system, as well as by another foreigner, 1) who will reach the age of 18 years no later than on the election day, 2) whose municipality of residence as referred to in the Municipality of Residence Act is the municipality in question on 5 September 2008 at 12.00 midnight according to the information in the population information system, and 3) if, on 5 September 2008 at 12.00 midnight, he has continuously had a municipality of residence in Finland for a minimum of two years. With certain exceptions, the municipality of residence of a person is the municipality in which he resides.
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The ideal situation by European standards: either you live within walking distance of public transportation, or you're far enough from the city centre that traffic jams are not a problem.
Your reality may vary.
The false-positive and false-negative rates depend on the frequency of the real event. Suppose an accuracy of 78% as stated in the article. Let's imagine two scenarios of 100 bombs each.
Suppose one out of every 10 passengers is carrying a bomb. Out of 1000 passengers, 100 will be carrying bombs. 22 will slip through as false negatives; 78 will be correctly detected, along with 198 false positives. To find the 78 bombs, you must sort out 276 alarms.
Suppose, then, that one out of every million passengers is carrying a bomb. Out of one hundred million passengers, 100 will be carrying bombs. 22 will still slip through as false negatives; 78 will still be correctly detected, but this time with 21999978 others. To find the 78 bombs, you must sort out about 22 million alarms.
Feel free to correct any mistakes.
And I've had A&W staff refuse to sell a burger to me because I must be clinically insane.
I can understand somebody clinically insane cannot buy weapons, but burgers?
Like I said, I'm male...
The same should go for the story about the breastfeeding mom in the restaurant. It's the same thing as taking off your shirt in a public place. She should have just left and feed her baby at home or somewhere no one cares what's happening around, like a subway :P.
[citation needed] How is it "the same thing?" Has somebody witnessed mothers take their shirts off (both breasts in plain view) in public for nursing? I, being male and all, am no authority on this, but based on the mothers I know and have seen nursing in public, I'd say it's not necessary.
Here's how it happens. In a seated position, fully clothed:
1) Bring baby up to chest.
2) Clear one (1) nipple (e.g. by lifting shirt).
3) Let baby eat.
4) Pull shirt back down.
5) Burp baby. Done.
Nobody except the baby can see any exposed part of the mother's anatomy. Nobody even notices that nursing is taking place unless they happen to be close by; it just looks as if the mother were holding the baby. To get disgusted by this takes real effort.
As far as I know, the very reason mothers nurse in public is that postponing the meal is out of the question. So, no way to wait until home.
1. Get a box of dot matrix paper.
2. Feed into typewriter.
3. When at last sheet, make Moebius twist and attach to first sheet.
4. Type away.
5. When the ring is full of text, separate pages.
6. Send to publisher.
7. ???
8. Profit!!!
From what I understand, they have a couple of honest people working at both places.
And what if they both quit?
Where did I say otherwise?
No, you actually didn't. My bad.
Note to self: Engage brain before pressing Reply.
A "watt-second" (wattsecond, watt*second) is the same as a joule. Or, rather, one joule is one watt of power consumed for one second.
1 W * 1 s = 1 Ws = 1 J
1 h = 3600 s
1 Wh = 1 W * 3600 s = 3600 Ws = 3600 J = 3.6 kJ
1 kWh = 1000 W * 3600 s = 3.6e6 Ws = 3.6e6 J = 3.6 MJ
so a typical annual consumption of a Finnish residential house, 12000 kWh (12 MWh), would be 43,2 GJ.
Seeing as the nutritional energy content of a typical person's food intake is in the order of 10 MJ/day, the house uses as much energy as about 10 to 11 people...
Aren't most IM systems these days smart enough to tell you "The person you were trying to reach isn't at the computer right now, but will see your message as soon as he/she returns?"
But suspending doesn't drop power demand as much as shutting down; indeed, it could cut your savings in more than half if you have a yum-cha power supply.
So hibernate.
You know, your radiator is supposed to have an adjustment knob where you can turn it down. Ask building maintenance. If somebody's broken it off, it should be replaced, because now you're actually wasting fuel at the power plant by heating the outside atmosphere.
The average desktop draws 89 watts per hour. If it's left on overnight for 16 hours, it consumes 1.42kW.
At which point the fire department shows up.
(Public Service announcement follows)
When surfing, always keep a keen eye on the current gauges!
Remember: Only you can prevent computer fires!
"The Forrester report "How Much Monday are Your Idle PCs Wasting?" is available for $279."
Apparently enough that the proofreader had to be fired.
All we need is a find(1) that can do something like this:
/var/somewhere \;
find . -mime image/jpeg -exec mv {}
Here's my answer:
The Electron finds itself full of negativity, despite feeling an attraction toward the Proton; however, the Proton is distant and closely attached to the Neutron, and the Electron uncertain about itself, possibly on account of constant travel. Sometimes an outside influence, which feels like a flash of light, raises it to new spheres, so to speak, and at those times it is full of energy, but the feeling is short-lived and dissipates in a radiant burst of activity, and the usual negativity resumes.
In short, WYMIWYG: what you measure is what you get.
Here are some tools I use regularly, not in any particular order:
find, grep, sed, awk, perl (the usual suspects)
| `` < > >> (standard tools)
&& || (boolean operands)
[ ] (test for various things; see test(1))
^Z bg fg %number (job control, although some vendors still ship shells that don't do job control... argh!)
killall (or killproc, depending on system; kills processes by name)
kill -0 (see if process exists)
fuser, lsof (to see who's using what)
until something; do sleep interval ; done (try something every interval until successful)
set -o vi (when stuck with ksh on a random HP system)
ssh, scp, sftp (need I say more?)
dd (to copy however many bytes from wherever to wherever else)
screen (extremely handy)
etc.
The first names of one Finnish family: Matti, Merja, Annastiina, Juhana. Task: assign genders. Answers here.
A success rate of over 50% is rewarded with a dose of instant gratification.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisex_name
Interesting; in Finland we use mostly electronic transfers for moving money between individuals, and cash when it's convenient. Many if not most purchases are paid by debit or credit card, and most bills by electronic transfer. One could go to the branch and pay the bill, but this costs money and takes time, so very few people bother. Checks went out of fashion in the eighties or the early nineties (my guess; I got my first bank account in 1992, and I've never written a check.)
Oh, and another thing about the Finnish banking system: you cannot take money out of a random person's account. If you want money from someone, you have to send them a bill and wait for them to pay. Then again, some fraudsters have been sending bills for nonexistent goods and services in the hope that somebody might accidentally pay...
The three municipalities where electronic voting was tried had about that many people vote. It wasn't a nationwide trial.
Complete voting process with pencil and paper:
With electronic voting:
What's Finland's rate of people with extremely untidy handwriting? You'll always have some form of human error.
Blank ballots + obvious protest ballots + ballots with invalid numbers (numbers not on the list) + ambiguous ballots = about 0.5% of all ballots. The ballot only requires to write a couple of numbers, and most people understand that the numbers have to be legible. If the election board cannot determine whether the ballot says 50 or 56, they count it as "ambiguous".
Parent isn't exactly offtopic: writing "Kekkonen" (a former president of 25 years, 1956 to 1981; retired in his 4th term) or "Aku Ankka" (Finnish for Donald Duck), or drawing doodles, often of an offensive nature, on the ballot is a traditional way to protest in a pencil-and-paper election. Protest ballots go in the same bin with other informal (blank, unreadable, number-out-of-range, NaN...) ballots.
You say that like it's some divine decree. Everyone in a nation should have their votes counted? Criminals too? The certified insane? Resident non-nations? Transient non-nations just passing through?
It's not a divine decree, but it's a fundamental principle of many modern societies, and one which in my opinion should not be lightly tossed aside.
All Finnish residents over the age of 18 have the right to vote in municipal elections. (Non-EU citizens must have been residents for over 2 years to vote.) Yes, convicted criminals can vote. Yes, the certified insane can vote. They are part of the population.
Only EU citizens have the right to vote in European elections.
Only Finnish citizens have the right to vote in parliamentary and presidential elections.
Democracy is a fine thing, in moderation.
What does that mean?
From this PDF by the Ministry of Justice: