And you can vote as many times as you want, as long as you pay for the messages. Hey, that's a great idea! Selling democracy back to the people, piece by piece!
Not in Finland at least. Operators are legally required to support transfer of phone numbers, so you don't have any artificial barrier preventing you from switching to the cheapest provider.
It seems to me that blocking Russia completely would be a pointless knee-jerk reaction. There is a well-known company with a known IP range that hosts a pile of undesirable stuff. Why block traffic from people who just happen to live in the same country as the spammers?
Fifteen seconds? Count that out one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand,... or use the second hand from a watch. That's a pretty damn long time.
We should make one movie with a guy just casually checking his watch for 15 seconds while his pants go up in flames and another with the guy going completely crazy swatting his burning pants, rolling around on the ground screaming like a maniac, then take a survey to see which one is more realistic.
My guess is that the advantage is limited to games with "learning" AIs, where the AI attempts to extrapolate your behaviour based on your past events. The neuroticity adds an element of unpredictability which will confuse the hell out of an AI that works using extrapolation or neural net training.
"Learning" like a human? My first thought on reading the headline was how / if this could be used to make a decent poker AI. Unpredictable behavior, within certain parameters, is an advantage in many games where you have information hidden from the other player, and he is reduced to guessing based on your actions what that hidden information is.
kind of makes you wonder if there was any pressure political or financial from MS.
Some finnish computer magazine (can't remember which) expressed the reason for Finland's abstaining as "Industry representatives were divided on the issue, with Microsoft supporting the standard and others opposing". One of those "Ok, makes sense, no wait, WTF"-moments...
The US has around 940 million acres of farmland (source). A single percent of this would be enough to fuel all the cars in the country. It's not necessarily the most efficient option but certainly doable.
I guess what the rest of the world hates is that we're able to do the math. 100,000 or 10 million? And we're not afraid to make those kinds of decisions when we have to.
It seems more likely to me that the decision was between 100k japanese civilians and 100k US soldiers. "We" are not afraid to make such choices and lie about them afterwards...
Some casualty figures. I've never heard the ten million figure before, but overblown estimates have been used to justify the use of atomic weapons for the past sixty years. Although the estimates vary a lot, most are around 1-200k, with a fifth of those actual deaths.
Is this a attempt at trolling by pretending to be european, or does someone use km/l instead of l/100km? Not that I don't agree with the opinions expressed.
Karma whoring Wikipedia link. The wiki article only mentions Galvanic skin response in passing, without spelling out what the E-meter really does. Presumably it really is a low-tech version of the device in TFA.
A stress-reinforcing feedback loop might be common at first, but I suspect you actually learn to relax when you get clear feedback from working yourself up. Imagine a situation at work when you're stressed - when you realize you are stressed and just making things worse, you can really force yourself to relax.
I'd be more afraid of getting used to that feedback and not being able to relax without it...
when someone in Israel decides to create something and looks for ".is" or whatnot, can you just imagine the uproar! "Israel, the center of Zionist oppression..."
I feel a bit dirty prefacing this with "to be fair", but... To be fair, their sales argument is probably that they slow the spread of new content rather than stop it completely. If a few of those who download a movie get a fake instead of the real thing, a few of those might end up seeing the movie in a theater instead.
I really don't think it's a flawed business model. We're talking millions of potential customers per movie. If just a thousand viewers find p2p downloads a hassle because of fake files or slow downloads and decide to pay for it instead, that's worth paying someone like MediaDefender a thousand bucks for. If the business model is flawed, it's only because nearly everything they do is illegal in one way or another. They have no right to interfere with someone else's downloads, regardless of how legal or illegal those downloads are.
I realize you're stupid, but execute doesn't mean the same thing as incarcerate.
"The United States Supreme Court abolished capital punishment for offenders under the age of 16 in Thompson v. Oklahoma (1988), and for all juveniles in Roper v. Simmons (2005)." (source)
Better late than never...
"but don't we have the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world?"
Interdiction. While the first two techniques try to prevent searchers from locating files, interdiction prevents distributors from serving them. The tool is generally used when media is leaked or newly released; the goal is to slow its spread in those crucial first days. MediaDefender servers attempt to create constant connections to the files in question, saturating the provider's upstream bandwidth and preventing anyone else from grabbing the data.
Isn't this a Denial of Service attack, hence illegal?
I believe the initial troops were deployed after Finland disassociated itself with the Nazis per Roosevelt's command to them to do so. I also believe that there was/is a small troop deployment in regards to the Global War on Prostitution that the U.S. was/is involved in during the 80s and 90s, and probably is still involved in today.
I'm from Finland. "Roosevelt's command" = The peace agreement between Finland and the Soviet Union... Can you find me a link to the Roosevelt story?:)
The war on prostitution thing seems doubtful. Prostitution is legal here. I can imagine some international cooperation on countering human trafficking, but don't see why US troops would have been here for that.
They likely have a handful of troops as embassy guards. The 170 figure seems far overblown. Alternatively, your troop information contains something we're not supposed to know about, which, all things considered, is quite possible.
that being said, I'm wondering how they qualified liberal vs. conservative?
"Subjects reported their political attitudes condentially on a -5 (extremely liberal) to +5 (extremely conservative) scale."
FWIW, I don't think binary labels are a good tool for representing an analog chunk of an analog spectrum
Not binary. Also "This single-item measure has been found to account for approximately 85% of the statistical variance in presidential voting intentions in American National Election studies between 1972 and 2004".
If the game's more like a demo, where you have access to only a severely limited version of the game where you have to pay to actually play "sensibly", it's a different matter.
Not that demos of games aren't a tried and true idea, but this is about full access for free, with perks like xp bonuses, "rest state" in WoW, consumable items like potions and such, even gold, for RL money.
A good concept, imho. No-lifers without jobs can still grind 24/7 but don't have to pay anymore. More casual players with jobs can pay to stay roughly equal with their no-life friends. Paying to save grinding time to get to what you really want to do faster feels like more value for money than the monthly fee.
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Three comments, all iPhone stuff.
And you can vote as many times as you want, as long as you pay for the messages. Hey, that's a great idea! Selling democracy back to the people, piece by piece!
Swapping SIMs == swapping phone numbers.
Not in Finland at least. Operators are legally required to support transfer of phone numbers, so you don't have any artificial barrier preventing you from switching to the cheapest provider.
It seems to me that blocking Russia completely would be a pointless knee-jerk reaction. There is a well-known company with a known IP range that hosts a pile of undesirable stuff. Why block traffic from people who just happen to live in the same country as the spammers?
Apparently the flames are invisible so people will think you're dancing.
Fifteen seconds? Count that out one-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, ... or use the second hand from a watch. That's a pretty damn long time.
We should make one movie with a guy just casually checking his watch for 15 seconds while his pants go up in flames and another with the guy going completely crazy swatting his burning pants, rolling around on the ground screaming like a maniac, then take a survey to see which one is more realistic.
My guess is that the advantage is limited to games with "learning" AIs, where the AI attempts to extrapolate your behaviour based on your past events. The neuroticity adds an element of unpredictability which will confuse the hell out of an AI that works using extrapolation or neural net training.
"Learning" like a human? My first thought on reading the headline was how / if this could be used to make a decent poker AI. Unpredictable behavior, within certain parameters, is an advantage in many games where you have information hidden from the other player, and he is reduced to guessing based on your actions what that hidden information is.
kind of makes you wonder if there was any pressure political or financial from MS.
Some finnish computer magazine (can't remember which) expressed the reason for Finland's abstaining as "Industry representatives were divided on the issue, with Microsoft supporting the standard and others opposing". One of those "Ok, makes sense, no wait, WTF"-moments...
For once, there's something on Slashdot you can't find out anywhere else. The article has been mostly translated in the comments already.
The US has around 940 million acres of farmland (source). A single percent of this would be enough to fuel all the cars in the country. It's not necessarily the most efficient option but certainly doable.
I guess what the rest of the world hates is that we're able to do the math. 100,000 or 10 million? And we're not afraid to make those kinds of decisions when we have to.
It seems more likely to me that the decision was between 100k japanese civilians and 100k US soldiers. "We" are not afraid to make such choices and lie about them afterwards...
Some casualty figures. I've never heard the ten million figure before, but overblown estimates have been used to justify the use of atomic weapons for the past sixty years. Although the estimates vary a lot, most are around 1-200k, with a fifth of those actual deaths.
that gets 2.5kpl (about 6mpg numb-nuts)
Is this a attempt at trolling by pretending to be european, or does someone use km/l instead of l/100km? Not that I don't agree with the opinions expressed.
Karma whoring Wikipedia link. The wiki article only mentions Galvanic skin response in passing, without spelling out what the E-meter really does. Presumably it really is a low-tech version of the device in TFA.
A stress-reinforcing feedback loop might be common at first, but I suspect you actually learn to relax when you get clear feedback from working yourself up. Imagine a situation at work when you're stressed - when you realize you are stressed and just making things worse, you can really force yourself to relax.
I'd be more afraid of getting used to that feedback and not being able to relax without it...
I feel a bit dirty prefacing this with "to be fair", but... To be fair, their sales argument is probably that they slow the spread of new content rather than stop it completely. If a few of those who download a movie get a fake instead of the real thing, a few of those might end up seeing the movie in a theater instead.
I really don't think it's a flawed business model. We're talking millions of potential customers per movie. If just a thousand viewers find p2p downloads a hassle because of fake files or slow downloads and decide to pay for it instead, that's worth paying someone like MediaDefender a thousand bucks for. If the business model is flawed, it's only because nearly everything they do is illegal in one way or another. They have no right to interfere with someone else's downloads, regardless of how legal or illegal those downloads are.
Better late than never...Actually, that one is true.
Isn't this a Denial of Service attack, hence illegal?
Intelligent design is an attempt to pass creationism off as science. It's not a separate belief.
Twelve. Probably "occupying" you from a nice comfy embassy.
The war on prostitution thing seems doubtful. Prostitution is legal here. I can imagine some international cooperation on countering human trafficking, but don't see why US troops would have been here for that.
They likely have a handful of troops as embassy guards. The 170 figure seems far overblown. Alternatively, your troop information contains something we're not supposed to know about, which, all things considered, is quite possible.
"Subjects reported their political attitudes condentially on a -5 (extremely liberal) to +5 (extremely conservative) scale."
Not binary. Also "This single-item measure has been found to account for approximately 85% of the statistical variance in presidential voting intentions in American National Election studies between 1972 and 2004".
Not that demos of games aren't a tried and true idea, but this is about full access for free, with perks like xp bonuses, "rest state" in WoW, consumable items like potions and such, even gold, for RL money.
A good concept, imho. No-lifers without jobs can still grind 24/7 but don't have to pay anymore. More casual players with jobs can pay to stay roughly equal with their no-life friends. Paying to save grinding time to get to what you really want to do faster feels like more value for money than the monthly fee.
We'd be halfway to Mars by now.
And bombing the living crap out of it with no resistance from the natives and 100% full control over what info the media gets!