It's very easy to get unimaginably cold numbers, unless you are using Kelvins.
Say your temperature is -64 degrees. Now take the square root of that. What you have left is a temperature of 8i degrees. So we have an imaginary temperature. Now, to get an unimaginary cold temperature, you've got to start with a positive temperature that is cold.
So 4 degrees is cold; furthermore, it is unimaginary, since even if you take a square root you will not get an imaginary number.
Please destroy your Geek card now. You are not worthy.
That's a little harsh for a first-time offense.
I move that he must hand in his Geek card, but can apply for reinstatment at a later date provided that:
1. He has disassembled and reassembled a Cleo without referring to the documentation 2. He can recite the Wrath of Khan, the Princess Bride, and the Holy Grail from memory 3. He provides proof that he has lived in his mother's basement for at least 6 months prior to the date of the application.
Then we can vote on his reinstatement.
Seriously, though... What if he's a theoretical mathematics geek? Then he'd be like, 4 layers away from being required to know about this robot. Did you bother to think of that?!
No, no, Jackie Chan can't be the Mandarin. He's got to be a quirky good guy, maybe we can fit him in. And Zac Efron? Puh-lease...
Revised cast list:
The Mandarin: Chow Yun-Fat Peter Parker: Jake Gyllenhaal Mary Jane (option 1): Maggie Gyllenhaal (for some Luke-Leia weirdness) Mary Jane (option 2): the cross-dressed resurrected corpse of Heath Ledger for some Brokeback Mandarin action Tony Stark: Robert Downey Jr, but in his most drug-addled condition. Jim Rhodes: Jackie Chan in blackface
The reason the Pacific Ocean floor is newer is because it's still actively growing quickly as the surrounding plates move away. So while the Atlantic is newer than the Pacific, the *floor* of the Pacific is generally newer than the floor of the Atlantic.
So, in a sense, the parent was correct, but only in a limited sense.
Because Korporate AmeriKa hasn't offshored ALL the jobs to China yet
KAK ALL?
What exactly are you trying to spell? I don't understand.
Oh... you're trying to make a reference that corporate America is like the Soviet Union. Which makes absolutely no sense. If you're going to use the Russki "K" reference, at least make sure that it's in reference to some kind of fascism, otherwise it's just plain out of context.
Geez. Let me give you a hint: if you want to troll, at least be a *good* troll. You know, add something to the slashdot experience, instead of making no sense. You've been on slashdot long enough that you should have graduated past simple trolls like that. Why not challenge yourself to be the best troll you can be?
Maybe one day you may just find that you've had an original thought.
Oh, come one, that's just what they want you to believe.
It's actually the Chinese pretending to be a New Yorker pretending to be the Chinese business mafia.
It all comes down to logic. Are they the kind of criminals that would initiate the attacks from someone else's IP address block, or have they deduced that we would see through the ruse and would therefore host the attacks from their own IP address block?
It appears we have made one of the classic blunders, which is never get involved in a technical war in asia.
My guess is it's probably someone looking for inside information on investigations of financial companies in New York. That's where there are hundreds of millions to be made.
That was exactly my point, and why I referenced the ratio of reps to constituents in my OP.
Direct accountability to people is gone, now it is accountability to media that matters... and since the media are all owned by supercorps, we are well and truly fucked.
And who pays the debt service on the buildout costs?
Sure, the actual operating costs are covered by the sales revenue, but what about the rest of the costs?
One of the articles quoted around $30 million to build out the infrastructure... even at 5%, that's debt service of $1.5 MM a year, without touching the principal... and their revenues are something like 3.6 MM a year.
I'd love to see if their marginal costs are actually less than $58/mo per subscriber, which is what they'd need to service the debt and break even without taxpayer aid.
Oh, someone else who failed Econ 101 by failing to remember the difference between accounting profits and economic profits.
Ah, someone who forgot what an ideal free market is.
An ideal free market removes opportunity costs, since all ventures are equally (non)profitable, thus bringing accounting profit in line with economic profit.
I'm not sure why you feel you disagree with me here... one of my major points was that there has been a failure of the public to oversee their elected officials.
The only thing anathema to a free market is coercion.
Becuase it is government that is acting, there is coercion involved. Anyone dissenting is forced to participate (via taxes on the debt service on the bonds for the initial buildout (of what, some $30 MM?)).
Government intervention in the market, whether as a primary actor, or via impact (regulatory) on a primary actor, is anathema to a free-market idealist.
We let that sort of thing happen every time we concede more and more to the government in terms of providing services for us. With all of the extra money and the ability to represent everyone, you suddenly realize that corps don't have to care what individuals want any more, they only have to care what the government wants.
Hogwash. We let that sort of thing happen every time we concede more and more to the corporations in terms of regulation and oversight.
The problem is not big government providing services. The problem is failure of public (government) oversight and regulation. And the reason this has happened is because the public has handed control of their government to the big corporations, by failure to exercise due diligence in electing officials, and the failure to practice due diligence in overseeing the actions of their elected officials. Largely this is an issue of scale -- on average, a US Representative is responsible for something like 560,000 constituents. There is no way to have personal accountability. Even on the state level, it's impossible. NC, the state in question here, has 50 assembly members for a pop of 8 MM -- that's 160,000 constituents per Assemblyman.
No, my fried, the problem is not allowing the government to provide services. The problem is allowing the government to NOT oversee and regulate monolithic corporate entities.
Even if we had a small government that didn't get involved so much, we'd still have the problem of the government being bought by corporations... it would be even worse than now, since in some cases the government can and does provide cheaper and better service than private entities would.
But a government-run business charging break-even prices is not fair competition for any business.
So?
Seriously, if the people choose to provide the services themselves, why should they be prohibited from doing so?
I know, it's anathema to free-market idealists, but the end result is... better, cheaper service.
TWC does not have a right to make a profit. No entity does. If they can't compete with government-provided service, then they should rightly have no presence in the market.
Unless of course, you choose to ignore the economics of the issue... please recall from Econ 101 that in an ideal free market, profits will approach zero anyway. TWCs profit is a sign of market inefficiency. The ideal outcome is for both (or more) competitors to fight over minimal profit.
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It's not just about the filter catching false-positives...
It's also about the fact that using this filter borks *other* functionality of the slashcode. That's my biggest problem with it.
A filter should only select for the intended filtering criteria. In this case, we have a filter which selects on a superset of the intended filtering criteria. Very bad.
There's gotta be a Firefox add-on that censors profanity from text... that would be a far better option than a poorly implemented blacklist.
OK, so I looked briefly for such an add-on, and the only one I saw had poor reviews (uneditable blacklist of words, plus the words would display for a couple seconds before being replaced by ***).
I wonder if anyone is aware of such an add-on...
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That's what Profanity Blacklist is for.
Just be forewarned... this will bork your views of plenty of other posters, not just people who have posted profanity.
Any foe of any of your friends will be hard for you to see... like many slashdotters, I have friends whose foes are people whose posts I do not wish to have a negative "moderation" applied.
Profanity Blacklist breaks the utility of the friend/foe system for other purposes.
Not that anyone who uses Profanity Blacklist will ever read this post, since on occasion I use profanity.
Duh. Small PCs make small packets, which are far less likely to clog the tubes.
My question is, since when is 1.9 million PCs a megabotnet?
A botnet by definition needs at least four PCs (since otherwise it's a botpoint, botlinesegment, or bottriangle -- you can hardly catch fish with a "net" without cross-segments, which you need at least four nodes to make). So a megabotnet needs (1 million)*4 == 4 million PCs.
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It's very easy to get unimaginably cold numbers, unless you are using Kelvins.
Say your temperature is -64 degrees.
Now take the square root of that.
What you have left is a temperature of 8i degrees.
So we have an imaginary temperature.
Now, to get an unimaginary cold temperature, you've got to start with a positive temperature that is cold.
So 4 degrees is cold; furthermore, it is unimaginary, since even if you take a square root you will not get an imaginary number.
There is no problem with that statement.
I neither care about nor need karma.
Moderations should be made accurately, not some other fashion to game the karma system.
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NOT informative. I answered nothing not gleanable from the first few lines of the summary. It was a setup for a piss-poor attempt at Friday humor.
I swear, sometimes I feel like I have a "Mod me up inappropriately" note taped to my back.
Not much. Being able to create Rydberg molecules via physical experiment just serves to help validate the theories that predict them.
Now if they had created Zoidberg molecules, the implications would be huge, particularly in the realm of Decapodian cell biology.
That's a little harsh for a first-time offense.
I move that he must hand in his Geek card, but can apply for reinstatment at a later date provided that:
1. He has disassembled and reassembled a Cleo without referring to the documentation
2. He can recite the Wrath of Khan, the Princess Bride, and the Holy Grail from memory
3. He provides proof that he has lived in his mother's basement for at least 6 months prior to the date of the application.
Then we can vote on his reinstatement.
Seriously, though... What if he's a theoretical mathematics geek? Then he'd be like, 4 layers away from being required to know about this robot. Did you bother to think of that?!
Sorry for the tyopes, I'm posting this from my balckbrery.
I tried to insert a beer tehre, but the olny thing taht hapepned is i got beer all ovre my laptpo.
Perhpas it would have bene better to use $BEVERAGE insteda fo giving bad instrutcions?
660 million?
Pitiful.
Hey, guess what OS the stock exchanges of NY, London, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Tokyo, etc are built on?
If you REALLY want to talk about world domination, I'd start there instead of some two-bit (ok, 5.3 billion-bit) gold exchange.
No, no, Jackie Chan can't be the Mandarin. He's got to be a quirky good guy, maybe we can fit him in. And Zac Efron? Puh-lease...
Revised cast list:
The Mandarin: Chow Yun-Fat
Peter Parker: Jake Gyllenhaal
Mary Jane (option 1): Maggie Gyllenhaal (for some Luke-Leia weirdness)
Mary Jane (option 2): the cross-dressed resurrected corpse of Heath Ledger for some Brokeback Mandarin action
Tony Stark: Robert Downey Jr, but in his most drug-addled condition.
Jim Rhodes: Jackie Chan in blackface
Only then would we give the Triads true justice.
No, you are right.
The reason the Pacific Ocean floor is newer is because it's still actively growing quickly as the surrounding plates move away. So while the Atlantic is newer than the Pacific, the *floor* of the Pacific is generally newer than the floor of the Atlantic.
So, in a sense, the parent was correct, but only in a limited sense.
KAK ALL?
What exactly are you trying to spell? I don't understand.
Oh... you're trying to make a reference that corporate America is like the Soviet Union. Which makes absolutely no sense. If you're going to use the Russki "K" reference, at least make sure that it's in reference to some kind of fascism, otherwise it's just plain out of context.
Geez.
Let me give you a hint: if you want to troll, at least be a *good* troll. You know, add something to the slashdot experience, instead of making no sense. You've been on slashdot long enough that you should have graduated past simple trolls like that. Why not challenge yourself to be the best troll you can be?
Maybe one day you may just find that you've had an original thought.
Oh, come one, that's just what they want you to believe.
It's actually the Chinese pretending to be a New Yorker pretending to be the Chinese business mafia.
It all comes down to logic. Are they the kind of criminals that would initiate the attacks from someone else's IP address block, or have they deduced that we would see through the ruse and would therefore host the attacks from their own IP address block?
It appears we have made one of the classic blunders, which is never get involved in a technical war in asia.
My guess is it's probably someone looking for inside information on investigations of financial companies in New York. That's where there are hundreds of millions to be made.
That was exactly my point, and why I referenced the ratio of reps to constituents in my OP.
Direct accountability to people is gone, now it is accountability to media that matters... and since the media are all owned by supercorps, we are well and truly fucked.
I know, I'm sorry I fell for it by arguing it with the person who originally brought it up.
And who pays the debt service on the buildout costs?
Sure, the actual operating costs are covered by the sales revenue, but what about the rest of the costs?
One of the articles quoted around $30 million to build out the infrastructure... even at 5%, that's debt service of $1.5 MM a year, without touching the principal... and their revenues are something like 3.6 MM a year.
I'd love to see if their marginal costs are actually less than $58/mo per subscriber, which is what they'd need to service the debt and break even without taxpayer aid.
Ah, someone who forgot what an ideal free market is.
An ideal free market removes opportunity costs, since all ventures are equally (non)profitable, thus bringing accounting profit in line with economic profit.
In an ideal free market there is no difference between economic profit and accounting profit, as there is no opportunity cost.
All potential ventures equilibriate to zero profit.
Are you truly an economist, that you forgot this?
I'm not sure why you feel you disagree with me here... one of my major points was that there has been a failure of the public to oversee their elected officials.
Becuase it is government that is acting, there is coercion involved. Anyone dissenting is forced to participate (via taxes on the debt service on the bonds for the initial buildout (of what, some $30 MM?)).
Government intervention in the market, whether as a primary actor, or via impact (regulatory) on a primary actor, is anathema to a free-market idealist.
Hogwash. We let that sort of thing happen every time we concede more and more to the corporations in terms of regulation and oversight.
The problem is not big government providing services. The problem is failure of public (government) oversight and regulation. And the reason this has happened is because the public has handed control of their government to the big corporations, by failure to exercise due diligence in electing officials, and the failure to practice due diligence in overseeing the actions of their elected officials. Largely this is an issue of scale -- on average, a US Representative is responsible for something like 560,000 constituents. There is no way to have personal accountability. Even on the state level, it's impossible. NC, the state in question here, has 50 assembly members for a pop of 8 MM -- that's 160,000 constituents per Assemblyman.
No, my fried, the problem is not allowing the government to provide services. The problem is allowing the government to NOT oversee and regulate monolithic corporate entities.
Even if we had a small government that didn't get involved so much, we'd still have the problem of the government being bought by corporations... it would be even worse than now, since in some cases the government can and does provide cheaper and better service than private entities would.
So?
Seriously, if the people choose to provide the services themselves, why should they be prohibited from doing so?
I know, it's anathema to free-market idealists, but the end result is... better, cheaper service.
TWC does not have a right to make a profit. No entity does. If they can't compete with government-provided service, then they should rightly have no presence in the market.
Unless of course, you choose to ignore the economics of the issue... please recall from Econ 101 that in an ideal free market, profits will approach zero anyway. TWCs profit is a sign of market inefficiency. The ideal outcome is for both (or more) competitors to fight over minimal profit.
It's not just about the filter catching false-positives...
It's also about the fact that using this filter borks *other* functionality of the slashcode. That's my biggest problem with it.
A filter should only select for the intended filtering criteria. In this case, we have a filter which selects on a superset of the intended filtering criteria. Very bad.
There's gotta be a Firefox add-on that censors profanity from text... that would be a far better option than a poorly implemented blacklist.
OK, so I looked briefly for such an add-on, and the only one I saw had poor reviews (uneditable blacklist of words, plus the words would display for a couple seconds before being replaced by ***).
I wonder if anyone is aware of such an add-on...
Just be forewarned... this will bork your views of plenty of other posters, not just people who have posted profanity.
Any foe of any of your friends will be hard for you to see... like many slashdotters, I have friends whose foes are people whose posts I do not wish to have a negative "moderation" applied.
Profanity Blacklist breaks the utility of the friend/foe system for other purposes.
Not that anyone who uses Profanity Blacklist will ever read this post, since on occasion I use profanity.
Fuckers.
Mebibotnet, mebibotnetnot -- only time will tell.
Seriously, wtf? Insightful?
That was a complete tongue-in-cheek post...
Wish I could *whoosh* the moderator(s).
Duh. Small PCs make small packets, which are far less likely to clog the tubes.
My question is, since when is 1.9 million PCs a megabotnet?
A botnet by definition needs at least four PCs (since otherwise it's a botpoint, botlinesegment, or bottriangle -- you can hardly catch fish with a "net" without cross-segments, which you need at least four nodes to make). So a megabotnet needs (1 million)*4 == 4 million PCs.
Sheesh.