I know this may sound strange, but... was there a point to your off-topic grammar corrections then? I simply like to know so I can avoid continuing troll conversations.
"might be 0.999...", but it will never be 1. In fact, it would never even reach 0.999... except on some computer statistical printout, and even then due to a math error. Survivability is never equal to 1. If you are one who believes 0.999... = 1, then survivability is never equal to 0.999... either.
The reason I use 0.999... (which you would know the contraversy around it, and would therefore know why I used it and not 1) is to point to the fallacy to say 0.999... = 1, and that is the same whereby a scientist might "guarantee" survivability simply because the statistics appear to be radically in favor of that conclusion.
The HTC Incredible was a real contender, and the Droid X stole its thunder. I know, because I switched. The Incredible had one of the loudest speakers I'd ever heard (music) and I prefer soft buttons, not the plastic junk on Droid X. But, I had 2 speakers actually blow. For free, I was able to switch to the Droid X with its larger screen. But the Incredible was a joy to hold and use.
HTC sees an opening here to jump ahead of the competition. HTC has no real stake in caring about Cyanogen root users. The phone companies do, because of not being able to charge for tethering and other locked down features not available to non-root users.
But it doesn't matter to HTC. They sell the hardware and design, and if you get the geeks raging about something that costs you nothing, it may give you an edge.
I have no phone loyalty yet. Most don't. If HTC stays open, I will most likely switch to them when I upgrade in about 3 more generations. They're all android, and all settings and apps import, so Android phones can't vendor lock very well.
Just because you have a customer now, Moto, doesn't mean anything come renewal time and $100 rebates on new phones.
This is where the minuscule, niche group of users who make up less than.5% of all your customers will go when their current contracts expire or when they just get fed up with all of the great options on everyone else's phones other than yours.
You're thinking patents, I think. Someone sued Lucas over Star Wars copyrights, and lost, iirc. The reason they tried to use was that it had become a common cultural icon. One could say the same thing about Coca-Cola or Disney characters. But neither are in danger of losing their copyrights.
Mickey Mouse is seen everywhere as well. But if you were to take a picture of a tshirt with the Mickey Mouse logo on it, then that photo would possibly be in violation of copyright. It is effectively a reproduction. Of course, it depends a lot on the context of a photo. If you photograph your family at Disney World in front of the castle, which is copyrighted, you are likely allowed to use it to give to family.
However, the question in this case, to me, is more like trying to copyright Times Square or any other well known place. This case will rest mostly on whether or not NYSE has a valid copyright. IANAL
Fear not, the Hivemind will provide for all our needs. Quite simply, the first order of business will be a subdomain mirroring service:
Courts block "takendown.com", dnscache.com will point takendown.com.dnscache.com to the correct record it has cached.
When dnscache.com is taken offline, host files will be distributed containing dnscache.com and other major cache providers by hand. Mirrors will launch by the millions, including on smartphones.
Twitter will start going wild with "takendown.com 123.45.67.89 dnscache.com 123.54.76.98 #protectip #beiber #gaga".
And within 72-96 hours, a few smart hackers will have already constructed an Alpha version of a Decentralized DNS network for quick cache deployment of blocked domains. It will not supplant DNS, but rather, only cover blocked sites so as not to be traffic intensive.
Universities around the world will start running the D-DNS network. Some, unnamed anonymous group, can't remember it's name, will probably retaliate against the prosecutor, court, government, and registar responsible.
The Hivemind responds quickly, and usually, effectively.
We don't necessarily need a plan. We are the plan.
There is a major difference between staying you don't know if there will be a quake and stating there will not be a quake. The Weather Channel never says "There will be no tornadoes in Joliet today."
Actually, no. If the Weather channel predicts a path for a storm on a line, and the storm changes direction unexpectedly (which does happen), it would be the same situation. There is a common sense presumption that mother nature is, by nature, unpredictable. Tornadoes can form out of clear skies and strike any time of year, even in winter. The chance of surviving a tornado on any given day might be 0.999..., but there are no guarantees, ever.
Trusting anyone, ESPECIALLY a seismologist to have an infallible prediction is quite possibly a symptom of insanity. Anyone living in San Fransisco would know that.
Diebold? You mean the people who control our electronic voting machines which controls our entire government and way of life? Wow, that makes me feel all warm and snuggly about lax Diebold security and auditting.
She discovered it upon reflecting that women lie about their weight. The missing mass is discovered by asking the husband when he is too drunk to know better than to be honest.
April Fools is over 10 months away... But this has to be a joke. I know Europe often have kangaroo courts, but this is ridiculous! Are we going to charge The Weather Channel for hurricane and tornado deaths now?
There needs to be a disclaimer on every weather and planetary report, "Warning, you could die of an 'act of god' today for no other reason that you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. This broadcast makes no guarantees of safety. Consult a doctor before taking action. No batteries included. See store for details."
After all the scandals in France and Italy over these past few years, this lowers my view of Italy to a new low, like some back water country performing witch trials.
To most people, if you say "Amazon", all they think is "books". The in-the-know geeks know them for EC2, and understand Amazon has some Skynet master plan going on. But Amazon always seems to look like they are playing nice. They'll make their apps work on everyone elses phones and tablets, and they'll be coy, and not come out with a real color tablet. I think that makes the average person underestimate just what they do. Even their product launches are very low key events, and nobody is screaming "Ooo, what do you think the next Kindle will have?" Their predictability has lulled companies around them to sleep, almost laughing at them with their lackluster consumer products, and they like it that way.
Underneath, even beyond what we see, I imagine them to be rather ready to feast on the dead carcasses of Apple and Google. I personally root for them. They seem to focus more on what the customer wants, rather than going, "Look how impressive we are, join our cult following!"
But Reid attached it to some unrelated bill to avoid any debate.
How does that feel, Nevada?
Are you looking at it backwards, perhaps? It sounds like Reid was trying to help the bill he attached it to, assuming he thought it would pass without debate... probably because the other bill involved spending, and that's how you get spending bills passed. Republicans would never vote down the Patriot Act, so this helped the other bill, rather than the other way around.
This isn't new, but I'm glad they've done this. People do this all day long where I work. They "benchmarked" all of our paper, inks, etc. to industry standards. After all, we run a professional high volume printing shop as part of what we do. This just brought some of the tools we use down to the consumer level and wrote it up for the casual user to understand and limited the paper significantly. The actual range of paper is nearly as great as the range of colors available, not to mention other printable surfaces.
I think this article is a great read. Most home users have no idea how much paper matters. There is a reason why prices vary so much at your local store. Good paper costs good money. Forget pictures, think of your resume. If you want to make an impression, don't go with cheap copier paper unless you also show up to your interview wearing a wrinkled tshirt and sweatpants. AFAIK, the greatest artists didn't paint on toilet paper either.
I think this is the correct angle to look at. The brain works on electro-chemical. This use of two pathways could mimic quantum properties of randomness. Now, our thinking is probably not based on quarks, but what a wonderful discovery if, how solar systems mimic atomic structure, electro-chemical consciousness mimics string theory!
It's an interesting theory in the making. It's an avenue to explore. It is a hypothesis. Designing experiments to prove or disprove this hypothesis will be successful, even if they fail, because it will teach us something more about the mind. If nothing else, it forces us to look at it from a new angle.
For the author of this post to say "Fallacy!" is to give up before trying.
Apple provoked this. Apple released a tablet and is trying to do with books what it did with music via iTunes. Google has also provoked this. Amazon is smart enough to not sit around selling paperbacks to college kids.
Nobody really thinks about Amazon as a powerhouse. They always look like the underdog. But, they are the undisputed kings of online sales. They may not really know tablets, even though the kindle is wildly successful. They may not know personal computers. But they do know online sales and they definitely know software. Between their search algorithms which are arguably the best ever based on user data and their datacenters, they have an extremely powerful base to move into the Web 3.0 space of SaaS.
They've been selling online content successfully via the kindle. They understand wireless sync, cloud, and 1-click sales. They also know how to work with publishers on par with Apple's dealings with the music industry. So, rather than bashing them as a late comer, Google and Apple had better show it a little respect. It quite possibly may be the leader in this game. And if Apple ignores their direction and momentum, like RIM ignored Apple for so long, Apple will find itself trapped in an Amazon walled garden.
If Apple is a design genius, Amazon is a sales & distribution genius. This looks to be a wonderful match up!
TFA was TLDR, but a quick question to those of you with knowledge to understand this... Did a particular language help? Does this work on all languages? Are some languages more secure than others?
IE - Esperanto - Easy to break, but languages with Click Consonants are harder?
Slashdot Mirror
I know this may sound strange, but... was there a point to your off-topic grammar corrections then? I simply like to know so I can avoid continuing troll conversations.
"might be 0.999...", but it will never be 1. In fact, it would never even reach 0.999... except on some computer statistical printout, and even then due to a math error. Survivability is never equal to 1. If you are one who believes 0.999... = 1, then survivability is never equal to 0.999... either.
The reason I use 0.999... (which you would know the contraversy around it, and would therefore know why I used it and not 1) is to point to the fallacy to say 0.999... = 1, and that is the same whereby a scientist might "guarantee" survivability simply because the statistics appear to be radically in favor of that conclusion.
Where X = survivability of a tornado on any given day,
0.999...X != 1X
That is an "absolute" mathematical function showing a "no guarantee" situation. Do you still find it contradictory?
I like your irony there. However, it's ok to laugh at some people in cages. ;)
The HTC Incredible was a real contender, and the Droid X stole its thunder. I know, because I switched. The Incredible had one of the loudest speakers I'd ever heard (music) and I prefer soft buttons, not the plastic junk on Droid X. But, I had 2 speakers actually blow. For free, I was able to switch to the Droid X with its larger screen. But the Incredible was a joy to hold and use.
HTC sees an opening here to jump ahead of the competition. HTC has no real stake in caring about Cyanogen root users. The phone companies do, because of not being able to charge for tethering and other locked down features not available to non-root users.
But it doesn't matter to HTC. They sell the hardware and design, and if you get the geeks raging about something that costs you nothing, it may give you an edge.
I have no phone loyalty yet. Most don't. If HTC stays open, I will most likely switch to them when I upgrade in about 3 more generations. They're all android, and all settings and apps import, so Android phones can't vendor lock very well.
Just because you have a customer now, Moto, doesn't mean anything come renewal time and $100 rebates on new phones.
This is where the minuscule, niche group of users who make up less than .5% of all your customers will go when their current contracts expire or when they just get fed up with all of the great options on everyone else's phones other than yours.
They're called developers.
You're thinking patents, I think. Someone sued Lucas over Star Wars copyrights, and lost, iirc. The reason they tried to use was that it had become a common cultural icon. One could say the same thing about Coca-Cola or Disney characters. But neither are in danger of losing their copyrights.
Mickey Mouse is seen everywhere as well. But if you were to take a picture of a tshirt with the Mickey Mouse logo on it, then that photo would possibly be in violation of copyright. It is effectively a reproduction. Of course, it depends a lot on the context of a photo. If you photograph your family at Disney World in front of the castle, which is copyrighted, you are likely allowed to use it to give to family.
However, the question in this case, to me, is more like trying to copyright Times Square or any other well known place. This case will rest mostly on whether or not NYSE has a valid copyright. IANAL
Fear not, the Hivemind will provide for all our needs. Quite simply, the first order of business will be a subdomain mirroring service:
Courts block "takendown.com", dnscache.com will point takendown.com.dnscache.com to the correct record it has cached.
When dnscache.com is taken offline, host files will be distributed containing dnscache.com and other major cache providers by hand. Mirrors will launch by the millions, including on smartphones.
Twitter will start going wild with "takendown.com 123.45.67.89 dnscache.com 123.54.76.98 #protectip #beiber #gaga".
And within 72-96 hours, a few smart hackers will have already constructed an Alpha version of a Decentralized DNS network for quick cache deployment of blocked domains. It will not supplant DNS, but rather, only cover blocked sites so as not to be traffic intensive.
Universities around the world will start running the D-DNS network. Some, unnamed anonymous group, can't remember it's name, will probably retaliate against the prosecutor, court, government, and registar responsible.
The Hivemind responds quickly, and usually, effectively.
We don't necessarily need a plan. We are the plan.
The USA has plenty of bad courts as well.
Didn't say the USA didn't.
There is a major difference between staying you don't know if there will be a quake and stating there will not be a quake. The Weather Channel never says "There will be no tornadoes in Joliet today."
Actually, no. If the Weather channel predicts a path for a storm on a line, and the storm changes direction unexpectedly (which does happen), it would be the same situation. There is a common sense presumption that mother nature is, by nature, unpredictable. Tornadoes can form out of clear skies and strike any time of year, even in winter. The chance of surviving a tornado on any given day might be 0.999..., but there are no guarantees, ever.
Trusting anyone, ESPECIALLY a seismologist to have an infallible prediction is quite possibly a symptom of insanity. Anyone living in San Fransisco would know that.
Diebold? You mean the people who control our electronic voting machines which controls our entire government and way of life? Wow, that makes me feel all warm and snuggly about lax Diebold security and auditting.
Live by the *bleep*, die by the *bleep*... if you know what I mean. ;)
Trolling comes in at a close second.
And thus was born TubGirl and Goatse the art of trolling porn, and with it, Rule 34.
Scientists today are working to combine it all with bacon, which makes everything better.
In space, no one can hear a Greased Up Deaf Guy scream.
She discovered it upon reflecting that women lie about their weight. The missing mass is discovered by asking the husband when he is too drunk to know better than to be honest.
Yes, universe, that dress DOES make you look fat.
April Fools is over 10 months away... But this has to be a joke. I know Europe often have kangaroo courts, but this is ridiculous! Are we going to charge The Weather Channel for hurricane and tornado deaths now?
There needs to be a disclaimer on every weather and planetary report, "Warning, you could die of an 'act of god' today for no other reason that you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. This broadcast makes no guarantees of safety. Consult a doctor before taking action. No batteries included. See store for details."
After all the scandals in France and Italy over these past few years, this lowers my view of Italy to a new low, like some back water country performing witch trials.
To most people, if you say "Amazon", all they think is "books". The in-the-know geeks know them for EC2, and understand Amazon has some Skynet master plan going on. But Amazon always seems to look like they are playing nice. They'll make their apps work on everyone elses phones and tablets, and they'll be coy, and not come out with a real color tablet. I think that makes the average person underestimate just what they do. Even their product launches are very low key events, and nobody is screaming "Ooo, what do you think the next Kindle will have?" Their predictability has lulled companies around them to sleep, almost laughing at them with their lackluster consumer products, and they like it that way.
Underneath, even beyond what we see, I imagine them to be rather ready to feast on the dead carcasses of Apple and Google. I personally root for them. They seem to focus more on what the customer wants, rather than going, "Look how impressive we are, join our cult following!"
But Reid attached it to some unrelated bill to avoid any debate.
How does that feel, Nevada?
Are you looking at it backwards, perhaps? It sounds like Reid was trying to help the bill he attached it to, assuming he thought it would pass without debate... probably because the other bill involved spending, and that's how you get spending bills passed. Republicans would never vote down the Patriot Act, so this helped the other bill, rather than the other way around.
This isn't new, but I'm glad they've done this. People do this all day long where I work. They "benchmarked" all of our paper, inks, etc. to industry standards. After all, we run a professional high volume printing shop as part of what we do. This just brought some of the tools we use down to the consumer level and wrote it up for the casual user to understand and limited the paper significantly. The actual range of paper is nearly as great as the range of colors available, not to mention other printable surfaces.
I think this article is a great read. Most home users have no idea how much paper matters. There is a reason why prices vary so much at your local store. Good paper costs good money. Forget pictures, think of your resume. If you want to make an impression, don't go with cheap copier paper unless you also show up to your interview wearing a wrinkled tshirt and sweatpants. AFAIK, the greatest artists didn't paint on toilet paper either.
SSDD, SOP, SNAFU, FUBAR, and the usual other acronyms to describe our government.
I think this is the correct angle to look at. The brain works on electro-chemical. This use of two pathways could mimic quantum properties of randomness. Now, our thinking is probably not based on quarks, but what a wonderful discovery if, how solar systems mimic atomic structure, electro-chemical consciousness mimics string theory!
It's an interesting theory in the making. It's an avenue to explore. It is a hypothesis. Designing experiments to prove or disprove this hypothesis will be successful, even if they fail, because it will teach us something more about the mind. If nothing else, it forces us to look at it from a new angle.
For the author of this post to say "Fallacy!" is to give up before trying.
Apple provoked this. Apple released a tablet and is trying to do with books what it did with music via iTunes. Google has also provoked this. Amazon is smart enough to not sit around selling paperbacks to college kids.
Nobody really thinks about Amazon as a powerhouse. They always look like the underdog. But, they are the undisputed kings of online sales. They may not really know tablets, even though the kindle is wildly successful. They may not know personal computers. But they do know online sales and they definitely know software. Between their search algorithms which are arguably the best ever based on user data and their datacenters, they have an extremely powerful base to move into the Web 3.0 space of SaaS.
They've been selling online content successfully via the kindle. They understand wireless sync, cloud, and 1-click sales. They also know how to work with publishers on par with Apple's dealings with the music industry. So, rather than bashing them as a late comer, Google and Apple had better show it a little respect. It quite possibly may be the leader in this game. And if Apple ignores their direction and momentum, like RIM ignored Apple for so long, Apple will find itself trapped in an Amazon walled garden.
If Apple is a design genius, Amazon is a sales & distribution genius. This looks to be a wonderful match up!
It does, they just changed their minds on whether they want them fondled.
TFA was TLDR, but a quick question to those of you with knowledge to understand this... Did a particular language help? Does this work on all languages? Are some languages more secure than others?
IE - Esperanto - Easy to break, but languages with Click Consonants are harder?
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Mod up parent! Thanks!