The patent specifically mentions kW*H in reference to the 52.220 number.
I assume you were just trying to be smart and correct the summary thinking it was a typo. However, a kW*H is a valid unit of measurement.
In fact you could use them interchangably but it would give the very wrong idea as they measure different things.
A watt is one joule of energy flow over a second. so a KW would be 1000 joules of energy flow over 1 second. A KW*H is a flow of a kilowatt continuously over an hour, therefore it would be a flow of 1000 joules over 3600 seconds.
So to recap: 1 kw = 1000 joules/sec 1 kw*h = 1000 joules/sec * 3600 seconds
If you were just going to measure the total energy usage, you'd have to keep it just in joules, in which case 52.220 KWH would be 187,992,000.
So yeah, big difference caused by little changes in notation. Of course i haven't done electricity in ages so i probably oversimplified somewhere and fubar'd up.
That's like saying newsweek, the new york times, or a manga isn't a form of literature. Sure it's not traditional, but it is.
And you will find VERY VERY few people who would back you up saying that Zork wasn't a video game.
You are using the age old trick of "Oh it's on the internet, therefore it's something else". No, it's not. Just because multiple people can play it and it doesn't have graphics does NOT mean it's not a video game.
Also, if you're going to get that technical, at least use the right terminal. Don't capitalize MUDs and not capitalize MUXs, MOOs, and MUSHs. They all stand for something.
as the sharks bludgeon themselves on the sides of the tunnel, being unable to plug their ears as scientists incessently torture them with 90s remakes that completely lack christmas spirit.
Yeah, but remember the old addage? Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and thermonuclear war.
Just because they don't get killed by the blast, doesn't mean the earth won't be completely covered in radiation. Hell, even if only a few bombs go off, with the yield we have today it still could be enough to irradiate the ocean. and then we're just boned.
I'd fight that. Not because i have something against game degrees, it's just i have something seriously against the utter shitty programming i see turned out by a lot of people who claim they are "CS" majors.
Sorry, but when i think of CS, i think of someone who has a CLUE about why something would be inefficient, why efficiency matters, or even the basic structure of what they're working with.
Unfortunately it seems i'm in the minority, and a lot of professors(not most, but not a minority, also i use the term professor loosely) seem to have less understanding of some of the systems of basic efficienty than some right-minded and motivated freshmen.
So yeah, can a person taught with a game degree be a great programmer? Yes, but that's not due to the degree. That's mostly due to them wanting the knowledge.
The degree, when put to most people, puts out mediocre programmers who produce bad code. Which is ok when you think of it as something you put the artists through so they have some clue about how the programmers work, and let them incorporate that into their artistic designs. But when you give it to an artist and expect them to put out the entire game themselves..... it falls apart. badly.
Of course IPV6 is seeing a lot of use in those areas.
Everyone knows that everything spreads faster in africa!:P
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Let me be the first to point out what everyone's been thinking.
Thank. You. RIAA. Morons.
I mean, honestly. We all are acting all high and mighty, but what we're really thinking is, "What IDIOT up there thought it would be a good idea to sue one of the most competent, intelligent, LAWYERS who has already expressed a will to fight against their unsound tactics"
Lets take odds, who wants to bet they try to pull out of this the minute someone realizes what they just did, and someone is definitly getting sacked.
Your problem is you didn't mess with non default. Which as anyone knows, default will not get you the best in 95%+ of cases.
I have an HTC-6800 (mogul for sprint users, titan/ppc-800 for others). The built in I.E. sucks, but if you put opera mini on it, it works wonderfully. Add to that wifi and a bigger ability to customize than the iphone, and i'm quite happy with it. Non quirky gps is also a plus.
They aren't arbitrarily billing the company for their time because the company makes changes they dislike.
They are billing the company for the time they spend getting their money back when the company tries to charge them for texts the company forwards to them without their permission or want.
It's basically like me hitting you with a brick, then saying give me a dollar because you got hit with a brick
I might be wrong, but given the trend of games, I am gonna be very skeptical if square-enix can keep the quality of the game up while making it cross-platform.
A good portion of the smoothness, graphically and gameplay wise, was from the fact that the developers knew their system and how to program with it. Odds are that goes out the window and it gets degraded to craptastic quality to meet the "crossplatformm" requirement.
Slashdotters are desperate but come on... a 7 digit UID? I think even having boobs might not quite save you from that to put you in the eyes of the nerds.:)
No one's done anything that is both efficient, accurate, and smart enough that it makes money.
The minute you can make a program that can do it, you have, essentially, a "forumla" for the stock market.
While the formula may be hugely complex, if such a formula exists, it's kinda self destroying, because the stock market exists in a way because there is no formula.
The best you can do is make a psuedo-ai that can make guesses based on data. And again, no one's made a computer good enough at guessing that it makes money.
I hate discovering stuff before the papers...
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Ya know I kinda figured this was common knowledge by now. Or at least common sense to anyone who went through college.
To make it through the required all-nighters or any other binge of staying awake, you eat more food to provide more energy to your body.
Conversely, when you mess up your sleep schedule because of it, it's easy to just skip the meals that day so you goto sleep earlier because you have no energy.
So is the big discovery here that it works this way, or that it's precisely 16 hours and it affects part x of the brain?
I would argue that you are comparing apples to oranges good sir.
A company handing over data about what happens on their network is VASTLY different from the government being able to spy on what a user does in their personal time at home.
You should always assume you have no privacy in a corporate environment, because a company is paying for YOUR time. Therefore if you do anything other than work on that connection/resources, you are just being stupid.
That is like complaining that you work at 7:11 and there's a camera monitoring you, so if the government puts cameras in your home, it's the exact same thing.
Let me give you a little history lesson. Back in the dark ages, ya know, the 90s, there was a little game called Ultima Online.
Heard of it? I hope so, it was one of the original MMORPGs.
Every client ever released for that game had all of it's packets decrypted, and the encryption scheme broken for keys, usually within 24-48 hours. Everytime they updated.
Add to that that people edited the client to do whatever they wanted, sometimes with other programs hooking in and altering packets, others by directly altering the assembly of the client. Many people tried to exploit bugs in the game that way, but most failed, and everytime someone did find one, it was usually fixed relatively quickly. Malformed packets went from "all the rage" and the way to bug up a game to relatively worthless within a span of a month, barring a few new uses that popped up every so often from bad new code introduced.
Having the source code only simplifies this a little for the people who really care, and it doesn't really enable them to do anything they couldn't already.
Oh, also, while i'm at it. Did you know ultima online had a special client for staff characters? And that the binary for that client was leaked as well?
OH NOES! But wait! Ultima online used good security measures and correct privelege systems, so the client was worthless for anything a normal player couldn't do.:)
Summary: This isn't new, and it's happened before on other games. Except in the past most games were already so well understood by their communities that the source would add almost nothing except a little ease and some time saved duplicating a better version of the client when they stop upgrading.
Add to that, if this causes ANY security issue with EVE, then the people who coded the game should get in trouble, not the players. Good coding practices prevent all trouble the code could possibly do. You ARE checking for privelege levels and sanitizing your inputs, right?
Alright, to everyone posting the sarcastic comments wondering whether slashdot is Pro EULA or Anti EULA this week because it's apple and not microsoft, lets try to spell out things that hopefully everyone can agree on.
1. EULAs are pretty much unenforcable in what littel court cases have involved them to any degree.
2. Apple has every right to say that they won't support or vouch for the stability software that isn't running on hardware they approve of.
Beyond that, you can argue how you wish. However that's pretty much what this eula thing boils down to.
Apple makes it a point to ensure stability in their operating system, sometimes at the purported sacrifice of flexible code for hardware they don't sell. But if people want to try to get it working on other hardware, i really don't think apple will mind. If they do, the only reason i could think of it is they're worried about their image as the "cool" and "hip" computers getting tied in with people's hacked together junker computers running MacOS.
Apple cares about image, and it's image is "just works". They use an eula to spell it out, albeit in a nonbinding way.
Most infections actually patch and update machines they infect. Once they get in they seal the door behind them, as well as try to remove any competing infections already on the machine. That way they don't get their zombie stolen from them.
I'll take a stab at your little conundrum here. While your post was very informative, the best I can tell it summarizes to is that google has no reason to keep individual IP data because such data is useless for anything other than marketing and selling to other people.
So, with that in mind, and not taking a stance on whether it's still too personal even with a good reason, lets look at some data mining techniques.
Say for example, you have a region of the midwest united states, the exact middle of the bible belt. For those unfamiliar with the term, that means a place where the christianity is high, and preached loudly, often, and to anyone within earshot, and the ability to be nonchristian is relatively low. But say you have this group of people, and a lot of their searches are of religious material. You could use them as sort of a "expert" group, giving a little more weight to their likes and dislikes as a whole to adjust pagerank for their area of study, religion. This allows for pages that may be far down the list, but accurate and factual, to be pulled up a bit so the rest of the world might find them, and if they truly are good, then they'll stay up there afterwards.
If not, then the page will drop back down in rankings again and it will have earned the low rank it has.
You could not do this without some form of IP/region tracking, and it increases with the accuracy you track IPs. If you track single people, you can get more meaningful data, for example, you can narrow your "expert" group to, for example, pastor brian, sister marian, and sister margarette, and leave out their neighbors druid matterson and buddhist huy ngyen.
This decreases false positives from your expert group and also allows you to more refine where each person might have a good sense of judgement.
That hopefully explains the IP section a bit.
As for timestamps, I only have two theories about them, and both are equally likely.
The first of which is the timestamps are used, in combination with the search terms, to help them optimize the load balancing they use. Since i'm sure they cycle systems onto and off the grid the internet uses, as the systems rebuild databases or do maintenance, you could use such data to tell for example, when you could most likely take the Yak-Yodeling server offline to re-do it's database and crawl pages, and have people get search results from a slightly out of date backup, and minimize the impact from it.
The other option is that there are some results that are time sensitive. Without linking IP data to geographic data, if you notice that an ip range searches for "resturaunts" + dinner at a certain time of day, and you get a search for resturaunts, you might give preference for dinner selections at that time of day, because you could assume they are looking to go eat.
Anyway I hope that clears up a bit on how such specific data is usable and important. Could it be usable in other forms that didn't identify IP? Probably. but it would serve no practical purpose, because as long as they have some system for converting an IP to a unique identifier to identify a group of searches, they will always have a way to reverse or bruteforce the originating IP, given the time and interest on the half of whoever wants it.
WOA! Slow down there. Are you sure you want to make such an obviously inflamatory statement here on slashdot?
Here, let me fix it for you.
"takes the book, the book's arguably been distributed but I clearly haven't made any offer to distribute, the book was merely stolen^W^W^W^W^W^Wcopyright infringed"
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The mailing things to yourself doesn't work pretty much ever.
I told Anubis Markets("Food so good, you can eat it") not to advertise with them! Relaxovision decreased their sales!
And they laughed at my research, well who's laughing now?
So what you're saying is that since the state provides a service, if you could use that service you should pay for it?
How is this different from, oh, say EVERY OTHER STATE SPONSORED SYSTEM IN EXISTENCE for broadcasting.
Yes, you may not use it, but most people don't use all the roads either.
I applaud them for making the technological leap to being able to provide it online and REALIZE that online is the same effective use.
Now, i do have two questions.
Is the cost to distribute online around the same as the TV cost? If so, sure go nuts with it.
Is the license per household like a lot of other state TV licenses. If it's not, i see an issue with it.
IF it's per household and it reflects the cost to run it, i say more power to them.
We should be applauding efforts like this to adapt technologically and that are put forth by people who apparently have a grip on the actual issue.
Not just getting mad because it's a tax. Taxes have purposes. I return to my earlier car analogy of driving on all roads.
How do you figure?
The patent specifically mentions kW*H in reference to the 52.220 number.
I assume you were just trying to be smart and correct the summary thinking it was a typo. However, a kW*H is a valid unit of measurement.
In fact you could use them interchangably but it would give the very wrong idea as they measure different things.
A watt is one joule of energy flow over a second. so a KW would be 1000 joules of energy flow over 1 second.
A KW*H is a flow of a kilowatt continuously over an hour, therefore it would be a flow of 1000 joules over 3600 seconds.
So to recap:
1 kw = 1000 joules/sec
1 kw*h = 1000 joules/sec * 3600 seconds
If you were just going to measure the total energy usage, you'd have to keep it just in joules, in which case 52.220 KWH would be 187,992,000.
So yeah, big difference caused by little changes in notation. Of course i haven't done electricity in ages so i probably oversimplified somewhere and fubar'd up.
Ok no offense but you're full of it.
That's like saying newsweek, the new york times, or a manga isn't a form of literature.
Sure it's not traditional, but it is.
And you will find VERY VERY few people who would back you up saying that Zork wasn't a video game.
You are using the age old trick of "Oh it's on the internet, therefore it's something else". No, it's not. Just because multiple people can play it and it doesn't have graphics does NOT mean it's not a video game.
Also, if you're going to get that technical, at least use the right terminal. Don't capitalize MUDs and not capitalize MUXs, MOOs, and MUSHs. They all stand for something.
as the sharks bludgeon themselves on the sides of the tunnel, being unable to plug their ears as scientists incessently torture them with 90s remakes that completely lack christmas spirit.
Yeah, but remember the old addage?
Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and thermonuclear war.
Just because they don't get killed by the blast, doesn't mean the earth won't be completely covered in radiation. Hell, even if only a few bombs go off, with the yield we have today it still could be enough to irradiate the ocean. and then we're just boned.
I'd fight that.
Not because i have something against game degrees, it's just i have something seriously against the utter shitty programming i see turned out by a lot of people who claim they are "CS" majors.
Sorry, but when i think of CS, i think of someone who has a CLUE about why something would be inefficient, why efficiency matters, or even the basic structure of what they're working with.
Unfortunately it seems i'm in the minority, and a lot of professors(not most, but not a minority, also i use the term professor loosely) seem to have less understanding of some of the systems of basic efficienty than some right-minded and motivated freshmen.
So yeah, can a person taught with a game degree be a great programmer? Yes, but that's not due to the degree. That's mostly due to them wanting the knowledge.
The degree, when put to most people, puts out mediocre programmers who produce bad code. Which is ok when you think of it as something you put the artists through so they have some clue about how the programmers work, and let them incorporate that into their artistic designs. But when you give it to an artist and expect them to put out the entire game themselves..... it falls apart. badly.
Of course IPV6 is seeing a lot of use in those areas.
Everyone knows that everything spreads faster in africa! :P
Disclaimer: I know this was a karma burn... but it was wide open(no pun intended). This joke brought to you by the related news post from today's science.slashdot.org
Ignorant fool!
Everyone knows that the key to intergalactic understanding is knowledge of the location and inner workings of alien plumbing!
Why do you think everytime another intergalactic race stops by here, that they anal prob our hillbillies?
Plumbing inspection, i'm telling you!
R&D: We have this awesome device! And it can tell you everything about anything!
Boss: That sounds great, so what does it say about, say, this test material?
R&D: ....
R&D: We don't know yet. We don't know how to read it yet.
Let me be the first to point out what everyone's been thinking.
Thank.
You.
RIAA.
Morons.
I mean, honestly. We all are acting all high and mighty, but what we're really thinking is,
"What IDIOT up there thought it would be a good idea to sue one of the most competent, intelligent, LAWYERS who has already expressed a will to fight against their unsound tactics"
Lets take odds, who wants to bet they try to pull out of this the minute someone realizes what they just did, and someone is definitly getting sacked.
Your problem is you didn't mess with non default. Which as anyone knows, default will not get you the best in 95%+ of cases.
I have an HTC-6800 (mogul for sprint users, titan/ppc-800 for others). The built in I.E. sucks, but if you put opera mini on it, it works wonderfully. Add to that wifi and a bigger ability to customize than the iphone, and i'm quite happy with it. Non quirky gps is also a plus.
They aren't arbitrarily billing the company for their time because the company makes changes they dislike.
They are billing the company for the time they spend getting their money back when the company tries to charge them for texts the company forwards to them without their permission or want.
It's basically like me hitting you with a brick, then saying give me a dollar because you got hit with a brick
I might be wrong, but given the trend of games, I am gonna be very skeptical if square-enix can keep the quality of the game up while making it cross-platform.
A good portion of the smoothness, graphically and gameplay wise, was from the fact that the developers knew their system and how to program with it. Odds are that goes out the window and it gets degraded to craptastic quality to meet the "crossplatformm" requirement.
Dude. Have some standards.
Slashdotters are desperate but come on... a 7 digit UID? I think even having boobs might not quite save you from that to put you in the eyes of the nerds. :)
Fat chance.
The Playstation still has its rich history bonus from level 2, and at level 3 it's henchen fanboys got upgrades of imdomnitable and unyielding.
Still you might be able to blind it for a bit and throw it onto a cloud.
No one's done anything that is both efficient, accurate, and smart enough that it makes money.
The minute you can make a program that can do it, you have, essentially, a "forumla" for the stock market.
While the formula may be hugely complex, if such a formula exists, it's kinda self destroying, because the stock market exists in a way because there is no formula.
The best you can do is make a psuedo-ai that can make guesses based on data. And again, no one's made a computer good enough at guessing that it makes money.
Ya know I kinda figured this was common knowledge by now. Or at least common sense to anyone who went through college.
To make it through the required all-nighters or any other binge of staying awake, you eat more food to provide more energy to your body.
Conversely, when you mess up your sleep schedule because of it, it's easy to just skip the meals that day so you goto sleep earlier because you have no energy.
So is the big discovery here that it works this way, or that it's precisely 16 hours and it affects part x of the brain?
I would argue that you are comparing apples to oranges good sir.
A company handing over data about what happens on their network is VASTLY different from the government being able to spy on what a user does in their personal time at home.
You should always assume you have no privacy in a corporate environment, because a company is paying for YOUR time. Therefore if you do anything other than work on that connection/resources, you are just being stupid.
That is like complaining that you work at 7:11 and there's a camera monitoring you, so if the government puts cameras in your home, it's the exact same thing.
Let me give you a little history lesson.
:)
Back in the dark ages, ya know, the 90s, there was a little game called Ultima Online.
Heard of it? I hope so, it was one of the original MMORPGs.
Every client ever released for that game had all of it's packets decrypted, and the encryption scheme broken for keys, usually within 24-48 hours. Everytime they updated.
Add to that that people edited the client to do whatever they wanted, sometimes with other programs hooking in and altering packets, others by directly altering the assembly of the client.
Many people tried to exploit bugs in the game that way, but most failed, and everytime someone did find one, it was usually fixed relatively quickly. Malformed packets went from "all the rage" and the way to bug up a game to relatively worthless within a span of a month, barring a few new uses that popped up every so often from bad new code introduced.
Having the source code only simplifies this a little for the people who really care, and it doesn't really enable them to do anything they couldn't already.
Oh, also, while i'm at it. Did you know ultima online had a special client for staff characters? And that the binary for that client was leaked as well?
OH NOES! But wait! Ultima online used good security measures and correct privelege systems, so the client was worthless for anything a normal player couldn't do.
Summary: This isn't new, and it's happened before on other games. Except in the past most games were already so well understood by their communities that the source would add almost nothing except a little ease and some time saved duplicating a better version of the client when they stop upgrading.
Add to that, if this causes ANY security issue with EVE, then the people who coded the game should get in trouble, not the players. Good coding practices prevent all trouble the code could possibly do. You ARE checking for privelege levels and sanitizing your inputs, right?
Alright, to everyone posting the sarcastic comments wondering whether slashdot is Pro EULA or Anti EULA this week because it's apple and not microsoft, lets try to spell out things that hopefully everyone can agree on.
1. EULAs are pretty much unenforcable in what littel court cases have involved them to any degree.
2. Apple has every right to say that they won't support or vouch for the stability software that isn't running on hardware they approve of.
Beyond that, you can argue how you wish. However that's pretty much what this eula thing boils down to.
Apple makes it a point to ensure stability in their operating system, sometimes at the purported sacrifice of flexible code for hardware they don't sell. But if people want to try to get it working on other hardware, i really don't think apple will mind. If they do, the only reason i could think of it is they're worried about their image as the "cool" and "hip" computers getting tied in with people's hacked together junker computers running MacOS.
Apple cares about image, and it's image is "just works". They use an eula to spell it out, albeit in a nonbinding way.
Most infections actually patch and update machines they infect. Once they get in they seal the door behind them, as well as try to remove any competing infections already on the machine. That way they don't get their zombie stolen from them.
I'll take a stab at your little conundrum here.
While your post was very informative, the best I can tell it summarizes to is that google has no reason to keep individual IP data because such data is useless for anything other than marketing and selling to other people.
So, with that in mind, and not taking a stance on whether it's still too personal even with a good reason, lets look at some data mining techniques.
Say for example, you have a region of the midwest united states, the exact middle of the bible belt. For those unfamiliar with the term, that means a place where the christianity is high, and preached loudly, often, and to anyone within earshot, and the ability to be nonchristian is relatively low. But say you have this group of people, and a lot of their searches are of religious material. You could use them as sort of a "expert" group, giving a little more weight to their likes and dislikes as a whole to adjust pagerank for their area of study, religion. This allows for pages that may be far down the list, but accurate and factual, to be pulled up a bit so the rest of the world might find them, and if they truly are good, then they'll stay up there afterwards.
If not, then the page will drop back down in rankings again and it will have earned the low rank it has.
You could not do this without some form of IP/region tracking, and it increases with the accuracy you track IPs. If you track single people, you can get more meaningful data, for example, you can narrow your "expert" group to, for example, pastor brian, sister marian, and sister margarette, and leave out their neighbors druid matterson and buddhist huy ngyen.
This decreases false positives from your expert group and also allows you to more refine where each person might have a good sense of judgement.
That hopefully explains the IP section a bit.
As for timestamps, I only have two theories about them, and both are equally likely.
The first of which is the timestamps are used, in combination with the search terms, to help them optimize the load balancing they use. Since i'm sure they cycle systems onto and off the grid the internet uses, as the systems rebuild databases or do maintenance, you could use such data to tell for example, when you could most likely take the Yak-Yodeling server offline to re-do it's database and crawl pages, and have people get search results from a slightly out of date backup, and minimize the impact from it.
The other option is that there are some results that are time sensitive. Without linking IP data to geographic data, if you notice that an ip range searches for "resturaunts" + dinner at a certain time of day, and you get a search for resturaunts, you might give preference for dinner selections at that time of day, because you could assume they are looking to go eat.
Anyway I hope that clears up a bit on how such specific data is usable and important. Could it be usable in other forms that didn't identify IP? Probably. but it would serve no practical purpose, because as long as they have some system for converting an IP to a unique identifier to identify a group of searches, they will always have a way to reverse or bruteforce the originating IP, given the time and interest on the half of whoever wants it.
WOA! Slow down there. Are you sure you want to make such an obviously inflamatory statement here on slashdot?
Here, let me fix it for you.
"takes the book, the book's arguably been distributed but I clearly haven't made any offer to distribute, the book was merely stolen^W^W^W^W^W^Wcopyright infringed"
There, much better.