The Microsoft and Yahoo corporate fanboys do mental magic tricks in order to prove that doing something MSN and Yahoo would be doing eventually in order to protect their business is negative. Think of it this way: If the patent is approved, for 19 years Microsoft wont be able to use your information to deliver content of any type to you. Sounds like a sweet deal to me.
Way to overreact guys, I bet you're all now thinking that Microsoft would never do something like this? Oh...
And you're not too far off. If Wal-Mart could save money by using its own shipping service, it will. Coincidentally, I often find wal-mart and sam's club marked trucks at the back of their respective lots.
Why is parent modded troll? Because he wasn't verbose enough to illustrate the depth of anti-scientific attitudes in the US right now? How about this: the Kansas Board of Education either takes back its former views or is strongarmed by scientific organizations that say their curriculum is inaccurate and will lead to less educated students?
It's simple, we aren't ordering vaccinations because we don't have one specifically to combat the existing strain, and what we do have likely wont be as effective if the current strain causing human deaths becomes human-transmitted.
As for your second question, it's difficult to say but just because the Avian Flu and the 'Swine Flu' and the epidemic in 1918 are linked genetically doesn't necessitate that the same vaccine will work against all three with a high degree of effectiveness. One of the problems in combatting a virus like this one is that the WHO and other groups are waiting for it to mutate so that as soon as it becomes something that spreads person to person they can work on a vaccine right away.
Wow, is this a privacy application or a tool to help me hear my own voice?
If I plug this into my computer will it make my music downloads unintelligable to them? Terrific! This will also bring technobabble to a new high (low).
Which is interesting because programs like RevConnect, a DC++ client, measure bandwidth in SI units too. Being that Kibi, Mebi, Gibi, etc., are all SI units.
Question: Why should there be an abundance of massive structures in the galaxy? And more importantly, should there be such a large number, why would no radio waves or interstellar communication be detected? Unless you're suggesting that the species building these massive constructs never discovered radio waves.
The secondary effects are due to turbulence, but without any other forces to act on the black hole then there is no reason secondary gravity fields would be formed that attract enough matter to cause fusion. If particles around the edge of the event horizon collided enough to cause a large number to reach escape velocity they would follow a curve away from the blackhole unless some other force (other than the blackhole's gravity) acted on the particles. This is assuming you have enough mass slowly falling into the blackhole in an orbit in the first place.
In short, gravitational eddies are the stuff of Star Trek until shown otherwise.
That's not entirely true, good software design can befuddle or disable keylogging capabilities (but the keylogging software can 'fight back', a perpetual cycle) but if it isn't necessary to actually put the software on the machine, then a small listening device could be planted anywhere without being hardware dependent (such as putting the hardware in the keyboard itself.)
Relatively clean (but remember, more overall energy generated greater fallout even if short lived), but very, very large blast radius. If a Tsar Bomba style weapon were used by the US as a pre-emptive strike weapon there would be absolutely no justification for it. It'd be like trying to justify using a rocket launcher to get rid of a wasp's nest on the Whitehouse lawn.
And this tag had to occupy some sort of physical storage medium that could be used for something else if applied well. But alas, we can't draw on memory that Just Doesn't Exist in 64bit computing everytime we want to overoptimize some code.
I think this is just more fear-mongering by anti-nuclear advocates. The majority of the energy released by a modern thermonuclear device is by fusion. That same clean energy source anti-nuclear advocates have been cheering about for decades. Fallout is minimal, and it's made so on purpose, energy lost in the form of wasted radiation only makes it more difficult to secure the area after a strike of any magnitude.
Modern weapons are completely unlike the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_BombaTsar Bomba/url?
This has always been true, but here are the problems:
To determine whether or not it's a pointer or a char string, you have to have some bit or set of bits dedicated to a switch.
Well you could say, dedicate the last byte to a true/false value. Then you can't address any memory that corresponds to a string at certain addresses. So if you pick 0x00 then you can't use low memory addresses. If you pick 0xFF you can't use high memory addresses.
If you use the first byte then you can't address any location in memory that, taken mod 256, will equal that value.
So it might seem simple enough but it requires a lot of knowledge about the system in order to make it work right. For example, can you guaruntee that every pointer will be even? If you can, then it's ok to simply declare a string-and-char-pointer-type with least significant bit to be 1 to designate a string within the object.
But can you guaruntee this? Universally? At runtime?
Well you might be able to do this, but can you do it easily? Cleanly? In multiple languages? Suddenly the simplicity becomes a little overwhelming.
Because, obviously, putting that information in the hands of more people who you've never heard of would be the best solution to your privacy concerns.
"I don't trust company X to know everything about me, so what I do is I spread it all around, see? Then nobody could possibly use it against me."
Yet just about every company you do business with will collect information about you, not as a person or a human being but a consumer of their products. And I think Google's privacy policy is admirable... on the other hand I do not trust Apple, Microsoft, or any other company with my information. I unfortunately have to. It's a matter of necessity. Of course Google is getting scary, but when was the last time you payed them for anything? If their intent was to make profit off of the end-user they could have accomplished this long ago by charging trivial amounts for better searching via some deal with paypal. Say a penny a search, nickles and dimes if you want some level of anti-spam (a more costly search in terms of CPU time but more relevant) and the like... It would be a working business model as long as it didn't interfere with their mainstay free searching.
I find it amusing that you're afraid of them amassing so much information, you should be more worried about companies whose sole business is to find information for you, store it, and then sell or license it to corporations.
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The Microsoft and Yahoo corporate fanboys do mental magic tricks in order to prove that doing something MSN and Yahoo would be doing eventually in order to protect their business is negative. Think of it this way: If the patent is approved, for 19 years Microsoft wont be able to use your information to deliver content of any type to you. Sounds like a sweet deal to me.
Way to overreact guys, I bet you're all now thinking that Microsoft would never do something like this? Oh...
And you're not too far off. If Wal-Mart could save money by using its own shipping service, it will. Coincidentally, I often find wal-mart and sam's club marked trucks at the back of their respective lots.
If such a law were to pass it would only encourage Feds to claim everything under the sun as a terrorist act.
Why is parent modded troll? Because he wasn't verbose enough to illustrate the depth of anti-scientific attitudes in the US right now? How about this: the Kansas Board of Education either takes back its former views or is strongarmed by scientific organizations that say their curriculum is inaccurate and will lead to less educated students?
Not just eleven, but I got all the way to Special A brightness! It's like the real world, but spiffier.
It's simple, we aren't ordering vaccinations because we don't have one specifically to combat the existing strain, and what we do have likely wont be as effective if the current strain causing human deaths becomes human-transmitted.
As for your second question, it's difficult to say but just because the Avian Flu and the 'Swine Flu' and the epidemic in 1918 are linked genetically doesn't necessitate that the same vaccine will work against all three with a high degree of effectiveness. One of the problems in combatting a virus like this one is that the WHO and other groups are waiting for it to mutate so that as soon as it becomes something that spreads person to person they can work on a vaccine right away.
We should be aiming for 0 K black body emissions or else it doesn't have enough contrast for me. I demand the best.
Wow, is this a privacy application or a tool to help me hear my own voice?
If I plug this into my computer will it make my music downloads unintelligable to them? Terrific! This will also bring technobabble to a new high (low).
Oh god! The blackness! It's... so... dark...
Which is interesting because programs like RevConnect, a DC++ client, measure bandwidth in SI units too. Being that Kibi, Mebi, Gibi, etc., are all SI units.
Question: Why should there be an abundance of massive structures in the galaxy? And more importantly, should there be such a large number, why would no radio waves or interstellar communication be detected? Unless you're suggesting that the species building these massive constructs never discovered radio waves.
Maybe while we're at it, we should use Mib instead of Mb.
Because everyone in the industry loves the legality of not actually owning your software. EULA's for all!
If anyone doesn't see it, the joke is GAstrology.
The secondary effects are due to turbulence, but without any other forces to act on the black hole then there is no reason secondary gravity fields would be formed that attract enough matter to cause fusion. If particles around the edge of the event horizon collided enough to cause a large number to reach escape velocity they would follow a curve away from the blackhole unless some other force (other than the blackhole's gravity) acted on the particles. This is assuming you have enough mass slowly falling into the blackhole in an orbit in the first place.
In short, gravitational eddies are the stuff of Star Trek until shown otherwise.
To boldly go, where no Hurricane, has gone before...
Because as this poster believes, making money and making music is easy. Promise!
And before I forget... 4. Profit!
I was thinking this will bring crop-circle spotting to a whole new level.
That's not entirely true, good software design can befuddle or disable keylogging capabilities (but the keylogging software can 'fight back', a perpetual cycle) but if it isn't necessary to actually put the software on the machine, then a small listening device could be planted anywhere without being hardware dependent (such as putting the hardware in the keyboard itself.)
Relatively clean (but remember, more overall energy generated greater fallout even if short lived), but very, very large blast radius. If a Tsar Bomba style weapon were used by the US as a pre-emptive strike weapon there would be absolutely no justification for it. It'd be like trying to justify using a rocket launcher to get rid of a wasp's nest on the Whitehouse lawn.
And this tag had to occupy some sort of physical storage medium that could be used for something else if applied well. But alas, we can't draw on memory that Just Doesn't Exist in 64bit computing everytime we want to overoptimize some code.
I think this is just more fear-mongering by anti-nuclear advocates. The majority of the energy released by a modern thermonuclear device is by fusion. That same clean energy source anti-nuclear advocates have been cheering about for decades. Fallout is minimal, and it's made so on purpose, energy lost in the form of wasted radiation only makes it more difficult to secure the area after a strike of any magnitude. Modern weapons are completely unlike the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_BombaTsar Bomba/url?
This has always been true, but here are the problems:
To determine whether or not it's a pointer or a char string, you have to have some bit or set of bits dedicated to a switch.
Well you could say, dedicate the last byte to a true/false value. Then you can't address any memory that corresponds to a string at certain addresses. So if you pick 0x00 then you can't use low memory addresses. If you pick 0xFF you can't use high memory addresses.
If you use the first byte then you can't address any location in memory that, taken mod 256, will equal that value.
So it might seem simple enough but it requires a lot of knowledge about the system in order to make it work right. For example, can you guaruntee that every pointer will be even? If you can, then it's ok to simply declare a string-and-char-pointer-type with least significant bit to be 1 to designate a string within the object.
But can you guaruntee this? Universally? At runtime?
Well you might be able to do this, but can you do it easily? Cleanly? In multiple languages? Suddenly the simplicity becomes a little overwhelming.
Ironically this will encourage them to get those chips under their skin that they've been complaining about for the past fifty years.
:)
What's the next evolution of the conspiracy theory... Discuss.
Because, obviously, putting that information in the hands of more people who you've never heard of would be the best solution to your privacy concerns. "I don't trust company X to know everything about me, so what I do is I spread it all around, see? Then nobody could possibly use it against me." Yet just about every company you do business with will collect information about you, not as a person or a human being but a consumer of their products. And I think Google's privacy policy is admirable... on the other hand I do not trust Apple, Microsoft, or any other company with my information. I unfortunately have to. It's a matter of necessity. Of course Google is getting scary, but when was the last time you payed them for anything? If their intent was to make profit off of the end-user they could have accomplished this long ago by charging trivial amounts for better searching via some deal with paypal. Say a penny a search, nickles and dimes if you want some level of anti-spam (a more costly search in terms of CPU time but more relevant) and the like... It would be a working business model as long as it didn't interfere with their mainstay free searching. I find it amusing that you're afraid of them amassing so much information, you should be more worried about companies whose sole business is to find information for you, store it, and then sell or license it to corporations.