There are an *exponentially* larger number of ongoing casualties in Syria. Where is the outrage?
You brought it here. You did it because no one, including yourself, cares enough about Syria to actually comment and/or upvote these stories to the front page. This is the case because in Syria it's Muslims killing each other, so you don't feel emotional responses when they get killed. The only reason you feign to care about it is that it might derail the discussion from a topic you don't want to exhamine in too much detail.
The situation is not balanced at all. Unofficial militia shooting down a plane because they don't have access to any ground control is simply more likely. They claimed hitting two military planes before. There is no real justification for the Ukrainian to shoot at anything that flies.
Proofs? I don't have any: unfortunately the main suspects are also the ones in control of the location of all the proofs. And they are preventing any third party from reaching said location. What does this tell us?
Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.
What does this change? If it had flown there before it might have been shot before.
100+ of the 120+ Gazans killed were Hamas militants, that is about 85% militants-to-civilians rate (US in Iraq: 8-15% militants-to-civilians rate, Russians/Soviets anywhere: 2-5% militants-to-civilians rate) but that is not news.
You have clearly shown that you shouldn't take your 100/120 number seriously. None of those other cases admitted to killing civilians in large percentages either.
The Northern European view is that people change, and that the 60 year old man is not the same person as the 20 year old. People change, and should not be held responsible for views they no longer hold or crimes for which they've served their sentence. There is no "soul", so when the person has changed, the decent thing to do is to forget and not bring it up again. Give people a chance to start over.
Roughly correct, but to be precise, the concept of redemption is more or less present in all Christian beliefs, including Southern Europe, Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Americas.
It is arguably a much stronger concept in Catholicism where redemption through deeds has a lesser role than in Protestant churches. Instead the main requirement to be forgiven is simply true repentance.
Most Asian and Eastern Asian religions are fundamentally linked with the idea of redemption especially through penance, most notably the ones that feature the reincarnation cycle. Just to point out that this is not at all an exclusively Christian thing either.
For normal matter — things like protons, neutrons and electrons — there's a fundamental limit to the number of particles you can fit into a given region of space thanks to the Pauli exclusion principle.
Wrong, unless you assume space is discretized, which might happen around Planck's length, but has never been proven theoretically nor experimentally.
Agreed. These assholes might have screwed up the case for the prosecutor and the end result might be that a rapist walks away free, all because they did not feel like doing their homework. They should face criminal charges.
It's very likely that Nokia tested Android on its phones when it wanted Microsoft to close the deal, this is probably a false alarm born from those prototypes.
It makes no sense at all for MS to release an Android phone, and I doubt Nokia can release it and sell it in numbers before April (aquisition date), so I don't expect it to happen.
If it actually does come out, I see only two explanations. 1) Nokia is trying to scare MS from sealing the deal. 2) it's a thinly veiled attempt at saying "we tried Android but our customers would not want it". Most likely the former.
Whoever let this happen is going to be fired first thing in the new regime, I guess. If MS does not stomp it hard, it would look clueless. Unless MS wants to go Android, which I won't believe until I see it.
At this point, they will get to your name in any case. They have accumulated such a massive data base that they will identify you in a number of other ways. Your real name will eventually leak to them through your friends or because they match it with your name.surname@gmail.com address, or mining your company's staff page, or because you pay something with your credit card, etc... Plus a ton of other things.
Just because you don't have your real name there it does not mean they don't know who you are. It might help gainst other parties data mining/stalking you, though.
Correct. But I suspect the hurdle here was to isolate the allergenic factor and administering it correctly. It is not as simple as splitting a peanut in 70 parts: you have to find the right protein, isolate it and dose it. It can be a bitch to do. The results prove that the protein was the right one and that the doses were ok. Finally, the treatment does not work with any substance: there are things that will remain lethal whatever happens as our immune system just cannot catch them. So that is another good news.
What the preprint shows is that random instances of the kind of problems solved by the d-wave device are solved faster on a modern GPU, on average. This means if you have an optimization problem of that kind you are still better off trying the classical computer first. If you have a problem of a different kind d-wave won't work at all. What one might hope is that there is a clearly defined sub-class of problems where the machine is consistently faster.
Manning didn't leak from the NSA. He leaked classified information from the Army. In fact in this same chat he points out that he has nothing to do with the wiretaps. I know it's hard, but let's keep our scandals straight.
Why would Assange wiretap the Icelandic parliament and how could he? I doubt he has that powerful connections up there.
The obviously more likely explanation is that some spy agency (like NSA or counterparts) did it, and it has been leaked to Wikileaks. Notice how he looks surprised upon finding it out, so that Manning feels like pointing out that he wasn't the one who leaked it "*had nothing to do with that one*". So neither knew how the records were obtained in the first place.
Now one wonders: who would be able and willing of doing such a thing and who would have an interest in pinning it to Assange?
First, depending on how automated it is, the webmaster might be ordered to keep updating it. So updating the metatag must be a deliberate action and forcing you to update it would be akin to forcing you to lie. Still not clear that they would not do it or try to, though.
Second, in a larger organization the person updating the tag does not need to know whether the data has been compromised or not.
Third, many companies shared data "on a voluntary basis". Whether this is really voluntary or under some thinly veiled threat, there is nothing guaranteeing they won't lie on their own accord.
In conclusion, there is absolutely no way to make "the cloud" safe via tehnical means.
I'm wondering how this is possible. As long as it's communications going through Google, Skype, or some other americal corp, it's pretty easy to just intercept whatever goes through their servers. Intercepting real landlines is a wholly different game. It needs on site infrastracture, cause I doubt they get routed through the US. This means there is someone inside France that should get their ass handed to them for this, before one even starts thinking of the guys at NSA.
Apple lost all claims in the Microsoft suit except for the ruling that the trash can icon and folder icons from Hewlett-Packard's NewWave windows application were infringing.
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I does not have to be a CYOA either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_on_a_winter%27s_night_a_traveler
Rule #1 of any art form: if a rule is stated about the art form, someone will break that rule.
There are an *exponentially* larger number of ongoing casualties in Syria. Where is the outrage?
You brought it here. You did it because no one, including yourself, cares enough about Syria to actually comment and/or upvote these stories to the front page. This is the case because in Syria it's Muslims killing each other, so you don't feel emotional responses when they get killed. The only reason you feign to care about it is that it might derail the discussion from a topic you don't want to exhamine in too much detail.
Did I miss anything?
And this explains the destruction of another civilian plane, and obstructing the followup investigation, because?
The same. Yanukovich was legitimately deposed by the same parliament - with the same members - that elected him.
The situation is not balanced at all. Unofficial militia shooting down a plane because they don't have access to any ground control is simply more likely. They claimed hitting two military planes before. There is no real justification for the Ukrainian to shoot at anything that flies.
Proofs? I don't have any: unfortunately the main suspects are also the ones in control of the location of all the proofs. And they are preventing any third party from reaching said location. What does this tell us?
Perhaps the best visualization of what the issue is, comes from Vagelis Karmiros who has collated all the recent MH-17 flight paths as tracked by Flightaware and shows that while all ten most recent paths pass safely well south of the Donetsk region, and cross the zone above the Sea of Azov, it was only today's tragic flight that passed straight overhead Donetsk.
What does this change? If it had flown there before it might have been shot before.
100+ of the 120+ Gazans killed were Hamas militants, that is about 85% militants-to-civilians rate (US in Iraq: 8-15% militants-to-civilians rate, Russians/Soviets anywhere: 2-5% militants-to-civilians rate) but that is not news.
You have clearly shown that you shouldn't take your 100/120 number seriously. None of those other cases admitted to killing civilians in large percentages either.
The Northern European view is that people change, and that the 60 year old man is not the same person as the 20 year old. People change, and should not be held responsible for views they no longer hold or crimes for which they've served their sentence. There is no "soul", so when the person has changed, the decent thing to do is to forget and not bring it up again. Give people a chance to start over.
Roughly correct, but to be precise, the concept of redemption is more or less present in all Christian beliefs, including Southern Europe, Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Americas.
It is arguably a much stronger concept in Catholicism where redemption through deeds has a lesser role than in Protestant churches. Instead the main requirement to be forgiven is simply true repentance.
Most Asian and Eastern Asian religions are fundamentally linked with the idea of redemption especially through penance, most notably the ones that feature the reincarnation cycle. Just to point out that this is not at all an exclusively Christian thing either.
For normal matter — things like protons, neutrons and electrons — there's a fundamental limit to the number of particles you can fit into a given region of space thanks to the Pauli exclusion principle.
Wrong, unless you assume space is discretized, which might happen around Planck's length, but has never been proven theoretically nor experimentally.
Agreed. These assholes might have screwed up the case for the prosecutor and the end result might be that a rapist walks away free, all because they did not feel like doing their homework. They should face criminal charges.
That would limit it only to people that can use the internet. I, for one, applaud them for thinking of all their other customers!
What is a "de facto" decoder? Something that is not supposet to decode VP9 but can be tricked/misused to do so?
It's very likely that Nokia tested Android on its phones when it wanted Microsoft to close the deal, this is probably a false alarm born from those prototypes.
It makes no sense at all for MS to release an Android phone, and I doubt Nokia can release it and sell it in numbers before April (aquisition date), so I don't expect it to happen.
If it actually does come out, I see only two explanations. 1) Nokia is trying to scare MS from sealing the deal. 2) it's a thinly veiled attempt at saying "we tried Android but our customers would not want it". Most likely the former.
Whoever let this happen is going to be fired first thing in the new regime, I guess. If MS does not stomp it hard, it would look clueless. Unless MS wants to go Android, which I won't believe until I see it.
Right, it's about all those other new manufacturers that are trying to sell directly to consumers. How could people miss it? There's a horde of them!
At this point, they will get to your name in any case. They have accumulated such a massive data base that they will identify you in a number of other ways. Your real name will eventually leak to them through your friends or because they match it with your name.surname@gmail.com address, or mining your company's staff page, or because you pay something with your credit card, etc... Plus a ton of other things.
Just because you don't have your real name there it does not mean they don't know who you are. It might help gainst other parties data mining/stalking you, though.
Correct. But I suspect the hurdle here was to isolate the allergenic factor and administering it correctly. It is not as simple as splitting a peanut in 70 parts: you have to find the right protein, isolate it and dose it. It can be a bitch to do. The results prove that the protein was the right one and that the doses were ok. Finally, the treatment does not work with any substance: there are things that will remain lethal whatever happens as our immune system just cannot catch them. So that is another good news.
...want to become integrated into browsers as a fallback rather than showing a 404 page
Fuck no. If a page does not exist it does not exist.
What the preprint shows is that random instances of the kind of problems solved by the d-wave device are solved faster on a modern GPU, on average. This means if you have an optimization problem of that kind you are still better off trying the classical computer first. If you have a problem of a different kind d-wave won't work at all. What one might hope is that there is a clearly defined sub-class of problems where the machine is consistently faster.
That's why Slashdot is keen on posting all new studies at least twice, thus increasing the chances they are still available for future generations!
Manning didn't leak from the NSA. He leaked classified information from the Army. In fact in this same chat he points out that he has nothing to do with the wiretaps. I know it's hard, but let's keep our scandals straight.
Why would Assange wiretap the Icelandic parliament and how could he? I doubt he has that powerful connections up there.
The obviously more likely explanation is that some spy agency (like NSA or counterparts) did it, and it has been leaked to Wikileaks. Notice how he looks surprised upon finding it out, so that Manning feels like pointing out that he wasn't the one who leaked it "*had nothing to do with that one*". So neither knew how the records were obtained in the first place.
Now one wonders: who would be able and willing of doing such a thing and who would have an interest in pinning it to Assange?
First, depending on how automated it is, the webmaster might be ordered to keep updating it. So updating the metatag must be a deliberate action and forcing you to update it would be akin to forcing you to lie. Still not clear that they would not do it or try to, though.
Second, in a larger organization the person updating the tag does not need to know whether the data has been compromised or not.
Third, many companies shared data "on a voluntary basis". Whether this is really voluntary or under some thinly veiled threat, there is nothing guaranteeing they won't lie on their own accord.
In conclusion, there is absolutely no way to make "the cloud" safe via tehnical means.
Having the GPU integrated into the same chip as the CPU is not the same as emulating it.
I'm wondering how this is possible. As long as it's communications going through Google, Skype, or some other americal corp, it's pretty easy to just intercept whatever goes through their servers. Intercepting real landlines is a wholly different game. It needs on site infrastracture, cause I doubt they get routed through the US. This means there is someone inside France that should get their ass handed to them for this, before one even starts thinking of the guys at NSA.
From Wikipedia
Apple lost all claims in the Microsoft suit except for the ruling that the trash can icon and folder icons from Hewlett-Packard's NewWave windows application were infringing.
So much for "we will win in the end".