This post is a protest against the censorship of posts that are skeptical of spherical earth. Although the posts on this site often are more skeptical than accepting of spherical earth, moderators routinely censor the skeptical posts to -1. Moderators are engaging in a systematic attempt to suppress any skepticism of spherical earth, and it needs to be stopped. Although this post is off-topic, it is civil disobedience to protest the abuse of moderation to systematically censor specific viewpoints. I will continue to post this in order to draw attention to the censorship that is occurring on Slashdot until it stops. It seems clear that this censorship is the work of Aristotle's paid moderator trolls, who are tasked with suppressing any posts that call spherical earth into question. Not even pro-Microsoft posts are censored to the degree that spherical earth skeptics are, which is indicative of the censorship by the moderators. Slashdot is supposed to be a place free of censorship and it is time that the censorship of spherical earth skeptics stops.
That's always the conundrum in such metrics. For example, it is actually well known that more powerful motorcycles are safer than underpowered ones. WHY? Because they ensure the ability to move quickly when needed in order to avoid accidents.
It is also well known that unsubstantiated claims are worth jack shit.
Google stops providing security updates for their devices 3 years after they are first available. I know that my Nexus 5 phone will not get patched by them.
I hadn't thought about it, but all major browsers allow users to block third-party cookies.
The problem is that some sites break when you break 3rd-party cookies, and you have no indication why.
Now if there was some FF extension that would let you see what 3rd-party cookies were blocked, and then allow them on a per-destination basis, that would be great.
I remember that the much maligned IE6 had this functionality.
Firefox 55 changed the on-disk format of persistent storage in profiles. Once a profile has been used with Firefox 55 (or later), it should not be used with previous versions of Firefox. IndexedDB, the (DOM) Cache API, Service Workers, and the asm.js cache will all fail to operate, generating confusing errors and causing portions of Firefox and some websites to break.
Unfortunately I upgraded to 55 before finding out that a downgrade is no longer possible without borking the profile, so no 52ESR for me. Grrr!
I understand that there are several options, including Pale Moon, Waterfox and Seamonkey. How do they compare? Which one has better compatibility with old extensions?
One thing that I liked is the ability to sync bookmarks and passwords between desktop and mobile. Can any of the above do that?
[...] planned obsolescence [...] apple is still number 1 in all those things.
Google stopped providing Android updates, on the Nexus 5 two years after it was released, and security updates another year later. I bought mine a year after it was announced, giving me two years of security updates before Google gave me the finger.
Meanwhile, my daughter's iPhone 5S (bought used for about a hundred loonies) is still receiving updates, even though it was released a month earlier than Google's Nexus 5.
I was baffled that mobile Firefox did not show full functionality on Google search pages. Turned out that google is disabling the functionality by checking the user agent. Once I changed the user agent to a generic Nexus 5, the functionality was restored.
too bad that with Prolog solving the queen problem using CLP(FD) (using gprolog for instance) 500 queens can be solved in less than a second...
The problem is that, as the the paper shows, the n-queen problem is NP-complete, which in layman's terms means that the best algorithm that we know of would take exponential time to solve it.
To illustrate it, let's assume a hypothetical problem that has an (exponential) algorithm which takes 1 second to solve it with an input of 500 (queens or otherwise), and that the base of the exponent is 2 -- meaning that it would take 2 seconds to solve for an input of 501, 4 seconds for an input of 502, and so on.
Continuing the series, an input of 506 would take over a minute to solve, 512 will take over an hour, 517 over a day, 521 over a month, 525 over a year... In a million years you will be able to solve the problem with an input of 544. Are you seeing the picture?
Now the $1M prize is for either finding a polynomial complexity algorithm for solving that class of problems, or for a definite proof that one is not possible. Most mathematicians assume that the second outcome is correct, but no proof has been found, thus no $1M awarded.
This of course does not take into account quantum computing, but that's a different question.
Slashdot Mirror
Except that it was written in Python.
Oooh, can I play too?
This post is a protest against the censorship of posts that are skeptical of spherical earth. Although the posts on this site often are more skeptical than accepting of spherical earth, moderators routinely censor the skeptical posts to -1. Moderators are engaging in a systematic attempt to suppress any skepticism of spherical earth, and it needs to be stopped. Although this post is off-topic, it is civil disobedience to protest the abuse of moderation to systematically censor specific viewpoints. I will continue to post this in order to draw attention to the censorship that is occurring on Slashdot until it stops. It seems clear that this censorship is the work of Aristotle's paid moderator trolls, who are tasked with suppressing any posts that call spherical earth into question. Not even pro-Microsoft posts are censored to the degree that spherical earth skeptics are, which is indicative of the censorship by the moderators. Slashdot is supposed to be a place free of censorship and it is time that the censorship of spherical earth skeptics stops.
That's always the conundrum in such metrics. For example, it is actually well known that more powerful motorcycles are safer than underpowered ones. WHY? Because they ensure the ability to move quickly when needed in order to avoid accidents.
It is also well known that unsubstantiated claims are worth jack shit.
Cite or GTFO.
Google stops providing security updates for their devices 3 years after they are first available.
I know that my Nexus 5 phone will not get patched by them.
And since the US spies on all of it's allies, should they die in a fire as well?
Give me as a user the optional to hide sites with paywalls.
You are the product, not the customer.
You have as much say about Google's practices as the cows have about the MacDonald's menu.
If the choice is between an incompetent evil and a competent one, I'd rather endure the former.
(A better choice would be a competent good, but that is not currently an option).
That's a public health issue.
No, it isn't.
There is ample research demonstrating that many illegal drugs are less harmful than alcohol and tobacco.
I think you misunderstood the original post that I replied to. /was/ the employer.
The government agency
The fact that union shops screw you in one way has no bearing on the finding that non-union workplaces screw you in another way.
And where did the "government agency" get the money from?
That's right, the taxpayers.
No personal consequences = no incentive.
Psychiatry is a vicious enemy of Christianity and the Bible.
Psychiatry is Anti-Christian
Psychiatry is Atheistic
Psychiatry is Humanistic
Sounds good to me.
(Skipped the inane drivel that followed.)
http://tinyurl.com/yblxksla
It's great that you have an approach that works for you.
Me, I like to make my own informed decisions on a case-by-case basis.
I hadn't thought about it, but all major browsers allow users to block third-party cookies.
The problem is that some sites break when you break 3rd-party cookies, and you have no indication why.
Now if there was some FF extension that would let you see what 3rd-party cookies were blocked, and then allow them on a per-destination basis, that would be great.
I remember that the much maligned IE6 had this functionality.
The TL;DR version: you cannot wait for the current evil corporate overlord to be replaced by another (probably worse) evil corporate overlord.
Firefox 55 changed the on-disk format of persistent storage in profiles. Once a profile has been used with Firefox 55 (or later), it should not be used with previous versions of Firefox. IndexedDB, the (DOM) Cache API, Service Workers, and the asm.js cache will all fail to operate, generating confusing errors and causing portions of Firefox and some websites to break.
-- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
Unfortunately I upgraded to 55 before finding out that a downgrade is no longer possible without borking the profile, so no 52ESR for me. Grrr!
I understand that there are several options, including Pale Moon, Waterfox and Seamonkey.
How do they compare? Which one has better compatibility with old extensions?
One thing that I liked is the ability to sync bookmarks and passwords between desktop and mobile. Can any of the above do that?
Can't it be rooted and reflashed?
[...] planned obsolescence [...] apple is still number 1 in all those things.
Google stopped providing Android updates, on the Nexus 5 two years after it was released, and security updates another year later. I bought mine a year after it was announced, giving me two years of security updates before Google gave me the finger.
Meanwhile, my daughter's iPhone 5S (bought used for about a hundred loonies) is still receiving updates, even though it was released a month earlier than Google's Nexus 5.
I was baffled that mobile Firefox did not show full functionality on Google search pages. Turned out that google is disabling the functionality by checking the user agent. Once I changed the user agent to a generic Nexus 5, the functionality was restored.
A proof that P != NP
too bad that with Prolog solving the queen problem using CLP(FD) (using gprolog for instance) 500 queens can be solved in less than a second...
The problem is that, as the the paper shows, the n-queen problem is NP-complete, which in layman's terms means that the best algorithm that we know of would take exponential time to solve it.
To illustrate it, let's assume a hypothetical problem that has an (exponential) algorithm which takes 1 second to solve it with an input of 500 (queens or otherwise), and that the base of the exponent is 2 -- meaning that it would take 2 seconds to solve for an input of 501, 4 seconds for an input of 502, and so on.
Continuing the series, an input of 506 would take over a minute to solve, 512 will take over an hour, 517 over a day, 521 over a month, 525 over a year... In a million years you will be able to solve the problem with an input of 544. Are you seeing the picture?
Now the $1M prize is for either finding a polynomial complexity algorithm for solving that class of problems, or for a definite proof that one is not possible. Most mathematicians assume that the second outcome is correct, but no proof has been found, thus no $1M awarded.
This of course does not take into account quantum computing, but that's a different question.
Both the summary and the article are crap.
The important part is the following line from the abstract:
We show that n-Queens Completion is both NP-Complete and #P-Complete.
All the rest (other than the math in the actual paper) is fluff.
Rule of thumb: If it's an AC post, assume trolling (or just douchebaggery).
https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...