OJ said he was looking for the real killers. I'm not sure taking people at their word is really the best strategy when they obviously have something to protect.
Folks, due to a recent string of unfortunate postings, I have found myself at the short end of the Karma stick.
If you are a moderator, you have three choices facing you. First, do nothing and affect me neither positively nor negatively. Second, you can mod me down as off-topic, which I will certainly, though reluctantly, agree is an appropriate moderation for this post. Finally you can consider my productive and lively posting history and moderate this comment up.
I'm not begging you, moderators. I know you have your own agendas. Some of you are staunch Open Source zealots and are searching for heretics to burn. Others are pedants who see no benefit in posts that are even slightly divergent from your perspective. Your agenda is your business, and since Slashdot has awarded you with moderation points, your agenda and perspective must have some merit.
What I would ask is simply that you spare a point in rescuing me from an automatic -1 posting level. It doesn't take any extra work on your part, and it will only take 4 of you to put this particular post up to +5.
Traders make a profit on each trade. But the profit is always to the broker.
Ultra fast trading is an interesting idea and done right it can lead to successful short term returns, but if you take a Ferrari around a hairpin at 120mph, you're still going to hit the wall and die.
Yes, there's a fix for this, but what is the likelihood of every person who owns a Wifi router fixing this flaw?
We talk about the dangers of homogeny, but this is exactly the type of thing that homogeny causes. All the routers with DD-WRT implemented to save costs, but in the end everyone is screwed.
Just because we love Linux doesn't mean that we should sacrifice the entire ecosystem to that love. We need to nurture other implementations to prevent this type of virus from wiping out our entire networking infrastructure.
I hate those little fungus motherfuckers. They make my skin crawl.
Every time I see one of those pieces of shit, I jump on it until it's fucking smashed and dead.
I also hate fucking ducks with shells. Those fucking freaks of nature just piss me the hell off. I love to stomp on them and then grab the shells and just wipe mushrooms the fuck out with them.
Calling a person an "amateur astronomer" truly minimizes the effort and dedication that "professional astronomers" put into learning their craft. Sometimes PhDs seem a little bit arrogant when they demand to be called "Doctor" rather than "Mister", but if you think about how much of their life they dedicated to studying and becoming a true expert in a field, it is quite reasonable to treat them with deference.
Today's "amateurs" are mostly hobbyists, and shouldn't be conflated with actual professionals. Amateur means someone who does something without pay, but it also implies a certain level of skill on par or slightly below professionals. Once upon a time Olympic athletes were all amateurs, but they were setting world records and competing at the very top tier. Nowadays, anyone with a 50 dollar telescope from Tasco can call themselves an "amateur astronomer" without any training whatsoever.
The odds are much worse than that. Like any event which will either happen or not, the chances are 1 in 2.
Think about that. There are only two possible outcomes of creating this black hole. Either it will evaporate to nothing or it will engulf the whole Earth and everything else within its reach.
That's 2 possibilities with only 1 result. 1 in 2 chance it will be okay. 1 in 2 chance we are doomed.
People are still willing to gamble in Vegas, so it's no use arguing probabilities with them.
What's worrisome is that these same scientists who can't seem to build this thing without some fatal flaw are the same scientists telling us there's nothing to worry about when they create a black hole.
To your first question: Yes. There would be a new instruction set called "Eigen". It would contain all possible values simultaneously. The interesting thing about such a value is that it could be used to determine the correct value of any problem simply by casting it to the appropriate data type. Since the other instruction sets can only contain a single value at any time, the correct value (for our universe) is automatically saved in the other data type.
Cesium is an interesting element in that it is perfectly reliable. While some elements will differ in atomic weight due to random changes in their electron sphere radii and the number of neutrons in the nucleus, Cesium has a perfect vibration rate independent of external stimuli. It is so regular and reliable, in fact, that we base our entire measurement of time on clocks composed purely of Cesium.
If, as is demonstrated here, Cesium can be used to explore multiple quantum states in a regular and reliable fashion, the possibility to build quantum computers and automata based on Cesium goes way up. Not only would these "computers" function better than our current computers, they would always be 100% perfect (unless Intel manufactures them, lol) and not prone to error or breakage.
I also find that not only are build process instructions strangely lacking, but also that there are big holes in instructions on how to debug source code. Likewise, I sometimes get a stack dump, but there aren't any instructions on what to do with that kind of info. I just ignore it.
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OJ said he was looking for the real killers. I'm not sure taking people at their word is really the best strategy when they obviously have something to protect.
In the U.S., you typically have both the cable company and the phone company vying for Internet business.
You'd have to go pretty far out to find an area that only had dial-up, much less only one dial-up ISP in the area.
The UK isn't like the U.S.
From TFS: Karoo is the only ISP in the area.
It isn't simply a matter of moving from one ISP to another. The UK is very big, so local monopolies are very common. These victims have no recourse.
Folks, due to a recent string of unfortunate postings, I have found myself at the short end of the Karma stick.
If you are a moderator, you have three choices facing you. First, do nothing and affect me neither positively nor negatively. Second, you can mod me down as off-topic, which I will certainly, though reluctantly, agree is an appropriate moderation for this post. Finally you can consider my productive and lively posting history and moderate this comment up.
I'm not begging you, moderators. I know you have your own agendas. Some of you are staunch Open Source zealots and are searching for heretics to burn. Others are pedants who see no benefit in posts that are even slightly divergent from your perspective. Your agenda is your business, and since Slashdot has awarded you with moderation points, your agenda and perspective must have some merit.
What I would ask is simply that you spare a point in rescuing me from an automatic -1 posting level. It doesn't take any extra work on your part, and it will only take 4 of you to put this particular post up to +5.
Thank you for exercising your moderation rights.
langs morf. get use 2 it.
Traders make a profit on each trade. But the profit is always to the broker.
Ultra fast trading is an interesting idea and done right it can lead to successful short term returns, but if you take a Ferrari around a hairpin at 120mph, you're still going to hit the wall and die.
Yes, there's a fix for this, but what is the likelihood of every person who owns a Wifi router fixing this flaw?
We talk about the dangers of homogeny, but this is exactly the type of thing that homogeny causes. All the routers with DD-WRT implemented to save costs, but in the end everyone is screwed.
Just because we love Linux doesn't mean that we should sacrifice the entire ecosystem to that love. We need to nurture other implementations to prevent this type of virus from wiping out our entire networking infrastructure.
What is worth someone's wile or not is really up to them, isn't it?
I didn't realize that "I dun have no cuzmers" was a valid defense against patent violations.
Not every child is directly affected. This is true.
However, sometimes there are secondary effects which do affect every child.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre#Video_games
I hate those little fungus motherfuckers. They make my skin crawl.
Every time I see one of those pieces of shit, I jump on it until it's fucking smashed and dead.
I also hate fucking ducks with shells. Those fucking freaks of nature just piss me the hell off. I love to stomp on them and then grab the shells and just wipe mushrooms the fuck out with them.
Goddamn pipes also freak me out.
Sez you.
It's only because you're so enamored with your current reality that you think that.
Dangerous to whom?
Is reading comprehension difficult for you? He is a hobbyist.
Calling a person an "amateur astronomer" truly minimizes the effort and dedication that "professional astronomers" put into learning their craft. Sometimes PhDs seem a little bit arrogant when they demand to be called "Doctor" rather than "Mister", but if you think about how much of their life they dedicated to studying and becoming a true expert in a field, it is quite reasonable to treat them with deference.
Today's "amateurs" are mostly hobbyists, and shouldn't be conflated with actual professionals. Amateur means someone who does something without pay, but it also implies a certain level of skill on par or slightly below professionals. Once upon a time Olympic athletes were all amateurs, but they were setting world records and competing at the very top tier. Nowadays, anyone with a 50 dollar telescope from Tasco can call themselves an "amateur astronomer" without any training whatsoever.
Who wants to be the guy who spends all day "collecting salmon DNA"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A5EVTXDDcU
Do you realize exactly how many people are involved with the LHC project?
Should I assume that all the ones who suck are the ones in charge of constructing the thing?
That's what you're arguing, right? That there are lots of people working on the LHC, so there are bound to be mistakes. Gosh, I feel better already!
The odds are much worse than that. Like any event which will either happen or not, the chances are 1 in 2.
Think about that. There are only two possible outcomes of creating this black hole. Either it will evaporate to nothing or it will engulf the whole Earth and everything else within its reach.
That's 2 possibilities with only 1 result. 1 in 2 chance it will be okay. 1 in 2 chance we are doomed.
People are still willing to gamble in Vegas, so it's no use arguing probabilities with them.
Real physicists have already worked out the equations and have anticipated the results of the experiments at CERN.
Experimental lab techs are the ones who are having setbacks here.
Don't worry your little monkey brain too much. Humans are progressing just fine.
What's worrisome is that these same scientists who can't seem to build this thing without some fatal flaw are the same scientists telling us there's nothing to worry about when they create a black hole.
To your first question: Yes. There would be a new instruction set called "Eigen". It would contain all possible values simultaneously. The interesting thing about such a value is that it could be used to determine the correct value of any problem simply by casting it to the appropriate data type. Since the other instruction sets can only contain a single value at any time, the correct value (for our universe) is automatically saved in the other data type.
For your other question: Yes and no.
Cesium is an interesting element in that it is perfectly reliable. While some elements will differ in atomic weight due to random changes in their electron sphere radii and the number of neutrons in the nucleus, Cesium has a perfect vibration rate independent of external stimuli. It is so regular and reliable, in fact, that we base our entire measurement of time on clocks composed purely of Cesium.
If, as is demonstrated here, Cesium can be used to explore multiple quantum states in a regular and reliable fashion, the possibility to build quantum computers and automata based on Cesium goes way up. Not only would these "computers" function better than our current computers, they would always be 100% perfect (unless Intel manufactures them, lol) and not prone to error or breakage.
slow start for _some_. Miniature Type-R stickers for others.
I also find that not only are build process instructions strangely lacking, but also that there are big holes in instructions on how to debug source code. Likewise, I sometimes get a stack dump, but there aren't any instructions on what to do with that kind of info. I just ignore it.
Have you *seen* the latest?
I'd much rather have something that's been vetted a couple
YOU'RE A FAG LOL
URLs. Look into it.