Just because Assange runs/ran Wikileaks, doesn't mean he should be able to act with impunity in other aspects of his life.
I think you have that backwards...if Assange did not run Wikileaks, do you think there would have been a European Arrest Warrant issued for him? What other alleged rapists have ever resulted in the US saying that it doesn't acknowledge diplomatic asylum?
Imagine the other extreme where everyone decides that they want their children to have one copy of some terrible recessive gene in order to get the beneficial effects.
Of course, humans won't just stop making babies the natural way if this was possible, and if a bunch of these people all have one copy of some terrible recessive disease, the incidence of full-blown versions of these diseases could very well increase.
Honestly, in the end, I think this could be a boon to evolution; a shot in the arm, so to speak. These new screened humans would still compete with the home-grown kind, and could very well lead to selective sweeps much faster and with less suffering than "traditional" evolution.
Unless I am mistaken, there is no talk yet of directly choosing arbitrary DNA sequences. Everything I have read so far strictly involves screening out embryos that test positive for certain genes that are known risk factors.
I agree that once this crosses over into "construction" of human beings with arbitrary genes, then you will have moral problem. But I cannot see the big deal about letting people screen for diseases, since that still requires a mixture of two individuals' DNA. Indeed, I would consider it a moral obligation to a potential child. Since humans no longer feel the effects of natural selection - even the weakest among us can survive - then we ought to begin some form of artificial selection to pick up the slack.
No one - NO ONE - has a problem with the police tracking phones if they have a warrant.
You should look up Kyllo. Justice Scalia's opinion flat out states that even though the heat coming from a home can be detected with a thermal imaging camera from outside the private residence, it still constitutes a search and requires a warrant.
Surveying your home with an IR camera can be done. But it still requires a warrant.
About a decade ago, I think I had undiagnosed chronic depression. It's very difficult to deal with by yourself, especially when you don't want to drag people down with you. Self-induced exclusion just leads to feeling worse, but the silver lining is that you aren't ruining anyone else's mood. There's a certain agonizing safety to being alone.
I'm mostly better now. I attribute that almost entirely to being in a stable relationship. My desperation to feel like someone cared about me was matched only by my desperation to avoid burdening that very same person with my emotions, or lack thereof. The key was finding someone just as fucked up as I am, but importantly she is fucked up in a different way (I had depression, she had anxiety). It doesn't feel like I'm as much of a burden when the other person is fucked up, too, but it's important that our fucked-up-ness doesn't feed off each other, which is why it's good we're fucked up in different ways. I tended to care more about her than myself, and vice versa, which led to some interesting situations but overall has resulted in an improved mental state for both of us as we realize that the only way to help each other is to help ourselves. Our desire to be better for each other greatly overpowers our desire to be better for ourselves.
I say mostly better because there appear to be some permanent effects. Every few months I have an "episode" where I'm just morbidly depressed for a few days, don't want to do anything, don't want to see anybody, don't want to talk, don't want to walk, don't want to see, don't want to be...I thankfully manage to sleep it off after a few days, and haven't had a chronic episode in years.
There are other apparently permanent effects. I still don't like to be social. I withdraw in groups numbering greater than four or so. It's weird to want people and not want people at the same time; I don't know how to describe that feeling. I still don't want to talk to most people, I still don't go anywhere. I don't really enjoy very many things, and it's very difficult for me to get excited about something (much to her dismay, because she gets easily excited).
But I feel genuinely good now. She makes me feel valuable. Helping someone else feel better makes me feel accomplished and important and worthy of living. Some people may read this and think it's unhealthy for your mental well-being to be so dependent on another person...and they may very well be right, I'm pretty sure that I would go back to being incredibly fucked up if I ever lost her. But what we have works for us, and we have both improved immensely over the past few years and we did it without drugs. We are the center of each other's world, and in four years we haven't gone more than 24 hours apart.
It is worth noting too, that just because you have PS/2 doesn't mean you have NKRO automatically, as depending on the technology 'underneath the hood' of a keyboard, it might not allow certain combinations of simultaneous keypresses. But that's an issue that's resolved by getting a mechanical keyboard, since they have the individual switches.
Are you sure a mechanical keyboard in and of itself solves the ghosting problem? Because having individual switches wouldn't necessarily prevent the ghosting problem, which occurs because the keyboard is composed of a matrix with switches located on rows and columns.
Unless by "individual switches", you mean you've got a chip with 100+ pins and an individual trace to each switch.
Wal-Mart, like any department store, sells chemicals and containers which can readily be combined into lethal weapons suitable for mass killing.
That's a pretty bad comparison. Just like a VCR has substantial non-infringing uses, those chemicals and containers have substantial non-lethal uses. What substantial non-lethal uses do bullets have?
They were probably looking at your friend's credit report. When I filed for an annual credit report they asked me questions exactly like that, "whats a former address? [lists 4 and none of these]".
Well, you can pick any arbitrary start point. I don't really care much, I just picked 1950 out of thin air.
The advantage to the approach I suggested is that it would filter out any problems with start/end date cherry picking, because it essentially picks all possible combinations of start/end dates. It would be over 3000 regression lines, so if the vast majority of them agreed, you'd know that was the "real" regression line.
Windows 7 supports symbolic links, which are better than junction points IMO.
I bought an SSD for loading my Steam games, but I don't want the whole Steam folder there because it's not big enough for all the games, and you can't split the Steam folder into two places. So I move my common games to the SSD (along with all the GCF files), and then create symbolic links on the HDD that point to the SSD folder. It works perfectly, all reads/writes for that folder are directed to the SSD even though they appear to be on the HDD.
I also didn't want the Windows folder on the SSD, because I'm too lazy to migrate the folder, and I was worried about the SSD potentially dying and making a hassle for me (it appears SSDs have a not insignificant failure rate around the one month mark, based on reviews I was reading). Most of the time my laptop is asleep anyway, so I don't see any performance benefit to booting.
While it's not the easiest thing to do out-of-the-box, there is a free tool that creates explorer context menus to make the creation of symbolic links brain-dead easy (right-click drag-and-drop, "create symbolic link", done).
Absolute minimum latency for a fetch is 16ms on USB port
Where are you getting this number? I develop USB devices (Cypress FX2 Hi-Speed and a PIC for Full-Speed), and a USB Hi-Speed microframe is transmitted every 125 microseconds. When I initiate transfers, they almost always go out during the next microframe. I can and have sent two packets back and forth in a single millisecond, and that's without sending multiple packets per microframe (I believe I've seen up to 17 bulk packet transfers in one microframe before in a Cypress app note comparing bulk to isochronous).
The only USB devices I'm aware of with such poor latency are keyboards and mice, because they're generally low-speed devices.
Is this 16ms fetch latency some artifact of the OS? Because it's certainly not a limitation of the hardware and software, as I can personally attest to.
Regarding GP's common error that is probably the result of cherry picking start and end points for a trendline, I have often wondered if there wouldn't be some way to "average it out".
What if we put 1950-2012 on the top and left side of a grid, and then each entry in the grid was the trendline with endpoints determined by the column and row? And then finally average all trendlines that had a span greater than 10 years? Could this help show that 1998 was an outlier?
In the case of the HAM operator, the problem is more the gigantic antenna, less the use of public airwaves. Were you not trying to be intentionally disingenuous you would have used a better example, like a walkie-talkie.
I would rather let a thousand copyright infringers go free than to shake down one innocent person.
Let's go with your 99.9% value. Out of 250,000 people, this means at least 250 people are being illegally shaken down. At least 250 people that will have to either pony up settlement money or pay for a lawyer.
I just want to be clear that you're okay with punishing those 250 people who did nothing wrong by allowing them to be shaken down with what really amounts to extortion - "Pay up or I'll sue you over porn"
Even more interesting...what if a bittorrent user reduces their upload bandwidth to the smallest possible level, and then immediately leaves the swarm when downloading is complete? Could they be convicted for uploading when they went out of their way to make sure they uploaded as little as possible? What kind of ratio would be required in order to show that you went out of your way to prevent uploading?
Apple did not merely mention the existence of the F700, they are alleging that the F700 is yet another example of Samsung copying them. You're arguing that Samsung being able to disprove this false allegation is inadmissable?
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Just because Assange runs/ran Wikileaks, doesn't mean he should be able to act with impunity in other aspects of his life.
I think you have that backwards...if Assange did not run Wikileaks, do you think there would have been a European Arrest Warrant issued for him? What other alleged rapists have ever resulted in the US saying that it doesn't acknowledge diplomatic asylum?
Imagine the other extreme where everyone decides that they want their children to have one copy of some terrible recessive gene in order to get the beneficial effects.
Of course, humans won't just stop making babies the natural way if this was possible, and if a bunch of these people all have one copy of some terrible recessive disease, the incidence of full-blown versions of these diseases could very well increase.
Honestly, in the end, I think this could be a boon to evolution; a shot in the arm, so to speak. These new screened humans would still compete with the home-grown kind, and could very well lead to selective sweeps much faster and with less suffering than "traditional" evolution.
Unless I am mistaken, there is no talk yet of directly choosing arbitrary DNA sequences. Everything I have read so far strictly involves screening out embryos that test positive for certain genes that are known risk factors.
I agree that once this crosses over into "construction" of human beings with arbitrary genes, then you will have moral problem. But I cannot see the big deal about letting people screen for diseases, since that still requires a mixture of two individuals' DNA. Indeed, I would consider it a moral obligation to a potential child. Since humans no longer feel the effects of natural selection - even the weakest among us can survive - then we ought to begin some form of artificial selection to pick up the slack.
You are just flat wrong.
No one - NO ONE - has a problem with the police tracking phones if they have a warrant.
You should look up Kyllo. Justice Scalia's opinion flat out states that even though the heat coming from a home can be detected with a thermal imaging camera from outside the private residence, it still constitutes a search and requires a warrant.
Surveying your home with an IR camera can be done. But it still requires a warrant.
Even more egregious...while Google collected unencrypted data, cell phone communications are encrypted.
Whether the EM waves you are emitting are visible or not makes no difference.
Justice Scalia would beg to differ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States
The fact that thermal imaging equipment is not commonly available to the public means that the police need a warrant in order to employ it.
About a decade ago, I think I had undiagnosed chronic depression. It's very difficult to deal with by yourself, especially when you don't want to drag people down with you. Self-induced exclusion just leads to feeling worse, but the silver lining is that you aren't ruining anyone else's mood. There's a certain agonizing safety to being alone.
I'm mostly better now. I attribute that almost entirely to being in a stable relationship. My desperation to feel like someone cared about me was matched only by my desperation to avoid burdening that very same person with my emotions, or lack thereof. The key was finding someone just as fucked up as I am, but importantly she is fucked up in a different way (I had depression, she had anxiety). It doesn't feel like I'm as much of a burden when the other person is fucked up, too, but it's important that our fucked-up-ness doesn't feed off each other, which is why it's good we're fucked up in different ways. I tended to care more about her than myself, and vice versa, which led to some interesting situations but overall has resulted in an improved mental state for both of us as we realize that the only way to help each other is to help ourselves. Our desire to be better for each other greatly overpowers our desire to be better for ourselves.
I say mostly better because there appear to be some permanent effects. Every few months I have an "episode" where I'm just morbidly depressed for a few days, don't want to do anything, don't want to see anybody, don't want to talk, don't want to walk, don't want to see, don't want to be...I thankfully manage to sleep it off after a few days, and haven't had a chronic episode in years.
There are other apparently permanent effects. I still don't like to be social. I withdraw in groups numbering greater than four or so. It's weird to want people and not want people at the same time; I don't know how to describe that feeling. I still don't want to talk to most people, I still don't go anywhere. I don't really enjoy very many things, and it's very difficult for me to get excited about something (much to her dismay, because she gets easily excited).
But I feel genuinely good now. She makes me feel valuable. Helping someone else feel better makes me feel accomplished and important and worthy of living. Some people may read this and think it's unhealthy for your mental well-being to be so dependent on another person...and they may very well be right, I'm pretty sure that I would go back to being incredibly fucked up if I ever lost her. But what we have works for us, and we have both improved immensely over the past few years and we did it without drugs. We are the center of each other's world, and in four years we haven't gone more than 24 hours apart.
It is worth noting too, that just because you have PS/2 doesn't mean you have NKRO automatically, as depending on the technology 'underneath the hood' of a keyboard, it might not allow certain combinations of simultaneous keypresses. But that's an issue that's resolved by getting a mechanical keyboard, since they have the individual switches.
Are you sure a mechanical keyboard in and of itself solves the ghosting problem? Because having individual switches wouldn't necessarily prevent the ghosting problem, which occurs because the keyboard is composed of a matrix with switches located on rows and columns.
Unless by "individual switches", you mean you've got a chip with 100+ pins and an individual trace to each switch.
Someone who is trying to run forward, strafe sideways, jump, and reload all at the same time?
Wal-Mart, like any department store, sells chemicals and containers which can readily be combined into lethal weapons suitable for mass killing.
That's a pretty bad comparison. Just like a VCR has substantial non-infringing uses, those chemicals and containers have substantial non-lethal uses. What substantial non-lethal uses do bullets have?
They were probably looking at your friend's credit report. When I filed for an annual credit report they asked me questions exactly like that, "whats a former address? [lists 4 and none of these]".
And the kids of those soldiers? Were they paid? Did they serve? Were they ever given a choice?
Johann said it best. "Punishing children for what their fathers did? Fuck you."
Tragedy of the Commons. That's all I have to say.
Well, you can pick any arbitrary start point. I don't really care much, I just picked 1950 out of thin air.
The advantage to the approach I suggested is that it would filter out any problems with start/end date cherry picking, because it essentially picks all possible combinations of start/end dates. It would be over 3000 regression lines, so if the vast majority of them agreed, you'd know that was the "real" regression line.
Windows 7 supports symbolic links, which are better than junction points IMO.
I bought an SSD for loading my Steam games, but I don't want the whole Steam folder there because it's not big enough for all the games, and you can't split the Steam folder into two places. So I move my common games to the SSD (along with all the GCF files), and then create symbolic links on the HDD that point to the SSD folder. It works perfectly, all reads/writes for that folder are directed to the SSD even though they appear to be on the HDD.
I also didn't want the Windows folder on the SSD, because I'm too lazy to migrate the folder, and I was worried about the SSD potentially dying and making a hassle for me (it appears SSDs have a not insignificant failure rate around the one month mark, based on reviews I was reading). Most of the time my laptop is asleep anyway, so I don't see any performance benefit to booting.
While it's not the easiest thing to do out-of-the-box, there is a free tool that creates explorer context menus to make the creation of symbolic links brain-dead easy (right-click drag-and-drop, "create symbolic link", done).
Absolute minimum latency for a fetch is 16ms on USB port
Where are you getting this number? I develop USB devices (Cypress FX2 Hi-Speed and a PIC for Full-Speed), and a USB Hi-Speed microframe is transmitted every 125 microseconds. When I initiate transfers, they almost always go out during the next microframe. I can and have sent two packets back and forth in a single millisecond, and that's without sending multiple packets per microframe (I believe I've seen up to 17 bulk packet transfers in one microframe before in a Cypress app note comparing bulk to isochronous).
The only USB devices I'm aware of with such poor latency are keyboards and mice, because they're generally low-speed devices.
Is this 16ms fetch latency some artifact of the OS? Because it's certainly not a limitation of the hardware and software, as I can personally attest to.
Private citizens simply cannot bring suit against the President for enforcement of laws which violate the Constitution.
What law is the President enforcing? I didn't know there was a law that said you can wiretap without warrants.
What remedy does a private citizen have if the President is acting without authorization based on a law?
It's pretty easy to find plenty of evidence that h4rr4r's post is spot on. Google "Portugal decriminalization".
https://www.google.com/search?q=portugal+decriminalization
h4rr4r speaks truth, whether or not you want to hear it.
Regarding GP's common error that is probably the result of cherry picking start and end points for a trendline, I have often wondered if there wouldn't be some way to "average it out".
What if we put 1950-2012 on the top and left side of a grid, and then each entry in the grid was the trendline with endpoints determined by the column and row? And then finally average all trendlines that had a span greater than 10 years? Could this help show that 1998 was an outlier?
In the case of the HAM operator, the problem is more the gigantic antenna, less the use of public airwaves. Were you not trying to be intentionally disingenuous you would have used a better example, like a walkie-talkie.
I would rather let a thousand copyright infringers go free than to shake down one innocent person.
Let's go with your 99.9% value. Out of 250,000 people, this means at least 250 people are being illegally shaken down. At least 250 people that will have to either pony up settlement money or pay for a lawyer.
I just want to be clear that you're okay with punishing those 250 people who did nothing wrong by allowing them to be shaken down with what really amounts to extortion - "Pay up or I'll sue you over porn"
Even more interesting...what if a bittorrent user reduces their upload bandwidth to the smallest possible level, and then immediately leaves the swarm when downloading is complete? Could they be convicted for uploading when they went out of their way to make sure they uploaded as little as possible? What kind of ratio would be required in order to show that you went out of your way to prevent uploading?
Okay, how about a 14-16% reduction in the amount of time required to draw a frame?
520 / 3695 = 14.07%
520 / 3175 = 16.38%
Apple did not merely mention the existence of the F700, they are alleging that the F700 is yet another example of Samsung copying them. You're arguing that Samsung being able to disprove this false allegation is inadmissable?
So you're saying the F700 is admissable evidence?
Or are you saying that it's inadmissable for Samsung but admissable for Apple?