Why do we not have a problem with our printers being this high def, but we cannot imagine our displays being this high def?
...because most of us don't try reading a printed page from across the room. The page is closer and probably fills more of the field of vision than the TV in front of the couch does for most of us, so the effective level of detail for the print is differt.
Are you sure? How many people would be out of the county on the re-vote day that were ready willing and able to vote today? What about the candidate's campaigns? They are supposedly timed to peak on election day, if you move it around, you possibly change the outcome toward Voter preference is a fickle thing, and no matter what you do, including a re-vote, the door is open to all sorts of challenges from whomever loses. A big mess no matter what.
aside: These machines are made by people for whom there is no penalty for failure. Projects that I've worked on have had user DEATH as a consequence of failure, and let me say that motivation to get it right and test the hell out of everything was paramount. These are consumer appliances, whose engineers have likely never had to design for the correct orders of magnitude for failure rates.
Not really - although that was *one* error, there were others, like the electronic poll books that didn't function
Larry Schleifer cast a provisional ballot, then groused that it would not be counted along with the electronic tallies expected later in the day. He said he was frustrated that no one had crossed his name off the voter registry when he was handed a paper ballot and was concerned that election workers would not keep track of who had done what.
"What's going to stop somebody from voting twice?" he fumed.
or the woman whose 'ATM card' brought up the ballot with choices already selected
Louise Bradley said she arrived at her polling station after the electronic cards had been delivered, but her card did not work properly. When she got to the section of the ballot listing candidates for the Democratic central committee, it was already filled out. Bradley said she had to remove the computer's choices and insert her own.
Did she erase someone else's ballot? Did hers get counted at all? How do you know? how does she?...or the person who maybe previously voted on that card? Is there an audit trail? Can the electronic card be linked back to a particular voter (I hope not!)?
OKOK. The freezer comment was made in jest... but seriously, carbon dioxide does react with its surroundings, including with H_2O to produce carbonic acid according to Wikipedia. I am just curious as to what processes were used to ensure that this air has not changed in composition in over 800,000 years. Over that time scale, lots of processes, that can be ignored for most current examinations, may become significant (Can I name one? No - that's the reason that I asked the question)
Glad I made you laugh. The day is not a total loss.
A statistically significant sample size of the trapped air would eliminate any bias due to localized effects in the ice, but any systemic reaction would affect all samples, and would not necessarily be corrected by examining multiple samples. Unless I am misunderstanding your use of the term.
Not being a climatologist....but how are we sure that the air trapped in bubbles embedded in the ice are unchanged from the time the ice formed? Ice that has been in my freezer for a few months tastes different from that fresh made. I'm sure that any change / reaction / leak would be slow, but 800,000 years is a long time. Anyone know details?
Obviously I have missed something in TFA. It states that there are areas where NDGPD is available that WAAS is not, but that also WAAS is available where NDGPS is not. NDGPS requires additional hardware which is A) expensive, and B) bulky, whereas WAAS is available on pretty much all currently available receivers. Both systems (NDGPS and WAAS) have comparable accuracy (~1 meter).
Why, again, should we be sorry that NDGPS is going away? It sounds like market forces at work here. The only specific instance that TFA mentions where NDGPS has an advantage is *some* in-building penetration. Why should we build out a *national* network for only some in-building penetration? It sounds to me that WAAS is getting funding because it is technically and economically the better solution. Why is this a problem?
I have a Verizon Wireless Chocolate phone, and I was able to put MP3 files on the microSD card and play them without having to do *anything* to the phone. I pulled the microSD card out, put it in a SanDisk reader and plugged it into my PC. a simple drag and drop later I had a bunch of MP3 files on the card which when re-inserted into the phone showed up on the menu and played just fine from the phone. No Windows Media Player. No translation. Just played.
Now getting something other than VCast applications to work.... that appears a bit harder. Somehow I think that the world of Trusted Computing where every app must be signed is going to be just like the BREW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREW) world of Verizon phones.
Size of the included cartridge notwithstanding... Should she choose this route, http://www.freecycle.com/ would let her spread the wealth around to those who may need a printer at a time when that level of sale is not available. It's even handy for other stuff, but that would be offtopic.
Perhaps this one should have gotten the big foot icon... or the 'because you can'. It's wonderfully useless technology, and if you can't handle the idea of experimenting with odd or different interfaces and technology and marvel at others doing so, then why are you reading slashdot?
Seems kind of like the Wii controller with an umbrella attached, and maybe mated with mouse gestures from Opera...
Is it really useful? Probably not, but people have spent more money on less useful things before.
Since cable TV has been around all you need is a splitter and a friendly neighbor willing to split the bill with you to get cheaper service
Of course, that has also been illegal since cable TV has been around (one of the reasons that there are limited anti-tamper devices on cable pedestals). The cable co. provides service to an address, and displaying that signal at an additional address was stealing cable (which is what they are concerned about here). They also wanted you to pay for each TV, which mostly went away as TVs became 'cable-ready', but now that they have migrated most of their base to digital cable, you need a box for every TV again, and they can bump up the revenue stream (which is why you'll never see them really thrilled about CableCard).
We can talk until we're blue in the face about should be this or that, but until the political and legal clout of the content/distribution industry is broken, we are going to be stuck with what is.
Probably offtopic at this point, but if we are ever going to get off this rock, then procreation and child rearing in (space / altered gravitational conditions) will be necessary (and is currently being investigated in animals/insects). Would anyone seriously consider it *now*? Likely not, but people are considering finding out the implications and working out ways around them. Just because something is foolish and impractical now, doesn't mean that it always will be.
Hmmm... This would then have serious consequences for raising children of growing age in null-g... no gravitational gradient -> no stress -> no growth (or random growth)...
But then there is the possibility of using this type of effect to impose electrical fields on the boes to show them the right way to grow. Cool.
In 1967, during excavation for the construction of a new shopping center in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, workers uncovered a vault containing a cache of ancient scrolls. Most were severely damaged, but those that could be recovered confirmed the existence of a secret society long suspected to have been active in the region around the year 200 BC.
Based on a translation of these documents, we now know that the society, the Cult of the Bound Variable, was devoted to the careful study of computation, over two millennia before the invention of the digital computer.
While the Monroeville scrolls make reference to computing machines made of sandstone, most researchers believed this to be a poetic metaphor and that the "computers" were in fact the initiates themselves, carrying out the unimaginably tedious steps of their computations with reed pens on parchment. A few have conjectured a city-sized machine powered by falling sand, but no physical evidence of such a device has been discovered.
Among the documents found intact in the Monroeville collection was a lengthy codex, written in no known language and inscribed with superhuman precision. It is believed to be the masterwork of the Cult's scholarship, and as such it carries immense potential to advance our understanding of historyand possibly of computing as well. Unfortunately, the codex eluded interpretation, and over the decades, study of the Monroeville scrolls has slipped into obscurity. Since 1978, the codex has been stored in the basement of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Two weeks ago, during a visit to the excavation site for a new computer science building at CMU, workers discovered a set of inscribed tablets that proved to be the Rosetta Stone for interpreting the Monroeville codex. The tablets precisely specify the Cult's computing device, known to initiates as the "Universal Machine." Although there is still no evidence that the cult succeeded in constructing their machine, it is a reasonably simple task to emulate it on modern hardware.
We can now say with certainty that the codex is in fact a program, intended for execution on the Universal Machine. Our initial exploration of the codex suggests that the Cult's ideas about programming were very sophisticated, if somewhat peculiar to the modern eye. One cannot help but wonder what the Cult might have achieved had they had access to modern electronics and type theory.
I have enlisted the help of the CMU Principles of Programming group in creating a venue for study of the codex. We invite you to participate in this investigation. The codex and a translation of the Universal Machine (UM) specification are available for download from our web site. We encourage you to implement the UM and begin your own exploration of the codex.
The Cult's scholarly publications are of particular interest to us. Because the Cult's journals were circulated on sandstone tablets, editors imposed very strict length limitations. Consequently, authors aggressively compressed their articles. A typical publication would have the following form:
Should you encounter any such publications, we humbly request that you submit them to us via our web site. Our server will track all submitted publications, ensuring that every participant is given appropriate credit for advancing our understanding of the codex. Publications are of varying value; some will represent a greater contribution than others, and we will take this into account when assigning credit.
On a personal note, being inspired by the scholarship of the Cult, I have decided to dedicate the remainder of my days to a solitary study of computation and programming languages. However, before embarking on my monastic transformation, I wish to see that the world is well on its way to uncovering the secrets of the Codex.
Therefore, I ask that you submit as many publications as you can by
All the machines do not have to be modified...and I would think that a hardware modification would be easier to install, more durable, and less likely to be detected... Why is this unreasonable?
Footnote 2 in http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVtsxstudy.pdfFiles found by Bev Harris on Diebold FTP site Jan. 23, 2003 is not referenced in the body - probably refers to the filenames that were redacted. Anybody gone to the site to check what they are?
I tried this, and rather liked it - I saw a relevance bar on the "Groups" section for my test search (Riemann zeta function - from earlier/. story) and found some useful information that I would have otherwise neglected. So it's helpful.
but it *did* turn on Personalized Search (Beta), and gave me a link to turn it off in the same column, but be warned.
(BTW the "News" selection linked the/. story only, missing the Ars Technica bit entirely)
What the Pirate Bay is doing is...well, shady at the very least. However they are actually doing their part for democracy. There is a disconnect between what "fair use" currently means between the content providers (*AA and their ilk), and the content users (us). The law, as it is currently written in their country allows what they are doing. If enough legislators disagree with that, the law will be changed, but they are pointing out the discrepancy in such a public way, that the law cannot be changed on the QT, and so the voice of the people here really matters. They are pointing out the discrepancies in the law so that enforcement will be consistent - do you really want the law to read this instead of that? Are you sure? Because look what that will mean when it is enforced. Good for them.
Actually, every one of those blocked sites is blocked for me right now working in the good old USA. My company is using the Bluecoat proxy server hardware which has filtering on it that gives exactly the same messages.
The best part is that one of those proxy machines is on slashdot's banned list, so I have to try and find one of the others to read/post from time to time.
While I love a good conspiracy as much as the next guy, I'm sure the Marines are just trying to keep crap out of their boxen.
Spotted on November 27 2004, VD 17 was swiftly identified as rock that potentially crossed Earth's orbit, with a 1 in 3,000 risk of collision on May 4 2102.
Further observations and calculations have prompted the risk on that day to be upgraded to "a bit less than 1 in 1,000," said NASA Near-Earth Object (NEO) expert David Morrison in an emailed circular.
The 15 months was the time required to refine the prediction, not give the original estimate. (The original estimate may have also been 15 months - dunno, not listed, but unlikely)
When I try to read TFA, I get "policy denied: Try another URL - The web site that you have attempted to visit: http://www.woxy.com/ is categorized as Entertainment/Recreation/Hobbies;Internet Radio/TV" I wonder how many other companies block this kind of site - hard to get listeners to justify ad revenue if your packets can't make it through the firewall.
OTOH - I can get XM or local broadcast from my desk just fine, or just use my iPod.
We'd have all of this shit by now if humanity were focused more on developing as a species
Ummm.... Somehow I don't think the former contributes to the latter. Maybe developing as an individual (?), but developing the species using that act would require...well 2 people (of opposite genders etc...), not a robot.
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Are you sure? How many people would be out of the county on the re-vote day that were ready willing and able to vote today? What about the candidate's campaigns? They are supposedly timed to peak on election day, if you move it around, you possibly change the outcome toward Voter preference is a fickle thing, and no matter what you do, including a re-vote, the door is open to all sorts of challenges from whomever loses. A big mess no matter what.
aside: These machines are made by people for whom there is no penalty for failure. Projects that I've worked on have had user DEATH as a consequence of failure, and let me say that motivation to get it right and test the hell out of everything was paramount. These are consumer appliances, whose engineers have likely never had to design for the correct orders of magnitude for failure rates.
or the woman whose 'ATM card' brought up the ballot with choices already selected
Did she erase someone else's ballot? Did hers get counted at all? How do you know? how does she?...or the person who maybe previously voted on that card? Is there an audit trail? Can the electronic card be linked back to a particular voter (I hope not!)?FUBAR doesn't even come close.
OKOK. The freezer comment was made in jest... but seriously, carbon dioxide does react with its surroundings, including with H_2O to produce carbonic acid according to Wikipedia. I am just curious as to what processes were used to ensure that this air has not changed in composition in over 800,000 years. Over that time scale, lots of processes, that can be ignored for most current examinations, may become significant (Can I name one? No - that's the reason that I asked the question)
A statistically significant sample size of the trapped air would eliminate any bias due to localized effects in the ice, but any systemic reaction would affect all samples, and would not necessarily be corrected by examining multiple samples. Unless I am misunderstanding your use of the term.
Not being a climatologist....but how are we sure that the air trapped in bubbles embedded in the ice are unchanged from the time the ice formed? Ice that has been in my freezer for a few months tastes different from that fresh made. I'm sure that any change / reaction / leak would be slow, but 800,000 years is a long time. Anyone know details?
Why, again, should we be sorry that NDGPS is going away? It sounds like market forces at work here. The only specific instance that TFA mentions where NDGPS has an advantage is *some* in-building penetration. Why should we build out a *national* network for only some in-building penetration? It sounds to me that WAAS is getting funding because it is technically and economically the better solution. Why is this a problem?
I have a Verizon Wireless Chocolate phone, and I was able to put MP3 files on the microSD card and play them without having to do *anything* to the phone. I pulled the microSD card out, put it in a SanDisk reader and plugged it into my PC. a simple drag and drop later I had a bunch of MP3 files on the card which when re-inserted into the phone showed up on the menu and played just fine from the phone. No Windows Media Player. No translation. Just played. Now getting something other than VCast applications to work.... that appears a bit harder. Somehow I think that the world of Trusted Computing where every app must be signed is going to be just like the BREW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREW) world of Verizon phones.
Size of the included cartridge notwithstanding... Should she choose this route, http://www.freecycle.com/ would let her spread the wealth around to those who may need a printer at a time when that level of sale is not available. It's even handy for other stuff, but that would be offtopic.
Seems kind of like the Wii controller with an umbrella attached, and maybe mated with mouse gestures from Opera...
Is it really useful? Probably not, but people have spent more money on less useful things before.
Of course, that has also been illegal since cable TV has been around (one of the reasons that there are limited anti-tamper devices on cable pedestals). The cable co. provides service to an address, and displaying that signal at an additional address was stealing cable (which is what they are concerned about here). They also wanted you to pay for each TV, which mostly went away as TVs became 'cable-ready', but now that they have migrated most of their base to digital cable, you need a box for every TV again, and they can bump up the revenue stream (which is why you'll never see them really thrilled about CableCard).
We can talk until we're blue in the face about should be this or that, but until the political and legal clout of the content /distribution industry is broken, we are going to be stuck with what is.
Probably offtopic at this point, but if we are ever going to get off this rock, then procreation and child rearing in (space / altered gravitational conditions) will be necessary (and is currently being investigated in animals/insects). Would anyone seriously consider it *now*? Likely not, but people are considering finding out the implications and working out ways around them. Just because something is foolish and impractical now, doesn't mean that it always will be.
Hmmm... This would then have serious consequences for raising children of growing age in null-g... no gravitational gradient -> no stress -> no growth (or random growth)... But then there is the possibility of using this type of effect to impose electrical fields on the boes to show them the right way to grow. Cool.
Dear Colleague:
In 1967, during excavation for the construction of a new shopping center in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, workers uncovered a vault containing a cache of ancient scrolls. Most were severely damaged, but those that could be recovered confirmed the existence of a secret society long suspected to have been active in the region around the year 200 BC.
Based on a translation of these documents, we now know that the society, the Cult of the Bound Variable, was devoted to the careful study of computation, over two millennia before the invention of the digital computer.
While the Monroeville scrolls make reference to computing machines made of sandstone, most researchers believed this to be a poetic metaphor and that the "computers" were in fact the initiates themselves, carrying out the unimaginably tedious steps of their computations with reed pens on parchment. A few have conjectured a city-sized machine powered by falling sand, but no physical evidence of such a device has been discovered.
Among the documents found intact in the Monroeville collection was a lengthy codex, written in no known language and inscribed with superhuman precision. It is believed to be the masterwork of the Cult's scholarship, and as such it carries immense potential to advance our understanding of historyand possibly of computing as well. Unfortunately, the codex eluded interpretation, and over the decades, study of the Monroeville scrolls has slipped into obscurity. Since 1978, the codex has been stored in the basement of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Two weeks ago, during a visit to the excavation site for a new computer science building at CMU, workers discovered a set of inscribed tablets that proved to be the Rosetta Stone for interpreting the Monroeville codex. The tablets precisely specify the Cult's computing device, known to initiates as the "Universal Machine." Although there is still no evidence that the cult succeeded in constructing their machine, it is a reasonably simple task to emulate it on modern hardware.
We can now say with certainty that the codex is in fact a program, intended for execution on the Universal Machine. Our initial exploration of the codex suggests that the Cult's ideas about programming were very sophisticated, if somewhat peculiar to the modern eye. One cannot help but wonder what the Cult might have achieved had they had access to modern electronics and type theory.
I have enlisted the help of the CMU Principles of Programming group in creating a venue for study of the codex. We invite you to participate in this investigation. The codex and a translation of the Universal Machine (UM) specification are available for download from our web site. We encourage you to implement the UM and begin your own exploration of the codex.
The Cult's scholarly publications are of particular interest to us. Because the Cult's journals were circulated on sandstone tablets, editors imposed very strict length limitations. Consequently, authors aggressively compressed their articles. A typical publication would have the following form:
PUZZL.TSK=100@1001|14370747643c6d2db0a40ecb4b0bb65
Should you encounter any such publications, we humbly request that you submit them to us via our web site. Our server will track all submitted publications, ensuring that every participant is given appropriate credit for advancing our understanding of the codex. Publications are of varying value; some will represent a greater contribution than others, and we will take this into account when assigning credit.
On a personal note, being inspired by the scholarship of the Cult, I have decided to dedicate the remainder of my days to a solitary study of computation and programming languages. However, before embarking on my monastic transformation, I wish to see that the world is well on its way to uncovering the secrets of the Codex.
Therefore, I ask that you submit as many publications as you can by
Hmm - bitmap appears to include the letters CBV ???
ummmm.... Soviet Russia *did* spy on the NSA
All the machines do not have to be modified...and I would think that a hardware modification would be easier to install, more durable, and less likely to be detected... Why is this unreasonable?
Footnote 2 in http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVtsxstudy.pdf Files found by Bev Harris on Diebold FTP site Jan. 23, 2003 is not referenced in the body - probably refers to the filenames that were redacted. Anybody gone to the site to check what they are?
but it *did* turn on Personalized Search (Beta), and gave me a link to turn it off in the same column, but be warned.
(BTW the "News" selection linked the /. story only, missing the Ars Technica bit entirely)
What the Pirate Bay is doing is...well, shady at the very least. However they are actually doing their part for democracy. There is a disconnect between what "fair use" currently means between the content providers (*AA and their ilk), and the content users (us). The law, as it is currently written in their country allows what they are doing. If enough legislators disagree with that, the law will be changed, but they are pointing out the discrepancy in such a public way, that the law cannot be changed on the QT, and so the voice of the people here really matters. They are pointing out the discrepancies in the law so that enforcement will be consistent - do you really want the law to read this instead of that? Are you sure? Because look what that will mean when it is enforced. Good for them.
Purchase... well, EIGHT copies are available from the used section - no new copies, as it was originally published in January of 2000.
It sounds like an interesting read, but why post this if it isn't available in even double digit quantities?
The best part is that one of those proxy machines is on slashdot's banned list, so I have to try and find one of the others to read/post from time to time.
While I love a good conspiracy as much as the next guy, I'm sure the Marines are just trying to keep crap out of their boxen.
Spotted on November 27 2004, VD 17 was swiftly identified as rock that potentially crossed Earth's orbit, with a 1 in 3,000 risk of collision on May 4 2102.
Further observations and calculations have prompted the risk on that day to be upgraded to "a bit less than 1 in 1,000," said NASA Near-Earth Object (NEO) expert David Morrison in an emailed circular.
The 15 months was the time required to refine the prediction, not give the original estimate. (The original estimate may have also been 15 months - dunno, not listed, but unlikely)
-m
OTOH - I can get XM or local broadcast from my desk just fine, or just use my iPod.
We'd have all of this shit by now if humanity were focused more on developing as a species
Ummm.... Somehow I don't think the former contributes to the latter. Maybe developing as an individual (?), but developing the species using that act would require...well 2 people (of opposite genders etc...), not a robot.